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Chinh Nguyên
Ho-Chi-Minh. Giap also knew he would make the expecting
echo regard in the world by continued take the win in the battle,
and it will prepare for Ho-Chi-Minh’s voice in the cease-fire
talks.
The Vietminh’s Dong-Xuan operation 1953-1954, General
Vo-Nguyen-Giap pushed his troops forward on the Red River
delta to control the most this area and will threaten some cities
as Thai-Binh, Ha-Nam, Nam-Dinh, and Ha-Dong. General Giap
wished to make the cycle around Hanoi Capital if his troops
were moving as well as in his plan. He will make French troops
will get worse on the battle then French leaders will lose their
voice in the Geneva conference.
On another side, General Navarre opened the large-scale
military actions on the countryside to defense the cities and tried
to break the Dong-Xuan operation. He used the full power of
Air Force and canons to support the ground troops, destroyed
some villages where Vietminh soldiers tied up with the people
and used the people as their shield. General Navarre expected he
would regain the most area that lost into communist hand by the
fail of the firebases.
Both sides fought either one as the mad dog for profit, made
the deadly sounds howling in the air, blasted heavy thunderbolt
and shook the earth for the combat. They broke up more bloody
for the people, flamed up and disaster everywhere in the
countryside. Also, they lost more thousand fighting soldiers
every week and killed the lot civilians in the countryside by
bombardment.
Most the time French troops were killed, and wounded few
dozen soldiers by the Vietminh sniper and mines during
operation. They called the Air Force, and canons supported to
bomb the villages without care of the people, but nothing they
can find in the destroyed villages. Instead, French troops brought
up more hate from the people for themselves, made the people
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