Chapter 758 – The Embarrassed Frenchman

“You don’t really want anything exotic, do you?” Vivienne inquired in a small voice as she snuggled into the man’s arms at night.

“That’s something to have almost no man refuses, but you’re much more important to me than some exotic flavor.” Allen Wilson was grandiloquent, then sighed with a fake heavy sigh, “I’m worried about the current Geneva conference.”

“Every day you think about how to become an official, and you don’t think about me.” Vivienne poked the man with her finger, but accepted the explanation, knowing that Alan Wilson was more enthusiastic about being an officer than chasing off pretty women, “What’s to worry about, we still have the advantage, right?”

“It depends on who the hell we are in your mouth, and I can’t say it straight if you don’t understand.” Alan Wilson lowered his head and kissed Guobao’s forehead, “Being in the position that Britain is in right now, one really has to think about it more.”

If you consider the international order, China, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union were in the second group at the same time, and Britain was still in the first group! Although Britain began to decline, the general public did not recognize that Britain was declining.

Of course, the other four major powers knew it in their hearts, but France, like Britain, was a beneficiary of the international order and had a vested interest in it. China, the United States and the Soviet Union have their own differences, and China should not think too far ahead now, its national strength can not reach.

The other two countries want to establish their own order, the United States of America’s strength is the most powerful, but the momentum of the Soviet Union is more violent, each has its own advantages, Britain and France is certainly not willing to turn the tables with the United States, but the United States can not use military means to force to receive Britain and France’s international order, so the United States to receive Britain and France’s international order is destined to have to be not a short period of time.

In China’s point of view, Alan Wilson believes that China also does not want the British and French fall too quickly, after all, the momentum of the United States and the Soviet Union is more violent, the British and French fall, the United States and the Soviet Union to establish the international order will only be stronger than the British and French constraints on China.

But China is indeed in the middle of the war in Vietnam, and is on the opposite side of France. So the international situation was very complicated!

Vietnam War and the Korean War is not the same place, the Korean War, the United States is playing, China also piggybacked on the help of the United States to destroy a five-star emperor. The Vietnam War, on the other hand, France hoped to fight as a neutralization campaign, and the manpower and resources invested were very, very large. Although France is small, but its colonies all over the world, if France is determined to die with Vietnam behind China, win or not win, but it will result in a lose-lose situation.

China and France to fight the two losses, the beneficiary is the United States and the Soviet Union, another victim is the United Kingdom, if the strength of some of the weaker China and France decadence, the United Kingdom is facing the United States and the Soviet Union’s pressure will only be greater.

So far, although the international order of Britain is still the biggest beneficiary, but even Alan Wilson, also do not think that the current British and the United States and the Soviet Union, one of the single battle.

Persist in the depletion of France and China’s national strength, then it is better to suggest that France hasten to withdraw to stop the bleeding, so that the United States top France’s vacancies, the Americans will certainly be on top.

Because the current momentum of the Soviet Union is completely different from 1945, and World War II has been over for ten years. Britain is indeed in slow decline, and the Soviet Union is rising rapidly. If at first Washington was still torn between the two choices of Britain and the Soviet Union, by today there is nothing left to say, the Soviet Union is a much greater threat.

The United States has reason to believe that it can slowly take over the British and French international order by means other than force.

Then in the British point of view, that is, can not watch France continue to lose blood, so that France rushed to retreat the military power of North Africa, Britain and France may still have a chance.

The result of the partition of the North and South, the current is also in line with the interests of the United States, after all, there is a foretaste of South Korea. Be able to block the path of pro-Soviet forces to the south is a top priority. Alan Wilson believes that the United States also agrees.

Vietnam’s special version of the Munich Conference already has the basic conditions, the United Kingdom has experienced countless similar meetings, as long as it is clear what purpose is to be achieved, to achieve the desired results should not be a problem.

Previously Allen Wilson wanted the French to hold out on the premise that France had the upper hand to hold out, not to be beaten up and dusted off to hold out, the latter of which had no significance other than to make the Third World feel that the old imperialism was nothing more than that.

Dien Bien Phu had been fought to such an extent that it made more sense to let France leave with a little face preserved than to stay in Vietnam and be humiliated.

During the course of the Geneva meeting, Alan Wilson remained in contact with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and also reported all the current movements of the French army at Dien Bien Phu. The collapse of the French army could happen at any time, because there was no telling when the French army would be depleted of supplies, and surrender would be the inevitable result at that point.

Public-private balance, has always been a gentleman pursued by the purpose, even if Alan Wilson hand in hand with Vivien Lei, as can be concerned about the international situation, An Lan how to compare with him.

Unlike the British commissioner there is room for public and private, Dien Bien Phu situation deterioration speed so that the French do not have time to worry about other factors, although the Geneva Conference is being held, the domestic order of the French army must adhere to, but this is not a politician with his mouth on the line, Dien Bien Phu defenders are in an extremely difficult situation.

The French were in a difficult position, and even in the intervals between battles, the French commanders understood that they would not win, as evidenced by the logistical difficulties alone. Even with both airfields in use, there were not enough aircraft available and many were no longer operational. This caused serious problems for the subsequent evacuation of the wounded, and helicopters still struggled to make risky landings. But even this proved impossible to transport all the seriously wounded from the field hospitals, which were no longer able to handle the large numbers of dead and wounded.

With even the helicopters already in use and the original airfields no longer usable, the overcast battlefield was still destroying France’s last-ditch efforts to maintain supplies.

Vuonga steadily dug trenches up to Castries’ headquarters and near the main French defense line. The isolated stronghold of Isabel, though surrounded on all sides, continued to hold stubbornly. The VC had brought in fresh troops from Laos and elsewhere, and reserves from the training camps had been brought in to fill out the force in preparation for the next major offensive.

It was certain that the end was near, possibly days, possibly hours, for the French defenders who had no hope of breaking out and were holding without supplies, and the French defenders’ position had shrunk to the point where the entire position was within range of the artillery, with no strategic depth to speak of.

Eventually the French defenders at Dien Bien Phu began to break out, and the defenders of the main position were evacuated via the strongholds, which were broken by the defenders of the strongholds. But the front line had been lost and a breakout of the main position was impossible. For morale reasons, the plan was kept secret. The soldiers had to retreat according to the plan without rehearsal.

At 10:00 p.m., the troops were pictured disappearing into the night, but they were soon cut off, drowned in a strong enemy, and became fragmented. Some of the soldiers returned to their strongholds and a small number fled into the jungle. The fighting continued for some time longer, but it was pointless to continue resisting.

The next day, news relayed via the British advisory mission in Saigon was delivered to British Malaya, meaning simply that the garrison at Dien Bien Phu had stagnated in its resistance and that the French were defeated.

“My God!” Alan Wilson covered his face, convinced that the napalm he had supplied had cost the Vietnamese more, but what was the point? The outcome of the war was not based on casualties, or the victors of the World War would have been the Germans.

Even the British officials at the Executive Office knew that their top man was in a bad mood, having heard that he had only just returned from a few days’ rest, and had received bad news so soon.

Just then, the phone on the table rang, Allen Wilson took out the microphone, General Bilton’s voice came, “Have you heard everything? The defenders of Dien Bien Phu have surrendered.”

“Just heard!” Allen Wilson took a deep breath and said in a bashful tone, “We predicted this long ago. It’s just that when this result does occur, it’s not without sadness for the French.”

“Let’s hope it doesn’t have an impact on the Geneva Conference, but it doesn’t look like there’s much hope.” General Bilton was silent for a while and said, “Allen, what do you think about this, can the French purpose over in Geneva be achieved.”

“No problem! The Vietnamese can’t control their own destiny.” Alan Wilson was still full of confidence, the world was cruel, once you lost the ability to stand on your own two feet, anything could happen.

Britain and the United States sort of had enough of a history with each other, didn’t the twenty-first century still force Britain to charge off and offend?

Wasn’t the UK two orders of magnitude better than Vietnam? That’s what happened to all of them once they declined, not to mention Vietnam’s national strength.

I’m sure most of the free world newspapers at this point are also saddened by the loss of France. Definitely not included, though, were certain British papers with huge sales, such as plotting a newspaper whose front page headline read, “Surrendering French soldiers didn’t even have time to enter, the brothels set up to boost morale.”

The news that the Battle of Dien Bien Phu had ended with the total destruction of the French army was no doubt very depressing for the free world at the current Geneva Conference, and for a while the Law of the Day insults were spreading through the mouths of many free world diplomats.

The free world side feel frustrated, the Soviet bloc is naturally overjoyed, this shows that this meeting of their side of the chips increased again, how to look at it is a good news. Half the world was dumbfounded, half the world was ecstatic, which was a very accurate description of the current situation in Geneva.

Georges Pidoule now feels that the whole world is full of malice towards France, the meeting has not yet negotiated the results, and can even say that the Americans finally stopped talking about the Korean issue, the main proposal of the meeting on the issue of the Central and Southern Peninsula, but from May 2, only a few days of negotiation, Dien Bien Phu of the French defenders have been completely annihilated.

Even if it was held on for half a month, it was only just beginning to talk, and then the news came that the French garrison had surrendered, so how could it be talked about?