The Xishan Base has only one highway from the ground to the outside world. On this highway, Wu Yuanjia is equipped with a division of troops, which makes it futile to seek help from the ground. The worst thing is that the weather conditions in the past few days have not been good, which makes the US's greatest advantage air force unable to exert its strength. The continuous rainy weather has helped the North Vietnamese army. They surrounded the US Marine Corps in the Xishan Base, and while constantly siege, they arranged to cut off the US reinforcements.

The Battle of Xishan is regarded as the decisive battle between the United States and North Vietnam. Whether it is the White House or the American media, it is believed that the decisive battle has arrived. TV news has also reported all day long that General Wu Yuanjia may repeat the victory in Dien Bien Phu, so that the daily life of the US military at the Xishan base occupies the top position in the news reports. In the end, General William Westmoreland severely damaged North Vietnam to stabilize the situation through this battle, or whether Wu Yuanjia repeats the victory in Dien Bien Phu has become a topic of discussion among Americans.

Similarly, North Vietnam's military operations have attracted the attention of the socialist camp. This time, North Vietnam's aggressive offensive posture has also spread to Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin and other cities. People seem to be able to smell the smoke of gunpowder in newspapers.

General William Westmoreland would not give up easily. Even if he was caught off guard, he felt that as long as he severely damaged the North Vietnamese army through this battle, he could completely stabilize the situation and win the war. In the Philippines, Malaysia, and South Vietnam bombers took off from time to time, and the drops almost melted the mountains around the mountain base. The US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps aviation dispatched more than 10,000 types of fighter jets, including f-4, f-105,-52,-1 attack aircraft, and -7, and dropped 80,000 tons of bombs.

Just as the world was paying attention to how the Battle of Stream began, the regular army of North Vietnam and the regular army of the Vietnamese Communist Party quietly sneaked into Saigon, Hue and most cities in South Vietnam. They dressed up as refugees, farmers, workers and vacationing South Vietnamese soldiers.

"All forces have already been in place. In the early morning of tomorrow, all South Vietnamese targets will be attacked at the same time." Wu Yuanjia issued a general attack order to Vietnam later. On the South Vietnam National Liberation Front, the North Vietnamese regular army attacked almost every large town in South Vietnam and most of the US bases and airports. In fact, the North Vietnamese army had launched an attack around Bolaiku, Guangnan, Dale and other places. After the offensive was launched, the attacks in almost all places caught the US and South Vietnamese troops off guard. The large areas of Saigon and Hue suddenly found that they had been "liberated". The North Vietnamese regular army was marching on the streets with weapons, and the Vietnamese Communist troops publicly called on everyone to get up and participate in the revolution.

General William Westmoreland only realized at this time that a mountain base was not Wu Yuanjia's purpose. After a brief turmoil, he calmed down and began to order the US troops from all over the country to defend and rely on sufficient firepower to annihilate the North Vietnamese troops that infiltrated the infiltration. William Westmoreland had this confidence. The number of US troops in South Vietnam reached 500,000, even more than the total force invested by North Vietnam this time.

"Of course the US military can defeat the North Vietnamese offensive. There are so many of them. But this attack that almost the entire territory slammed the US government in the face. They kept saying that North Vietnam was dying and the US military was on the verge of victory. You can see that North Vietnam was jumping around in this battle?" After reading the battle report, Selov was not concerned about this issue. In just a few months, both sides would never win. This is not a medieval full-scale war. Open a panoramic map and kill it all. Even if it is a game, there are morale grooves on it.

Sooner or later, Americans will know how unwise it is to be involved in this war. The Vietnam War not only caused the United States to have a fiscal deficit, but also damaged the United States' international image. Socialist thoughts began to sweep again in the 1960s, which was inseparable from the United States' help of the Soviet Union from the side. Then, in the entire 1970s, the United States had to be a human being with its tail between its tail to regulate the internal injuries caused by this war. It was not until the Soviet Union was involved in the Afghan War that the United States had the opportunity to counterattack.

After this war, the United States had to be a human being with its tail between its tail for a period of time to supplement its national strength that had been overdrawn. At this time, the United States felt for the first time that their national strength was not endless, and that it would be impossible to withstand anything. This is different from the Korean War. At that time, Europe and the Soviet Union were in the recovery stage. Now other forces have long escaped the influence of World War II. As one rises and the other falls, the United States is weakened and it is not facing a bunch of weaklings.

In Paris, France, in the presidential palace of Charles de Gaulle, the tall but thin De Gaulle looked out the window silently. He knew that his decision might make France stronger or put France in danger.

Since the end of World War II, France has had to face two countries, the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States is strong, the Soviet Union is very close to France, and France within France has always put constraints on governments from all walks of life.

The United States hopes to continue to act as the leader in Western Europe, and France's independence tendency has forced the United States to leave France in the event of ultimate failure to win French support, and reduce France's negative impact on other allies, and maintain the stability of the Atlantic Alliance.

Economic aid and political conflicts between the two sides, especially on the Algerian issue. The emergence of signs of easing between the United States and the Soviet Union, European economic integration, the deterioration of the US balance of payments and the outflow of gold, and the implementation of the independent policy after Charles de Gaulle came to power all forced the United States to make corresponding adjustments based on changes in local interests and situations in Europe.

Of course, the United States governments all walks of life hate Charles de Gaulle, but the importance of France and the power of France within France have to make the United States turn a blind eye to Charles de Gaulle in some places. Economic: the United States strengthened its economic penetration, forced the deterioration of its own balance of payments, stopped economic assistance to France, focusing on preventing French dollar attacks. Nuclear: The United States refused technical assistance to the development of French nuclear weapons, but was just a conditional nuclear raw material, and attempted to incorporate French nuclear power into the control of the United States through the multilateral nuclear power plan, but was rejected by France, and finally failed, and France's independent nuclear power partially realized.

On the military side, the United States adopted a conservative policy of avoiding conflicts with France, and minimized the impact of French behavior on NATO's utility and consistency. On the other hand, it began to strengthen alliance unity without France to fight against the Soviet Union.

It can be said that since Charles de Gaulle came to power, he has been asking countless troubles from the United States, but the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe is eyeing it, and the United States cannot do anything to France, so it is a situation where the United States can only passively deal with it every time it is caused by France.

The Soviet factors were also very important, and De Gaulle could not regard it as not seeing France. With the loosening of US-Soviet relations, Western European countries also adjusted their policies to the Soviet Union. After De Gaulle came to power, he pursued independent diplomacy, and the French-Soviet relations were significantly improved. In the international communist movement, Khrushchev began to take office, and countries explored a socialist path that was different from the Soviet model and suitable for their own characteristics. All of these were for the French Communist Party to break free from the shackles of the Soviet model. As the French Communist Party, which is most closely related to the Soviet Communist Party, began to embark on a slow and cautious exploration path.

Although France received some impact during the Polish-Hungarian incident, the Soviet Union's subsequent handling was immediately clean. Moreover, the storm was limited to two small Eastern European countries and did not affect the Soviet Union. So now the French power is still there and has a strong appeal in French society. Moreover, the intimacy between France and the Soviet Union is even further than that of Italy, which is what makes Charles de Gaulle headache.

De Gaulle hated the US dollar, and he first discovered the problem of the US dollar, at least among Western European countries. Three years ago, he saw that the Breston Forest system was unstable and looked for opportunities to exchange the US dollar for a batch of gold, but at that time he was counterattacked by the US dollar, so he did not take much advantage. Now in the Vietnam War, the US military expenditure was known to be increasing. De Gaulle, who had been paying attention to the US economy, suddenly discovered that the Breston Forest system seemed to be crumbling. The United States destroyed 800 billion US dollars in military expenditure in the Vietnam War alone.

France has always been at the forefront of its attitude towards the US dollar. In the year of the Cuban crisis, a French newspaper said that President Charles de Gaulle should always be ready to show off the large amount of US dollars he holds, as a diplomatic ace, and put pressure on American gold. The US government attaches great importance to this. Three years ago, France took out the US dollar reserves, and was suppressed by the United States. This time, Charles de Gaulle is preparing to find a group of large groups to contact some countries with good relations with France to end the status of the US dollar.

Just when the United States and North Vietnamese Mountain were fighting, Charles de Gaulle felt that it was a good opportunity to take action. Not long after, the presidents of major French banks came to the presidential palace. They didn't know what the president had to ask them for, but they vaguely felt that it should be an important matter.

This time, Charles de Gaulle and the presidents of major French banks have been discussing late at night, the timing and allies, as well as fund reserves, the US debt situation, and even the ongoing spring offensive to find favorable time. The Breston Woods system has nothing to do with the issuance of the US dollar, otherwise the issuance of the US dollar would have far exceeded the amount of gold. It is mainly due to the US debt problem. The US debt and printing more dollars will have an impact on gold. Holding US dollars, US Treasury bonds and US dollar tickets can all go to the Federal Reserve to collect gold. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!