Vam Cai Sinh victory relic

Vam Cai Sinh victory relic

Vam Cai Sinh Victory Monument is located in Ward 7, Vi Thanh City, Hau Giang province. Since 1949, the liberated area of ​​Long My district was large, a place to reserve people during the resistance war against the French colonialists, and was the base of provincial and regional agencies. In the years 1951 and 1952, the enemy suffered heavy defeats and was passive on the main battlefield, the French colonialists implemented the 3 clean policy "Burn all, destroy all, kill all", sabotaged the economy, and launched many military operations. scale of raids into our liberated area in Long My district, and expanded raids on the U Minh revolutionary base area. Implementing the above plot, the French colonialists launched a large-scale sweep campaign into the liberated areas of Long My and Vi Thanh revolutionary bases in order to destroy our forces and sabotage the revolutionary rear. Firmly understanding the enemy's intentions, comrade Huynh Thu, Captain of Can Tho Province, directly assigned the task to unit 4053, belonging to battalion 410 of Can Tho province, a unit with extensive experience in mine warfare. attacked many enemy ships on the Phung Hiep and Chau Thanh rivers. After surveying the battlefield, the enemy wanted to attack the bowels of the Long My liberated area, marching by road, the only road from Cau Duc to Hoa Luu - Vi Thanh. To prevent the enemy from raiding and raiding the liberated area, we attacked the roads and collapsed bridges on the road. On this section of road there was the Cai Sinh iron bridge. On the morning of December 22, 1952, after the enemy fired artillery to clear the way for the 14th mobile battalion, including French, Vietnamese, and Cambodian soldiers, led by a French officer, cautiously advanced into Hoa Luu commune. On the vandalized road, grass and trees are busy. At 3:00 p.m., the enemy arrived at Vam Cai Sinh canal. They gathered troops here to wait for the ship to take them across Cai Sinh canal, because the bridge was collapsed by us. True to our prediction, on the night of December 21, 1952, we placed two mines, thousands of kilograms of explosives at Vam Cai Sinh canal and sent a group of engineers (3 comrades) of Battalion 410, ready for battle. fight. At nearly 3:00 p.m., the sound of the iron train starting up loudly, coming from Cau Duc junction. Our soldiers were very calm and waited for the enemy soldiers to fully disembark the LCT (a type of troop transport ship). When the ship retreated to the middle of Vam canal to bring troops to the shore of Hoa Luu, our soldiers applied electricity and made a sound. The sky exploded, a column of white water rose hundreds of meters high and collapsed, sinking the upside-down ship into the river, nearly 400 enemies, including one mandarin Ba (captain), two mandarins Nhat (second lieutenant). ) was destroyed, we confiscated a 12 mm pistol, an operational map, two heavy artillery guns: 20 mm and 13.2 mm, 5 submachine guns, 12 rifles, completely failing the sweep plan. raided the Long My - Vi Thanh liberation base area. During the resistance war against the French on the battlefield of Hau Giang - Can Tho, the army and people of Hau Giang - Can Tho performed two glorious feats that destroyed the most enemies, which were the battle against motor vehicles at the 4 battles of Tam Vu, and the capture of cannons. 105 mm in the battle of Tam Vu 4 and the ship battle at Vam Cai Sinh canal, making the victory resounding throughout the West and the whole country. The Cai Sinh victory had an important meaning, contributing to the loss and destruction of enemy forces to coordinate with the main battlefield in the Viet Bac border campaign of 1951 - 1952 and with other battlefields throughout the country to push the enemy into battle. passive position, failure, creating new positions and forces to promote the strong development of the resistance war, leading to the "Dien Bien Phu" victory (May 7, 1954) that shook the world, forcing the French colonialists to sign a treaty. The Geneva Accords, ending the war in Vietnam, ended the old colonial regime in Vietnam, the semi-independent country, and in the South continued the resistance war against the new colonial regime of US imperialism. From the meaning and important historical value of the "Vam Cai Sinh" victory. On August 3, 2007, the Ministry of Culture and Information ranked the Vam Cai Sinh Victory as a National Monument. Source: Hau Giang province electronic information portal

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