Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

"Begin landing in Ho Chi Minh City! Dig out the chicken heart!"

Chapter 860: Li Xinghe, the World's Strongest, and the Murderous Mindset of Public Opinion Warfare (6400 words)

It was in the early hours of the morning.

Several battleships and amphibious assault ships slowly approached Vung Tau Port, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, from the sea.

As a major international port, Vung Tau was capable of handling large numbers of military forces. With the help of the port authority, which had been bribed with $3, a large number of South Korean debt soldiers, carrying rifles, were unloaded from infantry fighting vehicles. Their main task was to seize key transportation routes and control the local situation.

The true test of combat effectiveness lies in the missiles aboard the guided-missile destroyers.

These missiles, like the guns of a battleship, were launched towards the army group headquarters of the 4th Field Army of Vietnam with the assistance of satellite positioning.

Major General He Yangdai, the first to set foot on the Vietnam battlefield, gazed at the missiles flying overhead and sighed deeply.

"The location of Vietnam's Fourth Army Group is incredibly foolish. They've placed all their troops and barracks in the city center, without any cover whatsoever."

The Fourth Army is stationed in Ni An, a city next to Ho Chi Minh City. The two cities are closely connected, with no farmland or hidden military facilities in between, so their military district has long been exposed by countless mobile phone cameras.

"Missile launch!"

"Infantry advance!"

Thus, missiles and aerial bombs rained down from the sky, shattering the peaceful night. Countless Vietnamese soldiers sleeping in their dormitories suddenly died in their sleep, and the entire dormitory area was bombed into ruins. Assault forces rapidly approached from the ground, and drones were also continuously bombing the assembling Fourth Field Army.

In this skirmish, which lasted less than an hour, the headquarters of the Fourth Field Army was breached, and a large number of soldiers, barefoot, were taken prisoner while hiding under the walls. Of course, a large number of people also escaped from the military region and fled to the countryside.

On the way out of the city, Li Daming, commander of the Fourth Army Group, sat in his car, crying as he ran.

"This is utterly baffling, completely baffling. What a pathetic battle they're fighting..."

At this moment, the Vietnamese army finally felt the same way as during the Gulf War.

Missiles from who-knows-where suddenly land overhead, suicide drones flying from who-knows-where suddenly appear beside them, and whenever they try to assemble urgently, an attack will suddenly appear, scattering them in all directions.

Even though you can't see the enemy, it feels like they're right there in the air around you, suffocating and despairing.

The escape of more than 10,000 defeated soldiers from the Fourth Army marked the rapid loss of Vietnam's field forces near Ho Chi Minh City.

Zhang Xiaoqian sighed on the boat:

"Without military satellites, we are like blind men; without artillery production capacity, we are like impotent men; without advanced procurement, we are like wearing old clothes until they are tattered; without mechanization, we walk like primitive troops."

"But we are different. We are backed by China's industrial supply chain, and our soldiers are highly educated and well-suited for modern warfare. We have already been tempered by real combat, and we have fifth-generation fighters, aircraft carriers, and missiles. Fighting them is like the Trisolarans fighting primitive humans."

This is the reason for the initial victory.

But it's not over.

There are also local troops.

The Vietnamese army is stationed in the 7th Military Region in Ho Chi Minh City. Its headquarters is located at the site of the former South Vietnamese General Staff Headquarters, in District 9 of Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City, which is southeast of Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City.

Air Force Globemaster III transport planes made an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhat International Airport without any control tower intervention. The Coastal Combat Brigade, disguised as VdVs, launched a surprise attack on the 7th Military Region headquarters from the southeast side of the airport.

When the commanders of the Seventh Military District arrived at their headquarters, they were captured on the spot.

The already disorganized troops became even more scattered and confused, and were then defeated one by one, scattering in all directions.

"A ghost!" the soldiers screamed.

Most importantly, after the headquarters of the Fourth Field Army and the Seventh Military Region were captured without their knowledge, Nguyen Thanh Nghi, on behalf of the city party committee and government, issued a "peace declaration" to all the people and the fleeing troops. This greatly helped Li Xingha stabilize public sentiment and bring the overall situation in Ho Chi Minh City under control.

Seeing this, even the highly intelligent Black general Xavier Brunson would have to remark:

"Vietnam is a very obedient place. Much better than the United States. The US military can mobilize troops now to guard against the National Guard in each state. The National Guard in each state is fighting for who can lead them, and there are also new militia-organized state defense forces vying for leadership with the National Guard, local police departments, and federal agencies. It's like there are warlords everywhere."

Americans greatly admire the orderly and disciplined environment of East Asia.

Who would have thought that today, the majority of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops are stationed domestically to oversee the National Guard and prevent it from rebelling? The National Guard, in turn, keeps an eye on the state defense forces, suspecting these mobsters of wanting to wreak havoc on the local areas. The state defense forces, on the other hand, are highly resistant to federal agencies such as the FBI, Homeland Security, and Immigration & Border Protection, believing that their work is an infringement on state rights by the federal government and should be the responsibility of the state defense forces.

But Park Yoo-shin, who was standing next to him, reminded him:

"The situation was similar when the US military first entered Afghanistan. But as we all know, that's what happened next."

The Afghans were very cooperative with the US military, but the US military's rampant killing nature gradually drove all the Afghan residents to revolt, and they eventually invited the Taliban back.

So it's the Americans who are incompetent.

Having achieved an initial victory, Zhang Xiaoqian turned around and said:

"I hope everyone will not be complacent. The reason we were able to achieve a quick victory is that five of the Vietnamese army's six main forces are in the north, and most of its hundreds of thousands of troops are also stationed in the east, west, south, and north of Hanoi to guard against China."

That is indeed the case.

The armies in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta in the south are essentially local garrisons. The fighting capacity of Cambodia and Laos is far too weak compared to the major northern power. Therefore, when Li Xinghe had Dongchuan Xueshi and Maria manipulate CIA intelligence and bribe key figures, the local resistance was quickly dismantled before it could even be organized, leaving it virtually defenseless.

Hu Zhantian sighed as he looked at the map:

"It's just like the Sino-Vietnamese War. The elite troops were stationed in the north, so most of the troops sent to the south were young. The only difference is that we won the Sino-Vietnamese War, while the Vietnamese southern troops were easily defeated."

At this moment, the forward command post reported to its superiors:

"The chicken heart has been removed, and Vietnam is now paralyzed on one side."

The first phase of the operation was a success.

Zhang Xiaoqian then made the following arrangements:

"Make a deployment to quickly and completely control Ho Chi Minh City, and then send troops south to the Mekong Delta to eliminate the Ninth Military Region in Can Tho City. Then we can slowly wage a silent war against the elite army groups in northern Vietnam, separated by only a few hundred miles of the 17th parallel."

Even Zhang Xiaoqian himself did not expect that overnight, a third of Vietnam would fall into his hands.

He Yang chuckled and rubbed his hands together, suggesting:

"How about we carve out another part of Southern Yue?"

……

The war raged on, but then came to an abrupt end.

Nguyen Thanh Nghi, along with the Ho Chi Minh City municipal committee, remained peaceful and neutral, which was seen as a complete surrender to Li Xinghe. The people in various places were in chaos and panic, but were unable to organize any resistance forces.

The fleeing soldiers quickly discovered that their cell phones were ringing. When they answered, they found Li Xinghe's strange AI voice urging them to surrender.

"The reason I launched this special military operation against Vietnam is that the Vietnamese leadership has been completely corrupted by pro-American elements and has become a prisoner of the Americans. My aim is solely to rectify the correct values ​​of socialist Vietnam and eliminate the arrogance of pro-American elements; I will not harm ordinary civilians or soldiers."

If you surrender to the nearest police station or township government with your weapons and ammunition, all charges will be disregarded, and you will be relieved of your duties and sent home to await further instructions. Each of you will receive a severance payment of $3000 to facilitate your neutrality over the next few months. If a new army is formed in the future, your monthly salary will increase from 800 RMB to 3000 RMB, and your economic benefits and standard of living will improve exponentially. My promise is absolutely valid; this recording can be listened to repeatedly…”

This haunting, horror-movie-like scene terrified the Vietnamese soldiers, even shattering their will to fight, and they dared not resist Li Xinghe any longer.

"A ghost! It's a ghost!"

The soldiers screamed in terror, some even going insane on the spot, feeling that Li Xinghe was like a demon haunting their hearts.

Unbeknownst to them, this was simply because the database of the 4th Army Group and the 7th Military Region's headquarters in southern Vietnam had been completely taken over by Li Xinghe's forces. This even included the signal base stations for Vietnamese military electronic telecommunications operated by the Vietnamese military.

Therefore, the coalition's cyber electronic warfare department used virtual signals to repeatedly call all the phone numbers on the list, playing Li Xinghe's AI-generated surrender message to them.

But many soldiers at this time had wicked thoughts.

$3000?

That's nearly 100 million Vietnamese dong, equivalent to more than a year's salary for an ordinary Vietnamese soldier, and much more than their demobilization compensation.

They talked to each other, and even forcibly dragged their wounded comrades to the nearby police station and government offices to surrender in exchange for money.

Meanwhile, the police station and local government, which had not yet surrendered to Li Xinghe, saw that even soldiers had surrendered en masse, and thus, confused and bewildered, they surrendered as well. As a result, large-scale defections also occurred among the civilian population.

In terms of air raids and surprise attacks, Li Xinghe's tactics were not significantly different from those of the US military during the Gulf War.

But when it comes to psychological warfare, Li Xinghe has already mastered it.

The relentless barrage of propaganda, amplified by short videos on mobile phones, left no one in Ho Chi Minh City, which had changed hands overnight, with any desire to resist unable to voice their opinions. Instead, opinion leaders urging peace and hoping to avoid war, supported by Li Xinghe's financial offensive and platform coordination, rampantly invaded the mobile phone screens of every Vietnamese person.

If this is the case on social short video platforms, the offensive on international media is even more overwhelming.

Li Xinghe tricked Nguyen Thanh Nghi into surrendering Ho Chi Minh City, and used this as an excuse and example to make statements to the official media:

"Why launch military action against Vietnam? Their crime is: stubborn pro-Americanism! They are a criminal group that undermines the future economic order and has become a criminal group that must be eradicated in Southeast Asia."

For a socialist regime to be pro-American is a cardinal sin that invites condemnation. Back then, when China faced Soviet encirclement, its ping-pong diplomacy drew countless criticisms; Vietnam itself owes a hundredfold in retribution.

At the same time, Li Xinghe mobilized media circles in Tokyo and Seoul to wage a global propaganda war.

Duchess Olympia personally called Fleet Street to distribute the news to various media outlets.

As the second largest media conglomerate after the American media, the British media naturally spares no effort in leveraging its propaganda power:

The Financial Times published this breaking news immediately:

"According to an unnamed source, Vietnam's weakness is surprising, and Li Xinghe intends to occupy Vietnam entirely."

The BBC copied this news from who-knows-where:

"Li Xinghe was very surprised by Vietnam's weakness. He was determined to send an aircraft carrier north to completely destroy the communist regime in Hanoi."

Even right-leaning publications like The Guardian offered humorous and insightful commentary:

"A rogue state that can't even produce its own cannon barrels has been pretending to be a minor world power for decades, which is laughable."

The global media coverage spread the impression that Vietnam had been almost completely defeated (in reality, its main forces were intact and its various armies were fully equipped).

The American media's reporting angles are very peculiar.

They referred to General Xavier Brunson, commander of the Eighth Army, as the highest-ranking officer in this operation, implying to all Americans that Brunson was the de facto commander of the war. Although Li Xinghe was arrogant and domineering, he still had to respect our 'black' general. It was Brunson who led Li Xinghe to victory in the war.

So America wins!

However, the American media will not tell Americans that the reason Li Xinghe sent troops to beat Vietnam and Singapore was precisely because they were pro-American and did not obey his orders.

Sending American troops to beat up pro-American countries sounds absurd, but it has happened repeatedly in American history.

Americans are thrilled when they see the climax.

The US Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, the US F-35 fighter jets, the US Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers, whether it's the bombing by the Aerospace Forces, the fierce fighting by amphibious assault teams, or the ever-present bombs, missiles, drones, and rapidly advancing infantry fighting vehicles, aren't these all American tactics?

Li Xinghe, you really are an American!

While the US military itself was so weak that it could barely muster any strategic mobile forces, Li Xinghe instead mobilized all its strategic reserves, showcasing to the world a high-tech surprise attack reminiscent of the 21st-century Gulf War. (The remaining text appears to be unrelated and possibly machine-generated gibberish.)

On this day, Li Xinghe even became a great American figure more favored by Americans than abstract presidents such as Vance and Trump.

Global media flocked to the scene, eager to grab a share of the media frenzy.

Vietnam's position in the world is actually quite unique. Everyone knows that Vietnam's level of development is relatively good, even among developing countries (excluding China). At the same time, people know the story of the Vietnam War, having seen countless American movies depicting the advanced US military repeatedly using Agent Orange, sending helicopters, and strafing Vietnamese civilians.

Of course, everyone knows the joke about the Vietnamese in the jungle.

And this Vietnamese man was kicked to pieces by Li Xinghe.

Everyone is reporting on this contrast, it's like praising someone to death while making a fool of them live.

Thus, like a mountain collapsing and a tsunami crashing down, a terrifying sense of national annihilation weighed heavily on the hearts of the Vietnamese people, causing widespread panic and unrest.

The Vietnamese little war monkeys collectively broke through the defenses.

One hundred thousand troops were wiped out in a day. Li Xinghe waved money and made the major cities and villages in the Mekong Delta open their doors. Nguyen Thanh Nghi, as the son of the former prime minister, openly issued a peace declaration, which led to the opening of the Seventh Military Region. The Fourth Field Army was even unable to fight in the streets and fled to the civilian population.

The soldiers were truly pathetic; for a mere 100 million Vietnamese dong, they were willing to defect to Li Xinghe. They even believed the nonsense that Vietnam was staunchly pro-American.

And the whole world believes it! In what way has Vietnam actually been pro-American?

However, the American-backed NGOs lurking in Vietnam's online and offline networks, having been cut off from supplies for so long, finally felt like they had received a much-needed boost, as they received supplies from CIA headquarters and began to launch a frenzied attack on the current Vietnamese government.

For the US government, they have their own mission while they're alive, and as long as they're alive, they have to follow the old rules and boost their performance. But this time, they're attacking Vietnam, the country that once forced the US to withdraw from Saigon in a humiliating manner. Li Xinghe didn't even need to spend any money; the CIA immediately poured a large sum of money into creating a crisis of regime change in Southeast Asia.

Even if Li Xinghe doesn't agree, they still want to boost their own performance over the next 10 years.

Various reflective comments are circulating online:

"Is this what Vietnam's 40 years of reform and opening up looks like?"

"We were attacked by China for 10 years and worked for China for 40 years. In the past 50 years of so-called reform and opening up, we couldn't even manufacture a cannon barrel. We only have the ability to manufacture bullets and reload shells. We tear apart others everywhere, but we can't even afford to build a patrol boat. Our people are burdened with housing prices that would take hundreds of years to afford, and they are buying brainwashed, fake domestically produced cars. They are constantly reveling in their illusory pride. Now that their mask has been torn off, why doesn't this garbage country quickly reflect on itself?"

"Vietnam shouldn't be pro-American! Back then, being pro-Soviet led to a ten-year war with China, and now that it's pro-American, does it want to fight for several more years?"

The ideas of the Shangliu School quickly seized control of public opinion and spread them far and wide.

Li Xinghe's earth-shattering punch was like a thunderbolt, turning Vietnam into a dilapidated house in people's minds, one that would collapse with a single kick.

Moreover, given the complex economic contradictions we face today, and with global media seemingly amplifying the situation, there is a strong sense that something could easily be mistaken for reality.

Even the Vietnamese themselves are starting to waver.

Being pro-American is a mistake.