DR Vietnam. Supported by : [ infobox clutter? French Union. In late September , Chinese forces entered Tonkin, and Japanese forces to the north of that line surrendered to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. At the same time, British forces landed in Saigon Cochinchina 's capital , and Japanese forces in the south surrendered to the British.
On 23 September , with the knowledge of the British commander in Saigon, French forces overthrew the local DRV government, and declared French authority restored in Cochinchina. Guerrilla warfare began around Saigon immediately, [ 25 ] but the French gradually retook control of much of Indochina.
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The first few years of the war involved a low-level rural insurgency against the French. French Union forces included colonial troops from the empire β North Africans; Laotian, Cambodian and Vietnamese ethnic minorities ; Sub-Saharan Africans β and professional French troops, European volunteers, and units of the Foreign Legion.
The use of French metropolitan recruits was forbidden by the government to prevent the war from becoming more unpopular at home. It was called the "dirty war" la sale guerre by French leftists. French efforts were hampered by the limited usefulness of tanks in forest terrain, the lack of a strong air force, and reliance on soldiers from French colonies. They used guerrilla warfare doctrine and instruction from Mao's China, and used war materiel provided by the Soviet Union.
This conflict, known as the Vietnam War , included large U. Vietnam was absorbed into French Indochina in stages between and From to , he was imprisoned by Yuan Shikai 's counterrevolutionary government. In , he was captured by French agents in Shanghai and spirited to Vietnam. In September , the Empire of Japan launched its invasion of French Indochina , parallel with its ally Germany's conquest of metropolitan France. Keeping the French colonial administration, the Japanese ruled from behind the scenes, as did the Germans in Vichy France.
