Text Chapter 1056 Bay of Pigs
"Dude, where are we here? It's a shame that you can find a place like this!" Xiao Peng asked Yang Meng.
Not to mention anything else, Yang Meng's aircraft skills are still good, and Cessna's small plane is as obedient as a sheep in his hands. flew all the way at an ultra-low altitude, which really allowed him to sneak into Cuba.
But. They ignore the fact that there are only two seasons in this Nima Cuba, one is the dry season, the other is the rainy season, and there is the occasional wind seasonγγγγγγ Xiao Peng and the others were lucky, they didn't encounter a super wind, but they also encountered bad weather not long after flying.
That is, fortunately, Yang Meng's driving skills passed, otherwise it would be really troublesome.
However, the place where the plane landed was a little speechless, and it turned out to be next to a swamp. Half of the plane was stuck in the water.
Yang Meng looked at the satellite navigation: "We are now in the Zapata Swamp. β
Xiao Peng looked at the map: "Damn, how did you get here, it's still three or four hundred kilometers away from Havana!"
The Zapatista Marsh is one of the largest and least populated counties in Cuba, rich in water resources, the largest protected area in Cuba, and the largest surviving colony of Cuban crocodiles.
Of course, it's not just Cuban crocodiles, but also their close relatives------ American crocodiles. The two are still relatively easy to distinguish: the Cuban crocodile has a black and yellow bright body, a small size, but a short temper, aggressive nature, and fewer webs between the toes, which makes them extremely explosive, and is the fastest moving crocodile in the world.
This crocodile used to be found in a large area between the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas, but due to overhunting, it is currently only found in Cuba, and it only lives in the Zapatista swamps, with only about 3,000 individuals. But thanks to the good conservation (and more importantly because people live in cities), Cuba is a haven for wildlife.
Although this Zapatista swamp is called a swamp, there are forests and swamps in it, and there are all kinds of wild animals. It's a very beautiful tourist destination, but it's not fun to be here with this pouring rain!
"Brother Peng, from here to Havana you have to go through the entire swamp, this weather through the swamp, it's not very fun!" Yang Meng looked out the window and said.
Xiao Peng looked at the sky: "Indeed, it is indeed dangerous to pass through the swamp in this weather. β
"Why don't we wait in the plane for the rain to stop?" Yang Meng proposed.
"God knows how many days it rained, stay here with you rough old man, I won't die in a few days!" Xiao Peng said with a look of disgust.
Yang Meng stretched out his head and looked out the window: "Damn, I'm willing to squeeze into the plane with you?" But Brother Peng, the road conditions under the rain are not very good, and I don't dare to guarantee that our plane can take off." β
Xiao Peng grinned, "What's wrong, how long have you been comfortable, forgetting about the African rainforest?" he said as he wrapped his leggings around his calves with strips of cloth.
Yang Meng scratched his head: "I shouldn't have asked you to come back, my special comfortable life is just suffering from you." Saying that, he also wrapped his leggings: "What about the plane?"
"Let's talk about it later!" Xiao Peng opened the door, there happened to be a small American crocodile outside, Xiao Peng grabbed it and wrapped it around his mouth with a strip of cloth, and threw it to Yang Meng: "Take it, the picnic on the road!"
Yang Meng took the crocodile: "Damn, you are much kinder than before, you always threw porcupines at me when you were in Africa!" After speaking, he directly took out a knife and killed the crocodile with a knife, and put it in his backpack: "Let's go!"
The two of them walked towards the beach first, walking in the swamp in such bad weather is torture, Xiao Peng would rather choose to take a detour. After walking for a long time, finally to the beach, Xiao Peng chose to run northeast along the beach, and after walking all day, he finally saw the building.
It's like a seaside resort, with lots of wooden houses. However, due to the strong winds, there are no people. Some buildings by the sea, some roofs have been blown off. It should be waiting for the wind to stop before someone comes to renovate.
Xiao Peng and the two came directly to one of the houses, picked the door lock directly, and the two slipped in. There is a reason for choosing this home.
It is one of the few brick and stone houses in the area, and there is a sturdy sunshade at the door, and under the shed is an oven made of gasoline drums. This look is the house of a rich man in Cuba, and it is very exquisite.
Xiao Peng took a towel to wipe his body, while Yang Meng searched left and right.
"What are you looking for?" Xiao Peng asked puzzled.
"Why can't I find running water? I can't even take a hot shower. Yang Meng took a towel and came back: "Damn, there is not even anything to eat in the whole room, I am very satisfied if I can find a can! There are only a few eggs in the refrigerator." β
"Be content, although Cuba is full of happiness for the people, but after all, it has been blocked for so many years, so there are not many resources, and there are not many things to choose from. Xiao Peng said, "Come on, give me your backpack, let's eat all the time!"
Yang Meng took the little crocodile out of his backpack and went outside the door to peel off the crocodile skin and clean the internal organs. Xiao Peng took out a few loaves of bread from his backpack, took out mineral water to mix the eggs, and then tore the bread into breadcrumbs, and mixed them into bread purees with egg juice. Then stuff the bread puree into the crocodile's belly. There was fishing tackle in the house, and Xiao Peng directly used the fishing hook as a needle to sew the crocodile's belly with a fishing line, so that the bread cuff in the fish's stomach would not be exposed.
After doing all this, Xiao Peng spread the olive oil evenly on the crocodile meat, and then smeared a thick layer of spices such as chili powder and five-spice powder, after all this was done, Xiao Peng lit the gasoline barrel oven, put the crocodile whole in it for barbecue, and brushed the oil on it after a while------ after all, there is not much fat in this crocodile meat, and it needs to be replenished.
"Hey, Brother Peng, if I'm not mistaken, this is the roasted crocodile I learned in Texas back then, more than ten years have passed!" Yang Meng said.
"You pig brain can still remember the things at that time!" Xiao Peng teased: "Taste it or is it not the taste of the year?"
Yang Meng cut off a piece of crocodile meat and raised his thumb: "Although there is a lot of seasoning, it is also delicious." The point is to be hungryγγγγγγ I said, Brother Peng, where are we now?"
Xiao Peng looked at the GPS: "We're in Bay of Pigs." β
"What's that?" Yang Meng looked left and right after hearing this: "Hey, such a beautiful place is used to raise pigs, what are you kidding?"
Xiao Peng said helplessly: "This is called Kuala Beach, not the Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, the locals call it the Bay of Pigs, don't underestimate here, it was here back then, Cuban Castro's beard made the Stars and Stripes eat a nose of ashes here, and Kennedy was assassinated two years later, and some people also said that it had something to do with his failure here." After all, Kennedy had a bad relationship with the CIA because of this. β
Yang Meng obviously didn't know what was going on, and asked Xiao Peng, "What the hell is going on?"
Xiao Peng scratched his head: "This question is a long story, it is said that back then, Castro overthrew Batista's dictatorship with the support of the Stars and Stripes, at that time Castro and the Stars and Stripes were very close, and they were very popular in the Stars and Stripes Country. As a result, Hoover, the CIA's director at the time, said that Castro wanted to collude with the former Soviet Union to attack the Stars and Stripes. It was they who cooperated with Castro to overthrow Batista, but when Battista was overthrown by Castro, they took in the Battista regime, gathered those Cubans in exile in the Stars and Stripes, trained them in combat ability, and tried to turn back and counterattack Cuba and overthrow Castro. β
"On April 7, 1961, the 2506 Assault Brigade, code-named '2506 Assault Brigade,' attacked Cuba from the sea, and the landing point was the Bay of Pigs. There were four infantry battalions, one motorized, one airborne, one heavy artillery battalion, and several armored detachments, and in order to support their attack on Cuba, the Stars and Stripes also sent eight C-54 transport planes, fourteen B-26 bombers, ten landing ships, and even several submarines. Their goal is simple, to occupy this beach. β
Yang Meng was puzzled and asked, "So many people occupy a beach, what's the use? Let people be targeted?"
Xiao Peng smiled: "Of course not, they just need to seize this place, set up a temporary airport, and then fly directly here in the Batista exile regime of the Stars and Stripes Country, and then send a telegram to the Stars and Stripes Country for help, so that the Star and Stripes Country will be famous!"
Yang Meng clapped his hands after hearing this: "I understand, it's just that it's quite biaozi and wants to set up an archway, and it's just right to pay attention to sending troops." β
Xiao Peng nodded: "What do you think, Cuba is only a little more than 100 kilometers away from the nearest place to the Stars and Stripes, and it is still a social-socialist-righteous country, do you think the Stars and Stripes Country can make their backyard so unsafe?" At that time, he supported Castro because Batista was disobedient, but he didn't expect Castro to be even more disobedient after overthrowing Batista, and directly began to make a land reform to play social-social-istol, so he quickly wanted to press Castro again, which is good, although the Stars and Stripes supported Cuba, but all Cubans were soldiers, and the exiles of the 2506 Assault Brigade bombed them with bombers for two days, and then landed with all their might on the third day, and wanted to invade Cuba to overthrow the Castro government, and the result was three days down , the Stars and Stripes were shot down five planes and two ships, and went back in disgrace. The entire 2506 assault brigade was wiped out in all its ranks, more than a thousand people were captured. What's even more ridiculous is that all the planes and ships were sent by the Stars and Stripes, but Kennedy said that the Stars and Stripes did not have any support for the overthrow of Castro, and later when the losses were made public, they had to admit that they were responsible, and then claimed full responsibility for the incident. So the Stars and Stripes were particularly humiliating during that time. β
Some people think that the CIA provided JFK with the wrong information, that JFK had deceived the CIA, and that JFK had cheated him, and that JFK **. Anyway, the relationship between Kennedy and the CIA deteriorated to the extreme, the CIA director and two deputy directors were fired, and Kennedy was assassinated a year later, and the CIA has not investigated the reason to this day. Oh, this incident also has a major impact, that is, Cuba frightened the attack, and can only hug the former Soviet Union tightly-----What if there is another attack? So the next year there was the Cuban Missile Crisis that shocked the world, and the Stars and Stripes began to impose economic sanctions on Cuba, which continues to this day!"
Yang Meng suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand, the place of feelings is still a battlefield?"
Xiao Peng snapped his fingers: "Bingo! But now it should be a tourist attraction, after this incident, Cuba's old Qatar regime is stable, you see no matter how the Stars and Stripes country blockades Cuba, people are still living a good life here, why? It is because after the Bay of Pigs incident, almost all the Latin American countries have developed a favorable impression of Cuba, thinking that the Stars and Stripes countries use military means to interfere in Cuba's internal affairs, and Cuba is the bridgehead against the Stars and Stripes!"
In fact, at that time, whether it was Castro or Che Guevara, not only did they have nothing to do with the Soviet Union and other socialist-righteous-state, but they didn't even know what Marxism-Leninism-righteousness was. β
Yang Meng laughed: "To be honest, this is the first time we've gone to other societies to see socialism, right?
"What should I do?" Xiao Peng threw a bottle of beer to Yang Meng: "Eat and drink enough and sleep, let's go to Havana tomorrow!"
"Well, I wish there was hot water there, so I could take a shower. There's no running water, so don't people here drink water?" Yang Meng complained.
Xiao Peng shrugged: "There should be one in Havanaγγγγγγ Hide, someone's coming!"
I saw that in the distant house, someone with a flashlight was shining there!
When Yang Meng heard this, he pointed to the gasoline barrel oven: "What should I do?"
"Don't worry about it, leave it to me! You hurry up and hide in the house!" After Xiao Peng finished speaking, he wrapped his hands in a cloth and threw the oven directly on the beach, and the rain instantly wet the charcoal fire in the oven, and a cloud of white smoke came up!
Luckily it's night, otherwise the white smoke would have attracted everyone!
Xiao Peng ignored the oven, ran back to the house, lay on the bed and looked out the window, only to see a few old men and old ladies patrolling there in the heavy rainfall, wearing red armbands on their arms, which read 'Committee for the Defense of the Revolution'. However, Xiao Peng's house was still at a distance from those wooden houses, so they took a flashlight and left after shining it. Didn't come at all.
Yang Meng stretched out his head and looked at it for a long time: "Brother Peng, who are those?"
Xiao Peng shrugged: "It's equivalent to our Huaxia street office cadre!"
"They are still patrolling this day, they are much more reliable than our street office!"