Chapter 387: Brave War Correspondent
"But if you drive the whole city out of their homes, they will lose everything, and they will set out almost penniless, how will they live in the south!"
Hamilton bit the tip of his pen and wrote down all the words Chen Xu said. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
To date, the Chinese military has not harmed civilians other than normal fighting, although the eviction of Vietnamese citizens from their homes is egregious. However, as an occupying army, the Chinese army did not shoot and kill, let alone plunder, and it can indeed be regarded as a first-class army in any era.
"As far as I know, the U.S. government has sent a large amount of relief supplies to Saigon by sea, including food, medicine and tents, and the people in the northern part of Vietnam will be properly resettled after arriving at their destinations, so that they can temporarily ensure food and shelter, and there will be no humanitarian disasters such as freezing and starvation. As for the loss of houses and property, which is inevitable in the war, we chose to brave the powerful artillery fire of the Vietnamese army instead of bombing Hanoi to avoid accidentally injuring civilians.
At the level of the war, our army has done its best to let these Vietnamese people leave the city alive, and also arranged escorts and food along the way, and there is no more benevolent army than our army in history. When these people arrive in South Vietnam, the local government will follow the United Nations arrangement and divide the land for the refugees to build houses and live in, and they will soon settle down and find work. Chen Xu spread his hands and legs behind his back, if he pinched a horsewhip in his hand, he would completely look like an iron-blooded general.
Hamilton opened his mouth, the young Chinese general was able to explain the problem to him calmly, which was already precious, and he did not dare to ask some too exciting questions, lest people would not be interviewed in the future, so he could only shrug his shoulders helplessly and said: "Do you have to drive the Vietnamese out of the city?" It doesn't matter if they continue to live here, as long as they are given a stable life and the Chinese government accepts their existence well, I believe they will accept domestication and accept the fact of becoming a Chinese in a few years. ”
"You're an American descendant of immigrants who have a hard time understanding Asian culture, Vietnam was once a Chinese subject and heavily influenced by Confucian culture, and the country has identified itself as a Vietnamese for thousands of years. Confucian culture can absorb and integrate foreign cultures, but it will never surrender its identity to cater to other civilizations, Vietnam's Confucian culture has become a system of its own, so the Vietnamese people already have exclusivity in their bones, and they definitely don't give some benefits to abandon their own country. Any attempt to accept them will eventually turn into a disaster! Chen Xu did not hesitate to point out the problem in Hamilton's words.
In terms of cultural attributes, although the Vietnamese are the same Confucian culture as the Chinese, Confucianism has completely changed after it arrived in Vietnam. Just as Buddhism was eventually completely localized in China, it is not the same thing as Buddhism in India. Therefore, the Vietnamese could not integrate into China culturally, and forced acceptance would only invite resistance, and eventually turn into a war that lasted for many years, and unless the Chinese army killed all these Vietnamese, there was no way to end this matter.
Hamilton was helpless to find that he could not persuade the Chinese general to give up the expulsion of these Vietnamese, as an American journalist who had experienced the Vietnam War for ten years, this was not the first time he had come to Vietnam, but he had been in South Vietnam to report on the war before, and it was the first time he had come to a city in northern Vietnam to conduct war interviews
Having been to Vietnam many times, Hamilton also knew that these Vietnamese were in their bones suitable for this land, and once they were allowed to enter the jungle with guns, it would turn this jungle into a terrifying place of cannibalism, and any American would be dead or alive when he stepped into it. In the Vietnam War, the U.S. military had no choice but to sprinkle paraquat over the jungle and chemically wither all the leaves of the trees so that they could be seen. But even this did not have much effect, and the Vietnamese army was still inexhaustible and endless.
And the Chinese army adopted such a desperate plan to simply drive out all the Vietnamese, which has to be said to be a very clever trick. As an American, we can understand the helplessness of the Chinese army in using this trick, in fact, if the US military had adopted such a trick during the 10-year Vietnam War, it might have been able to end the Vietnam War early.
Of course, the expulsion operation was not always smooth, and each regiment of the 69th Army took the approach of encircling a block, enclosing the surrounding streets in an airtight manner, and then sending soldiers to check building by building, and the people hiding in the building had absolutely no way to run.
Most of the people who came out of the room were civilians, but there were still some Vietnamese soldiers hiding inside who were found one by one, and the smarter Vietnamese soldiers knew that they couldn't do anything, so they changed their clothes early, threw away and pretended to be civilians to get a chance to survive.
But there are some who are loyal to the Viet Cong, let alone change their clothes, and they refuse to even let him throw away his gun. They hid in the room and set up an ambush, waiting for the searching Chinese soldiers to enter the room before suddenly bursting out and attacking.
So during the search, the gunshots would go out every three to five minutes, and each time it was very short, basically ending in a matter of seconds.
"Comrade reporter, did you hear the gunshots that came one after another? They are so dense, so fast! If we allow these people to stay in the city, we can imagine how terrifying the resistance will erupt among the Vietnamese people after a while, and it is not enough to describe what will happen in the city with corpses all over the field! Chen Xu gritted his teeth, the masseter muscles on his face kept shaking, he was very worried that his soldiers would be killed or injured in such a sneak attack.
Those Vietnamese troops who still desperately resisted under heavy siege obviously didn't care about their lives, but behind every soldier of the 69th Army there were old fathers, mothers, wives and children who were looking forward to returning home safely, and every soldier was carrying a heavy family burden, how could they die in such an unimportant inventory operation!
Therefore, Chen Xu's order to the soldiers is that everything is based on their own safety, if these Vietnamese soldiers take hostages and hide in the room and do not come out, they don't need to talk nonsense and greet them directly with grenades, and they must not risk rushing in to rescue the hostages!
In Chen Xu's eyes, a thousand Vietnamese are not worth the lives of one of his soldiers, so there is naturally no politeness to treat these Vietnamese.
"Can I go and take some pictures? I need some pictorial materials of the Vietnamese resistance so that the articles I write can be more convincing! Hamilton, who saw the sun setting in the west, the houses in the city being emptied, and the Chinese army steadily advancing into the suburbs, offered to join the soldiers in the search.
"No problem, just pay attention to safety, those Vietnamese soldiers are very murderous and shoot people when they see them, don't risk being the first to rush into the room, lest you be beaten into a sieve!" Chen Xu patted Hamilton on the shoulder, the Chinese army has nothing to say to others, he just went to take pictures.
"Thank you, I will definitely make the Chinese soldiers very handsome!" Hamilton tucked his notebook into his pocket, grabbed the film camera around his neck, and trotted to find footage.
Hamilton once followed the U.S. troops in the jungles of Vietnam, photographing their combat life, and naturally did not care about such a low-intensity battle, let alone be afraid.
The other reporters saw Hamilton go to take pictures and eagerly followed, but most of them were not as bold as Hamilton to follow the troops and take pictures of the soldiers fighting directly.
They all went to shoot the scene after the end of the firefight, and filmed some Vietnamese soldiers who were killed, especially when they encountered the hostage-taking scene, they filmed more actively, which could better reflect the shamelessness and cruelty of these Vietnamese soldiers, and actually used their own compatriots as shields.
The Vietnamese soldiers were scattered and hid in various rooms, and although they were fighting on their own and could not form an effective counterattack, they were a great threat to our soldiers, because no one knew which door would be dangerous.
Fortunately, our soldiers were well prepared, and every time they entered the door, they were very careful, and they formed an assault formation to enter every room. And everyone figured out the trick, collected some clothes and fabrics, and stuffed them into the military uniforms, making a dummy out to use as bait.
Those Vietnamese soldiers hiding in the room were quite nervous, their fingers were stubbornly pulling the trigger, and when they saw someone rushing into the room, they shot regardless of 3721, and when they saw it clearly, they found that it was a dummy, but their position had been exposed, and a grenade jingled and rolled to their feet, and then they didn't know anything when the white light flashed seriously.
The dummy tactic was very effective, and this method quickly spread throughout the army, and everyone began to use this trick, and now our army basically had no casualties.
Of course, occasionally they will meet the calm Vietnamese soldiers, and they can't help but shoot when they see that it is a dummy, but they didn't expect that our soldiers were wearing body armor equipped with ceramic plates, and in order to protect the safety of the first soldier who rushed into the room, there were two ceramic plates inserted in the vital parts of his body, although his movement was a little restricted, as long as it did not hinder the shooting.
Therefore, it can effectively kill the sneak attacker every time, although there have been many incidents of soldiers being shot and injured, but so far there have been no fatal cases.
Our soldiers cleaned up the city of Hanoi step by step, and those American reporters were also dedicated, taking a lot of photos of Vietnamese soldiers trying to sneak attack, and then used them as pictures for the article, as evidence to tell the world how unruly the Vietnamese are, if they are allowed to stay in the city, it will definitely turn into a battlefield in the end, and expelling them is the most humane way!
Although even the reporter himself blushes when writing such an article, news reporting does not need to really think, it just needs to let the people see the truth, even if the truth is made up......