Chapter Fifty-Four: Sweeping the Outposts in the Mountains, Rounding Out the Tiger's Mouth!
At around 9 a.m. on May 3, 1974, after a night of turbulence, our vehicle arrived at a village near Dong Hai in North Vietnam.
The officer took the nine of us out of the car, and together we went into the village to look for someone.
The officer was in a peasant house and handed us over to a fellow man in his fifties.
The officer said to me, "Team Leader! The old man is called Uncle Eight! He's our man! He's in charge of taking you through the military buffer zone! Take care on your way! I'm going back to debriefing! ”
After speaking, the officer got in the car and left!
Uncle Eight is a warm-hearted person who can speak Mandarin!
The eighth uncle said, "Alas! You guys go to Saigon at this time! It's not easy to walk on the road! There are more than 100 kilometers to Yanshan here! Wait, let's get some dry food and water! My two children and I will take you on a mountain walk! Other roads and old roads are buried, and there are checkpoints, and people can't leave! There is still 800 kilometers from Yan Shan to Saigon! Alas, how did you choose such a difficult path! ”
Uncle Eight beckoned us to have breakfast at home.
Uncle Eight and his two sons started dry food, as well as a bamboo tube of drinking water each!
After getting ready, Uncle Eight and his two sons took the nine of us and set off along a mountain road from the back mountain of their house!
This road is indeed very difficult to walk, we are walking on the sheep's intestine trail, and the trail stretches in the mountains and dense forests!
Sometimes we climb mountains, sometimes we go down cliffs, and we have to wade through many mountain streams!
On the flat road, due to the usual lack of pedestrians, the road surface has been overgrown with weeds and thorns!
Uncle Eight, they have to use woodcutters to remove weeds and thorns on the road before we can pass!
In order to get on the road, we only had one break to replenish food and water!
And then, just keep following them!
We were all so tired and panting, sweat soaking through our clothes and pants!
However, since we received rigorous physical training at school, we did not get tired and fall behind!
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At around 8 p.m., we finally arrived on a hillside northwest of Da Son Port.
From here, we can overlook the entire Yanshan city and the harbor, where the lights are flashing and the traffic is endless!
Uncle Eight said, "Young man! Under the mountain was a South Vietnamese military outpost, in which there were a dozen people, one or two military vehicles! You can't get to Saigon on two legs! Go to this outpost and think of a way! That's all we have to get you here! ”
Uncle Eight: They left the rest of their food for us.
After that, they hurriedly returned the way they came!
After they left, I gathered everyone for a meeting in a hidden meadow.
I said, "Colleagues! This is a tropical region, with hot and humid weather and a lot of mosquitoes and flying insects. We've been in the mountains for a long time, and we're definitely not going to do it! Now we have to knock out the mountain post and seize the car! We have a way to live! Xiaoda and Brother Niu immediately went to the outpost at the foot of the mountain to investigate! Other colleagues, rest in place, replenish food and water, check weapons and ammunition! Pack your luggage and belongings! Get ready for battle! ”
Xiaoda and Niu Shilong handed over their luggage to Zhou Xiaoming and the others, and they went down the mountain with weapons!
The rest of us are on the grass, eating, checking weapons, filling ** with ammo, and putting our luggage and belongings in order, all on our backs!
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Half an hour later, Xiaoda and Niu Shilong ran back panting!
Xiaoda said: "Team leader, look at it! There is a guard at the entrance of the outpost! The sentinel is surrounded by a bamboo fence. There is a yard inside and two trucks are parked in the yard! Behind the courtyard was a two-story bamboo stilted building, and I counted the number of people, and there were eleven people in it! They are equipped with weapons that are all M1918A2! ”。
We erected a light-proof enclosure, and Xiao Da drew the plan of the outpost.
I'll give you a task right away.
Our division of labor is:
I, Liu Fang, and Li Ping were in charge of dealing with the sentry guards, opened the gate, and started snatching a truck!
After the sentry was resolved, Ye Hailong led Du Wentao and Du Wenwu to climb over the fence on the right and sneak into the courtyard.
At the same time, Niu Shilong led Xiaoda and Zhou Xiaoming to sneak into the courtyard from the right fence.
Work together to outflank and take out all the enemies inside the stilted building!
When tackling enemies, make sure that the enemy's costume and ID are in good condition as soon as possible!
After the raid, we changed the puppet army clothing, weapons and documents, etc., and then, destroyed all traces and evidence of the operation, and fled the scene by car!
Our move was scheduled to start at 12 p.m., and after everyone checked the tables, we packed our things, packed our bags, prepared our weapons and ammunition, and we began to slowly descend the mountain!
After arriving at the vicinity of the downhill outpost, everyone ambushed their respective action locations according to the battle arrangement!
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At 11:30 p.m., the puppet soldiers began to turn off the lights and go to bed!
The entire courtyard and stilted buildings of the outpost began to fall silent, except for the searchlight shining back and forth!
I saw in the grass that the sentry at the gate came into the sentry box and began to nap!
Soon I heard the sentry purring!
It's already 11:55 when I look at my watch!
I got up, quietly stood on the side of the sentry box, picked up a stone, and rolled towards the door of the sentry box!
As soon as the sentry stuck out his head, his head and neck were caught between my hands!
I covered his mouth and snapped his neck!
I dragged the body into the sentry box!
In the sentry box, I quickly changed the puppet army's clothing, shoes and hats, weapons and documents!
After finishing my errands, I locked the door of the sentry box and went to open the door!
When I calmly opened the gate, Liu Fang and Li Ping followed me into the courtyard and walked towards a car!
At this time, Ye Hailong led Du Wentao and Du Wenwu to climb over the fence from the right and sneak into the hospital!
Niu Shilong led Xiaoda and Zhou Xiaoming to sneak into the courtyard from the right over the fence, and began to approach and outflank the stilted building!
Me, Liu Fang, Li Ping and the other three entered the cab of the vehicle!
In the cab, I quickly found the two ignition wires that started the switch!
After I touched the two wires, the car's engine suddenly started and the motor made a deafening roar!
Suddenly, screams and gunshots came from the direction of the stilted building!
We saw that Ye Hailong and Niu Shilong's two groups of members had already begun to attack the sleeping puppet army in the stilted building!
Fifteen minutes later, the gunfire and screaming stopped, and I asked Li Ping and Liu Fang to hold the started vehicle, and I got out of the car!
As soon as I got out of the car and stood firm, Xiaoda and Xiaoming were wearing puppet army clothes, shoes and hats, and running towards me with puppet army weapons!
Xiaoda said: "Team leader! All 11 people in the building were solved! Deputy Niu and the supervisor are searching the enemy's supplies and documents, carrying corpses, weapons, ammunition and provisions, etc.! ”
I said, "Okay! Your luggage will be carried into the truck box immediately, Xiaoda, Xiaoming! Go to the roadside guard outside the outpost! Enemy reinforcements may arrive right away! ”
Xiaoda and Zhou Xiaoming moved everyone's luggage and belongings to the truck box.
After that, they ran to the side of the road outside the door to hide and guard!
Soon, Niu Shilong, Ye Hailong, Du Wenwu and Du Wentao brought more than a dozen automatic rifles, more than a dozen boxes of bullets, more than a dozen boxes of **, a machine gun, as well as a batch of pseudo-military uniforms, shoes and hats, a batch of military canned food, etc.!
I asked everyone to change into puppet uniforms, weapons, and documents.
After that, everyone moved all the seized supplies to the starting vehicle!
Niu Shilong said to me: "Team leader! We've got all the documents! What to do with the body and the scene? ”
I said, "Burn it all!" It's all they doused with gasoline! A fire burned! ”
So, everyone went into the sentry box and poured a lot of gasoline on 12 corpses, including the corpses in the stilted building!
At the same time, everyone poured gasoline on the perimeter of the drawbridge building!
Niu Shilong, light a torch and throw it at the stilted building!
Suddenly, the stilted building and the pile of corpses ignited a raging fire!
Soon the stilted building made a thunderclap and they were engulfed in flames!
At this moment, Xiaoda and Xiaoming came over with their weapons and reported to me!
Xiaoda said, "Oh no! An Allied fur-dog commando armed jeep is coming towards us! ”
I said, "Everyone, go hiding!" Get ready for battle! ”
Niu Shilong, Ye Hailong, Du Wentao, Du Wenwu, Zhou Xiaoming and others immediately hid in the dark part of the fence in the courtyard and prepared for battle!
Li Ping and Liu Fang hid in the bed of the truck.
As soon as they took cover, Xiaoda and I had already seen that the armed jeep was about to enter the gate!
Xiaoda and I can only tidy up the puppet army uniforms, hold pistols and **, and stand in the courtyard waiting for the enemy!
Soon the armed jeep rushed madly into the yard.
They suddenly came to a sudden stop ten meters away from us!
We saw that there were five people in the car, and a machine gunner was standing with a heavy machine gun in his hands!
Among them, a driver and three mobile team members, all of whom have the logo of a hawk-headed harpoon broken gun on their clothing!
Sure enough, they're fur seal commandos!
A stout and tall major officer jumped out of the car and walked towards me and Xiaoda!
The major officer should have seen that we were child soldiers!
He teasingly said, "HELLO! MY BABY! HOW ARE YOU? My goodness! Are you all right? )”
As soon as his words landed, Xiaoda and I immediately jumped to both sides!
In the process of jumping, I shot the major officer in the head!
At the same time, we threw ** at the jeep!
However, they are also very responsive!
The heavy machine gun in the car rang out almost at the same time as my pistol!
Our pistols also began to shoot intensively, a scuffle!
In the end, their military jeep was blown up by me and Xiaoda's **!
All four enemies in the car were killed or killed!
After we counted the battlefield, we found that Ye Hailong's left shoulder was pierced by a machine gun bullet!
Du Wenwu's right leg was also hit by a heavy machine gun bullet!
They were all piercing wounds, but the wounds were still bleeding!
Liu Fang and Li Ping stopped the bleeding and used first-aid kits to help them bandage their wounds!
Then, everyone carried the wounded to the back of the truck, and Liu Fang and Li Ping took care of the wounded.
We searched the bodies of these devils, and we got five special Allied passes and dozens of dollars, etc.
We know that this special pass is jointly issued by the Allies and the puppet army, and these documents can be used in conjunction with the military ID, and you can freely pass through the checkpoints and customs in the war zone!
We also found a free fuel card from them to use at the Allied gas station!
After dealing with the matter, we carried out a centralized incineration of five corpses!
After dealing with the battlefield, Zhou Xiaoming, Niu Shilong, and Du Wentao got into the back compartment of the truck to be responsible for guarding there!
Xiao Da and I checked the scene, and after we felt that there were no omissions and problems, we got into the cab of the vehicle, and Xiao Da drove the car and left the still burning outpost!
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After coming out of the road for 1.5 kilometers, we were intercepted and inspected by a puppet army vehicle!
A captain officer and two soldiers of the puppet army signaled to us to stop!
After we parked, they came over to check my and Xiaoda's IDs, while the rest of them went to the back of the car to check.
Soon after, the captain officer came over and returned our puppet military documents.
The captain's officer asked in Vietnamese, "What happened to your outpost?" ”
I said: "We were suddenly attacked by the guerrillas!" We got away with it! Rushed to reinforce the Allies and others were all killed! ”
The captain officer asked, "How many people are there from the guerrillas?" ”
I said, "A lot of people! A piece of black pressing! At least two or three hundred people! They are on fire very violently! ”
The captain officer said, "All right! Hurry back to the rear hospital and shelter to report for duty! You wounded have lost too much blood! If you don't treat it, you will definitely die! When you enter the city, turn right, there is a clinic that specializes in gunshot wounds! You guys go! We're getting out of here too! ”
After the captain officer finished speaking, he got into their truck with a group of puppet soldiers!
After that, they fled in a hurry in the direction of the city!
Afterwards, we also drove into town!
After entering the city, following the guidance of the pseudo-officer, we found the clinic!
We parked the car in front of the clinic, and Xiaoda and I got out of the car and went to the clinic to call a doctor!
Soon, a doctor in his fifties, carrying two stretchers with four people, moved Du Wenwu and Ye Hailong from the car to the stretcher and carried them into the clinic.
I watched under the clinic light, and the two of us wounded were already pale and in a coma!
The doctor said to me, "Brother! We are a private clinic! Your two brothers will die if they don't get treated! We had to operate on them, close their wounds, have blood transfusions, intravenous penicillin, etc.! Now, medicines are expensive, and it's hard to buy! If you don't have dollars, we don't dare to heal! ”
I said, "Doctor! I understand! You make an offer! I have dollars! ”
The doctor said, "Give me three hundred dollars!" We're going to operate on them right away! And, give you a course of medication and medical supplies! ”
I took $500 out of the $300 my mother gave me and gave it to the doctor!
After the doctor collected the money, he gave me a receipt.
Then, they moved Du Wenwu and Ye Hailong into the operating room.
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At around 3 o'clock in the morning on May 4, Ye Hailong and Du Wenwu were pushed out of the operating room!
Both of them had regained their senses and their faces were flushed!
The doctor told me that our wounded did not hurt their bones and could recover after a few months of rest! Do not remove the needles for intravenous injections of the wounded, and pull them out after the drops are finished.
He gave us some anti-inflammatory drugs and wound treatment potions and cotton swabs.
He told us to hurry up!
He said that there are often guerrillas and agents who come here to attack, and we have to be very careful on the road!
Liu Fang and Li Ping held the infusion bottles, and we carried the two wounded into the car!
At 4 o'clock in the morning, we walked out of Da Nang city and headed for Saigon!
For the sake of the wounded, we can only go slowly!
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At about 9 o'clock in the morning on May 4, we arrived at an uninhabited village near Phu My Town.
We have observed, this place has just been cleared by the puppet army, and there are no more villagers in the village!
So, I parked my car in a very sheltered place at the entrance of the village.
I asked Niu Shilong to lead Xiaoda and Du Wentao into the village to reconnoitre, and to find food and a place to rest!
Because, everyone didn't have a good rest for two days and two nights, the whole team was exhausted, and Li Ping, Liu Fang and Xiaoming had low-grade fever of varying degrees, and it would be over if we didn't rest!
Ten minutes later, Xiaoda came back to report that no one was found in the village, and they found a big house with food and water in it, which could be used as a place for everyone to rest!
After they got into the cab, they showed me the way, and our vehicle went to the resting place!
Once there, we parked our car and we carried the wounded into the room.
We found a room with two beds for the two wounded to lie down!
By this time, the wounded were already able to speak, and they were shouting for water!
I asked Xiaoda to check the water source, and the others hurriedly lit a fire to boil the water!
I went to park outside the house, I parked the car in a convenient and sheltered place, and asked Du Wentao to be on duty in the car!
When I went back to the house, Xiaoda said to me, "Ah Cai! There is a small stream in the courtyard outside and the water is safe with small fish and frogs swimming! ”
I said, "Yes! You and Niu Shilong are responsible for boiling water and cooking! ”
Soon, Xiaoda and Niu Shilong boiled a large pot of boiling water.
Xiaoda and I distributed drinking water and anti-malaria medicine to everyone!
We also delivered drinking water and medicine to Du Wentao, who was on duty outside the house.
After dealing with these urgent matters, Xiaoda, and Niu Shilong began to wash rice and cook!
This family is good, they grow a lot of vegetables in the vegetable garden outside the house, and they also raise a lot of free-range chickens!
We picked a lot of greens in the vegetable patch and washed them in the creek.
We also caught a few chickens in the backyard and prepared soup chicken for everyone to make soup chicken to drink and nourish the body!
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At noon, the three of us made rice, fried vegetables, and stewed chicken!
Li Ping and Liu Fang fed Ye Hailong and Du Wenwu food first, and they drank a lot of chicken soup.
I, Xiaoda, Niu Shilong, Zhou Xiaoming, Du Wentao and others also began to take turns to eat lunch.
After everyone finished lunch, the others rested, and Xiaoda and I were on duty outside the house.
Xiaoda said: "Alas! It's been a hard journey! It's still 600 kilometers from here to Saigon! I'll have to walk for at least two days! In the future, what should I do if the vehicle is refueled? ”
I said, "Alas! After Zhou Xiaoming rests, let him be responsible for revising this book for everyone! With documents! We'll be able to refuel and get to Saigon safely! ”
At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, everyone rested and basically recovered their energy!
I asked Liu Fang and Li Ping to take turns taking care of the wounded.
I, Xiaoda, Niu Shilong and Du Wentao, who are in good health, took turns to be on guard outside the house.
After Zhou Xiaoming and I gathered everyone to fake military documents, we changed the photos and Chinese names on them, and other information such as unit numbers, positions, military ranks, and Vietnamese names remained unchanged.
Zhou Xiaoming and I are both masters of manual printing in school, and the tools and potions we brought are very useful, so we quickly made the documents that everyone can use.
Zhou Xiaoming smiled and said, "Ah Cai! That's no problem! Now, we are real puppet soldiers! ”
I said, "Good! Wait until they're dry! You are responsible for distributing it to everyone! I'll keep four special Allied passes! ”
After dinner, Zhou Xiaoming distributed documents to everyone!
Xiaoda and I collected a lot of smoked mosquito grass and lit mosquito grass to repel mosquitoes in every room where people were resting!
We didn't have a bed to sleep with, and we slept on the floor in the room!
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