Chapter 21: After the Tsunami
Before Army M withdrew from its military base in Indochina in 1976, the Vietnam War was in full swing, and a large number of troops were rotated from the battlefield to the Gulf of Siam to recuperate. Located at the mouth of the Gulf of Siam, Lantia Island is the most important tourist destination in the Gulf of Siam and has all it takes to get the tropics.
Pattaya, which is separated from the island by a few dozen kilometers by water, was a base of the M Army during the Vietnam War. At that time, the soldiers of country M, who were about to go to the battlefield, began to get drunk and dream, drunk and prostitutes, so that prostitutes from Siam and even the entire Indochina Peninsula converged to Pattaya. In the early seventies, Pattaya was just a small coastal town with a few thousand people. By the mid-80s, it had become a charming small city with a population of 70,000 or 80,000.
Compared with Pattaya, Lantia Island, a tourist destination, was a higher-grade sex tourism destination at that time.
Dense tropical rainforests, neat rubber plantations, white and soft sandy beaches, steep cliffs, clear turquoise waters, abundant sea sports, wonderful nightlife, gorgeous restaurants, and mysterious bars greet these soldiers of country M who have come down from the battlefield and soothe their frightened hearts in the jungle war.
The island has a humid tropical climate with no summer or winter.
From March to September, when the sun shines directly on the equator, it is the rainy season for Landia, especially in May, when it rains almost every day. In October, there will still be a brief period of wet weather, and by mid-November, the weather will be slightly colder and the rain will decrease. From November to April, the waters of Lantia are calm, the weather is good, and precipitation is scarce.
After the withdrawal of the soldiers of country M, it became a paradise for Europeans and Americans throughout the late 70s and 80s. Sexual services are mainly carried out by Siamese girls, numbering in the thousands. This is followed by girls from other countries on the Indochina Peninsula, as well as from the Japanese and Taiwanese regions, as well as a small number of women from all over Europe and the world "panning for gold".
Compared with local girls, blonde and blue-eyed white girls or young women from the Japanese and Taiwanese regions are either tall or fair-skinned, and belong to the "upper class" favored by the upper class. The native girls of Siam and Southeast Asia are generally small in height and dark in skin, so they are called "black-bone chickens" by the people of M country.
In the 80s, prostitutes became more and more young, and prostitutes between the ages of 15 and 18 were more attractive to European and American men, leading to the growing prostitution phenomenon in this sex tourism destination.
It was only in 1994, when the pressure of the AIDS epidemic intensified, that the Siamese government passed a draft law punishing brothels, parents and clients of young prostitutes who accept young prostitutes, and those who engage in sexual acts with young prostitutes between the ages of 15 and 18 will be sentenced to one to three years in prison and fined between 20,000 and 60,000 baht (about US$800 to US$2,400).
Sexual activity with a young prostitute under the age of 15 is punishable by 2-6 years in prison and a fine of 4-120,000 plants. The person in charge of the brothel is sentenced to 1-3 years in prison and a fine of 2-100,000 baht.
This belated draft law came a little too late. But it still plays a role in protecting the interests of children. The notorious phenomenon of young prostitutes has been curbed to a certain extent.
It's just that this is a story after ten years.
Siam's Muay Thai is famous all over the world, and the island of Landia was one of the largest competitive boxing centers in Siam at that time, and the Thousand Buddha Boxing Club in the middle of the island held important boxing matches every night. The audience can bet wildly on the spot, and the story of getting rich overnight and falling overnight often happens. Watching boxing matches, watching nightclub ladyboy shows, and renting young "brides" were the three major tourist signature projects of Landia Island at that time.
At this time, after the tsunami, the whole island became a mess and devastated. But after only two days of depression and chaos, when the third night came, the island began to glow neon again, the merchants began to open, and the red men and women who had survived the catastrophe melted into the fragrant night of Landia. Landia has become a "paradise for beautiful legs" that makes men's hearts tremble.
The name "Beautiful Legs Paradise" is said to have been given to a general of the M Army who was deeply shocked after taking a vacation on this small island.
After the boxing match began that night, the white man and the white woman returned from the boxing gym to their villa on the hill in the middle of the island. He began to think about the future of this small island, and the frequent earthquakes gave him a strong premonition that the small island of Landia, which is located in the "Pacific Ring of Fire", is likely to quietly disappear to the bottom of the sea one night.
The so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire" refers to the ring of the North Pacific Ocean, the eastern edge of Asia, and the west coast of the Americas. It stretches from Chile in the east, Alaska in the north, and through the Wa Kingdom and Southeast Asia in the west, to some islands in the Pacific Ocean. From the land to the seabed, the region is prone to seismic activity, with some of the worst natural disasters occurring frequently. Since 1900 alone, the Pacific Ring of Fire has had an average of 19.4 earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or higher per year.
At the end of the eighties, after a modest earthquake, another huge tsunami engulfed the island at night. This strange earthquake and tsunami caused thousands of people to mysteriously disappear on the island. All the buildings were destroyed, and the island was only a fraction of the size of the original hill. Since then, this small island has gradually become a deserted island that no one cares about, and it has become a paradise for diving enthusiasts.
At this time, the white man who was worried about the fate of his men was none other than the owner of the island, the German Thomas Host. A few years later, when a devastating geological disaster struck the island, Thomas had already sold the island and moved to the Java Islands ahead of schedule with his team.
At the end of 1983, after escaping death from the Hindu Kush Snow Mountain, Thomas said a short farewell to his brothers' team and returned to Europe with a secret mission secretly given to him by Mao Yankai, Moore, and Shandra. Just a month later, he returned to Peshawar with twelve newly recruited special forces.
These people were quickly screened and evaluated by ISI and MLH, signed a 20-year employment contract, and officially incorporated into Thomas's brother team. It was Moore's idea to let Thomas form a "team". For a long time, the Uchida group of the Japanese people gave full play to the advantages of their predecessors as the underworld, and made a stir in West Asia, South Asia, and the Indochina Peninsula, and did all kinds of evil.
Because of the cover of the M people, the ISI has nothing to do with them.
The brothers' squad suffered a series of bloody attacks by Uchida in Peshawar and in the snow-capped mountains of the Hindu Kush, which angered Moore and Mao Yankai. So, Moore persuaded Mao Yankai and Shandra to order Thomas to form a mercenary "Thomas Tactical Squad", which was specially used to eliminate the Uchida team and completely cut down the roots.
Not long after Yu Songyuan returned to China with his brother's team to comply with the order, Thomas also took his team to enter the Indochina Peninsula in batches as tourists, and finally converged on the city of Juntie at the bottom of the Gulf of Siam.
At first, they took tourist visas and lived in the Ruyue Hotel on Queen Street on Rama I Road. The hotel is just one road away from the small gray five-story building where the Uchida headquarters is located, and the team uses the hotel as a base and begins to closely monitor the Uchida headquarters' every move.
When Thomas was in West Asia, he was deeply influenced by Yu Songyuan. The team has a tourist visa, like duckweed without roots. He knew that the Uchida group had deep roots, and it was not an overnight thing to exterminate them. Referring to Yu Songyuan's practice of setting up the Rana training camp, he chose another foothold for the team in an isolated island on the sea more than 100 kilometers away from the military sticker.
The team rented out two grass-roofed wooden houses on Landia Island on a long-term basis as a temporary foothold. At that time, the central part of the Indochina Peninsula was the most chaotic time, and after the defeat of the Vietnam War, the M Army withdrew from the Indochina Peninsula. The military occupation of Khmer in Annam caused a large number of Khmer refugees to pour into Siam in the jungle on the border between Khmer and Siam.
Along with the sneaky influx of refugees, there is also the Viet Qing gang in Annam. The Viet Qing Gang entered the Siam Bay area, and met with the local gangsters and the Nanyang Huaqing Gang, while eyeing the cornucopia-like island of Landia. This sudden chance allowed Thomas to transform himself from a tourist to an important investor through a "boxing match", and established his own nest on the tourist island of Landia.
In the early eighties, with the prosperity of tourism on Landia Island, it gradually attracted the attention of three of the five major gangs in Indochina and Nanyang. The helmsman of the three major gangs of the Private Society, the Huaqing Gang, and the Yueqing Gang also set his eyes on this "cornucopia". An underworld war for the small island of Landia has begun.
At that time, the owner of the island was Kuncha Simon. He was a Siamese of Chinese descent after the Hakka of Chinese origin, and his family was mainly engaged in the rice business in the rich Chao Phraya River Valley. In the fifties, when Kuncha took over the family business, he bought the desolate island at a low price and began large-scale infrastructure construction.
In the mid-fifties, after the defeat in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the French colonists withdrew from Southeast Asia in disgrace. President Dwight D. Eisenhower quickly installed Ngo Dinh Diem as prime minister of South Vietnam, establishing a pro-M regime, and the Second Indochina War broke out. In 1965, then-President Johnson of country M ordered the "Thunder Rumble" operation, and country M directly sent troops to participate in the war, and the army invaded Vietnam increased rapidly, reaching 500,000 at the peak.
Siam's ** industry is legal, and the turbulent Indochina Peninsula is in need of a gentle township that can soothe the wounds of the soldiers of country M. A shrewd businessman, Kuncha accurately captured this business opportunity and quickly turned the island into a cornucopia for his family. The rolling wealth has also cost his family a lot.
The first to target the small island of Lantia was the private party in Siam. At the end of the sixties, the private party was jealous of this island of gold, and with the help of the strength of the M army, Kuncha bloodily repelled the private party's influence on Landia and retained control of the island, but also formed a grudge with the private party.
During the Chinese New Year in 1969, the private party attacked and kidnapped his entire family on the banks of the Chao Phraya River, and then bloodily ripped up the votes. More than 50 men, women and children of the Kuncha family in the ancestral area of the Chao Phraya River were all tied to boulders and sunk into the rolling Chao Phraya River.