Chapter 17: War Clouds Loom
The woman dressed in Ao Dai has a unique charm compared with Long Ji and his party.
This unique national costume, with the upper body tied at the waist, highlights the figure, making the woman look beautiful. The hem is stretched and opened to the waist, making it easy to move. What is particularly particular is that when the women of Luo Cheng wear a long robe, they also wear a pair of black or white wide-legged trousers. Luocheng women also especially like to wear necklaces, hand thresholds, rings, and keep long hair with shawls, or tie hairpins behind their heads, which looks unique.
Yingya took Mei Xue and the other four princesses, and each of them bought a few sets of Ao Dai, each of them with a set of necklaces, hand thresholds, and rings, and immediately changed them in the changing room, and when they came out again, several of them became graceful Annam ladies, and even the waiters in the store gave a thumbs up, revealing their black teeth and approving smiles.
Women have the desire to purchase, and the tour and shopping make the whole trip full of fun, and also let Mei Xue and Su Ji go back and forth. Of course, it was the no-frills mid-eighties of the last century. If you travel to Luocheng today in the 21st century, the small traders and vendors selling tourist souvenirs on the street will pestering you and forcibly peddling small goods, and you will be annoyed and disturbed.
At that time, the Le Duan clique mobilized the strength of the whole country to compete with China in the border areas. Even in the capital, Luo, you can clearly feel that there are women everywhere and there are relatively few young men. It was only in the early 90s that Annam had to withdraw its troops from the Khmer and took the initiative to show goodwill to China, began to study China's reform and opening up policy, and promoted "reform and opening up" throughout Annam.
Luocheng's snacks are well-known, and there is Zheng Shuwen's introduction to "Annantong", which is an eye-opener for Yingya and his party. In particular, the meat brown, fried spring rolls, beef noodles and shrimp cakes are really worthy of their reputation. Yingya, the big housekeeper, did not forget to understand the production methods one by one while tasting, and also took pictures of other people's production methods and procedures, and tried to do it himself after going back.
Yingya also said to Mei Xue and the other four, "These four things will be available to us during the Spring Festival." You four girls learn to do the same, don't be lazy. Mei Xue and the other four people, who were enjoying snacks without themselves, immediately complained about a coquettish meal.
Yingya didn't do anything, Zheng Shuwen raised his hand first and surrendered, "Don't complain, won't there be me then!" ”
Meat dumplings are a traditional delicacy in Annam, and in the past, ordinary Luocheng people could only eat them during festivals. This kind of meat dumpling is not a dumpling, but is made entirely of meat. It is made by adding various spices to the best lean pork and cooking it in a pot. Before eating, cut into pieces or thin slices and steam, dipped in fish sauce and pepper, the taste is delicious, not greasy, and the mouth is fragrant after eating, and the pharyngeal aftertaste is endless.
Deep-fried spring rolls are one of the most popular dishes among Annam, which is completely different from the Chinese spring roll method and has a very different taste. Annam's spring roll wrappers are made of glutinous rice, thin as cicada wings, white and transparent. Wrap the spring roll wrapper in a stuffing made of bean sprouts, vermicelli, shredded squid, shrimp, green onions, etc., and fry them in a pan until brown. When eating, wrap spring rolls in glass lettuce and dip them in fish sauce, sour vinegar, chili peppers and other condiments, which are crispy and not greasy, and very delicious.
In Annam, the same famous snack as chicken noodles is beef noodles.
The beef noodles in Annam must be made of yellow beef, and the rice noodles used are made of high-quality rice, which is slightly thinner and finer than the cut flour in Guizhou and Yunnan provinces in China. The practice of beef noodles is to cook a large piece of refined yellow beef with various condiments in the pot, and then cut it into thin pieces, blanch the rice noodles in a pot of boiling water, add beef, beef broth and various seasonings, and eat it with a unique flavor.
Shrimp cakes are also a famous snack in Annam. The shrimp cake is made by wrapping the batter with seasoning and fresh prawns, and putting it in a frying pan to make it fragrant and delicious.
Back at the hotel, everyone's stomachs were bulging, and although they were very tired, no one felt sleepy. The concubine also ate with a round belly, and in order to eliminate food, she kept running around the room, wrestling with herself.
After arranging tomorrow's itinerary, Long Ji and Yingya came to Yu Songyuan's room, and the others also gathered.
The sound of the TV was loud, and Yingya wrote on the paper, "Tomorrow at eight o'clock, we will take a boat and go to Amp Pei in six to seven days." You take a car, go to Anpei on the same day, stay at the Honghe Hotel, and it has been arranged. Seven days later, we met there! After writing, I handed it to Yu Songyuan first, and then everyone circulated it, and Yu Songyuan struck a match and lit it and burned it.
Yu Songyuan wrote on the paper, "You should swim in the Red River, you must be serious, grand, and playful, meet with officials more often, and accept interviews, Brother Long will strive to make news headlines, so that Annan people know that we are here to travel!" After writing it, he handed it to Long Ji, and after reading it, Long Ji handed it to Yingya again, and then the four girls circulated it and burned it on fire.
Everyone nodded in understanding, and then everyone's hands clasped tightly.
The concubine was lying on the table next to the bed, staring at Mei Xue and Su Ji inexplicably with a pair of sparkling eyes. The wolf's way of eating was rather strange, and the concubine looked at them for a while, and then fell directly from the table to the ground. Jump on the table after falling, and fall again after a while. Don't let it fall, and lose your temper, its naïve attitude makes people laugh.
Yu Songyuan and they were about to attack, and at this moment, the hearts of Mei Xue and the others were hanging in their hearts.
But they didn't dare to speak, although Liu Guodong carefully checked every room, but just in case, he was afraid that there would be eavesdropping equipment in the room. They could only hold hands tightly and silently bless them.
After breakfast the next day, accompanied by the deputy director of the Luocheng Tourism Bureau, Longji and Yingya took four girls to board a large wooden cruise ship on the river that had been hired by the tribal warriors and began to explore the beautiful scenery of the Red River.
Yu Songyuan and the five people led a convoy by land, along Luocheng successively through Shanxi, Yuechi, Fushou, Xuanguang and other small cities, in the afternoon of the next day, rushed to the important town of Anpei City, and found the Honghe Hotel on the bank of the Red River.
On this road, although the highway is very good, there are many vehicles, especially military vehicles, and many sections need to stop and avoid.
At this moment, on the border between China and Annam, China is divided into military regions in turn, and the permanent strength is the main force of the three armies. And in Annam, a whole 300,000 troops were pinned down in the Anbei region, which has been turned into a huge barracks, and economic development has almost completely stopped. All for the sake of war, supporting the army to support the border war is the primary task of local governments at all levels in Anbei.
From the capital Luocheng to Anpei Road, although this is not a war zone now, Yu Songyuan and his team members have fully realized that launching the 79-year border self-defense counterattack war and the subsequent border rotation battles of various military regions are extremely wise national strategies of China's high-level leaders.
After the defeat of the M Army and its withdrawal to China, Annam realized the reunification of the north and south of the country, and its national strength and military strength were second to none in the Indochina Peninsula, and it called itself "the third military power in the world". At this time, Annan's backer, the Polar Bear Army, had been deeply trapped in China's western neighbor, the Shanren Islamic Republic, and had deployed more than 1.5 million troops on China's northern border to maintain a high-pressure posture.
Annan wanted to take the opportunity to annex Lancang and Khmer and establish the Indochina Federation, and then echo the polar bear army in the north and south, forming a north-south coercive and containment trend against China. Obviously, under the already tremendous pressure in the north and west, if this Indochinese federation is established, our southern border will be adjacent to the land border, and there will be no peace.
Faced with a dangerous situation, the Chinese military top brass is determined to implement the strategy of the southern front. That is, tearing a hole in the south, breaking out of the encirclement, opening up a new world, and creating the tranquility of the republic! For this reason, the military's earliest plan was to send the most hard-fought Erye veteran troops into Lancang, from the Zhongliao area of Lancang, to sweep through the central part of Annam. Then make a detour to the north, join up with the southbound troops, and gather and annihilate the main force of the enemy in the north.
At that time, in order to implement the plan, the whole army planned to mobilize 500,000 troops to comprehensively encircle and annihilate the 16 main divisions of the Anbei and Luocheng military regions, with a total of 300,000 enemy elite field troops.
However, this battle plan is too huge and too drastic, and it is completely a posture of "destroying the country in one war," which is likely to cause international shocks, and is not in line with the founding principle of our country, and is also easy to "force" the polar bear to take risks. So, a week before the start of the war, the plan was quietly withdrawn. Instead, it was from the border areas between China and Annam, and the army was leveled, supplemented by divisional and regiment-sized interspersed and roundabouts, and Annan was taught a lesson by the tactics of "slaughtering chickens with knives and knives."
In 1979, only two days after the start of the border self-defense counterattack operation, the troops participating in the war began to carry out the semi-formal orders of "no prisoners" and "not a single grass or tree left for Anxiu", with the purpose of destroying national strength rather than "occupying and operating", and the cruelty of the war was unimaginable.
After the war, when Annam's leader Le Duan inspected the Anbei Theater, he was so surprised that he was speechless for a long time. Because, this place has become a ruin, completely regressed to the barbaric era, and the degree of destruction is far greater than the indiscriminate bombardment of the air force of country M. But he regretted it too late, he opened a "window" that should not be opened, and he didn't want to close it again.
Annan tasted the bitter fruits of the war, but they did not admit defeat. At present, China only maintains the strength of the three field armies along the border, and the battles at the "riding line points" are undertaken by various military regions in turn, with the aim of training troops and dragging down the entire national economy of Annam. However, Annan needs to use the strength of the whole country to deal with the huge border pressure, with 16 main divisions and more than 300,000 elite army troops being dragged to the border area and unable to move.
War has always been a contest of comprehensive national strength, and Yu Songyuan has already seen the outcome of this border war, and China will completely remove the threat from the southern border. And Annan, who is belligerent and has not fully recuperated, will eventually be dragged down and dragged down, and will be completely reduced from the so-called "third military power in the world" to the poorest country in the world.