In the first week after being stationed in Pag Village, the team struggled with hunger and disease, and Yu Songyuan and Li Haichao had to make the team put finding food first.

Even more terrible than hunger is that the village is so dirty, so dirty that you can't imagine. The people of Pag are all descendants of immigrants from the Indian peninsula, and there are no latrines in the village. Behind every bush of bamboo and shrubs, every ditch, as long as there is no one, outside the village, the mud is unbearable, and feces can be seen everywhere.

There is a lot of rain in Songgo Mountain, and when it rains, adults and children even excrete directly on the floor of the stilted wooden house. The excrement fell under the wooden house, making the smell unpleasant and filthy inside and outside the wooden house. Everyone was barefoot, starvation was rampant, hepatitis, dysentery, malaria and other diseases were rampant, and almost every day children in the village died of illness and starvation.

These are the most backward and impoverished indigenous villagers, for whom the most terrible thing is hunger, not hygiene. People are dying of hunger, and no one cares about sanitation anymore.

The brother team is accustomed to surviving in the wild, but to maintain the survival of so many people, Liu Guodong and Zhuang Yushu still feel that their skills are exhausted. They took the Island Guard soldiers to dig three feet into the ground and collect all the bugs. and Liu Weimin even attacked a carpenter ant nest by the Beishan Creek and caught two or three catties of carpenter ants.

Carpenter ants are also a species of wood-eating ants endemic to the Songgo Mountains, and they feed on the sap gum of the old Elm tree in the South Seas. There are large areas of Nanyang elm growing by the Beishan stream, also known as bitter elm. When the carpenter ants bite through the bark, the elm tree will ooze large clumps of white gum. Carpenter ants carry gum into the nest little by little as a food reserve.

To avoid flooding, the wooden anthill was built in a small cave in the middle of the stone wall with two exits. At one end, it was smoked, and Liu Weimin made a bag of fine nylon mesh and covered it at the other exit, grabbing a whole large bag.

Everyone was still hungry, and Lingyu had already sent an urgent telegram to Yang Mingtao, but far water could not quench the thirst. By the third day, the crowd was dizzy with hunger. However, on the evening of the third day, officers of the three guerrilla units of the Khmer National Army, the Sihanouk Nationalist Army, and the Khmer National Liberation Army braved the rain to visit the country.

Lingyu went to another wooden house and received them in a friendly manner according to diplomatic etiquette.

They came for only one purpose, hoping that the "International Mercenary Squad" would join their team. After Lingyu took out the "official document" of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and showed it to them, she said in spirit, "We are just a working group of the United Nations, not some 'mercenary team'." Our responsibility is only to come to the scene to find out how the war is devastation, not to participate in the actual fighting......"

The Russian Ivanov resembles an iron tower, although he is so hungry that he bends a little, he still stands majestically behind Lingyu, which is a good interpretation of their identity as a "United Nations team". The handmaiden Niu'er obediently accompanies her, making the diplomatic activities full of warmth.

The Cardamom Mountains connect the territory of Siam and are an important passage for international aid to Cambodia. The Khmer National Army, the Sihanouk Nationalist Army and the Khmer National Liberation Army, all of which want more international assistance, have an office here and are guarded by a team. After Lingyu politely rejected them, the heads of the three guerrilla detachments left in a hurry.

Perhaps the three guerrillas knew that Pag Village had fallen into the predicament of running out of food, or perhaps Yang Mingtao had already informed the people of Cambodia that they had been ordered to bring three bags of rice, which saved the whole village. These three bags of rice, along with porridge from leaves, helped the team get through the initial difficult period. In the circle in the middle of these three grain bags, two large Chinese characters "COFCO" are written.

Many years later, Yu Songyuan and others still had lingering fears about the Khmer famine.

At the critical moment when the village of Pag was collectively running out of food, the Russian Ivanov even built yì to slaughter elephants to survive the difficulties. But Lingyu reprimanded him, the elephant is our team member, and no one is allowed to fight the idea of the elephant. Lingyu announced to all the team members.

There are many different interpretations of this unprecedented famine in the history of Indochina. The reason why the word "historian" is in quotation marks is that some scholars (especially Western scholars and some domestic scholars) are interpreting real history entirely for political purposes and wearing ideological colored glasses.

In peacetime in the 60s, the Khmer was barely able to feed itself. In 1966, the total grain output of Khmer was 2.5 million tons, and the population was about 6 million. By 1970, the country's population reached 5.7 million. At that time, China, the Soviet Union, France and the international community provided a lot of aid to the Khmer, and Phnom Penh was known as the "Little Paris of the East" at that time.

In 1970, under the manipulation of the CIA, the right-wing forces of Lang Ruo and Schrimada who followed the M country staged a coup d'état. Sihanouk went into exile in Beijing, and the Khmer was plunged into civil war. Since then, the peaceful Khmer people have suddenly been plunged into war and long-term suffering.

The Khmer was a small country with a backward agricultural country, and the war quickly destroyed the weak national economy. By 1972, the country's grain output had fallen to about 800,000 tons, and in 1974 it had dropped to 640,000 tons, and the famine quickly spread throughout the country.

During the Lang Ruo regime, the total amount of aid provided by country M was about 1.6 billion US dollars, but the area actually controlled by the Lang Ruo regime accounted for only 10% of the entire territory of the Khmer. As a result, in order to fill their stomachs, a large number of hungry people poured into the capital Phnom Penh and other large cities, causing the population of Phnom Penh to swell rapidly.

Another reason for the population expansion of Phnom Penh was the bombardment of the Khmer by country M.

In January 1973, the Paris Peace Conference formally signed the armistice between the United States and Vietnam. In order to support the Lon Nol regime, country M began to escalate its bombing of the Khmer. The initial attempt was to create a safe zone around Phnom Penh with a large bombardment.

Country M mobilized all its air forces in Asia, and all B-52 bombers departed from Guam and were bombed by the embassy of country M in Phnom Penh. The air force of country M dropped bombs from an altitude of 2-30,000 feet, and it was impossible to see the target clearly. When some air force crews set out from Guam, they didn't even know what they were going to bomb!

As a result of the carpet bombing, nearly 70 percent of the Khmer country's farmland and production facilities were destroyed. The craters created by the bombshell were ten meters deep, and after decades, these craters have not been calmed down and have become small ponds.

In six months, the air force of country M dropped a total of 250,000 tons of bombs on the Khmer countryside, which was 3.5 times more than the bombs used by country M for Japan in World War II. During the six-month bombardment, 400,000 to 500,000 people were killed across the country.

Another direct result of the indiscriminate bombardment of country M was that the Khmers either angrily joined the resistance or fled to the cities. In 1955, Phnom Penh was a small city with a population of 50,000. In the 60s and 70s, there were only 50-600,000 people. After the bombing, the population of Phnom Penh swelled rapidly to more than 2 million in 1975 in just a few months.

At the end of the 60s, the highest Khmer grain production reached 3.25 million tons, close to 500 kg per capita. However, because the Khmer countryside was still under feudal land ownership at that time, more than 50 percent of the peasants did not have enough to eat. Despite this, country M could not tolerate even such a neutral Khmer government.

After the bombing of the air force of country M, more than one-third of the population of the Khmer country poured into Phnom Penh, which has completely exceeded the capacity of Phnom Penh. At that time, the national grain output of Khmer was only 870,000 tons, only 26.8% of the historical peak, and the per capita output was 120 kilograms, which was only 60% of China's 1960 level, and could not feed the country's 7 million people at all......

As long as we know a little bit about the real history, it is not difficult for us to conclude that the Khmer famine, which lasted for nearly 20 years, was completely caused by the people of country M. Just as what is happening today in Libya, Iraq, Syria and other countries, the people of country M or its Western allies have used asymmetric warfare to create horrific humanitarian disasters.

Knowing this period of history, we will have a completely different understanding of the Khmer Rouge after coming to power and sending 2 million people in Phnom Penh to the countryside.

On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge occupied Phnom Penh and began nearly four years in power. An important reason for the demobilization of the population, which mainly came from the countryside to the cities, was part of a series of measures taken by the Khmer Rouge to restore food production throughout the country. Moreover, this measure has proven to be effective.

In 1976, the country's total grain output recovered from more than 800,000 tons to 1.8 million tons, and the grain output per hectare reached 1,286 kilograms. In 1977, the grain output fell to 1,200 kilograms, but the total output of the cultivated area was the same as the previous year, remaining at about 1.8 million tons. Even in 1978, the last year before the Khmer Rouge was overthrown, the country's total grain production remained at around 1.5 million tons.

When the Khmer Rouge took over the Khmer, the country was facing a severe famine and there was an urgent need to mobilize the whole population to increase food production. As a result, the country was quickly mobilized for agricultural production, including the decentralization of the urban population to the countryside. In the first half of 1977 alone, 400,000 hectares of perennial irrigated land were restored. By the end of 1977, the country's irrigated area was close to 700,000 hectares, and even then grain production had recovered to 1.5 million to 1.8 million tons.

It can be seen from this that the civil war and the bombing of country M have devastated the Khmer so badly. During the three years of the Khmer Rouge in power, they basically cleaned up the ruins of the war and restored agricultural production.

In January 1979, Annam's army occupied Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge fell, and the fighting once again spread rapidly throughout the Khmer. Agricultural production, which had just begun to recover, was once again severely destroyed, and the total grain production in Khmer remained at less than one million tons during the entire 10 years of Annam's occupation. Large numbers of people have fled their homes and become refugees from the world. Once again, the Great Famine spread like a plague throughout the Khmer.

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After the brothers' team entered the Pag camp for a week, Yang Mingtao sent the island guards, with the help of the Guò Siam border police, to bring food, non-staple foodstuffs and equipment with 50 elephants, and the food shortage crisis was resolved.

Since then, throughout the mission, Thomas's Island Guard has taken on the heavy logistics and transportation tasks to ensure the completion of the team's mission.