Forty-three, a heavy place name

Long Chuan looked at me, took a deep breath, and slowly spit it out. I found that although Long Chuan was looking at me, his gaze penetrated me and stopped at a distant place behind me.

Long Chuan paused for a while, and then said slowly, "Later, the Burmese government wanted to improve its combat strength by recruiting veterans of the 93rd Division, but the officers and men of the 93rd Division were unwilling to give up their motherland and refused to join the Burmese nationality. Although after so many years, they have never forgotten that they are Chinese! After the second group withdrew to Taiwan, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Burmese army and the Thai government army, this army that had gone through hardships and vicissitudes withdrew to a Lisu village with only more than 20 households, this village is called Misolon. Misolon is easy to defend and difficult to attack, full of primeval forests, and although tigers are often seen, they can reclaim the mountains. According to the Chinese pronunciation, an officer gave it an auspicious name: Mei Si Le. The 93rd Division is untenable in Burma, and it is unusual for the Thai government to allow this foreign force to be stationed on its own territory. At that time, the Thai government's diplomacy was to follow the United States, and they wanted to use the Kuomintang as an anti-communist force to cut off the ties between the Burmese Communist Party, the Thai Communist Party, and the Lao Communist Party, and help the Thai government eliminate the Thai Communist guerrillas and the Lao Communist forces on the Thai-Laos border. The combat effectiveness of the Thai soldiers was very poor, and although the 93rd Division was always defeated in front of the PLA, it was not ambiguous at all in the fight against the Thai Communist Party, and finally successfully completed the clearance. As a result, the 93rd Division had a reliable place to live in Thailand, and Mae Sile became the state of Thailand, completely controlled by this group of fleeing Chinese. In order to survive, the 93rd Division began to grow opium and forcibly taxed smuggling horse teams passing by. According to the old man, at that time there were still thatched huts on the edge of the field that smoked opium, and tourists tasted 10 baht each time they smoked. But the 93rd Division at that time was not really settled. First, he fought with the Thai government army for turf, then fought for the channels and drug dealers for the escort of drugs, and finally fought with the Thai Communist Party for the right to survive. The 93rd Division experienced a number of fateful battles. It was not until later, when the famous Battle of Horn Dang began, that the Thai Ministry of Defense made a bold decision in order to win: to invite the 93rd Division to fight. The condition is that after the recovery of Bangdang, the 93rd Division can establish the Northern Thai People's Self-Defense Force. What could be more tempting for the 93rd Division than to keep its guns and have a solid station? In the following years, the 93rd Division went out on 6 expeditions and recaptured Horndang for the Thai government, which shocked both the Thai government and the public. Thankfully, the Thai government complied. As a result, there is the famous Golden Triangle area today, and there is the town of Mesle. At that time, the headquarters of the 93rd Division and all their dependents were stationed here. Later, after the Thai royal family came forward and King Rama IX of Thailand personally recruited the rest of the 93rd Division to occupy the Golden Triangle, and finally handed over all the combat weapons to the Thai government, and all the soldiers and all their dependents joined Thai nationality and enjoyed the same treatment as the Thai army and their families. At that time, this piece of news occupied a prominent position in the world's major media that day. At this point, the 93rd Division of the Kuomintang Army, which fled to the Golden Triangle region from the defeated mainland and created the myth of the Golden Triangle, finally officially disintegrated. ”

Looking at Long Chuan, who looked gloomy, I said, "It's all over!" ”

Long Chuan shook his head slowly, "There are some things, some experiences, you can only understand if you have experienced them yourself, and you can't get over them." It will never pass. ”

I understand that these experiences have become a brand, deeply imprinted in Long Chuan's heart.

"I once went to Mesle, and I couldn't let go of it. Although these officers and men of the 93rd Division have become Thai citizens, they do not hide their feelings of missing their homeland. There were rows of guns piled up in thick dust. A couplet is posted on their gate: Orphan is our name, and coming home is a call in a dream. These words make people look at it, and there is an indescribable sadness. I feel like an outcast, and I can only smile bitterly in my dreams. In Meisle, the vast majority of the locals are Chinese, and most of them are Yunnanese. Mandarin and Yunnan dialect are the "official languages" here, and even the surrounding ethnic minorities speak a few words. Here, the house is Chinese-style, and the doors of every house are still pasted with bright red Spring Festival couplets. As for the food, not to mention, it is mainly Yunnan cuisine, plus a few fresh dishes that combine Chinese and Thai. The farmers' market there is not only set up by Chinese, but also by the surrounding Miao, Yao and Aka ethnic groups, who get along well and speak Chinese. There are corn, pumpkin, zucchini, bamboo shoots, lotus white, pickles, all kinds of dried goods, and so on. But there, it was the school that made the most impression. When the 93rd Division came to Mesle, many soldiers already had dependents. The question of children's education is in front of us. In order to be able to preserve the roots of Chinese culture in a foreign country, someone founded Xinghua School. The school includes all grades from kindergarten to middle school, and students receive the same Chinese education here as Taiwanese children. Most of the teachers at Hing Wah School today are Chinese volunteers from Taiwan and other places. I remember that day, when I visited the school, it was not yet class time, so the playground of the University was empty. Most of the classrooms were locked, so I had to look through the windows. The classrooms are set up in the style of a Taiwanese school. The desks and chairs are rudimentary, some of them made of plastic, and they look like rural schools in China. When I saw Mesle, I couldn't help but think of the place where I was born, a small town in the Yunnan-Myanmar border region. In the small town, there are still many veterans of the 93rd Division, who were unwilling to give up their motherland and refused to join the Burmese nationality. It's when they've become the year of the sixtieth year. They still ask their motherland again and again to return to their homeland, after all, the war of decades ago is a thing of the past. However, their demands were denied again and again. In the end, this part of the officers and men of the 93rd Division who remained in the Yunnan-Burma border area became an army without a motherland. For many years, they have fought tirelessly to survive, embodying the tenacity and perseverance of the descendants of the dragon. In a foreign land, they had to go to war with the Burmese army, with the India-Burma coalition, with the gangs, and with the Burmese Communist Party. But they have never forgotten that they are the descendants of Yan and Huang, and they are still celebrating the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival every year, singing Chinese folk songs and speaking Chinese. ”

Long Chuan lowered his head and continued, "I am their descendant. I am one of those stateless people who have been abandoned by their homeland. If you haven't experienced this, you won't know how much pain my heart will have when I think of it! ”