Chapter 28 endless suffering

Major General Chachai left Maesle that night, and sent his troops to the gate of the village respectfully. Seeing them protect the meticulous guns and ammunition with blood and tears, put on the mules, and slowly disappear in the valley, everyone was silent and silent. bear.Now, athletes from generals to soldiers have become civilians in an instant.Regarding this kind of situation, there is an ancient Chinese poem: "Disarmed and returned to the fields". We call it a poem because its artistic conception is so beautiful, but when it is used on a lone army, there is a kind of helpless desolation. To die in battle, to shed blood for the country, nothing else.There are carapaces to grow and fields to cultivate, but northern Thailand is the most barren area in the world. Except for wild grass and vines, almost no crops are easy to grow.However, this is not the most important thing. What is important is that after being disarmed, like being stripped of clothes, they cannot resist any changes in the outside world, which is why they are silent and heavy-hearted.

In the empty headquarters, a young platoon leader lowered his voice and reported to General Duan Xiwen that he had hidden some guns and did not hand them over.General Duan Xiwen's face suddenly changed. "why are you doing this?" "We can't live without guns," the platoon leader growled rudely, "we have too many enemies, and when they know we're unarmed..." "This is a breach of trust," General Duan Xiwen said. "I promised the Thai government to hand over everything. They believe in the Chinese promise." "Did you hear what General Chachai said?" The platoon leader jumped, as if General Duan Xiwen was not his officer but a subordinate, "Once the enemy gets the news that we have disarmed, we will be a mass of blood, including our family members and women." , the old lady, and the baby in her arms."

General Duan Xiwen stared at the wild face and tear-filled eyes of the young platoon leader, thinking silently.And at this moment, a soldier came to report that the water source was cut off.While hesitating, there was news that the other water pipe was not dripping.General Duan Xiwen understood everything in an instant. "Where are all the guns hidden?" The platoon leader said: "In the cave cellar, I am afraid that Thailand will search..." "how many?" "More than forty carbenes, more than twenty made in England." General Duan Xiwen ordered an immediate blockade of Mesle, allowing anyone, including women and children of ethnic minorities, to enter but not to exit, and then distributed guns.The cut off of the water pipe is a bad omen. The enemy who doesn't know where they came from must have the information that the lone army has disarmed. The time for revenge has come.

We will not narrate this battle any more. It was a detachment of the Thai Communist Party called Li Fan who launched the attack too quickly. They wanted to wipe out the lone army in one fell swoop.The young platoon leader who rescued the lone army from a mass of blood will be the famous general Yang Weigang ten years later.During the Battle of Khao Yashan in 1980, he served as the deputy division commander and the former commander-in-chief of the enemy.If it weren't for the reckless decision of this young junior officer, we can't imagine the ending of the lone army and those women and children.

General Duan Xiwen decided to quickly replenish weapons. Until now, Thailand's arms sales are still open. Except for bombers and tanks, almost everything can be bought.When I was in Chiang Mai, someone sold me revolvers just like Taipei sold refrigerators, but the difference was that they couldn’t pay in installments.The source of the huge sum of money purchased by the Lone Army was once deeply suspected, and was further attacked in a positive tone. These people seemed to wish that the Lone Army would really become a pool of blood, used to stain the crowns on their heads when they were impassioned in the air-conditioning.

Finally, the Lone Army built up its force again. General Duan Xiwen personally went to Bangkok and asked the Thai government to sympathize with it. The Thai government did sympathize with it and asked the Lone Army to assist the border police and maintain law and order in the mountainous areas that were gradually becoming troubled. General Duan Xiwen also believed that there was such a return obligation.It went on peacefully for a period of time, but General Duan had already smelled an unusual smell, and public opinion was brewing another disturbance.Gradually intensified pressure was directed at the Supreme Command.Ambitious politicians questioned those senior generals: Why is the 93rd Division (lone army) armed again?The Supreme Command could not resist again, so it asked the lone army not to keep any weapons, not even the guns of General Duan Xiwen. In order to strictly implement this order and prevent the opposition from attacking the military heroes, the Thai government sent ministers to protect the lone army. Mr. Teweiju Lhasa, Deputy Civil Affairs Minister of the State Council, went to northern Thailand to supervise the disarmament. Mr. Teweiju Lhasa declared that he would conduct a carpet search in Maesle (Fifth Army) and Tangwo (Three Armies).

To a solitary army, suffering or disaster is like a huge wave in the ocean. Just after struggling to survive one wave, another wave comes again like thunder, and each wave is enough to kill the solitary army at the bottom of the sea.As the saying goes: "All hardships come with sweetness", but the suffering of the lone army is endless. When everyone confirms that the news is true, the sky will be full of sorrow and mist. The ending of being unarmed is obvious. Obviously, there are many powerful people in the Thai government. The officials in the army are good friends with General Duan Xiwen, but they dare not come forward when the storm is critical. In fact, it is useless to come forward.However, on the eve of departure with Mr. Teweiju Lhasa leading his guards, a bad news spread from the Lao-Thailand border to Bangkok, as if from the sky, not only made the Thai government stunned like a stroke, but also rescued the lonely army. dilemma.It was no longer Mr. Teweiju Lhasa who rushed north to the mountainous areas of the border area, but an order from the Supreme Command, requiring General Duan Xiwen to hold a meeting in Chiang Rai with General Jiansai, the deputy chief of staff of the army who was still a major general at the time.

It turns out that the policy has changed again, and Thailand requires a lone army to attack Badang.