Topic: Paranormal in K warzone ( K warzone is stood for the war between Viet Nam and Cambodia in the south-west border )
Author: Nguyễn Lâm Hải ( in Vietnamese )
Translator: me 🙂
Chapter 3: Fallen soldiers desire to return to the motherland.
Between 1985 and 1986, Polpot was busy reuniting troops in the border of Thai, Viet Nam’s troop were striking so hard against the Thai’s army and police. Ha Noi sent the best divisions among K5 road ( the road in the border between Thai and Cambodia ).
Polpot troops moved stealthily deep behind then raided and slaughtered Viet Nam’s troop ( Just like in the south before, many families were normal at daylight, then turned into Polpot at night, the Cambodia democracy stereo station kept saying every day that Youn ( Vietnamese ) had been the invader, CPC ( Cambodia ) would take over Srey No Ko ( Sà i Gòn ). Despite Losing, suffering numerous casualties and being forced out of the Cambodia territory, Polpot kept bragging about fighting till the very last man.
That time, in a place near Cao Melai ( a terrible place ) there had been lots of fights between Viet Nam’s troops and CPC. Near Noel 85, a convoy of supplies of transporting regiment 7702 had been ambushed. CPC had burned the trucks and killed Viet soldiers. 17 trucks then only 5 remained. 50 guards then only less than 20 survived. Accidentally, the co-driver ( It’s him again ) saw something near the forest, the sun still shines and it was just over 5 pm , he dashed through a pile of dirt aim the K63 to the forest, drew 3 shots, away from the pile 50/60m 2 soldiers wearing black shirt ( Polpot ) who had been hiding behind teh bush felt back, I ran to the place to see what had happened then I saw 2 enemies got headshot, I bet they hadn’t seen that comming ( the co-driver was a sniper so he fought so good ) he barely used AK, he prefered CKC and K63 ( rifle ) we buried 17 black shirt soldier near the side of the forest, then we fixed the cars and loaded 32 bodies of our troops in the bed of trucks in order to bring them back to the motherland. Unfortunately, the cars couldn’t start the engine so the reinforcement kept going forward sent 20 soldiers and 1 M113, 1 PT76 to stay.
It went dark so quickly, we loaded the bodies of our comrades on the beds of 2 trucks. 2 two machine guns in the armor vehicles had been loaded , we were both eating and starring into the fearsome darkness around us, with frozen fog, the wind blew each time as the resentments of fallen soldiers on both sides, the smell of dead bodies, the smell of gunpowder, the smell of burned soil, went straight to the nose made me want to vomit. It was about midnight, the sound of ululation from nearby owl made me startled, I took a look at the co-driver, he had been starring at the bed-truck of dead bodies, his face turned into green. I knew what he had seen, I took out some C4 ( i always kept some in my backpack ) put 3 bricks surround then put an Inox can on to make coffee, the blue flame from the little piece of C4 made me feel calmer, I gave the coffee to him and the comrades in the watch. I asked him what he had seen, he just nodded his head, I told him to take some restbut he kept refusing by nodding his head, I tried to take a liltle nap for a while, in the dream, I saw the soldiers in the bed truck jumped off, blood was on all their body, went towards us, sat down, said: “BROTHERS, PLEASE BRING US BACK TO VIET NAM, DON’T LEAVE US LY FROZENLY IN THIS COUNTRY, WHEN U GUYS LEAVE, REMEMBER THERE ARE SOME GRENADE TRAPS SET UNDER THE REAR WHEELS, BE CAREFULL “.
I was startled then stayed awake until morning. When the sun went up, I checked carefully the rear wheels of the GMC then I found 4 M67 under both sides of the car. Then the engine started right after we defused the trap. The co-driver said that last night he had seen 4 soldiers jumped off the bed truck, they had kept point down at something under the wheel !!! The fallen soldiers still remain in this world to help their living comrades – the immortal souls.
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