The beach banquet lasted until ten in the evening. After the banquet, the tipsy Rolans rewarded the remaining food to the NY soldiers on the periphery. It wasn't entirely accurate to say that it was leftovers. The US Army held this banquet not to fill their stomachs but to have fun.
Most of the delicacies the US Army stuffed into the mouths of the soldiers were actually barbecued food and alcohol. The food on the table was basically untouched. After the banquet ended, they were rewarded to the NY monkeys who were watching the fun.
Of course, the food that Huang Tao and the others received was the best, especially the Italian-style pie, smoked beef sausage, pickled herring, pineapple pork rice, and raw chocolate. After all, these four dishes were quite expensive, so it was not a bad deal for them to gain the loyalty of their subordinates just by giving them a little bit of delicious food! As for loyalty, Rolans believed that it would take some time to test it out.
After receiving the delicacies, these fellows were overjoyed. These poor fellows had never tasted such exquisite delicacies before. Not to mention these soldiers, even the rich and powerful in the big cities might not be able to eat such delicacies. In the eyes of the rich and powerful, the only delicacies were chicken, duck, fish, and strange fruits.
At the moment of victory on the eastern front, the US Army and the NY soldiers were engaged in a difficult battle on the western front. The hardship was not the hardship of attacking under a hail of bullets, but something else.
Vietnam's territory was narrow, and the western side was filled with tall mountains and dense forests. There were dense weeds and trees everywhere, and the terrain was extremely complicated. Unlike the eastern front, where the sea was the best means of attack, the complicated mountain terrain made it impossible to open up a path.
Many people who had never been to Vietnam couldn't imagine what the mountainous terrain looked like. They thought that it was the same as the mountains in the scenic area, but that was actually a mistake.
The jungle warfare that many people saw on TV was a group of special agents wearing white shirts with leather jackets or black suits on the outside, regardless of day or night, trying to look cool. They could even wear leather shoes and deal with the enemy in the jungle. They did not have to worry about breaking the skin on their feet, nor were they afraid of getting blisters! After the battle, their faces were so clean that there wasn't even a speck of mud or dust on them.
In the eyes of some wilderness explorers, jungle warfare was nothing more than a Sunday outing in the mountains. At most, the sun was a little hot, the roads were difficult to traverse, and the signal was bad! If they really thought that way on the battlefield, they probably wouldn't survive for more than 48 hours.
Veterans who had fought in the jungle knew what was most abundant in the jungle. It wasn't the beautiful landscape of the mountain spring, nor was it the wild beasts running around. Instead, it was the most annoying mosquitoes and poisonous insects.
The western front of Yunnan was in such a situation. The terrain here was complicated, and there were weeds and trees that were one to two meters tall everywhere. There were many types of wild plants here, with thorny vines, wild banana trees, and fake taro being the most common. The jungle was humid and sultry. The temperature during the day was as high as 31 to 35 degrees Celsius, and the humid air at night could drop to 19 degrees Celsius. Due to the high humidity and the large number of insects and ants, it was very easy for people to contract all kinds of strange diseases in such an environment.
The most noteworthy thing was the invisible miasma floating in the jungle. In the 1950s, the French army sent a well-equipped army into the mountains to fight in order to destroy the Allied Forces hiding in the jungle. With the cooperation of the airborne troops, they entered the deep forest.
In the beginning, the progress was smooth, but on the seventh day, the command center realized that the unit seemed to have encountered trouble. The radio signals sent by the combat troops were intermittent, and by the second day, there wasn't even a signal.
They originally believed that the troops had engaged in an intense battle with the Allied Forces, but then again, they could still send messages during battle, right? But why wasn't there any signal sent back? Such a strange situation didn't attract the attention of the command center.
It wasn't until three days later that the images sent back by a reconnaissance plane in the sky caught their attention.
According to the analysis of the images, the mountain where they were camping was already surrounded by a thick fog. No matter how the pilot on the reconnaissance plane called out to the ground, there was no response. According to the pilot's description, they had flown over the mountain more than 30 times. With such frequent flights, it was impossible for the people on the ground not to hear the sound of the plane's propellers. However, this was the strange thing. No matter how hard they tried, there wasn't a single cry from the ground. After all, this was an army of more than 1,000 people. Including the guides and airborne troops, there were at least 1,500 of them.
But where were all these people?
It had to be known that it was impossible for the Allied Forces to defeat this unit with their meager combat strength! Such a strange incident finally caused the combat command center to panic. They sent all the foreign mercenaries out to search for the unit. With the cooperation of the planes, they only found some clues after half a month.
The report they brought back to the command center shocked everyone. It was said that after the mercenaries entered the mountain that was surrounded by the white fog, they found the camp of the unit. The tents, pots, and pans on the ground were all there. The weapons, equipment, and ammunition were all there.
But the strange thing was that there were only about 200 people left in the camp. The rest were nowhere to be seen. The remaining 200 people seemed to have mental problems. All of them sat on the ground in a daze as if they were mentally ill. They didn't respond to the shouts of others, nor did they eat the food in the camp. All they knew was to eat the ants and insects crawling on the ground. There were also some who would go berserk if someone touched them and run away! Their shouts were the most terrifying. According to the guide's translation, the shouts of the berserk people were in Vietnamese, and there were even some minority languages.
This left everyone dumbfounded. After all, most of the 200 people were French airborne troops. How could they learn these languages in such a short period of time? It included the Shannan language that the Vietnamese found difficult to understand.
The French couldn't understand such an inconceivable matter.
Long after the incident, the French, who refused to give up, sent troops into the mountains to search, but to no avail. The information stated that there was no battle at the camp, but after the unit entered the mountains, only a few survived. Most of them had miraculously disappeared. If they were alive, they couldn't be found, and if they were dead, their corpses couldn't be found. It was unknown where they went.
The local Vietnamese said that it was the work of the miasma. The miasma had turned them into mountains, rivers, and fog.
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