Page 249 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Vietminh’s heavy artilleries to win the Dien-Bien-Phu battle and
the end the Indochina war.

Early March 1954, Vietminh had completed deployment
sixty thousand combat troops and were ready in the fighting
positions surrounding the cycle hills. They were clear to watch
ten thousand French Union troops in the Dien-Bien-Phu valley
and preparing to attack enemy camps.

5:30 PM March 13, 1954, the sun was going down in the
West at another side of the mountains, and hiding behind the
heavy water clouds. It let the day end weakness lights through
the gray clouds with the little chilly wild wind running on the
top of the trees and blade of grass. The wind was slow to set the
dull clouded covering the sky of Dien-Bien-Phu valley, while
the birds were flying back their nets and called for either one in
the air. The rainforest started spattering down on the ground,
made the noises on the leaves for the wet season of the most
North Vietnam high lands. It made unable to raise the range of
vision for French MS-500 observer planes, and the pilot
warplanes that were flying over Vietminh positions. Also, their
mission seemed to end up for a day and prepared to fly back to
the airbase.

At 5:45 PM, all the French units had prepared in their
positions as well as for the battle after they heard the noise of
big guns and missiles Katyusha on over surrounding hills. In
immediately, there were some bunkers broke down with loudly
cry following the blast in the camps. The French artilleries were
opening boom to match the noise at the distant firing of
Vietminh heavy guns. Also, French soldiers made the sharp
crack of rifles and machine guns, while their eyes were opening
wide to find the enemies. They were ready to fire at their
opponents to take a chance to survival.

General Giap started and continued to press his enemy
falling into crisis by pounding the heavy thunder waves of 105
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