Page 250 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

mm on the French camps. The fireballs blasted anywhere like
hell in the valley Dien-Bien-Phu.

The battle began with Vietminh’s 105 mm guns and missiles
pounding into the French camps. It was rolling thunderstorm
struck over the French camps as the end of the earth. The most
of the heavy shells exploded on the airfield and French artillery
bunkers, because they were within the range of the Vietminh big
guns, and intensified the fire. The earth shook, the underground
walls caved, and all the telephone network wires underground
cut by heavy exploded.

Some roof bunker broken parts threw up in the air and
buried a dozen soldiers by crumbling of earthworks. Few of
those soldiers survived in crisis and struggled to free themselves
out of the mixing chunks of the wood and earth.

After a half hour of the big heavy gun fires of both sides,
French artilleries were down on the ground and lost their roars
of 10%, and some other were unable to repair. The excited
scream shouted out all over the camps under the heavy attack of
few Vietminh infantries. Some wounded French soldiers rushed
themselves to the central hospital bunker, and most other still lay
on the ground, screaming for help. The Vietminh’s heavy attack
was continuing charge to the camps, and the sound of any guns
broke out to mix with Vietminh’s yells everywhere surround the
camps. The smoke, flames were rising in the dark with the
strong smell of explosive and gun powers.

The French soldiers combated very hard with the
Vietminh’s people-sea continuing charge to the camps without
afraid for the machine guns, repaired the fortifications diked in
the bullets crossfire and threaten their lives. Sometimes they
took the risk of their lives to build the new barricades and
trenches under the parachute flare lights to defense their camps.
Most the times they fell by the bullets never standing up with the
bodies bloody on the ground. Many times their bodies broke up
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