Page 263 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Giao to surrounding hills Dien-Bien-Phu, and they were the
principal for the Vietminh victory.

General De Castries stayed with the wounded soldiers in
quietly. He hopes some of his soldiers, who could try to break
away into the jungle for hiding, avoid to be captured and killed.

Many more French soldiers lost their lives by refusing to
surrender Vietminh, and fought with Vietminh soldiers until the
last bullet and committed suicide.

Nearly hundreds of French warplanes broken into the parts,
and burned, which was spread out over the surrounding hills in
the Dien-Bien-Phu valley.

Many soldiers on both sides died from the beginning day of
fighting, who still lay on the ground and growing with bad
smelling.

Vietminh Captain Ta-Quang-Lucas burst into General De
Castries' command and hospital bunkers. He sees over six
thousand wounded French soldiers, who lie on the ground of the
small bunker hospital and cried for their painful suffering in
fifty-five days of fighting without helpful.

Vietminh was no better than French troops after the combat
with over ten thousand wounded soldiers, who screamed for
help in the cold weather. Over two hundred thousand soldiers
have fallen during the entire war that lay on the ground and in
the thick forest. It was the cost of the Vietminh's victor on Dien-
Bien-Phu valley battle.

General De Castries asked Captain Luat for the cease-fire,
but Captain Luat had refused and looked General De Castries
and French wounded soldiers with his cruel smile.

He took a look around the command post with his smile
eyes; then two commanders looked at each other again in
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