50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 713 Defeated Soldiers and Elite Troops

"It turns out that they noticed it the day they returned from Yanlong. They absolutely forbade anyone to talk about the poisonous plants being grown in the village."

“If Yanlong’s family doesn’t say anything and continues to stay in the village, they won’t make a move. But the problem is that they want to move the whole family away, which is too risky.”

“The people in our village have always been united. After hearing the gunshots, everyone grabbed their weapons and rushed out.”

Upon hearing this, Sun Zhiwei recalled the scene at Yanlong's house earlier, where the village chief had deliberately shouted loudly.

At that time, all the lights in the villagers' homes were turned on, and someone from each household rushed out of their homes with a weapon.

"But when we arrived at Yanlong's house, it was too late. Ten of them came and launched a surprise attack in the middle of the night. Yanlong's family was caught off guard."

"Just when the villagers were about to avenge Yanlong's family, the leader of that group stepped forward. He was the one who introduced the 'poisonous herb' business to the village."

"He only said a few words and convinced everyone."

“He said first that once Yanlong’s family leaves, they will definitely report it, and then the village will lose tens of thousands of yuan a year in business, which will ruin the village’s livelihood.”

"Then they said that Yanlong's family had more than 1 yuan, and they didn't want a penny of it; everyone who saw it could have a share."

Hearing this, Sun Zhiwei finally understood the whole story. The villagers were not the murderers, but they were not good people either.

When it comes to personal gain, the idea of ​​being neighbors for hundreds of years is just empty talk; Sun Zhiwei has no sympathy for them whatsoever.

"So, you took it upon yourself to let the murderer go and allowed the villagers to divide the victim's property among themselves, right?"

The village chief remained silent in the face of Sun Zhiwei's sneer and sarcasm. From his perspective, he was acting in the best interests of the village and felt that he had not done anything wrong.

But what wrong has the Yanlong family done? Sun Zhiwei will let them know that his soldiers are not so easy to kill.

"Tell me, who are they? Where did they come from? At this point, there's no need for you to hide anything from them anymore."

He had already guessed that those people were from the Golden Triangle.

However, the fact that so many people could appear at once without attracting the attention of the border guards must mean they had a secret passage to get here, and that's something he had to figure out.

“They were all subordinates of General Khun Sa in the Golden Triangle.”

“There is a cable car on our mountain that leads to the opposite mountain. They all crossed the Lancang River by cable car.”

Ten minutes later, Sun Zhiwei, led by the village chief, found the cable car at the top of the mountain.

Calling it a cableway is a bit of an exaggeration; it's really just a steel cable a little over a centimeter thick connecting the two mountain peaks.

The steel cable was fixed to a large rock on the mountaintop, and several pulleys were installed on the cable. The baskets under the pulleys allowed people to carry their loads from one side to the other.

This steel cable is nearly 100 meters long and weighs more than ten tons. Pulling it over from the other side and securing it is no small project.

The mountain where the steel cable is located is right above the village. Drilling would definitely be necessary, and with such a loud noise from the drill, it would be impossible to keep it from the old village of Paqian on the mountain.

Therefore, the old village chief must have been hiding a lot of things, but Sun Zhiwei had no interest in investigating at this point.

After seeing the graves of the Yanlong family, he turned back to the city.

Soon, the city's armed police and anti-drug squad mobilized in full force and headed straight for Paqian Old Village.

Sun Zhiwei asked the inspection team to pay attention to the outcome of this matter, and after resting in the city for one night, he disappeared from everyone's sight again.

His soldiers were killed, and the villagers bore some responsibility, but the real culprits were in the Golden Triangle, so he naturally wanted them to pay the price. Following the Lancang River southwards, after crossing the border, this great river originating in my country becomes known as the Mekong River.

The Mekong River forms the border between Myanmar and Laos at the beginning, and after flowing downstream for more than 200 kilometers, it reaches Siam.

There are also distinctions between the Greater Golden Triangle and the Lesser Golden Triangle.

The Little Golden Triangle refers to the delta where the Mekong and Mae Sai rivers meet at the tri-border area of ​​three countries.

The land here is fertile, yielding three harvests a year; you can grow almost anything and still have enough to eat.

Every year in March and April, the fields here turn golden, which is why the locals call it the "Golden Triangle".

Later, the Siamese government built a "Golden Triangle Park" here and erected a gate in the park with the words "Golden Triangle" inscribed on it. Only then did the name "Golden Triangle" appear on maps and become widely known.

The Greater Golden Triangle refers to a vast area along the border of the three countries.

This region covers an area of ​​over 200,000 square kilometers, with five major mountain ranges concentrated in this mountainous area.

This region is home to more than one million people and has over 3000 villages. It is characterized by vast mountains, dense forests, and rushing rivers.

Although poisonous plants were grown here in the early years, it did not develop into a large-scale industry.

Until the Liberation War, the remnants of the 8th and 26th Armies under Guangtou Dang fled to Myanmar and settled in the Golden Triangle region.

Without supplies, these defeated soldiers had no choice but to rely on planting poisonous plants to solve their food problem and settled down in the area.

The climate here is very suitable for planting, and among the crops that can be grown, poisonous weeds are the most profitable.

Thus, these remnants of the army took the cultivation of poisonous plants and expanded it to a considerable scale in the 50s.

Some may ask, why didn't the Three Kingdoms eradicate them?
There's a concept everyone needs to understand: the so-called "defeated soldiers" is our terminology.

They couldn't defeat our People's Liberation Army, so they could only flee in disarray, which is why they were called routed soldiers.

However, compared to the armies of the Three Kingdoms, these defeated soldiers were definitely elite regular troops.

The bald-headed German-equipped and American-equipped divisions were not made of paper; they couldn't defeat the People's Liberation Army because the PLA was stronger.

But did these small southwestern countries have any formidable armies? Absolutely not. The combined armies of the three countries were overwhelmed by these so-called defeated soldiers.

Is it that they don't want to get involved? They simply can't win.

Therefore, this area eventually became a no-man's-land.

As time passed, the defeated soldiers became locals, and new forces continued to rise in this land.

In the 60s, Khun Sa, who was born in Nong Zhang village, Lai Mo Shan, Shan State, Myanmar, began to build his own team.

This Khun Sa is truly a talented individual, and he's also willing to humble himself. In order to win over various ethnic groups in the area, he gave himself several different names.

Among them, 'Khun Sa' is a Thai name, 'Kwan Yo' is a Burmese name, and he also claims that his ancestral home is Yunnan, and that he has a Chinese name 'Zhang Qifu'. He is also the son of the chieftain of the Laimo tribe in the local 3000 villages.

It can be said that Khun Sa possessed many advantageous qualities, and he was also very good at socializing. Therefore, his influence rose in the Golden Triangle in just a few years.

(End of this chapter)