American Strategic Deception Bureau

　Colonel Nguyen Chinh Thi, who served as Governor and Commander of the First Military Region and was appointed by both Ngo Dinh Diem and the coup forces, recently surrendered to our underground party organization!

　Le Duan said very proudly, "Moreover, he also agreed, in his capacity as the Governor-General of Hue and Commander of the First Military Region, to publicly invite our compatriots from the north to send troops south to quell the chaos in Hue and save the people from their misery!"

　Ho Chi Minh: ...

　——How many fathers did Nguyen Chinh Thi, the "adopted son" of Ngo Dinh Diem, recognize this year?

　Author's Note: PS: The ruins of the ancient city of Nanzuo, discovered in Gansu, date slightly later than Liangzhu, dating back a thousand years before the Xia Dynasty. They are quite magnificent. But surprisingly, the charred grain discovered there is actually rice! Furthermore, there are clear signs of trade with the Yangtze River Basin, with goods from Shandong also discovered.

　It can be seen that the connections between various ancient Chinese civilizations are far closer than later generations imagined.

　Perhaps, there really existed an ancient super tribal alliance that spanned the entire Kyushu region, from the Longxi Plateau to the Jiangnan water towns?

　Chapter 225: Ruan Zhengshi, a slave of three surnames! Surrendered to the Communist Party!

　April 23, 1963, Da Nang, Vietnam

　When the earth-shattering news reached Da Nang, Major Ferry King was lying bored on his cot, using the magic crystal ball hanging on his chest to have a private remote chat with his fiancée Marita who was far away in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.

　Due to the time difference halfway around the world, when it was still scorching hot in Da Nang, it was already late at night in Los Angeles.

　At this moment, Marita was being served by naked female slaves to take a bath. She was lying comfortably in the bathtub, chatting with Fili remotely, her mind wandering, while letting the female slaves apply soap to her and smear her body with her cheesy breasts and plump buttocks.

　Then they dried her and led her to sit on an inflatable cushion. While Marita was chatting with Fili, the girls had used their tongues, which had become more flexible due to sufficient training over the past two years, to give Marita two extremely pleasant experiences.

　- Tall and muscular Alena lies down under Marita as a human cushion, while Marita kneels on her face, enjoying her oral service. The lovely Juanita licks Marita's other hole from behind, while Isabelle kisses Marita in front with her oral sex for a long time.

　Marita told Fili in the magic communication that this kind of multiplayer gameplay was fantastic, and that when Fili returned home, she would bring everyone to serve him like this... Well, she also asked Fili if he had found some Vietnamese girls in Da Nang. What were the tastes of Asian girls like?

　Uh, looking for a Vietnamese chick?

　Well, how should I put it? Fili did go looking for her, but it was definitely not to satisfy his desires.

　In order to conduct social research in Vietnam, Dr. Kissinger spent all day running around bars and clubs in Da Nang, and occasionally strolling around the market.

　After lying leisurely in the barracks for a few days, Fili was also assigned an errand by Dr. Kissinger: go to church. Dr. Kissinger was Jewish and it was not appropriate for him to go to the Catholic church. Fili was Irish and ostensibly a Catholic, so going to church was perfect for him.

　As an important social center before the advent of the information age, one can indeed see all kinds of people in the church. Moreover, the more chaotic the times are, with wars raging and social unrest raging, the emptier people's souls become, the greater their mental stress becomes, and the more they need the numbness of religion.

　Therefore, after the outbreak of the South Vietnamese Civil War, churches in Da Nang have always been crowded. In addition to praying, people also frequently exchange various information.

　But trying to flirt and pick up girls in church is a bit too blasphemous.

　To make matters worse, Phi doesn't speak Vietnamese and speaks very poor French, and not many locals in Da Nang speak English...

　In this situation, even effective communication between each other is hindered, so how can we collect intelligence?

　Not to mention chatting and flirting with Vietnamese girls.

　Of course, as long as one's thinking does not slip, there are always more solutions than problems. Relying on his fluent Chinese, Fili finally met some Vietnamese Chinese Catholics in the local church in Da Nang, including a Chinese priest and several young Vietnamese Chinese girls.

　But they all came from respectable families, at least middle class. And because of their devout faith, they were all very conservative, practicing and fasting constantly. If Fili truly wanted to marry her, considering they were fellow Christians, there might be a chance of success. But if it was just for fun... well, that was just wishful thinking—unless he was truly driven mad and willing to resort to supernatural means of mind control...

　Obviously, Fili hasn't been held back to that point yet, and if he really can't hold it back any longer, he can still go to the bar to find a waitress.

　Of course, although it is impossible to hook up with them and have sex with them, there is no problem in chatting with these Vietnamese Chinese and Chinese girls in the church.

　Firi obtained a lot of very interesting information from the mouths of these Vietnamese Chinese Catholics.

　First of all, although President Ngo Dinh Diem was a fanatical and devout Catholic, the real foundation and base of his rule were not the local Catholics in South Vietnam, but the 700,000 northern Catholic refugees who migrated south from North Vietnam when the Geneva Agreement was signed in 1954!

　——I don’t know why, although the French colonization and missionary work in Vietnam started from South Vietnam, and Saigon has always been the capital of the French Indochina colony. But by the time the French colonists withdrew, the Vietnamese

　The number of Catholics in Vietnam far exceeds that in South Vietnam.

　When South Vietnam and North Vietnam separated, there were 150 million Catholics in North Vietnam and only about 60 in South Vietnam.

　At the time, Catholics in North Vietnam feared persecution by the Vietcong. To this end, Diem risked his life personally traveling to Hanoi to mobilize and rescue North Vietnamese Catholics southward, thereby bolstering his reputation. He initially thought he could only secure 10,000, but ultimately managed to secure hundreds of thousands.

　The United States also dispatched ships and aircraft to do its best to support this large-scale population migration, and named it "Operation Freedom Trail."

　Ultimately, 90 North Vietnamese Catholics migrated south within 300 days of the signing of the agreement. Since they had nothing in the South and had to build their fortunes from scratch, they became staunch supporters of President Ngo Dinh Diem, leveraging the president's support to seize land and "start businesses" throughout the South.

　How did Ngo Dinh Diem enact a "reverse land reform" in South Vietnam? While the land of large landowners remained untouched, the land of small landowners and self-employed farmers was confiscated without compensation. Part of the land was given to the large landowners as hush money, and the rest was allocated to Catholic refugees from the north to cultivate his own loyalists.

　It is like the Eight Banners during the Qing Dynasty that entered the Central Plains and grabbed land, and it is also like the "reclamation group" set up in the Northeast during the Japanese invasion of China.

　The consequences are predictable: South Vietnamese farmers who lost their land joined the Viet Cong guerrillas in entire villages and counties...

　It is easy to imagine how the Buddhists in South Vietnam would feel when they saw such a large group of "Northerners" coming to grab land and houses.

　Generally speaking, this is like a conflict between Taiwan's "mainlanders" and "natives", and is somewhat similar to the relationship between Israel and Palestine.

　As for the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics in South Vietnam?

　Well, just like the Jews who have lived in Jerusalem for generations. Although they feel very uncomfortable with the wars and conflicts caused by Jewish immigrants from Europe in the Holy Land, driven by practical interests, they can only hold their noses and stand on the side of their fellow believers.

　Therefore, even without the participation of the Americans, the current Saigon government in South Vietnam is essentially still a colonial regime, an Eastern version of Israel, and a super-degraded version of Israel that cannot be supplemented by immigrants from outside and does not have Eastern European Jewish veterans to import martial virtues.

　— The large-scale migration of Vietnamese Catholics from North Vietnam to the south has largely disappeared since the end of Operation Freedom Road.

　Since there were no veterans from other places to import martial ethics, South Vietnam could only rely on American soldiers to import martial ethics in order to maintain its posture and dignity.

　Of course, despite being a super-degraded version of Israel, South Vietnam still carried out some people's armed forces in order to maintain the survival of the regime.

　For example, Israel’s famous “Kibbutz” farm actually has a similar version in South Vietnam, which is an armed village of Catholic immigrants - every citizen is a soldier, not only does every family have a gun, but the village is built like a small fortress. It can be said to be a low-end version of an Israeli settlement.

　In another timeline, until the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, Catholic immigrant villages remained the most stubborn bastion of resistance against the reaction.

　On the last day of the war, the Catholic militia was still defending Bien Hoa Airport, and repelled the Viet Cong armored forces three times a day with only rocket launchers.

　But the problem is that compared with Israel, South Vietnam has one biggest disadvantage: the number of Catholics in South Vietnam is too small!

　Although Israel was a small boat surrounded by a sea of ​​Arabs, at least in Palestine, the number of Jews and Arabs was roughly equal. On the other hand, even within South Vietnam, Catholics only made up 6% of the total population!

　As for the areas surrounding South Vietnam, apart from the mortal enemy in the north, the remaining Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Myanmar... are all Buddhist countries.

　Malaysia and Brunei, which are across the sea, do not believe in Buddhism, but they worship Allah.

　The closest Catholic country to South Vietnam is actually the Philippines across the South China Sea!

　This put the Catholics in South Vietnam in a very isolated state, and their psychological state was even worse than that of the Jews in Israel.

　While chatting with local Vietnamese Catholics in Da Nang, Fili discovered that despite enjoying preferential treatment and belonging to a privileged group in South Vietnam, they were generally worried about their future. Many wealthy families had already arranged fallbacks in Hong Kong or the Philippines. If things got tough, they would flee with their entire families, leaving behind their belongings. Some even approached Fili about how their entire family could immigrate to the United States.

　Eh? Thinking about it this way, it seems pretty easy to kidnap a few delicious Vietnamese girls to the US, right?

　While Ferry was chatting with Marita remotely and daydreaming in his mind, Wolf Lee, the fat Texas radio operator who came with him to Vietnam, rushed into the house waving a piece of paper without knocking on the door, scaring him so much that he jumped up from the cot.

　Before the startled Firi could even open his mouth to reprimand the radio operator, the latter began to speak in an excited yet frightened voice: "Sleep! Sir! This is terrible! The warlord in Hue has sent a telegram to surrender to the Communists! Are the Vietcong tanks coming?"

　"What?" Due to the overwhelming amount of information, Feri's brain instantly crashed...

　-

　Ever since Nguyen Chinh Thi, with the secret order from General Duong Van Minh, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, assassinated the commander of the First Military Region, who was also a member of the coup camp, on the day of the March 30th coup,

　Major General Du Gaozhi attempted to seize power and take over Hue by force, but ended up causing the collapse of the First Military Region. After Hue fell into chaos, he hastily executed the senior officers of the First Military Region who had been deceived by him, and then escaped from the headquarters before he was attacked and killed by the rebels.

　As a result, the indignant rebels of the First and Second Divisions had no choice but to burn down the First Military Region Headquarters to vent their anger, and then disbanded to loot.

　Although it was humiliating, Nguyen Cheng Thi had no choice but to flee! He first killed the loyal commander of the First Military Region, Du Caozhi, and then Wu Dinh Diem airdropped him the commission as Governor-General of Hue: now, even he couldn't tell which side he was on.

　Afterwards, Nguyen Cheng Thi, who was confused himself, took a few close confidants and hid in the Nguyen Dynasty Royal Tombs on the outskirts of Hue, watching the whole of Hue fall into chaos and become a mess... Even if he was slow-witted, he discovered a terrible fact: the trouble he had caused this time was really too big!

　The two elite infantry divisions guarding the border, as well as a series of fire bases and highland strongholds that had been operated for many years, were all blown up from within by him!

　It’s probably similar to the ancient Chinese border general who collapsed the entire Great Wall!

　Whether the coup army in Saigon defeated the president and successfully seized power, and began to reward meritorious service and punish wrongdoers to settle old scores, or President Ngo Dinh Diem wiped out the officer corps to quell the rebellion and figured out why Nguyen Chin Thi appeared in Hue, he probably would not have a good ending afterwards.

　Even Americans would probably not be willing to protect him, a troublemaker who is more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything.

　How to do it?

　Ruan Zhengshi, trembling with fear and filled with regret, could not help but cast his gaze towards the north and began to think in reverse...

　——Although I have caused great harm to South Vietnam, doesn’t that mean I have made great contributions to North Vietnam?

　Perhaps, possibly, perhaps, I should carefully consider whether defecting to North Vietnam would be more cost-effective. Regardless, Nguyen Chinh Thi is still recognized as the Lord of Hue by both President Ngo Dinh Diem and the coup group. This title alone is of great value in the united front!

　At this time, several of Nguyen Cheng Thi's men accidentally came into contact with the Viet Cong underground party active in the Hue area.

　Soon, Nguyen Chinh Thi contacted the secretary of the Workers' Party in Hue, and under the persuasion of these underground party members, he took the initiative to cross the demilitarized zone demarcation line, headed north to Hanoi, paid a visit to Ho Chi Minh, and openly invited North Vietnam to send troops to Hue to quell the chaos, thus providing North Vietnam with a barely tenable excuse to send troops... In the words of the game, the Viet Cong obtained a "weak claim" to send troops to Hue.

　——Although it is not a strong claim, it is better to have a claim than to have no claim at all.

　Anyway, it's just a topic of conversation for international debates!

　Now, this former airborne commander, Colonel Nguyen Chinh Thi, was simultaneously the commander of the First Military Region, appointed by the South Vietnamese military coup group; the governor of Hue, personally appointed by President Ngo Dinh Diem during his lifetime, who had sent a plane to drop a hand order; and the chairman of the Hue Regional Transitional Committee, urgently appointed by North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh...

　This is truly... a true slave of three surnames!

　Of course, it doesn't really matter how many fathers Nguyen Chinh Thi recognized. What really matters is that with this traitor's sudden surrender to the Communists, the border between South Vietnam and North Vietnam was wide open! North Vietnamese T-34 tanks could sprint into Hue unimpeded!

　And 80 kilometers south of Hue is Da Nang...

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　Chapter 226: Another coup in Saigon! Nguyen Khanh's three-day reign! (Additional update)

　In short, the move of Colonel Nguyen Chinh Thi, the "three-surname slave", to "use the northern barbarians to suppress the bandits" or "lead the northern troops to the south", and actively invite the North Vietnamese army to cross the "bamboo curtain" of the 17th parallel north latitude and take over the ancient capital of Hue, really shocked everyone.

　When Firi arrived at the Da Nang Cathedral, known for its girlish pink facade and candy-box-like appearance, it was already filled with anxious local Catholics. Some were beating their chests in frustration, others were cursing Nguyen Chinh Thi as a modern-day Wu Sangui and Shi Jingtang, while many more were muttering and complaining, "What's wrong with this country? How did it become like this?"

　When a young Chinese girl saw the American officer, Fieri, coming in, she immediately dragged her mother and father and hurried over to greet him. After exchanging a few words with Fieri, she asked whether Saigon had responded to the incident and whether the United States would send troops to protect the safety of Da Nang.

　——Everyone knows that the troops of the First Military Region and the border line of the 17th parallel north are now equivalent to no longer existing. With the border governor Nguyen Cheng Thi opening the door to thieves, the North Vietnamese army will surely be able to easily sweep across the entire Hue Plain like the North Korean army in the early days of the Korean War.

　Of course, if Hue is lost, it is lost.

　Neither the stubbornly minded Buddhists in this ancient capital of the Nguyen Dynasty nor the self-proclaimed "civilized" Catholics in Da Nang have a favorable impression.

　But the problem is that Hue is only eighty kilometers away from Da Nang!

　Once Hue changes hands, the Viet Cong will definitely head straight for Da Nang next!

　Although the two cities are separated by the historically famous "Haiyun Ridge", on which is built a fortress known as "

　The Vietnamese often compare Haiyun Pass, known as "One man guarding the pass against ten thousand men", to the ancient Hangu Pass in China.

　However, no matter how dangerous the pass is, it must be guarded by troops to resist the enemy's attack.

　Given the current chaotic situation in South Vietnam with people's morale unrest and lack of discipline, it is hard to say whether there is any army that will go to defend Haiyunling.

　Under such circumstances, these frightened and confused Vietnamese Catholics would naturally want to cling to the big legs of the American imperial teacher as soon as possible.

　"Of course, the United States won't easily abandon any of its free allies. But if President Kennedy wants to provide military aid here, he'll have to go through the necessary procedures, which will take several days. As for Saigon, well, I guess we can't count on them anytime soon."

　Fili hesitated for a moment, then finally told the truth, "I just received bad news. There was another coup in Saigon last night! General Nguyen Khanh was unfortunately killed! The troops of the Second and Third Military Regions are fighting in the streets, and I'm afraid no one has time to pay attention to what's happening in Hue..."

　"What? Another coup in Saigon? Nguyen Khanh is dead?! Oh my God! Are all our generals crazy?"

　After hearing the tragic news, everyone in the Da Nang Cathedral immediately wailed, as if they had been struck by lightning, and each of them felt like they had lost their parents.

　——That’s right, just when the “three-surname slave” Nguyen Chinh Thi surrendered to the Communist Party and invited Ho Chi Minh to send troops to Hue, Saigon had another coup!

　The mastermind behind the coup was Du Mao, the head of the intelligence department who had previously betrayed President Ngo Dinh Diem and served as the Director of Security.

　Although Du Mao betrayed President Ngo Dinh Diem due to his lust for power and joined the General Staff coup group led by Army Commander Duong Van Minh, he soon discovered that the coup group also excluded him as a dirty worker and did not get the treatment he wanted, which made Du Mao angry.

　After Major General Nguyen Khanh, commander of the Second Military Region, took control of Saigon, he also did not like Du Mao very much, and was ready to kick Du Mao out of the central government of Saigon and send him to the local area to be the governor. He would then send his confidant to be the security director to take over the intelligence department and spy network left by President Ngo Dinh Diem.

　After all, for any modern dictator, intelligence agencies that are vital to his life must never be in the hands of "outsiders".

　However, Du Mao simply could not accept this fate of being thrown away after being used, just like a chamber pot. He knew very well that a spy chief like himself who knew so many secrets could not lose power. Everyone had seen what happened to Beria in the Soviet Union!

　Not to mention, Nguyen Khanh also advocated "recruiting surrenders and accepting traitors", bringing back several of Ngo Dinh Diem's ​​direct remnants to the Saigon government and entrusting them with important tasks. By then, how would Du Mao, the traitor who stabbed Ngo Dinh Diem, make an agreement with the royal family and serve as an official in the same court with "Ngo loyalists" such as Hu Jinquan?

　Who knows, one day someone might kill me just to boost my reputation!

　Therefore, as soon as Nguyen Khanh issued the "Domestic Peace Initiative", Du Mao took action with great enthusiasm in Saigon and quickly connected with a group of frustrated soldiers, including Colonel Nguyen Cao Ky, deputy commander of the Air Force, who had only four planes left, Major General Nguyen Van Thieu, commander of the 5th Division, who had just gathered up a small number of remnants, Major General Mei Youchun, who temporarily took over the Marine Corps, and Major Nguyen Van Rong, Yang Ming-Ning's adjutant and bodyguard, etc.

　After a brief discussion, the soldiers decided to launch a "military remonstration" - "We can't let Nguyen Khanh ruin the fruits of our revolution!"

　In the early hours of April 23, just hours before North Vietnam announced it would send troops south to Hue, the hastily assembled coup team led by Du Mao brazenly launched a "military remonstration" against Nguyen Khanh, preparing to quickly rush into the General Staff Headquarters, arrest Nguyen Khanh, and force Nguyen Khanh to "face up to the voices of the soldiers", "not tolerate evil, and must eradicate the remnants of the Wu bandit gang", etc. - of course, the real purpose was to seize power.

　However, despite relying on the help of an insider in the General Staff, this mob successfully broke into the General Staff Headquarters and fought their way into the courtyard separated from Nguyen Khanh by only a wall. However, Nguyen Khanh's personal guards remained calm and fought back with submachine guns and grenades, trying to cover Major General Nguyen Khanh's escape.

　In order to prevent Nguyen Khanh from escaping and causing any changes, Major Nguyen Van Rong, who was commanding the battle on the front line, ordered the use of rocket launchers to bombard the building where Nguyen Khanh was, and set up heavy machine guns to start strafing. As a result, General Nguyen Khanh, who escaped from the bedroom in pajamas, was unfortunately shot in the head by a stray bullet and died on the spot.

　——From the time he took control of Saigon to his accidental death, Nguyen Khanh’s rule over the Saigon government lasted only a very short three days.

　A Japanese journalist in Saigon at the time, referring to the story of Akechi Mitsuhide, a Japanese shogun who briefly served as shogun for three days after assassinating Oda Nobunaga during the Warring States Period, called it "Nguyen Khanh's Three-Day Reign" in a news release.

　Afterwards, the dramatic phrase "three-day rule" was widely quoted and talked about by media around the world.