Buoyed both by her Communist revolutionary fervor and an inflated
pig skin intestine the 19 year old Khan Le floated down the swollen,
fast flowing Mekong River. Her 5ft 3 32A 24 32 85 pound body was naked
except for a knife in a calf scabbard and a garrote wrapped round her
forearm. Her head was masked by a camouflaged hood with tiny eye holes
so the whites of her eyes and teeth did not reflect any light.
Little did she know at this time that all the work and efforts of
herself and the Viet Cong was to be ignored, and that the conquered
South of Vietnam was to be controlled not by the VC but by faceless
bureaucrats from the North who fought their war from armchairs in Hanoi
and who later ignored any claims for power sharing by the VC. An even
more astounding that she would flee the South by boat in 1979 to live
in the land where the Uc (Australian) soldiers came from. The Uc, who
fought as the VC did patrolling in small groups for days at a time,
setting ambushes, harassing the VC, denying them supplies and sleep.
She had laughed when the regular North Vietnamese army had dismissed
the VC warnings only to see 100 Australian soldiers defeat 1500 Nth
Vietnamese regulars, and according to Nth Vietnamese records, kill 500
in the rubber tree plantation at Long Tan in Aug 1966.
In fact her disillusionment with the north would begin earlier than
most as she realized the leaders placed no value on their soldiers and
VC pawns and she ended up as a bar girl in Saigon where she entertained
the US military on leave with savage and vicious catfights
All civil wars are brutal and Vietnam was no exception with many
families split with combatants on both sides and the use of recruitment
by fear. Khan Le felt a tingle rip though her cunt and her nipples
harden as she remembered raping 3 Village women in front of the village
as a lesson as to which side they should join. It was her reward for
killing 3 South Vietnamese soldiers in their camp where she had been
allowed in as a prostitute.
Monsoonal rain bounced off the water and her face with the rapidity and
force of a burst from an AK47 and flashes of lightning enabled her to
see and guide her to her destination. A small island in the middle of
the river, where, as an advance scout of the VC, her job was to lie low
on the island and observe South Vietnamese regular army traffic. A tree
trunk bore down on her carried by the current, and she grabbed hold of
it using it as cover until she reached the island. She lay prone beside
the beached tree trunk listening as the moonless night brought
visibility down to a metre.
Footsteps approached and she used all her senses to determine there was
only one person and the clink of metal warned her it was a soldier.
Probably a South Vietnamese Ranger. They wouldn't use ordinary soldiers
on a job like this. Too much of a chance they would slip off in the
night and desert back to their village. Rangers always operated in
pairs and Khan Le knew there must be another on the island.
The Ranger passed by the tree trunk and Khan Le rose silently behind
him her garrote now off her forearm and the wooden handles held in both
hands. Her left hand made a cross-body movement at the back of the
enemy's right shoulder. Her right hand holding the other end of the
garrote moved with the swiftness of a snake to loop the metal wire over
the head of the Ranger in a semi-circular, counterclockwise motion.
Khan Le pulled her arms apart tightening the guitar string around his
neck. She spun on her heels and completed a quick turn of her body so
she was back to back with the Ranger, and using her advantage of
surprise, she hip hoisted him off of his feet to complete the maneuver.
The Ranger, being small, enabled her to do this but if he had been
bigger she would have kicked the back of his knee and pulled back and
down or used a knee strike to the lower back to give her the leverage
to complete the kill. As it was the garrote cut his air off by
compressing and crushing his trachea, and then severed the trachea and
other vital structures (the carotid arteries, jugular veins, vagus
nerve) as it half decapitated him almost in silence.
Some sixth sense warned her and she stopped short of full decapitation
and swayed away as a blade whistled down in a killing strike that
glanced off her shoulder opening a shallow cut.
Khan Le rolled forward and came up crouching, her knife in her hand
facing the second Ranger. She was taken aback momentarily as she faced
a female a little shorter than her in dyed black army issue panties and
bra and balaclava. What. The Rangers were using women! It had been
rumored but now she had proof that it was true. But then she kicked
into combat mode. Her mind quickly registered her opponent looking for
weaknesses.
It was obvious the woman was US Marine trained. She held her knife, a 7
inch version of the famous Bowie 10 inch knife in a hammer grip so that
it was less likely to be knocked loose, the thumb was protected, the
blade could be used chopping, slashing and thrusting, plus the butt end
could be used for striking. The Ranger had taken a classic triangle
stance with the knife forward and the other free hand guarding her
heart and face. She was obviously experienced and well trained.
Khan Le quickly switched her knife back and forth from hand to hand
hoping to distract the Ranger but both women had done this before.
Neither displayed any sign of fear. They circled each other with their
knives in their right hand. Khan Le lashed out first, slashing her
thinner, longer knife towards the woman's belly, but the South
Vietnamese managed to suck her gut in and jump back, avoiding the
knife. There was a lot of feinting, before the Ranger finally nicked
Khan Le low on the left side of her ribs. Khan Le jumped back and
glanced down at the cut: she was now bleeding from two cuts, neither
major.
The Ranger charged in looking for an advantage as Khan Le glanced down,
but she avoided the charge, stepped to her left and slashed the other
woman shallowly across her belly, just above her belly button. They
both resumed their stances and faced each other.
Breathing heavily they circled each other waiting for the right moment
to strike. The South Vietnamese jumped in the air and brought her knife
straight down on Khan Lee, But Khan Le managed to block and counter
with her knife successfully knocking the other woman off balance and as
she staggered back she slashed at her upper body, tearing through her
tight bra and skin so blood trickled and ran from the cut.
The Ranger held her hand on her wound and looked at Khan Le, who in
return looked at her. Both now had 2 cuts. The desire to kill one
another was the message as they now knew this was no easy fight for
either. There was no backup on the island. It was one against one. It
was silent. None of the two spoke, knowing it was a waste of energy.
They circled each other, coming closer and closer. Waiting. Waiting for
that perfect opportunity to attack.
Suddenly Khan Le kicked sand at the other woman and swiped her knife
upwards at her with blinding speed, but the Ranger successfully
anticipated this and sidestepped it, gripping Khan Le's arm while it
was at full extension.
"NO!" thought Khan Le as her arm was gripped and raised above her.
The Ranger screamed in triumph as she lifted Khan Le's arm up over her
head and drove her knife downwards at Khan Le. Khan Le instinctively
had raised her left hand grabbing the South Vietnamese woman's wrist
and deflecting the knife away from her chest but upward into upwards
into the elbow joint of her extended knife arm.
"AAAAGGHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNN" screamed Khan Le as blood squirted from her
impaled elbow directly over her and the Ranger's face. Sensing she had
the advantage her opponent pushed the blade up causing more pain for
Khan Le. With one last forceful push the blade drove further into Khan
Le's elbow.
"AAAAGGHHHHHHH!!!! MY ARM!!!!" screamed Khan Le in now in excruciating
agony, as despite her efforts to hold the Ranger's arm the smaller
Vietnamese woman twisted and wedged her knife deeper in her broken,
bloody and impaled elbow. The bones in her elbow began to poke out and
rest on the blade embedded in her arm.
The Ranger enjoyed seeing Khan Le's pain. Her screams and cries turned
her on. "I'll make your last moment hell" she hissed with an evil
smile. Blood spurted over the two with every twist and push of her
knife. . Khan Le tried to struggle from her grasp but it was too
painful. As long as she had this knife in her elbow she was trapped and
going nowhere.
With one last effort Khan Le released her grip on the Ranger's wrist,
dropped her knife from the hand of her impaled arm, and managed to
catch it with her other freehand.
"YEEAAAHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Khan Le as she sliced at the other
Vietnamese woman's belly, making her writhe and cry in pain as blood
spurted out from her gut. The Ranger didn't let go though and
desperately began to saw up and down with her knife in Khan Le's arm
trying to free it. Desperately Khan Le sliced her in the gut again;
spraying more blood over them both and leaving and uneven X mark on her.
"AHHHGGGHHHH! " screamed the soldier in pain as Khan Le's knife tore
through and sliced her abs. Khan Le's blade tore through her abs and
poked her intestines and other organs, blood spurting from the blade
into her gut, spraying blood on the ground which soaked into the sand.
The South Vietnamese woman looked down and watched Khan Le slowly drive
her blade deeper into her gut.
"NNNNGGGHHHH!!! Why wont she fucking stop!" thought Khan Le as she
screamed as the soldier still tried to drive her knife deeper into her
elbow . Her elbow was ruined and the slightest touch caused her a
serious pain. But the Ranger was yanking and pulling at it forcefully
even though in agonizing pain herself. Khan Le attacked the Ranger
again, this time stabbing her in the gut another 2 times.
"DARRRGGHHH! GGGGAAAAAGHHH! UUUUGGGGGGGGNNH!!!" screamed the Ranger in pain.
"She is trying to saw of my arm!" realized Khan Le through her own mist
of pain. She pulled back her blade and stabbed her again a third time
in the left side of her foe's exposed belly.
"GAGH...BLEGH..CARGCH!" gasped the smaller woman. Khan Le stabbed her
once more causing more blood to squirt over their legs. The South
Vietnamese woman felt the blade again slowly tear through her abs and
slide past her intestine. Eventually she felt the tip of it begin to
poke through the muscles on her back and rub her spine. She screamed in
pain as she felt the long tear through her body.
"NO! NO!!" She cried out in pain and pulled one last time with all her
might on Khan Le's arm. "ARRRGGGHHH" she screamed as she pulled in
desperation.
Both girls screamed with one last attempt and rolled apart semi conscious. The pain for both of them was too much.
The Ranger lay prone as she held her wounds. She had 3 slashes across
her chest. 2 deep ones that ran horizontally just above her belly
button. Another cut was slightly more angled and crossed with the first
one making a flattened X mark on her. Blood still squirted from the
slash on her side she gained earlier. She had been stabbed several
times by Khan Le and some coils and strands of her intestines could be
seen through the deep wounds. She hugged her self to ease the pain. She
noticed her intestines started to slip out of her stomach with a
"squelch" where the 2 large slashes crossed.
Khan Le managed to crawl back to the other woman, her knife gripped in
her left hand and her useless right arm dangling and dragging on the
ground. She pulled back the balaclava to see the face of the woman who
had nearly killed her. She hesitated, poised to deliver the final
killing strike. Her hand shook and quivered and then she ran her knife
across the Ranger's throat slitting her older sister's throat.