Milestone 0 of the HCM Trail

Milestone 0 of the HCM Trail

Milestone 0 on the Ho Chi Minh Trail is located next to the banks of the Con River, at the foot of Truong Dong cave, hidden in the vast range of Bo Bo - Ba Xanh, Cau Cave in the old Trai Lat, now Lat town, Tan Ky district, Nghe An province. On April 27, 1990, Milestone 0 was recognized as a National Historical Site. Built in a beautiful campus, with a stream flowing around, in front of you is the old Truong Son road passing through the district's martyrs cemetery. The traditional house is currently displaying many precious artifacts: The first unnumbered granite milestone, to the carved wooden milestone "Ho Chi Minh Road Km 0". This place has names that you can hear and see as sacred such as: Dong Tho, Khe Than, Trai Lat, Tap Ma. Adjacent to semi-mountainous districts such as Yen Thanh, Do Luong, Quynh Luu, Dien Chau, Anh Son. That land has entered the nation's history associated with many glorious victories of General Le Loi and the Lam Son insurgent army, as in Nguyen Trai's poem: "The Tra Lan region splits flying ash with bamboo." That upper Tra Lan region today belongs to Tan Ky district and part of Anh Son district, Nghe An province. Wherever the enemy enters, there will be a dilemma, because the four sides are high mountains and abysses. The ancient Lam Son insurgent army chose this land to set up camp (Trai Lat); practicing soldiers and horses (Tap Ma). Military provisions are stationed in secret valleys (Don village)... rich in supplies. They set up self-sufficient food farms on the spot, waiting for the opportunity to expel the invaders. In early 1969, President Nixon, who had just come to power, gave the signal to repeat the war of sabotage in North Vietnam and launched the "Throat Campaign" to stop the legendary trail and its branch routes. into the South. Road 15A - the strategic route along which Nguyen Hue quickly marched to Thang Long in the past, is now a key focus for fierce attacks by American aircraft, they bombarded day and night, and repeatedly raided by air force. , artillery from the 7th fleet fired at death gates such as Bo Lan, Doc Lui, Truong En, Pha Sen, Truong Bon, Pha Linh Cam... Faced with that situation, the Politburo and the Central Military Commission decided to defeat the enemy's plots and strategies. General - Commander-in-Chief Vo Nguyen Giap directly directed Truong Son Command, Military Region 4, Air Defense - Air Force to cooperate in combating the enemy's "Throat Campaign". As fate would have it, Trai Lat was once again chosen as the headquarters to deploy troops to liberate the South. On February 5, 1973, the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission summoned Commander Dong Sy Nguyen and Political Commissar Dang Tinh to assign Truong Son soldiers the task of: Building a strategic road system, paying special attention to basic construction. Truong Son road from Tan Ky - Nghe An to Chon Thanh - Binh Phuoc becomes a national highway through North and South...". After the Paris Agreement, taking advantage of favorable opportunities on the diplomatic front, Command 559 focused on implementing the tasks of surveying and designing, which were given importance, technical staff needed knowledge, and units had Modern equipment. Four engineering divisions including F470, F472, F565, F473 directly performed the construction. Truong Son Road became a vibrant construction site with direct construction forces including engineers and youth volunteers. The Cuban government helped us equip modern construction machinery worth 6 million USD; Advising architects, engineers, and technicians every inch of the way. Thanks to that, the strategic line was close to the enemy's posts, bases of corps and military regions. On May 13, 1973, Commander Dong Sy Nguyen reported to the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense and Deputy Prime Ministers Do Muoi and Phan Trong Tue on the plan to build the Truong Son route running throughout the North - Male. The trail goes under the canopy of the old forest, weaving through shallow ravines to avoid enemy bombs. A long, wide valley from the Southeast of Phu Quy running along the banks of the Hieu River (also known as the Con River) down the "new 15A" road is an unexpected secret gathering point. Tens of thousands of engineers, fire line civilians, and young volunteers were mobilized here to dig trenches to hide military equipment and supplies; sheltering trucks, tanks, artillery, and missiles, protecting dozens of main army divisions. The poisonous water sacred forest, from Ga village, Nghia Binh commune to Dong Tho, Trai Lat, is more than 20km long. There are three roads here, one connecting to road 15B, one is road 15A running to Do Luong, one is the strategic transport road running to the South. Major General Vo So Nguyen - Political Director of Group 559 is the person who directly surveyed and built the gathering point at km 0. This became the ideal base for troops preparing to go to the South to fight. Also from here, the children of the South gathered to go to the North in 1954. They were officers and employees at state-owned military farms: May 1, Dong Hieu, Tay Hieu, February 3 Farm, River I... have a wish to return home to fight; is the key cadre force for the southern revolution. And also from here, soldiers can avoid death gates such as Si station, Cam bridge, Vinh station, Truong Bon, Ben Thuy ferry, Linh Cam ferry, Dong Loc intersection to march on the road to battle, avoiding bombs. bombardment, avoiding huge pockets of fire day and night on the Zone 4 fire line. Today, Ho Chi Minh Road has been upgraded and expanded with flat Asphalt asphalt. Milestone No. 0 has also been restored and recognized as a special national historical site. Source: Nghe An province electronic information portal

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