Bing Mao

* NLF
* PAVN

Bing Mao was a former NVA and NLF commander during the conflict in Vietnam

## Early Life

Bing Mao grew up on a farm owned by his relatives "Trang trại Mao" (Mao Farm) after his farther Ming Mao fled to Vietnam. Bing would work on the farm from a young age.

## World War 2

During World War 2, the Japanese Empire seized control over Vietnam. Bing Mao along with his relatives lead a faction of the Veit Minh to fight off the Japanese Imperialists. He would be one of the only survivors of the Mao Massacre in which almost all of his family were murdered by Imperial Japanese forces in the country in an effort to stop their rebellion.

## First Indochina War

After driving out the Japanese, the french wanted back their hold on lands in asia, one of which being Vietnam. However they were met with heavy resistance as the viet minh where not willing to be colonized yet again by the french and faught back. Bing Mao would serve as an officer in the Viet Minh forces against the french, launching many successful guerilla attacks and driving the french invaders out of the country.

## Second Indochina War (Vietnam War)

During the 1950s to 1970s Vietnam would under go a civil war between the communist north and capitalist south. Bing Mao would serve the early part of the war fighting as a North Vietnamese commander until around half way through the war he was honourably discharaged for getting too old. Despite that, Bing would not quit fighting as he would immediately join the National Liberation Front as a commander and order and take part in many sabbotage and assaults.

## Tactics

Bing Mao was feared among the American troops as he was an expert at guerilla warfare and an even better leader. He would often spend time living in villages taking on the role of a peaceful old farmer, however he would be in charge of many underground Viet Cong operations in the area. Every Military attempt at eliminating him failed.

## PAVN

Bing served in the Peoples army of Vietnam for as long as it was around. Commanding as a high ranking officer ordering platoons and entire armies. After 1965 however Bing mostly acted as a military advisor for the National Liberation Front. Training and equipping the Viet Cong throught the south. He managed to get around using various aliases and homes. Often putting on the facade of being an old farmer. However hidden underneath his homes were a network of tunnels that housed important documents, and smuggled weapons for the NLF, aswell as being rigged with various traps and explosives designed to keep all vital information buried and out of enemy hands. The tunnels would feature escape routes that Bing could use to evade detection in the case of the house being raided.

## NLF

Midway through the war just before the tet offensive, Bing would retire from the army to serve full time for the National Liberation Front. He would assemble his own unit known as the "Green Vipers" made up of elite fighters personally trained by Bing himself. During this time Bing would become a huge pain in the Southern forces backsides, becoming far more agressive with his tactics and having a part in the orginization of the Tet Offensive. As Bing became far more known by US intelligence, it became harder and harder to hide in plain sight as he once did. Now that he was a priority target, Bing began to make use of body doubles, old Viet Vong fighters with similar features as him to confuse and demorilize US troops, as every "Bing Mao" they claim to have killed turned out not to be him. This strategy quickly dug into the psyche of US troops as they would lose hope of ever catching or killing the real Bing Mao.

## Targeted Assassination

During the war, Bing's reputation had made him a vital target for South Vietnam and the US. In the late 1960s Bing had been the target for an Assassination attempt conducted by the US military. Green Beret Diego López was sent out to eliminate the VC Commander but all attempts had been unsuccessful.

## Dissapearance

The Current Wereabouts of Bing Mao today are unknown. Its speculated weather he perished during the war or if the Assassination attempt was ultimately successful but kept secret by the US Government. Others claim he lead a peaceful life after the end of the war and died of natural causes.

## In Game Appearance

Bing Mao's first and only appearance is in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam on both the NVA and NLF side played by Bobcat.