Word: bamboos
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...goes well, the sound of a bamboo drum will break the jungle silence just before dawn. At the signal the "firepower" detachment of regulars hammers the fort with mortar shells and machine-gun fire. From another direction come the Viet Cong assault troops. Blasting a wray through the barbed wire with explosives tied to the end of a pole, they swarm over the rampart screaming "Tien-len [Forward]'" and pour a withering fire into the startled defenders...
...going back to their villages and resuming the role of ignorant peasants who have seen nothing and heard nothing. The regional troops remain long enough to cover the withdrawal by ambushing rescue columns, mining the roads, littering the jungle trails and footpaths with concealed and deadly panjis-sharpened, poisoned bamboo spikes that stab through the soles of unwary pursuers...
...nearby river. Concerned, Sergeant Gabriel fired warning shots, sent up flares in the direction of the noise. For a long time there was silence. Then came what sounded like a dog's bark. From a different direction, a cock crowed. At last came the tap of a bamboo tocsin, and the Viet Cong came running out of the dark...
Light That Failed. The heaviest fighting took place last week at the village of Bo Tuc, 82 miles northwest of Saigon in Tayninh province, six miles from the Cambodian border. Promptly at midnight, at the sound of five thumps on a bamboo drum, hundreds of Viet Cong guerrillas stormed from the tall grass, quickly overran two outposts manned by four civil guards. Their main objective was a large defense post in the center of the village occupied by 78 guards and militiamen...
Racing toward the fort, protected by barbed wire and an embankment bristling with bamboo spikes, the Communists burned the surrounding huts...