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Need help! Who been called lính in XX century military slang?


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I am reading a book about the events that took place in Indo China around 1900.
There is a phrase "But you must take that wounded linh; he would hamper me."
What does "linh" means? I researched and I assume that it could be either or lính as a soldier in Vietnamese, and mean a Vietnamese soldier, or Linh as a popular name, and every Asian was called "Lihn"(similar to the situation, when each German been called "Hans" during WW2).
If you speak Ukrainian/Russian/Polish, how would you translate that? Or just explain it to me in English, please:)

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