Make the fall of Saigon a bloodbath

I was watching the Ken Burns documentary and a N Vietnamese soldier said that had Minh had not surrendered, he would be dead as would so many more.

How could this fall be turned into a bloodbath and why.
 

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I was watching the Ken Burns documentary and a N Vietnamese soldier said that had Minh had not surrendered, he would be dead as would so many more.

How could this fall be turned into a bloodbath and why.
Why wouldn't they surrender? The war was lost, even if the orders to surrender were not given then the soldiers would have surrendered themselves.
 
I tried watching the first episode of that programme, badly edited and missing several historical facts of the immediate postwar Indochina situation. i didn't bother watching any more.
 
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