"Wait!" I said, "Didn't you say this armored transport vehicle is defective?"
"It is indeed defective!" Ding Chengdong replied: "The main defect is the lack of shock absorbers, which makes it difficult for the transport vehicle to advance quickly on the rugged mountain road, and the tracks are easy to break... But this open land is flat, so this problem
It won’t be a problem anymore.”
"Isn't that really a problem?" I said, "Why can't we turn this open land into a rugged mountain road?"
"It was indeed possible!" Zhao Jingping reminded from the side: "But Staff Officer Li also said just now...the artillery was blocked by 729 Heights, otherwise a blast of artillery fire would have blown up a crater!"
"The mortar company can hit it!" Wang Chuang added from the side: "But the crater made by the mortar is too small, so I'm afraid it won't have much effect!"
"I didn't say use artillery!" I said, "I said anti-tank mines..."
"Anti-tank mine?" The soldiers couldn't help but be surprised... If this thing is to delay the movement of enemy tanks, it is okay, but it will blow up the flat open land into a rugged mountain road...
"Oh!" Zhao Jingping was the first to understand. He nodded slightly and said: "There are two ways to deal with anti-tank mines. One is to rely on engineers to remove them, and the other is to use artillery to explode them! If there are engineers to remove them... this
Firstly, it will take a long time, and secondly, we can interfere with firepower from high altitude on Highland 323, so they should use the second method..."
"It's not that it should be, it's a must!" I said: "Chen Jiahao has been eager to defeat us for a long time, and now that he has a considerable advantage, he must be underestimating the enemy. In addition... if we use engineers to eliminate it, he will
It will give us more preparation time. As the saying goes, things change with time. So Chen Jiahao will definitely choose to use artillery fire to carpet bomb the open area... This will cause a lot of trouble for the armored transport vehicles!"
"The battalion commander is right!" King Chuang continued: "This will not only cause trouble to the Red Army armored forces, but will also consume the shells and firepower of the Red Army artillery, making it impossible for them to carry out large-scale artillery bombardment on Highland 323 before the attack.
!In this way, our army can lay mines to block the Red Army’s frontal attack..."
"If the Red Army's tank training is not sufficient..." Ding Chengdong added: "Or the Red Army's infantry and tanks have insufficient coordination and lack of contact... If we add some firepower interference... it is very likely that they will pass through open areas full of craters.
When the infantry and tanks are separated, their tank troops will go deep alone... Then it's time for us to counterattack!"
"Yes! Let's play like this!" Zhao Jingping laughed and said: "Batalion Commander... you are really good at it. You managed to win this game with just one move!"
I couldn't help but smile. It should be said that this is not a foolproof strategy... because all of this is based on the fact that the Red Army troops have poor coordination of infantry and tanks and the armored transport vehicles will be restricted. But fighting has never been a problem.
There is no guarantee of winning or losing. Sometimes you just have to try your luck.
The most important thing is... I believe that with Chen Jiahao's pride, it is impossible to train infantry-tank coordination or infantry-artillery coordination like me. This is why I boldly choose this method. At the same time, it may also be our final victory.
The key.
From this point of view, sometimes it is indeed important to understand the character of the enemy commander on the battlefield.
So the staff officers quickly got busy... After the general tactics were formulated, the next step was the specific scheduling and coordination of various arms.
Of course, I don't need to do this. I just need to take a final look at the battle plan and nod in agreement.
So I walked over to Zhang Fan who was writing something on the table and whispered: "Don't worry, we won't lose!"
"Yeah!" Zhang Fan nodded, pretending as if nothing happened.
But after a while, I finally couldn't help it anymore, raised my head and sighed and said, "You know what? In fact, I don't think you will lose at all, nor am I worried that you will lose, but I am worried that you will win!"
"Hmm!" This answer was beyond my expectation. But after thinking about it, I quickly understood... If I lose, it may mean that I don't have to go to the battlefield. But if I win, it will be just the opposite.
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I nodded in understanding, patted Zhang Fan on the shoulder and walked away.
Regardless of whether it is a choice between family and country, country or beauty, there has never been a choice that has the best of both worlds since ancient times.
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The exercise started on time the next day. Before eight o'clock, all units were ready within the "our defense line" a few hundred meters away from the front of 323 Highlands...
Speaking of which, the soldiers were really enthusiastic about fighting for this exercise... maybe this was because the first company and the engineer company were the ones fighting the first battle.
The company was all new students who had never been on the battlefield. After several months of military training, they just wanted to try their "skills".
Although the engineer company led by Yang Jie has been on the battlefield, most of the time it is only clearing mines in the rear, or building bridges and clearing roads for the troops following behind. It is rare to go to the front line to "combat" like it is now.
So everyone was fully armed and nervous, and some soldiers were even so nervous that they vomited... The soldiers of the Second Company and I were a little confused, and we all smiled and said: "This is not a real war, and it's not a real war."
People will die...what are you afraid of?"
Actually...it's just that we didn't think about it from the perspective of recruits. You know, in our modern college entrance examination, some people will be so nervous that they vomit and faint...it's just an exam, and no one will die, so why bother?
Are you afraid of being like that? The truth is actually the same. As the saying goes, caring leads to chaos... Some things are just the more you want to do them well, the more nervous you become. If the soldiers have an indifferent attitude towards the results of this exercise, then
There's really no need to be so nervous.
Therefore, this actually reflects the importance that the soldiers attach to this exercise, and it is also a manifestation of a sense of collective honor, and it is also a determination to defend this combined battalion...
The reason why I say this is because I don’t know who leaked the news. It is said that if this exercise fails, the combined camp will probably be disbanded... It is normal for this news to leak out. Just think about it.
It was because some staff officers wanted to attract enough attention from the soldiers, or to hope that the soldiers would fight this battle with all their strength...that they deliberately revealed the news, but unexpectedly it made the soldiers a little too nervous.
As the second hand ticked towards eight o'clock, three red flares soon rose in the sky...the exercise officially began.
"Kill..." the soldiers shouted and rushed towards the 323 position.
This scene made me and the soldiers of the Second Company who were watching the battle in the "defense line" dumbfounded... There are no "enemies" in the 323 Highlands. We are just going to occupy the 323 position where the Red Army is not stationed... So when we shout "kill", we are going to kill.
Who?
But later I heard Zhao Jingping say that this is necessary... because it reflects the spirit of the troops, a spirit of daring to fight and fight, which can be used as extra points in the exercise...
Hearing this, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart... Is this a war or an act? But I believe this is true, because there are several observers sent by the director team around me to watch everything.
What is recorded in the notebook?
This period of time was when we had just successfully captured Position 323 in a sneak attack. The Red Army still needed an hour to organize a counterattack... which meant that we had an hour of preparation time, so the soldiers could confidently and boldly attack on the reverse slope.
The engineering company and the infantry company are divided into two lines, one infantry platoon and two engineering platoons. Their task is to clear mines on Highland 323. Then the infantry platoon builds fortifications on the reverse slope, and the engineering troops place mines on the front slope.
The other route consists of an engineer platoon and three infantry platoons (the first company has four platoons because of its large number of people, each with about forty people). Their task is to bury a large number of weapons in the open ground with the cooperation of engineers.
Anti-tank mines.
In the direction of 323, at first it was mainly the demining work of engineers... In fact, when the visibility is good during the day and there is no enemy fire interference, the demining work is not very difficult. After all, the engineering troops also have detonating cords, grenades and the like.
Explode section by section. After the explosion, if you are still worried about the presence of mines and have not eliminated them, use a mine detector to detect...
Of course, for the sake of safety, the firing of detonating cords and grenade explosions were done by tossing drill bombs. There were several observers who observed the demining actions of the soldiers while waving flags to determine that the minefield was basically complete.
Cleared.
In the direction of the open area, the scene is even bigger... First, a platoon of engineers is in front to detect whether there are mines in the open area... But there are generally no mines here, so the Red Army armored forces are still waiting to use this open area to penetrate. If
Aren't you going to cause trouble for yourself by laying down your weapons here?
Then the three infantry platoons, with the cooperation of the engineers, began to mine... This mine was a Type 72 anti-tank mine. It had an iron shell or a plastic shell. The plastic shell was naturally to prevent it from being detected by metal detectors. And this mine
Or secondly... Because we know that engineers use detonating cords as an explosive shock wave demining method, this Type 72 anti-tank mine is designed to be equipped with a multiple-pressure fuze...
The so-called repeated detonation of the fuze means that it will not explode once it is detonated with a detonating cord or shell shock wave...it must be detonated again. If a tank presses it, it means that the first road wheel does not press it.
It detonated, and there was a "boom" when the second one pressed on it...it exploded right in the middle!
Its disadvantage is that it can only be mined manually...anti-tank mines that can be launched quickly and frequently by mine-laying vehicles were only available after 1981, but this shortcoming is not a big problem for us.
First of all, the landmines are light... each one only weighs about 13 kilograms. Each of the three platoons of infantrymen carries three or four mines, which is 40 to 50 kilograms. In addition, these infantrymen have undergone minelaying training... so in the engineering corps
With his command and cooperation, it only took more than ten minutes to bury these four to five hundred landmines.
Of course, these mines are drill mines, the kind that only emit smoke when pressed.
This would put the Red Army in trouble... Hundreds of landmines, and they were double-fired anti-tank mines, were buried in one go. If the Red Army armored forces wanted to pass, they would have to use artillery shells to blow them up several times.