In less than ten minutes, Tongmian Commune was in ruins... It was obvious that tanks played a very important role in this battle.
If you don't bring a tank and just use infantry to charge Tongmian... even if a few more infantry companies launch a siege against Tongmian at the same time, it is very likely to develop into a street fight in this dark night. In that case, it will be troublesome. Time is delayed a little here, time is delayed a little there... And the headquarters of the Vietnamese Army's 5th Infantry Regiment is very likely to break out in the dark and escape...
But now... the tank pushed forward and easily flattened Tongmian. The headquarters of the Vietnamese Army's 5th Infantry Regiment was buried under the ruins of Tongmian without even having time to escape.
The only thing that makes me feel a little regretful is that... I didn't even have a chance to meet the commander of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Vietnamese Army. You know, I'm just a battalion commander. How can I take over the entire Vietnamese Army in just this moment? It’s a great feeling to have it served, but it just got buried inside like this. It’s hard to show off one’s prestige!
It is certainly good for us that the Vietnamese regiment headquarters was pushed away... This regiment headquarters is not like the company commander, platoon commander, or squad leader on the battlefield... If the company commander is sacrificed on the battlefield, the platoon commander can be replaced. If the platoon leader is sacrificed, Let the squad leader take over. If the squad leader sacrifices, the soldiers can take over.
These problems are not big, just like what we studied in the military academy... Anyone who has studied squad and platoon tactics can theoretically be a squad leader, and those who have studied battalion and company tactics will not have much difficulty in commanding a company. Big difficulty. Besides, all the Yue Japanese soldiers grew up on the battlefield, and many of them learned their combat experience and tactical theories in actual combat, so it is naturally not a big problem to attack them like this.
But this regiment...
First of all, it is an organization that coordinates the various troops in the Banwang area. In other words, all the highlands in the Banwang area are under its command. The telephone calls of each unit in each highland are passed to the regiment headquarters and the regiment headquarters issues orders. As soon as they were detained...the two battalions and two companies of the public security militiamen in the Banwang area undoubtedly lost contact and coordination and became a piece of scattered sand.
Secondly, the regiment headquarters is also the link between the Banwang area and the 320th Division...Without this link, the regiment headquarters is cut off, so the 320th Division doesn't know what happened in Banwang, so it doesn't know how to deal with it. , or in other words... the 320th Division has to send correspondents or reconnaissance troops to Banwang to understand the situation in Banwang. Of course, the 320th Division headquarters may cross the regiment headquarters and be stationed at high altitude. The battalion headquarters on the ground got in touch... But the problem is that the two Vietnamese battalions stationed on Highland 481 and 544 are also not sure what happened...
In short, once the regiment headquarters was hit, it was like a poisonous snake being hit seven inches. In an instant, all units would be greatly affected in terms of reaction speed, reinforcements and supplies, coordinated operations, intelligence sharing, etc. This will It will undoubtedly give us more time and more advantages.
This is actually the core of blitzkrieg...that is, concentrating armored forces. With the cooperation of the air force, quickly destroy the enemy's command center, communications and transportation, leaving the enemy in a deaf and blind situation, and then cooperate with the main force to completely destroy the enemy. Eat the scattered enemies piece by piece.
Therefore, blitzkrieg is not only about "speed" and "coordination", but more importantly, "playing it right"!
It should be said that this tactical theory is advanced, just like modern warfare... The purpose of the Yankees developing stealth fighters is to avoid enemy radar detection and penetrate deep into the enemy's defense lines to attack the enemy's command center, radar, communications and transportation.
This tactic was used by the German army during World War II. It is no wonder that it swept across Europe with one country.
Now that this tactic is used by me on the Yue Japanese, it will naturally have some effect... From the moment Tongmian Commune was captured by our army with lightning speed, Banwang's troops, and Ban
The connection and coordination between Wang and the 320th Division were greatly weakened.
Then our army did not make any stop and soon turned its target to 518.6 Highland...
This is our foundation. Although Tongmian is important to the Vietnamese army, to our army it is just a pile of ruins that cannot be defended, so this is only the first stage of the battle.
The first to start the attack was the mortar company... In fact, when our army's tank troops advanced towards Tongmian, the mortar company had already turned its attention to the 518.6 Highlands... It was just because our army did not understand the anti-slope crossing of the 518.6 Highlands.
The army's fortifications were built, so the mortar company used this time to make some preparations.
The so-called preparation is to first load a batch of incendiary bombs and illumination bombs... The transportation of ammunition requires a process of identification and handling. At this time, the transportation of our army's ammunition is completed by the engineering company. All they have to do is to remove the ammunition from the car.
It was hoisted onto the bulldozer and then transported to the position with a "boom" sound.
First, there were batch after batch of illumination bombs. More than a dozen mortars fired in turn. Before one illumination bomb went out, another one followed... At that moment, 518.6 Highland was illuminated like daylight.
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At this time, I saw a scene that satisfied me through my telescope... The fortifications on the 518.6 Highlands were not secretly constructed. There were corresponding tents, tarpaulins or wooden frames and even bamboo poles outside each firepower point.
Clothes are hanging outside... Doesn't this clearly tell us which part is guarded?
There may be two reasons for this. One is that the militiamen from Luping Public Security Tunnel are stationed here. The militiamen...of course are not as formal as the Ace Division. The other is that this 518.6 Highland is on the second line...in front.
There are 481 Highlands and 544 Highlands. Besides, if both 481 Highlands and 544 Highlands are covered by
If the Chinese ** team is captured, then the 518.6 Highlands will be besieged by the Chinese ** Team on several sides... Naturally, it will not last long. From this aspect, 518.6 Highlands is actually in the Vietnamese army's plan.
It is only used to block artillery shells, supplement the defense of the first two highlands, and cover the retreat of troops when the battle is unfavorable.
Precisely because Highland 518.6 mainly serves these functions, the garrison on the reverse slope is the militia of Gong'an Tun, so its fortifications appear so rough.
But the good thing is this... If the Vietnamese army makes this 518.6 highland full of bunkers like the previous two highlands, then we will probably have to spend a lot of effort to seize this foothold now.
But now it is much easier to do. First of all, a dozen artillery observers who had been prepared quickly used the light of illumination bombs to quickly observe various firepower points on the 518.6 highland... This is too easy for our troops.
I know that almost everyone in our army can observe the coordinates, and at this time, because the artillery positions are also
The mortar battery is right on the front line, so the observation process will be much simpler... The observation of long-range artillery fire coordinates requires high ground or iron towers with known coordinates as reference objects. Now the artillery position is at a known location, so
This step can be saved, and the distance and elevation can be calculated directly at the artillery position, and it is more accurate.
So before the round of illumination bombs was finished, the situation in the 518.6 Highlands was almost grasped, followed closely by a batch of incendiary bombs... The role of incendiary bombs is great in this jungle, especially in the dark.
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First of all, of course, it has a lethal effect. A row of incendiary bombs went up to the 518.6 Highland and soon turned into a sea of fire. The exposed Vietnamese army was of course not immune.
The second is the role of burning the cover... The jungle in Vietnam is full of grass and trees. These things were originally a good camouflage for the Vietnamese army, but when the incendiary bombs were fired... they were basically set on fire.
I can't hide even if I want to.
The most important thing is to provide lighting and guidance for tanks and infantry... The lighting effect of incendiary bombs is indeed not as good as that of illumination bombs. Illuminating bombs will not kill people. In other words, using illumination bombs will occupy the artillery establishment. From the beginning
If there is a mortar responsible for firing illumination bombs at the end, then this mortar will not play any other role except lighting.
But incendiary bombs are different. They can attack corresponding targets while lighting up... Moreover, the incendiary bombs from the mortar company are not fired randomly. They are fired after knowing the location of the Vietnamese army's stronghold. In other words, it is a tank.
It’s right to use firepower to attack where there is fire, and it’s right for infantry to attack where there is fire!
This is the coordination between artillery, infantry and tanks... So the tank guns and mortars fired at the Vietnamese army strongholds, and the anti-aircraft machine guns and the light and heavy machine guns of the covering troops followed the target, and then the infantry covered each other.
Advancing towards the firelight...
Of course, when the infantry is about to advance to the target, they will use the walkie-talkie to notify the covering troops to transfer firepower... We have practiced these things countless times during training, and we have even found several highlands with similar terrain to practice several times.
back, so this time the fight consisted of methodical bombing, fire suppression, and infantry advancement to occupy...
The Vietnamese militiamen were attacked from both sides and their firepower was far different from ours... Our army's covering firepower included tank guns, a dozen high-speed aircraft, a dozen heavy mortars, and a certain number of heavy mortars.
Light and heavy machine guns, while most of the Vietnamese militiamen still rely on AK47. The few mortars or light and heavy machine guns cannot function because they have no rear-facing fortifications, or they are hit by incendiary bombs and the shells explode.
As a result, the fire of war was like a wave from bottom to top, quickly and steadily pushing towards the top position of 518.6 Highland... Wherever the fire of war passed, there were patches of scorched earth and dead bodies! (To be continued...)