There was some trouble in the end when attacking Highland 518.6. The reason was that about two platoons of Vietnamese troops retreated to the top of the mountain.
The position on the top of the mountain is the same as when we fought against the Japanese... This position is like a blade. Not only is it small in area, but the shells can't be hit even if they are fired higher or lower. If that doesn't work, they can be slightly tilted in the opposite direction.
As soon as the direction was withdrawn...the tank guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and other direct firepower on the positive slope were all ineffective.
Therefore, for a highland, the most suitable position for defense is the hilltop position.
We had already considered this in advance, so when we started fighting, we used mortars and incendiary bombs to create a fire belt near the position on the top of the mountain. The purpose was to prevent the Vietnamese army from retreating to the position on the top of the mountain to occupy dangerous ground.
But what is helpless is that the number of mortars in our army is too small. There are only 17 mortars in total. This is the result of the reinforcement of five mortars from the military headquarters.
Seventeen mortars are a lot, but while coordinating with the infantry to bombard the Vietnamese strongholds, they also have to blast a wall of fire in front of the mountaintop position to block the retreat of the Vietnamese troops. In addition, it is still a bit powerless...
It was dark night, and the Vietnamese army was familiar with the terrain. It was not difficult to reach the top position...
Of course, there is a more important reason for this: even the militiamen of the Gong'an Village of the Vietnamese Army also grew up in the war and have certain combat experience and military quality... If this battle is left to an ordinary militia, and
Still, when the regiment command was lost and the firepower gap between the enemy and ourselves was so huge, I feared it would have collapsed long ago.
However, not only did the militia of the Vietnamese Army's Public Security Station not collapse, but they were able to organize the stragglers who had been beaten to pieces by our army and pull them to the top of the mountain to resist.
This surprised me a bit... Actually, I can't say it was an accident, because I have had several experiences fighting against the militiamen of the Vietnamese Army's Public Security Village in previous battles, and I know that their combat effectiveness is actually no worse than that of our regular army.
Some even surpass our army... Our regular army is not training, but farming, which is actually the level of the militia.
The only shortcoming of the Vietnamese militia compared to the regular army is that their weapons are not unified... This is definitely a flaw. The main reason is that Vietnam's weapons and equipment are too complicated, including American equipment, Soviet equipment, and even leftovers from World War II.
The Japanese equipment that came down
and French equipment... And because the advanced weapons of the Vietnamese army are given priority to the regular army, the weapons in the Gongan Tun can only be picked up from the tatters replaced by the regular army... This leads to the weapons in the Gongan Tun being of all kinds. This is
It affects its combat effectiveness to a certain extent.
So I never underestimated this police force from the beginning, but I still didn't expect that they could quickly organize a defense under such circumstances.
Later I found out... This is not actually the credit of Gong'an Tun, but the Fifth Infantry Regiment. In order to allow the militia of Gong'an Tun to better cooperate with the defense of other Vietnamese troops in the Banwang area, ten soldiers from the Fifth Infantry Regiment were transferred from the Fifth Infantry Regiment.
Several veterans serve as the backbone of these two militia companies... In other words, it is not the militia that plays the commanding role on Highland 518.6 now, but those backbones.
So trouble arose... Our army's direct firepower quickly lost its effect, and the role of artillery became very limited... This artillery includes long-range artillery and mortars. Although long-range artillery can hit the other side... but
The Vietnamese army is on a mountaintop position at the edge of the knife. Once the long-range artillery fires high, it will cross the 518.6 heights and hit our own people.
Mortars... Although there is no problem with long-range artillery, the problem is that the area of the mountaintop position is too small. If you fire a batch of artillery shells up there, not one of them will land on the mountaintop position. Moreover, our ammunition supply is also very limited. Next,
There may also be other battles to face, so this is definitely not something we can afford.
"Battal Commander!" Scar took the initiative to ask for help at this time: "Let us join the second company!"
It is true that only the Second Company is more suitable for this task... The First Company has no experience at all in mountainous assaults, but the Second Company has had many encounters with regular Vietnamese troops, including even the 316a Division of the Vietnamese Army.
So I answered into the phone without thinking too much: "Be prepared! I will command other troops to cooperate with you!"
"Yes!" Scar's simple response came from the other side of the phone.
All the troops were quickly prepared under my control, and the attack began soon after I gave the order.
But this attack was not like usual. It started with a burst of artillery fire preparations, and then the infantry charged at the target under the cover of fire... I knew that these things did not pose a big threat to the Vietnamese army on the top of the mountain, so of course I would not waste time like this.
Cannonball.
Mortars were still fired, but what they fired were smoke grenades, and these smoke grenades were still fired in our army's positions. There were also a few near the Vietnamese army's mountaintop positions, but the number was not large.
As a result, layers of white smoke like thick fog soon appeared from our military position.
This makes the Vietnamese army a little strange... This is at night. When the smoke bombs are fired, you can't see anything and become blind? How can you charge if you are blind?
But soon the Japanese soldiers stationed on the top of the mountain understood what was going on, because the next mortars fired more than a dozen illumination bombs... These illumination bombs hit the top of the mountain at almost the same time.
The strong light instantly stimulated the Japanese Japs so much that they couldn't open their eyes... But Scar's troops had already
Being prepared, they took this moment to shoot rows of bullets at the Vietnamese army and launched a charge... What made the Vietnamese army even more helpless was that when they raised their guns to attack the Chinese [***] team
During the shooting, I discovered that due to the interaction between the illumination bombs and the smoke bombs, it had actually become a situation where the Vietnamese army was in the light and the People's Liberation Army was in the dark.
At the same time, the first company troops who were responsible for the cover mission also hid in the smoke and fired anti-tank missiles one after another towards the Vietnamese army positions... Anti-tank missiles can be controlled after all, so although they can deal with moving targets, they are still
Although there is more ambition than strength, the accuracy rate against stationary targets is still quite high, so it is just right to use it to attack the mountaintop position.
What's more, the target of these anti-tank missiles is not the Vietnamese army... It seems a bit wasteful to use missiles to kill infantry. Their targets are the fortifications set up by the Vietnamese army on the top of the mountain, such as machine gun positions piled with sandbags.
For example, a tree stump used as a bunker, or a boulder on the top of a mountain...
Especially the boulders located on the top of the mountain... these things are very difficult to blow up if they are blown up by artillery, but they are a very obvious target for anti-tank missiles.
In fact, these boulders are not very important military bunkers. The reason for using anti-tank missiles to hit them... is that once the anti-tank missile hits those boulders, it means that the explosion will set off a large amount of debris flying everywhere, shooting indiscriminately.
stone……
This anti-tank missile can penetrate 150mm of tank armor, so when this anti-tank missile hits the Vietnamese army's position, it will be a mess... Needless to say, the defenses made of sandbags will be hit by that missile.
It was so messy that the tree stumps were completely destroyed as soon as they were blown up by this thing. The most powerful thing was the shrapnel exploded by the boulder... Originally, the Japanese were expecting to kill them.
It was used as a bunker, but we didn't expect it to be used as a shrapnel generator to hit it. Moreover, because the boulder is not small in size, it was not finished after hitting it with a few rounds. The Japanese were unable to move it for a while, so we had to
They helplessly endured pieces of debris flying above their heads... They must have regretted it as they screamed in agony, why they didn't know to move this thing away first.
Then the soldiers of the second company charged again... and soon they rushed towards the hilltop position under the cover of anti-tank missiles, smoke, and bullets... By the way, the Vietnamese army's bunker in our direction was originally built temporarily.
After a while, it was bombed into a mess by anti-tank missiles. There was no way to organize effective resistance, so the soldiers quickly rushed into the grenade throwing range...
You don’t need to think too much about what happened next... After a burst of grenade explosions, the soldiers of the second company rushed to the top of the mountain and quickly beat the Vietnamese militiamen who were fighting with animals into a sieve!
Among them, there are some Vietnamese troops who react quickly... They continue to retreat to the anti-slope before our army can rush up... This approach is correct. There are also anti-slope tactics on the anti-slope, just like we also
In the past, fortifications were built on the reverse slope, which made it difficult for enemies with stronger firepower to defeat them.
But it is a pity...the highlands in this area are all gentler in the direction of Vietnam and steeper in the direction of China. If they retreat like this, they will all retreat to the direction of China, which is steeper and full of rocks...
This terrain is indeed a bit strange. If only one or two highlands are like this, it can be said to be accidental, but almost all large and small highlands in this area are like this... Later, thinking about it, this should be the power of nature...
The wind direction in this area basically blows from China to Vietnam. As the saying goes, a drop of water penetrates the stone. The wind blows like this for thousands of years, so the dust on the side of the highland facing China is either weathered or destroyed.
It blew away, leaving only piles of bare rocks.
So now the Vietnamese army tasted the pain of our army's attack... The soldiers did not rush down, but just threw grenades, explosive packs, and blasting tubes down... with a burst of "boom"
There was a loud noise, and there was a sea of flying sand and rocks below... The Vietnamese troops who retreated to the reverse slope were either dead or disabled.
Only then did Highland 518.6 fall into the hands of our army, which means we finally grabbed a foothold! (To be continued.)