Afterwards, the soldiers around me were wondering one thing: why did the commander of the Vietnamese army tell us about notifying the artillery at the last moment...
You should know that the commander of the Yue Legion is indeed amazing... They seem to be trying to surrender, but in fact, they have notified the coordinates of the remote artillery behind them based on their familiarity with the terrain. Then they waited for us to be "the commander" by him
When this title is attracted... it is when long-range artillery fire blows us away!
Of course, because he needed time to "attract" us, he made an appointment with the artillery in advance and then implemented artillery fire coverage after a few minutes.
I admit that I did not expect this... And if things develop like this, it is very likely that at this last moment, many of us will be bombed into the sky with the commander of the Yue Army. After all, there are goals and targeted people.
The artillery fire cover is not a joke, just like we fired air bombs at the Vietnamese army...
But I was not surprised that the commander of the Vietnamese Army would notify us of this matter... although this matter is indeed worth it.
There is a saying that "When a person is about to die, his words are good", but this sentence does not apply to the battlefield... There have been too many cases on the battlefield before he dies, and he still has to pull a few enemies to take the blame.
After all, they have more hatred, hatred, and anger between them, so they hope that their own death can bring pain to the enemy, and the heavier it is, the better!
But not everyone is like this... For example, this Yue Legion Commander!
At that moment, I felt that I fully understood his feelings... The outcome of this battle was decided, it was like playing a chess game. The winning or losing of a chess game has nothing to do with the number of pieces being eaten. Just like this
No matter how many people die in a battle, it will not change the situation.
I believe that the commander of the Yue Legion looked at this battle with a chess mentality, so he was not influenced by anger and was not blinded by hatred, so he could command and command on the battlefield from the perspective of a third party and
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This is a mentality, a bit extraordinary... I admit that I can't do this. But I believe that if all the commanders of the Vietnamese army are like him... it would not be my blessing.
But... the reality is that the commander of the Vietnamese army is also a member of the Vietnamese army, and he is bleeding from Vietnamese, so he cannot leave the battlefield with us...
I could tell this from his eyes, so I didn't persuade him anymore. I knew very well that all the persuasion was futile at this time.
Before the soldiers and I drove the armored vehicles, we heard the roar of artillery shells coming from the sky. First, several shells exploded nearby, and soon there was a large area... In the flames of the shells, I saw
The commander of the Yue Legion was almost facing the shells that were hitting him, waiting for the arrival of artillery fire very calmly as if he was thrown into his mother's arms...
I don't know how much courage it takes to die calmly like him, but I know it is worthy of admiration, although strictly speaking, he is our enemy.
At that moment, I could hardly believe that I had defeated him on the battlefield.
This Vietnamese commander had a great influence on me, so when we returned to the 518.6 Highlands again, my mind was always flashing his last scene in the artillery fire.
The 518.6 Heights were already cheering at this time. As the saying goes, stand high and see far. On the high ground, they certainly knew the progress of the entire battle. When they saw us coming back, they drove back to the valley in armored vehicles.
They all waved their hands to pay tribute to us, and Yang Jie and other engineers also came out to greet us, and the entire high ground was boiling.
However, the cheers of the soldiers were conservative. The soldiers on the high ground waved on the edge of the trench, and Yang Jie and other engineers only walked to the entrance of the valley...
This is of course correct, because the battle is not over yet... We said during training that unless the battle is over, don't relax your vigilance at any time.
From this point of view, our previous training was quite effective.
However, this time our concern seemed to be redundant, because the Vietnamese army obviously had no ability to launch another attack at this time. To be precise, it should be impossible to organize another attack before the collapse of Banwang's Vietnamese army.
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Infantry... Our army has powerful artillery fire to block it. To be clear, as long as our army has shells, no matter how many Vietnamese infantry comes up, it will be useless, not to mention that our synthetic battalion has tanks.
Artillery and Vietnamese artillery have lost a lot in the previous artillery battles, not to mention that even if there are artillery... the shells are almost blown up, and there is not much to be done if you want to.
Not to mention the armored troops... The Vietnamese army's tanks and armored vehicles have suffered heavy losses in Tongmian and the melee just now. There are not many tanks in the Vietnamese army, so this can be said to be due to their armored troops still being used.
The charge of American tanks can be seen, so of course it is impossible to organize another armored force with offensive capabilities for a while.
As the saying goes, "A clever woman can't cook without rice." Even if the Vietnamese army has any strategy, they will suffer from the lack of troops or shells available and they are powerless.
In addition, the two regiments in the direction of our army were intensifying their attacks on the Vietnamese Highlands 481 and 544. At this time, it should be said that the Vietnamese army's ammunition has not been exhausted, but the news of the complete annihilation of the armored troops in the rear was very fast.
It will be transmitted to the front line... To be precise, the Vietnamese army saw it. After all, this battle can be said to be related to their life and death, so the Vietnamese army was also staring at this side on the high ground, or using various means to the
I heard the news at once.
So... they knew that there was no hope for getting back the 518.6 Highland. Once this hope was destroyed, it was equivalent to Sakawang's loss, and then the morale of the entire army soon collapsed.
Morale is like this, especially for a unit, once morale is low, it will be like a person who has lost his goal or lost his soul, and even if he does what he is good at, he will always make mistakes.
The Vietnamese army in the Banwang area is in this state... Although they are the ace troops, although they are all veterans who come out of the battle, they lack ammunition and cannot see the hope of victory, so they quickly persisted.
If you can't go down, you will start to retreat.
However, after all, the 320th Division is the 320th Division, and even in this case, there was no chaos...
Later, what I learned from Commander Huang was that... a platoon was left on both high grounds of the Vietnamese army, and the Vietnamese army left most of the ammunition to this platoon. Their task was to hold on to the position until the large army retreated!
This is actually what we call the "death mission"... As the name suggests, it is that when you receive such a task, you basically have the result of "death".
Of course, I usually don’t say this when I say it, but “stay until the large army retreats safely” and even give some comfort, such as “I will use artillery fire to cover your retreat” and so on… But just imagine, this one
The platoon has to face the enemy of a regiment, and it still has to hold on for a while... When the large army withdrew safely, the platoon was surrounded by the platoon.
The battle situation developed exactly as I imagined... The two platoons of infantry in the Vietnamese army were not spared in the end, but I heard that they fought tenaciously and had no bullets until the end. They were still erecting bayonets at our army.
The defense line is also a waste of even the "glorious bomb"...
The "glorious bullet" here refers to the grenade used for suicide. It is available in both China and Vietnam, especially the female soldiers who want to go to the battlefield in China. Often, when the battle starts, the superiors will first shine glory bullets for the female soldiers...
...This does not mean that China is inhumane, but should be viewed from the other way around... Once Chinese female soldiers are captured by the Vietnamese army, they will be abused inhumanely, so the first thing to shine glory on them is precisely because of humanity.
This thing is often tied to the body with a rope and tied tightly. In this way, the enemy cannot take it away even if they want to. When they want to commit suicide, they just need to pull the string... and they can even rush into the enemy crowd and die together.
It's simple, convenient and fast...
But the Japanese were even more powerful. They cut off the glorious bullet when they had no ammunition... and then when they committed suicide, four or five people gathered together and pulled a glorious bullet in the middle!
I dare not imagine that kind of tragic scene... What is the most tragic thing in this world? The most tragic thing is that you have to plan to die even if you die, and you can save your death!
Compared with these, what can the joys and sorrows in the peaceful world be counted?!!
However, the sacrifices of these two platoons of the Vietnamese army are also valuable because they use the advantages of the terrain to drag the forces of our two regiments tightly, so that our army has no extra force to pursue the retreating troops of the Vietnamese army.
If you really want to say that there are any troops that can pursue or encircle the Vietnamese troops... it should belong to our synthetic battalion, but considering that the 518.6 highland is related to the victory or defeat of the entire battle, it can even be said that once you lose this
The results of the battle in the highlands may also change, so after thinking about it, Commander Huang still did not ask us to intercept the withdrawal of the Vietnamese army.
So we could only watch the Vietnamese army retreated from Banwang under the cover of night, and all our army could do was to use artillery to bomb the possible retreat route of the Vietnamese army...
But this doesn't seem to be a bad thing, because our strategic goal has been achieved... Banwang has been recovered by our army, and the sign of the 320th Division's ace unit has also been smashed into our hands. So many people have been killed... It's just that there are fewer people.
Just a few lives will not have any impact on the entire battlefield situation.
Those who have an impact are those who were originally going to die, injured and their families.