The flight distance from our base to the target is about 40 minutes... This does not mean that Bahtong is far from the Sino-Vietnam border. In fact, the straight-line distance from Bahtong to the Sino-Vietnam border is only a few kilometers.
The reason why it takes us forty minutes to fly to our destination... is because it is not easy to find a large and safe airport in a place like the front line. On the other hand... if the airport we find is too far away from Badong
If you get too close, it is very likely that the Vietnamese army in Batong will pay attention and prepare in advance and even send agents to cause chaos at the airport...
So we chose a location that is a full 40 kilometers away from Badong in a straight line... The cruising speed of Zhiwu Kai is 170 kilometers per hour, but because we are flying at night, the speed will be much slower.
No matter how hard the Yue Japs tried, they would never have imagined that the threat to Ba Dong was dozens of kilometers away!
In this way... we set off at four o'clock and arrive at our destination at 4:40... It is initially estimated that the task can be completed within twenty minutes... Speaking of a battle like this, if the task cannot be completed within twenty minutes, only
I'm afraid that we will never be able to complete the mission... because at that time reinforcements from the Vietnamese army will continue to arrive from all directions. In other words... if everything goes well, then we will be able to evacuate Bakong before dawn
!
Of course, I hope to leave Ba Dong with two living correspondents.
"Battal Commander!" Zheng Liangqiang reported to me through the walkie-talkie 40 minutes later: "We have successfully reached the target location!"
"Are you sure you read that correctly?" I asked.
Since we are in the cabin, our sightline is much worse than that of the pilot flying at the nose of the aircraft, so this matter can only be determined by Zheng Liangqiang.
"You're sure that's right!" Zheng Liangqiang looked at the map, then looked down at the area occasionally illuminated by our army's flares and replied: "It's the steel plant marked on the map! Because of the cover of our army's artillery fire... the Vietnamese army seemed to be there at all.
We were not found!"
"Very good!" I nodded and ordered: "Implement the first step as planned, repeat...implement the first step as planned!"
Suddenly, the artillery shells fired by our army in the direction of the Vietnamese army disappeared, and the whistling and explosion sounds of the artillery shells also disappeared... replaced by the sound of propellers in the sky.
Before the Vietnamese army could react, our helicopter group swooped down towards the steel plant...
The first ones fired were a few rounds of illumination bombs...the illumination bombs were fired from top to bottom, because their height was lower than the height of the helicopter, and the helicopter quickly flew away from the "scene", so the illumination bombs immediately destroyed the people below.
The steel factory was brightly lit, but the helicopter quickly lost its shadow in the sky!
Then a series of rockets were fired "chirp, chirp, chirp"...
The purpose of these rockets is to create some chaos and hit the effective forces of the Vietnamese army as much as possible... The Vietnamese army are also human beings. They also know that sleeping in trenches is uncomfortable at night and they will choose tents, especially the straight line between Banan and the China-Vietnam border.
There are still a few kilometers to go... This distance seems very short, but in fact it is
At that time, the Sino-Vietnamese border was already in a stalemate. Sometimes, not only the straight-line distance, but also the few hundred meters on the road were snatched away, so the few kilometers of the straight-line distance... were still the rear for the Vietnamese army. If not
Because they have to wait for our scouts to "fly into flames", the Vietnamese agents can just sit back and relax!
The targets of these rockets are those tents... Although the accuracy of the rockets is not high, their instantaneous strike capability is quite amazing. As we can see now, more than ten helicopters launched towards the Vietnamese tent area almost at the same time.
Hundreds of rockets... only blew up those tents and immediately turned them into a sea of flames. Many Vietnamese were blown up into a ball of charred flesh before they even figured out what was going on!
Then gunfire rang out soon... It was our helicopter using the anti-aircraft machine gun under the nose to shoot at the Vietnamese army's machine gun fort... We were targeting the simple machine gun fort built with sandbags...
The reason why we specifically target this kind of machine gun fort... is because only this kind of machine gun fort can pose a threat to us!
This is completely opposite to the infantry... For the infantry, the biggest threat to them is the kind of cement fortifications, or the solid fortifications semi-hidden underground, and these are built with sandbags... Just use
A few mortar shots will solve the problem!
But as for our helicopters...those bunkers and cement fortifications...we can't attack them even if we want to. The fortifications are too thick, aren't they? In fact, there is no need to attack...because these kind of fortifications are basically capped.
Considering that the bunker is strong and difficult to be destroyed...so the machine guns hidden inside cannot be seen and can't hit us flying things in the sky...it's capped!
On the contrary, it is those simple uncapped machine gun forts... Whether it is heavy machine guns, light machine guns or anti-aircraft machine guns, they will pose a certain threat to our Z-5 modifications, especially the anti-aircraft machine guns, which have strong bullet penetration and high density.
...It is a target that we must destroy in advance, otherwise it will most likely mean that we will lose a helicopter and the soldiers inside will also be buried with it!
So this is the time to test the pilots' marksmanship... Fortunately, these pilots' usual training is not fake. Although the aiming system of the Z-5 modification is very rough, they only need to slow down a bit... There is no way
Well, if the speed is too fast, there won't be much accuracy in aiming in this dark night, although this will increase the risk of the helicopter being hit.
Then there was a row of bullets that went "wow-wow-wow"... The Z-5 was equipped with an anti-aircraft machine gun. Needless to say, the power of this anti-aircraft machine gun to hit people, and it also fired from top to bottom... one shuttle went down twice.
They beat the Vietnamese troops in the machine gun fort to a pulp!
Almost at the same time... when the Vietnamese army was beaten by the firepower of our helicopters and couldn't find the north, the helicopters responsible for minelaying launched their operations. Their mission could be said to be easy... they only needed to fly along the predetermined route.
, and then threw the mines downwards while flying.
After a while I heard the report: "The minework is complete!"
"Execute the second step as planned!" I ordered without thinking.
The second step is undoubtedly the rappelling...it is also the most critical moment, because whether this step goes smoothly...will almost determine the final outcome of our mission!
The soldiers didn't think too much, and immediately put down the ropes one after another and jumped down... (To be continued.)