Of course, we have also taken this into consideration.
The method is to place time bombs on the supporting points of surrounding buildings...
The time bomb was planted by the last group of soldiers to evacuate the building. The detonation time was only one minute... During this minute, these soldiers had to quickly run out of the building and grab the rope ladder lowered by the helicopter that had climbed up.
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The reason for doing this is because the collapsed building is likely to stir up some broken bricks and rubble, which will pose a threat to the helicopter... Therefore, the helicopter must climb high in advance and make a precise departure.
As soon as the soldiers climbed up the rope ladder...the helicopter roared away from the "crime scene".
But at this time...the Vietnamese troops who were unwilling to fail rushed in in large numbers and fired randomly at the dark sky with their guns...It was a pity that they could not cause much damage to our helicopters at this time.
What's more important is...their shooting didn't take long...
Because the next moment, there were bursts of roars in each building, and then the tall buildings we had fought with collapsed in the astonished eyes of the Vietnamese army!
We were already on the helicopter at this time... Of course we couldn't see how many Vietnamese soldiers were crushed to death or injured by the collapsed buildings. We only knew that the steel plant at this time was already in a mess, with cries and shouts.
, there were all kinds of curses... the bullets hitting us suddenly disappeared!
A few minutes later, the helicopter flew into our defense area... Our retreat route was different from the attack route, and even the direction was different.
This is necessary... in order to prevent the Vietnamese army from setting up traps with anti-aircraft fire on our return route. In addition, we still have wounded people who need to be treated in time... so the retreat point is an open space in Badong County.
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Of course, this open space had been detected by artillery observers in advance... It was an open space that belonged to the blind spot of the Vietnamese army's artillery fire.
In fact, this does not require artillery observer detection at all... The war has been going on now, where the Vietnamese artillery fire can be reached and where it cannot be reached... Even the local people know it clearly. This battle has been going on for two years...
...Anywhere that can be hit will be hit by a few shells!
When we landed in this open space... many medical staff immediately came up with stretchers and picked up the wounded from our army from the helicopter, including of course the two correspondents!
"Battle Commander Yang!" Staff Officer Zhang walked up to me and saluted me uprightly: "Thank you for saving our comrades... What I said before..."
"Commander Zhang!" I replied coldly: "I am not here to save your comrades... In fact, your comrades are comrades, and my comrades are also comrades. It is impossible for me to sacrifice my life to save your comrades.
My comrades! The reason why I do this is very simple, just because of the orders from my superiors. I am completing the mission... If there is any possibility... I mean that I can complete the mission without sacrificing my comrades.
I will do it without hesitation, including killing the two correspondents! So... you don’t need to thank me!"
Staff Officer Zhang did not expect me to answer like this. He was stunned on the spot and didn't know what to say.
At this time, I didn't care what he was thinking...all I could think about was those brothers who died on the battlefield, and the soldiers lying on stretchers one by one!
The casualties were quickly tallied... A total of eight soldiers were sacrificed and five were injured...
The number of people who died was greater than the number of people who were injured. From this we can see how brave the soldiers fought.
On the other hand... with only thirteen casualties... the Vietnamese agents suffered heavy casualties and even rescued two correspondents, which is enough for other troops to be proud of...
Later I learned that this was far more than just pride. The soldiers of the 337th Regiment and even the 126th Division couldn't believe that we could achieve such results... You must know that they used the most elite scouts to repeatedly attack the steel plant.
But not only did it achieve nothing, but it suffered huge casualties.
But we... were able to complete a mission they thought was impossible with only thirteen casualties in twenty minutes with a strengthened company. We even inflicted hundreds of insurgents while completing the mission.
The casualties of military agents...
As for the number of casualties among Vietnamese army agents, I only found out after the fact... We have deployed a lot of informants in the Vietnamese army. Of course, the Vietnamese government will not act as usual in response to this battle that has greatly embarrassed the Vietnamese military.
It’s public. But our army’s informants inside Vietnam can still judge from the car carrying the corpses that at least more than a hundred people were killed in Vietnam this time...
At first, I couldn't believe that we had killed so many people. Then there was only one agent company in the steel plant, right? In other words...we had killed all of them, and there were only more than a hundred people!
When I think about it later, I understand the reason... When we retreated, we seemed to feel that the fighting atmosphere in the steel plant was a little different. The Vietnamese army was pressing on us from all directions... In other words, it was very likely that it was
When reinforcements from various highlands of the Vietnamese army arrived to support.
On the other hand...the Vietnamese army was afraid that we would just fly away in a helicopter...so they launched a group charge, but they didn't expect that we were still behind...there were so many people in the Vietnamese army rushing in.
, and four high-rise buildings were blown down by our army at this time, so it is not surprising that the number of casualties has skyrocketed!
Later, I even received reliable intelligence... saying that we destroyed the headquarters of the Vietnamese army's secret service battalion in this battle, and killed all the battalion commanders, staff officers, etc. in one go...
This surprised me even more... They actually destroyed the Vietnamese army's battalion headquarters and killed so many high officials. Why didn't I get any news?
After thinking about it... I felt that the battle that destroyed the Vietnamese spy battalion headquarters could only have happened in the underground building of the office building. When I asked the two commanders Sahaide and Liang Lianbing... they were also confused.
It took a long time for Liang Company soldiers to remember, and he patted his head and said: "Oh... we did blow up a radio station. At that time, I thought they were a group of communication soldiers... The time was too tight and I didn't have time to go there one by one.
After reading through it, plus being anxious to find our army’s correspondent... I didn’t take this seriously!”
These are some unexpected gains...
It's just... these gains seem to be meaningless to me, because no matter how many people the Vietnamese army died or injured, they can't make up for the casualties of our army... To us small soldiers, these are just numbers.
That's all.
However, we soldiers must accept all this...accept the reality that our comrades will leave us at any time, because this...is war! (To be continued...)