Later I realized that the situation of the six platoons in the first battalion was much worse than I thought.
You should know that they are scouts who go deep into the jungle to fight, and they don’t carry much food and ammunition... We all have a deep understanding of this when we join the army. Every time we need to marching urgently, we have to consider a problem carefully: Yes
Bring more ammunition or more food.
This kind of choice is undoubtedly very painful. If you bring more ammunition, you may be hungry. If you bring more food, it means that you may not face the enemy without bullets. A person's ability to bear weight is so great, let alone go deep into the jungle
You can't bring too much in combat, otherwise it will affect the speed of the marching.
The platoons of the first battalion were facing this kind of ammunition and food exhaustion. The most serious thing was that the Vietnamese army deliberately trapped them in a place without water... It can be tolerated without food, and without water, it is a kind of body.
Double torture and mental torture.
So the soldiers who were trapped between these two high grounds for a few days were already digging grass roots and eating tree bark. They were hungry and thirsty and had little ammunition left. If the Vietnamese army hadn't thought they were valuable, they would have been afraid that they would have been at all.
I won't live now.
In this state, even if they saw us occupying the main peak, they could only "look at the peak and sigh"... They did not have enough ammunition to break through, and even if they had enough ammunition, they did not have the strength to break through, so they chose to remain silent.
Their original intention of choosing silence was good, because they saw through the intention of the Vietnamese Japanese, that is, to surround them and use them as bait to attract more soldiers to rescue, so that more and more comrades will fall into it.
They have the same situation.
They didn't want to do this, so even if they just climbed up the tree and fired a few flares and could tell their comrades where they were, they decided not to do so after discussions by the cadres.
When I learned this afterwards, I couldn't help but feel a little dizzy. The spirit of self-sacrifice by the soldiers of this era is really beyond words, but they are unwilling to think about it. If their six platoons were completely wiped out by the Vietnamese army,
Even if we can finally win the battle, it can only be said to be a miserable victory.
So we were very embarrassed now. We originally planned to have these six platoons as our reserve troops. After all, we are preparing for a "protracted war"...
The so-called "protracted war" means that we have to occupy the main peak for a long time, and its meaning is to make it difficult for the Vietnamese army to supply. At the same time, the 703rd Regiment attacked eight positions at the front of the main peak on the front.
It is not difficult to imagine that this is a war that can see who can survive to the end: see if our main peak synthesizer can persist to the end, or the Vietnamese army can persist to the end.
I'm not sure about this, the only thing I can be sure of is that this battle won't end so soon.
This is also the reason why we have to transport a large number of strategic materials to the main peak from the beginning. If we don’t have these materials, we are afraid that we can’t hold on for two days without the main peak of water source.
Because this is a "protracted war" and it is a "protracted war" that we don't know how long it will take, so we need more troops to defend. This is to be able to replace each other and rest, otherwise on this mountain
Even the iron-killed war was fought for several days and nights, and even those who were fighting could not stand it, not to mention that the soldiers of our synthesis camp were also flesh and blood.
Simply put, these six platoons of the first battalion are very important to us.
However, now, we don’t even know their specific location. We only know that they are between the two high grounds, No. 27 and the main peak, but there is a wide jungle between these two high grounds. Although we can see it in a telescope
There was some movement, but it was impossible to determine whether it was a Vietnamese army or a friendly army.
"We can only be sure of one thing!" Zhao Jingping said: "That is, these soldiers from the first battalion are still surrounded by the Vietnamese army, because according to our observations during this period, a few gunshots will be fired from time to time in the jungle, occasionally,
There is also the explosion of grenades.”
I didn't talk to the cadres around me, because if I didn't consider the friendship between comrades and just consider it from a military perspective, this message could not even be considered good news.
The reason is very simple. It means more trouble to determine that the first battalion's soldiers are still alive and do not know their location.
"What's going on with this first battalion?" Scar was so angry that he cursed: "The battles at the main peak have all turned out to be like this, both guns and cannons. Didn't they see it at all? Even if the radio station was broken by the enemy?
Then, send a signal with a signal flag or fire a signal flare, but they didn’t have anything!"
"Maybe one battalion has its own difficulties!" Zhao Jingping sighed and said, "For example, the result of their doing so is likely to tell us the location while allowing the Vietnamese army to know their location. For example...
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Zhao Jingping said and disappeared as he said it, because he was actually very clear. The first battalion was surrounded, so how could the Vietnamese army not know their location?
"It's useless to guess here!" Li Zuolong said: "The important thing is how to fight this battle and how to save this battalion to this main peak!"
"How else can I fight?" Scar responded angrily: "I don't even know their location, but I'll just spank you, and I'll drag it like this. There are more and more Japanese around me, and I'll be afraid that we will be afraid of it when the time comes.
If you are determined, you will not have the chance to save them again!"
Although Scar's words were not very impressive, I knew what he was right. The Vietnamese army has been at an absolute disadvantage until now, and one of the reasons is that they are not prepared.
You should know that this main peak is more than 1,700 meters high. It takes five or six hours to climb this main peak from the bottom of the mountain. In other words, the reinforcements of the Vietnamese army will not arrive in at least five or six hours...
Who made them not want to make a storm without helicopters? If the Soviets were willing to generously support them with a few Mi17 or Mi24, it would be different.
So this seems to limit us a time, that is, we must rescue the six platoons of the first battalion before the Vietnamese reinforcements arrived, otherwise our two troops would never be able to join forces.
"The most important thing at the moment is to find the location of the first battalion!" I said.
"But... how to find it?" Zhao Jingping asked resolutely.
At this moment, many methods have turned around in my mind, such as using helicopters, or sending reconnaissance troops... but they were quickly overthrown by me one by one.
Helicopters are good for combat, but they have no advantage in finding people in such deep grass and dense forests. Moreover, the forest is full of dangers. It is possible to fire a rocket or a rocket at any time in the corner where the pilot is not paying attention to.
A string of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets.
As for sending reconnaissance troops, the quality of the agent company's soldiers has indeed passed, but the problem is that at this time, the Vietnamese army is lurking everywhere. Even if the agent company has the ability to track, lurk and fight in various jungle, send a force over here.
I'm afraid it's also a muddy bull.
Just when everyone was frowning, I suddenly thought of a possibility...
"The Vietnamese Japanese besieged the six platoons of the first battalion... to let others rescue them, right?"
"Of course!" Zhao Jingping looked at me for some reason and said, "It's all about to attack the support, everyone knows!"
"Then..." I continued: "What would you say if the Vietnamese army knew that we had lost contact with this force and wanted to rescue but could not carry out the rescue?"
"Oh!" Zhao Jingping was stunned when he heard this, and then nodded and said, "The Vietnamese army is likely to indicate the location of the first battalion for us!"
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. After a long time, Li Zuolong looked at me skeptically and said, "The battalion commander means... let the Yue Japanese tell us? How can there be such a good thing!"
"Maybe it can be done!" Scar nodded and said, "But the problem is... it's best not to do this by us, otherwise our strategic intentions will be exposed!"
From this sentence, we can also see that this scar is still a little smart, because this is exactly what I thought of... If the Yue Japanese know that we want to find a battalion and save them to the main peak, the Yue Japanese only needs cloth
It's enough to wait for a battalion.
"Yeah!" I nodded: "So, this matter must be done by the comrades of the 703rd Regiment! In particular, we have another unit pretending to go to rescue the First Battalion, which is the team of Deputy Battalion Commander Chen."
Zhao Jingping agreed: "Although there are many uncertainties in this, there is no better way now, so it's okay to try a dead horse as a living horse!"
So the plan was decided. As Zhao Jingping said, even if this plan failed, it would not cost us much, so we would not have any pressure to do it.
The method is also very simple. In fact, it is to send a telegram to Captain Shen, causing him to send out such a message: Chinese soldiers occupy the main peak and play the same trick. On the surface, they want to capture the main peak and defend the entire Kuolin Mountain.
It poses a threat, but actually wants to rescue the six trapped ones.
However, problems arise in Chinese soldiers during rescue. The rescue troops lost the position of six platoons of the first battalion, making the rescue plan unable to be implemented. In desperation, the Chinese army had to make plans to retract the rescue troops.
This move can be said to be a kill of two birds with one stone. It not only makes the Vietnamese army tell us the location of the first battalion, but also makes them believe that our army's occupation of the main peak is not the real strategic purpose.
Of course, the Vietnamese army may not be fooled, after all, the strategic value of the main peak is also extraordinary.
But I believe that the Vietnamese army is entirely likely to believe that the Chinese soldiers would want to take the opportunity to rescue the six rows at this time, that is, when all the Vietnamese army's eyes were staring at the main peak.
In fact, this is also the fact. The difference is that we do not intend to "rescue" those six rows, but "rescue in".