I can understand the performance of the first battalion soldiers, because I know what role their Vietnamese army played in this "encirclement point attack" operation.
We have also experienced the Vietnamese army's "encirclement and attack aid". Of course, we know that this is not just a problem of war, but a game of "cat and mouse". The Vietnamese army is a cat, our army is a mouse, and the Vietnamese army is at any time
All of us can eat our army but we will not do it intentionally. In addition, we also use a fatigue offensive, hunger offensive, etc. These tactics are all psychological tortures to the surrounded soldiers. If this were not the will of the soldiers
I am more determined and I am afraid that I will commit suicide due to my collapse.
However, just when they thought they had no hope of living, and even when they were ready to give their lives to stop the implication of other troops, a way of life suddenly appeared in front of them. How could this not be
Let them cry with joy.
"Comrade, thank you, thank you!" A cadre with a conscience and black face held my hand over and over again. He was still a strong one, and there was still no tears on his face.
"Are you company commander Xu or company commander Jiang?" I asked.
From the information obtained from the 703rd Regiment, I knew that these six platoons had two company commanders, one with the surname Xu and the other with the surname Jiang.
"Report!" The cadre stepped forward and replied: "My surname is Jiang. May I ask you, comrade..."
"I am Yang Xuefeng, the commander of the Synthetic Battalion!"
"Um!" Company Commander Jiang couldn't help but lit up: "So you are the synthetic camp. No wonder they can occupy the main peak without realizing it, and no wonder they can fly down from the main peak..."
"Fly?" I was stunned when I heard this, and then I soon thought of the move that Company Commander Jiang was referring to us using paragliding.
Using "fly" to describe paragliding may be an exaggeration for us. But it is worthy of the name for Commander Jiang and his group. The reason is that they were in the smoke at the trough at that time. They didn't know that it had happened at all.
What happened? I suddenly saw dozens of our soldiers descending from the sky like gods.
This made some superstitious people among our soldiers believe that we are their "saviors", and that God sent us to save them... In this era, the cultural level of our soldiers is generally not high, and their cultural level is not high.
High means that some people will inevitably believe in superstition.
In fact, after all, superstition is everywhere even in modern society with a high level of culture.
This superstition is undesirable if it is in our political thought, but it plays an unexpected positive role in this battle... It is precisely because many soldiers believe that "the heaven will not destroy him", so they quickly gained morale
Joined the ranks of breakthroughs.
Otherwise, in the current state of the first battalion, there are wounded soldiers and shortage of food and ammunition, it will be difficult for them to reach the main peak within more than an hour without the Vietnamese army's blockade.
"What about Company Commander Xu?" I asked.
"He... died!" Company Commander Jiang replied sadly: "After he was injured, he was determined to leave the medicine to other soldiers, but the wound was infected..."
"Oh!" I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "I have been on the Vietnam battlefield, of course I know what the result will be if I refuse to take medicine after being injured in the jungle where poisonous mosquitoes are everywhere. It's not even exaggerating.
It is said that this result is predictably more miserable than sacrificing at the enemy's gun. Sacrifice at the enemy's gun is a pleasure, and if injured and infected, you will face fever, inflammation of the burning mouth, and maggots.
...and then slowly died in torture.
Therefore, it is hard for me to imagine a company commander willing to leave medicine to the warriors. After all, a company commander is more important than a warrior in battle, right?
Although this is indeed an objective fact. Although Company Commander Xu did something stupid, it is precisely because of such stupid things that our army has united the entire army.
This may be what we often call military spirit. I used to find it difficult to understand this, but now I have long been accustomed to it.
Later I learned that these platoons of the first battalion were able to successfully reach the main peak not only for the above reasons, but also the Company Commander Jiang in front of me also made considerable efforts.
Because when a force is on the verge of collapse, it is most necessary to appear a person with a leader or a firm will. If there is no such person, then the entire force is likely to do extreme things because of its morale dropping to the extreme.
For example, if you can't stand the torture, you will choose to die with the Vietnamese army, etc.
Company Commander Jiang is such a person. He keeps cheering up the soldiers under his command and constantly doing ideological work for the soldiers. Therefore, these soldiers have persisted until now.
"Search the casualties and then go down and rest!" I said: "Restore your energy and prepare to work with our camp to defend the main peak!"
"Yes!" Company Commander Jiang responded.
The statistics came out soon, and the casualties were much higher than I thought. The actual number of people reaching the main peak in the six platoons was only 105, and only more than fifty of them had combat capabilities, even these five
Some of the more than ten people were lightly injured.
I couldn't help but sigh: The Vietnamese army is not stupid either. They know that there are not many people who "surround the site and attack the aid" and that the more people they are, the harder they can control, so they have planned and step-by-step "clearing" them.
Some people.
But no matter what, we successfully rescued these people, which was a victory for our army both tactical and strategically.
I think the commander of the Vietnamese army was so angry that he jumped up when he heard this news. Who would have thought that the team of Chinese ** who was originally used as bait has not only successfully escaped their encirclement, but also became a defense.
A force at the main peak.
Then I quickly learned the anger of the Vietnamese army, because the soldiers of the first battalion had just been settled... The settlement mentioned here is actually just transferring them to the trenches and anti-aircraft holes dug in advance. Of course,
Before this we will send them the necessary food and water.
The Vietnamese army's artillery fire came soon, and the artillery fire was fired by mortars last time. The difference is that the Vietnamese army's bombing is much denser and more violent than before.
The shells only exploded the top of our army's mountain. The positions were filled with flying sand and stones, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled with smoke.
I quickly judged from the sound of the explosion and the extraordinary violent vibration that this was a 120mm heavy mortar from the Vietnamese army.
We have experienced this thing before. I remember that in a previous battle, the Vietnamese army also launched this large-caliber mortar. The delayed fuse shells it fired destroyed our army's fortifications over and over again.
But I know very well that large-caliber mortars like this also have weaknesses with other heavy equipment, that is, logistics supply difficulties.
Of course, compared with the 122mm howitzer, the advantage of this 120mm caliber in logistics supply is quite obvious, because the weight of its shell is only one-half of that of howitzer, and its gun body weighs only one-tenth of that of howitzer.
However, its shells weighing more than ten pounds will undoubtedly put considerable pressure on logistics in transportation and combat.
So at first I didn’t think that the Vietnamese army would mobilize a large number of heavy mortars to deal with us in such a short time. Even if the Vietnamese army had guns, they would not be able to transport much!
But obviously I was wrong, because the 120mm caliber mortar shells are now smashing hard on the main peak position.
Later I learned that the Vietnamese army's 120mm heavy force could be adjusted to the main peak so quickly because... The Vietnamese army was actually ready to use mortars to fight back against our artillery, which means that these mortars are not used.
Come and deal with us.
This strategy is a bit like Tian Ji's horse racing... The Vietnamese army knew that long-range artillery fire was far inferior to the Chinese team, and it was incomparable to our army in terms of quantity and logistics transportation, so in this battle, the Vietnamese army simply turned out to be in this battle
I won’t increase the number of long-range artillery fire and shells. No matter how hard I try, I still can’t compare to the Chinese team!
So the Vietnamese army wisely changed the focus of increasing firepower, that is, equipped with a large number of heavy mortars.
In this way, the advantage of the artillery fire of the Vietnamese army can smoothly avoid the edge of our army. First, one howitzer can be transported under the same capacity, two heavy shells can be transported, and one howitzer can be transported to more than a dozen.
The door is heavy.
Secondly, heavy mortars are very convenient for maneuvering and are suitable for swimming wars in artillery battles.
Again, the heavy fire can be fired near the back slope, that is, in the blind spot of our army's long-range artillery fire, which makes our army have long-range artillery fire that is stronger than the Vietnamese army, but can only stare at the Vietnamese army's heavy fire.
Just like what we are now, the Vietnamese mortars fought happily at the top of our army's mountain, but our army could not suppress it at all.
I have to admit that the Vietnamese army's move is very wise.
These heavy mortars were originally scattered in all directions of Kolin Mountain, and their mission was originally to provide fire cover to the eight frontier positions.
However, after our army captured the main peak at lightning speed, the Vietnamese army realized that if we wanted to keep the front line, the key was whether we could grab the main peak back. So we made a quick decision and pulled a heavy force regiment to our place
At the foot of the main peak that is stationed.
The gunfire took more than twenty minutes. When the artillery fire finally stopped, I asked Zhao Jingping in a frustration: "Where is our artillery force? Why not suppress it?"
"Battery Commander!" Zhao Jingping replied helplessly: "Most of our mortars are light mortars. It would be nice to hit the main peak at such a height, not to mention suppressing the heavy force of the Vietnamese army.
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Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but curse: I didn't expect that the Japanese devils would give us an unexpected surprise.
In this case, I am afraid that this future war will not be as smooth as we imagined. (To be continued...)