The superiors also knew that there must be something wrong with the Vietnamese Japanese setting up mortars at this time... They clearly knew that as soon as they fired the artillery, our army's artillery shells would immediately follow them. It was obvious that they had discovered some important target, so they let them go.
They were willing to exchange mortars and the lives of these Vietnamese soldiers.
But is this a fight or not?
Let's fight! That can indeed solve the immediate crisis. But it may very well mean that the Seventh Border Defense Company will be exposed in advance. At this time, our army is not ready for the attack on Balihe Dongshan. It can even be said that it is not only not ready.
, this preparation work was not even possible due to the pressure from Laoshan.
Don’t fight! What if this causes huge losses? Wouldn’t Laoshan’s defense be even worse?!
Time was running out, and the superiors didn't have time to think too much. They made a decision after careful consideration: fight!
The artillery battalion of our synthetic battalion fired the artillery... This was assigned by us early in the morning. The artillery battalion of the synthetic battalion served as cover for the seventh border defense company and turned the muzzle of the artillery towards the east mountain direction of Bali River. It also followed the coordinates provided by the seventh border defense company.
The various elements have been adjusted.
Not only was Zhuyuan adjusted, but it was also tested twice.
Let’s talk about test firing, sometimes it’s very particular.
Just like what we are doing now, if we conduct a test firing blatantly under the guidance of the 7th Border Defense Company, it will obviously not work, because it will make the Vietnamese army wonder whether there are scouts from the Chinese Army Corps nearby monitoring them.
, then a search will be launched around the location.
But it’s not possible without test firing, because if something happens, the first hit must be made. Just like this situation... If you don’t make the first hit but have to test fire and guide it, the Japanese mortar shells
I'm afraid our army's ammunition trucks have already been blown up or even moved. Then we might as well just use artillery sighting radar to track the Vietnamese army's artillery shells and complete the adjustment faster.
Artillery will of course have artillery methods.
Wu Dengxiong quickly came up with an idea, that is, the target of the test firing was not the 1019 highland, but a nearby highland, and the shells fired were far apart, so the Vietnamese army mistakenly thought that this was just a highland.
It was just a cold shot by the Chinese... At this time, the battle in the direction of Laoshan was already in full swing. It was not surprising that a few cold shots would hit the east mountain of Balihe River.
From this, based on the offset of these shells and the distance between the two highlands, Wu Dengxiong and others can roughly calculate how to adjust the shells that hit the 1019 highland.
So, when an order came down from their superiors, the artillery battalion fired the shells before the Vietnamese mortars were launched.
Later, according to the memories of the soldiers of the Seventh Company, at this time, the Vietnamese army's mortars had just adjusted the Zhuyuan and were preparing to fire a batch of shells... It is understandable that the Vietnamese army needed such a long time to adjust the Zhuyuan. Firstly, it was because the Vietnamese army knew
They will most likely only have one chance to fire, so they must ask for a first hit. Secondly, the target of the Vietnamese army's bombing is the car of our army's transport team, and the car is mobile, so it is difficult to hit it with the first shot.
The method adopted by the Vietnamese army was... They aimed not at cars, but at roads. A section of road that cars had to pass through and that was within the control range of their artillery.
This method is indeed very good, but the problem is that they have to wait...after aiming, they have to wait for the car to drive up.
It was while the Vietnamese artillery was waiting that our artillery battalion opened fire first.
"Boom..." Wu Dengxiong fired twenty rounds in one go.
These shells were fired quite accurately, because I heard the correspondent of the Seventh Company shouting excitedly on the walkie-talkie: "Good shot, the first hit, the Japanese mortars are all over!"
The exact result of this shelling was to destroy six mortars of the Vietnamese army and kill more than ten mortar gunners and the Vietnamese soldiers carrying ammunition.
More importantly, this shelling prevented our army's transport convoy from a disaster... Vietnamese army agents had already discovered that this transport convoy was transporting ammunition, but they were unable to attack it because our army was very well-defended, so they wanted to use force to attack it.
The artillery fire caused a chain explosion on the highway bridge. Fortunately, their plot did not succeed. Otherwise, not only would they have lost more than ten trucks of ammunition, but the highway bridge would also have been blown up, seriously affecting our army's logistics supplies.
But then the soldiers of the Seventh Border Defense Company would be in trouble.
It was obvious that the Vietnamese army had realized that something was wrong... How did the Chinese know that they had set up mortars on the high ground? You must know that they were on a high ground of 1,019 meters above sea level, and they were still in the grass and
Mortars were set up in the trenches. Even if the attackers had "new telescopes", it would be impossible for them to discover the situation here so quickly.
So there was no need to think about it, it must be the artillery observers who lurked the attackers nearby.
This is what the Vietnamese army thought at first, that is, they thought that there were only a few Chinese scouts or artillery observers lurking nearby, so they felt relieved and sent more than ten Vietnamese soldiers out to search.
But they soon discovered that they were wrong, and very wrong...
According to later descriptions by soldiers of the Seventh Company of Border Guards: The Vietnamese army quickly sent thirteen people to leave their positions and search for the high ground where the Seventh Company was lurking.
Although the soldiers knew that they could no longer hide, they still held on to a glimmer of hope that they could continue to lurk... They hoped to buy a little more time for the main force, even though they had had enough of the pain of lurking and would rather jump.
Come out and have a good fight with the Vietnamese.
With this mentality, the soldiers did not get up. On the one hand, they continued to lurk, and on the other hand, they informed us that the artillery battalion they were covering was ready for battle. At the same time, they themselves were also ready for battle.
The result was just as we expected. The Vietnamese army would not give up until the goal was achieved. They poked and prodded with bayonets all the way towards the lurking position of the 7th company, until the Vietnamese army pushed into the lurking position of the 7th company three meters away.
...The commander of the Seventh Company knew that it was impossible not to fight at this time, so at the command he appeared, raised his gun and pulled the trigger at the enemy.
The Yue Japanese initially thought that what they were searching for were just a few artillery observers, but they never expected that more than a hundred people would appear in the grass... so they were stunned to death on the spot.
Of course, the Vietnamese army are all veterans, and they will still reflexively raise their guns and shoot in this situation. But of course our soldiers will not let them have this opportunity, and beat them into pieces before they can make any move.
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"Fire!" Then I knew it was time to fire.
So soon another burst of artillery fire went up, and then the artillery fire was immediately ordered to extend deeper into the Vietnamese army... This also told the Seventh Company that the time to charge was up. (To be continued...)