"Kill!" As the soldiers of the Seventh Company roared, the Seventh Company quickly rushed to the 1019 Hill. (
Because the Vietnamese army never thought that there would be so many Chinese people lurking in front of their position, nor did they expect that the Chinese team would suddenly launch a charge on Highland 1019... The lurking position of the Seventh Company was far away from the Vietnamese position.
The nearest one was only 130 meters away. Under the full sprint of the Seventh Company, it only took more than a minute to rush into the Vietnamese defense line.
During this more than a minute, those Vietnamese troops who were sleeping in Mao'er Cave or tents had just experienced a round of artillery bombardment by our army. Before they could realize what was going on, they suddenly discovered that the Chinese
**The person who came out of nowhere is already in front of me.
Their first reaction was of course to grab their guns and organize a defense, but the soldiers of the Seventh Company would not give them this opportunity. After throwing a row of grenades up, the two sides soon started a hand-to-hand combat.
Needless to say, the final result was that the battle ended after ten minutes. The Vietnamese army knew that it was impossible to defend Highland 1019 in this situation, so they left dozens of corpses and retreated to another hilltop of Highland 1019 in embarrassment.
The company captured Hill 1019 at the cost of only five casualties.
"Captain Yang!" I soon received a call from Commander Jiang. His tone on the phone was not very excited, but a little worried: "Highland 1019 was captured, but the ammunition depot on the highland was overrun.
The Japs detonated it in time!"
"Oh!" Although this was unexpected, it was also expected.
It was unexpected because we gave the Vietnamese army very little reaction time for this attack. It only took ten minutes from the beginning to the end. It can even be said to be faster than a well-planned special operation. Such a fast speed is still not possible.
Capturing the ammunition depot on Highland 1019 is indeed a bit unexpected.
It was expected because... by now, the Vietnamese army probably knew that our next step was to attack Balihe Dongshan, so of course they would be prepared.
What's more, for the 1019 highland like the one attacked by the Seventh Company, this highland is more than a thousand meters above sea level. It also takes more than ten hours to go up the mountain, which means it is difficult to supply, so the importance of the ammunition depot is self-evident.
Even if the army fights to the last man, they will not leave the ammunition depot to our army.
The fact is indeed as I guessed. The Vietnamese army in Dongshan of Bali River consciously moved their ammunition back from the day our army captured Laoshan.
Its purpose is very obvious, and it is unwilling to make the same mistake as on the Laoshan front line. After the position was taken away by the Chinese, many ammunition fell into the hands of the Chinese because they were not destroyed in time.
Speaking of destroying ammunition, it sounds simple, but it is not simple at all.
The main reason is that these ammunition are too precious, and each box requires more than ten hours of manual transportation to reach the position. Of course, the Vietnamese army's transportation time will be shorter due to the mountain roads.
Therefore, the Vietnamese army will not blow up the ammunition depot until the last moment...Blowing up too early will cause trouble for yourself. Resisting the attack of the Chinese Communist Party also requires a large amount of ammunition. Blowing up the ammunition depot yourself is tantamount to
Asking for trouble.
To put it simply, it is difficult to grasp the timing, so the Vietnamese army’s ammunition depot was captured by our army during the Laoshan recapture war.
As a result, the Vietnamese army on the Dongshan side of the Bali River learned the lesson. They took two measures:
One is to divide the ammunition into several parts and move them back in a hierarchical manner.
The advantage of this is obvious. Once the front line cannot withstand the attack of the squadron, even if it is too late to bomb the magazine, the ammunition in the enemy's hands will be very limited. If the front line ammunition is not enough, you can spend more effort to transport it up.
That’s it. And anytime and anywhere, the Vietnamese army will have corresponding ammunition depots to quickly replenish it when they retreat.
Another measure is to put a dedicated person in charge of detonating the ammunition depot.
These "specialists" don't even have to go to the battlefield. They stay with the ammunition depot at all times. When they retreat, they are the last ones to withdraw, and they may not even withdraw... If they want to withdraw, they must make sure that the ammunition depot is blown up.
It is precisely because of this that although the Seventh Company fought a clean and beautiful battle, they still failed to capture the ammunition depot.
Therefore, the Seventh Company will soon face a serious problem: they are latent troops, and they do not carry much ammunition. Now they are stationed on a highland with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, where supplies are difficult. There is no doubt that they will soon face
The dilemma of running out of ammunition and food.
"What the division commander means..." I thought for a while and then said: "Do you want the helicopters of the combined battalion to transport supplies to the seventh company?"
"Yes!" Commander Jiang replied: "As you know, the supply pressure in the direction of Laoshan and Songmaoling is also very high. We no longer have the manpower to open another supply line, and the geographical location of 1019 Highland is very important.
On the one hand, we still need a few days to complete the offensive preparations for the attack on Balihe Dongshan, so we asked the 7th Border Defense Company to defend Highland 1019 for a few days! This is obviously impossible to do without supplies. Is there any problem?
"
"No problem!" I replied.
What else can I say at this time? It is obvious that refusing this mission means disregarding the life and death of the 7th Border Defense Company.
But if you say there is no problem at all, then that is not necessarily the case.
First of all, of course, it is too dangerous to use helicopters to transport supplies. It is okay to transport supplies once or twice. In the first few times, the Vietnamese army had no choice but to use helicopters without preparation. However, the number of times increased, and our army only occupied the east of Bali River.
It is one of the highlands along the mountain line, which means that the helicopter can only fly in one direction, so the Vietnamese army is likely to be waiting on our flight route with weapons such as anti-aircraft machine guns.
On the other hand, I also feel that this seems a bit inappropriate. The reason is that the task of our combined battalion is to protect the artillery sighting radar, but now we are involved in this battle again and again. If
With a few less helicopters, can we still effectively protect the artillery sighting radar according to the original plan?
But in the end I dialed the number of the secret service company.
"Is there any problem with using helicopters to transport supplies to Highland 1019?" I asked.
"Battal Commander!" Scar replied, "I just wanted to report the situation to you!"
"What's going on?"
"Remember what we said before about placing plainclothes police among the people?" Scar replied.
"Well, do they have news?" I couldn't help but frown.
"Yes!" Scar replied: "We received news that a few suspicious characters secretly carried a basket of food into the jungle. Considering that these plainclothes policemen did not have jungle tracking training, I did not let them follow!
"
"Yeah!" I nodded.
Scar's approach is of course correct. You must know that those plainclothes policemen are public security officers. Even if we don't think about their safety, following into the jungle is very likely to be discovered by Vietnamese agents and alert them.
But at this time, I didn’t take this matter too seriously. There were a lot of Vietnamese army agents along the border. Especially when this war started, in order to obtain more military intelligence, both sides would send agents to attack the enemy’s territory.
penetration.
At the same time, my idea at this time is that if this part of the Vietnamese army agents is larger, then they should take action when our army regains Laoshan, so even if there are Vietnamese army agents, they are only a small group of agents.
Later I realized that I had underestimated the enemy too much.
"What are your plans?" I asked Scar.
"I plan to follow the clues!" Scar replied: "First send a few people to follow you secretly and see the situation before making the next decision!"
"Yes!" I nodded and said, "Everything must be done carefully. On the other hand... you should also make arrangements for the transportation of supplies to 1019 Highlands!"
"Yes!" Scar responded.
After a detailed discussion with Scar, we felt that the ammunition transported to the 7th Company should be delivered at once. The reason is as mentioned before, the route of helicopters transporting supplies to Highland 1019 is too single, and it is very likely that the supply will be delivered several times.
They would be ambushed by the Vietnamese army, but the first time was unexpected by the Vietnamese army, so it was actually the safest.
Moreover, the sooner the transportation operation is carried out, the better. This is because it will not take long for the soldiers of the Seventh Company to run out of ammunition. If it is too late, it may be too late.
Things turned out just as we thought. The Vietnamese army quickly gathered two companies to launch a tentative attack on Highland 1019. The purpose of this attack was very obvious, which was to consume the ammunition of the seventh company.
At this time, we have only one way, and that is to use the artillery battalion's artillery to block the Vietnamese attack as much as possible, and at the same time complete the delivery of supplies to the Seventh Company as quickly as possible.
The time is set in the early morning of the next day... Although the Z5 modification is equipped with night flight equipment, it is still quite dangerous to fly at night in the jungle, so the best choice is to do it during the day. Also taking into account the Vietnamese army during the early morning
My vigilance was low, so I finally chose the time in the early morning.
I actually didn’t care too much about this task, because at this time I had been focusing on how to use artillery fire to provide cover for the 7th Company... Now the Vietnamese army is taking a very cautious approach, and they have changed their previous attacks.
In this way, they advanced toward Highland 1019 in a sheltered and dispersed manner.
To put it simply, this method is similar to the lurking method used by the Seventh Company when they captured Highland 1019. That is, they use the cover of grass to sneak into the front of Highland 1019 and build fortifications. Therefore, at a glance, there seems to be no enemies at the front of the position, but there seem to be enemies everywhere.
It is the enemy. If anyone is not careful, groups of Vietnamese troops will attack the high ground.
This also makes it difficult for our army's artillery to function... We don't know where the enemy is hiding. If we want to use artillery shells to cover it, we will waste a lot of artillery shells but only get very small results.
What I didn't realize was that a bigger crisis was already approaching us at this time... (To be continued...)