The Battle of Lang Son City was the largest battle fought after China launched its attack on Vietnam, and it was also the first siege battle fought after the invasion of Vietnam. Geili Literature Network
The Chinese side has assembled the Indonesian Forestry Division, the Wolf Warrior Special Forces Brigade, the Iron Man Regiment, the Army Aviation Regiment directly under the headquarters, and the Artillery Regiment directly under the headquarters, with a total of nine regiments and more than 13,000 people. The equipment includes Wuzhi, Type main battle tanks, plz&ap
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On the Vietnamese side, stationed in a garrison area in Lang Son City, the second-line combat troops totaled one division and one brigade, one regiment of armed police forces, and the two Vietnamese aces who were deployed and urgently recalled were also divisions, two independent
regiment, two artillery regiments, a flight regiment, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and several independent engineering battalions and communication companies.
At the same time, the Vietnamese in the city also knew that they could not escape doom, because the source of the riots was in their hands. More than 50,000 Vietnamese youths received various types of guns issued by the Vietnamese military, and they huddled in every corner of the city with them.
, prepared for a street fight with China.
According to preliminary estimates, the number of regular troops participating in the war on the Vietnamese side reached more than 60,000. This number alone was more than four times that of the Chinese side, not counting the armed Vietnamese civilians.
The siege of Lang Son was a key battle, and the eyes of the whole world fell on it.
This was also a brutal battle, of course, this was only for the Vietnamese.
Later, Lieutenant General Yang Shicheng, who participated in that battle and later took charge of the Vietnam Military Division, made a clear record in his memoirs. At that time, he was just an ordinary soldier in the famous Iron Man Regiment.
This is how the battle was recorded in the memoirs.
At midnight, three red flares soared into the sky, and their dazzling red light tore through the haze over Lang Son, hanging high in the air like three red lanterns. This made our commanders and soldiers hidden in the trenches feel...
Extremely excited and very excited.
In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains trembled! The cannons of justice and the cannons of punishment erupted the anger that had been accumulated in the chest of a great ancient civilized country for a long time!
I couldn't help but look back and clearly saw sixteen phl≈ap;#;mm long-range rocket launcher vehicles lined up. If you haven't experienced it personally, it's hard to imagine what a spectacular sight it is.
Sixteen rocket launcher vehicles fired a salvo, and twelve gun barrels fired at the same time. Suddenly, as many as seven meters long rockets roared out and fell towards the positions of those damn Vietnamese.
Boom boom boom.
The huge explosion could be clearly heard even several kilometers away. I picked up the telescope and took a look. All the trenches and sandbag defenses blocking us had disappeared, and a layer of the ground seemed to have been shaved off.
Not a single living Vietnamese in sight.
The rocket launcher truck has evacuated, and there is still twenty minutes to reload, and it has to be prepared for attacks by those damn Vietnamese artillery. However, they have no chance. Our plz≈ap;#;mm self-propelled howitzer,
The plz≈ap;#;mm self-propelled howitzer is not a vegetarian.
But, I don't have time to think about that much.
The Vietnamese positions in the north have been completely destroyed, the charge horn has sounded, and our Iron Man Regiment is about to attack. Impacting at the tip of the attack arrow is the main battle tank of the tank battalion, revealing a ferocious murderous intention. Those remaining