Chapter 200: The Telephone Call of the Chief of the General Staff
At dawn, the entire hairpin mountain area seemed to be covered by a huge black curtain, shrouded in endless darkness, but everyone knew that when this black curtain slowly opened, a well-prepared drama was about to be staged, maybe God also felt a little uneasy about this unpredictable drama, so that the nervous sweat turned into fine rain, densely sprayed on the hairpin mountain, making the hairpin mountain even more elusive under the rain curtain!
However, this elusive and complex scene was clear and transparent in Xu Yuan's mind, just like a sophisticated high-speed computer, repeatedly studying and pondering information such as the preparation time and logistics supply situation of the various offensive directions of the Faka Mountain, in order to reach the best solution.
"Chief!" Listening to the soft call of the operational staff officer, Xu Yuan, who was standing at the door of the forward command headquarters and staring at the hairpin mountain, came back to his senses from his quiet contemplation, but Xu Yuan, who had returned to normal, flashed a trace of imperceptible expectation:
"Got in touch with the troops?"
"Chief, it's not yet the specified contact time!" Although the operational staff officer understood the expectation in the chief's heart, as a combat operation that could not be sloppy, the combat staff officer's answer was also crisp and truthful, and after listening to the words of the combat staff officer, Xu Yuan raised his wrist and looked at the hands of his watch, which had just reached half past four in the morning, and there was still half an hour before the contact time of the troops.
Prior to this, except for wired telephones, the entire operation unit had to strictly abide by the battlefield discipline of radio silence in all other radio contacts, including Xu Yuan's command headquarters. Otherwise, the covert operation could be intercepted by Vietnamese listening posts.
Thus exposing the operational intentions of our army, so it includes all combat units within the entire command command. The originally noisy radio waves became silent and quiet at this time, but the communication soldiers in charge of communication were all in place, and as long as an order was given, it meant that the war was about to begin!
Although Xu Yuan was a little anxious in his heart, he couldn't break the battlefield discipline he had stipulated without authorization, so when he finished reading his watch, he nodded, and then looked at the young combat staff officer in front of him and asked:
"What else?"
"This is the Technical Investigation Section of the Second Department of the General Staff. A comprehensive summary of the reconnaissance of the reconnaissance of the comprehensive monitoring scouts and the observation posts and reconnaissance posts of the artillery at the front!" As he spoke, the combat staff officer handed Xu Yuan one by one. Xu Yuan took the information, read it carefully, and then listened to a name with his eyes, with a sneer on his face:
"Ruan Chongming? I didn't expect it to be the fish that slipped through the net in the last anti-osmosis operation. I really didn't expect this guy to have a little guts, and he would dare to steal a portable bazooka in turn?
"What happened to the body of the deputy battalion commander of the Vietnamese army who committed suicide in shame?"
"It has been smuggled away by the Vietnamese along with the corpses of other dead monkeys!" The combat staff officer's reply was still not muddy, but there was a hint of luck in his tone:
"As you estimated, chief, the corpse of the deputy battalion commander who committed suicide in shame because of his betrayal of his country is our most advantageous weapon. From the current point of view, our compensation measures are still relatively appropriate!"
After listening to the words of the combat staff officer, Xu Yuan nodded slightly: "We can make up for it now, and we can do so much!" Xu Yuan's words were not wrong, when he received the mission statement from the Vietnamese agents who went to the military equipment warehouse and stole the portable bazooka. Xu Yuan couldn't help but be furious, and immediately demanded that all efforts be made to hunt down the absconding Vietnamese agent.
At the same time, a thoughtful Xu Yuan also began to make another preparation, but this preparation was not untargeted, because from the mouth of the deputy battalion commander of the Vietnamese army, it was learned that it was Ruan Chongming, the captain of the Vietnamese army's special agent brigade, who led them to infiltrate the operation, and also mentioned that Ruan Chongming was extremely cunning. It is possible to continue latent infiltration.
It is based on this that Xu Yuan judged that the person who stole might be Ruan Chongming. And at this time, the deputy battalion commander of the Vietnamese army, who had been detained in the guard room of the command headquarters, may have felt ashamed of betraying his motherland, and even committed suicide by hitting the wall in the middle of the night.
Therefore, Xu Yuan ordered to increase the pursuit of Ruan Chongming on the one hand, and on the other hand, he asked people to throw the corpses of the infiltrated Vietnamese soldiers on the barren mountains not far from the Vietnamese army's position, and then made some gestures to know the core information of the Vietnamese army, so that even if Ruan Chongming escaped the pursuit like a loach.
It is impossible to gain the trust of his own people, you must know that all the infiltrated personnel died in the battle, leaving him Ruan Chongming alive alone, and the squadron has obtained a lot of information about Faka Mountain, such a fact is like a pile of yellow mud pasted on Ruan Chongming's crotch, even if it is not, it must be!
And Xu Yuan did all this to cover up the existence of portable bazookas, you must know that in this mountain and jungle position offensive battle, Xu Yuan, who knows the power of portable bazookas, will use it as a killer weapon in his hand, since it is a killer weapon, it is necessary to be unprepared to attack it unprepared, because of this, Xu Yuan must cover up this secret weapon, otherwise it will be discovered by the Vietnamese army that its attack power will be greatly weakened or even ineffective!
However, the so-called gains must be gains, and a series of true and false information created by our side will naturally make the Vietnamese army more vigilant, especially in the recent arrival reconnaissance, it was found that the Vietnamese army had already deployed on that secret line, and after getting this news, Xu Yuan knew that this article would no longer work.
Therefore, he resolutely revised the offensive line of the independent reconnaissance battalion of the main attack force responsible for interspersing, and the final line was to go east after crossing the No. 50 heights, bypassing the dense secret small of the Vietnamese army, and directly inserting into the anticline of the south of the main position of Faka Mountain, but although the distance in the straight line on the map is only less than 2 kilometers, in the mountainous and jungle area, the mountains are steep and the ravines are deep and the terrain is complex, and the line is a primeval forest with high trees and dense thorns, so the actual distance may be more than five or six times the distance on the map.
Because of this, the entire command headquarters was sweating in their hearts about whether the independent reconnaissance battalion could be inserted in place on time, and Xu Yuan, as the actual commander of the entire campaign, was even more so in his heart, and at this moment, a communications staff officer hurriedly trotted over and stood up to Xu Yuan:
"Report to the chief, the specified time has arrived, whether to open the communication contact!"
After listening to the words of the communications staff officer, Xu Yuan looked at his watch again, and the hands of the watch pointed to five o'clock in the morning, seeing this, Xu Yuan's tone was both firm and powerful:
"Turn it on now!"
"Yes!" With Xu Yuan's order, the radio communication equipment of the command headquarters was turned on in an instant, and with the incoming and sending of beams of radio waves, several radio transceivers, telegraphs, and walkie-talkies all emitted the sound of "boom~~boom~~", and the calls of the signal corps liaison troops came and went.
As the location of each unit was gradually clarified, the staff officers in charge of the operations on the map used the red and blue pencils in their hands to constantly mark the positions of each unit and the situation of the marching line on the military map, and soon the exact location of most of the attacking troops was clarified on the map.
At this time, Xu Yuan also came to this huge map of Hairpin Mountain, looking at several red arrows pointing to the main position of Hairpin Mountain, which had formed a situation of encirclement, but in the face of such a favorable form, Xu Yuan's face did not flash a trace of relaxation, but became more nervous, especially after seeing that the anticline of Hairpin Mountain was still blank, Xu Yuan's brows tightened, the speed of speech was fast and high, and the tone was even more undoubtedly eager:
"Where is Wu Tianming's reconnaissance independent battalion? Why hasn't it been marked yet!"
"Report to the chief! The reconnaissance independent battalion has not yet been contacted!" the communications staff officer on the side replied without hesitation.
"Keep in touch! Be sure to find their exact location!"
"Yes!" After the communications staff officer finished answering, he trotted back to the telecommunications room, adjusted the frequency, and the call was endless: "303 I am 101, please answer 303 I am 101, please answer when you hear it."
Listening to the code name that kept calling, Xu Yuan's white face unconsciously flashed with a faint worry, and fine beads of sweat oozed from his palm, and he kept questioning in his heart, did Wu Tianming arrive on time, and what if he didn't? What if he couldn't attack as planned? What if he didn't have enough power to attack? Countless things to do made the neurites in Xu Yuan's brain continue to converge and shine and run, but no matter how these nerve bulges worked, they still didn't spark a flash of inspiration!
Anxious, Xu Yuan couldn't help but put his hands behind his back and paced back and forth in front of the operational map of the command headquarters, and at this time, the combat staff officer suddenly came to his side and whispered a few words to him.
"Comrade Chief of the General Staff, I'm Xu Yuan!"
"Xiao Xu, where has the location of the attacking troops arrived?" came a gentle but firm and powerful accent from the receiver of the phone.
"Report to Comrade Chief of the General Staff, most of the offensive troops have arrived at the designated attack area! I will launch an attack according to the established plan! Thank you for the concern of the headquarters and high-level leaders, I promise to complete the task!"
After speaking, Xu Yuan's body straightened up again, until the sound of "beep~~beep~~" came from the receiver of the phone, Xu Yuan put down the red phone in his hand, but at the moment when he put down the phone, Xu Yuan's shoulders suddenly felt that a thousand catties of weight were pressed down, so that the smile on his face when listening to the phone was instantly replaced by the complex expressions of worry, anxiety, nervousness, and the belief that he would not give up until he reached his goal!
"Report to the chief, the independent reconnaissance battalion has been contacted!"
"Quick! Connect me!" After listening to the report of the communications staff officer, Xu Yuan rushed to the telecommunications room, picked up the radio walkie-talkie, and shouted loudly:
"303, I'm number 11" (to be continued)