Both China and Annam know very well that war is imminent.

Although there has not yet been a big fight in the face, the skirmishes between mutual infiltration and reconnaissance of the enemy have not been interrupted since October 1978.

With the slogan of "armed protection of overseas Chinese" shouted by the Huaxia Military Commission, the overseas Chinese in the whole world suddenly became boiling.

Every day, many children of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia come to the mainland of China and ask to join the People's Liberation Army to teach Annan monkeys a lesson.

All kinds of material donations and donations made the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce of China feel like they have returned to the era of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression more than 30 years ago.

Armed to protect overseas Chinese, this is what Yang Weiping proposed to the No. 1 chief.

This slogan is not only more convincing than self-defense and counterattack, but can also unite the hearts of overseas Chinese and attract them to return to the motherland to invest in construction.

After careful consideration, the Central Military Commission and the State Council finally adopted Yang Weiping's proposal by the minority following the majority.

As it turned out, Yang Weiping was right.

Since this call was put forward on December 8 last year, so far, the total value of materials and cash donated by overseas Chinese has exceeded 500 million US dollars!

Hong Kong's ship king Bao Yugang alone donated 10 million Hong Kong dollars!

On 14 February 1979, the Chinese government publicly issued a notice to the whole country that it was ready to start armed operations to protect overseas Chinese in self-defense and counterattack. The order of the Central Military Commission on the entry of all units of the army into combat readiness was conveyed to the soldiers of the whole army.

The eyes of the whole world have been drawn to the border line between China and Annam.

The United States, Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany have sent military observer missions to China.

Eastern European countries, led by the Soviet Union, also sent military observation groups to Annam.

On February 15, the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance expired.

On 17 February, Huaxia's Xinhua Ribao published an article entitled "Is It Tolerable, Which Is It Intolerable," officially declaring: In view of the Annan regime's repeated attempts to stir up incidents on China's borders, it is persecuting our compatriots and overseas Chinese. Huaxia repeatedly issued warnings, but Annan turned a deaf ear and insisted on going his own way. When the Huaxia government could no longer bear it, it was forced to launch an armed self-defense counterattack to protect overseas Chinese in order to seek justice for the suffering overseas Chinese in Annam and recover their losses. Punish Annan!

At 4:20 a.m., countless signal flares staggered in the night, and thousands of cannons were instantly whimpered. The sky was red with artillery fire, the entire earth's crust was trembling, and the tanks, machinery, infantry, signal troops, anti-chemical warfare troops, and engineers who had been lurking and ready braved the artillery fire and crossed the border through the light of artillery fire to attack their respective strategic targets.

Until dawn, the supposedly impregnable defensive line of the Annam army was in disarray. The joint units of multiple armies were interspersed with heavy armored units of the Huaxia military uniform, and forced a breakthrough with close attacks.

All the minefields in Annam have become decorations. Basically, all of them were swept away by the small cloud burst bombs launched by the Type 81 rocket demining vehicles of the Chinese army.

In the blue sky, a fighter formation of 24 F14A, like an invincible overlord in the air, easily shot down one MiG-21 after another of the Annam Air Force as follows.

Burning wreckage of airplanes can be seen everywhere on the ground. It's as if you're crying and telling the Annan Air Force that you are so fragile and vulnerable.

This is a human Shura Purgatory full of carnage and gore everywhere!

THE ARTILLERY OF THE ANNAN ARMY INITIALLY RELIED ON SOVIET-MADE ROCKET ARTILLERY AND 152MM HOWITZERS TO FIRE AT OUR ARMY, BUT THEY SOON FOUND THAT AS LONG AS THEIR ARTILLERY FIRED LESS THAN FIVE SHELLS, ITS ARTILLERY POSITIONS WOULD IMMEDIATELY BE COVERED BY DENSE ARTILLERY FIRE. It seems that the artillery of Huaxia has clairvoyance.

Shuojiang River, known as "natural risk" since ancient times, is also an important town and strategic place in Vietnam, located about 70 kilometers northwest of Gaoping, 4 kilometers away from Guangxi Pingmeng in the north, and 16 kilometers away from Mengma Street in Guangxi in the northeast.

The terrain is very dangerous, the mountains are dense, there are many natural caves, the only Highway 166 in Annam leads southeast to Gaoping from Pingmeng through Shuojiang and Dunzhang, and a winding canyon with a width of several hundred meters to dozens of meters is formed on both sides, which just locks the road.

Judging from the topography of the entire Shuojiang area, there is a main road in the direction of Binh Mong north of the Shuojiang River, which is suitable for the frontal attack of our army's mechanized troops, so the Vietnamese army has deployed troops along the road.

The 246th Regiment of the enemy's 346th Division placed three infantry battalions in the direction of Changpaishan, Shuojiang, and Banyang, and three companies of the mixed artillery battalion in the direction of Boyuan, Banyang, and Nava, and placed the 1st Independent Battalion of Heguang of the local army on the border line in the direction of Pingmeng, and the regimental headquarters of the 246th Regiment was located in Banyang.

Along the highway, there are caves, culverts, passes, and gorges, and there are honeycomb bunkers and various firepower points, and the trenches and tunnels hidden in the thorns are connected vertically and horizontally, forming a deep defense line with dense firepower. In the area of Rangyong, Dunzhang and Banya behind the side of the Shuojiang River, the mountains are difficult to travel, and only 1 battalion of the 851st Regiment is placed, and 2 independent battalions of Heguang are placed on the border line around Mengma, and the defense force is relatively weak.

Then there is a simple road from Shuojiang to the south through Nazao, Banli, Maban, and Anle to Gaoping. Shuojiang City is surrounded by mountains on all sides, the west and northwest are two large stone mountains, forming a barrier, the northeast and south are continuous earth mountains, the Pingjiang River flows through the north of the city, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Located north of the Shuo River, the Changpai Mountains guarding the Sino-Vietnamese border are also a natural obstacle to the attack.

The Annan army built a large number of open and hidden forts here, built ditches and tunnels, and formed a multi-layer crossfire network with two ring fortifications as the main body, and they arrogantly boasted of the underground sea: if the Chinese army wanted to break through the Shuojiang River, it would take at least three months.

At 10:35 a.m. on February 17.

The huge body of the Siberian Tiger main battle tank appeared on the northern horizon of the Mengma Gorge Highway. At a speed of 70 kilometers per hour, it rushed all the way.

The heavy clangle of metal shook the earth.

The 246th Regiment of the First Military Region of Annam built a defensive line of three barbed wire fences and trenches on the road, and a double-tank attack formation composed of 12 Siberian Tiger main battle tanks, are as weak as a hymen, and they can be broken with a single stab!

The 12 Siberian Tiger main battle tanks were followed by 48 Type 63 tracked armored personnel carriers with fence armor.

The clear and dark fortresses on the hillsides on both sides of the road were in full swing, but they could not delay the impact of this torrent of steel.

RPG rockets trailed long tail flames from multiple bunker holes, most of which did not hit the high-speed armored vehicles, and occasionally three shots hit three armored vehicles. Before the Annan soldiers on the hill could cheer, the three armored vehicles only lost a few pieces of fence armor and continued to run at a high speed of 45 kilometers per hour.

"Squad leader. Squad leader, how can Huaxia's armored vehicles not be afraid of RPGs?" In a bunker, little Saigon, who was only nineteen years old this year, stared at the Type 63 tracked armored vehicle sprayed with the August 1 military emblem whistling by, and asked in a muttered voice.

"Ask the fuck Lao Tzu. Who is Lao Tzu going to ask!" The sergeant of the Annan Army in the bunker was so depressed that he only rolled his eyes.

"Oh my god! Huaxia's tanks are rushing up!" Little Saigon suddenly saw two Siberian Tiger main battle tanks roaring along the slope below along the 45-degree hillside, rushing effortlessly, and immediately screamed in fright.

The sergeant of the Annan Army, who is over 30 years old, will also be dumbfounded.

What the fuck is this tank! It's a 45-degree slope! How can it climb up? And it's so fast!

Before they could understand what was going on. A SHELL WHISTLED FROM THE MUZZLE OF THE 105MM SMOOTHBORE TANK OF THE SIBERIAN TIGER MAIN TANK, AND WITH A LOUD "BOOM", THE ENTIRE BUNKER WAS BLOWN INTO SLAG, AND FRAGMENTS OF MASONRY AND COUNTLESS FLESH AND BLOOD FLEW INTO THE AIR.

The commanding heights of the first line of defense of the Shuojiang River of the Annan Army, the Naliangnuo Heights, three Ming Forts and two Hidden Forts, were all wiped out by the two Siberian Tiger main battle tanks at fixed targets.

Follow the infantry of our army behind the main battle tank of the Siberian Tigers. The pistol, a Type 81 assault rifle, took less than ten minutes to wipe out all the remnants of the enemy on the high Naliangno heights. A bright August 1st military flag was unfurled in the wind at the highest point of the Naliangno Heights.

The first line of defense of the Shuojiang River, known as the natural danger of the Annan army, was successfully conquered and occupied by our army's follow-up infantry in only 23 minutes after being quickly passed by our armored troops.

Dome Hill near the Ho Chi Minh Exhibition Center. It is the second line of defense of Shuojiang natural insurance.

Although the top is round, the slope reaches 62 degrees, which is very steep. Moreover, shrubs, grasses, rattans, and thorns compete with each other, and their roots are intertwined, and it is very difficult to climb.

However, such a slope is not a problem at all for the Siberian Tiger main battle tank, which has a climbing ability of 67 degrees.

Although the terrain of this canyon is treacherous, as the heavy bulldozers and excavators that follow up open the way, all the mountain passes cannot stop the Siberian tigers from advancing.

The shrub vegetation was crushed by the Siberian tiger's nearly 40-ton tracks, and it did not play a role in blocking it.

The headquarters of the 246th Regiment of the Annan Army, together with a garrison company and an 82 mortar position, fled in defeat when they saw the main battle tanks of the Siberian Tigers rumbling up from the bottom of the hillside, and retreated to the rearmost line of defense on the Shuojiang River, Banyang Shijian Mountain.

The 2nd Battalion and 1st Company of the 385th Regiment of the 121st Division of the 41st Army of the Southern Military Region had already rushed out of the armored personnel carrier at this time, and climbed the Dome Mountain without a single shot along the passage crushed by the four Siberian Tiger main battle tanks.

After Zhang Jiefang, the commander of the first company, climbed to the top of the mountain, he was just about to order the signal corps to report the good news to the regiment commander, when he heard a soldier excitedly shouting: "Company commander, look, there is a telephone line here!"

Zhang Jiefang couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, there was a telephone line, which showed that this must be the headquarters of the Annan Army. With a wave of his hand, he led a squad of soldiers along the telephone line up a steep slope and zigzagged into a cave in the recess of the mountainside.

Without thinking about it, Zhang Jiefang ordered the soldiers to throw two grenades into the cave, and after the explosion, the smoke dissipated before searching and carefully touching into the cave.

It turned out to be empty, and the floor was littered with abandoned and blown up documents, maps, and a shattered sand table.

On the sand table that was not completely blown up, the eight Annan characters of "Shuojiang River is dangerous, copper wall and iron wall" can be clearly seen.

This is the regimental command post of the 264 regiment of the Annam Army!

"Correspondent! Report the good news to the regiment commander, saying that our company has successfully conquered the Pingmeng Dome Mountain Heights, the enemy's 264th Regiment has been defeated by our company, and our company has controlled the headquarters of the enemy's 264th Regiment!"

In this attack on Shuojiang, the 121st Division of the 41st Army snatched this hard bone from the hands of other brother troops. In order to prove to the whole army that although the 385th Regiment of the 121st Division was defeated by the Panshi mercenaries in the exercise confrontation, the backbone of the 121st Division could not be defeated, and it would only become more and more courageous.

The strategy and tactics of the 121st Division's offensive were very clear, and with the help of equipment superiority, it attacked the Shuojiang River in three directions.

The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 384th Regiment were attached to the 8th Company of the Army Tank Regiment, which attacked from Pingmeng and went straight into the canyon along Highway 166 to make a frontal pincer attack.

In the middle is the 385th Regiment with the 3rd Battalion of the 384th Regiment and the 3rd Battalion of the Army Tank Regiment, which broke through from the front of Meng Ma, annihilated the enemy in the area of Naliangnuo and Ho Chi Minh Exhibition Hall, and then inserted it into Dunzhang and Banyang, and then counterattacked Shuojiang, which was the main direction of attack.

On the left is the 386th Regiment, which broke through from the east side of Mengma, interspersed with the Banyang area through the Rang Chung, and cooperated with the Central Route Army to annihilate the enemy army in Banyang, and at the same time swept the enemy of Nava, Banya, and Kuijia along Highway 166 to the east, forming an internal and external front, blocking the reinforcement of the enemy in the direction of Gaoping.

No one expected that the cunning Annam monkey would move the headquarters of the 264th Regiment from Banyang to the Dome Mountain on the side of Highway 166 after the start of the war.

But no matter how cunning Ren Monkey is, he can't imagine that the climbing ability of our army's Siberian Tiger main battle tank can climb a steep slope of 62 degrees. Under the personal leadership of the regiment commander Yue Zhongwang, with an unstoppable momentum, it not only broke through the two sinister defensive lines arranged by the enemy's 264th Regiment in a row, but also defeated and occupied the headquarters of the enemy's 264th Regiment, opening up a way for the follow-up troops.

In the former enemy command of the Southern Military District.

After receiving the good news from the 385th Regiment, Xu Shangyou laughed loudly for the first time since the start of the war: "Good! Good fight! This is my Monk Xu's soldiers!"

Yang Weiping, who was dozing off in a chair at this time, couldn't help but open his eyes when he heard Xu Shangyou's laughter, raised his hand and rubbed his cheeks.

Seeing Director Yang's sleepy eyes, the smile on Xu Shangyou's face couldn't help but stiffen, and he asked unwillingly: "I said, Director Yang, don't you ask me what I'm laughing at?"

"What is there to ask, isn't it that the 385th Regiment has successfully broken through from Meng Ma's front!" Yang Weiping replied disapprerovingly: "I specially equipped them with the Siberian Tiger main battle tank, but also equipped with rocket demining vehicles, military bulldozers, and excavators, if he can't beat Meng Ma, Yue Zhongwang should really go down to the grassroots company to feed the pigs." ”

"I said, Director Yang, the Annan monkey is known as the Shuojiang natural danger and we can't take it for three months, and in less than four hours, we have troops under the Shuojiang City, completed the encirclement, and cut off the reinforcements of the enemy's 346th Division in the direction of Gaoping, can't this be regarded as a big victory?" Xu Shangyou asked very depressedly.

"In my eyes, the defeat of Hanoi is a victory. Yang Weiping squinted his eyes slightly and said leisurely. (To be continued.) )