Chapter 365: Increasing Casualties

In the tent of the headquarters on the hill of the front-line logistics base on the outskirts of Hanoi, Wang Lie saw through the telescope from a distance that the tanks of the 69th Army appeared one after another in the field of vision, driving along the road, and the endless stream of vehicles seemed to have no end. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With the arrival of the tank troops, the big stone that was pressing on General Wang Lie's heart was finally put down, the pressure suddenly dissipated, and the command became more calm.

"No matter how careful the advance budget is, we can't control the actual problems on the battlefield, our ammunition is depleted much faster than expected, and the helicopter gunship has reached a situation where there are no bullets to shoot." The chief of staff reported the battle situation by Wang Lie's side, and he was a little worried about the problem of ammunition if it could not be replenished.

The logistics camp is already full of helicopter gunships, most of which are coming back to replenish ammunition. The more excited the pilots became, firing at the sight of the target, running back to replenish the ammunition when they ran out of ammunition, and before they knew it, they had already exhausted the ammunition they had delivered.

On the contrary, the fuel used by the helicopter unit is very abundant and can last for a long time.

Although helicopter gunships are gradually grounding up, transport helicopters continue to operate normally, maintaining air lines of communication between urban areas and logistics camps, ensuring the supply of ammunition to ground forces and the transportation of wounded personnel.

In addition to reminding the gunships that still have ammunition to save ammunition, the front-line command also notified the country to speed up the delivery of more ammunition.

Fortunately, the Central Military Commission prepared sufficient spare ammunition in Qiongdao in advance for emergencies, and it only took half an hour for the transport helicopter to cross the Beibu Gulf at most, but I never expected that the consumption of ammunition in the war would be so fast, and the speed of transporting ammunition was far from keeping up with the speed of consumption.

"The 69th Army has already come, and I believe that the vanguard of the Banzai Army will arrive within 20 minutes at the latest, and as soon as the 200,000 ground troops of the two armies arrive, it will be useless for the Vietnamese to jump. Tank units were ordered to quickly enter the city and cooperate with the paratrooper units. The army quickly formed a formation, blocked all roads in Hanoi, and surrounded the city! Wang Lie continued to observe the tank troops in the distance with a telescope, his expression did not fluctuate, the arrival of the tanks made up for the firepower gap, and now it does not matter if there is no air fire support in the urban area.

Now Wang Lie is the commander of the front line, and he is responsible for the overall capture of Hanoi, so after the 69th Army and the Banzai Army arrive in Hanoi, they must listen to his deployment to avoid fighting separately and affecting the progress of the operation.

"The staff officer reports some casualty figures!" Wang Lie suddenly turned around and asked.

"We have 48 soldiers killed now, 17 of whom died on the spot and 31 of whom died in field hospitals. There were 109 wounded, 53 seriously injured, several of whom were seriously injured and did not know if they could survive to the end, many of them needed to be amputated, and the rest were minor injuries, and there was basically no life-threatening after the operation. A staff officer immediately stepped forward and uttered a shocking number.

"The number of casualties is getting bigger! Let the brothers of the 69th Army be on guard after entering the city, regardless of men, women and children, they must keep an eye on it, those enemies hiding in the building are very dangerous to shoot black guns! The casualty figures did not cause much mood fluctuations in General Wang Lie, for the general, he wanted Mount Tai to collapse in front and not change color, he still had the lives of more than 30,000 soldiers under his command, with the arrival of the 69th Army and the Long Live Army, he controlled more troops, and his mind must be more firm.

With the paratroopers and assault units basically in control of the city, the Vietnamese army's command structure in the city collapsed on all fronts, and it was no longer able to organize any strong resistance. However, the remnants of the Vietnamese army in the city are still fighting their own battles, some of them have changed their military uniforms and put on the clothes of ordinary people, and they have hidden in various buildings to shoot black guns. They ran away after fighting with their familiarity with the city's roads, and our side was unable to control the whole city due to insufficient troops, giving these people a lot of room to live.

During the siege of the city, the Vietnamese army had fierce fire resistance, but the casualties of the troops were only a few dozen. Now that the Vietnamese army's heavy firepower and formed units have been wiped out, the casualties caused by those Vietnamese soldiers who shoot black guns have skyrocketed, and if they are not cleaned up in time, the casualties will continue.

That's why Wang Lie asked the ground troops to pay attention to safety and not give those Vietnamese soldiers hiding in buildings a chance! Now that Hanoi is in the bag, there is no need for our army to make any more sacrifices!

"Haha! Battalion commander, do you see that it's Hanoi, it's really lively, let's go in! I haven't even seen a single hair of the Vietnamese army along the way, and now Lao Tzu has to bombard a few of his buildings to have a good time! When Hanoi was already in front of him, Tu Meng never put down his binoculars, watching hundreds of helicopters circling and flying over the city, and the gunships tilting rockets on the ground from time to time, which made people's blood boil. He kept banging on the turret, telling the driver to hurry up and step on the gas pedal and enter the city to join the battle.

"Lao Tu, you give me a steady beat! There are many cultural relics and monuments in this city, which cannot be destroyed at will. Especially those beautiful buildings, they will all be for our own people to live in the future, don't blow them up into tatters! While commanding the 31 tanks of the three companies of the battalion to form a formation, his battalion commander was responsible for leading one company to attack the city from the main road, and the remaining two companies cut in from the side road.

The infantry armored vehicles following the 1st battalion also drove into the surrounding farmland and dispersed, lowering all the infantry in the vehicles, and the infantry company would follow a tank company to move forward.

Don't look at the tank as the king of land warfare, but it is particularly dangerous to advance without infantry in the city, and a random infantry rush out of the alley and throw an explosive pack under the track can blow up a tank.

Therefore, when fighting in urban street battles, the infantry is responsible for following the tanks, responsible for cleaning the enemy troops in the buildings along the way, and also taking on the responsibility of protecting the tanks.

The tank, on the other hand, acts as a mobile turret to knock out enemy fire points in front of it one by one. However, the enemy's guns and bullets are helpless against the strong armor of the tank, and the harder they hit, the more they will attract the aiming of the tank guns, which is no different from looking for death.

This is also the reason why as long as the tanks enter the city, the defending troops will retreat, because the fire points reinforced in advance cannot withstand the bombardment of tank guns.

"War, it doesn't matter so much to you! The brothers of the infantry company are all following, let's have a big fight! Tu Meng couldn't control the restless blood of war in his body for a long time, and after seeing the battalion commander leading eleven tanks into the city, he immediately let his ten tanks drill into the city through a passage into the city two miles away from the city's main road.

After the tank enters the city, it is like a hot knife cutting butter all the way unimpeded. When some Vietnamese soldiers saw the tanks, they opened fire without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and they immediately attracted the bombardment of the tanks.

Fortunately, the gunners of the tank units still remembered that Hanoi would become the territory of the flower planters after the war, so they would consider it every time they fired their guns, and if there were dilapidated residential buildings on the opposite side, they would open fire decisively, and rebuild afterwards.

If it is a beautiful villa or office building, it will be relatively cautious to sell, if the infantry can attack to solve the battle, it will not care, if the enemy inside is really piercing, how can not attack. Then there is no way, you can't sacrifice human lives to protect a building, and in such a situation, the gunner will still open fire decisively and kill the enemy inside. (To be continued.) )