Wang Yong and Uncle Battle entered the yurt, and after the guests sat down, Uncle Battle brought Wang Yong a cup of tea.

Probably because he was a soldier outside, this time the tea was not Mongolian milk tea, which made Wang Yong's hanging heart finally fall.

It didn't take long for Qiqige to get acquainted with Wang Yong, sitting in Wang Yong's arms, eating the delicious grapes and big watermelons that the new uncle fed him.

Wang Yong chatted with Uncle Battle and talked about the border self-defense counterattack at the end of the last century.

Uncle Battle's unit was in the first wave of the counterattack, and Uncle Battle had just been promoted to platoon commander.

At half past four o'clock in the morning of 17 February 1979, the 49 brothers of the platoon crossed the Red River together with the brothers of the whole company, the whole battalion, and the whole regiment under the cover of overwhelming artillery fire.

Uncle Battle's Seventh Company was ordered to take advantage of the cover of darkness to march hastily, and together with the brothers' troops, surrounded and completely annihilated the enemy at Baza.

Not long afterward, Uncle Battle was selected from his company to join the newly formed Scout Brigade, and except for a period of training at the military academy during the period, he stayed on the front line until the end of the Battle of the Two Mountains.

Because I was not familiar with the local environment in Vietnam, I caused a lot of unnecessary losses.

In addition, there was a lack of necessary scientific and technological reconnaissance means at that time, so only a special scout unit could be established, which can also be said to be the predecessor of the special forces!

"Uncle Battle, were you scared when you first went up?"

"I'm afraid! How not to be afraid? ”

Uncle Battle replied without the slightest hesitation.

"Don't be afraid to have ghosts! It's just that I'm a platoon commander, so it's hard to say! ”

Then Uncle Battle told Wang Yong the story of a young soldier who was only sixteen years old.

The little soldier's surname is Zhang, and everyone calls him Xiao Zhang. The home was in the compound of the military region at that time. His father was the battalion commander of the special service battalion directly under the military region, because this kid didn't go to school well, and he didn't have anything to do when he traveled around all day. His father simply found a relationship and threw him into the army.

I didn't expect to catch up with this war in the first year of being a soldier, and I followed to the front line in a daze, that's still a child! Uncle Battle was thrilled when he said this.

At that time, in the first battle, Xiao Zhang followed him, holding five or six semi-automatic rifles about the same size as him, and rushed forward with the large army with an excited face.

There was no problem at all in fighting a tailwind battle, but when they began to carry out garrison tasks and fight with those little devils who did not care about life and death in order to regain their positions, Xiao Zhang became a different person.

As soon as the battle began, it entered the white-hot stage. The two sides come and go. Cannons, cannons, bullets, grenades, rockets, it was flying all over the sky, shrapnel and steel balls flew densely, the sound was really deafening, and many people's ears were shocked and bleeding.

Originally, Xiao Zhang was arranged to work as a bomber in the artillery squad. It is to hand shells to the gunner of an 82 mortar.

But the battle was too fierce.

As soon as the battle began, at least one battalion of the enemy army charged to the death at any cost, regardless of life and death, under the cover of dense raindrops of artillery fire.

The mortars of the temporarily reinforced artillery squad continued to provide fire support, and soon exceeded the required safe firing base of 500 rounds. (Mortars generally fire 500 rounds.) The barrel of the cannon became red, this is from an elder brother, his own brother is the prototype of Xiao Zhang. ）

When Xiao Zhang was carrying a box of artillery shells and just came out of the ammunition depot hidden underground, an 82-millimeter mortar shell that had just been put into the barrel exploded in the barrel.

A mist of blood rose from the entire gun emplacement. The stumps and broken arms, corpses and internal organs of various shapes scared Xiao Zhang stupid at once!

I don't know how long it took, but the bombardier of the other cannon died. There were no shells at the gun position, and he greeted Xiao Zhang several times before he came back to his senses. Stumbling to deliver a box of shells to the gun position.

Shocked him again!

The case was opened, and the first shell was thrown into the barrel. Didn't even make a sound? The shell did not fire!

Stink bombs!

The artillery commander didn't even think about it, and shouted: Evacuate and hide!

Then, without thinking about it, he pulled out the bolt that connected the barrel to the base and the bracket, and picked up the hot barrel with both hands, and as soon as the muzzle of the gun fell, a shell slipped out of the barrel.

Then, at the risk of being blown to pieces at any moment, he picked up the cannonball and threw it into the distance!

"Boom-"

Before the shell could hit the ground, it exploded!

Soon, the shells were gone! The soldiers of the artillery squad all picked up their guns, became infantrymen, and went to the front line.

Xiao Zhang lay in the trench, listening to the "whoosh" sound of the bullets whistling overhead.

I was trembling with fright, my hands were tightly covering my head, and I curled up, not daring to move!

At this moment, a stray bullet flew from the opposite side and hit the artillery squad leader, who usually cares for Xiao Zhang.

The bullet pierced the head of the squad leader who was not wearing a steel helmet, and a 7.62 mm rifle bullet lifted the cover of the squad leader's brain, and the white brain mixed with red blood sprayed Xiao Zhang's head all over his body.

Xiao Zhang secretly glanced up!

The squad leader's angry eyes immediately made Xiao Zhang's eyes red. Holding his own five or six halfs, he didn't even look at it, and he frantically pulled the trigger on the enemy in front of the position.

From that moment on, Xiao Zhang became a real warrior. And because he was young, he grew up in the military region since he was a child, he was very clever and naughty, and he often made some things that made people laugh bitterly.

One night, when he was arranged to be on duty, this bastard actually sneaked out of the bunker and came to the Vietnamese army's position less than 100 meters away from the opposite side and quietly lurked.

The lurking location was something he had long been looking forward to, and his goal was a simple toilet.

The most amazing thing is this bastard kid, who doesn't let go of a shot when he goes to the toilet. But as soon as one came out, he killed one. The position he chose was very good, which was convenient for concealment and defense against shelling, and when he returned to his position, he was stunned.

Just for the bad taste in his heart, this kid was stunned to do this every day for the next three days. So that the Vietnamese troops on the opposite side had to dig a toilet again behind the position.

Uncle Battle didn't seem to be willing to mention those sad topics too much, and then, he just kept pace with the times and said some more bloody and interesting things.

"Mortars can hit the barrel red! This is not a rapid-fire weapon such as a machine gun machine gun, how is it possible? ”

"Mortars are a piece of! It is said that the 130 cannons of the artillery division at that time were all hit red many times. I heard that there was an explosion accident. It's just that I'm not in the same system with them, and I don't have much contact. ”

"Then how many rounds of the barrel of this large-caliber cannon will be red?"

"If I'm not mistaken, I guess 1,200 rounds were fired in a row!"

"Holy! Listen to what you mean, this cannon fired 1,200 shells in a row? Then you have to fight for a day and a night? ”

"Is it a novelty?"

"Is it useless to finish the barrel?"

"Almost! For the sake of safety, it must be replaced. ”

Wang Yong was a little unconvinced, and a large-caliber cannon fired more than 1,000 shells in one battle. This is too sci-fi! It's definitely a rhythm of bragging about not paying taxes!

In order to verify whether what Uncle Battle said was true, Wang Yong quickly drove out of his killer weapon - Xiaoguang, and asked Xiaoguang to search for details about the situation of that war.

The result was very soon, although it was not said that more than 1,000 shells were fired in one battle, but the Huaxia artillery, which was established by adhering to the Soviet artillery doctrine at that time, was absolutely easy to kill the artillery of the Vietnamese army, and then fully supported the front-line troops to fight.

The 130 cannon fired grenades at elevation angles had a range of more than thirty kilometers, which could provide timely and effective fire support for front-line fighters in the rear far from the battlefield, and was one of the main forces of fire support of the troops at that time.

Every battle at that time. Almost all the artillerymen spoke first. Heavy carpet shelling turned the opponent's positions upside down.

That momentum! The ground is absolutely shaking, lying in the trench feels like the whole mountain is shaking under the shelling, as if the next second, the whole mountain will be collapsed by bombardment.

The Chinese artillery fire was so fierce that what Cheng dù. Today, many of the mountains in northern Vietnam are still bare after being bombarded by our artillery. Twenty or thirty years of grass has not grown. It is enough to see the might of our army's artillery fire.

The 130 plus even 152 plus howitzer is not the most fierce, the most fierce is the 122 rocket artillery. The guy was loaded with forty rounds of large-caliber rockets at a time, and Uncle Battle said he had seen the most of a salvo from a rocket artillery battalion.

That scene really instantly turned half the sky red. The rockets dragged long flames like meteor showers and smashed headlong into the ground.

Anti-explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, grenade bombs, a salvo of a battalion shaved the head of a hill with a large area and lush vegetation.

Sometimes, you can even see rockets and rockets colliding and exploding in the air, which shows how dense the firepower is.

In addition, in order to be able to support the troops in the nearest battle, in addition to equipping the troops with a large number of 82 recoilless guns and 40 fire, the artillery comrades even overcame the general problem of pushing large-caliber body-barreled artillery and anti-aircraft guns of 57 and 37 caliber to the enemy's bunker within a distance of several hundred or even 100 meters, and playing with artillery and bayonets!

Most of the results were the same as the end, but it effectively reduced the casualties of our attacking troops.

However, even with such artillery support, the casualties we paid were still heavy.

According to statistics, in the first counterattack operation alone, not counting the subsequent battle of the two mountains, the casualties of our army reached more than 27,000, of which more than 6,000 were killed.

In Uncle Battle's platoon, a blocking battle was fought, and there were more than 40 people in the platoon, and only nine people were still alive, barely enough for a squad.

When Uncle Battle carried out an operation to escort his comrades to the rear hospital for treatment, and saw Xiao Zhang, who was wrapped in a mummy, in the hospital, he was the only one left in his platoon.

And the company they were in had more than 100 people and nearly 200 people when they first set off from China, and only nine of them were still full of arms and legs.

Their battalion numbered more than 700 men when they went into battle, but after a battle, they were almost halved in half, and when they finally came back there were less than 200 men. This also includes those who are injured and disabled.

It was precisely that war that made the country's top leaders begin to realize the huge crisis brought about by the turmoil in the past ten years, so a series of military reforms began to be carried out with the same fanfare as the basic national policy of reform and opening up. (To be continued......)

PS: It's really a memory that shouldn't be forgotten!