Chapter 284: Finding a Way Out
The second part of the telegram was to report to the general commander of the Eastern Front about the enemy situation around Yejiling: The enemy's 46th Division and the enemy's 04th Division had indeed adopted a more risky and dangerous strategy of encircling and sending reinforcements. It's just that under the reminder of the special combat team, the squadron took countermeasures and would not let the Vietnamese army succeed. Now the heavy artillery of the Vietnamese 04th Division has been transported to the area of Fuli, but the specific location of the artillery base is to be investigated.
The telegram also pointed out that the General Front Commander had alerted the reinforcements and encirclement troops to the Vietnamese army's heavy artillery, and had also drawn the attention of the special brigade.
As for the general commander to remind the special brigade to pay attention to heavy artillery, Guo Zhuocheng believes that this is just a kind of concern from the superiors to the subordinates, he does not think that the Vietnamese army really "takes care" of them so much, if the Vietnamese army really wants to destroy them, as long as they don't care too much about casualties, they can take the surrounding positions with a few charges, and then condescendingly rain bombs can achieve the goal, unless the Vietnamese army does not want to charge but bombards the tanks in Hongxi Village with heavy artillery from a long distance, there is no need to work hard to transport the heavy artillery to the surroundings of Yejiling.
The problem is that the tanks in Hongxi Village are now trapped in a small plot, and there is no need for heavy artillery bombardment at all, and after long-range bombing, infantry has to be used to complete the final clearance, and the final hand-to-hand contact is still unavoidable, so the Vietnamese commander will be so stupid?
Guo Zhuocheng handed it to David Liu, and said casually with a column of tanks in front of him: "Is there really no way to take them away?" β
Regarding Guo Zhuocheng's casual words, Sun Xingguo, who had just gone down the mountain with Chen Yao and others, liked the interface the most, and he also said casually: "It's hard to say." Since we can't build a land passage, let's build a water passage β like that, can't these big guys go?"
The others ignored his words, because just now Liu David, the commander of the tank battalion, said that tanks can't go through the water.
Guo Shucheng was stunned. Asked, "Build a water channel?" How to build? β
Sun Xingguo answered the phone is actually just a fun, where is there really any way, he heard Guo Zhuocheng ask him so seriously, and said embarrassedly: "I'm just talking nonsense......" But seeing Guo Zhuocheng's contemplative appearance, he really thought about it for a while, and said, "Didn't Camp Commander Liu say that there is less water in the river?" If we had a way to get the water in the river up, wouldn't we? β
Zhang Jian said sarcastically: "If you don't say it, others won't treat you as a fool." You think you're the Dragon King. Can you spit water out of your mouth? Tell me, what can you do to make the water rise? β
Guo Zhuocheng suddenly said: "Yes, if we can make the water in the river rise and submerge these rocks and reefs, then our amphibious tanks will not be able to go down the river?" β
David Liu sent the telegram to Chen Yao. With a wry smile, he said, "If there is water to flood the stones, of course it can." The question is that it's the dry season in Vietnam, where are we going to find so much water? β
If it weren't for Guo Shucheng to say this. He didn't pay attention to it, at most he laughed at the other party as sarcastically as Zhang Jian.
Unexpectedly, Guo Zhuocheng moved, and he said excitedly: "If you let the big river outside the village rise, of course it is impossible." But if you let the small river that crosses Zhuangzi rise, you can. As long as we plug it up and fill the river with water, wouldn't it? β
Several people understood at once.
David Liu hurriedly asked, "Are you saying that we will block this small river first, and then blow up the lake on the mountain." Bringing the water here? As he spoke, he began to move. Because of the movement, his body trembled a little, and his eyes were red at Guo Zhuocheng.
Guo Shucheng asked Liu Yuanchao: "You have been on the map for so long." Calculate, if we build a dam here, plug this small river, and let the water level rise, where can our tanks go? β
Liu Yuanchao was a little disappreciative at first, feeling that Guo Zhuocheng was misled by Sun Xingguo's dangling guy, but seeing that Guo Zhuocheng was so serious, he had to think about it seriously. After thinking for a while, his expression movedβ‘ so much joy that he couldn't support it.
Several people looked at him strangely, even Sun Xingguo, the initiator, couldn't help but say: "It can't really be, right?" β
Everyone knows that Liu Yuanchao has a natural comprehension of maps. If he says he can build a water channel, it must be.
In anticipation of everyone's expectations, Liu Yuanchao said: "If we only consider the altitude, if the water level rises by 10 meters, we can go up at least three kilometers away, and if we add the water level difference caused by the flow of the river itself, we can even reach as far as five kilometers." ......, by the way, if we can really get up to four kilometers, there will be a swamp there, and not only can we get out of the enemy's encirclement, but we also have a vast detour where we can completely deal with the enemy. β
With this thought, all hearts were moved. In particular, Liu Dawei was even more happy, his mouth was about to burst, and he hurriedly ordered the people of the engineer platoon to come over to design the construction of the dam.
The river that runs through the village is not wide, only 10 meters wide at its narrowest point, and after considering this, they decided to build the dam on the west side of the village, although the river is 18 meters wide, but it is sandwiched on both sides of the mountain, which is conducive to building the dam higher, and this position is more conducive to receiving the water from the lake that washes down from the mountain. All it takes is a few stone beams to blast through the hillside, and the lake can fall from the sky and overflow half the village into the river.
The remaining question is to find the materials for dam construction and how to mihuo the enemy. Materials are easy to find, and now there is no one in the village, and the ownerless houses, tiles, bricks, and timber in the village can be used, and they can also carry the surrounding stones, and even the Type 69 tank can be used as a dam foundation. They are iron lumps, which cannot be moved in the water, and it is better to use them than to let them be captured by the Vietnamese army.
In addition, military tents are also a good thing, which can be spread on the dam slope to prevent water seepage.
Mihuo's enemies are not complicated, just use the newly cut thatch and banana leaves that are lit at the upwind outlet, and it is a big deal to cover up the space outside the village, anyway, there are many thatched and wild plantains on the nearby hillside.
The officers and soldiers did what they said, and Liu David went into battle in person, taking civilian staff officers to cut down thatch around the village, and then burning it at different locations, in order to speed up the speed of dispersing smoke, they also poured fuel oil from Type 69 tanks on these thatch piles. Soon, the whole village and many places outside the village were covered in smoke. Not to mention that the Vietnamese troops in the distance didn't know what they were doing in the village, even among the Chinese ** people in the village, many soldiers were choked with tears and coughing.
Similarly, in order to speed up the construction of the dam, and for the sake of the strength of the dam, Liu Dawei, who was very reluctant to tank, had to accept Guo Zhuocheng's idea of sΔo, drive three Type 59 tanks to the bottom of the river, dry the fuel and fill the car with stones, and then bury them with clods and stones.
The power of people is infinite, especially when they know that their actions can be exchanged for their own lives and can be exchanged for victory. In just three hours, a 19-meter-long, 5-meter-wide base and 10-meter-high Hun dam made of mud, steel, trees and other materials appeared in front of everyone.
The water from the river is slowly accumulating, and the water level is rising inch by inch.
In order to make sure that the swim could pass more rocks and reach a longer distance with amphibious tanks, the soldiers continued to raise and strengthen the dam and extend it to both sides, until it was connected to the foot of β the hill when considering the base of the dam, and did not choose the narrowest place to build the dam, because this is the closest place to the two mountains.
With the strong dam, Guo Zhuocheng and others are looking forward to it, expecting the lake on the top of the mountain to wash down to raise the water level of the river, after all, relying on the upstream water accumulation of the river itself, if you want to reach the ideal water level, you don't know the year of the monkey.
Zhu Jianjun asked happily: "Captain Guo, are we going to do it at night or during the day now?" β
Guo Zhuocheng said categorically: "Let's do it now." Because we can't be sure whether the water will wash down as we want, we still have a chance to find a way to solve it during the day, and at night it will be good not to drown in the lake if it is dark. Besides, no one knows what the Vietnamese army is thinkingβ As soon as they know that we have seen through their plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements and destroy the boat, they may immediately launch an attack, and then we will not be able to run even if we want to. β
Speaking of this, Guo Zhuocheng said resolutely: "Time is precious, and it can be advanced by one second without delaying by one second." ......, Camp Commander Zhu, have your waterways been repaired? β
Zhu Jianjun immediately said: "It's been repaired early." In fact, it's not about repairing anything, it's just blowing up a stone beam and letting the water rush down the mountain road. As long as the opening is too far away, the water will surely rush down the hollow and straight into the village. β
Guo Zhuocheng ordered: "Ten minutes later, your second battalion will use a company of troops to launch an attack on the Vietnamese army!" ......, Liu Xiangyang! β
Liu Xiangyang hurriedly ran over: "Here!" β
Guo Zhuocheng said loudly: "Use the charge of the first company as a cover, and use mortars to blow up the dam on the top of the mountain." Don't blow up the wrong position, you must ensure that you succeed once, are you sure? β
"Yes!" Liu Xiangyang replied confidently, "Three shells at most!" β
The reason why mortars were used instead of manual bombing kits, and not by multi-mΓ©n mortars, was to mihuo the enemy, so that the enemy could mistakenly think that the mortars had hit the dam by mistake. Moreover, using only a small amount of mortar to blow up the dam can better control the amount of water that is pouring down, so as not to rush down from above and cause harm to the soldiers in the dam and Zhuangzi.
Ten minutes later, the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion launched an attack on the Vietnamese troops in the south as scheduled.
Two mortar shells "mistakenly" hit the stone dam on the top of the mountain that stores water for irrigation, causing the lake to rush down.
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