Chapter 116: Public Security Bureau

Chapter 116: Public Security Bureau

It's another foggy day!

Vietnam's rainy season is fast approaching, and as the air becomes more and more 'damp', even if it hasn't rained for the first few days, the morning is often foggy. The fog vapor was densely layered under the gray sky, scattering and gathering. The whole world seemed to be shrouded in a thin veil, hazy, and like a big steamer that had just been lifted and churned.

This fog is more rain than fog. I had not gone far with my warriors on the street, and my face was already wet. In addition, the sky is not yet fully bright, so the place that can be seen is only a dozen meters away.

It's good for us, not bad, because it's us who are attacking now. I learned from Battalion Commander Wu that although the bridge is now under our control, in order to block our reinforcements, the Vietnamese army often sends artillery observers to monitor the bridge from a distance.

I didn't want to be killed or wounded by the Vietnamese army before we reached Lang Son South District, and this thick fog helped us a lot.

Our advance sequence was a platoon of five companies, six companies, and four other companies of the tank battalion. This platoon of the fourth company is used as a unit to cooperate with the tank troops, and they are equipped with a large number of rocket launchers, recoilless guns, mortars, blasting canisters, explosive "charge" packs, etc., and their task is not only to guide the tanks in the right direction and provide the necessary cover for the tanks, but also to assist our tanks in blowing up the enemy's tanks and pillboxes that are blocked on the road when necessary.

The other two platoons of the 4th Company served as reserves, ready to respond to emergencies.

We turned left and right in the foggy streets...... Of course, this was done under the guidance of a guide, and if I were to lead the way, I was afraid that I wouldn't know where it was before two clicks.

After a while, we came to the Qiqiao River Bridge, and looking at the familiar highlands and the bridgehead positions full of tank wreckage, the soldiers and I couldn't help but feel emotional. A few days ago, more than 200 fighters gave their lives here. When I think of this, the warriors will feel a feeling in their hearts...... Every foot we step on and every step we take now seems to have the blood and sacrifice of our comrades-in-arms.

We couldn't help but slow down and silently look at this place where we fought and shed blood.

"The ones in the back keep up!" I shouted to the soldiers behind me, in fact, to remind the soldiers not to be overly sympathetic to their comrades and delay their business. This is not the time for us to be sad, not for us to miss our comrades-in-arms.

The bridge loomed in the fog, and the place that had been blown up by us had now been repaired by the sapper comrades. According to Wu Changhui, after we withdrew to rest and recuperate the 128th Division, we launched an unusually tragic battle for the bridge with the Vietnamese troops across the river. Our army wanted to build a bridge to cross the river, but the Vietnamese army concentrated on blocking us on the opposite side of the bridge.

The intensity of the battle can be seen from the uneven bridge deck, and the small craters are undoubtedly made by cannonballs, densely packed with small dots like coral...... Needless to say, a masterpiece of bullets, of course.

With heavy footsteps, he trotted all the way forward, and the bridge of more than 200 meters soon came to an end. The soldiers guarding the bridgehead had already received the news, and after exchanging orders to each other, they greeted us at the bridgehead, and a soldier wearing a cadre uniform warmly shook hands and hugged our troops to say some words of encouragement.

The battlefield is like this, and the relationship between life and death has long allowed us to abandon all barriers. Although we didn't know each other, and we didn't even have time to see clearly when we hurried through the fog, we were like brothers who had been 'friends' for decades saying goodbye.

As soon as the troops crossed the bridge and entered the southern sector, the atmosphere immediately became tense. The soldiers didn't need my orders at all, and they covered each other with their guns, and the speed became slower and slower.

The houses in the South Side are noticeably denser and more bustling than in the North Side, as there are a few broken signs, neon signs, and the occasional broken old car, bicycle, and Vietnamese tricycle on both sides of the street......

After walking for more than ten minutes, the guide waved at us and stopped.

The guide, surnamed Lin, was a platoon commander of the 128th Division, and he was familiar with the terrain of the southern region because he had directly participated in the battle of the bridge and the battle in the southern area.

Platoon Commander Lin gestured to us to squat, and then whispered to me, "It's this street, I don't know what it's called." In order to prevent us from arguing, the devil deliberately removed all the street signs! We named this street 'Devil's Street'! ”

"Devil's Street!" When I heard this, I couldn't help but wonder what the name they had given to the other streets.

"More than 200 meters along this street is the Public Security Bureau!" Platoon Commander Lin continued: "Yesterday we were ambushed here, dozens of comrades were sacrificed, and a tank was blown up...... Right there! ”

Following the gesture of Platoon Commander Lin, a tank wreckage appeared faintly in the fog more than two hundred meters in front of him, which had been burned to pitch black and couldn't tell what kind of tank it was, but the size should be 59.

"Be careful!" Platoon Commander Lin looked at the people behind me and said, "We rushed several times but didn't rush over, the Yue devil has at least one company of troops in the Public Security Bureau, there are enough ammunition and medicine, light and heavy weapons, and all of them are vetera......ns."

"Don't worry!" I patted Platoon Commander Lin on the shoulder and said, "You just wait to see the show!" ”

As he was talking, there was a rumbling motor behind him, and Battalion Commander Wu's tank came up with the soldiers of the fourth company.

"Prepare for battle!" As soon as I gave the order, the soldiers took down the sledgehammers that had been prepared from the tanks, and smashed open the big 'doors' of the houses on the street with a few "bangs." Then, the fifth company was on the left and the sixth company was on the right, each lining up with ammunition and ammunition on their backs.

Platoon Commander Lin couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at it, and leaned over and asked, "Aren't you going to attack?" What are you doing in the house? ”

Li Zhifu skillfully tied the flashlight to the barrel of the rifle with the soldiers, and raised his head at him: "How is it?" Do you want to see how we fight devils? ”

Platoon Commander Lin smiled a little unconvinced: "I'm also the one who came here to fight devils, and I still need to watch you fight ......."

But he said so, but he didn't leave at all, obviously wanting to see what we were capable of.

"The fifth company is ready!"

"The Sixth Company is ready!"

"The 'shooting' team is in place!"

……

I nodded with satisfaction on the intercom as the reports of the various units came one after another, and the preparation time of the soldiers was much faster than during training. And the tacit understanding they are showing now also gives me a feeling of command, which is undoubtedly a great improvement.

Raising his hand to look at his watch, he saw the hands jump to six o'clock sharp, and ordered: "Action!" ”

The first to hit the "Boom ......" was naturally the tank units on the street, which was not very wide, but it was large enough for three tanks to move side by side. Battalion Commander Wu's three 59 squadrons immediately rushed up and fired at the street ahead, followed by the roar of dense heavy machine guns......

Of course, in this foggy situation, the tankmen hiding in the tanks could not see the target at all, and their artillery and machine guns were actually 'indiscriminately' fighting for a while, and their real purpose was actually to hide the sound of the infantry banging on the wall and making 'holes' on both sides. More importantly, they can also attract the attention of the Vietnamese army, but when the Vietnamese army is all focused on the tanks in the middle of the street, they do not expect that our infantry has advanced without them noticing.

Seeing that the time was ripe, I waved at the soldiers, and several of the warriors who had been preparing by the wall immediately picked up their sledgehammers...... At this time, the houses were all made of bricks and sand mortar, and where could the soldiers be able to afford to knock like this. I only heard a few muffled sounds of "bang bang", and there was a one-person sized 'hole' on the wall after a few hammers.

Without saying a word, the two fighters lit the grenade and threw it into the hole...... After a few "booms", the fighters turned on the flashlights tied to the barrels, raised their guns and drilled into the 'holes'.

"Oh!" At this time, Platoon Commander Lin 'revealed' a suddenly realized look, and the disbelief on his face quickly turned into admiration.

"Everything works!"

……

The intercom was heard by the soldiers reporting that there was no enemy in the house.

In the same way, several houses were opened one after another, and we meticulously inspected them one by one. After opening a private house, the first thing to do is to search the private house up and down as quickly as possible. If there is a suitable position on the high floor, the members of the 'shooting' team will also be arranged to take cover upstairs. Their task was to use the long-range range of sniper rifles to cover the advance of other troops and to observe the reaction of the Vietnamese army.

Of course, that includes myself.

But after a long time, there was no movement of the Yue devils, except for a few highly decomposed corpses found in one of the rooms, there were no living people, and the Vietnamese troops in the public security bureau did not react. The Vietnamese army obviously wanted to wait for us to get closer before starting the fight, if it was in peacetime, the distance of more than 200 meters was close enough, but under the dense fog it seemed that it was not enough.

It's just that what the Vietnamese army didn't know was that when they tensed their nerves and stared at our tanks, two companies of our army had actually rushed in front of the tanks and quietly approached them......

"One set of reports, one set of reports!" At this time, Li Shui's 'wave' voice came from the walkie-talkie: "Anti-tank weapons were found in front of the fifth company. Repeat...... Found an anti-tank weapon, it's a bazooka! ”

This is the advantage of the 'shooting' team to seize the high ground, and the 'shooting' team across the street, with the sharpshooter's acumen and the magnification of the SVD scope, can detect the enemy situation and warn us first. In the same way, we can also detect the enemy situation across the street and warn the Sixth Company.

After receiving this news, I immediately ordered: "Slow down the tank, pay attention to the fifth company, there is an enemy situation ahead!" ”

"Yes!" The units responded quickly and quickly as I was ordered.

Li Zhifu even knocked on a few civilian houses, and as soon as he heard that there was an enemy situation in front of him, he became energetic, and gestured to the soldiers, and immediately more than a dozen people were in place.

Then with a swing of the sledgehammer, he rushed in......

"Bang bang ......" A few gunshots rang out, and the battle was over just as soon as it began.

Not long after, Li Zhifu's voice came from the walkie-talkie: "The target is cleared, there are two enemies, kill one and capture the other alive!" ”

"Captured alive?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, the five companies have always been heavier than other companies, and they will be captured alive in this situation?

Of course, when I saw the "captive" through the "door" and "hole" with suspicion, I quickly understood that it was just a teenager, thin and dry, not as tall as a gun. There was a resentment and murderous aura in his eyes that was not commensurate with his age, his immature left side of his face was bruised, and there was a bloodshot on the corner of his mouth, which he thought had been beaten by the soldiers in the battle just now.

Looking at the two rockets he was still carrying on his back, I quickly understood that he was a bazooka 'shooter'. The Vietnamese army was short of strength and limited manpower, but it was relatively rich in weapons and ammunition because of the free supply of the Soviet Union and the backlog in the past. In order to make the most of these resources to resist our army, they often involve civilians as secondary 'marksmen'. For example, the machine gun secondary 'shooter', the recoilless gun, the bazooka deputy 'shooter', etc. But they are not so much a 'shooter' as a 'medicine' on their backs......

This little boy was clearly one of them.

"Fuck! This little rabbit! At this time, Li Zhifu rushed up and kicked him to the ground.

"Li Zhifu!" I spoke out to stop Li Zhifu's excesses, and at the same time I wondered in my heart, Li Zhifu is not usually such a brutal person, how can he beat children so ruthlessly at this time.

"Battalion commander!" Li Zhifu raised his bandaged left hand and pointed at the little boy angrily and said angrily: "I saved his life for this kid, you see? I didn't expect this guy to bite Lu 'Dong' Bin and bite off one of my fingers...... You said that this devil has a conscience, and he should have been shot if he knew it! ”

I shook my head helplessly, beckoned the two warriors to take the kid away, and then ordered in a cold voice, "Keep fighting!" Don't take prisoners......"

"Yes!" The warriors answered and continued to swing their hammers forward.

Suddenly there were gunshots and explosions, and I quickly realized that the Vietnamese army had begun to fight back. Approaching the window, he poked his head out and looked out, and sure enough, he saw a dense patch of bullets and rockets coming from the direction of the Vietnamese army. Those 'random' bullets only hit the "ping-pong" sound of nearby houses. The whole world felt like an earthquake, and glass shattered and all kinds of signboards and windows smashed down......

However, these bullets are difficult to pose a threat to our army's 59 tanks, one is because of the fog and poor visibility, and the other is because it is difficult for the bazooka to directly penetrate the frontal armor of the 59.

"Tanks! Spot enemy tanks. Repeat, find the enemy tank......" At this time, Li Shui's 'wave' voice came from the walkie-talkie, and his position was facing the corner of the street, so he could detect the enemy situation first.

After a while, Li Shui 'Bo' went on to report: "There are five cars in total, model T54......"

A big war is about to begin, but that's what I'm looking for. Because only when the enemy is in a 'mess' on the front, will they not notice that their side walls have been penetrated by us......

So I immediately ordered into the walkie-talkie: "The tank battalion is ready to meet the enemy!" Five, six, speed forward! ”

"Yes!" With a few crisp responses, the warriors quickly quickened their movements.

"Boom ......" With a burst of explosions, the tank battle on the street soon began, and in an instant the sound of gunfire and explosions came one after another.

It's just that no matter how fierce the guns are outside, we in the private houses are knocking forward one by one. Most of these houses do not have Vietnamese troops, and a few will ambush some Vietnamese soldiers, but the number of them is only a dozen at most, and without exception, they are all ambushed by the window.

This is also understandable, our troops are attacking along the streets! How can they be ambushed if they don't ambush by the window. So what we're going to do...... It's really just a 'hole' in the wall and then a shuttle pops up behind them......

As the gunfire and artillery of the Vietnamese army got closer and closer, the movements of the soldiers' hands became more and more cautious, because at this time even fools knew that we were about to approach the public security bureau of the Vietnamese army. It is conceivable that the enemies in the Public Security Bureau are not as easy to deal with as these shrimp soldiers and crabs along the way.

"A set of reports! A set of reports! Li Shui's 'wave' voice came from the walkie-talkie: "In front of the Fifth Company is the Vietnamese army's defense line, deal with it carefully!" Repeat, the front is the Public Security Bureau! The front is the Public Security Bureau! ”

"Ahead is the Public Security Bureau!" I ordered Li Zhifu: "Be ready to open three openings, and wait for my order!" ”

"Yes!" The fighters answered, and spontaneously divided into three groups and chose three positions to prepare.

"Do it!" At my command, the warriors slammed their hammers into the wall, creating three more holes. Almost at the same time as the 'hole' was smashed open, four or five grenades were thrown into the 'hole' with white smoke.

"Boom ......" There was a bang and screams from next door, and a piece of bloody smoke rushed out of the mouth of the 'hole', and the soldiers rushed into the 'hole' without saying a word, holding their weapons.

Almost at the same time, the 6th Company on the right side of the street also launched an attack on the enemy, and the sound of gunfire and explosions soon became loud, and the Vietnamese firepower was obviously weakened at this moment, and our tanks took this opportunity to charge under the cover of the infantry.

Under the protection of the guards, I took a rifle through the 'door' and 'hole' and couldn't help but be surprised...... The first thing that came into my sight was boxes of weapons and ammunition stacked on top of each other, piled up like a hill. What kind of public security bureau is this, it's just a bomb 'medicine' storehouse!