Chapter 35: The Battle of Tongdeng (5)

The tank in front of him jolted violently again, and threw the soldiers who were in charge of the guidance task up heavily, and the soldiers couldn't help but scream, but they were all not thrown down because they were tied to their backpacks. It's just that I think they're going to suffer some sin anyway.

With the sound of "rumbling ......", the tankers also understood that this was a critical moment, so they increased their horsepower and rushed all the way towards the artillery positions of the Vietnamese army.

I led my soldiers to follow the tank, and at the same time raised all kinds of weapons and swept all the way to both sides, and from time to time I threw grenades into the darkness on both sides. Even though we couldn't see the enemy, we could clearly hear the screams coming from the darkness.

Obviously, the defense line of the Vietnamese army has been successfully torn apart by us, although the quality of the Vietnamese army is not low, but we did not expect that our army would break into their defense line with tanks so quickly. I have to admit that the Type 63 tank can be said to be vulnerable to the enemy's anti-tank weapons, but this time it was unprepared and quickly ......

This is a bit like the German blitzkrieg during World War II, in which the German tanks were not more advanced than the Allies at the beginning of World War II, but they could rely on speed and the right strategy to successfully defeat the Allied forces again and again. Now it's my turn to use this "lightning" tactic and "decapitation operation".

A high ground, another high ground

For me, who has a particularly poor sense of direction, I can't tell where I am now, and I don't know how far I am to reach my destination, I only know to follow the tank forward, and then use the sniper rifle in my hand to kill the Vietnamese soldiers who 'shoot' at our army one after another. The fighters also divided into several groups to fight the weapons in their hands, and the fighters were all equipped with automatic rifles, and whenever there was the slightest sound on the sides, several rows of bullets immediately flew out.

With a scream of "......", a rocket with a long and bright tail went straight towards our tank, followed by a loud "boom", and a ball of flame exploded in front of the tank.

Of course, the Vietnamese army's bazooka 'shooter' also had no chance to fire a second shell. The long tail that the bazooka had taken off when it 'fired' revealed the position of the 'shooter', and I easily knocked him to the ground with a single shot.

This made me realize that the Vietnamese army had already organized anti-tank weapons to intercept our tanks. It has only been a dozen minutes since the start of the war. To a certain extent, our troops' breakthrough into the enemy's positions was also a kind of infiltration warfare, and it was difficult for the Vietnamese troops to distinguish between the enemy and us, not to mention organizing troops to counterattack, but they succeeded in doing so. This is enough to prove that their command structure has been flexible to the point of command.

But I also know that the more such an army is, the more it will be hit when their command structure is destroyed. Contrarily...... If it is a command organization like our army, where the superiors do not know the actual situation and blindly command, sometimes it will be a good thing to let the Vietnamese army defeat it

This is just like the more developed a country is, the easier it is to be destroyed, for a country that is still almost in a primitive society, it can still survive no matter how much the enemy bombs it. But if it is a developed country, it only needs to bomb the country's power stations, reservoirs and other facilities, and the country's economy will soon collapse, and the people will feel that they can't live......

So this strengthens my confidence to break into this Longtan tiger's 'den', the so-called not into the tiger's 'den' is a tiger's son, since I have broken into here, of course, I will not stop because of a few bazookas.

"Speed up and rush forward with all your might," I ordered into the walkie-talkie: "The tank unit can break away from the infantry and break in"

"Yes" A few responses came over the intercom, and then the tank roared again, leaving our infantry all the way into the enemy highlands.

To be honest, I was still a little apprehensive about giving this order. Without the cover of the infantry, the tank was easily besieged by the Vietnamese anti-tank forces; And the infantry left the cover of the tanks, and it can also be said that they were completely 'exposed' under the fire of the Vietnamese troops on the high ground on both sides.

But I had to take a gamble. The situation is obvious, if we give the Vietnamese army a little more time, they will most likely block us in these narrow valleys with high ground on both sides, and then we will have the only end of annihilation. Therefore, the only way to get the tanks out of the infantry and rush forward at full speed is that the tanks can rush into the Vietnamese army's 'mixed' artillery positions, so that the Vietnamese army will 'mess up' regardless of the other.

After a while, I heard the excited shouts of the infantry over the walkie-talkie: "When we arrived at the artillery position where we saw the enemy, the comrades accelerated and rushed forward at a 30-degree angle, opened fire and fired machine guns side by side, and 'fired' ...... side by side machine guns."

When I heard this voice, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, I didn't think that I could really fight, so I led the soldiers to rush forward as fast as possible.

After turning a mountain pass, I saw a large open field, in which dozens of large and small 'guns' of various sizes were parked, including howitzers with towering barrels, high-altitude 'shooting' guns, and various mortars of different calibers, and I even saw six or seven cars full of shells in the firelight...... At this time, the four Type 63 tanks were rampage through the artillery positions of the Vietnamese army, shooting and firing everywhere

The scene was enjoyable, and the four tanks showed their might as if they had entered a no-man's land, rushing all the way and being invincible. Rushing into the enemy's artillery position, he opened fire on the artillery belt and ran it over, crushed the enemy when he saw it, pressed it when he saw the artillery, and hit it when he saw a car, and smashed the artillery position of the Vietnamese army into a 'chaotic' mess, a 'chaos' and a 'chaos'.

What made the Vietnamese army even more helpless was that the four Type 63 tanks were now in the midst of a mountain of shells in the artillery position, and the Vietnamese army did not dare to 'fire' with anti-tank weapons in their hands. Otherwise, if you are not careful, it is very likely to cause a chain explosion in the artillery position.

The Vietnamese army did not dare to shoot and fire easily, but that does not mean that we did not dare. With a wave of my hand, I led the warriors around. The firelight had already clearly exposed the open area to the mouth of the tunnel, and the soldiers did not wait for my order, grabbed the submachine guns and machine guns, and fired pieces of bullets at the mouth of the black "holes" and "holes". Although we couldn't see what was happening in the tunnel, we could hear screams in the darkness......

Recoilless guns and bazooka 'shooters' followed, and in an instant a burst of shells followed into the tunnel. If you hit it accurately, you went straight to the inside of the tunnel, and with a bang, a piece of minced 'meat' and bloody rain poured out from the mouth of the tunnel. If you can't hit it accurately, you can easily blow up the mouth of the tunnel, or blow up a few 'gates' of artillery into the sky.

Several officers ran out of the tunnel in a hurry, and among them were a few half-naked, Vietnamese 'female' soldiers, desperately running to the two jeeps. But before they could start, the Type 63 tank 'fired' rows of machine-gun bullets that smashed the two jeeps.

It was a high-firing machine gun on the turret of the tank, and a machine gunner 'operated' it outside the turret, and its 12.7mm bullets could easily penetrate the shell of the jeep, so that only a clanging 'chaos' was heard, and only a piece of blood and 'mixed flesh' was left in the jeep.

But the Type 63 tank still didn't seem to be at ease, turned around and ran over to the two jeeps, only to hear a creaking 'chaos'. Soon there were two more clumps of scrap metal on the ground, scrap iron that was constantly seeping outwards with blood......

In the blink of an eye, the Type 63 tank walked back and forth in the Vietnamese army's 'mixed' artillery position two or three times, and there were many more strange-shaped artillery pieces and clumps of 'meat' mud pressed into the shape of tracks on the open ground. The entire artillery positions of the Vietnamese army became a world of blood and fire.

This was followed by another "boom", and the artillery of a tank inadvertently hit a car loaded with shells. A dazzling bright light immediately flashed on the open ground, and the car flew into the air at a height of more than ten meters, and then was broken into pieces and fell from the air one by one.

This was followed by several more explosions, and another car exploded.

"Retreat, retreat, all units retreat as planned," I shouted over the walkie-talkie as I waved at the fighters.

I don't want all of us to die here because of the chain explosion of the artillery position, after all, now that we have achieved our strategic goal, we can only wait for the Vietnamese troops to come around us from all sides and make us dumplings.

"Yes," the soldiers quickly conveyed my orders one after another.

Although the sound of the explosion made it impossible for us to hear each other's voices at all, I had already taught the Fifth Company how to use sign language to communicate, so the fighters quickly carried out my orders and began to retreat. However, it is still a little difficult to inform the tanks of this order, after all, the fighters first notify the tank guide, and then the tank guide informs the tanker. So the four tanks were left behind.

The direction of retreat was to the west, which is the direction of Heights 339.

This was a plan that we had already set up for a long time, because we considered that if we retreated by the same route, it was very likely that we would be strongly blocked by the Vietnamese army, which was already mentally prepared. Therefore, we made a plan before the war: whether we succeed or not, our army will fight all the way from east to west, that is, all the way to the end. This will not only surprise the enemy, but will also be able to join forces with our troops to flank the Vietnamese army in the west.

Sure enough, the Vietnamese army was unprepared for this, but when I continued to attack west with my soldiers with all kinds of weapons, almost all of them had their backs to us. In the darkness, the Vietnamese troops had no idea where our unit came from, and since the command structure had been destroyed, some Vietnamese troops even shouted at us when we attacked: "Don't shoot your own people."

This made our progress all the way smooth, and it took only ten minutes to break through the defense line of the Vietnamese army in the west and join our troops.

But at this moment, the voice of the infantry suddenly came from the walkie-talkie: "Report that the company commander tank No. 207 has broken down and can't move"

"Company Commander Tank No. 207 just blocked the exit"

I was shocked to hear this, and although it was possible to surprise from the west, it had a weakness, that is, the terrain was not as open and gentle as the east, and it was not enough for four tanks to pass side by side. So that's what happened now, and the failure of one tank blocked the survival of all the tanks after it.

The deputy company commander of the "company commander" also heard the voice on the walkie-talkie, and couldn't help but hurriedly say: "Let's go back and rescue them."

"No," I shook my head.

At this time, although the Vietnamese army had lost its command, they had already been killed by us when they broke into it like this, and they had already killed the Heavenly Palace, and it could almost be said that they were all holding back their evil spirits, and they were eager to catch up and finish us all. In this case, we should avoid their sharpness rather than send it to their mouths ourselves.

The deputy company commander of the "Company Commander" couldn't help but hurriedly say: "Do you just let Company Commander Li wait for them to die inside?" ”

"It's no longer in a hurry," I again refused the request of the deputy company commander.

Sure enough, as soon as my voice fell, the guide's report came over the walkie-talkie: "The enemy is coming, we are surrounded, we are surrounded, ask for reinforcements, ask for reinforcements, ask for ......reinforcements"

Before the guide could finish his words, he heard another voice shout, "Do you want the others to come in and die?" All of them, follow my orders to shoot all the shells, let's turn around and rush back and kill them again."

The deputy company commander and I both heard the voice of the tank battalion commander Li, and couldn't help but glance at each other and didn't know what to say, in this case, Company Commander Li's decision was obviously correct, but everyone knew that if he wanted to come back alive like this, it would be more difficult than climbing to the sky.

"Hit, give me a hard beat" Company Commander Li's laughter faintly came from the walkie-talkie: "Happy, really it, look at you, the more devils dare to break ground on Tai Sui's head, don't give you a little power, look at our ......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud "boom", and then there was no more sound.

The soldiers lowered their heads, knowing that most of the tank troops were already unlucky, including our comrades who were tank guides.

Although sacrifice on the battlefield was inevitable, we achieved considerable results in this battle with very few casualties. But...... When I knew that my comrades-in-arms had left us forever, the bitterness in my heart was not something that could be replaced by the results.

But just when the soldiers were not hopeful, there was a sudden rumble of a tank motor, and then a tank appeared in front of us through the night.

At first, we thought it was a Vietnamese tank, and we raised bazookas and recoilless guns at it. But when we saw that it was a Type 63 tank, we knew it was our own. Although the Vietnamese army has many tanks that are the same as our army's tanks, the Type 63 tank is a kind of tank independently developed by our army, and the Vietnamese army does not have it at all.

The tank rumbled into our defenses, and then slowly stopped. Only then did we notice that the tank had not even been covered with a hatch cover, and there were shocking lines of blood everywhere near the hatch cover. The fighters climbed into the tank and rescued one of the wounded fighters in the cabin.

As soon as he came out, he only shouted: "Company commander, they died" and then tilted his head and fainted.

Later, I learned that this soldier's name was Xu Sen, and his tank was hit by several rockets from the Vietnamese army during the battle, and when the other soldiers were killed and he was seriously wounded, he would stubbornly climb out of the tank, take advantage of the darkness to eliminate the fault of the tank blocking the exit as quickly as possible, and use his only intact left hand to drive the tank out of the enemy's encirclement......

I don't know what kind of 'spirit' and perseverance he used to accomplish this, I just know that when I listen to it, I think it's a myth. It's hardly humanly possible, but in fact he did.

Of course, behind this tank hung four fighters of our company who were responsible for guiding the tank forward. They were also bloody, dyeing the entire back half of the tank red. We thought they were all going to die, but what we didn't expect was that we found one of them unscathed, who was just stunned and hung on the tank......

Sometimes the battlefield is so strange, sometimes we feel safe, but we don't know where suddenly a bullet or shell can take everyone's 'life', sometimes we think we must be sacrificed, but often miracles happen

Although this time, we did not succeed in taking the defense group of Tan Mou, but we destroyed the artillery position of the Vietnamese army and the command system of Tan Mou's position. Without artillery and without command, Tan's Vietnamese army was like a tiger losing its teeth and claws. So it is conceivable that it is only a matter of time before Tan is taken.

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I would like to pay tribute to the soldiers of the 7th Company of the Tank Regiment of our army with this chapter

Li Degui, the commander of the company, led four tanks to penetrate the Vietnamese artillery position, destroyed a command vehicle of the Vietnamese army, and ran over two 'anti-aircraft guns', two 'high-antiplane' machine guns, and four trucks. After draining all the shells, he was hit by a Vietnamese artillery shell and died on the spot. After the war, he was awarded the honorary title of "Battle Hero" by the Central Military Commission.

Tank driver Xu Sen, in the middle of the battle repaired another tank and drove it back to our positions with his left hand. The higher-level party committee recorded first-class meritorious service and awarded the titles of "Heroic Tankman" and "New Long March Assaulter".

Zhu Jianluo, the tank guide, was also stunned and hung on the tank during the battle, but he was unharmed. Later, he was sacrificed on other battlefields and was pursued for first-class merit.