Chapter 132: The Fierce Battle of the Bank (3)

In the blink of an eye, it is the anniversary of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and the decisive battle has been written for one year and seven months. At the same time, I also want to tell you that the decisive battle will not end so soon, and there are still many things that have not been 'delivered', hehe......

Chapter 132: The Fierce Battle of the Bank (3)

The T62 tank was a relatively advanced tank at this time, not only because of its thick armor (the thickest turret had 220mm frontal armor) but also because it was streamlined. Our 82 guns, 75 guns, and 40 rocket launchers didn't do much to its frontal armor. Of course, if you can hit its covering belt or weak side rear armor, it will be a different matter. It's just that the Vietnamese army is not a fool, and in this case, the weak parts of the T62 tank will be exposed in front of us......

"Boom ......" Just as the soldiers were in full swing to equip themselves with anti-tank weapons, the Vietnamese army suddenly fired a volley of shells, which made us feel a little strange that these shells did not burst into flames and violent explosions like other shells. Instead, there were puffs of smoke "squeaking" on the ground.

"Gas bombs!" I don't know who shouted, and the fighters all took out their gas masks and put them on their heads in a panic.

The guard also brought a gas mask and handed it to me, and I couldn't help but curse and reluctantly put the mask on my head.

I knew very well that the concentration of poison gas that the gas mask could deal with was less than 2 percent, but now the Vietnamese army hit the gas bomb in front of us like this, and dozens of rounds were fired at a beating, and the concentration was more than 2 percent.

But watching the smoke in front of me quickly disperse, I felt a little strange in my heart - are these gas bombs? If the Vietnamese army really has poison gas bombs...... And then they will use gas bombs against us? They should have used poison gas bombs to deal with the attack on the periphery of our army. What's more, if these are poisonous gases, wouldn't those more devils be doomed if they spread?

Thinking of this, I took a few hard breaths near the window...... I thought that if it was poisonous gas, it would be death anyway, and it didn't seem to make much difference if I sucked more or less. But the smell of sulfur and gunpowder that followed made me put down a dangling boulder in my heart.

I took off my gas mask and said loudly into the walkie-talkie: "This is not a gas bomb, it is a smoke bomb!" ”

When the soldiers saw that I had taken off my gas mask for a long time, they were relieved to take off their masks one by one, and they all breathed a sigh of relief. The soldiers who fought the war were not afraid, but if they talked about dealing with poison gas bombs...... They don't have any bottom at all.

"Boom ......" The Vietnamese army sent another volley of smoke bombs, which made the smoke around the bank even thicker, and the fact that it was night made us quickly blurry and unable to see anything.

"Get ready for battle!" I commanded loudly.

The soldiers answered, set up their weapons and pointed their guns at the darkness outside the window.

"Battalion commander!" Li Zhifu leaned over to me and said, "The more devils want to use these smoke to interfere with our vision!" This is not a good battle! ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, turned to the signal soldier next to me, and asked, "Can you contact the division headquarters?" ”

The communication listened carefully for a while, shook his head and said, "No! The more devils have been jamming radio signals, and only occasionally will they use radio contact when they have to use radio contact! ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, turned around and ordered Wang Wurong: "Calculate the coordinates, report the coordinates as soon as you get in touch with your superiors, and let the artillery fire cover everything within a hundred meters and a thousand meters around us!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Wurong answered, and immediately took out the paper and notebook and began to calculate.

Wang Wurong is one of the three translators arranged for me by Chief of Staff Li, and originally there was another Li Zhenshen who was born as an artilleryman, but Li Zhenxiang's life and death are unknown because of the mission of bombing Langshan Middle School, so this kind of thing of calculating coordinates can only be 'handed over' to Wang Wurong.

At this time, I really regretted that I couldn't report the coordinates in a hurry when I got in touch with my superiors just now, otherwise...... A burst of artillery fire, the Vietnamese army will lose more than half of its troops, to say the least.

The roar of tank motors came from the smoke of the "rumbling ......", and it was then that I really understood the purpose of the Vietnamese army's smoke bombs.

It is said that this smoke is a double-edged sword, it can make us unable to see the enemy, and it can also make the Vietnamese army unable to see us. But it would be different if the Vietnamese army had tanks, which had infrared night vision devices, and no matter how much smoke outside, it would not have much effect on the tank. Therefore, as soon as this smoke grenade is struck, it undoubtedly plays a great role in providing cover for the tank.

In other words, the tankers in the tank will see us, but we can't see the tank, so we can only let the tank approach our bank gate step by step and be powerless, and a large number of Vietnamese infantry can follow behind the tank and attack our army......

What to do? These three words quickly popped into my mind.

I can almost imagine the T62 tank of the Vietnamese army using its hard armor to break through our big 'door', and then the Vietnamese army will follow in droves. But I can't do anything now, because we can't see where the T62 tank is.

Just let the fighters 'shoot' bazookas? That would be tantamount to a blind man 'touching' an elephant, and even if these rockets managed to hit the T62, they would not be able to penetrate its frontal armor......

What to do? Let the fighters get out of the bank to block it?

This method seems to be possible, but we are not even a fraction of the number of the Vietnamese army, and it seems that abandoning the fortress of the bank to fight the Vietnamese army seems to be in line with the enemy's wishes.

But there's one thing you can use...... Our army is still wearing the uniform of the Vietnamese army, and there is smoke everywhere outside, and the Vietnamese army has no way to distinguish between friend and foe. I even thought that if we were to take advantage of this opportunity now, it would be impossible for us to pretend that the Vietnamese army had broken out of the encirclement.

But I quickly dispelled this idea, first, when we captured the bank, we pretended to be the Vietnamese army to take advantage of the situation, and it is impossible for the Vietnamese army not to be on guard against this, as long as they change the password or tie a white 'wool' scarf or something to identify, we are afraid that we will be smart but will be mistaken by cleverness. What's more...... We can't leave the bank, there are still hundreds of gas bombs here, and once these gas bombs fall into the hands of the enemy, it will not be just a matter of sacrificing dozens of fighters......

Therefore, keeping is what must be kept, and the question is how to keep it!

At this time, my eyes suddenly turned to the big 'gate' of the bank, and it suddenly occurred to me that the armor of the Vietnamese tanks was hard, but the walls in other parts of the bank were as strong as pillboxes, and the recoilless guns and the like had no effect on them. In other words, there seems to be only one way for Vietnamese tanks to break in, and that is - the big 'gate' of the bank!

Thinking of this, I couldn't help jumping up and commanded towards the walkie-talkie: "Yang Songjian!" Grab a few explosives! ”

"Yes!" Yang Songjian answered, turned around and ran back to the ammunition 'medicine' depot at the back of the bank with a team of soldiers.

The bank building has four floors, and each floor can be defended by about a platoon of troops, and the first floor is relatively important, and it is also difficult to defend, so this is the defense of a relatively large platoon.

After a while, Yang Songjian came back with several soldiers each holding an explosive 'drug' bag, and he took the lead in rushing to me to ask for battle: "Battalion commander, I am the platoon commander, let me go first!" ”

"Nope! Let me go first! ”

"The platoon commander still has to command the battle, let's go first!"

……

"What are you robbing about?" I couldn't help but ask, "What made you go to him first?" ”

"Battalion commander, aren't you ......" Yang Songjian raised the explosives bag in his hand and said: "Isn't this asking us to blow up the tank?" ”

"Who said you should blow up the tank!" I said angrily: "Start immediately, arrange these explosive 'drug' bags in a row outside the 'door', and move ......quickly."

"Yes!" Yang Songjian and the soldiers couldn't help but be stunned, and then quickly understood what I meant, and as soon as they turned around, they ran towards the big 'gate' of the bank with the explosives bag.

But after a while, Yang Songjian ran back again, and said with some embarrassment: "Battalion commander, the explosives 'medicine' package is arranged, but I don't know when it will be detonated!" Visibility was so bad......"

Although Yang Songjian didn't say it very clearly, I also understood what he meant, although the explosive 'medicine' bag is powerful, the biggest problem is that the detonation delay time is very controllable. In particular, if you use this thing to blow up a moving tank, if the delay is long, the tank will explode after the position of the explosive pack, and if the delay is short, the tank will explode before the explosive "charge" is fired......

In the past, the soldiers could have estimated the delay time according to the advancing speed and distance of the enemy's tank, or used the fire cable to control the detonation of the explosive 'charge' bag from a long distance, but now there is smoke everywhere, and the visibility is only one or two meters, which means that when we look at the enemy's tank, the detonation may not be in a hurry!

Just when I was in a dilemma, suddenly a loud "boom" sounded, and the entire bank 'gate' was blown down by the Vietnamese army's tank guns, and the two soldiers at the big 'gate' were blown upside down without any defense, and crashed into the wall fiercely, and they must have died without thinking too much. Then a dense burst of bullets came through the big 'door', and the hall was filled with the sound of bullets hitting the walls.

Seeing this, I secretly said badly, I didn't expect the Vietnamese tanks to 'press' close to our army's defense line so quickly, and they also tried to block the big 'gate' with firepower......

"All of them!" I didn't think much of it, and immediately ordered, "Call me!" ”

......With the screaming of rockets, flames exploded in the smoke, and the bullets of the soldiers also poured down densely towards the enemy. However, the soldiers' 'shooting' was all targetless, and although the screams of the Vietnamese army were constantly heard outside, the effect was not ideal. The scariest thing is...... The rumbling motor of the tank was still roaring in the smoke, and it was getting closer......

We must not allow the Vietnamese tanks to break into the bank like this, otherwise not only will all of us die here, but after the Vietnamese army takes away the poison gas bombs, it will cause immeasurable casualties to the main force of our army.

Thinking of this, I immediately ordered Yang Songjian: "Immediately withdraw all the soldiers upstairs, and I will detonate the 'medicine' ......."

"No! Can't let you go! "I was just about to run towards the big 'gate', but Yang Songjian hugged him tightly from behind.

"You're crazy!" Yang Songjian's strength was very strong, and I didn't break free even after two struggles, and I couldn't help shouting in a hurry: "Yang Songjian, you fucking obey orders for me!" The devil tank comes up and we're done! ”

But Yang Songjian didn't know what was crazy at this time, and he didn't pay attention to my order at all, not only did he not let go, but also threw him backwards, and then shouted at the two soldiers beside him: "You two, show me the battalion commander!" ”

Without looking back, he threw himself towards the big gate.

"Yang Songjian!" I couldn't help but be angry, I had never seen anyone dare to disobey my orders so blatantly since I led this team, and this man was still the right-hand man I had always trusted and reused, so I jumped up from the ground and drew my pistol...... Make up your mind that if Yang Songjian still doesn't obey the order, he will point a pistol at his head!

But it seemed that it was too late, and the soldiers and I were stunned to find that Yang Songjian, who was at the big gate, had already set off two grenades and stuffed them into the explosives.

"Get down!" Yang Songjian ran towards us like crazy and yelled loudly, only then did I notice a long tank barrel sticking out of the smoke......

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the huge shock 'wave' shook our heads, but Yang Songjian was too close to the location of the explosive 'medicine' bag, and the whole person was blown up, and then hit the wall heavily and then fell to the ground......

"Yang Songjian!"

"Platoon commander!"

……

My warriors and I pounced on him at the first time, but it was too late, his back had been shattered by flying cement blocks and rubble, blood was oozing from his mouth, nostrils, and ears, and the blow on the wall had shattered all his internal organs.

My subordinates, my comrades-in-arms, and my brothers...... And just like that, he left without leaving a single last word. It should have been me lying here, but he 'switched' places with me at the last moment. He never disobeyed my orders, but the only time he disobeyed them was when he gave his life......

Looking back at the tank in the smoke, it had already been blown up with black smoke and flames, and the tank hatch was also crushed by the cement blocks that collapsed from the big 'door', and even if the Vietnamese soldiers inside were not killed, they would be slowly roasted to death in this flame.

This is what Yang Songjian bought with his life, he blew up not only a T62 tank, but also made this tank stuck on the big 'gate' of the bank, plugging the only gap and leak 'hole' in this fortress, so that we have no worries......

A few Vietnamese soldiers tried to climb in through the window through the smoke, but within two blows, the soldiers were sent back with submachine guns, and the soldiers upstairs also threw grenades down in rows, only to blow up the Vietnamese troops in the smoke were "chaotic" and "chaotic", and they could not get close to the building at all.

"Battalion commander! Connected! Connected...... "The signal soldier yelled at me.

"Report the coordinates immediately!" I ordered.

"Wang Wurong is already reporting!"

The Messenger's excited answer finally put my mind at ease. I put Yang Songjian in a room, and then rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the 'medicine' depot to find a piece of white cloth, spread it out and covered Yang Songjian's body, and then said silently in my heart: "Brother, let's go!" Soon there will be more devils coming down to accompany you! ”

As if in answer to me, there was a sudden whistling of cannonballs in the sky, followed by patches of shells exploding around the bank building. Because of the smoke all around, we couldn't see the shells exploding, but we could hear the shaking on the ground and the sound of explosions coming from near and far, and the shells were blowing out in circles around the bank building, and then in circles...... And so on and forth, over and over again and again around our perimeter, and I don't know how long the bombing lasted, and the bombing never stopped, and I believe it will continue, so that we all got used to the explosions later.

There is no doubt that the superiors used artillery shells to build a wall of fire for us outside the bank building, so that for more than half an hour the Vietnamese army could not attack our troops at all.

When I came down from the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, I knew very well that I had to build a wall of fire with artillery shells, and that a dozen shells would be more than half an hour to shoot, which also proved that my superiors attached great importance to the bank building. Perhaps it should not be said that it is the importance attached to the bank building, but to the gas bombs in the bank building......

Later, I heard Chief of Staff Li say that the superiors were not only because of those poison gas bombs, but as soon as Commander Chu received the coordinates that we had sent up, he immediately sent the bombing task to the artillery unit and said to the commander of the artillery regiment: "If you have a shell that hits the bank building and accidentally injures a soldier, I will ask you!" ”

Commander Chu should have known that the poison gas bombs in the bank building were under strict air defense protection, but in fact, there was no need to think about it at all, if there was no air defense protection, it would only take a few shells to detonate the poison gas bombs in the bank building of the Vietnamese army, and the entire Lang Son would be turned into a dead city, and the Vietnamese army would never let this happen.

So it is obvious that Commander Chu's order is to save us soldiers, and it is precisely because of this knowledge that I believe that not all commanders in this era do not care about the lives of their soldiers for the sake of the mission.

We spent more than half an hour peacefully in the wall of fire made of artillery shells, until the sound of explosions was gradually replaced by the "rumbling" sound of tank motors and the sound of dense gunfire.

At first, we were nervous thinking that it was another Vietnamese tank, but when three red 'color' flares were raised that day, we realized...... That's our own tank troops, the nightmare is finally over!