Chapter 104 Bridgehead

Chapter 104 Bridgehead

Originally, I thought that I would encounter stubborn resistance from the Vietnamese army at the Chi Poor River Bridge, at least ...... I thought I should also see the wounded retreating on the bridge over the Qi Poor River, the civilians, or the troops reinforced by the Vietnamese army. But when they arrived at the Qiqiao River Bridge, there was nothing, that is, there were no retreating civilians, and there were no Vietnamese troops who came up to reinforce through the bridge, and the whole stone arch bridge was deserted, except for a few sentry posts of Vietnamese troops and the defense of about a company in the bridgehead.

Later, I learned that in fact, the people of Lang Son North had already retreated to the South District, but the Vietnamese army did not dare to cross the river to reinforce the Vietnamese army in Lang Son North District due to general reasons, and Bi Yi was in a dilemma at this time.

Without reinforcements, we can only watch the destruction of the northern sector, and watch the friendly forces in the northern sector be surrounded by the enemy and then annihilated.

Reinforce...... It is very likely that the troops sent will soon be in a situation of fighting on their backs, after all, at this time, the northern area is already under the encirclement of our army's encircled heights, including Kuma Mountain, and our army can cover the entire northern area with condescending artillery fire at any time. Therefore, it is very likely that the reinforcements sent to the North Sector will immediately become the troops in need of reinforcements.

From this point of view, I think that the Vietnamese army has actually realized to a certain extent that our army is using the tactics of encirclement to expand the results of the battle, so it is hesitant to even reinforce the northern district.

But we couldn't control that much, and as soon as the tank troops rushed up and saw that there was only so little enemy guarding the bridgehead, they started fighting without saying a word. The anti-aircraft machine guns fired rows of bullets at the Vietnamese troops, the tank guns also fired shells at the bridgehead pillboxes, and the infantry hiding behind the tanks also fired rockets and recoilless guns at the enemy.

Without saying a word, Battalion Commander Wu took three tanks and ran over the civilian houses next to him, and then rushed towards the bridgehead position of the Vietnamese army at a gallop......

In fact, this was planned by us a long time ago, and the reason why Battalion Commander Wu led two tanks to break into the Vietnamese bridgehead regardless of the danger was because we were worried that the Vietnamese army would blow up the bridge in an emergency. Later, I learned that this worry was completely superfluous, and the Vietnamese army was not worried at all at this time that our army would cross the southern area along the Qiqiao River bridge, and in addition, the Vietnamese army still had a large number of troops in the northern area making desperate resistance and did not withdraw, and they still wanted to leave this back road to escape back, so the Vietnamese army guarding the bridgehead had no intention of blowing up the bridge at all, nor was it ready to blow up the bridge.

But we didn't know this at the time, we just knew that we had to take down this bridgehead as quickly as possible and keep it firmly in our hands.

Perhaps the Vietnamese army was really empty of troops, or maybe they did not expect that we would conquer the big and small stone mountains so quickly and take the bridge to the Qiqiao River, and the Vietnamese army guarding the bridgehead was obviously ill-prepared. They don't even have basic anti-tank weapons.

After several tanks of our army rushed up, it was as if they were in a no-man's land, easily rushing to the barbed wire fence erected by the Vietnamese army in front of the position, detonating infantry mines, and the two 'strong' 7.62mm machine guns on the front and side of the tank "clicked" all the way, only hitting the blood and 'flesh' of the Vietnamese army and screaming in the sky, and then the tank roared angrily and ruthlessly ran over the machine gun fort of the Vietnamese army with a thick overlay, crushing the 'shooter' and the high-altitude 'shooting' machine gun inside into a cloud of blood and 'flesh'......

Of course, there were also a few Vietnamese soldiers who rushed up with explosive bags to blow up the tank, but this kind of brave act was not suitable at this time, because on the other side there were soldiers from our 'shooting' team staring at them through the scope of sniper rifles.

"Bang bang ......" Two gunshots rang out, and a Vietnamese soldier who was holding an explosive bag and rushed all the way towards the tank fell in a pool of blood.

The courage and wisdom of this Vietnamese soldier were unquestionable, he ran along the path of the tank, and before he jumped, he lit the fuse of the explosive pack, so that even if he was killed by a bullet on the way, the explosive bag could pose a certain threat to the tank.

It's just that his wishful thinking was wrong, and a dynamite bag of such a large volume, and the explosive bag with white smoke all the way, quickly caught my attention, and I shot the explosive bag away, and then ended his 'life' with another bullet.

That's when I realized that he was an officer with two red bars on his shoulders. But no matter how brilliant his record was, no matter how good his life was, he was only worth a bullet on the battlefield.

"Bang!" Another gunshot rang out, and the head of a Vietnamese soldier disappeared from my sight immediately after a bloody light.

The Vietnamese soldier was obviously very experienced, and he followed the tank's line of sight into a crater, ready to pull the explosive pack when the tank ran over. I should say that he had succeeded, and I watched him jump into the crater with the explosives packet, but he was too slow to kill him. If he had just waited for the tank to come up, there would probably be nothing I could do but watch him die with a tank......

But...... He was not very confident in his own judgment, or he was used to 'sexual' movements, or he was worried about the tank turning midway, so he poked his head out to see where the tank was. That's what gave me the chance to shoot him......

"Bang!"

This shot was a Vietnamese soldier who suddenly came out of the pillbox, and when I found him, he was holding a bazooka in his hand and aimed at our tank, and what made me even more angry was that I also recognized the bazooka as the Type 69 40mm rocket launcher produced by our army......

I couldn't help but secretly say that it was dangerous, with the power of the 69 Type 40 fire, it could easily penetrate the armor in the 59, as long as I found him a second later or this shot did not hit him, our army was likely to lose a tank!

At the same time, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Mother's more devil, yesterday he was still asking us for money and equipment, and today he will use our money and our equipment to beat us!"

The soldiers also fought very happily at this time, machine guns and submachine guns swept towards the enemy's position in rows, anyway, we rushed up to the tanks that were not afraid of bullets, so there was no need to worry about accidental injuries at all. The bullets passed in pieces and pieces, hitting the iron, guns, sandbags, and cement and gravel on the Vietnamese army's position, everything seemed to be boiling. After a while, only the two pillboxes on both sides of the bridge, one on the left and one on the right, were still firing indiscriminately, but the tank in 59 stopped and leisurely turned the turret at an angle, and then "boomed...... Directly hit the shell into the 'shooting' hole of the pillbox.

The battle soon ended, and when the gunfire stopped, the screams and wails of the Vietnamese army soon rang out, and the smoke, blood, corpses, and wounded Vietnamese troops spread all over the bridgehead position.

But this was not the final result, I waved my hand and ordered the soldiers: "The fifth company is responsible for defending the bridgehead position, and the tank unit will cooperate with other troops to immediately seize the surrounding commanding heights and build defensive positions!" ”

"Yes!" In response, the fighters divided into several directions under the cover of tanks, first searched the houses on both sides of the road along the road, and then launched a charge on the nearby commanding heights.

I don't need to worry too much about these things, He Liqiang, as the commander of a battalion, naturally has a way to coordinate such a small matter. In addition, most of the troops of the Vietnamese army were fighting with our troops on the front line in the northern district, and the strength of the rear was really not worth mentioning, so after a while, our army successfully occupied the three commanding heights behind the bridgehead.

These three commanding heights were defended by the 7th, 8th, and 9th companies of the 3rd Battalion. The 4th and 6th companies of our battalion, under the cover of tank units, began a meticulous search of civilian houses in the occupied areas. After all, the vicinity of this bridgehead can now be said to be our station, and we can't let any danger lurk inside our army.

With the cover and help of the tanks, this search mission was not difficult, although at this time the Vietnamese houses had been changed from wooden houses to brick houses, but these did not seem to make any difference in front of the tanks. Of course, the fighters also knocked on the 'door' when they searched these houses, but they just asked the tanks to knock on the 'door'......

This is not to say that our troops are cruel or anything, and the facts have proved that there are no ordinary people in these places at all, just imagine what other people will not leave knowing that our army will soon fight? So even if there were, they were agents pretending to be ordinary people. In addition, we are a unit that has carried out the task of pulling the net and clearing the net in Dong Deng, where will we repeat the mistakes of the past at this time, and believe in the nonsense of "not touching the Vietnamese people, not a single grass and a tree".

The soldiers of the 5th Company, under my leadership, began to clean up the battlefield, and we were about to walk towards the wounded Vietnamese soldiers with our bayonets, when suddenly there was a whistling of shells in the sky.

At this point in the battle, the soldiers also knew what was going on, so they didn't need my order at all, and they scattered to find cover and lie down, and I had just taken cover in a crater, and the shells exploded near us.

With a loud bang, the corpses of the Vietnamese soldiers were blown into the air one by one and then divided into several pieces and fell, and what fell on us was no longer the previous sand and gravel, but the blood and corpse fragments of the Vietnamese army......"513! 513, I'm 335, I'm 335......" I saw Zhu Jixing holding a walkie-talkie microphone in front of me and calling non-stop, but his voice was quickly drowned out in the rumbling explosion, and I could only see him continue to call under the pieces of blood rags that fell.

Then, after a while, the surrounding explosions gradually subsided, and then there were bursts of explosions on the south bank of the Qiqiu River. Obviously, Zhu Jixing had reported the coordinates to our artillery who were preparing in the Dong Deng area in time, and had successfully suppressed the Vietnamese artillery fire at this time.

"Well done!" I nodded at Zhu Jixing, and Zhu Jixing smiled embarrassedly, as if he was doing a trivial matter.

But I know that this is by no means a trivial matter, and we did not have time to build up a position in a hurry just now, and if we let the Vietnamese artillery continue to bombard like this for a few minutes, I think the Fifth Company will definitely suffer a lot of casualties.

Several fighters also patted Zhu Jixing's shoulder with emotion, and some even gave him a thumbs up, which made Zhu Jixing feel a little embarrassed.

Look at the bridgehead again, we were already in a mess, and now it has become a hodgepodge, broken weapons, broken wood, bloody corpses, internal organs and stumps and broken arms are all mixed together, and the whole position seems to have been bitten by the devil's teeth for a while.

These devils are really ruthless, and it doesn't matter if there are still wounded among their comrades, this is a cannon ...... Later, I found out that this is actually good, and the more ruthless is yet to come!

"Build a position now!" I called into the intercom, and at this time the defense of the bridgehead was undoubtedly the most important.

"Battalion Commander......" The disgraced Shunzi climbed out from under a Vietnamese corpse with difficulty, and couldn't help but complain when he saw this scene: "It's all blown up like this, there are corpses everywhere...... How else to build a position? ”

"Why can't you build a position?" I glared at him and scolded, "What happened to the corpse? If you don't want to be like them, start working right now! ”

"Yes!" Junko answered, and somewhat helplessly untied the sapper shovel on his back.

After all, he is still a soldier who has been soulless on the battlefield for a few days! I will also be afraid of corpses...... Looking at Junko's complaints, I couldn't help but shake my head, if this is a veteran on the Korean battlefield, I'm afraid that he will grab these corpses without hesitation and go to the trench to block the bullets!

"Battalion commander......" At this time, the signal soldier, whose face was blackened by the smoke of artillery fire, came to me panting and said: "The regiment headquarters has ...... telephone."

"Hmm!" Only then did I remember that after taking the big and small stone mountains, I had not reported the situation to the regiment headquarters until this time. This time, the regimental headquarters must have asked about the situation because of the artillery call just now.

So as soon as he took the microphone, he replied: "Report chief, we have taken the big and small stone mountains, and now we have successfully occupied the bridgehead of the Qiqiao River Bridge!" Please indicate the next step! ”

"Good guys!" The laughter of Political Commissar Huang came from the other end of the microphone: "Just now we were thinking about whether you have laid down the big and small stone mountains!" I didn't expect you to even let you beat the bridgehead! What do you think? The casualties are not big! ”

"There are not many casualties!" I replied: "Please rest assured that the political commissar will hold the bridgehead and never let the reinforcements of the Vietnamese army take a step from here, and our troops will swear to live and die with the position!" ”

"What co-exists?" Political Commissar Huang said dissatisfiedly: "I want you and the bridge to be there!" ”

"Yes!" I answered, and I couldn't help but feel a little warm in my heart.

It's better to be a political commissar, at least he'll take those of us soldiers seriously.