Chapter 43: The Battle of Tongdeng (13)

Chapter 43: The Battle of Tongdeng (13)

The Vietnamese army's strafing and bombardment of the railway station continued, and Battalion Commander Ding's infantry company and Battalion Commander Wu's tanks were still suffering losses, but all I could do was watch.

Watching the comrades-in-arms fall in a pool of blood one by one under the guns of the Vietnamese army, watching those tanks explode and burn one after another under the fire of the Vietnamese army, and the tank soldiers who crawled out of them. They were covered in flames, screaming and screaming in the pale light of the flares......

But we couldn't do anything, the Vietnamese troops were hiding in the batteries, and we couldn't see anything. They can keep shooting flares, but we can't get them in. Even if we happen to be able to get a flare through the 'shot' hole, we still won't be able to see the people inside or kill the enemy.

As a result, the battlefield suddenly became a situation in which the enemy was in the dark and I was in the open.

We just had to wait, wait for those anti-chemical soldiers to rush up the hill, and then use their flamethrowers to buy us a little time.

These anti-chemical warfare soldiers were temporarily arranged by Regiment Commander Zhao for our company, so that they could come in handy when searching for the enemy hiding in the tunnel. However, I didn't expect that it would not come in handy when searching for the enemy, but it became a lifeline for us at this critical time.

I gently moved the sniper rifle in my hand and turned my gaze to the anti-chemical soldiers who were moving on the slope of Pingdingshan towards the Guitun Fort. There are a total of seven anti-chemical warfare troops, and each anti-chemical warfare unit is protected by three soldiers. After all, the anti-chemical warfare soldiers are slow to move with heavy gasoline barrels on their backs, and such a large target is easy to be attacked by the enemy, so there must be soldiers to cooperate with them.

One of the three fighters in charge of the protection task was holding a 56 and a half, and two were carrying a Type 56 submachine gun. Obviously, this method of weapons distribution is similar to that of the US military's anti-chemical warfare forces. The 56 and a half rifles were used to deal with long-range targets, and the Type 56 submachine guns provided close cover.

Perhaps because the Vietnamese army focused all their attention on the railway station, they did not notice the soldiers who were approaching the Guitun Fort on the inclined plane, which also made the soldiers' march all the way smooth.

But...... Suddenly, there was only a "boom", and a soldier was thrown high in the firelight, and then fell heavily back to the inclined plane and rolled all the way down.

I didn't hear the whistling of the shells, and the light didn't look like a grenade. In fact...... At this time, the soldiers were still more than a hundred meters away from the battery, and I believe that the Vietnamese troops in the battery could not throw the grenade so far through the 'shooting' hole. So, there's only one possibility – landmines

Landmines are available on the battlefields of Korea, but they are by no means as widely used as they are now. The Vietnamese army seems to have an inexhaustible supply of mines, and no matter where it defends, it has to lay dense mines in front of its positions, and even if our army launches carpet bombardment with artillery fire, it is difficult to remove those mines. Now nature is no exception.

But it's not the mines that I'm worried about. Although there are still mines, they are still a small number after all, and as long as the soldiers walk carefully along the crater, there will not be much of a problem. What I was really worried about was that the Vietnamese troops in the fort found the soldiers who were 'touching' the fort......

Once the Vietnamese army found those soldiers or anti-chemical warfare soldiers carrying gasoline barrels on their backs, the consequences could be imagined. From the old militiaman He Guoan, I know that there are more than 300 'shooting' holes on the Guitun Fort, that is to say, there are nearly 100 'shooting' holes on each side...... Submachine guns, machine gun bullets came out of the 'firing' holes, and it wasn't like rain

However, the Vietnamese did not seem to notice the explosion, which can be seen from the fact that their machine guns did not turn. After all, the sound of gunfire and explosions in the direction of the train station was so obvious that the explosion could only be said to have thrown a small pebble into the rough sea.

As the soldiers continued to move closer to the fort, my heart slowly hung in the air.

As a commander, it is very necessary to understand the 'sexuality' of the weapons in your hands, because only by understanding the weapons in your hands, such as the 'sexual' ability, lethality, advantages and disadvantages, etc., can you use these weapons reasonably on the battlefield and let them play their best role. Therefore, before the start of the war, I learned from the anti-chemical warfare soldiers about the 'sexuality' of the flame ** equipment equipped by our army.

This is a kind of light flamethrower developed by our army, the full name is "Type 74 flame device", compared with the flame device used by the US military during the period to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the largest "shot" device of Type 74 flame device reaches 100 meters, which greatly exceeds the "shooting" range of 3 or 40 meters of the US army's flame device.

But this is not surprising, I think, in this era of highly developed individual weapons, if any flame weapon has to reach nearly thirty or forty meters before it can be 'fired', then it is better to rush directly with a submachine gun.

But to my surprise, the anti-chemical warfare troops had rushed almost a hundred meters away from the Vietnamese battery, but they still did not mean to stop, but continued to run

Randao, didn't they know that they had reached the 'shooting' range of the flame ** device?

I don't think it's possible, as anti-chemical warfare soldiers who weigh 40 pounds on their backs and may be hit and exploded by the Vietnamese army at any time, every step or even every inch is a matter of life and death for them, so it is impossible for them not to know whether they are already within the 'shooting' range. But why didn't they shoot?

Later, I learned that the 100-meter 'firing' range of the Type 74 flame ** device was the largest 'firing' range on flat ground. This thing is like the water spray gun of a fire truck, if there is a large angle of inclination upwards, then it will naturally shorten the 'shooting' range. The limit is that when the flamethrower rises 90 degrees, the 'firing' range is zero. Of course, there is no doubt that no one would do this, because that would undoubtedly be burning themselves......

The Ghost Forts were above the soldiers, so if the soldiers wanted to use their flamethrowers to burn the forts, they would have to walk at least twenty meters further. Twenty meters, if those anti-chemical soldiers run fast, it will only take a few seconds, but it is this short distance of 20 meters, that is, this short time of a few seconds, but something happened

With a "boom", another fighter stepped on the mine.

If it was an ordinary soldier, it would have no effect, and the eyes of the Vietnamese army might not notice this way, but the soldier who stepped on the mine was a chemical defense soldier.

It wouldn't make much difference if the SPC was killed or killed, but ...... However, when he was blown up and rolled down the slope, he triggered a mine again.

So with a loud "boom", the oil bottle group burst open, and a burst of flames burst out on the inclined plane, which not only dragged everyone's eyes over, but also exposed all the soldiers who were 'touching' towards the Vietnamese army fort on the inclined plane......

......The gunfire soon rang out, and the soldiers covering the anti-chemical warfare troops 'stood up' their weapons and rushed towards the Vietnamese troops at that moment, but unfortunately, their charge did not seem to have any effect on the Vietnamese troops hiding in the Ghost Tun Fort. One by one, they fell in a pool of blood.

There were also two anti-chemical warfare soldiers who couldn't stand up and rushed forward, but all of them fell under the guns of the Vietnamese army without exception. Fortunately, the gasoline bottles on their backs were not burst, otherwise, I am afraid that all the chemical defense soldiers would be burned to death by the flames.

What to do? Looking at the rows of bullets fired from the fort, I couldn't help but worry for the few remaining anti-chemical warfare soldiers. Under the suppression of the fire of the Vietnamese army, in such a firelight, the anti-chemical warfare troops with heavy oil bottles on their backs could almost be said to have no chance. It can be said that as soon as they stand up, or even poke their heads out of hiding, they may be killed by the Vietnamese army.

I don't think even if I were there, I couldn't find any way to get the job done...... It seems that we have the only way to go by declaring failure

But that's when something unexpected happened.

With a "Teng" sound, a flame came out of the flamethrower in the hand of one of the anti-chemical warfare soldiers, it was like a long snake, and like a long whip of the devil, waving and 'whing' on the scorched earth in front of the fort with a scorching flame. But the flame never 'pumped' to the turret, just a little bit...... It's only one or two meters away......

It was then that I understood the reason why the anti-chemical warfare soldiers had to move forward when they had stepped a hundred meters.

At this moment, the gunfire of the Vietnamese army stopped invariably.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but secretly praise, the anti-chemical warfare soldiers knew that the flame ** device could not be sprayed to the fort, but the Vietnamese army did not know that under the stinging 'excited' of the heat 'wave' and the firelight, no matter who would make a dodge action with the conditions of counter-shooting, even if they were well-trained Vietnamese soldiers.

Then the gunfire stopped instantly, and there was only the whirring of flames.

But I know that this will not last. At most, it is more than ten seconds, and the Vietnamese army will soon find out that they are just outside the 'firing' range of the flame ** device......

This was exactly the right time for the fighters to charge, and I quickly realized it. More than ten seconds is enough time for those anti-chemical soldiers to rush into the 'shooting' range, but it is only a few meters away

But when I looked down on the open ground in front of the fort, my excited heart cooled as if I had fallen into an ice cellar. Because at that time, it had already been burned into a sea of fire by the flame ** device

Before I could react, I suddenly saw several warriors jumping up in the firelight. It was the anti-chemical soldiers, because I saw the three oil bottles on their backs. Without saying anything, they grabbed their flamethrowers and rushed into the flames in front of the position......

With the sound of "Teng", at the moment when the gun rang out again in the fort, three flames rushed towards the Guitun Fort like a sea 'wave' with the sound of the wind of "Huohuo".

To the surprise of the Vietnamese soldiers, this time it was not to scare them, the flames slammed into the wall of the fort, and then they were splashed and jumped to scatter the flames everywhere, and soon the flames swung up and down in the hands of the soldiers, and this side of the fort was quickly burned into a fireball......

That's enough, I know it's not enough to kill the enemy, after all, the Vietnamese army is hiding behind a reinforced concrete wall several meters thick, and even this heat may not be transferred to the fort. But...... These flames would block the 'shooting' holes, so that the Vietnamese army could not see the outside world.

Of course, if you're lucky, it's possible that the flames will be sprayed into the turret through the 'shot' holes......

Looking at the anti-chemical soldiers, the flames had already climbed up their upper bodies along their 'trousers' feet, and then climbed up their heads and faces. After a while, they were surrounded by flames and became a burning man, but they still held the flame gun in their hands and continued to shoot at the Vietnamese army's battery**...... Until they no longer had the slightest strength to slowly kneel, and finally lay down in the raging flames.

"All of them," I commanded, gritting my teeth, "find the tunnels and tunnels as fast as you can, and blow them up"

"Yes," the soldiers responded, and immediately took advantage of this time to transport explosives packets and blasting canisters to the tunnels and tunnels. With the sound of explosions, all the tunnels on the nameless high ground that we could find were blown up by several explosive packets, and the dark tunnel was also blown up again by us with a blaster.

The same process was going on at the train station, and we already knew where the tunnels were, so it didn't take us much time to blow them up this time.

After doing this, the warriors retreated towards their camp like a tidal wave. As I walked down the hilltop position, I looked back at Pingdingshan, and there was still a fire burning in the Ghost Tun Fort, and although some Vietnamese troops were shooting outside, it was all a 'random' fight without a target, and it could not pose a threat to us at all.

Looking at the position where those anti-chemical warfare soldiers were standing, it was already a sea of fire, and there was no longer a single figure in sight. We even ...... I can't even tell who they are. But I think it doesn't matter if you can't tell the difference, because they are all good, and they are all our heroes, including those soldiers who died under the enemy's guns in order to cover the anti-chemical warfare troops

Although they have little combat experience and are not well-trained, they have done what a soldier should do, what a soldier should do, and what a hero should do with the greatest courage......

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In the rock 'cave' of the regiment headquarters, all the cadres were silent, including the head of the regiment Zhao and the political commissar Wang.

Although we won a battle, it can be said that we have achieved the predetermined strategic goal, and to a large extent, the living space of the Guitun Fort has been compressed. But the heavy casualties are not a joy for all of us. Especially the two Battalion Commanders Ding and Wu Battalion Commanders......

Battalion Commander Wu was wounded in the head and was wearing a bandage, which he had been wounded by shrapnel when he poked his head out to guide the tanks to attack. What's even more serious is Battalion Commander Ding, the two fingers of his left hand let the flying iron piece cut off Qi Gen, and the military uniform on his body that was almost blown up seems to tell us how 'fierce' this battle is.

"Let's talk about casualties" finally broke the silence, although the reality is cruel, but after all, I still have to face it.

"There's nothing to say" Battalion Commander Ding took a deep 'puff' of cigarette and replied: "We even have injuries on everyone, I won't say anything about what can still be beaten, half of the heavier ones are"

That is, almost sixty or so soldiers were seriously injured or sacrificed, and I can understand Battalion Commander Ding's current mood, for a battalion commander who loves his subordinates so much, he doesn't dare to count those wounded seriously now

"The tank unit is fine," replied Battalion Commander Wu, "only five vehicles were lost"

Although Battalion Commander Wu said this, we all know that the battle was only 20 minutes before and after, and the Vietnamese army only had a few minutes to start fighting. Five tanks were lost in these few minutes, and this loss really cannot be called "okay".

I looked at Camp Commander Ding and Camp Commander Wu with some apologies, and said, "I'm sorry for the two battalion commanders, I ......."

"I can't blame you for this," Battalion Commander Ding interrupted me: "It's a person who understands, you know, Company Commander Cui, you leave the place where you can fight to us, this is a person who has a conscience, we understand it in our hearts."

"Battalion Commander Ding is right," Battalion Commander Wu nodded at me and said, "In this battle, we still won in the end. This shows that there is no problem with Company Commander Cui's planning and command, and at the last critical moment, Company Commander Cui can still think of burning the fort with anti-chemical warfare troops, and thanks to those brothers of anti-chemical warfare troops, they bought us time and saved our lives."

"Yes," Political Commissar Wang also agreed: "This Ghost Tun Fort is like a big octopus, and several tentacles stretch out around through the dark passage. Through tonight's battle, we've cut off all of its tentacles. Now he has a head left, and no matter how arrogant he is, he can't be arrogant."

"As for the accidental casualties suffered by our army tonight......," Commander Zhao said, "casualties on the battlefield are always inevitable, and the battlefield is also changing rapidly, and no one can guarantee what will happen in the next second." So...... I hope that comrades can face this problem with a good attitude, we still won the battle, we should be happy......"

"I'm not happy," Battalion Commander Ding interrupted Commander Zhao in a sullen voice.

"Comrade Ding Zhiping" Political Commissar Wang continued: "Commander Zhao is right, casualties are inevitable, we can't blame the comrades of the artillery unit, right?" ”

"I don't blame the artillery," Battalion Commander Ding replied with his head bowed.

"Then who do you blame?" Hearing this, Commissar Wang couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"I ......" Battalion Commander Ding raised his head, gritted his teeth and said, "I blame the Yue Devil Agent, blame the three disciplines and eight attentions"

"I'm talking about you comrade" Hearing Battalion Commander Ding say this, Political Commissar Wang was a little unhappy: "Blame the more devil agents, blame the more devil agents, how can you blame the three major disciplines and eight points of attention?" ”

"If there are no three disciplines and eight attentions, those more devil agents dare to be so arrogant? Can they be in groups? Battalion Commander Ding's words left everyone speechless.

What Battalion Commander Dinh said was the truth, and everyone knew that the Vietnamese army agents actually survived under our own discipline. But...... What's the use of knowing that?