Chapter 121: Crazy Attack

Chapter 121: Crazy Attack

Perhaps because our army was divided into several ways to attack the Vietnamese People's Army garrison, the Vietnamese army had no time to take care of the loss of the municipal fǔ. This gave our troops ample time to complete and strengthen the fortifications in the direction of the various buildings.

In fact, I was suspicious of what my superiors said that the municipal fǔ was the retreat of the Vietnamese army, and I thought that for the Vietnamese army, the entire city of Lang Son was surrounded by our army, right? What other retreat can the Vietnamese army have? Even if they fought hard to retreat from the municipal government, they were only going from one encirclement to another.

Later, I found out that there was still a certain gap between the truth and what I thought, mainly because there were a large number of tanks and artillery stranded in the KPA garrison, but the infantry was killed and wounded because most of them were sent to the front line to fight. It is well known that artillery and tanks are dangerous if they are left without infantry cover, so they do have to retreat and join up with other units.

Of course, the key to their convergence with the rest of the army lies in the "T" junction of the municipal fǔ.

"Da Da Da ......"

Just as I was looking at the map on my desk in the temporary camp headquarters of the municipal fǔ, a burst of gunfire from the north caught my attention.

In fact, at this time, gunshots and explosions in Lang Son City were already the norm, and without these, it was called abnormal. The reason why these gunshots alerted me was that I could tell from the direction and distance from which they came that they were fired on our defensive lines.

Sure enough, after a while, I heard a report from my hometown: "At nine o'clock, a small group of Vietnamese troops was found trying to cross the street, and after being discovered by our army, they hid in civilian houses!" ”

At this time, there was another burst of gunfire from the other side, this time in the direction of the school guarded by Xu Yongjian. I only heard him report on the walkie-talkie: "Battalion commander, a small group of the enemy was found in the direction of four o'clock, and it has been repulsed by our troops......"

"Hmm!" Hearing this, I couldn't help but be stunned, the two directions were almost simultaneously disturbed by a small group of Vietnamese troops, and this is by no means a coincidence.

So I immediately ordered into the walkie-talkie: "It is very likely that the Vietnamese army has infiltrated around our army, and all units are ready for battle!" ”

"Yes!" The commanders of each company responded, and soon conveyed the order to prepare for battle.

As soon as I grabbed my rifle leaning against the table, I ran out and jumped into the trench outside the building.

For a sniper, the Municipal Fǔ Building may be a good place to snipe, as it not only has a commanding view from above, but also has many windows for snipers to 'shoot'. But the more places like this, the more vulnerable they are.

What is the use of having a wide field of vision? In this era when bazookas can even be equipped with one per squad, and recoilless guns are almost two 'doors' per platoon, the windows on the building are like targets placed in front of the Vietnamese army, and the Vietnamese army can bombard the snipers with rockets or shells hitting the windows at any time.

Therefore, the building is actually only suitable for a small number of machine-gun units or mortars for fire suppression, and even has to change positions frequently.

After trotting for a while in the 'Jiao' trench, he found Li Zhifu in the crowd, leaned down to him and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"Battalion commander!" Li Zhifu noticed me and hurriedly replied: "Everything is normal, there is no situation!" ”

There are enemies in the positions of the fourth and sixth companies, and there are no enemies in the direction of the municipal fǔ? This seems a little out of order.

After thinking about it, I quickly understood that the positions of the fourth and sixth companies were actually the flanks and rear of the municipal fǔ. The target of the Vietnamese army was actually the municipal fǔ, but they knew that we would be on guard in the front, so they tried to sneak up from behind our flank. But what they didn't expect was that we had built an interconnected iron triangle defense system based on the three points of municipal fǔ, hotel and school.

Fortunately, I dispersed the rear forces in time to arrange, if we just stubbornly defend the municipal fǔ, now we are afraid that we have been besieged by the Vietnamese army and are surrounded by enemies.

I raised my binoculars and looked at the "T" shaped 'intersection' in front of the municipal fǔ, and sure enough, everything was normal as Li Zhifu said, except for the dense gunfire in the direction of the KPA station, there was nothing.

The three regiments of the 128th Division were attacking the Vietnamese troops stationed at the KPA garrison from three different directions, and I knew from the intensity of the gunfire that the battle was raging.

Did the Vietnamese army really have no intention of attacking in this direction? I think it's a little unlikely, there is a saying called "dog jumping off the wall in a hurry", this dog is 'forced' to be anxious will find a way to jump off the wall, the more devils are 'forced' to be anxious will naturally find a way to retreat to other places to breathe a sigh of relief.

Just when I was confused, the aperture of the telescope unconsciously moved to a neat row of houses across the street, and I couldn't help but feel shocked...... We can get through the people's houses and get close to the enemy's position unknowingly, so of course the Vietnamese army can do the same!

Thinking of this, I hurriedly ordered into the walkie-talkie: "Attention, the Vietnamese army is very likely to use civilian houses to sneak to the front of our army's position, and all units should be prepared!" ”

"What?" Li Zhifu next to him couldn't help but be stunned: "The battalion commander said that the more devils will use our tricks to beat us......"

"What's not to do?" I replied angrily.

Who will tell you about copyright theft on the battlefield, as long as it is a good method, as long as it can win the battle, it can be used!

As a result, there was immediately a problem with the arrangement of our army's firepower, most of our machine guns were oriented to the entrance to the street, and the civilian houses on the side were precisely the weakest part of our army's firepower.

Li Zhifu, who was the company commander, would not have known this, so he immediately jumped up and shouted: "Machine gunner, follow me!" ”

Then he rushed to the flank with a few 'strong' machine guns.

Li Zhifu had just left the artillery shells of the Vietnamese army, but the difference from the past was that this time the Vietnamese army fired mortars, and there were not many of them. I think this is most likely due to the fact that our positions are too close to the Vietnamese army, and their long-range artillery does not work at all.

Lying in the trench and listening carefully, I found that most of the impact points of the enemy's shells were concentrated on the side of the municipal fǔ, which proved that my idea just now was correct.

Sure enough, as soon as the artillery stopped, a dense burst of gunfire came from the side, and a whole row of houses on the left seemed to spit out countless tongues of fire in an instant, and bullets rushed towards our positions from several directions. Rows of Vietnamese troops, holding AK47s, suddenly burst out of a dozen or so civilian houses separated from our army's position, shouting and charging at our army's position. At the same time, the sound of a tank rumbling motor could be heard on the other side of the street......

Seeing this, I couldn't help but secretly praise, the coordination between the various arms of this devil is very good, and there is almost no gap between one 'wave' and one 'wave'. It's not easy for them to do this even though they're besieged by our legions.

"Hit!" With my order, the battle soon began.

The street is only about 30 meters wide, and the closest position of our army is only about 20 meters from the edge of the street, which means that as soon as the Vietnamese troops come out of the civilian houses, they are only 50 or 60 meters away from our army's position...... This was already in the range of the grenade, so I didn't dare to slack off, and gave the order to start fighting as soon as the Vietnamese army rushed out.

Without saying a word, the soldiers pulled the trigger on the enemy, and the bullets were fired in rows at the rushing enemy, knocking them to the ground one by one.

However, due to the sudden appearance of the enemy and the close proximity of the two sides, the two sides entered a white-hot state at the beginning of the battle.

The Vietnamese army's offensive was very fierce, and their covering troops relied on civilian houses to use the 'doors' and windows of civilian houses to set up weapons, and even many Vietnamese troops set up machine guns on the high places of civilian houses to suppress our army's firepower. The Vietnamese army's assault troops charged while strafing and 'shooting' with AK47s regardless of life and death, and some even threw grenades at our positions. In just a short moment, there were several dangerous situations on the side defense line of our army, but fortunately, Li Zhifu arrived in time with machine gunners to press them back.

It should be said that the Vietnamese army took advantage of a lot in this battle. Our army has positions, and the Vietnamese army has positions, and their civilian housing positions are more concealed and geographically advantageous. The other is that these Vietnamese soldiers have all just come down from the battlefield, and they have already entered the state. However, our army had been resting for a while because it had just relaxed, and it would enter such a 'fierce' battle as soon as the war began, so there was no way to adapt for a while.

Don't think that the combat status is not important, the difference between a recruit and a veteran is that the veteran can enter the state faster on the battlefield, which almost means that a soldier can play his due combat effectiveness on the battlefield. That's why sometimes a unit that looks good can look vulnerable in a particular environment or situation.

At this time, our army was faced with such a dilemma.

Fortunately, our defense on the flank was not so weak, and as soon as I gave the order, the machine guns, mortars, bazookas, and recoilless on the municipal building immediately turned around and aimed at the houses on the flanks, and then only heard a roar and the sound of machine guns, and those houses were blown up and collapsed, and the follow-up troops of the Vietnamese army were immediately blocked.

As soon as the follow-up troops were blocked, the dozens of Vietnamese troops who rushed up could not set off too much wind and 'waves', even though they were still very brave and continued to rush towards our positions with their guns, and some of them had even jumped into our trenches and started a white-knuckle battle with the soldiers......

But it is conceivable that these Vietnamese troops who broke into the trenches of our army were soon drowned in the steel torrent of the soldiers.

Before the fighters could catch their breath, several T54 tanks appeared on both sides of the street, covering a large number of Vietnamese troops pressing on us, and because our troops had dug anti-tank trenches in front of the position, they had to stop.

It was only that the anti-tank trenches could defend against tanks but not the infantry, and the Vietnamese troops flashed out from behind the tanks one by one and rushed towards our positions, first detonating the mines under the anti-tank trenches with grenades, and then jumping into the anti-tank trenches one by one and using them as trenches to 'shoot' at our troops. At the same time, Vietnamese soldiers poured out of the houses in other directions again, rushing towards us with guns like crazy.

"Bang bang!" I picked up my rifle and knocked out two Vietnamese soldiers who were on the tank and were about to 'shoot' at my position with their anti-aircraft machine guns, and then turned my guns on the other officers and machine gunners.

I have to admit that this sudden change also caught me off guard. Maybe that's why I don't have much experience in urban street fighting. In the past, when we fought on high ground, we could always detect the enemy's offensive at a distance of hundreds or even thousands of meters, and we always had a period of mental preparation, and we could always make the enemy rush in front of them and make them pay a lot of price......

However, I now know that street fighting in the city is not like this, and the enemy is often right in front of our eyes as soon as they appear. At this time, my mind flashed to the crowd of Indians in the western movie shouting and rushing towards a small group of American soldiers in the middle. The Vietnamese troops rushing towards us like the sea around us were like Indians, and I felt like I was going to drown them at any moment.

"Boom ......" shells flew over us with a whistling sound and smashed into the crowd of Vietnamese soldiers, and then dozens of Vietnamese soldiers were thrown high and divided into several pieces and fell back to the ground.

This is a shell from the direction of the hotel and the school, and the advantage of this iron triangle defense system that I have built is that the school, the hotel, and the municipal fǔ can not only reinforce each other through the 'jiao' trenches, but also support each other with firepower. Of course, the distance between the three points is more than 800 meters, which determines that this support can only be the support of machine guns or mortars with a long range.

However, this was enough, and when I was in a bit of a hurry with the Fifth Company, mortars and light and heavy machine guns in the direction of hotels and schools fired a barrage in front of us in time to stop the Vietnamese army's charge. It also gave us a respite and plugged the firepower gap.

However, the Vietnamese army did not rest on its laurels and continued to rush towards us like crazy. Some of them even rushed into our trenches with cluster grenades and explosives packs, and died with their soldiers......

So I quickly realized that these Vietnamese soldiers were in a hurry for us, and now they are like a pack of mad dogs that bite people desperately when they see them. In other words, they also realized that they couldn't break out of the encirclement of our army, and they were all dead anyway, so it was better to get out!

If it were other troops, they might be frightened by their way of fighting regardless of life and death, but it was the Fifth Company that faced them.

The 5th Company is a unit that has participated in the battle since the first shot of the self-defense counterattack, and they have long been accustomed to all this after nearly three weeks of hard fighting, so they still hold their positions and carry the Vietnamese army hard.

A Vietnamese soldier rushed up with a cluster grenade emitting white smoke, and was about to jump into our trench, but a soldier jumped out of the trench with a loud roar, opened his arms, and grabbed the Vietnamese soldier and rolled into the crowd of enemies...... Hearing only a loud "boom", the blood of the soldiers disappeared into the smoke of gunpowder along with the lives of more than a dozen Vietnamese soldiers.

A Vietnamese soldier carrying an explosive bag broke through our army's firepower network and rushed to our position, and was about to blow up a heavy machine gun of our army, when a soldier jumped up and 'straightened' up his bayonet and rushed towards the enemy. After plunging the bayonet into the enemy's chest, he did not withdraw the bayonet and retreat into the trench, but continued to rush forward against the enemy...... The enemy was pushed into his own line by the fighters, and then with a "boom" explosion, more than a dozen Vietnamese troops were blown up everywhere 'chaotically'......

The Vietnamese soldiers rushed up one by one with cluster grenades and explosives bags, and the soldiers jumped out of the trenches one by one, and the result was a shock to the Vietnamese army...... Far from killing and injuring many of our troops, the Vietnamese army's explosives and cluster grenades became weapons for the fighters and successfully withstood the Vietnamese army's sea offensive!

It wasn't just the Vietnamese army that was shocked, but also me.

I never imagined that this team that seemed to have not grown up in my hands, and a team that was full of recruits a month ago, could emerge so many desperate fighters in just one month. This can't help but remind me of Shangganling, and of the comrades-in-arms who died with the enemy's bunkers with explosives......

And they, every member of the Fifth Company, they also have the courage of volunteer soldiers, and they have the kind of fearlessness of Chinese soldiers!

The bravery of the fighters soon deterred the frenzied Vietnamese troops, and fewer and fewer people rushed up with grenades and explosives, and then their morale was quickly affected, and finally they reluctantly retreated under the cover of tanks.

At this time, I couldn't help but think of what a veteran said: "Fighting on the battlefield is more murderous, and if our murderous spirit suppresses the enemy, then we win!" ”

In retrospect, how true that was true! If just now, when those Vietnamese troops rushed to our army's position with grenades and explosives, we were shocked and suppressed...... I'm afraid that at this time, we are already defeated and slaughtered!

Seeing the Vietnamese army retreat from our sight, the soldiers couldn't help but let out a cheer, shaking hands and hugging each other in celebration.

And I hadn't recovered from the heroic performance of the fighters just now, so I thoughtfully asked one of the soldiers next to me, "Were you scared just now?" ”

"Afraid! How can you not be afraid! He replied with a smile.

"If an enemy rushes up with an explosives bag, will you rush up to block him?" I asked.

"Yes!" The warrior replied without thinking about it.

"Why?"

"Report to the battalion commander!" The soldier puffed up his chest and said: "If I don't rush to block the enemy, none of us will survive if the explosives are in. ”

"It's all dead anyway, so it's better to die for me! It's all death anyway, it's better to ......" I repeated this sentence over and over again, the reason is so simple, and so great!