Chapter 68 Artillery Observers

Chapter 68 Artillery Observers

When our position was silent, the sound of guns and artillery elsewhere was in patches, and sometimes there would be a burst of long-range artillery in the direction of the Vietnamese army. Later, it was said that after this battle, some battalions suffered more than 300 casualties. It is no wonder that Regiment Commander Zhang would say that the Vietnamese defense line in our direction is particularly weak, and this difference is too great.

Looking at all this, it was strange for Shunzi, he rubbed Li Zhifu, who was still building fortifications, and asked: "I said company commander, if you want to say that this devil is not difficult to fight, let's fight it without a charge?" There were more than a dozen casualties before and after, how could it seem that friendly troops were fighting so mushrooms for a long time? ”

"Cut" Li Zhifu dug a shovel of black soil fiercely, and said while piling it up in front of the trench and patting it solidly: "What is the head melon seeds on our shoulders for?" I don't use my brain to think about what method we use to fight, and what method other troops use to fight."

"That's right" Yang Songjian, who was not far away, also answered: "I said Shunzi, your training has been in vain these days?" Do you still remember the 'anti-slope tactics' and 'refueling tactics' that the battalion commander taught us? ”

"Remember" Junko 'touched' his head and said confidently: "But ...... But we don't use it, do we? ”

There was a coax, and there was a burst of laughter in the trenches.

"You don't know."

"You're going to use it with those devils."

……

The warriors shouted at Junko.

"Go, go, go to ...... **, don't embarrass me here," Li Zhifu blushed a little and said with a thick neck: "What does it mean to know what it means to know and know the other...... What's that? ”

Speaking of this, Li Zhifu unconsciously turned his gaze to Instructor Xie.

Instructor Xie didn't look back and answered: "A hundred battles will not be defeated"

"Yes, yes, yes...... It's just that you can't be defeated in a hundred battles" Li Zhifu turned his head again and said to Shunzi: "I said, why don't you open your head?" The battalion commander taught us these tactics, not to let us use these tactics to fight the Yue devils, but to let us know what 'flowers' the Yue devils used to beat us......"

"Comrade Lin Shun" Instructor Xie stopped at this time and patiently explained to Shunzi: "Do you know why our other troops have not been able to defeat the Yue devils after fighting for so long?" It's because the more devils use the 'refueling tactic', if we kill them a little, they will add a little to the position. In this way, even if the more devils are insufficient, it will take more than half a day to defeat one of their companies, and the more devils are dragging time with us."

"Oh" Hearing this, Junzi finally understood: "The battalion commander knew that the Yue Devil was using this method, so he hit it with a cannon, and before the Yue Devil had time to add this oil, he took down the high ground with a charge......"

"The other side only understands, you" Li Zhifu said to Shunzi with a look of hatred of iron and steel: "I said Shunzi, you really need to read more books and learn more when you have time, the battalion commanders have won the battle, and you don't know how to fight......

"The battalion commander is really amazing" Junko said with some admiration: "I really don't know how he knows so much"

"Shh......h Be quiet, the battalion commander is asleep there, be careful to let him hear."

Actually, I didn't fall asleep, I was lying in the temporary anti-artillery 'hole' with my face covered with my military cap, and I could hear their words clearly, but I just didn't want to interrupt them.

Listening to their discussions, I didn't feel any pride, but a little guilt in my heart. This guilt comes from the fact that I could have saved more fighters. Just like the soldiers said, in fact, we only have a few days of training, if the whole army can be like our battalion, then I don't know how many soldiers can be sacrificed......

......At this time, a signal soldier ran to the anti-artillery 'hole' and shouted anxiously: "The superior has come to order, 'hand' over the position to the reserves, and advance according to the original route."

As soon as I got up, I got up and got out of the gun hole, put on my hat and looked at my watch, it was already past nine o'clock. We rested for more than two hours on the Nameless Heights...... And I could tell from the sound of gunfire nearby that the battle of friendly forces was not over.

"Did the comrades of the 637th and 638th regiments end the fighting?" I asked.

"Not yet" the signal soldier replied: "But Commander Zhang said that it was too soon, and ordered us to advance first, so as not to miss the fighter."

I couldn't help frowning when I heard this, there will never be such a saying on the battlefield as "it's going to be soon", and if the friendly and neighboring troops can't keep up in time, and our rear road is cut off by the Vietnamese army, the consequences will be unimaginable. Looking at the sky again, although it was already more than nine o'clock in the morning, because the sky was still sprinkled with light rain, and the jungle was full of thick gunpowder smoke and morning fog, so the visibility was very low, which made us drill into the jungle with a battalion......

"Pick up Regiment Commander Zhang for me" Although it is a military order, I think that I am still responsible for the lives of the soldiers.

"Yes," the signal soldier answered, and immediately called into the microphone, and after a while handed it to me.

"Report to Regiment Commander Zhang," I said into the microphone: "Now that the fog is very strong, and the enemy situation in the jungle is unknown, I think it is better to ......wait for the friendly troops to clear the remnants of the enemy."

"Give me the order" Regiment Commander Zhang interrupted me in the microphone and said: "The 637th Regiment has broken through the Vietnamese defense line and advanced, we can't fall behind them, don't worry, the battle of other troops will end soon."

I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, because the 637 regiment has already advanced, so we can't lag behind? Is fighting a war a hurry?

But I had to carry out the orders of my superiors, so I had to wave my hand at the soldiers and say with a cold face: "Prepare to go"

"Yes," the fighters replied, and without saying a word, they began to organize their equipment.

After thinking about it, I said to the soldiers: "Bring as many ammunition and food as you can, and you can throw away everything except guns and sapper shovels."

"Yes," the fighters scrupulously did as I was told.

Yes, I am ready to be surrounded by enemies. Coming from the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, I know very well that when surrounded by the enemy, there are only two things that are most important, one is ammunition and medicine, and the other is food. If you want to say that the food is okay, we can still hold on to it when we are hungry, but if there is no ammunition, then it seems that we will only have to wait for death on this battlefield. Therefore, when necessary, you can reduce your food and bring more ammunition, and the soldiers are well aware of this, and there is no need for me to make another 'explanation'.

I took out a few cans of vegetables and other useless things, such as cigarettes, from my backpack and threw them all in the trenches, even half of the water in the kettle. Because I know that half a pot of water on this rainy day is enough for me to use for two days, not to mention that we may run into a stream or something like water on the way.

Then I loaded myself with bullets and grenades, and I carried more than 400 bullets and eight grenades...... Fighting in the jungle in this climate with poor visibility, grenades can sometimes work better than sniper rifles.

Seeing that the fighters were almost ready, I waved my hand and ordered into the walkie-talkie: "Go"

The soldiers jumped out of the trench in an orderly manner, and walked in a straggler formation with guns in their hands towards the unknown territory ahead.

In a way, I feel that I have put the fighters in a passive and dangerous situation. The reason is simple, I don't think this lone advance will not only make no sense, but will also put our battalion in danger.

I had to do this because I had to do it at the behest of my superiors, and the soldiers did it because they trusted me, so I had a feeling in my heart that I had failed the trust of the soldiers.

But at this point, I can only obey the orders of my superiors.

Sensing the danger of advancing, the march of our battalion was slow and cautious. Two platoons were placed in front to reconnoitre, one company was walking on the mountain road, and two companies were on both sides to search and advance along the ridge. The fighters used the front mine detector as they advanced.

However, to my surprise, we had advanced for seven or eight kilometers without finding any trace of the Vietnamese troops. Except for the occasional few mines, the enemy seemed to have disappeared from the jungle.

"Report to the battalion commander" At this time, the voice of the native came from the intercom: "Found a village, ask for instructions"

"Go in and be careful," I replied without thinking.

"Yes," the hometown people immediately called a platoon up.

The sharpshooter with a sniper rifle in the sixth company is Lin Qi, and he doesn't seem to be very familiar with guiding the infantry to attack, so the report in the intercom is a bit 'chaotic'. However, this did not prevent us from quickly occupying the village, because it was empty.

When I arrived at the village with my troops, I found that there was nothing but some broken copper and iron. Obviously, the Vietnamese army had a plan to evacuate the people here.

"Where are we?" I asked casually.

But after a while, no one answered, and I couldn't help but look at the guides beside me in confusion.

"Report to the battalion commander," one of the guides replied, "We don't know where we are?" ”

"What kind of fame" Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a little angry: "I only walked seven or eight kilometers and I don't know where I am, don't you have a map?" ”

"Battalion Commander......" The guide spread the map in his hand in front of me and said in embarrassment: "This map is too different from the field. Look...... The map shows that there is a road here, but there is nothing; There is a high ground here on the map, and this ...... But there are no here, but suddenly there are two more mountains. It's not the right direction either......"

I couldn't help but be speechless when I heard this, this is our army's pre-war reconnaissance work, and even the military map is 108,000 miles away

At this moment, there was a sudden whistling in the sky, and I hurriedly shouted, "Get out of the house"

As he spoke, he turned over and jumped out of the window. I didn't dare to pause for a moment after jumping out of the window, let alone get up, and only rolled vigorously in the direction away from the village. Before I could roll away, there was a loud "boom" behind me, and at the same time, a hot "wave" rolled in, accompanied by many burning bamboo chips and broken wood......

"Boom" was another "chaotic" sound, and the flames and shrapnel flew 'chaotically' above my head, so that I couldn't lift my head. After a while, when I looked up again, I saw that the village was still full of bamboo buildings, and there was nothing left but piles of burning debris. Except for one of the guards who had fallen into the house with me, they had not been able to get out.

"Battalion Commander...... "Seeing that the bamboo building where I was blown to pieces, many soldiers surrounded me in a panic.

I hurriedly ordered into the walkie-talkie, "I'm fine, don't come here, all evacuate the village and hide in the woods."

"Yes," the soldiers stopped when they heard my voice, and hid themselves again as I commanded.

This is a mortar of the Vietnamese army, and I quickly made this judgment by looking at the surrounding terrain. The village is located on an anti-slope on a high ground, a position that is difficult for long-range artillery to reach. Moreover, the current Vietnamese army does not dare to fight easily, and they have already made it clear at the time of the Battle of Dong Deng that our army's artillery fire is much stronger than theirs, and once the position of their artillery positions is exposed, the consequences will be unimaginable.

This shows that there are Vietnamese troops lurking nearby, and there are Vietnamese artillery observers lurking in the shadows to observe us. Only in this way will it be possible for the Vietnamese army to transmit my coordinates to the mortar gunners and order them to open fire at the right time after I, the "big fish", enter the bamboo building.

Thinking of this, I didn't dare to stay here for too long, in case the Vietnamese artillery observer found out that I was not dead, and adjusted the coordinates to bombard me again......

So I didn't think much of it, and the cat turned back, picked up the wounded guard, and turned around and ran into the jungle. As expected, the Vietnamese artillery shells quickly pressed up, and all of them followed the back of my buttocks. It's just that the Vietnamese army calculated through artillery observers, and then had to adjust the Zhu Yuan, and then the process of firing seemed to be a little slower than my pace, so it never hit me

It's just that it's not a way to be followed by the mortars of the Vietnamese army all the time, maybe the Vietnamese army observers will come in advance...... And then you just blew me up?

Just when I was in a dilemma, there was a sudden burst of artillery fire from the direction of our army, and then I heard a burst of "......indiscriminate" bombing on the other side of the mountain, and the Vietnamese artillery shells were suddenly gone

I realized that Zhu Jixing calculated their position through the ballistics of the Vietnamese mortars in time, and then used the mortars to suppress the enemy's artillery fire.

So I couldn't help but feel relieved that I was out of danger, but for the sake of safety, I still stepped up a few steps and rushed into the jungle.

"Battalion Commander"

"Battalion Commander"

……

Soon several warriors rushed out and took me in, and I didn't dare to sit down and gasp for breath until I hid under a rock. I was really careless just now, and I actually 'revealed' my identity as a "big fish" and entered the village, if it weren't for the speed of Zhu Jixing's artillery observers in calculating the coordinates, I was afraid that my little life would be over.

That's when I understood that sometimes on the battlefield an artillery observer is much more terrible than a sniper. This is not? If it was just a Vietnamese sniper, he would have taken me out in this kind of visibility and with a few guards around me, and the success rate was very small. And it seems that as soon as he fires his position, he will be exposed, and our army will soon search him out and solve him according to the sound of gunfire. This is also the reason why I walked into the bamboo building with such peace of mind under the hug of a group of soldiers.

But the artillery observer didn't seem to have these problems, all he needed was a telescope to see me walk into the bamboo building...... Just report the correct coordinates to the artillerymen. Even at this time, I knew that there were Vietnamese artillery observers hiding nearby, but I was helpless against them...... Without any clues, finding a few artillery observers in the surrounding jungle would be tantamount to looking for a needle in the sea

The biggest problem caused by this mistake to our army is that the guides are almost dead, and it is even more difficult for us to discern the direction and the road. Of course, I'm even more incapable of being road blind in this regard......

Suddenly there was a gunshot in the thick fog, and then Li Zhifu's report was heard: "The fifth company was attacked by the Vietnamese army, two soldiers were injured, and instructions were requested."

"The sixth company was attacked by the Vietnamese army, and a soldier was killed"

"The fourth company was attacked by the Vietnamese army, and there were no casualties"

On the intercom, there was a series of reports from his hometown and Xu Yongjian. When the people in my hometown reported that the Sixth Company had been attacked by the Vietnamese army, I knew that our back road had been sealed by the Vietnamese army.

The more devils are not bad, I looked at the surrounding environment and couldn't help but praise secretly. They let us in all the way, maybe they wanted to trap us here

It is a basin surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing a river, which seems to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the Vietnamese army can bombard us from time to time through pre-arranged artillery observers on the periphery. And we seem to have only two choices, either break out of their encirclement, or stay here and be bombed. And no matter which choice you choose, there is no doubt that you will pay a heavy price.

Perhaps we can rely on Zhu Jixing and a few artillery observers to suppress the artillery of the Vietnamese army, as we did just now, but I have come from the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and I know very well that this will not work, because the mortar operators of the Vietnamese army can completely change places with one shot, and this is not a difficult task for mortars. As long as the mortar crews of the Vietnamese army are well trained, it is completely possible to disassemble and transfer the mortar before we calculate the trajectory.

In addition, the Vietnamese army hid a group of artillery observers in this jungle, leaving us in a state of complete passive beating. It's just that...... I would never let that happen to us