Chapter 152: Pingdingshan

Chapter 152: Pingdingshan

"Cover the attack of friendly forces with all my might" Seeing the performance of the stormtrooping troops, I immediately changed my original plan, no longer preparing to let the soldiers charge instead of Xu Fan's troops, but let them cover for them with all their might.

"Yes" The soldiers also saw the change in the situation on the battlefield, and after answering the voice, they carried out my order without hesitation.

The heavy machine guns and mortars that had been dismantled and ready to rush in front of the enemy were quickly assembled one by one, and then rows of bullets and shells poured down on the enemy with various whistling sounds, and in an instant the Vietnamese army's firepower was much weaker.

The lack of troops has always been a major weakness of the Vietnamese army, and it was so in the past and still is. And as far as I know, even if the 608th Division in history was besieged by the Vietnamese regiments, the total strength of the Vietnamese army besieging them was only one regiment.

Although this can be shown from another aspect, the Vietnamese army fought this battle extremely simply and took the initiative to annihilate the enemy regiment with one regiment, which is only afraid that it is an unprecedented battle example in the Vietnamese army and even in our army's troops, so there is no doubt that this is a brilliant victory for the Vietnamese army, but at the same time, it also shows that the Vietnamese army is definitely not many troops in Dong Deng now.

There are two reasons why I did not raise my gun again to directly participate in the battle in this battle: First, because our army already had more than a dozen outstanding members of the 'shooting' team, including Li Shui' 'Bo' and Al Ziri, which was enough to form a kind of 'fine' sniper pressure on the Vietnamese army, so there was no more of us, and no less. On the other hand, it is because I feel that this is the first battle of cooperation between our army and the 608th Regiment, and what the battlefield needs more is to coordinate the cooperation between the two units and understand the actual combat capability of Xu Fan's battalion, so that we can better fight together in future battles.

So my SVD sniper rifle was on my shoulder from start to finish, although it still tickled my palms at one point after spotting the target......

"Boom ......" was another few mine explosions, and the closer the soldiers got to the Vietnamese army's defense line, the density of mines increased. However, all this did not stop the soldiers, and they still rushed into the wall of fire one by one with bayonets in their arms......

I couldn't help frowning, I should say that the soldiers were indeed very brave, and I was a little surprised by their bravery, but like all new recruits who have just entered the battlefield, they lack coordination and combat skills. They should think that if the enemy and us are engaged in a 'engagement' on flat ground, since the grenades of the Vietnamese army can blow them up, then their grenades will definitely be able to blow up the Vietnamese army.

So at this time they should have thrown a few rows of grenades with the other fighters before starting the charge, but they didn't understand this, or they knew that they should do it, but when they were nervous on the battlefield, they forgot everything, and only remembered to 'hold' the bayonet and rush forward desperately......

The result of this is obvious, even if they can achieve the ultimate victory, but they will add many unnecessary casualties.

At this point, the Vietnamese army obviously did a much better job than our army, and the Vietnamese army always had a very tacit understanding to throw out a row of grenades and explode a barrage in front of the position every once in a while, and then suddenly protrude from the trenches with the smoke and aftermath of the grenades to shoot at our troops with submachine guns and machine guns, and then quickly retracted their heads and threw out a row of grenades......

The wall of fire blown up by the grenade not only blocked our soldiers in front of the Vietnamese army's position, but also kicked up layers of gunpowder smoke and dust, coupled with the darkness of the night, so that our troops acting as cover could not see the target clearly at all, and the fire cover also turned into a "chaotic" fight, "chaotic" and "shooting" without a target. So the battle was so glued, the smoke of the rush of the recruits and soldiers in groups, and then the fall of another team, and in a short time a layer of corpses was piled up in front of the position.

"Camp Commander Cui......" At this time, Ruan Wenqin came to my side and said: "Let's go up and help you, so that we can make up for some of the mistakes we made before."

I couldn't help but look at Ruan Wenqin in surprise and said, "There are only a dozen of you......"

"It's because there are few people, so the Viet Cong will not be mentally prepared," Nguyen Van Dinh replied: "We can enter your troops, charge with the PLA, and then suddenly launch an attack to break through a little ......"

Although what Nguyen Van Qin said was not very clear, I understood what he meant. It should be said that this is indeed a solution, after our army has paid such heavy casualties and charged, the Vietnamese army will think that our whole army is only of this quality, so it will soon have the heart to underestimate the enemy. But if there is suddenly an extra sharp knife in this force and 'sticks' into their camp, it will soon make them 'chaotic' after breaking through a little.

So I immediately nodded and said, "You'd better 'plug' in from the right side and the main force, and we'll see how time comes to provide you with artillery cover."

"Yes" Nguyen Van Yen replied, and with a wave of his hand, he led his troops up.

"The battalion commander asked the Yue devils to go up and fight?" Li Zhifu said with some anxiety: "Will there be any 'chaos' in this?" In case they ......"

"There will be no problem" I interrupted Li Zhifu's words, I still understand this sentence if you don't suspect people, if you really doubt them, then I won't bring them in this battle.

Ruan Wenqin and his entourage quickly rushed up in Xu Fan's troops, although their outfits were similar to those of our soldiers, but I still easily recognized them, the reason is that they are all experienced veterans, veterans will not blindly rush like new soldiers, they will always use buildings or craters to hide themselves intentionally or unintentionally when advancing.

In just a few minutes, they were very agile and sneaked to the front line, and then Ruan Van Yen turned around and gestured in my direction.

I understood what he meant, put down the binoculars and shouted at the mortar men behind me, who were already ready: "Release"

With the sound of artillery, dozens of mortar shells were concentrated in front ......of Nguyen Van Dinh and his party. At the same time, Nguyen Van Thien and his men also threw a row of grenades in the direction of the Vietnamese trenches, and then shouted that more than a dozen people rushed into the smoke of gunpowder.

The right flank of the assault unit and the junction of the main force were originally out of a gap in the coordination of our troops, because the defensive strength of some Vietnamese troops in this position was also relatively weak, or it could be said that they were transferred to other positions because of their insufficient strength, and then they were bombed by us and more than a dozen grenades from Nguyen Van Quan and others...... I'm afraid that even someone there will be blown up by this sudden attack.

So Nguyen Van Thien and his party rushed in very smoothly, although I couldn't see the next battle, but I could clearly feel that the Vietnamese army's firepower began to have problems, first the grenades on both sides of the breakthrough did not explode on time, and then quickly spread like a plague.

As soon as the firepower of the Vietnamese army was affected, the balance of victory quickly tilted in the direction of our troops, and then, only to hear the shouts of the soldiers, they rushed towards the Vietnamese position......

The battlefield is sometimes just a little bit worse, and just a dozen well-trained soldiers can decide the winner.

When I walked up to the Vietnamese army position with the soldiers, the soldiers were already cleaning the battlefield. I found Nguyen Van Thien in the Vietnamese trenches, carrying the body with several of his surviving men. As I walked up, he and his men saluted me.

"How many comrades have been sacrificed?" I asked, noticing that Nguyen Van Thien also had an extra stab wound on his body.

"Sacrificed five" Ruan Van Qin's expression darkened, gritted his teeth and said: "They are all my brothers, and they have been with me for many years."

"I understand" I patted Ruan Van Qin on the shoulder and said, "But it doesn't matter, you have lost a few brothers, but you have many more brothers like us, don't worry, we Chinese have always had revenge and kindness"

"Yes," Nguyen Van Qin nodded at me with emotion, knowing what I meant when I said this.

Of course, I still didn't dare to make any promises to Nguyen Van Dinh, because I was only a small battalion commander. But unlike before, I no longer took Nguyen Van Thanh's request as seriously as before, and then I suddenly felt that I should do something for them, if not for them, but for ourselves.

In this respect, the efforts and sacrifices of Nguyen Van Thien and others were not in vain.

After breaking through the Vietnamese defense line in Dong Deng, we did not stop long, commanded the soldiers to occupy a few points along the way and then went straight to Pingdingshan, originally I thought that the Vietnamese army would build fortifications in Pingdingshan, but to my surprise they did not do so. There were indeed dozens of Vietnamese on it, but most of them were old men and 'women', who were not prepared for the arrival of our uninvited guests, and even beckoned us to us as Vietnamese soldiers at first......

What are they doing here? Help the Vietnamese army build fortifications? But it doesn't look like it, when we pass through Dong Deng, we find that there are almost no houses to live in, so it is quite strange to see so many Vietnamese people gathered here.

When I saw them carrying the blown up cement blocks with rudimentary tools on the mountain, I quickly understood their intentions - this is the old site of the Guitun Fort, and when the Guitun Fort was blown up by our army, at least nearly 1,000 Vietnamese soldiers were buried alive here, which can be said to be a great tragedy for the Vietnamese army, so after they re-"occupied" Dong Deng, the first thing they did was to dig out these Vietnamese soldiers who were buried alive.

But what they didn't expect was that before they could dig up those corpses, the flat mountain was back in our hands again.