Chapter 155: Nameless Heights

Chapter 155: Nameless Heights

Before the Vietnamese army broke through our defensive line, Xu Fan's two platoons of reserves rose up in time and narrowly recaptured the position.

The Vietnamese army did not have many troops, and they suffered heavy losses due to carelessness in the attack on Pingdingshan, so after our army sent reserves to fill the gap in time, they soon had the problem of insufficient troops, so they had to retreat in desperation.

At this time, Nguyen Van Yen and I breathed a sigh of relief, if the Vietnamese army 'held up' for a while, I was afraid that we would have to retreat only if we were left surrounded.

I didn't dare to stay for a moment, and when the Vietnamese army retreated, I immediately ordered into the walkie-talkie: "All of them are here, pass on the order, and all the troops on the front line will withdraw to the third line to build fortifications."

"Yes"

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With a flurry of responses, the warriors gathered their weapons and retreated along the 'crossing' trench. Several company commanders under my command also consciously arranged for a few soldiers to lay mines on the position, so as to prevent the Vietnamese army from catching up with us and causing losses to our troops, and on the other hand, they were unwilling to leave the position to the Vietnamese army so easily. They have been on the battlefield for so long, and it has long been a habit to become natural.

When I led my troops down the high ground and walked onto the railway, I saw Xu Fan's team crowded on the railway in groups, all of them rushing towards the rear. This scene made me frown, but fortunately it was because it was dark, if the Vietnamese army found out that we were retreating and launched a surprise attack during the day, I was afraid that all of us would be lying here.

The group was crowded with people and finally crossed the friendly line along the railway to reach the third line, and in the darkness those new soldiers could not find the position they should be stationed in and ran around, and some of the soldiers could not even find their own troops, until they heard that our troops were coming......

"What kind of fame" I couldn't help but be furious when I looked at the troops, and shouted at the correspondent next to me: "Where is Xu Fan?" Call him to me right now."

"Yes," the correspondent replied, pulling out his 'legs' and running.

After a while, Xu Fan ran in front of me in a hurry, his sweaty military uniform was full of blood, and he stood in front of me and shouted a report.

"How did you become the commander of this battalion" I pointed to the soldiers who were running around and scolded Xu Fan unceremoniously: "It's been 'chaotic' like this after just one battle, where is your organizational ability?" ”

"Report" Xu Fan 'straightened' down and replied in a slightly choked voice: "The four platoons we arranged on the front line have been completely dispersed, and the platoon-level cadres of each platoon have also been killed and wounded, so they ......."

I couldn't help but fall silent when I heard this, I really didn't expect that the battle just now, which was less than half an hour, would cause so many casualties to our army. And I also know very well that the reason why our army suffered so many casualties was entirely because they had no one to retreat and no one to flee...... This is undoubtedly very rare for those recruits.

"I don't blame you," I patted Xu Fan on the shoulder and said, "Go and organize the soldiers, re-select the cadres, and immediately assign the position so that they are ready for battle."

"Yes" Xu Fan 'straightened' down towards me, and immediately ran away to gather the scattered troops.

"It's not a way for the battalion commander to continue fighting like this," Li Zhifu leaned over to me and said, "If this continues, the second-line troops will soon collapse."

I don't need Li Zhifu to say this, I also know this, this is also what gives me a headache, I have seen the performance of Xu Fan's troops on the front line, although they have tried their best, but the gap in combat effectiveness is still obvious.

Will I let this army in my hands go up again? Even if my troops are fine, it is very likely that we will encounter the situation again last time - we just let the Yue devils 'find out' the truth with just a few shots, and then we will become a non-fighting observer force again......

"Report" At this time, Xu Fan ran to me again and reported: "Do we still want to keep a reserve team...... We are already running out of troops, and if we keep reserves, we will only be afraid of ......"

"The reserve is the reserve" Hearing this, I couldn't help but pat my big 'leg' and said: "I didn't think that I wanted a reserve, but it wasn't you who were the reserves, but let our second battalion be the reserves"

"Our second battalion?" Hearing this, Li Zhifu couldn't help but be stunned, and said suspiciously: "We have become a reserve?" ”

I know what Li Zhifu is wondering about, because the reserve is generally used by troops with weak combat effectiveness for emergency purposes, and if there is no emergency, sometimes it will not be used in a few battles, so Li Zhifu was a little unthinkable when he heard that we should make the second battalion a reserve.

"That's right, it's us in reserve," I immediately summoned the other two company commanders and said to them: "I have decided to divide our second battalion into two parts to serve as reserves, the first part is composed of four companies and six companies, under the unified command of the sixth company commander, and the second part is composed of five companies and members of the 'shooting' group, under my unified command. Questions? ”

The people in my hometown and Xu Yongjian and others couldn't help but look at each other, and they didn't know what 'medicine' I was selling in this gourd.

After a while, the "battalion commander" responded from his hometown: "This battle is so 'fierce', let our second battalion be a reserve...... It doesn't seem like a good fit."

"Even if we go to the front line, it will be useless," I replied: "Our forces are simply not enough to build a defensive line, and we must have the soldiers of the 608th Regiment to assist in the defense, and the Vietnamese army only needs one round of tentative 'sexual' attacks to find out the reality of our army, and then we will still have no battle to fight and watch the friendly troops suffer casualties as last time." But if we divide it into two parts and make reserves, it will be different...... This also means that we can break away from a fixed position and become a mobile force, we can turn from passive to active, lurk behind the defense line to find suitable fighters to take the initiative, and we can also provide timely support when friendly forces are in danger, the mission is clear? ”

"Clear" Listening to my explanation, the cadres suddenly realized.

"All of them have," I immediately ordered: "The fourth and sixth companies will immediately lurk on the left side of the nameless heights, and the fifth companies will lurk on the right side of the nameless heights, and immediately attack the attacking Vietnamese troops at the order of me, do you understand?" ”

"I understand," the cadres responded in unison.

"Go", as soon as I gave the order, the troops once again put away their weapons and divided into two routes, and walked along the railway towards the second line.

The second line consisted of four large and small heights connected in a line, and two companies of the 608th Regiment were stationed respectively. The nameless highlands are in the middle, and they are also the highest of these highlands. Since it occupies the commanding heights and can cover other high ground with firepower, it is foreseeable that the Vietnamese army is likely to use this high ground as the main offensive position, which is why I let the troops lurk here in advance.

"Fourth and sixth companies are ready"

"Five companies are ready"

When I found a position to lurk at the foot of the nameless heights, the intercom soon heard the reports of the troops.

We were only more than 400 meters away from the second line, so it only took a few minutes to reach the nameless heights and lurk on the left and right, and at this time the Vietnamese artillery also came with the wind.

This round of bombardment was even shorter, and the Vietnamese army only figuratively 'sexually' fired dozens of shells at our positions, and the shelling ended in less than a minute.

I raised my binoculars and cautiously leaned out of the lurking place to look ahead, only to see the Vietnamese army like rats 'chaotic' in the grass in front of me, their group of people came up is not many, this can be judged from the shaking grass, all of them are only about one company.

According to the general principle of attack, the strength of the attacking side should be twice that of the defending side in order to be considered equal in strength, but the Vietnamese army attacked the positions of two companies of our army with only one company of strength, which shows that the Vietnamese army's self-confidence in the quality of its infantry has reached the point of arrogance.

However, after thinking about it, I felt that such a troop configuration of the Vietnamese army was also in line with their tactics. Because this group of troops is not a strong attack, but used to reconnoiter the strength of the firepower of our position, once the situation is discovered, their main forces lurking in the rear will soon enter the battle and launch a fierce attack on our army's defensive line, and it is precisely this moment that we are waiting for.

"Da ......" The Vietnamese army began to shoot at the foot of the mountain far away, and they did not want to kill anyone when they shot far away, but a typical tactic of testing firepower. If I had commanded from the position, of course I wouldn't have fallen for them, but unfortunately it wasn't me who was guarding it, but the recruits.

Recruits are prone to nervousness in battle, and when they see the enemy firing guns, they panic, so all of a sudden the gunfire "booms" into a loud sound, and they don't even see anyone and 'messily' down to fight, no wonder there will be so many casualties in just one battle.

However, the Vietnamese army also calmed down, and they did not immediately put the main force into the battle to attack, but continued to test our firepower on other high grounds.

After more than ten minutes like this, all the fronts of our army were in a mess, but the Vietnamese army still did not react. At this point, I couldn't help but wonder, what are they waiting for? Then I quickly understood that they could not find our troops, so they did not dare to easily determine the direction of the main attack.

But I'm not in a hurry, our mission is to hide the retreat of the main force, and the more time passes, the more unlikely it will be for the Vietnamese army to catch up with the main force, so I'm happy to just wait.

Obviously, I could wait, but the Vietnamese army couldn't, and after a few minutes, I saw the grass in front of me trembling, as if there were countless small snakes crawling in it. I couldn't help but secretly rejoice in my heart, knowing that the Vietnamese army finally chose the nameless heights