Chapter 570: Battle of Xishan
Khe Son is located in Quang Tri Province in northwest Vietnam, about 10 kilometers away from the Laos border in the west and about 24 kilometers away from the Demilitarized Zone in the north. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Although the Khe Son base was heavily defended by the United States, it was actually far from Forte in South Vietnam. It was less than thirty kilometers from the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in North Vietnam and South Vietnam, so once the campaign began, North Vietnam was able to quickly concentrate forces to besiege it, and the base only had one road leading to Saigon, Vo Nguyen Giap's strategy was not to be hard-hitting, although in general he hoped to take a full-scale offensive, but this was not the case in Khe Son, his purpose was to encircle the point and send reinforcements, a tactic often used by Eastern countries. Serov briefly introduced the situation around the entire stream and mountain, and the old marshals of the Ministry of Defense nodded frequently, at least this little political commissar still has some ability to talk on paper.
"If the same garrisoned US military base is attacked by us, how long will it take!" Defense Minister Marshal Grechko turned to the Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Sergei Grechko. Marshal Biluzov.
"A regiment of the U.S. Marine Corps? Heard that the U.S. Marine Corps is more powerful than the U.S. Army? "Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Sergei . Marshal Biryuzov lowered his head and thought for a while, "About twenty-four hours, our artillery fire is round, basically the Xishan base should not exist, and the tank troops can declare victory in the war as soon as they rush." ”
Marshal Biryuzov's words are based on the equipment standards of the Soviet Red Army, if the Soviet offensive force is two divisions, then there will be at least 600 tanks, and the same number of artillery, artillery one base shelling, plus a tank force rush, can basically conquer the Khe Son base, but the equipment of the Vietnamese army and the Soviet Red Army is certainly not comparable, such a comparison is not right.
"I conclude that the United States will never let the encirclement point succeed, and the US military has an absolute advantage over North Vietnam in regular warfare, so it will definitely order the Khe Son base to hold on and use regular warfare and firepower superiority to strangle North Vietnam." Serov said in a very affirmative tone, "I can only give North Vietnam a certain reinforcement in armaments, and I hope they can withstand it." It was only possible to help the Vietnamese in what we were good at, so the artillery of two artillery divisions had already been delivered to Hanoi. ”
The superiority of the Soviet Union in tanks and artillery lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the tank side could be at the same level in any respect, with a weight of twenty tons less than in the West. In terms of artillery, the Soviet artillery of the same caliber has always had a longer range than the American and European artillery, which is a very big advantage in the environment of Vietnam.
As for the weather after the start of the campaign, it is not included in the discussion at this meeting of the Soviet Ministry of Defense, and I believe that the Vietnamese themselves know better when it is appropriate for the start of the campaign, if they do not want to be taught how to behave by American bombers every day.
"What the final battle will look like depends on the Vietnamese themselves. Let's just wait! Marshal Vasilevsky pinned his pen to his chest, and as a staff officer of the Soviet Union, he had experienced this combat meeting more than any other marshal, but he had little interest in the plans for the Vietnamese offensive. After all, it's not your own country's business.
"Because of Indonesia's discoloration, the U.S. government is holding on to a strong breath and must succeed in Vietnam, but if there are a large number of casualties in the U.S. military, even if the U.S. media still keeps reporting that it is on the verge of victory, their people will not believe it, even if it becomes possible to lose the whole of Southeast Asia, the first thing the Americans think about is to be deceived by the government, and then they will be suspicious of their own country, and once this happens, our country can try to carry out a tentative attack to see if the United States can continue to confront." Serov thought very optimistically, "They always think that they are invincible in the world, and now it is our turn to give the Americans a few punches to sober them up!" ”
Hanoi, Vietnam, at this time, Hanoi is like peacetime, and near the end of the year, there is a rare hint of comfort, and ordinary people will not find that the central government has transferred a lot of troops for combat. The Viet Cong also had its own underground party organizations in Saigon and other major cities, and these underground party members often attacked the enemy by hitting and running, resulting in large quantities of weapons and ammunition, and they also openly bought large quantities of weapons and ammunition from the black market. In fact, it is also an open secret that the Viet Cong often go in and out of the city to visit relatives or leave the army and return to the city for vacation. According to tradition, a war that lasts for a long time always has to be truceed for a period of time before the Spring Festival. Although they did not agree on how long the truce would last.
After Yegrove washed up, he went out and received a batch of domestic shells at the railway station, which was rarely seen so solemnly, and the entire batch of shells was carried by the Soviet air defense forces in Hanoi, not by the North Vietnamese soldiers who prosthetiously handed them. It can be seen how much he attaches importance to this batch of shells.
"Colonel Yegrove, why did we carry these shells for North Vietnam, and they were not for us." A captain of the Territorial Defense Force was a little puzzled.
"This is not an ordinary shell, it is a good thing of our General Administration, specially designed to deal with the high technology of the United States." Yegrove smiled and said, "Don't talk nonsense, it will definitely have an effect when the time comes." ”
Yegrove was a cadre of the Seventh Main Directorate of the KGB, which was the KGB's Main Directorate of Electronics, and this batch of shells was a specially made electromagnetic cannonball, which consisted of a metal cylinder, which was surrounded by a coil. The armature barrel is filled with high-energy explosives, and the entire device is wrapped in a hard shell. There is a space between the stator coil and the armature barrel. Such bombs also require a power source, such as a row of capacitors that can be connected to a stator.
Typical Soviet shells rushed out, and even whether these shells were useful or not, Yegrove himself was not very clear, and he was very clear about the relevant principles, but whether it would work or not, just look at the results of the North Vietnamese artillery shelling.
The KGB used the war in Vietnam to test its research results, and the United States had been doing it for a long time anyway, spraying defoliants without any scruples, ignoring the possible genetic effects of these chemicals on human heredity, and using coagulation ****** on a large scale, completely ignoring the tragic conditions of these civilians. Then the Soviet Union used electromagnetic shells to see if the high-tech surveillance of the United States was invulnerable, and there should be nothing wrong with it at all.
This time, Yegrove wants to use the real war to realize the results of the KGB's relevant electronic research after the successful interference in Indonesia, so as to use a larger example to make the Soviet Ministry of Defense understand that although they already attach great importance to electronic warfare, in fact, electronic warfare is far beyond their imagination, and the support of war examples is more useful than 10,000 sentences of saliva.
At this time, the North Vietnamese center had been persuaded by Vo Nguyen Giap, and the relevant military preparations were underway, and when the North Vietnamese all-out offensive against the cities of South Vietnam entered the white heat, it would be difficult for the American army, which had stretched too long, to avoid the occupation of the Khe Son base, so that General Vo Nguyen Giap would repeat his victory at Dien Bien Phu 14 years earlier.
General Wu Yuanjia is already planning the operation. Broadcasts from Hanoi also spoke of the great victory and the need to spread the war to the cities of South Vietnam. The 325th and 304th Divisions of the North Vietnamese regular army were advancing towards the Khe Son area, while the 3rd North Vietnamese Division was lined up on the road, ready to intercept American reinforcements. It is obvious that the North Vietnamese have issued a war letter to the US army, and the two North Vietnamese divisions deployed in Khe Son had participated in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and had rich combat experience and tenacious combat effectiveness.
"According to our KGB news in Saigon, the situation in Saigon has been relatively optimistic recently, the big cities of South Vietnam have always been in charge of their own garrisons, and there are not many American troops in Saigon, so your forces lurking in Saigon should take killing and wounding American troops first as the first goal, after all, they only have a few hundred people!" Yegrove told Wu Yuanjia the news that the KGB had inquired about in Saigon, of course, the Soviet Union wanted to kill more Americans, and as for whether you can liberate the whole country, what does it matter to me?
"Thank you Soviet comrades for the message, but we understand how to fight." Wu Yuanjia thanked him politely. The battle of Xishan will begin first, and when all the attention of the American troops is drawn to it, he will order the entire Spring Festival offensive to be fully launched.
At this time, the combat units of North Vietnam, which were already approaching Khe Son, had changed into new weapons provided by the Soviet Union, and the air defense forces had been deployed in place. Westmoreland had already seen through the deployment of the North Vietnamese that the opposite side was going to duel with himself in Khe Son. He was happy to make this judgment, and William? General Westmoreland felt powerless to extinguish the North Vietnamese fight-and-run guerrilla warfare, which was the mode of warfare that the United States preferred.
Who, except for the USSR, would dare to go head-to-head with us? And this time the USSR really came, of course the Soviets did not appear on the battlefield, the United States fought in Vietnam, except for the Americans themselves, it was the USSR who cared most about how the United States fought. The Soviet Union has been silently paying attention to what the US military has deployed, what weapons it has used, and what new tactics have emerged.
In late January, the North Vietnamese forces had been deployed in place, and the air defense units had been successfully deployed, and the war suddenly began, and in the early hours of the morning, Vietnamese artillery suddenly shelled the American troops in Khe Son. The density of artillery fire was unprecedented: 130 mm cannons, 152 mm cannons, 122 mm rocket artillery, as well as 60 mm and 82 mm mortars for the infantry, the Vietnamese army concentrated almost all of its artillery.
The 152-mm cannon regiment poured all the Soviet electromagnetic artillery shells into the positions of the American troops in Kyisan, where the American troops were deployed with various types of electronic sensors. Shock sensors, as well as highly sensitive listening devices, enable the U.S. military to listen to everything from ordinary conversations to radio communications.
After the bombing, all the electronic equipment on the positions was scrapped, and the KGB was worthy of being the most conscientious department of the Soviet Union, and successfully destroyed the electronic equipment that the US military relied on the most. (To be continued.) )