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Three red signal flares slowly climbed from the ground into the sky, and the whole earth suddenly became blood-red. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Boom, boom—"

A total of 400 self-propelled 150mm heavy cannons of five heavy cannon regiments of the Second Artillery Command, and a total of 72 self-propelled 150mm howitzers and 288 self-propelled 120mm howitzers of six artillery regiments directly under the two front armies made a dull roar.

After the Soviets used rocket artillery in the arena of human warfare, the Anjia Army also used this killer weapon, and the artillery brigade of the Guard Army directly under each front army has a self-propelled rocket artillery battalion, which is equipped with 12 I-type 24-tube 150mm rocket launchers, and 24 24-tube rocket launchers shoot a huge rain of bullets, dragging a long tail in the sky, and the bright stars formed by the convergence of many shells, reflecting each other.

The fiery red trails that streaked across the sky, like dense meteor showers, one after another, did not stop for a moment; It is like a starry sky with shining light, instantly covering the entire black sky, and the earth is transparent.

On the starting position on the north bank of the Red River at the mouth of the river, all the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army heard the thunder rumbling across the sky behind them, dull and depressing, but at the moment of this muffled thunder, the whole earth was shaken, and every officer and soldier felt that their hearts seemed to shake violently with this sound of thunder at the same time.

All the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) who were preparing to fight on the north bank of the Red River saw a spectacular scene that they had rarely seen in their lives -- a large dense meteor shower that instantly lit up the earth, roaring across the sky, and then trembling in the midst of a loud thunderous sound.

After the border ports were closed, the railway and highway bridges over the Red River and the Nanxi River were all built with reinforced concrete, and barbed wire fences were also laid to block the passage of the squadron's vehicles and personnel.

In order to prevent the Annam army from destroying the bridge in a hurry, the infantry had to force their way across the river in advance to annihilate the troops of the Annam army responsible for guarding the bridgehead. Cai Shaohua's 1st Motorized Infantry Division, which was under the jurisdiction of Wang Xulun's First Group Army, undertook the task, and the officers and men of the three infantry regiments immediately lined up in a queue and rushed to the river with rubber rafts and assault boats as soon as the artillery rang out.

The topography of Laokai is extremely unique, the confluence of the three rivers, the land of China is located in the north, southwest and southeast, are the territory of the French, but the main fortifications, but built on the mountains behind the town of Laokai, the depth of the strategic defense is clear, once the defense is broken, the Annan army south of the Nanxi River, lose the fire support on the left bank of the Red River, collapse is doomed.

At this time, the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army on the north bank of the Red River who were ready to attack looked up and saw countless flashes of light on the position of the Annan Army on the south bank. After the flash of firelight, there was a dense explosion, because the explosion was so close that it was impossible to distinguish the front and back, and there seemed to be only a huge rumbling thunder between heaven and earth, echoing violently.

The civil fortifications built by the Annamite people and the tunnels operated by the French for many years have all been covered by the smoke and dirt raised by the explosion, and the earth is trembling vigorously, expressing their fear, and the descendants of Yan and Huang have fully demonstrated their unrivaled power to the heavens and the earth with the thunder and fire created by human beings!

The officers and men of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division did not have time to enjoy the beautiful scenery, they vigorously carried the assault boat towards the river, and soon, thousands of assault boats and rubber boats were pushed into the river, and the soldiers jumped onto the speedboat while pushing the boat forward, despite the icy river soaking.

When the last soldier jumped into the speedboat, the motors of the assault boat started to work, and the boats rowed out a snow-white track and rushed across the river.

But the commander of the Annam Army, who had been trained by the French, was not a fool, and under the overwhelming fire of the PLA artillery units, he was at first bewildered by the unheard-of heavy artillery fire and did not react at all. They did not expect that the Chinese would dare to really attack Annan.

However, there is a strange phenomenon in this era, if such a fierce attack was launched by the Caucasians, it is estimated that the Annan soldiers have broken up at this moment, but the attack of this scale was launched by the squadron that belonged to the same bullying target of the great powers as them, but they immediately threw themselves into the crazy blocking activities as if they were insulted.

Because the front-line positions had been bulldozed by the first wave of artillery fire, and in the face of the dense fire blockade made of artillery shells built by the PLA artillery, the Annam people could not send troops into the front-line positions to reinforce. So they were forced to all move to the second-line position, leaving the bridgehead to the middle ** people. But when the first PLA fighters landed on the beachhead on the south bank of the Red River, the first shells of the artillery of the Annamite people, who were hiding deep in the mountain bunkers, hit the ground.

"Boom-boom-"

The smoke and dust from the explosion instantly enveloped the beachhead.

The flying mud and sand, the steel helmets of the PLA soldiers rattled, and all the officers and men fell to the ground vigilantly, allowing the flying mud and sand to bury themselves.

Some shells landed on the surface of the Red River, causing huge splashes of water that scattered and splashed in all directions, wetting the whole body of the PLA officers and men. This sudden and rapid artillery bombardment instantly overwhelmed the assault troops of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division, and the troops began to suffer casualties, and a continuous stream of shells continued to fall, and the officers and men who had just crossed the river were forced to lie down and take shelter, and the speed of the troops' attack immediately slowed down.

Xia Jian scolded and called the chief of operations, Colonel Guan Zhonghao: "Artillery, artillery, what are they doing, why don't they know how to suppress the enemy's artillery fire...... The infantry must take the bridgehead within an hour to ensure the absolute safety of the two bridges, and the whole line of defense must be broken through before twelve o'clock, and if it is delayed, I will bring them all to the court-martial. ”

Gu Changfeng shook his head, put down the listing, and called Xia Jian: "Don't be impatient, Lao Xia, you see, the enemy's artillery position is very strange, it stands to reason that 150mm caliber cannon shells are poured on the enemy's head with such a large density, even the copper wall is about to collapse, but the enemy's artillery fire actually reappeared after a period of mute fire, and continued to exert pressure on our front-line army." ”

Xia Jian was slightly stunned, picked up the telescope, carefully observed the position of the Annan Army in the bright explosion and fire as bright as day and the light emitted when the shells flew through the sky, and looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but gasp.

Indeed, at this time, the artillery of the People's Liberation Army had already exerted its greatest ability to carry out a suppressive bombardment of the artillery positions of the Annan Army, and the hills within a radius of two kilometers were all shrouded in artillery fire, and dense columns of smoke soared into the sky.

However, the artillery of the Annan Army was very cunning, and they made full use of their own advantages, and after firing a few shots, they quickly retreated from the muzzle position in the middle of the cliff to a safe place at the back of the tunnel, and never went head-to-head with the artillery of the People's Liberation Army. As soon as the shelling in front was sparse and the density of sputtered shrapnel and rock fragments weakened, they immediately pushed mountain artillery, field artillery, infantry artillery and mortars to the firing port of the tunnel and continued to bombard the PLA infantry on the river beach.

The fortifications built by the French were extremely tricky and made full use of the unique mountain terrain on the front line of Laokai, and the shells fired by the PLA artillery could not always be aimed at the firing ports of the Annamite people, and the landing point of the shells, at least twenty or thirty meters below the tunnels of the Annamite people, could not directly kill them, and the sharp shrapnel and rock fragments splashed up were also in vain due to the timely evasion of their artillery.

Blessed by the equally cleverly designed fortifications, the light and heavy machine-gun fire of the Annam Army, as well as a large number of infantry, also adopted the method of fighting and walking, and continued to spit ferocious fire to the front of the position.

On the beachhead, the PLA soldiers who were firmly suppressed by the strange crossfire of the Annan Army's artillery, light and heavy machine guns, and rifles of various calibers were constantly blown into the sky in violent explosions.

In the nearly 10-minute artillery battle, the People's Liberation Army, which was earth-shattering, was unable to suppress the artillery fire of the Annan Army, while the artillery fire of the other side was very accurate and fierce, completely suppressing the landing force on the narrow beachhead. During the period when the First Motorized Infantry Division landed, not a single person from the First Regiment that landed first rushed across the river beach and rushed to the first-line position of the Annam Army on the bridgehead, which had already been destroyed.

Cai Shaohua, commander of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division, was so anxious that his voice changed tone, and he shouted loudly into the walkie-talkie, asking the commander of the 2nd Regiment to send several assault teams to rush onto the river beach and advance deep into the enemy's position. However, under the fierce artillery fire of the Annan army, any such attempt had to pay the price of blood, and groups of soldiers who advanced on the ground died heroically under the shells of the Annan people.

Fortunately, the river beach was only more than 200 meters, and because the Second Regiment had obviously increased the investment of the follow-up echelon, several assault teams finally broke through the river beach and climbed to the gentle slope close to the river beach, but at this moment, violent explosions sounded one after another, and the enemy actually laid a large number of mines on the gentle slope, and a large number of soldiers were directly blown up into the sky by the mines.

Gu Changfeng's face was grim, and he turned his head and ordered: "The First Army Aviation Helicopter Brigade will be dispatched immediately...... Under the training of the French for many years, the officers of the Annam Army still have a certain ability, and the soldiers are also very brave, but these are not the point, we are far stronger than the opponents, mainly because the fortifications built by the French are too tricky, and they all choose to build on the mountain wall that does not touch the world and does not touch the ground, this kind of local artillery can not do anything about it, if you choose to shoot directly, this distance is too far, and you can only use killer weapons. ”

Xia Jian nodded slightly, and the contempt for the French ** team and the Annan Army in his heart suddenly reined in. This hard-fought contest also impressed all the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army who were watching the battle on the north bank of the Red River, and they were a little more vigilant in the battle that followed.

The battle in front was still continuing, the third regiment withstood the artillery fire of the Annan army, forced the landing, and the follow-up assault teams continued to be sent out. The officers and men of the People's Liberation Army, under the leadership of the company platoon commander and the first soldier, braved artillery fire, crawled and advanced with bayonet mines, and from time to time someone triggered the mine and was blown into the sky, while the wounded soldiers affected by the shrapnel of the mine were still lying where their comrades fell, fearing that other mines would be detonated.

Eventually, about a battalion of infantry stormed the bridgehead and used bombs to create craters and fortifications in the rain of bullets.

At this moment, the roar of motors in the sky came, and thirty helicopters, forming a perfect echelon, came at high speed from the northern sky. The fact that the Army Aviation Unit, which was still experimental in nature, was put into use on the first day of the operation was very surprising and extremely excited to all the officers and men of the Army Aviation Corps.

At present, only 30 helicopters of the First Brigade of the Army Aviation have been installed with the Vulcan cannon system, which was successfully developed at the beginning of the month, and the officers and men of the Army Aviation have just been conducting live-fire training at the training ground for a week when they receive an order to immediately go south, and the formation will be temporarily placed under the Air Defense Brigade of the Guard Army directly under Gu Changfeng's Front Army, and through actual combat, they will test whether the design ideas and development direction of this new type of weapon are correct.

In addition to the Vulcan cannon system, the bazooka and sharpshooter of the cabin crew are also important striking forces, but in daily training, the hit rate is not high, see if you can have good luck today.

After the helicopters entered the battlefield, the artillery of the People's Liberation Army suddenly stopped shelling, and thirty helicopters quickly separated, each looking for a target.

The artillery of the Annan Army was surprised that the opponent suddenly stopped the artillery coverage, but then they found the helicopter that was almost stagnant in mid-air, and they were surprised, and when they didn't know what the hell it was, suddenly the six 20mm barrels of the Vulcan cannon turned, and the bullets that were almost like a storm shot straight into the firing port, and the more than ten artillerymen who operated the cannon were strangled to pieces by large-caliber bullets before they even had time to snort.

In order to facilitate the forward and backward of the cannon, the tunnel is often designed as a straight line, this design can be said to be taken for granted before the helicopter did not appear, and because the upper and lower parts are cliffs, whether it is an air attack or an artillery bombardment, there will be no threat, but now, the furious machine gun bullets not only tear the artillery located at the firing port, but also shroud the soldiers responsible for ammunition supply behind the tunnel.

At the same time, due to the rain of bullets directly hitting the shell box, causing a violent explosion, a column of fire came straight out of the firing port and jumped out dozens of meters away.

The whole mountain shook like a magnitude 4 earthquake, the ground trembled, the gravel between the mountains poured down frantically, and the river set off huge waves.

On the ground, the morale of the officers and men of the People's Liberation Army was greatly boosted, and more infantry rushed across the river beach and gentle slopes, ascended to the front-line positions of the Annan Army, and attacked in depth.

A mountainside position with a height of more than 100 meters recessed behind the first-line position has become the target of contention between the two sides. This position is set up under the cliff, like a deep cave, so that it is safe and sound under the powerful fire of the PLA artillery.

The area of this cave is too wide, with hundreds of meters of rock formations on its head, and it overlooks a large area of nearby river beaches and positions below, while the enemy is condescending, placing twenty-two cannons in the belly of the mountain, fiercely bombarding the PLA fighters on the river beach.

At the same time, there were also six anti-aircraft flat-firing dual-purpose machine guns arranged in the position here, and a helicopter that had just lowered its altitude to prepare for a precise strike was damaged, and the pilot struggled to escape the fire of the anti-aircraft machine guns and stumbled and landed on the river beach on the north bank of the Red River, which made Gu Changfeng and Xia Jian, who had witnessed the danger, break out in a cold sweat.

Seeing this, the rest of the helicopters knew that the terrain here was not conducive to helicopter combat, and at the same time, the artillery group of the Annan Army located on the cliff had been basically destroyed, so they reported by radio and returned to the land aviation airport in Nanxi Town after obtaining permission.

In order to destroy the artillery of the Annam Army as soon as possible, Lieutenant Colonel An Shangyi of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division set up his headquarters under a high hill 500 meters away from the enemy's position, and directed the soldiers to attack the enemy's position. However, due to the bottom-up attack, it was sharply blocked by the Annam army on the mountain, including light and heavy machine guns and grenades.

Six infantry companies were held back in a small narrow rain-fissure trench beneath the hilly salient. The rain rift ditch provided the soldiers with the necessary protection from the heavy machine-gun bullets of the Annan army.

The time pointed to ten o'clock, because the Annam army relied on the fortifications built by the French to carry out fierce resistance, the infantry failed to break through the river beach position in time, and did not quickly consolidate the bridgehead, resulting in the 12th Division of the Engineer Corps, which followed the movement of the large force, was delayed in carrying out its operation.

Fortunately, with the weakening of the firepower of the Annan Army in three-dimensional defense, the railway and highway bridges have been in the hands of the People's Liberation Army, and the engineering troops quickly dispatched, and the crawler drilling truck rushed onto the bridge and came to the reinforced concrete wall up to three meters thick and two meters thick.

The rig kept drilling, and it didn't take long for the seemingly indestructible reinforced concrete to crumble into piles of iron and concrete blocks.

The drill truck quickly backed away, and the excavator stepped forward, raised its high grab arm, and threw the reinforced concrete blocks into the boiling water of the Red River. After the scene was cleared, the barbed wire was smashed and thrown aside, the excavator retreated, the drilling rig stepped forward, and the cycle continued, and the bridge gradually became unobstructed.

At the front, Lieutenant Colonel Ahn Sang-yi ordered to concentrate all the mortars of the six companies, while the anti-tank company quickly moved forward, and the bazookas were aimed together at the hill to make the most resolute breakthrough.

The Annam Army on the hill seemed to sense the PLA's intentions and blockaded the hill with mortars and grenades.

"Boom-"

More than 50 mortars, roaring angrily, and rockets also dragged a long tail flame, rushed into the position of the Annan army, making a huge explosion.

Then, with all their might, all the infantry officers and men threw the prepared grenades into the hills, and since this was a bulge, the grenades flew over the bulges one after another, falling behind and exploding, forming puffs of smoke and dust.

As the explosions came out one after another, the infantry of the six companies rushed out of the rain cracked ditch, because the Annan army was stunned by the sudden mortar shells and rockets, and because the smoke and dust from the grenade explosion blocked the view, whether it was artillery, light and heavy machine guns, or rifles, it could not suppress the offensive action of the PLA.