Chapter 154: A Different Kind of Counterinsurgency
"Jiba Jiangcuo, what are you doing with a broken gun!" A twenty-seven- or eight-year-old rebel hiding behind a corner hurriedly stamped his foot and shouted loudly to an eighteen- or nine-year-old rebel who was kneeling on one leg on the side of the road and still shooting.
"Brother-in-law Luosang, hurry up, there are two Han iron cars coming over there," Jiba Jiangcuo also turned around and shouted anxiously.
Lausanne rushed out in the rain of bullets, snatched the old British rifle from Jiba Jiangcuo's hand, threw it on the dirt road, pulled his brother-in-law back behind the corner and said: "You and your father-in-law, my father-in-law are both fucking lacking in heart, and I still can't see it." Isn't this [***] lama playing with our lives! This Han people's magic car is invulnerable, you are looking for death! Didn't you just shoot the car? Luosang looked at the frightened Jiba Jiangcuo and nodded, "Then what kind of stupidity is still standing, why don't you kneel down and kowtow to Shenche to make amends." ”
"What is the god car afraid of. The Great Lama said, "Take the amulet given by [***] and fight for the west [***] and you will be invulnerable, I".
"Lying down" Luosang slapped Jiba Jiangcuo, who was kneeling on the ground by himself, on the back of the head and said: "What the big lama said, what the big lama said." Look at the dead man lying there, the one who didn't have the amulet [***] bestowed. Life is our own, and it's none of our business to read alone. After speaking, Luosang carefully poked out half of his head from the corner of the wall to look at the armored car that was getting closer and closer, and immediately knelt on the ground behind the corner, and kowtowed three times very reverently, "Shenche, my brother-in-law is young and ignorant and offended your divine power, and the Buddha Lord will definitely punish him." Your old man will go around him a lot. Then he kowtowed three more times. He turned his face to Jiba Jiangcuo and said, "Hurry up and do this to me, these magic cars may not be able to understand our words." If we misunderstand the car, we'll be finished. Kowtow, raise your hands, didn't you see that Gaba Muzhu, who came with us, didn't kneel down and raise his hands, and was hit with 5 bloody holes on his body? Hurry up! Hold your hands high at the point. If it weren't for your sister repeatedly asking me to take care of you when I came, I wouldn't have left you alone. ”
The armored vehicles kept shooting at the rebels who dared to resist, and on the other hand, they repeatedly announced orders in Tibetan with a loudspeaker mounted on the vehicle, telling the rebels who laid down their arms and surrendered to kneel on the side of the road with their heads in their hands and were not allowed to move. Hundreds of rebels, throwing down their weapons and kneeling on both sides of the road where the armored vehicles passed, waited for the containment troops behind them to escort them to a wider place, and what awaited them was to expose and criticize each other. Then there is the forced labor reform of roads and mining for three to five years.
With Deng Feng's cry of "no mercy", the counterinsurgency battle in Tibetan Province began in an all-round way.
At 11:03, the 308th Artillery Regiment of the Tibetan Provincial Corps of the People's Liberation Army received an order to prepare artillery fire on Yaowang Mountain, a strategic point in Lhasa. In the observation post, Huo Bao, commander of the first rocket artillery battalion, is carefully observing Yaowang Mountain through a telescope, Yaowang Mountain is the highest peak in Lhasa, and the Red Mountain where the Potala Palace is located is close to each other, and the two mountains are connected by a white pagoda, and the bottom of the white pagoda is the door opening, which is the gateway to Lhasa City. The Tibetan army on the mountain used the mountain to build hundreds of secret roads in the fort.
After receiving the order, Huo Bao quickly issued a shooting command: "Attention to the whole battalion of the 1st Rocket Artillery Battalion, target No. 12, enemy headquarters, 2 companies and 1 artillery with 4 rounds, release." "The command post of the 1st Rocket Artillery Battalion and the wired telephone and wireless telegraph operator of the 2nd Artillery Battalion on the south bank of the Lhasa River simultaneously recited and recorded the battalion commander's orders. After receiving the password, Liu Qiming, squad leader of the 2nd Company and 1st Artillery Squad, immediately pressed the launcher button and fired four 122-mm rocket shells, which were rapidly fired at the headquarters area of the 2nd generation of the Tibetan Army on the top of Yaowang Mountain. After seeing that the four test-fired shells of the 2nd Company, 1 Artillery and 4 Shells had hit the target, the battalion commander of the "Good" Observation Post slammed the sandbags in front of him, shouted hello, and then issued an order: "Attention to the position: The whole battalion fired two rapid salvos." After each gun is connected to the password, the squad leader of each gun presses the fire button on the launcher in unison. The battalion's 15 122-mm "Tempest" 40-tube rockets fired two salvos at the predetermined target position. The entire battalion position is like an erupting volcano, 1,200 rockets and artillery shells are fired at the rebel Tibetan army targets on Yaowang Mountain with a roaring and rapid momentum, and the rockets are as dense as hail covering the entire Tibetan army position, in less than two minutes, two rounds of salvo fire, making the flames on Yaowang Mountain soar, the peaks tremble, and the pillboxes are mixed with the stumps and broken arms of the rebels, mixed with thick smoke and flames, and are thrown into the sky in the roar of rocket shell explosions, and the Tibetan army has painstakingly operated the Yaowang Mountain defense position for many years, all the pillbox trenches were destroyed almost before they could open fire. The entire Yaowang Mountain was blown into a sea of fire, and the smoke and flames rolled into the sky, and it did not roll and spread around.
Subsequently, the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 159th Regiment of the Tibetan Provincial Military Region braved the smoke and dust to charge at Yaowang Mountain. After reaching the top, it was found that most of the Tibetan troops were killed and wounded, and some of the rest were frightened and kneeling on the ground trembling; Some frightened souls collapsed to the ground, unable to even stand up, but kept kowtowing to the cadres and soldiers of the 1st Company, and some were even frightened and incontinent, and their bodies smelled unpleasant. The cadres and soldiers of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 159th Regiment couldn't cry or laugh. A platoon commander from the northeast angrily kicked a Tibetan army officer who had collapsed to the ground and couldn't stand up, and scolded: "I'm damn you, what kind of rebellion are you like a bear." If you don't wait for Lao Tzu to fight, you can't stand up on your own. ”
"Platoon commander, forget it, I can't understand the scolding," a soldier who was cleaning the battlefield next to him persuaded: "Let's work harder, let's take him to the prisoner's side."
"After so many years of fighting, I have never seen such a soldier." The platoon commander was holding the prisoner with the soldier and scolding indignantly. "It looks like the Indian soldiers who trained these Tibetan troops aren't fucking much better."
Yang Guang and another "Raider" wheeled armored vehicle drove the Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple, Xiaozhao Temple, Zaji Temple, and Sera Temple back and forth after repeatedly rushing back and forth, and then returned to the military region to replenish ammunition, took supplies and set off again. At this time, the [***] rebels in Lhasa City have been basically wiped out, two "assaulters" along the west bank of the Lhasa River to the southwest suburbs of Lhasa, 30 kilometers away from Lhasa City, Yang Guang and they found more than 20 rebels on horseback, Yang Guang ordered the driver to chase after him, he himself on the roof of the car, with a sniper rifle to shoot the rebels fleeing in all directions. As he went, he searched the surroundings with the scope on the Type 79 sniper rifle, and suddenly found that there was a temple on the right side of the road in front of him, and on this temple hung a yellow flag, on which were painted two crossed knives, one with a circle of flames on the head, and the other with a circle of flames on the tail, a sun was drawn in the center of the top of the double knife, and four ghost heads were painted on the four corners of the flag. Yang Guang knew that this was the military flag of the [***] Guardian Army. Yang Guang ordered the rear car to cover and led the car to reconnoitre. Before Yang Guang could leave the road, fierce gunfire rang out on the right side of the road, interspersed with sporadic mortar explosions.
Yang Guang hurriedly returned to the armored car, Yang Guang opened the military laptop, and checked, this is Chabarang. This lama temple is Keden Ganqing Monastery, where more than 200 lamas live. But he didn't know that this was the Lhasa front-line headquarters of the [***] Weijiao Army, and at this time, the commander of the car shouted loudly: "Instructor Yang, [***] elements rushed up" Yang Guang looked out of the observation window in the car and said: "Rush up, what are these hanging bandits nervous, Lao Tzu is still looking for them, and it is our luck to meet them." So he ordered the rear car to follow the two cars and launch a tentative counterattack against the [***] army. Yang Guang and another "Raider" wheeled armored vehicle rushed off the road. At this time, the [***] Church Guards, who were lying in ambush on the right side of the road, mounted their horses, and rushed up while firing a platoon gun. The protective steel plates of the armored vehicles hit by the light and heavy machine guns of the Church Guards "clanged", and the two armored vehicles continued to fire fiercely at the [***] rebels who rushed around. Yang Guang saw through the observation window that there were at least more than 1,000 rebels attacking them by the Western Lijiao Guards, and while he ordered the machine guns on his vehicles to suppress the attack of the Jiaowei Army, he retreated to the highway and fought along the highway with armored vehicles as the backing to fight in a mobile way to entangle the rebels. On the other hand, he promptly reported the situation here to the counterinsurgency headquarters and asked for support.
Yang Guang said to the commander: "Inform the rear car, pay attention to saving ammunition, [***] elements rush into the 300-meter infantry and then fight, even if they rush up, they can't help us." Maneuvering back and forth along the road, the horse could not outrun the armored car. After a while, they'll be tired of fart. ”
In this way, the two "Raiders" wheeled armored vehicles played a game of cat and mouse with more than 3,000 [***] Guardian Army rebels here on a 5-kilometer stretch of about 5 kilometers.
During the battle, Yang Guang felt that this group of rebels of the Western [***] Liwei Sect Army was really a bit fierce, most of them had strong individual combat ability, and they were very accurate in shooting on horses, and they had a certain tactical literacy, and the weapons used were very mixed, including American-made large 8-grain M1 semi-automatic rifles and British Li. Enfield rifles, as well as Canadian iron-handled submachine guns, as well as 12 to 15 British-made MKL-type Lewis light machine guns, two British-made 81 mortars, but the gunners were too poor.
(To be continued)