Chapter VIII: Reconnaissance Operations (3)
In the end, Xu Liangbin and others thought that if the driver's password was set according to the original plan, the risk would be too great, and once it was exposed, it would be the end of the annihilation of the whole army.
So they came up with another solution......
It was the third day they had infiltrated the Vietnamese army's defensive line, and the road was very muddy due to the light rain that had been going on for several days, and it was just the time when the rain stopped showing a little sun, which was just right for the implementation of the plan of Xu Liangbin and his party.
As usual, Xu Liangbin and others were still disguised as road maintenance engineers of the Vietnamese army, but unlike other road maintenance engineers of the Vietnamese army, they were not building roads on this day, but sabotage.
The so-called sabotage is to dig a pit in the section of the road that they maintain.
Of course, this pit is slightly towards the side of the road, which does not affect the traffic of Vietnamese cars as a whole.
At the same time, this pit will not make the Vietnamese army suspicious, after all, a pit like this is all too common on muddy roads.
Xu Liangbin and his entourage pretended to be repairing the road nearby, and observed the vehicles passing while repairing it.
It didn't take long for a convoy to come up, and the drivers of the Vietnamese convoy must have been accustomed to driving on this kind of road, so they could easily avoid the potholes on the road and drive forward like a long snake until one of the road maintenance engineers slipped under his feet...... When a car is about to hit the steering wheel, the car is stuck in this pit and cannot move.
Xu Liangbin and his entourage stepped forward to help without saying a word, and more than a dozen people pushed and pulled in front of the car.
But this pit is actually tailor-made for cars, or it can also be said that Xu Liangbin and others deliberately do not make any effort, let them push it. Ren is how the car engine roars. The wheels are idling in the pit, and they can't get out.
"Comrade!" At this time, Xu Liangbin shouted at the driver of the car: "The car is too heavy." We should unload some of the goods. ”
The driver looked at the situation and agreed that there was no better way.
So with the help of the Vietnamese army...... The ammunition is escorted by several Vietnamese soldiers, which is on the one hand to supervise and protect the ammunition, and on the other hand, it can be easily loaded and unloaded.
The ammunition box was quickly partially unloaded, and it worked, and the car suddenly broke free from the pit and got back onto the road, and the crowd could not help but cheer.
Then naturally, the ammunition box was reloaded, but what the Vietnamese army didn't know was that. Two of these ammunition boxes are located on the inside...... The soldiers have secretly stuffed two time-set time bombs.
To put it simply, the soldiers don't even need to use passwords, and the Vietnamese army will help them bring time bombs into the ammunition depot.
Of course, there is also the possibility that the ammunition will be transferred directly to another transit point without passing through the ammunition depot. Xu Liangbin and others also took this situation into account, so they concocted the same method and stuffed time bombs into the ammunition of the other two cars in the same way.
There is a high probability that one vehicle will not pass through the ammunition stockpile, and the possibility of three vehicles being transferred to a transit point at the same time can be said to be very small.
Originally, Xu Liangbin and others wanted to get a few more, but after thinking about it, they felt that they were afraid that it would be too much, and getting too many time bombs meant that there was a greater chance of being discovered by the Vietnamese army, and now this is almost enough. Even if you can't blow up the ammunition depot of the Yue Devils, there will be no loss for our army.
It should be said that there is still an element of luck here, but I don't know if it is because the Vietnamese army has too much ammunition or has not had problems for a long time. Xu Liangbin and others actually succeeded.
In the evening, I heard a violent roar from the direction of the old street, and a cloud of flames and smoke rose in the sky.
Suddenly, the whole old street was busy, fighting fires, saving people, and vigilant...... It's messy like ants on a hot pan. At this time, Xu Liangbin and others were already on their way to withdraw to China.
Later, we learned from our intelligence that this was the worst sneak attack that the Vietnamese army had suffered since the beginning of the war.
This is not only material, although it is also a lot of material, Lao Cai is an important transit point for the supply of ammunition on the front line of the Vietnamese army, and its ammunition depot can be said to be the one with the most materials stored in the vicinity. This can be seen from the intensity of the explosion.
What is more important is the psychological shock of the ammunition depot to the Vietnamese army and the people...... The Vietnamese army could not understand how their heavily guarded ammunition depot could have been blown up by the enemy, and even a considerable part of the Vietnamese army thought that this could be a mistake of their own people, such as the internal storage of the ammunition depot was not well preserved or there was a man-made accident caused by a problem during transportation.
But what is clear is that man-made accidents are unlikely. So the Vietnamese army and even the Vietnamese people will think, will this be the high technology of the Chinese again?
In fact, this is not to blame the Vietnamese army, since there is this thing of artillery sighting radar and it has dealt a heavy blow to the Vietnamese army on the battlefield, the Vietnamese army and the Vietnamese people will have a feeling that all the grass and trees are soldiers, especially the Vietnamese people, who spread this artillery sighting radar to the gods, saying that this artillery sighting radar is like an "eye in the sky...... This is the nickname given by our army to the artillery sighting radar, and I don't know when it reached the ears of the Vietnamese people.
Yes, this eye can see anyone's position, and then command the artillery to hit whoever it wants.
As I said before, rumors are particularly easy to breed and spread in the era of underdeveloped communications, as is the case in China and Vietnam, which is poorer and more backward than China.
This directly leads the Vietnamese people and even the Vietnamese army to think about those "high-tech" aspects that do not exist when they encounter things.
At the same time, the Vietnamese army will also think about a stricter question: if the Chinese soldiers can rely on this kind of high-tech to blow up the Lao Cai ammunition depot without knowing it, can they blow up other ammunition depots in the same way? If that's the case, is it still necessary to fight this war?!
To put it simply, this operation has psychologically shattered the confidence of many Vietnamese troops and Vietnamese people in this war, which has never happened before in Vietnam, even in the face of Yankee planes and artillery in the past.
This directly led to the morale of the Vietnamese troops on the front line being very depressed, and there was even a phenomenon of desertion.
This was something we didn't expect, and it was a bonus.
So, sometimes wars are not terrible, and what is terrible is often rumors.
Just like the Erwang incident that just happened in our country, it is not terrible in itself, and dozens of people have been killed in several places...... For those of us who are soldiers, we can't even catch up with the casualties of a skirmish.
But the more stringent problem is...... Rumors are flying all over the country, portraying the two kings as chivalrous warriors and heroes who rob the rich and help the poor, and many people have even followed suit.
The most powerful and only way to break this rumor and bring it under control is to arrest the two kings.
At the same time, the Vietnamese army's best way to deal with the bombing of the ammunition depot in Lao Cai is to find out the truth.
That's exactly what the Vietnamese army did, and it is said that they sent five intelligence teams to investigate the matter thoroughly...... There is a little bit of our army sending 30,000 people to search for the second king.
The five intelligence groups of the Vietnamese army were divided into several aspects of investigation, on the one hand, to investigate the survivors of the ammunition depot and check the recent entry and exit discipline. On the one hand, investigate the troops who have recently come to receive ammunition. On the other hand, there is the investigation of the drivers and troops who escort the ammunition.
In the end, they found a breakthrough in the driver......
The reason why they were suspicious of the car was that at the same time as the explosion of the ammunition depot, a military vehicle that was heading to the front also exploded...... Xu Liangbin and others installed time bombs on a total of three military vehicles, and it is obvious that these military vehicles were directly transferred to the front line without passing through the ammunition depot.
The Vietnamese investigation team linked the two events, and it was easy to think that perhaps there was something wrong with the ammunition that came in. So I gathered many drivers together and asked...... The suspicion was soon discovered: on the same day, three cars would have fallen into the same pit at the same time, and one of the cars that exploded on their way to the front line was one of them.
Only then did the Vietnamese army determine that this was not negligence in the management of the ammunition depot or a man-made accident, nor was it the "high technology" of the Chinese, but the ghost of Chinese agents.
The Vietnamese military was quick to release the findings......
In fact, this does not have much to do with us, and we can even say that we hope that the Vietnamese army will know that this is the work of our army's agents, after all, our purpose is to let the Vietnamese army know one thing: Vietnamese army agents can infiltrate our country to fight, and our agents can also infiltrate Vietnam to fight.
From the Vietnamese military's side, the threat of Chinese agents may not be a big deal, although it is a new issue for them to consider. But the more serious problem before them is that the findings do not quell the rumors.
The reason why it can't be calmed down is that the Vietnamese people will take it for granted that this may be a lie woven by the Vietnamese government to stabilize the hearts and minds of the people, and from the perspective of the people, they tend to believe what they want to believe.
When I heard this, I had a feeling of irony, I could not imagine that special operations could achieve such an effect, and it seems that we are still on the right path.
But then again, judging from this incident, in fact, the Vietnamese people did not agree with this war in their hearts, because they did not agree with this war and did not dare to speak out in the face of the power of the Vietnamese authorities, so they had to express their dissatisfaction with the rumors in the guò way.
Maybe the Vietnamese people are tired of war, or maybe they don't want to be enemies of China. But I think this is more because the Vietnamese people know that the war they are fighting now is different from the previous anti-Japanese, anti-French, and anti-American wars, and that this war against China is unjust and self-inflicted. (To be continued......)