Chapter 30: A Foothold

Those two words are in Vietnamese, and of course our code words.

When I say "don't move," the other person says, "Raise your hands!" ”

The reason why we use Vietnamese code language is because we have found that this method has many advantages in previous battles, and the biggest advantage is that it often gives you an upper hand in battle.

It is conceivable that if the other party is Vietnamese and not Chinese, then when we use Chinese to say code words and wait for the other party to answer, it is very likely that what we are waiting for will be a shuttle bullet. On the other hand, if you use Vietnamese as a code language, it is different, most of the time after the Vietnamese people hear this Vietnamese sentence, they still can't judge whether the other party is friend or foe, but we can be mentally prepared because the enemy does not respond correctly, so of course we can take advantage of the situation when we are prepared to fight.

Facts have also proved that this method is very effective, for example, in this battle, there have been many cases where our paratroopers have accidentally encountered the Vietnamese army and have not been able to distinguish between friend and foe, and when our army shouts code words, many Vietnamese soldiers will even shout "their own people" while coming out with confidence...... Needless to say, what the end result will be.

"Battalion commander! I've found you! ”

To my surprise, it was my guards who appeared in front of me, and there were two guards...... This is a bit different from what I had judged to be only one enemy. But this also shows a problem, that is, the agent company's su zhì is still quite good, and it can even deceive my ears.

"How did you find me so quickly!" I was a little surprised, because listening to the tone of his voice, it was obvious that he consciously found me in the first place, which was not easy to do in the skydiving of nearly 100 people and in the jungle of Vietnam.

"Battalion commander!" The guard Xiao Zhang replied a little proudly: "We are guards." Our mission is to keep you safe. If I don't find you first, how can I be called a guard......"

"Go, go!" Xiao Wang interrupted Xiao Zhang's words. Instead, he reported to me: "Battalion commander, we jumped down after you, and then we kept an eye on your direction, but because of the fog, it was more luck to find you!" ”

I couldn't help but laugh secretly when I heard this, these two guys are not nervous at all at the moment of fighting, and they are still joking here.

But at this time, I didn't have time to lecture them, so I immediately nodded and ordered: "Go to the assembly point immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

It's much easier for three people to act together. That's not to say that we're not too good to go it alone. However, when acting alone, one person must look forward and look backward, which is very inefficient, and three people working together can take care of the front and the back, and pay attention to both sides...... This synergy is both safe and efficient.

There was no danger along the way, and nothing happened except for two wounded Vietnamese soldiers on the side of the road.

The two wounded Vietnamese soldiers were assumed to have been wounded in the battle and snatched by their comrades, but they were unable to send them down the mountain for a while...... The altitude of Kuolin Mountain is more than 1,700 meters, and it takes four or five hours for a able-bodied person to descend the mountain, not to mention that he still carries wounded soldiers. So the best thing to do is to put them on the side of the road and wait for the containment team or the militia carrying supplies to come up before transporting them down.

These two poor wounded soldiers were defenseless against us, and I think it had something to do with their injuries, one of them was dying with his legs broken by the explosion, and the other was struggling to breathe with his lungs wounded by bullets or shrapnel. They are still lying in the shade of a tree. Add to that the thick fog, of course, you don't know that we're falling from the sky.

Even when we appeared in front of them, they thought it was a rescuer, and their faces were full of excitement...... They were stunned when they saw how we were dressed and armed.

I think they must have been thinking at this time: how could these Chinese soldiers kill us from behind.

The next second, the Vietnamese soldier with the severed hand wanted to touch the gun. I believe that he did not mean to kill us, but to fire a warning to their comrades.

But of course we won't give them this chance, Xiao Wang grabbed a rifle butt and knocked it to the ground, as for the Vietnamese soldier who was wounded in both legs...... At first, his eyes showed some fear, and then he took a breath and lay on the ground waiting for his fate.

I didn't want to kill them, but in the end, I was so ruthless that Xiao Wang used a military stab to cut their throats.

That's when I realized that many Vietnamese soldiers probably didn't know that we had parachuted into the area.

I'm also a little puzzled by this, because nearly 100 of us were dropped into this area from a helicopter, and this area is where the main force of the Yue devils is located, how could we not be aware of our arrival?!

Originally, I was worried that I would be attacked by the Vietnamese army before the assembly, but now it seems that this worry is completely unnecessary.

Later, I learned that the Vietnamese army had found out, but they didn't get the news out so quickly......

The reason for this was this, because the battalion commander Nguyen was anxious to recapture the main peak, so he threw all the troops on the anticline into the battle to attack the main peak, leaving only some old, weak, sick and disabled and a few necessary sentries in the rear. This would have been no problem, as the sentries were the first to spot our parachute operation.

The mistake lies in the fact that the penetration rate of communication equipment in the Vietnamese army is not high, and they do have telephones in the tunnels, but these telephones are just like those used by our army, one wire is connected to two ends, and can only be used for communication between tunnels. Radios were deployed only at the company level, and both companies were sent to the battlefield...... The sentinels in the rear are suffering, they have discovered the enemy situation but there is no way to notify the main forces at the first time, there is no radio!

It is said that the Vietnamese army should not have made such a mistake, and the radio stations of the two companies should have been left in the rear and used in the front line, but in fact, they cannot be blamed, who would have thought that we would be parachuted directly to their rear under such harsh conditions. In addition, the occupation of the main peak by the enemy had already made them panic, and they made several mistakes one after another in a hurry.

This also made the assembly of our troops very smooth, and in the process, except for the sporadic resistance of some militia and a few sentinels, there was no "anti-airborne" that I had feared before.

"Battalion commander!" This made Zhao Jingping worried: "Look, will there be any tricks in the more devils, such as setting a trap in front of ......?"

"Fetch me the eagle!" I ordered the correspondent.

As soon as Scar picked up the phone, he asked us, "Battalion commander, did you land successfully?" ”

"Landed!" I said, "What's going on with you?" ”

"The Yue devil was still storming our army's defense line just now, and now he has withdrawn!" Scar replied, "They must have just known that you were parachuted into the rear!" ”

When I heard this, I was relieved, not because the Vietnamese army had any tricks, but because their reaction was slower than we thought.

However, this does not seem surprising, it is inevitable that there will be insufficient communication equipment, and we are assuming the worst-case scenario of the enemy, but these surprising reactions of the Vietnamese army in this battle are somewhat inexplicable to us. For example, the main peak still has no threat from the Vietnamese army from other directions.

Later, when I learned that this qiē was all because of the conceit of the battalion commander Ruan and concealed the military intelligence director, my staff officers and I couldn't stop laughing.

It was only then that the battalion commander Ruan did not know the severity of the matter, and the development of the battle situation was not something that he could control by himself.

At this time, of course, he has to report to his superiors, otherwise not only will this main peak not be able to get it back, but his troops may be consumed by us.

However, I have to admire this Nguyen battalion commander, who exaggerated our strength by three or four times in order to cover up his defeat when reporting to his superiors, that is, the 14th Regiment of the Vietnamese Army received the report: "A large number of Chinese soldiers have airdropped on the main peak of Kulam Mountain with the help of the morning fog, and the strength is at least one reinforced battalion, and the main peak of Kuolin Mountain has been lost under the powerful offensive of the Chinese soldiers!" ”

"A reinforced battalion?! That's it! This news immediately made the commander of the 14th regiment stunned on the spot.

The first thing that came to his mind was the Chinese Airborne 15th Army.

As I said before, the Vietnamese troops we are facing at present are all Vietnamese devils who have dealt with the Chinese army, and the troops are trained and equipped in China, and many of the officers are trained in Chinese military academies, and the commander of the 14th regiment, Hu is one of them.

Therefore, Regiment Commander Hu knew very well that only the 15 th Airborne Army in China had the strength to airborne a battalion, and at the same time, he was also very aware of the shortcomings of the 15 th Airborne Army...... That is, because of the backwardness of the umbrella, the Chinese airborne troops can only be equipped with light weapons, and they also lack ammunition.

So he immediately developed a plan for these characteristics: "Surround the Chinese army from several directions and attack mainly by consuming the enemy's ammunition!" ”

Of course, the plan formulated by Commander Hu was right, but what he didn't know was ...... What he had to face was not the Airborne 15th Army, if it was really the Airborne 15th Army, then because the new parachute had not yet been fully equipped with the 15th Army, maybe it really had the shortcomings he thought.

But we are a synthetic battalion, a synthetic battalion equipped with new parachutes and advanced equipment, and a synthetic battalion with a large number of helicopters.

This miscalculation directly led the Vietnamese army to pay a heavy price. Of course, because the Vietnamese army thought we were a reinforced battalion, but in fact we only had one company, which also made us fight very hard in the following battles.

At this time, I didn't know any of this, and I didn't have time to think about it, because we were in a hurry to join Scar's troops, and only then could we gain a foothold on this Koulin Mountain. (To be continued......)