A few minutes later, I led the guards down to the 1142 heights.

Although it was not very difficult to do this, after all, the position on the top of the 1142nd Heights was still under the control of the Secret Service Company, but in order to cover us, the other helicopters also used up the last bit of ammunition and flew back to the base according to my orders.

"Battalion commander!" The first moment Scar ran up to me and asked, "Why did you come down?" ”

"Who told you to come down?!" Another dark shadow ran up to me, screaming and cursing in a bit of rage.

She couldn't help but be stunned when she scolded the people around her like this, who in the synthetic camp dared to talk to the battalion commander like this...... Don't think about it, of course it's Chen Yiyi.

I also recognized that the person who spoke was Chen Yiyi, who I hadn't seen for a few months, and when I saw that she was covered in mud and blood, she was simply not human, and I thought that she had a very difficult time in the month of lurking in Yinshan, so I couldn't help but feel sour in my heart.

But I didn't say anything, and the situation at this time didn't allow me to say anything, just nodded at Chen Yiyi, and asked Scar: "How is the situation?" ”

"It was completely unexpected." Scar replied: "The more ghosts have portable anti-aircraft missiles, and the reinforcements on the left and right are also increasing, and at the same time, we have also found an unknown enemy in front and back, and we are already surrounded by the more devils!" ”

"Is there a way to hold the hilltop position?" I asked Chen Yiyi.

She had been lurking on the 1142 Heights for a month, and she must have known everything about the situation in the area.

"The two wings and the north steep are fine!" Chen Yiyi replied: "It's more difficult in the south!" ”

This is actually what I expected, the north is steep and the south is gentle, and the terrain of the highlands in this area is like this. In addition, the fortifications of the Vietnamese army were oriented towards the north and both flanks. Therefore, the south side can basically be said to be unsafe.

I haven't had time to think about what to do next. I heard a soldier shout: "Battalion commander, the enemy is coming!" ”

I ran forward to take a look, and sure enough, I saw a cat with a gun slowly covering our army's position in the dark of the night.

"The enemy situation was found in the north, and the troops were two squads."

"The enemy situation has been discovered in the west, and the troops are a platoon!"

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It should be said that the commander of the Yue devils was very smart, he knew that our army had just occupied the position and did not have time to build fortifications, so he launched an attack so quickly. On the other hand. He set the direction of the main attack in the south, and on the north flank, there were no more than two squads or a platoon, obviously to contain our troops and at the same time to fear being bombarded by our artillery.

"Pass the order on!" I ordered: "Hold the enemy under artillery fire and snipers on both flanks and on the north side, and the others defend the south side in the same way." ”

"Yes!" Scar answered, and quickly arranged the personnel according to my orders.

Before we could catch our breath, the Vietnamese army launched a charge at our army with a shout.

The Vietnamese army's charge was a little different from usual, the difference was that there was basically no artillery preparation before the charge...... If there is any artillery preparation, it should be that the Vietnamese devils fired a few grenades at our position before charging.

I think this is due to the artillery sighting radar...... Under the influence of the artillery sighting radar, the Vietnamese artillery would not open fire unless it was absolutely necessary, and once it fired, it had to be mentally prepared to be covered by the Chinese artillery's artillery fire.

"Hit!" With my order. The soldiers, who had thought they were ready, pulled the trigger on the Yue devils who rushed up.

I saw a rain of bullets passing, and the formation of the Vietnamese army's charge was as obvious as a blocked tide...... Of course, this is not really a tide that is blocked. Instead, bullets mercilessly shot into the bodies of the Vietnamese soldiers who rushed ahead.

At this time, the shape of the enemy and us is very obvious, although our army is stationed in this south side of the fortifications that can be relied on, our army still occupies a condescending geographical advantage, plus the weapons in our hands are all 81 bars and 81 light machine guns, etc., so as soon as the battle starts, there is a rain of bullets like a storm. This is especially true of the snipers who are distributed in our troops, who always choose the Vietnamese commander with a pistol on his waist, the communications soldier with a walkie-talkie on his back, and even the Vietnamese soldier with a grenade launcher or machine gun in his hand.

It can be said that the role of these equipment in the hands of the special agent company has been exerted to the extreme, and the 81 bar and light machine gun are used for strafing the surface, and the sniper rifle is used for the key strike of the point, so that the combination of the point and the surface completely suppresses the Yue devil on the inclined plane and cannot move.

In fact, what is more important is that because we launched this raid on the basis of the Black Hawk, everyone brought enough ammunition, and even a few helicopters took the gap to lift dozens of boxes of ammunition on the hilltop position...... Anyway, the Black Hawk has a lot of gravity, and it would be a fool not to make full use of it. This leaves us without the fear of running out of ammunition for the time being.

"Battalion commander!" At this time, the correspondent handed me the microphone and shouted: "Master Xu's phone!" ”

"I'm Yang Xuefeng!" When I took the phone, I identified myself.

"Battalion Commander Yang!" Division Commander Xu on the other end of the phone said: "I heard about the unexpected things in the plan, I didn't expect that the Yue devils would have anti-aircraft missiles, do you want our army to launch a general offensive in advance to cooperate with your battle?" ”

I looked at my watch, and it was only half past five, and there was still an hour and a half before the planned total attack time of seven o'clock.

The reason why we set the total attack time at seven o'clock is because we took into account several factors:

First, our army is not familiar with the terrain, and if we launch an attack on the enemy's position in the dark, although it can cause a certain amount of confusion to the Vietnamese army, our army will be even more inconvenient. Even because the Vietnamese army is familiar with the terrain, they can fight as usual even if there is cover from the sky, especially since many Vietnamese troops are still hiding in caves, and it is difficult to find targets in caves if they attack in the dark.

Second, the Vietnamese army is good at night battles, while our army is not, and this is cultivated in a long-term war and living environment.

Third, the most important thing is that our army has an all-round advantage in artillery fire at this time, and under the influence of artillery sighting radar, our artillery can almost fight as much as it wants. You can hit whatever you want. This also includes smoke grenades that can interfere with the Vietnamese military's line of sight.

So. There is no need for us to launch a general offensive at night, and it is reasonable that we should take advantage of the darkness at night to sneak up on the front line of the Vietnamese army's position to make preparations, and then coordinate with the artillery to launch a charge against the Vietnamese army's position when the sky is bright.

It is precisely because of this that we set the time for the general attack at 7 o'clock in the morning.

"No!" Without thinking about it, I denied Division Commander Xu's statement: "There is still an hour and a half before the general attack time, and there are still many troops who have not reached the designated lurking position, and if the general attack is carried out in advance, it will bring great losses to the troops." ”

Master Xu on the other end of the phone acquiesced to my statement, and after a pause, he said, "Then." I'll put two mortar batteries under your command! ”

This time I did not refuse, partly because I knew that our army had a large number of artillery units, and among them there were many mortar units...... To launch a general attack on Zheyin Mountain, artillery units are indispensable.

On the other hand, it's because we really need mortar troops. As mentioned before, the Vietnamese army placed the main force in the south, and we basically had no fortifications on this side, and once the Vietnamese army organized a decent offensive, the south was very likely to be broken through by the Vietnamese army. And mortars that can bypass the hilltop position and hit the south are undoubtedly our good reinforcement firepower.

As I expected, the Vietnamese commander quickly realized that the attack had been too hasty...... He wasn't actually to blame for that. He didn't know the true combat effectiveness of our troops, and he only wanted to deny us time to build fortifications and gain a foothold.

Then, with a few whistling sounds, more than a dozen shells exploded on our positions. Immediately, shrapnel flew on the hilltop position.

This is the mortar of the Yue devils, just like Chen Yiyi and others have detected before, the Vietnamese army has five 82 guns and seven 60 guns on this 1142 heights, and now it seems that the Yue devils have transferred them all to deal with us.

Mortars like this located on the anti-slope are very difficult to deal with, even if our army has an artillery sighting radar...... The reason is that it is generally located in the dead end of our army's long-range artillery fire, on the other hand, it can still swim quickly, and after a few shots, a few infantry can move their positions, so even if the artillery sighting radar can detect its position, it will not play a big role.

As for us, what we are most afraid of when there are no fortifications to hide in is to be shelled by the Yue Devils, and it seems that the Commander of the Yue Devils is grasping at our weakness.

Fortunately, we have already made preparations at this time, and it should be said that Division Commander Xu had a prescient understanding of this, and when the Yue devils shelled us, our army immediately returned a large number of shells...... Suddenly, the sound of the mortar of the devil was much less.

This was unexpected, as I said before, the Vietnamese mortars bombarded me on the anti-slope, and it should be difficult for our artillery to hit them, but now it seems that this is not the case.

Later, I learned that this artillery naturally had the style of artillery.

As the saying goes, "the road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high", the Vietnamese army has a way to fire mobile artillery on the anti-slope plane, and our artillery will also find a solution in the process of fighting.

Our artillery calls this method "casting a wide net to catch small fish," that is, we do not seek to catch big fish at once, nor do we seek to wipe out all these mobile guns of the Vietnamese army, and in fact it is impossible to catch them all in one net, unless the number of our artillery is more than ten times that of the Vietnamese army.

To put it simply, when the Vietnamese army was firing such artillery, our artillery seized several points to carry out covering bombardment.

Just like just now, the Vietnamese army has a total of 12 mortars, almost a mortar company, while our army has two mortar companies.

As soon as the Vietnamese army opened fire, there would be 12 positions of the Vietnamese army's mortar positions on the artillery sight radar, and if our army used two mortars to hit these 12 targets in a row, it was very likely that the Vietnamese army would not be able to catch a small fish because the Vietnamese army had already shifted its position.

However, if we use one mortar battery to concentrate on one target, that is, two mortar batteries choose only two of them to hit, then the result will be different.

A mortar company hits only one target, and the dozen or so guns of this mortar company are still evenly scattered around the target, so it becomes a kind of artillery fire cover. Even if the devils hit a shot, they will immediately move their position, but the transfer speed is always limited, unless they have the same speed as the "Flash", it is impossible to escape from the coverage of our army's mortar troops in dozens of seconds.

So it is foreseeable that as long as the devil fires one cannon, there will be two fewer cannons, and another two fewer cannons...... It didn't take long for a mortar company to be gone.

It should be said that this method was indeed effective, because the Vietnamese side was silent for a while and did not react, neither attacking our troops nor firing artillery at our hilltop position.

I think they are already in a dilemma at this point:

Launching an attack on our army, it is difficult to have any effect under the counterattack and artillery support of the Chinese soldiers, and the infantry will undoubtedly suffer a large number of casualties if they rush hard, and the artillery bombardment will be less and less.

If you don't attack, will you just let a Chinese army stab into their position? What's more, this unit is still next to its headquarters, which makes it difficult for the Vietnamese commander to sleep peacefully.

But I believe that the Vietnamese army will eventually choose to attack, because if it chooses to remain silent at this time, it will almost mean admitting defeat, and it will not only be a matter of losing a position tactically, but it will directly hit the morale and confidence of the entire Vietnamese army...... This is surrounded by them, if this can't be won, then the next other battles need to be fought? Just give this Yin Mountain to the Chinese.

Therefore, when the Vietnamese army was silent, I stepped up and ordered the soldiers to build fortifications.

However, this was not easy, because our plan this time was to withdraw after the battle, so we did not bring much materials for building fortifications, but fortunately we still found a lot of sacks in the trenches of the Vietnamese army, so we used these sacks to load sand and gravel and pile up a simple fortification.

Then the Vietnamese army attacked in a way that even I hadn't thought of......

After the Vietnamese army was silent for more than ten minutes, the sound of artillery shells suddenly sounded in the sky, and dozens of mortars were simultaneously bombarding the hilltop position we were stationing.

As soon as I heard the whistling of the shell, which was coming from all directions, it quickly understood...... The Vietnamese commander mobilized mortars from other heights in Zheyin Mountain to bombard our positions.

There are a total of five main heights in Zheyin Mountain, and if there are 10 mortars on each high ground, then 50 mortars are bombarding us at the same time, plus some other small positions and large-caliber mortars in the rear of the Vietnamese army are also "taking advantage of the fire...... It made our army's position boil like a pot of boiling water.

Of course, at the same time, our artillery fire was suppressed, and even by this time I believe that there were more than two mortar companies, but more mortar units had been put into battle.

Later, I learned that at this time, Division Commander Xu had already committed two mortar battalions...... This is already the main mortar force of our army, which is preparing to launch a general offensive.

However, it is conceivable that although the counterattack of our artillery was very effective, and the mortars of the Vietnamese army suffered heavy casualties under the targeting radar of our artillery and the tactics of "casting a wide net to catch small fish", at this moment they were desperately trying to hit the positions of our troops even when the mortars were hit...... It's actually a life-for-life.

After a few minutes, the gunfire finally stopped, and I saw several corpses next to me, as well as a soldier with his left hand blown off, gritting his teeth and screaming, and at the same time using his remaining right hand to tie the broken part with his sleeve...... Although the synthetic battalion has a super strong suzhì, there will still be casualties under artillery fire.

Fortunately, the time just now gave us time to build the fortifications, and the casualty figures reported from the platoons were acceptable: a total of five casualties, three were seriously wounded, and the remaining dozen or so were only slightly injured by shmelnel or stones.

However, this was not the end, and then the Yue devils quickly took advantage of the aftermath of the artillery fire to launch a charge against our army...... This time, the Vietnamese army charged in a slightly different way, that is, they no longer launched a group charge, but advanced alternately under the cover of machine gun and artillery fire. What I didn't expect even more was that the Vietnamese army also concentrated more than 20 grenade launchers in view of the lack of fortifications in our army......

These Vietnamese troops, armed with grenade launchers, were mixed in with other Vietnamese troops until they came within range and fired grenades at our positions.

It is obvious that the Vietnamese army is determined to gnaw off our hard bones. (To be continued......)