Chapter 162: Charge and Mine Clearance

"Boom ......" with a loud bang, the tank shells smashed one after another on the inclined position, because the tank guns have a high accuracy and are close shooting, so those shells are very accurate in the inclined plane smashed two craters.

The slope is covered with mines, so each shell always detonates several mines...... When they were done, the tanks slowly raised their barrels, and along the crater, there was another row of shells......

This is a good way to open the way, using tank shells to clear mines, and because our army's hilltop position is too far away from the Vietnamese tanks, anti-tank weapons such as bazookas are basically ineffective.

Some people may say, let's not use mortars?

Not to mention that it is very difficult to hit a tank with a mortar for blind fire, and mortars only have anti-personnel shells and incendiary bombs, which are generally used against infantry, and do not play much role in tanks, at most they can stun the tankers inside when they hit directly.

If we had enough shells, it would seem like we could do that, but the problem was that shells were in short supply for both the Vietnamese army and our army. It would undoubtedly be a waste to use it to fight tanks like this, so we could only watch those tanks work under our noses.

But...... But I wasn't very worried about the Vietnamese army's actions.

First of all, mines are not all so sensitive, and some mines will not even explode because of quality problems, and I don't know when they will explode if they are touched casually...... Moreover, there are many gaps in the middle of the crater smashed by this tank gun, and it is impossible to clear all the mines.

Secondly. A passage blown up by the Vietnamese army with tank artillery...... But it's more than ten meters wide. I don't believe that such a small passage can do anything to the Vietnamese charge.

So I waited patiently with my soldiers on the hilltop position. I'd like to see what the Yue Devil will do next.

Finally, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the Vietnamese tanks were finished, and then the Vietnamese soldiers hiding behind the tanks really shouted...... With the submachine gun in his hand, under our suspicious eyes, he blasted a passage along the tank and rushed up to the 217 heights.

The military qualities of the Yue devils are not not strong, they are like monkeys on the slope as they advance and shoot guns, sometimes charging and sometimes lying down, and most of them are advancing along the crater.

But...... As I said before, artillery shells can't completely clear the mines.

So, those Vietnamese soldiers ran and ran...... Suddenly, there was a bang, and the whole person was blown up. By the time he fell to the ground, he was already missing a leg. This is not a haode, some Vietnamese soldiers triggered the mine just when they were lying down, and that would be miserable...... The stomach was blown up with a big hole, and the intestines flew far away, but because they were not blown up, they couldn't die for a while, so they lay on the slope and let out a miserable and desperate scream, but no one would pay attention to him...... Because the other Vietnamese troops still have to charge...... They may have been ordered not to slow down their progress because of the wounded, so they could only let the screams get weaker and weaker, and Zuihou gradually disappeared in the battlefield.

The fighters and I watched all this in disbelief, in our eyes. These actions of those Vietnamese soldiers are almost no different from looking for death...... For the Vietnamese army, the only thing that could charge was the passage of more than ten meters wide smashed by the tank. Not to mention that the mines in that passage have not been cleared yet, and we can crush them immobile with a few machine guns.

However, the Vietnamese troops in front of us seemed to pay no attention to these at all, regardless of whether there were mines under their feet or not, and regardless of the black holes in our positions pointed at them...... Still charging at us with guns in hand.

The Vietnamese army finally approached the hilltop of our army...... Two-thirds of the Vietnamese army managed to rush forward, and in this respect...... This offensive of the Vietnamese army seems to have been successful.

However, as Company Commander Luo shouted, "Fight!" The various weapons in the hands of the soldiers violently spewed flames at the Vietnamese army, and in an instant, the Vietnamese soldiers who rushed in front of them fell to the ground, and the Vietnamese soldiers who followed them were also crushed to the ground and could not raise their heads.

But the Vietnamese army did not do nothing...... After they lay on the ground, they lit grenades, explosive packs and other explosive things and blew them around, and after throwing off the things they were carrying, they then looked for explosives from the corpses of their comrades next to them, and when they found them, they also threw them nearby. Even many Vietnamese soldiers who had injured their feet and hands by landmines were still crawling in all directions......

So I understood that the more devils were using their lives to open up a passage as wide as possible...... This can't help but remind me of the scene when our army's engineer soldiers used their human bodies to clear mines at the beginning of our army's general offensive...... I have to admit that the Vietnamese army was indeed very brave in battle.

It is precisely this kind of meeting of two armies with extraordinary courage on the battlefield that will cause this thrilling scene to occur.

Then, before the Vietnamese army, which was used for demining, was completely wiped out by our army, the Vietnamese army launched another round of attacks.

This round of attacks is a little different from the last one, and the first thing that comes to the devil is a fire cover. This cover of fire came from those tanks that were parked at the foot of the mountain.

On the one hand, there are tank guns...... At this time, they had already adjusted the firing angle, although the elevation angle of the tank gun was limited, but as you can see on Dai Nai Mountain, the Vietnamese army knew how to use the terrain to adjust the elevation angle of the tank gun.

On the other hand, there are anti-aircraft machine guns on tanks, and there will be ten anti-aircraft machine guns on ten tanks, and they may have been afraid of being suppressed by our army's condescending firepower, and those machine gunners have not yet come out......

On the other hand, there were mortar gunners and machine gunners who used the armor of the tank to hide behind the tank and shoot at our hilltop position. You don't have to think about it to know that these mortars are experienced and accurate gunners, because they are using the few shells of the Vietnamese army to carry out precision strikes on our positions.

As soon as the firepower from these three sides pressed up, our hilltop position was as lively as if you had exploded, and the shells were sent to our forward positions to bombard, and the bullets swept away in pieces...... The entire position was beaten into smoke and dust in an instant, and it was almost impossible to see where the Yue devils were.

At this time...... The second group of more devils crossed the tank line and charged our troops.

From this point of view, the coordination between the various units of the Vietnamese army was indeed very good, and the time for the infantry to charge was the moment when the tank fire suppressed us. It is conceivable that by the time we reacted slightly, the Vietnamese army's assault troops had already deployed their forces on the passage in front of the tanks and cooperated with the tank troops to suppress our troops...... Therefore, it is very likely that the Vietnamese army rushed to the hilltop position of our army under the suppression of this firepower.

At this time, I can't help but be a little strange, the method of charging the Yue devil seems to be very effective, weishenme didn't do this when my 447th Regiment attacked the 217 heights before?

After thinking about it, it quickly became clear that the biggest difference between this is...... The troops of the 447th Regiment are surrounded by the Vietnamese army, and if they also attack the 217 heights with all their strength like these Vietnamese troops, then they will undoubtedly be attacked by the Vietnamese troops from other directions, and may even be attacked by the enemy...... So the battlefield is often not isolated.

However, such a charge of the Vietnamese army does not seem to be easy to achieve, because our army also has our artillery and our defense units.

At this time, it was time to use artillery shells, and after a short call from Company Commander Luo on the walkie-talkie, soon our artillery behind the 217 heights fired a row of shells at the tank defense line...... There were not many shells in this row, but there were only a dozen rounds. According to the regimental commander, we were going to hold out on this high ground for five or seven days, and our artillery shells were very limited, so we should use them sparingly.

But these shells played a big role, because they exploded right around the Vietnamese army's tank lines...... The shrapnel exploded by the shell flew from the bottom up, and the Vietnamese anti-aircraft machine gunners on the tank stood high on the tank, so they were killed or injured by the shell, and even if they were not directly hit by the shrapnel, they would be knocked down by the shock wave of the shell, so the moment the shell sounded...... The cover of fire from the tank line was much weaker for a moment.

The company commander also took advantage of this time to give the order to attack.

We also arranged more than a dozen machine guns on the top of this mountain, and several of them were anti-aircraft machine guns that were originally deployed on the top of the mountain...... These machine-gun positions were cleverly arranged, and they were invariably built on the ridge of the hilltop position, that is, the men and guns were hiding on this side of the slope, but the bullets fired could hit the position of the Vietnamese troops on the other side.

These points ...... It was something that could not be threatened by a direct-fire weapon such as a tank gun, so they could fire at the Vietnamese army most of the time.

Coupled with the light and heavy machine guns we placed in the trenches and the AK47s in the hands of the soldiers, this alone seized the advanced and suppressed the fire of the Vietnamese tank defense line.

The cover of fire on the Vietnamese tank defense line was suppressed by our troops, and the Vietnamese troops who rushed up the anti-slope were again exposed to us...... It should be said that these Vietnamese troops are very pitiful, they can only act as cover for the small craters blown up by mortars and tank guns, our army is condescending, the high angle of fire makes these craters unable to provide them with sufficient cover, so with the gunshots one after another...... Another Vietnamese company lay down on the position.

It's just that, like the previous batch of Vietnamese soldiers, this group of Vietnamese soldiers tried their best to detonate the explosives they were carrying nearby before they died, and some even pulled out grenades and rolled down the mountain in order to get free.

As a result, the passage on the minefield became wider and wider under the attack of the Vietnamese army...... (To be continued......)