While our army was making intensive preparations for this upcoming war, the Vietnamese army did not relax in the past few days.

According to the information from the spies we arranged in Vietnam...... The Vietnamese army deployed at least three additional infantry battalions and four artillery battalions, as well as a large number of artillery shells, into the area of Phaka Hill.

In this regard, our army was not to be outdone, in order to be able to suppress the Vietnamese army in artillery fire...... THE COMMANDER OF THE LIANG DIVISION IMMEDIATELY MADE ANOTHER REPORT TO THE HIGHER COMMAND OF LU, AND TWO ADDITIONAL 152MM HOWITZER BATTALIONS WERE TRANSFERRED TO SUPPLEMENT THE ARTILLERY GROUP IN FAKA MOUNTAIN, THAT IS TO SAY, ...... Now the artillery covering the fire of Fakashan Tidai has reached as many as three artillery groups, one large and one small, and this is not counting the mortar units.

In order to be able to accurately capture targets, our artillery units have set up 32 observation posts and 1 radar station on 15 high ground with a frontal length of 17 kilometers and a depth of 6 kilometers...... In this era, science and technology were not yet developed, and the artillery could only rely on the detection and calculation of artillery observers to provide coordinates for the artillery units, so the more artillery observation posts, the better...... The more it means, the wider the range of Vietnamese troops that can be observed.

Like now...... The 32 observation posts of the artillery unit were able to observe an area of 21 kilometers in front and 15 kilometers in depth of the Vietnamese line.

Of course, the Vietnamese artillery did not show weakness...... In the same way, dozens of observation posts were set up opposite our army, and even some of these observation posts were staggered...... That is, the artillery observation posts of the Chinese and Vietnamese armies were located on the same high ground, so it was inevitable that there would be another life-and-death struggle.

So...... The battle of Faka did not only take place on the hill of Faka Mountain, which is only more than 10,000 square meters, but also fought for the hill of Faka Mountain...... In fact, the battles have spread to more than a dozen kilometers or even tens of kilometers away.

The preparation of the Vietnamese devils is not only in terms of artillery, but also in terms of reconnaissance......

The Vietnamese army's reconnaissance of us was mainly carried out from two aspects......

On the one hand, there is aerial reconnaissance...... Don't look at the devil as a poor country. But with the help of the USSR...... By this time, they already had some pretty advanced equipment.

For example, the reconnaissance plane used by the Vietnamese devils to reconnoiter our army is the MiG-21P reconnaissance plane that the Soviet Union provided to the Vietnamese army...... This reconnaissance aircraft is a tactical reconnaissance aircraft modified on the basis of the Soviet MiG-21...... It's actually not that hard. It was to replace the machine gun with an aerial camera. Then it would be nice to install some electronic equipment, jamming antennas or something.

Of course, it is not enough to simply use reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter our army...... The main combat weapon of the Vietnamese army is the 160MM mortar, and their tactic is to use the 160MM mortar to hit the fortifications on the back of our Fakka Mountain to make our army lose its combat effectiveness...... This makes it necessary for them to get to know as much detail as possible about the anticline fortifications on Mount Farka.

This is something that a reconnaissance plane cannot shoot in the air...... The reason is that the anticline fortifications are generally tunnels or cat ear holes or something, and it is difficult to accurately grasp these conditions from the air.

So the Vietnamese army showed their crazy side again...... Exchanging human lives for intelligence......

That is, another reconnaissance method of the Vietnamese army...... On the other hand, he sent agents to secretly infiltrate our defense line, and then used walkie-talkies to transmit information back after we detected the information on the anticline.

Of course, this reconnaissance of the Yue devils did not have much effect...... The reason for this is that we have snipers on positions 4 and 5...... These snipers can be said to be the natural enemies of those infiltrated Yue devils, and the reason for this is needless to say...... Snipers are like ghosts hiding in the dark. They always fired a fatal bullet when the Vietnamese agents least expected it.

Because of this...... Vietnamese agents called these snipers of our army "ghost warriors...... The infiltration mission has also become the most difficult task for Vietnamese soldiers.

What surprised me a little was...... This kind of reconnaissance by the Vietnamese army was not only aimed at Phaka Mountain, but also carried out infiltration reconnaissance on the two heights of Pu Lude and Rangka Mountain.

This is a surprise to the ...... Is it because this move exposes their next strategic goal? This is clearly telling us...... The next attack of the Vietnamese army will be fought together with the two heights of Pu Liude and Zhaokashan!

But when you think about it, it's not surprising that you think so......

Until now, the Vietnamese commander has realized that the Chinese commander is also a smart man...... The Chinese soldiers will definitely think that the next step will be to fight the other two heights together, otherwise they will not be able to solve this problem of "side-firing firepower".

As a result, the Vietnamese commander was no longer secretive...... It simply launched a reconnaissance of these two heights in an open manner.

This is also the reason why the more savvy the duel between commanders, the more ordinary the battle is fought.

After several days of fighting openly and secretly, the battle finally began on the night of the sixth day...... It's a little longer than I had estimated for five days, which is not surprising to think about it...... BEFORE, THE YUE DEVIL ONLY PLANNED TO USE 160MM SHELLS TO BLOW UP ONE HIGHLAND IN FAKA MOUNTAIN, BUT NOW IT IS JI LU TO USE IT TO BLOW UP THREE HIGHLANDS, SO THE AMOUNT OF SHELLS REQUIRED WILL NATURALLY BE MUCH MORE THAN BEFORE. It's no surprise that it takes six days.

So this is not that the Vietnamese army has been slower than before in transporting artillery shells in these six days, but that it has been much faster than before.

The battle began at ten o'clock in the evening......

That night I was smoking under an oil lamp in front of me on a map...... The reason why oil lamps are used. It's not because our place is backward, in fact this place was electrified before the war, but because of the war...... The shells blew up and down, and the wires were blown up at both ends in three days, and the broken wires would cause accidents...... Cause a fire or turn down the electricity of passers-by, so this time there are more than one count, and the wires are simply not repaired...... The people used their oil lamps.

As for the electricity used by our troops...... That's all with batteries!

At this moment, a burst of bombardment suddenly sounded on the mountain of Faka...... Then I heard Zhao Jingping's report......

"Battalion commander! The Vietnamese devils launched a large-scale bombardment of Faka Mountain......"

After a pause, Zhao Jingping went on to report: "Pu Liude and Tak Kashan were also bombed by the Vietnamese army...... SURE IT'S A 160MM DELAYED SHELL! ”

Finally the fight begins...... When I heard this information, I felt a little more comfortable in my heart, I want to know how to do it these days...... We've always been in a situation where the rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings, although there hasn't been any fighting on the front line...... But my heart felt as if there was a stone pressing down on it.

Now I finally heard the news that the more devils were fighting, and I felt a sense of relief.

I looked at my watch...... It was ten o'clock in the night......

Ten o'clock?

I couldn't help frowning, I didn't understand why the more devils would choose to start the fight at this time......

You have to know that the start time of the game is very important for the side that can be chosen, such as when we attacked before...... Let's choose five o'clock when the day is about to dawn, so that soon after we have occupied the high ground, we will be in a situation where dawn is good for defense...... And now the devil chooses to start at ten o'clock at night...... What a surprise!

Later, I learned that there was really a reason why the devils would choose to start fighting at ten o'clock.

Then the information flew towards me like snowflakes.

From this information, I know the truth...... The Vietnamese devils still used "mobile artillery" bombing this time like the last time, which also made our army's long-range artillery fire dare not act rashly again.

However, judging from the report from Fakashan...... The density of this bombardment was not as great as the last one.

I think King Chuang's analysis is very reasonable, and King Chuang took this information and said to me: "Battalion commander...... I THINK THAT THE VIET DEVILS HAVE LIMITED 160MM ARTILLERY, THE LAST TIME THEY CONCENTRATED ALL THE 160MM MORTARS TO BOMBARD OUR FAKA MOUNTAIN, BUT THIS TIME THEY USED THE SAME NUMBER OR A SIMILAR NUMBER OF 160 MORTARS TO BOMBARD THREE HEIGHTS AT ONCE...... So, the density of shells that fall on my heights per unit time will definitely decrease significantly, that is...... If you want to achieve the expected bombing effect, it is very likely that you will need to extend the bombing time! ”

I agree with that...... But I thought in my heart: Maybe this is also the reason why the Yue devils need to send troops to risk their lives to infiltrate our anticline to reconnoiter this time, and they want to set the time for the start of the war at ten o'clock...... There aren't enough 160 mortars, they need more time to destroy our fortifications, and they also need more accurate information about our fortifications.

Sure enough, it was just like King Chuang and I thought...... The Vietnamese bombardment lasted for three hours, and the Vietnamese army adopted the method of layer-by-layer bombing...... The so-called "layer-by-layer bombing" is not aimed at killing and injuring people, but at blowing up fortifications...... It's like a progressive printer, pushing forward layer by layer.

This also focused on some parts...... It is conceivable that these parts must have been infiltrated and reconnoitred by the Vietnamese devils who mastered the location of our army's tunnels and trenches.

After a rough count...... In the past three hours, about 400 shells have been blown up on Faka Mountain...... These are the statistics of the artillery observers in the vicinity of the artillery, and these data seem to be of little statistical use...... BUT IT WAS VERY USEFUL FOR US COMMANDERS, BECAUSE WE COULD ESTIMATE THE AMOUNT OF 160MM SHELLS LEFT IN VIETNAMESE OR WHAT KIND OF DAMAGE WOULD BE DONE TO THE FORTIFICATIONS ON PHAKA HILL.

This data is similar to the amount of shells that the Vietnamese devils hit on Faka Mountain last time...... Therefore, I believe that there are not many fortifications left in Faka Mountain, including Puliude and Zhaokasan.

Sure enough, we soon received information from the front: "The fortifications on the heights have been badly damaged, the trenches have been blown up, but fortunately, the ammunition depots have mostly been preserved because of their secret and strong construction!" (To be continued......)