Chapter 44: The Mechanic

As soon as the company commander said this, we couldn't help but be stunned.

"Won't that go wrong?" Company Commander Luo asked, "How do you solve it on Camp Commander Wang's side?" ”

Company Commander Luo's worries are of course justified, a unit must not have two commanders, this is common sense on the battlefield, otherwise you command a casual battle, and I will command it, which will only make the troops fall into chaos.

"Company Commander Luo, you don't know anything!" The first company commander explained: "Battalion Commander Wang only resists veterans...... In fact, he wanted to win a battle by his own skills, so that the troops could not be separated into veteran units. Therefore, the opinions put forward by our recruits or Jihua are still willing to accept them. Not to mention...... At critical times, I will also be able to command my soldiers, and Battalion Commander Wang has no combat experience, which has been agreed upon in the first company. ”

"Oh!" Company Commander Luo thought about it, then nodded and said, "That's fine, let's contact the walkie-talkie!" ”

"Yes!" The first company commander answered, saluted to Company Commander Luo and went down.

"At least we won't be fighting on our own!" I say.

"Hmm!" Company Commander Luo nodded.

To know...... Although it is said that the 419 heights are under the unified command of Battalion Commander Wang, and there is no problem of command confusion, the problem is that Battalion Commander Wang has no combat experience at all...... In other words, the veterans were not willing to listen to Camp Commander Wang's orders at all.

Some might say that it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders...... This is true, sometimes even if the soldier knows that there is a dead end in front of him, he will rush forward with a gun under the command.

But...... This is when they know that their death is meaningful, such as this kind of rushing forward at the risk of death is a feint, it is to cover the retreat of other troops. Or buy time with your life, etc.

If it is known that the commander is incompetent. Knowing that his sacrifice was meaningless...... Then I don't think there will be a few people who will die willingly.

Because obviously...... The former is a hero. Later generations will write so-and-so, so-and-so on the merit book...... Died heroically to cover friendly forces. And what about the latter? It is very likely that it is just one sentence: because of someone's command error, a large number of casualties were caused by such and such troops...... This sacrifice will also become a stain, a foil for a certain bear general.

Of course, this is not to say that soldiers are all staring at these honors to fight on the battlefield, this is talking about a state of mind...... A soldier can not be afraid of death, but he must also die meaningfully.

Then, in order to be able to better communicate and coordinate with the first company, Company Commander Luo used a telescope to observe the fortifications on the anticline of the 419 heights, and then used the walkie-talkie to put forward some opinions to the company commander. For example, two more traffic trenches should be dug. This is a necessary condition for the troops to quickly climb to the top of the hill and deploy. The position of the ridge line should be paid attention to, and here is the key to holding the position on the top of the mountain......

Sure enough, the recruits stationed on the 419 heights did the same...... In other words, the current company is actually under the command of Company Commander Luo, and Battalion Commander Wang has been hollowed out, but he himself is still in the dark.

"The devil is coming up!"

Following the warning sound of the sentry, we poked our heads out to take a look, and sure enough, we saw several groups of Vietnamese troops marching along the road in a straggler formation towards our high ground.

I lifted my binoculars to look at ...... couldn't help but be stunned by the American-style equipment in their hands...... This is a little different from the more devils we know!

"This is the Mechanic!" Scar said on the side: "It should be the Fifth Infantry Division of the Yue Devil...... Its predecessor was the South Vietnamese puppet army, and after the surrender, the Vietnamese army organized them into one unit! ”

"Oh!" That's when I heard that, I understood...... I thought they had learned the tactics of the U.S. military because they had been fighting with the Yankees for a long time, but I didn't expect them to be trained directly by the Yankees.

"These are all surrenders?" Liang Lianbing said with some disdain: "Why is this more devil fighting more and more useless, and now he is still beating us with his troops?" ”

"That's it!" Xiao Shi also chimed in: "Our 316A Division has all fought...... Will you still be afraid of the troops formed by this puppet army? ”

"Don't underestimate this mechanic!" Company Commander Luo frowned and said, "Although most of them are South Vietnamese surrenderers...... But there were hundreds of thousands of troops in South Vietnam that year. The Yue Devils were stunned to select more than 10,000 people from these hundreds of thousands to form a division, and most of its backbone were composed of combat heroes with a firm political stance. Compared with other Vietnamese troops, the combat effectiveness is only stronger, not worse! ”

"Hmm!" I couldn't help frowning when I heard this.

You must know that although the combat effectiveness of the South Vietnamese army is said to be a chicken feather, a large part of the reason is that they are unwilling to help the Americans fight their own people...... This is a bit similar to the puppet army in the Japanese-occupied area during the Anti-Japanese War, many of whom were in Cao Ying's heart in Han.

But...... Even if their combat effectiveness is poor, if they pick out one of the dozens of people, and then put these selected people into a unit for training and integration...... Then I'm afraid that this combat power is really not to be underestimated as Company Commander Luo said.

And so it turned out......

After a burst of mortar shells, two platoons of Vietnamese troops launched another tentative attack on Heights 419.

I soon discovered that what was different from other Vietnamese troops was ...... The Vietnamese army unit in front of us not only has the bravery of the Vietnamese army, but also pays attention to the rules and regulations of combat and the coordination between the arms. For example, the way of alternate advances, such as the coordination between infantry artillery, etc., it is like a fusion of the two tactics of the East and the West...... Compared with the U.S. military, I believe that the U.S. military has a large number of fighters, bombers, helicopters and tanks, and they can only rely on two legs!

"Move a platoon to the position!" Company Commander Luo quickly gave an order to the first company commander.

"Yes!" The commander of the first company answered and quickly transferred the troops.

I was about to climb up to the high ground to snipe like I had done last time, but I soon found out that the place was already under target by the mortar of the Yue devils...... Several mortar shells exploded near the high ground, and the point of explosion gradually moved towards the center of the high ground...... Obviously, it was the Vietnamese artillery observers who were correcting the ballistics, and now they were clearly ready to wait for me to go up and cover them with a piece of shells.

So I could only force down the urge to go up...... It was a good place for sniping, but there were no tunnels to hide, and I was afraid that I would be dismantled after a single shell.

"Be careful not to expose our firepower too early, and put the enemy close before fighting!" Company Commander Luo kept giving orders to the walkie-talkie: "You must calm down and put the enemy within 200 meters before shooting......

Company Commander Luo's order was of course correct, especially since we were still facing a Vietnamese military ordnance division...... The characteristics of American weapons are long range and high accuracy, such as the M16 in the hands of these devils...... Its firing range has reached 600 meters, far exceeding the range of 300 meters of the Ak47, and even exceeding the 400 meters of our army's 56 and a half meters, and its firepower is also superior to that of the AK47.

Some people may say, since the M16 is so good, but the weishenme was criticized in the US-Vietnam War?

There are many reasons for this, such as difficult maintenance and high failure rates, but the main thing is that Vietnam is mostly mountainous and jungle, and it is difficult for such terrain to give full play to the advantages of the M16's long range and high accuracy.

Like now...... Company Commander Luo ordered to put the Yue devils to 200 meters before fighting, on the one hand, because at this distance, the Yue devils are basically within the range of our army, so it doesn't matter who has a longer range. On the other hand...... The distance of 200 meters is a relatively safe distance for recruits, otherwise, if they are too close, the Vietnamese army can rush a few steps and throw grenades at the position. This is obviously very difficult for recruits to guard against and cannot afford.

From this point of view, it can also be seen that Company Commander Luo does have a hand in command, which may be the strength of the military academy...... Have some understanding of the performance and tactics of various equipment, and react correctly according to the actual situation on the battlefield.

It's a pity that ...... This time the command did not go so smoothly...... As soon as Commander Luo finished speaking, he heard gunshots on the 419 heights.

"How?" Company Commander Luo lost his temper at the walkie-talkie: "Didn't you let you get closer and then fight?" ”

"Report!" The voice of the company commander on the other end of the walkie-talkie was angry: "It was an order from the battalion commander, and the soldiers were nervous, so they ......"

Hearing this, Company Commander Luo and I couldn't help but look at each other...... It seems that the commander of the fourth battalion cannot be said to be completely elevated.

However, this is also understandable, you must know that those recruits are the first time to see this scene, how can they not be nervous when they watch the enemy rushing up step by step, so even if they know that the battalion commander's command is unreliable, but after a "hit", they still can't help but pull the trigger because of the fear in their hearts......

First of all, the range of the M16 is two or three hundred meters farther than the Type 56 in the hands of our army, and the Vietnamese army can shoot within the range of our army...... That is to say, the Vietnamese army has the right head to fight our army, and our Vietnamese army can only rely on luck.

Secondly, the two armies were far apart...... This is also determined by the range of the Vietnamese M16, which allows the Vietnamese army to summon artillery support while suppressing with individual weapon fire. (If the two armies are close to each other, the artillery fire will be accidentally damaged)

What does this mean? This means that the Vietnamese artillery observers can calmly guide the artillery fire and knock out the exposed fire points on our positions one after another......

So in the next second, Company Commander Luo shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Retreat!" Retreat now! ”

But it didn't take long for a company commander to shout from the intercom: "Company Commander Luo...... The battalion commander did not let him retreat, saying that whoever retreated would be killed! ”

Finished...... Company Commander Luo and I couldn't help but open our mouths wide and were stunned on the spot, we still couldn't prevent a tragedy after all! (To be continued......)