Chapter 117: The Battle of Mount Faka (22)
This made me regret a little that I didn't send the agents up just now, but the soldiers of the second battalion......
Originally, I thought it would be a waste to send a company of agents to carry out such a mission, and the garrisons on positions 4 and 5 were still soldiers of the second battalion...... So I didn't think about it, so I let the second battalion go.
I didn't expect it...... There's a good chance that something bad will happen now......
But I can't rush at this time...... Because I knew that this was to be a hassle or force the two companies to speed up their way through the artillery blockade...... If this caused heavy casualties among the troops, it would not have helped even if they rushed through.
So I could only watch the two companies of the second battalion pass through in batches, and then hide and assemble at the other end of the artillery blockade area......
And by this time, the battle on positions 4 and 5 had already begun...... The more devils rushed up with their own mortar shells...... I don't know if this is because the Yue devils are not well coordinated with their infantry and artillery, or they did it on purpose, in short, the Yue devils rushed until dozens of meters in front of the hilltop position, and the Vietnamese artillery fire stopped bombing.
Then the Yue devils, who rushed to the front line, rushed forward for a while, throwing rows of grenades......
I couldn't help but feel a pain in my heart when I saw this...... This almost means that the hilltop position is lost, because after the grenade...... The Vietnamese army would take advantage of the smoke and the aftermath to rush forward, followed by hand-to-hand combat...... And in hand-to-hand combat, there are at most two squads of people on one position of our army, how can they be the opponent of one company of the devils!
However, the tide of battle did not develop as I feared...... When the Vietnamese troops rushed to the hilltop position in the smoke, rows of grenades exploded at the summit position...... Then another bullet came, and soon knocked down the Yue devils who rushed up.
It turned out that this was the idea of Zhang Shengzhen, the platoon commander stationed on positions 4 and 5...... Zhang Shengzhen is also a veteran who fought from the self-defense counterattack, so he knows very well the steps of the Yue devil's attack. In addition, at this time, the hilltop position was blown into a ball by enemy mortars. Our army also lacked ammunition, and it was difficult for it to effectively resist the charge of the Yue devils...... So Zhang Shengzhen contacted the No. 5 position......
Both positions temporarily pulled their troops in the opposite direction of the Vietnamese attack...... Hide in bunker and have explosives packs and grenades ready. Just waiting for a row of grenades to explode on the hilltop position, they threw grenades and explosives bags onto the mountaintop position...... So when the Yue devil rushed to the top of the mountain with a bayonet, he was blown up by an explosion, and then Zhang Shengzhen led the troops to a counter-charge.
Charge to repel the charge of the devils...... This style of play is really amazing, and more importantly, this method was conceived when their lone army was surrounded by Yue devils and lacked ammunition......
I have to admit that it was a surprise to me...... At first, I thought that the Yue Devil would almost be able to take down the No. 4 and No. 5 positions with a single charge! And now...... The more devils sent a batch of ammunition to Zhang Shengzhen and others in vain.
Then something even more interesting happened......
First of all, our mortar company bombarded the follow-up units of the Vietnamese army indiscriminately...... In fact, at this time, there was a mortar battalion that bombed the Vietnamese army on Phaka Mountain, and the reason why there were so many ...... It was because the commander of the Liang Division knew that the battle situation at Faka Mountain was tense, so two additional mortar companies were temporarily transferred to the command of the second battalion.
Because this had just happened, the commander of the second battalion had even had time to report to me before he threw them into battle...... This also shows how tense this battle is.
However, this also shows that there are still some command confusion problems between the 2nd Battalion and our special agent company...... For example, I don't know how to do this with the two new mortar companies......
Of course. This is also a matter of wishes, and our two forces were originally improvised patchwork...... It's normal that there will be some command problems, but fortunately, this command problem has not caused any losses.
This cannon immediately smashed the Yue devil in a daze...... However, this cannon did not cause many casualties to the Yue Devils, because the Yue Devils attacked from the left and right sides along the barren hills...... The barren mountain is a bit similar to the ridge line, and there are artillery coming here, as long as the devils hide there.
However, our purpose is not to kill as many Vietnamese troops as possible, but to create chaos among the various branches of the Vietnamese army......
Then there were many red flashlights on the high ground and circled in the direction of the Vietnamese army...... Of course, the number of circles drawn is a bit wrong, or it is not the code agreed upon by the Vietnamese army at all...... But it doesn't matter, because the red light is everywhere. In this night, it was like a rainbow...... Some even happened to be right codes, so the Vietnamese artillery didn't know which one was drawn by their own people.
This reminds me of an incident that the old man said about the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea......
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the command between the US military and the ROK army was also quite chaotic. In addition, the color of the ROK army's uniforms at that time was still very similar to the color of our army's uniforms, so there were often incidents of US bombers bombing the ROK army by mistake...... Then the U.S. military agreed with the ROK military to wait for the U.S. planes to approach...... The South Korean army only needs to wave a white towel, so that the US pilots will know which of their own people are.
But who knew that the Lu Dao Volunteer Army was as fine as a ghost...... They saw the ROK waving white towels at the US fighters, so they grabbed the white towels and waved them at the US fighters without thinking...... As a result, the US fighter plane left without dropping a single bomb.
And now...... The method we used was similar to this example, except that our target was the Vietnamese artillery......
Of course, we can't do this to keep the Yue devils from firing...... Because in addition to using red flashlights for communication, the Vietnamese army also has radios, as well as artillery observers......
But that's what we think about as well...... We also had a mortar battalion waiting on the other side, and we followed when the Vietnamese devils opened fire, so the shells quickly exploded on the hill of Faka...... No one could tell from which direction it was coming, and even artillery observers were useless, and it was simply impossible to guide mortars to carry out accurate bombardment......
In other words, this is the disadvantage of the "traveling cannon...... Although it can avoid being suppressed by our artillery, every time it changes positions, it needs to be guided by artillery observers to accurately bomb the No. 4 and No. 5 positions, which are small in area and are behind the No. 3 position...... But now the devils obviously can't do this. (To be continued......)