Chapter 145: Feint

Originally, I thought that the Vietnamese army would launch a large-scale attack at dawn, but the Vietnamese army's actions were once again unexpected to me...... At dawn, the Vietnamese army was even more honest than last night, and even the tentative attack was much less.

In one case, he pretended to be attacking...... It made the fighters nervous for a while.

It was just after our lunch...... The so-called lunch is naturally compressed biscuits with canned food, although now we feel a little disgusting when we eat compressed biscuits...... The reason is that I ate too many of these things on the battlefield before, and when I returned to the rear, I had good food and good food to nourish my stomach, and at this time I felt like gnawing on bricks.

But we also know that it's good to be well fed on the battlefield, so there's nothing to be picky about.

For the supply aspect...... This time we didn't have to worry about anything, because our troops were fully prepared when they arrived at the 518.6 heights, and the compressed biscuits and canned food they brought with us were enough for three days...... This doesn't actually require much capacity, compressed biscuits as the name suggests that there is only a small piece, but it is pressed tightly with high pressure, this small piece is eaten and then poured with some water to be full, as for canned food...... That is to improve the food for the soldiers on the battlefield.

It was not easy to prepare water for three days for hundreds of people in the battalion, so it took us two cars to transport the plastic buckets of water.

So now we have nothing to worry about, because compared to the Vietnamese troops stationed on Heights 481 and 544, our situation is much better than theirs...... Their menstrual threads were actually cut off by us.

It's hard to imagine...... We're just occupying a 518.6 height. But it can supply the entire Banwang area of the Vietnamese army...... But that's not surprising. You must know that the Banwang area is a salient that broke through into the defense line of our army. From the map, it looks like a snake's head that has penetrated into our defenses...... And the 518.6 highland is stuck right in the throat of this snake's head. In addition, the purposeful and targeted blockade of some road sections by artillery fire can completely isolate the Vietnamese troops in the Banwang area.

As a result, the situation of the Vietnamese troops on the 481 and 544 heights was constantly sent to us from the military headquarters:

"The firepower of the Vietnamese army has been significantly weakened, and they have entered the stage of limiting the use of ammunition!"

"Our artillery fire once again annihilated a supply team of the Vietnamese army!"

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The essence of this battle is actually to see whether the Vietnamese army besieged by us collapses first or our army collapses first, but judging from the current situation, the defeat of the Vietnamese army seems to be in no suspense, and now it depends on whether the Vietnamese army has a way to pull out our 518.6 heights before the collapse of Banwang.

So both sides set their sights on the 518.6 heights...... This originally unimportant high ground has now become the key to determining the outcome of this battle.

At this sensitive time. It was also the time when our army always thought that the Vietnamese army would launch a counteroffensive...... The Vietnamese army fired a lot of artillery fire at our army...... Although the artillery fire lasted for a short time, only five minutes, it was very dense, and from the sound of the artillery, we knew that the Vietnamese troops were coming from several directions at the same time towards our 518.6 heights...... The infantry of two companies attacked our troops from the left and right flanks, respectively.

All of this seems to tell us that the general offensive of the Vietnamese army has begun, but I still see something famous in it......

First of all, it seems that the Vietnamese army abandoned the front that was easier to attack and attacked the two sides of the 518.6 heights...... You must know that the front side is the gentler side, and the steepness of the wings has even reached 70 or 80 degrees!

Secondly, the formation of the Vietnamese troops was too sparse...... It is true that the offensive formation should not be dense, but everything has a degree, and the same is true for the offensive formation.

Everyone knows the disadvantage of being too dense...... It is easy to be killed and injured in a large area by enemy artillery fire, machine gun and other firepower.

It's too sparse, right...... Naturally, there is less contact and cover between individual soldiers. To put it simply, the firepower per unit area is too small, and it will not put pressure on the enemy's defense line at all. Take an extreme example, if a company spreads out over a large area. If you rush up one person at a time, of course, you will be easily eliminated by the enemy.

Therefore, if you want to put some pressure on the enemy's defense line or want to break through the enemy's defense, this formation must not be too sparse or too dense.

The current formation of the Vietnamese army is too sparse, as if it is ready to withstand artillery bombardment as soon as it comes up.

More important ...... I think the Vietnamese army's artillery attack is a little unreasonable...... What can you do with five minutes of artillery fire? It's not that the devils don't know about the situation on the 518.6 heights, there are solid caves everywhere, and five minutes of artillery fire is just tickling these caves!

At this time, the Yue devils were storing shells and storing liliang, how could they waste shells knowing that this artillery bombardment was useless?

Then the problem is obvious...... This attack of the Vietnamese army, whether it was artillery bombardment or infantry charge, was actually to lure our artillery to open fire.

I think that the Vietnamese army must have already arranged artillery observers on the commanding heights of several heights at this time, and it is even very likely that they have arranged artillery observers on the 481 and 544 heights, just waiting for our artillery to reveal their positions.

There's something to think about here...... Artillery, in fact, you observe me, I observe you, you hit me and I can also hit you. To put it simply...... The Vietnamese army induced our troops to open fire, so that our troops exposed their artillery positions, and when the Vietnamese troops opened fire on our artillery positions, they also exposed their own artillery positions. So according to common sense, the difference between this back and forth is not very big!

The purpose of the Vietnamese army in doing this is a little puzzling......

After thinking about it, I quickly understood the reason...... In such a battle in which artillery fights back and forth, that is to say, an artillery battle between us and the enemy, it is often the side that moves quickly and has rich combat experience to take advantage.

The Vietnamese army believes that it has more combat experience than our army...... It is true that the artillery of the Vietnamese army also came from the battlefield, and many of the artillery of our army did not even have basic training, so the Vietnamese army understood the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and was looking for fighters! If this is opened as the Vietnamese army thought, perhaps our artillery will suffer a big loss.

As for these superficial actions of the Vietnamese army...... The infantry is a death squad, and the artillery may have moved its position after five minutes of fighting!

So I immediately sent a telegram to the military headquarters: "The Vietnamese army is making a feint attack in an attempt to lure our artillery to be exposed!" ”

Commander Huang quickly replied with a telegram with only a few words: "The hero sees the same thing!" ”

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Needless to say, the outcome of this battle was that the Vietnamese army's assault units did not play a role at all...... If anything, they exchanged a dozen corpses for hundreds of our machine-gun bullets!

Then the Vietnamese army fell silent again...... The Vietnamese commander seemed to realize that we would not be fooled so easily, so he stopped wasting shells on such small actions.

But at this time, I couldn't understand what the Vietnamese commander was waiting for...... Isn't it more beneficial for the Vietnamese army to fight artillery battles in the daytime? However, time is passing little by little, and the sun is about to set, and the sky is about to darken again...... Could it be that the Vietnamese army still has to prepare for a night before attacking?

This seems impossible, because the Vietnamese army in Banwang will not last that long, and the news from the military headquarters is very clear to me...... Because our previous feint attack on the Vietnamese army in Banwang played a role, which consumed a lot of ammunition of the Vietnamese army...... This is one of the characteristics of modern warfare, where everyone in the army uses automatic weapons, and ammunition is consumed very quickly. The garrisons on Heights 481 and 544 are still veterans, and they knew from the beginning that they should save ammunition for fighting, so they have been able to hold on to the present day despite the lack of supplies...... If this had been another unit, I was afraid that it would have run out of ammunition and food and surrendered under the white flag.

But even so...... Commander Hoang also speculated that Ban Wang's Vietnamese army would not be enough to last tonight...... This is an objective reality, modern warfare has no ammunition, even if you are the ace of the 320th Division, even if you occupy a favorable terrain, it is useless, and the weapons and equipment and troops of this era cannot be smashed with stones!

So this baffles me...... It should be said that this is the most important opportunity for the Vietnamese army, and the Vietnamese army will let it go so easily?!

At this moment, there was a sudden whistling of cannonballs in the sky...... So I realized that the Vietnamese army did not let go of this opportunity, but consciously chose to fight separately in the evening.

Of course, the artillery fire of the Vietnamese army did not pose much of a threat to our caves...... The 518.6 Heights are good at this, although we are here on a positive slope facing the artillery fire of the Vietnamese army, but the strong cave is the most haode hiding cave. On the other hand, it was also because at this time our artillery had already begun to fight back, so the shells of both the enemy and us were flying in the sky...... Everywhere outside was the whistling and exploding sound of shells. Occasionally, a few shells collide in the sky and explode...... The sound of the explosion spread far and wide like thunder.

At this time, an observer ran into the cave where I was located, covered in dust, saluted in front of me, and then reported loudly: "Battalion commander...... The company commander asked me to report to you: the Vietnamese devils have begun to attack, with infantry units on the front and armored units on the west! ”

"What?" I couldn't help but be shocked when I heard this, and then I realized that the Vietnamese army would choose to attack at this time. (To be continued......)