Chapter 150: Tank Battles
The first to play a role was the artillery, and with my order...... The long-range artillery fire was turned on according to the coordinates we had mapped and mapped before, and suddenly it was dark again...... The Banwang area can be said to have had a lot of bad luck in the past two days, either being bombed by the Yue devils or being shelled by us.
It's just that now the artillery fire of the Vietnamese army is basically silent...... There is no need to think about it, the artillery shells of the Vietnamese army are almost done, they are desperate for this battle, the purpose of their artillery is to suppress our artillery fire and cover their armored troops into Tongmian, so the Vietnamese artillery does not seem to need any shells left, and they have fought for so long just now.
So now it was the turn of our artillery to exert its might, and one shell after another hit the other side of the 518.6 high ground with a piercing scream, and then exploded in pieces to burst out of flames.
But alas...... The Tongmian area was in the dead end of our army's artillery fire, so the Vietnamese armored vehicles drove forward unscrupulously. It's just that this is what I expected before, so this artillery fire was not to blow up the armored vehicles of the Vietnamese army, but to stop the infantry of the Vietnamese army charging out of Tong Mian.
You must know that the reason why we still have hope of defeating the Vietnamese armored forces in this battle is that the key lies in the coordination of the infantry and tank of the Vietnamese army's armored forces...... If this had caused the Vietnamese infantry to rush up and control the situation, it would have been a no-brainer.
So it's a must to stop them with artillery fire!
Of course, the artillery of our army did not undergo test firing after the transfer of positions...... The test firing will expose the artillery position, so there will be a big deviation in some artillery fire, which will make the wall of fire blown up by our artillery fire have many gaps...... But it's not a big deal. Because these infantry have a company and a mortar company stationed on the 518.6 heights. A dozen flares. Machine guns and mortars exploded...... Soon the gap was almost sealed.
To put it simply, it was to use bullets and artillery shells to stop the Vietnamese charging infantry from Tongmian.
Although the Vietnamese armored units were also aware of the intentions of our artillery, they did not take it to heart...... The dozens of armored vehicles that followed behind were all filled with infantry, which was enough to provide cover for the tanks!
Even the tank commander of the Vietnamese army may think very casually: "It doesn't matter if the infantry can't come up, let's get back the 518.6 heights ourselves, and the credit will be all ours!" ”
If it is according to the information known to the Vietnamese army commander, it is indeed possible!
Dozens of tanks plus dozens of armored vehicles...... This kind of firepower is more than enough to hit the Chinese army located on the positive slope, not to mention that the infantry in these forty or so armored vehicles has a reinforced battalion!
But what he didn't know was...... The group of armored vehicles that deliberately followed Zuihou was the enemy's!
I grabbed the microphone in one hand. The other hand gripped the handrail tightly, and his eyes stared at the Vietnamese armored vehicle in front of him without blinking...... The fighters were ready, and at the top of the line at the door were bazooka shooters...... Because we fought tanks and armored vehicles in this battle, we increased the original one bazooka per squad to two per squad, and the rest were still submachine gunners, but they also brought some blasting canisters and explosive packs in addition to submachine guns...... Of course, it is at this time that it can be useful. The machine gunners had already climbed the turret and even pointed the heavy machine guns on the turret at the Vietnamese armored vehicles in front of them, waiting for me to give the order and start shooting.
But I knew that this was not the time to start fighting, because the Vietnamese armored vehicles were still moving...... At this time, their reaction speed is still very fast, and once they find that the situation is wrong, they will escape our sight as long as they turn a corner and change direction.
Therefore, the most appropriate time to start the battle should be when the Vietnamese army stopped the armored vehicle and lowered it...... At this point, even if they realize that something is wrong, they are in a dilemma!
Finally. With the order of the Vietnamese commander in front, the speed of the armored troops immediately slowed down. Then the tank in front of it slowly moved forward at a turtle speed, while the armored car stopped and opened the hatch......
"Hit!" As soon as I gave the order, the battle began!
The first to fire was the turret on top of the armored car, which was equipped with a 14.5 mm machine gun...... Our army just linked two machine guns of this kind and then turned them into Type 58 twin-seat anti-aircraft machine guns, which are more powerful than the Deshka high machine, so it is trivial to penetrate the armor of armored vehicles by 5 to 9 mm...... So as soon as the fight started, several armored vehicles in front of them made a "sonorous" sound like bursting beans, and then within two blows, a ball of fire broke out from inside and let out a miserable scream......
This is the power of armor-piercing incendiary bombs, which can penetrate armor and burn inside armored vehicles...... This, of course, is fatal to the "thin-skinned, big-stuffed" armored vehicles.
At the same time, the fighters jumped out of the door the moment the armored vehicle stopped...... The armored car, don't look at its armor and think it can provide the necessary defense, in fact, this guy is the enemy's machine gun and bazooka when it stops, and because of its large size and easy to hit, it got the nickname "iron coffin".
So, the best way to not want to die in it is to leave as fast as you can and disperse.
For this, although the soldiers of the second company have not experienced the relevant training, they still understand, and the soldiers are very clear about what their goal is, so as soon as they jumped out of the car, they raised all kinds of weapons and slammed forward......
The submachine guns naturally hit the Vietnamese soldiers who had already got out of the car, the bazookas hit the armored vehicles, and the grenades were thrown forward one after another...... Only the Vietnamese armored troops in front of them lost their armor and screamed for a long time.
And at this time, the Vietnamese army didn't even know what was going on...... Most of the Vietnamese soldiers have not figured out where the bullets came from, and some of them know the direction of the bullets, but they don't understand that their own people want to hit their own people, and some of them guess that it should be the Chinese soldiers who have mixed in, but what makes them helpless is ...... Who are your own people and who are your enemies in this dark night? Maybe it's not your own people around you!
As a result, the Vietnamese army's armored units quickly became chaotic, and the sound of gunfire, explosions, and shouts became a ...... There were people everywhere shooting guns and running, but they couldn't organize a decent defense, or they were crushed by our fire.
But it doesn't seem surprising that we were unprepared, and it was in the dark...... So even though the Vietnamese army was three times stronger than ours, and even though they were the elite 320 Division, they were still beaten by us and were powerless.
It didn't take long for our infantry to get out of the car, and our armored car stepped on the accelerator again...... The defense of armored vehicles is too weak, and if you want to survive on the battlefield, you can only rely on speed.
As a result, the armored units of the Vietnamese army are even worse...... Ten armored vehicles with large-caliber high-caliber aircraft were running back and forth on the periphery while sweeping at the armored vehicles and Vietnamese troops inside, and on the other side were rows of bullets and whistling rocket launchers fired by our infantry, and in an instant, the armored formation, which was still majestic, turned into a sea of fire!
The change was so rapid that even the Vietnamese tank units walking ahead were not even aware of it...... Tanks have these shortcomings, especially when everyone is hiding in the war zone, the perception of the outside of the battlefield can only rely on periscopes and night vision devices, and these periscopes and night vision devices are aimed at the front, plus the sound of motors and shells is everywhere around, so the armored car formations behind them are almost beaten and they don't know anything...... This is why the tank weishenme must have infantry coordination.
At this time, the hatch of a tank opened, and a Vietnamese soldier with a walkie-talkie came out of it to check the situation behind him...... I couldn't help but be shocked when I saw this, how could a large number of armored vehicles behind him all turn into scrap metal in the blink of an eye! He was about to grab the walkie-talkie and give orders to the tank troops, but I shot him and knocked him down on the turret.
I've been waiting for him for a long time...... At this time, most of the people who will drill out of the hatch to check the situation are Vietnamese tank commanders, because only when the tank commander calls the armored vehicle unit several times and finds that there is no response, will he open the tank hatch to observe the situation!
Almost at the same time...... The 59 tanks of our army also joined the battle group, and fifteen tanks, guided by the infantry, slowly met up from the smoke from the front...... The night combat ability in 59 is indeed not good, but the point is that the mortar company on the 518.6 high ground fired a row of flares in a timely manner, and the entire battlefield was illuminated as if it were daytime in an instant.
In this way, the Vietnamese tanks were miserable, and a considerable number of their tanks were using night vision devices to advance, and when the strong light of the flares shone on the night vision devices, they became snow-white. However, my tanker was mentally prepared, and at this moment he took advantage of this time to "boom" at the tanks in front of him and fired a salvo, and on the spot several Vietnamese tanks at the head of the platoon were turned into a ball of fire!
At the same time, the fighters on the 518.6 heights also roared, and one after another anti-tank missiles came with a roar, and slammed into the sides of the tanks that were slow and even some had to stop because they were blocked by the wreckage of the tank.
Only then did the Vietnamese tank units discover that they had fallen into the encirclement of the Chinese army...... On the side is the 518.6 heights where there is no way out, and in the front is the Chinese tank with the coordination of infantry tanks, and I don't know when the Chinese infantry will come to sneak attack in the back......
In fact, what the Vietnamese army did not know was ...... Since the Vietnamese armored forces were routed by us, they have already been defeated! The reason is simple, they do not have infantry cover! (To be continued......)