Chapter 179 M60

As the Vietnamese tanks rushed into the canyon one after another and were blown up by us, the doubts in my heart became heavier and heavier.

The Vietnamese army sent one after another all American light tanks, and to be honest, this kind of tank is not suitable for attacking such a dangerous place as the canyon, for no other reason...... The tank was so fragile that its armor could be easily pierced, not to mention by bazookas, and even a few more bundles of grenades could be blown up by dropping under its chassis (its chassis armor was only nine millimeters thick).

At this time, I couldn't help but regret that I had detonated the haode directional explosives that had been arranged in advance too early, but I was not familiar with the model and performance of the tank, otherwise if I had known in advance that these guys could be solved with grenades, I would not have been stupid enough to deal with a lot of explosives.

However, those directional explosives still played a big role, not to mention the tanks that were blown up, and the results in dealing with the Vietnamese infantry were also very remarkable.

Every time the Vietnamese infantry wanted to follow the tanks to attack the rear half of our positions...... Well, as long as a directional explosive is detonated, with a "boom", the debris falling from the sky can knock down more than half of them, and the other half will only have half a life if they don't die...... No one could have been left intact under the burst of rubble.

Therefore, it is impossible for the Vietnamese army to coordinate with the infantry tank, which also makes it easy for our bazooka shooters to get close to the Vietnamese tanks and kill them one by one.

Thereupon...... Although the battle lasted only more than half an hour, there were seven or eight tank wrecks and hundreds of Vietnamese corpses in the canyon. Suddenly, the whole canyon was filled with the smell of blood, gasoline, and burning, but fortunately, the wind in this canyon was relatively strong, otherwise we would have hid in it for fear that Kaoru would have been killed.

It is because of this battle. I didn't have much of the directional explosives I had planted. But I'm not very worried. The reason is that the trail in this canyon has been blocked by about ten tanks back and forth...... So I thought. Even if the Vietnamese army pulls the T62 up at this time, I'm afraid it won't be able to pass smoothly.

"Second platoon leader, how's the situation going?" Company Commander Luo asked on the walkie-talkie.

"Everything works!" I replied, "The Yue devils launched a fierce attack on the canyon with tanks, but we knocked them down!" ”

"Well played!" Company Commander Luo replied: "The more devils have also launched an attack on the heights, and the offensive is very fierce, it seems that the more devils are doing zuihou's dying struggle." You must hold the canyon and never let a single soldier of the Vietnamese army pass, is the mission clear? ”

"Clear!"

In fact, I don't need to say the importance of this canyon to Commander Luo, I know it, what is strange to me is...... From previous battles. I can also sense that the Vietnamese commander is a smart man, but he doesn't know weishenme...... Now he's going to do something stupid like this: break in with a bunch of light tanks and block his way.

"Hey! What else is the company commander worried about? After I hung up the walkie-talkie, Wu Zhijun said next to him: "If he knew that this canyon was full of bombed tanks, he should have put a hundred and twenty hearts!" ”

Wu Zhijun had been in charge of logistics before, but in this battle, he took out five tanks with his soldiers in one go, so it was inevitable that his eyebrows would flutter when he spoke at this time.

"That's it!" The scholar stretched out his head to look at the tanks that were on fire below, nodded and said, "Look at this jiashi, even if we let go of our hands and let the Yue devil in...... I'm afraid they'll have to spend a lot of work! I didn't expect the Yue Devil Tank to be so unbeaten......"

But I am not as optimistic as the soldiers, because I believe that the commander of the 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army will not be so stupid, and it is more likely that even I do not know what he is thinking.

The ensuing battle quickly justified my fears.

While the soldiers were still excitedly discussing the battle just now. There was another roar at the mouth of the valley, and a new round of artillery shelling by the Vietnamese army began.

It's just different from last time. This time, along with the Vietnamese artillery shells, there were also a few smoke bombs......

"Gas bombs!" I heard a warrior scream, and the phrase quickly caused panic among the fighters.

"It's not a gas bomb!" I said, "It's a smoke bomb!" Comrades get ready for gas masks! ”

The reason why I was so quick to determine that this was not a gas bomb was not because I thought that the Yue devils would abide by any convention and not use the banned gas bombs, but because the wind in the canyon was blowing from south to north...... If the devils hit a poison gas bomb, the poison gas would all blow to themselves in the next second.

So I soon had another question, since the Yue devils knew that the wind was blowing in their direction, why did they hit this smoke bomb? The smoke blows back too, doesn't it?

And then it turned out to be just as I expected, because our army was on a corner, and the wind was facing the Vietnamese army...... Therefore, the smoke bomb can affect us very limited, most of it is blown towards the first half, and after a while, the first half of the canyon is in a cloud of white smoke, and nothing can be seen.

However, even so, the shells of the Yue Devil still exploded one after another, and the smoke bombs continued to hit one after another......

It's obvious...... The more devils are hiding something.

Smoke grenades can make us invisible, and the sound of artillery shells exploding can make us inaudible. But what are they hiding? I couldn't figure it out.

After listening carefully to the sound of the artillery for a while, I noticed that there seemed to be some tank motor sound in the gap between the shells...... Could it be that the Vietnamese army sent T62 up again?

It's really possible, a dozen smoke grenades can make us invisible, but this won't affect the T62's vision, after all, it has night vision devices, doesn't it?

But this seems unreasonable, because we can basically say that we have given up the first half, and the Vietnamese army can swagger up the T62 without doing this.

The most important thing is ...... I don't believe that there are ten tanks blocked in the canyon, and there is any way for this T62 to drive through.

I tried to go up and see what was going on a few times, but I knew it was futile.

One is that the Vietnamese army's large-caliber artillery is constantly bombarding the corner, which makes the corner a dangerous zone where shrapnel from flying rocks is raging, and anyone who approaches there has only a dead end.

The other was because I knew I wouldn't see anything even if I passed, because there must have been a cloud of smoke there.

So I just had to wait and wait for the second half of this...... I don't know what we're waiting for, but I do know that maybe it's a zuihou blow from the Vietnamese army.

The Vietnamese devils also seem to be carrying out a big blockade: if we win, the Vietnamese army will completely annihilate our army and rush out of the canyon, and if we lose, the signboard of the 316A division of the Vietnamese army, the trump card of the army, will be destroyed in our hands.

So I also knew that this blow would definitely not be so easy to deal with.

After waiting for a long time, I didn't see any movement from the Vietnamese army, but the sound of the tank's motor became clearer and clearer on the other side, and I couldn't help frowning...... What is the devil tank doing? They didn't come to fight, they were building roads.

What the? Road......

I couldn't help but be stunned when I thought of this...... That's right! The Vietnamese tanks are not coming up to fight, but building roads.

What roads to build?

This trail in the canyon, of course.

Isn't the trail blocked by tanks? You can't get over it no matter how much you fix it, can you?

The trail was blocked, but the creek next to it was not.

Because the river was intercepted, it had become a one-meter-deep ditch at this time, if the Vietnamese army could block this ditch...... That could be another trail through the canyon entirely.

Damn, I didn't think of that!

All the actions that the Yue devil did before were just for this trail.

The first is the preparation of artillery fire to cover the attack of light tanks, the purpose of which is ...... Its purpose was not to break through the defense line of our army, but to consume the mines and other explosive devices that our army had placed in the gorge.

It was clear that they had achieved their strategic goal, because there were only a few anti-infantry left.

Then there is the use of cannon sound and smoke bombs to hide the operation of engineering vehicles, as for the more devils weishenme will have engineering vehicles...... In fact, the troops generally carry engineering vehicles, especially artillery units. The reason is that artillery units often have to quickly open up artillery positions...... Vietnam is a mountainous and forested country, so if the artillery needs to be deployed quickly to provide fire support to the front-line troops, it is necessary to use hoes or firewood knives to deal with uneven mounds or dense forests...... I'm afraid that this battle has been fought and the artillery positions have not yet been put in order.

So engineering vehicles are an indispensable tool for artillery.

Of course, the engineering vehicles used in the army are not like the bulldozers and cranes we usually see...... These things can also accomplish the mission, but if you let the enemy scout find it, you may not be able to use it with a few shots or a mortar.

In order to make the engineering vehicle have combat ability and play a role in paving the project, some people suddenly designed a multi-functional tank, which can participate in the battle like an ordinary tank in peacetime, and can be turned into a bulldozer by bulldozer on the fashion of need, and can cross the river with submersible equipment, and even can be used as a crane, build a pontoon bridge, and so on.

It is clear that such a construction vehicle is now in operation in the first half of the canyon, and I believe that it also has night vision, because it works under smoke bombs.

I later learned that it was actually the M60 tank captured by the Vietnamese army from the Yankees, which had an M24 active infrared periscope that could be driven or worked at night.

From this point of view, the equipment of the 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army is still quite good, and it has all the Soviet-style equipment and American-style equipment that Vietnam can get its hands on. (To be continued......)