Our army has unexpectedly much time to prepare, and it is too much for us to imagine...... So much so that the artillery observers had time to check the various parameters with the long-range artillery fire again, and even tried to shoot a few shots to see how big the error was in order to verify whether the parameters were accurate......

After the infantry's trenches were dug, nothing happened, so they helped the sappers to transport boxes of ammunition to the position from the cars parked at the mouth of the valley...... In fact, this cannot be said to be helping the engineers, ammunition is the life of the combat troops, so it should be said that the engineer troops are helping the infantry.

Because we were playing interspersed, and our air force did not participate in the war, there was no way to send us supplies, so we brought enough ammunition from the beginning...... The dozen or so vehicles that followed were basically all ammunition, except for a few transporting a mortar company and a company of some infantry...... I say basic because there are some compressed biscuits and cans and necessary cooking water......

Our troops...... Although there were only two infantry companies, the mortar company plus the tank company and the headquarters were also hundreds of people, and the food and necessary water were also indispensable...... This is all the experience summed up in the battle at the pass, it is good that we can hold the high ground, but what if the water source is cut off by the enemy? We're interspersed, and we're going to be surrounded at every turn!

However, it seems that the worry about water is still a bit unnecessary, because there are several wells in the commune of Tongmian...... Our tank pushed off the enemy of Tongmian so quickly, so the devils didn't rush to destroy the well!

That being said, the preparation was completely necessary, and the large plastic pot we brought with us was also very convenient to use. Just big enough for a soldier to carry up the hill on his back. This is enough for two days in a class...... Of course. If you want to take a bath and wash your feet, it is not enough.

At this point, I wondered how there was such a long time to prepare...... Originally, I thought that this was a busy fight, so that the soldiers were still nervous and hurried to build fortifications, but now they are all ready to rest on the position.

After this break, the soldiers began to talk, especially the soldiers of the first company, all of them were pale and recalling the terrifying experience of going to the battlefield for the first time...... At this time, it was time for the instructor to play his role, and naturally he went to the fighters and took the instructor to do ideological work for the soldiers.

I listened to a few words, which are ...... We are fighting the aggressor. We cannot have mercy on the ferocious wolf, like the farmer and the snake...... Something like that.

But to be honest, the instructor seems to have a lot of experience with that, if anything...... It can indeed alleviate the guilt in the hearts of many fighters.

Fighting a war weishenme will be terrifying? And not just because of the fear of blood, but of death...... Human blood is actually no different from animal blood, die...... It is also the enemy who dies.

The reason why they feel terrifying is because the vast majority of the warriors are kind, and they know that they are the same kind of people they have just killed, they are people, and they are people who they have never known and have no grudges...... So. If the instructor educates them, it is the aggressor who has just been killed. It's going to hurt us wolves...... That would naturally alleviate the horror and guilt in the hearts of the warriors to some extent.

And what about me and the veterans of the second company...... I've been used to seeing this for a long time, and of course I don't need to be educated like this.

What I did was to have the correspondent send a telegram to the military headquarters asking about the enemy...... The answer was: Highway 4 has been blocked by our artillery, and the enemy is advancing towards you from the mountain road, in an unknown number!

So I understood...... No wonder we have so much time to prepare, it turns out that the more devils have to take the mountain road...... It's much more complicated to walk through the mountains than on the road, and it's not just that a soldier with two legs can walk up with a gun on his back, the infantry always needs mortars, always light and heavy machine guns, always has anti-tank weapons, and always has to carry enough shells...... If you don't have these things with you, it's like sending them to death!

I can even conclude that ...... In the darkness in front of us, some Vietnamese troops had already gathered, but they did not dare to act rashly.

So...... This traffic is still very important for war, no matter whether you are a trump card or not, and no matter how well-trained you are, once the traffic is paralyzed or semi-paralyzed, then your reaction is to be half a beat slower than others!

So we took advantage of this time to drink some water and eat something, and Zuihou also rested in the trenches for a while...... After that, the devil staggered too late......

The first to spot the Vietnamese army was an artillery observer...... They were using high-powered telescopes to observe distant coordinates, guiding long-range artillery fire for test firing as they watched...... This is to make the long-range artillery fire more accurate, but it happened that several Yue devils were blown up into the sky with one shot, and there were many dense Yue devils holding AK47 around the firelight......

"The devil is coming!"

"The devil is coming!"

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The fighters immediately shouted in a group, and almost at the same time the warning of artillery observers was heard from the other side.

It is clear that the Vietnamese command has successfully connected with the two battalions of the 481 and 544 heights in the rear.

So the soldiers suddenly became nervous, especially the soldiers of the first company...... This may be a bit difficult for outsiders to understand, but I have experienced the battlefield and understand that it is good if there is no pause in the middle of a war...... The warriors would grit their teeth and hit Zuihou in one go, if only they had a break in between...... The fear and tension would be even stronger than the first time they experienced the battlefield, because this time they knew what they were going to face.

But I have a way to dispel this fear in the hearts of the warriors...... Not in words, but in facts, ironclad facts......

"Flares!" I shouted to the cavern behind me, which was the headquarters, "All long-range artillery fire!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Jingping immediately conveyed my order, which is the advantage of having a staff officer...... All I have to do is give an order, or command and plan how the battle should be fought in general, as for the specific command steps and which troops should be commanded to complete, and even which troops should be coordinated with each other...... These can be prepared by the staff officers.

Soon more than a dozen flares were fired by mortar batteries at Vietnamese troops in all directions...... So it's not so easy to be a staff officer, I just said a "flare...... Zhao Jing has a way to correctly understand my intentions and fully realize my intentions.

What is the purpose of the flares...... In order to let the artillery observer see clearly the area where the Vietnamese devil is located, these areas can be used as a reference for the prior observation of haode some things, such as trees, stones, and even experienced artillery observers only need to look at it to know how far the target is from the position.

Then, based on this distance, determine which area of the map the Vietnamese army is on...... The artillery observers had a map in their hands, and this map was to divide the open land, hills, and highlands around us into blocks according to the preparations they had made beforehand, and the coordinate parameters of these areas had been observed in advance and had just been test-fired.

So it was simple, there was no need to observe the enemy's position at all, only the number of the area that needed to be bombarded by the walkie-talkie.

Needless to say, the benefits of this are as good as this......

First of all, it is fast, because not only the artillery observers save time for observation and calculation, but even the artillery in the rear is allocated according to the area and the parameters are adjusted, so it only takes a few seconds before and after, and the shells quickly whined...... This is undoubtedly important because the target is someone who can move, and if you move a little slower, the target may be past the area to be hit.

The second is that it can save shells and improve the efficiency of bombing, and the more devils are not fools, their formations must be scattered...... But even if they are scattered, some places are denser, some places are thin, and there are even some places where there will be no people...... This is very common in this part of the terrain in Vietnam, where the terrain is more complex and in some places is rocky that cannot be climbed.

If this had been covered by the usual indiscriminate artillery fire, there would have been some artillery shelling into the no-man's land...... But now that the division is complete, the artillery observers can eliminate the no-man's land, so the waste is naturally reduced.

zuihou…… It is that once the map of this kind of partition is made, it becomes not so professional to cover it with artillery fire. Any person, as long as this person can speak, read numbers, and can measure distances basically...... You can use this map to direct artillery fire to accurately bomb the Vietnamese army.

Like we're seeing now...... As soon as the flares were raised, the whistling sound of shells could be heard in the sky, and then the shells exploded in the crowd of Vietnamese soldiers with such precision as if they had eyes...... Even if they were to lie on the ground when they heard the whirring of shells, it would be useless, because this batch of bombs was an airburst shell, the kind that explodes over the target and then shoots a steel ball......

And by this time the flares were still hanging high in the sky, and the soldiers saw the bloody scene again...... Pieces of steel ball shrapnel scattered from the air like a heavenly maiden scattering the wind, only to hit the Vietnamese army below with a miserable scream!

And at this point, we haven't even done it yet!

In fact, this is the effect I want, to let the soldiers, especially the soldiers of the first company, know that we are not an isolated army, but backed by a strong artillery force! (To be continued......)