Chapter 26: The Main Peak
Not long after we were ready, Zhao Jingping rushed back to the camp, and he stood up in front of me and reported: "Battalion commander, Regiment Commander Shen agrees with our plan, and asks me to tell you to let go and fight, the 703rd Regiment is coordinated by him, and he will definitely cooperate with the attack of our synthetic battalion!" ”
"Good!" I nodded, and ordered Scar, "Go!" ”
"Yes!" Scar answered, turned around and boarded the helicopter that had been waiting outside the camp with a platoon of fighters.
We are still in the name of "pre-war drills...... We're going to fight tomorrow, and we're still going to carry out dangerous missions like parachuting on high ground, so it's necessary to do some pre-battle drills, just like we used to...... When I first came to Yunnan or Guangxi, I was worried about the water and soil adaptation, and I needed a period of adaptation training.
It's just that our agent company doesn't need any adaptation training now, on the one hand, because our synthetic battalion is often active in Yunnan or Guangxi, and we are very familiar with the hydrology and weather here; On the other hand, the special agent company has been undergoing high-intensity training for a long time, which includes the ability to adapt to different combat environments in the shortest possible time.
Soon a platoon of Scarband set off, and their current task was actually very simple, which was to reach a suitable height and distance and jump down......
Of course, this is as simple as it is said, but it is not at all the same thing.
Not to mention the rest, just parachuting at night is a psychological test for the soldiers: there is a pitch black field below, and no one knows what it is, and no one knows how high it is, so that people can jump down with an umbrella on their backs...... At this time, I am afraid that I will not even be able to stand steadily.
Of course. This will not be a big problem for the fighters of the secret service company. It didn't take long for me to hear Scar report, "The eagle is ready." Please instruct! ”
The code name "Eagle" is taken by Scar, and this code name is really an image, their commando team is using a paraglider to glide to the main peak of Kuolin Mountain and then attack, this paraglider is like the wings of an eagle, and the enemy on the main peak is equivalent to a chicken waiting to be caught by the eagle, so it is natural...... The enemy's code name is "Chicken".
I looked at the watch on my wrist, it was exactly half past four in the morning, so I didn't think much about it and immediately ordered, "Action!" ”
"Yes! Let's go! ”
Although I didn't see the movements of Scar and others. But it can be imagined that at this time, Scar and the others had jumped off the helicopter one by one, and spread their wide parachutes and flew towards the main peak of Kuolin Mountain.
The reason for this is that in order not to attract the attention and vigilance of the enemy, they will maintain radio silence until the commandos led by Scar start fighting the enemy.
In fact, the key to Scar's surprise attack is whether or not to be able to attack it unprepared, and as a commander, I didn't need to know the situation before the battle started, so what if I did? The result was still the same, and we had to sit here and wait for Scar to complete the task on their own.
In this respect, it was risky and unnecessary for Scar to report the battle situation to me in a timely manner, so I told him from the beginning: "Scar is solely responsible for this mission, unless it is an emergency or the battle is going on, and the enemy already knows about the existence of the commando." Otherwise there is no need to report it to me! ”
Reason is that I was right to make this decision, but I can't sit still when Scar doesn't report it to me.
In hindsight. Maybe it's because the success of the raid of Scar's platoon is directly related to whether the follow-up plan of this battle can be carried out, in other words, the task of raiding the main peak is the key to the success or failure of this battle, so even if I have experienced all kinds of dangers, I am a little anxious at this time.
Perhaps it was also because they were not accustomed to this state of ignorance of the situation, so their minds were full of questions, such as whether the troops on the front line had fired signal flares as agreed, whether Scar had glided in the right direction, whether they had safely arrived at the designated position in Kuolin Mountain, and so on.
These questions were like a thousand ants scratching in my heart, making me sit up and down and not stand or stand, only pacing anxiously in front of the radio.
"Battalion commander!" The instructor stepped forward and handed me a cigarette and said, "Don't worry, the second company commander can handle it!" ”
"Hmm!" At this time, I realized that I was not calm enough, at least now that I am like this, I don't have the general demeanor of "Mount Tai collapses in front of me and the face does not change".
Thinking of this, I took the cigarette from the instructor and put it in my mouth and lit it, and as for the miscellaneous thoughts in my head, I thought it would be better to put them aside for the time being.
"Here's my opinion!" At this time, the instructor said to me, "Do you think this umbrella is sending someone else to detain Lin Shan?" You also know the danger of this mission, you are the leader of a battalion, the soul of our synthetic battalion, if you have any three long and two short......"
At this point, the instructor kept his mouth shut and said that those who were soldiers were taboo against these unlucky words.
"I've already analyzed this problem with you!" I spat out a thick puff of smoke and said, "You must know that once we can take down the main peak of Kulin Mountain, the command of the main peak will become quite complicated. If it's just our synthetic battalion troops, then it's okay, I believe that the second company commander can command it. But the problem is that we still have six platoons of the first battalion of the 703 regiment, and two of these six platoons are company commanders...... The company commander of our synthetic battalion is the company commander, and the company commander of the first battalion is also the company commander, why should people listen to us?! ”
Hearing this, the instructor was silent, because in the history of our army's battles, there have been too many situations like this kind of confusion of command or fighting on their own because there are no ranks.
"What's more!" I continued: "Once the main peak is under the control of our army, the main peak will inevitably be besieged by the Vietnamese army. It is conceivable that at that time, on the one hand, we will have to resist the siege of the Yue devils, and on the other hand, we will have to rescue the six platoons of the first battalion to the main peak, and after we arrive, we will also be responsible for coordinating and distributing tasks...... The second company commander was very capable, but his strength was to direct the troops to fight the enemy, not to this kind of command and coordination. Therefore, for the sake of winning this battle and at the same time to prevent our army's efforts from being in vain, I have to go this time! ”
"Alas!" The instructor sighed helplessly and said, "Actually, I also know that you won't listen to my advice, be careful on the battlefield!" ”
"Don't worry!" I said, "I've been fought so many battles, which one has left me behind?!" ”
"Battalion commander!" At this time, Zhao Jingping reported to me: "The eagles have news, they have already confronted the enemy!" ”
"Oh!" I couldn't help but be overjoyed when I heard this, which showed that Scar and the others had successfully reached the main peak of Kuolin Mountain and successfully launched a sneak attack on the enemy.
"What's the situation?" I took the microphone and asked Scar on the other end.
The first thing I heard was a burst of intense gunfire and explosions, followed by Scar's hoarse shout: "Report to the battalion commander, we have successfully landed on the main peak of Kulin Mountain and launched a surprise attack on the enemy, the enemy is completely defenseless, but there are many more people than we thought, at least one company!" ”
"Hmm!" When I heard this, my heart immediately lifted up again.
We thought it was ...... The more devils have always had an "egg" distribution of troops, that is, there are many troops on the outside, which look the surface but are empty inside.
This kind of troop distribution is actually in line with the actual situation in Vietnam, the main reason is that the Vietnamese devils have few soldiers, few men, and few materials, and if they allocate enough troops outside or inside, then they will simply not be able to withstand the pressure of ammunition and supplies brought by these troops.
As a result, there is a Vietnamese army, which we call an "egg" type of troop arrangement, that is, there are more troops allocated in the first line, which are enough to compete with our army and even surpass our army in some parts, but only a small number of troops are stationed in the depth of defense.
And the supporting tactic is that after the first-line troops of the Vietnamese army are defeated, they will soon be transferred to the second line of defense and garrisoned, so our army will attack the Vietnamese army layer by layer, and the Vietnamese army will defend layer by layer.
It is precisely for this reason that Zhao Jingping and I will judge that there will not be more than one platoon of Vietnamese troops stationed on the main peak of Kuolin Mountain at this time, and at most some artillery scouts and the like will set up some observation posts on it...... The commanding heights, the observatory is a must.
But what we didn't expect was that the Vietnamese troops on the main peak actually reached a number like "at least one company" reported by Scar.
Later I learned that this was really an accident, and that the garrison on the main peak was indeed less than a platoon as we had guessed, and the exact number obtained from the prisoners was that there were only two squads plus an artillery observer group, all of which were only about twenty men.
However, it was very coincidental that the Vietnamese commander had a whim...... He thought that if this battle continued like this, the main peak of Kuolin Mountain would most likely face the situation of being attacked by the enemy, so he sent a company to the main peak for drills.
That night was the first day that the Vietnamese army was training troops, and we just happened to bump into each other.
I don't know if it's our bad luck or the bad luck of the devils.
To say that we are unlucky, this is a little variable for our mission, because the ratio of forces is too great: a reinforced company against a platoon.
It is said that the Vietnamese army is not lucky, they are on the drill, and they came up on the first day, and they did not expect that there would be an enemy directly on the main peak without warning. More importantly, this unit is also an extremely effective special agent company of our army.
The Vietnamese army couldn't figure this out, and even some Vietnamese soldiers wanted to understand this question when they were captured, and kept asking us how we appeared on the main peak without knowing it.
This is understandable, because even the U.S. troops against the Vietnamese army did not use this method against them.
At this time, I only said one sentence: "Is it difficult to completely annihilate the Vietnamese army to occupy the main peak?" ”
Scar replied with only two words: "No!" (To be continued......)