Chapter 161 Passage

"Bang!" A bullet flew out of the rifle's chamber.

I have to admit that I relied entirely on my feelings to hit this offset, just now I just imagined all the air in front of me as a stream of water, imagining a river in front of me...... The flow of water in this river is sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, sometimes horizontal, sometimes longitudinal...... The bullet I fired was a lonely boat that moved quickly through these currents, sometimes going a little way with the current, sometimes going a little way that way, and finally ending at ...... It was the Vietnamese officer who was rushing at his subordinates.

The muzzle velocity of the SVD sniper rifle is 830 meters per second, which is what I learned from the machine gunner. Bullets are the same, aren't they? The same bullets mean that the muzzle velocity is about the same.

The target is about 800 meters away from my position, and the bullet speed will slow down as the distance of the bullet increases...... So the bullet flew in the air for more than a second before reaching the target.

I almost watched as it writhed in the air with a tail line and knocked the officer down......

It hit, but it didn't hit the vital point, and in my scope, I could clearly see the thigh of the Vietnamese officer hit by the bullet...... Maybe it was just rubbing the edge, because I didn't see him fall, but bent down and covered the injured part.

The distance the bullet descended was much larger than I imagined, and the moment I retracted the rifle, I noticed that there was a pond of about 100 square meters in the path through which the bullet passed...... So I understood that the water in the pond will evaporate when it is exposed to sunlight, and the humidity in the air will increase exponentially after evaporation, especially near the surface of the pool...... This will undoubtedly put the bullet under more resistance, and may even change the direction of the bullet slightly depending on the humidity of the air.

That's why I aimed at the upper body of the target but hit the lower body. It's a pity, though. But I learned a little bit more...... Next time, try to keep the bullet out of the pool.

"Good!" The warriors behind him erupted in applause.

"See?" Xiaoshi still didn't seem to believe it: "Our platoon commander hit?" Really hit? ”

"Hit!" Wang Kechang put down the binoculars and said with certainty: "I can see it clearly." hit the thigh, and now I was dragged back by the Yue devil! ”

"It's more than 800 meters!" Wu Zhijun sighed: "The platoon commander's marksmanship is really amazing......

"Second Platoon Leader!" At this time, Company Commander Luo heard the gunshots and ran up and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"Report to the company commander!" I said, "I just saw an officer who is a Yue devil...... It didn't seem like a big deal, so I shot it! ”

"Oh? Did you knock it out? ”

"Nope!" I replied with some regret: "It's just a little bit of ......."

"Company commander!" Wang Kechang interjected on the side: "It's more than 800 meters......

"Hmm! Not bad! Company Commander Luo poked his head out to take a look, then nodded with satisfaction and said, "This shot is to suppress the Yue devil!" ”

I stuck out my head in confusion, only to realize that the Yue devils who had been standing outside arrogantly and pointing fingers at our position were now either lying on the ground or hiding in shelter.

So that's another role of a sniper: even though I didn't kill anyone with this shot, it didn't even have any effect on the outcome of the battle. The officer just had to go back and bandage it. But such a shot can cause a shock in the Vietnamese army: more than 800 meters can be hit with one shot, so how far should they start to charge? Where should fire cover be placed? And where should artillery be placed?

As a result, there will be an invisible pressure in the hearts of the Vietnamese army, but for our army, it has greatly boosted morale and increased confidence in defeating the enemy.

Morale is often such a subtle thing that it can't be seen, touched, or explained, but it's real.

"Woo......" It didn't take long for a burst of shells to be heard in the sky, so we knew that the Vietnamese army couldn't hold back.

Without much thought, we left a few observation posts on the position and lined up along the trenches into the longitudinal tunnel fortifications.

The smell in this tunnel is not very good. But the relatively spacious space still makes us feel much more comfortable, and more importantly. In the cat's ear hole, it is almost cut off from the comrades...... The feeling is a bit indescribable, although I know that my comrades-in-arms are not far away, but because there is a thick layer of soil separating them, I always feel that I am alone in the face of the powerful artillery bombardment of the Vietnamese army. However, in this tunnel...... The comrades-in-arms are around, they can see and touch, and they can even feel their breathing, so they will naturally have a sense of security in their hearts.

It should be said that the "T" shaped fortifications of the Vietnamese army were very strong, and a few shells hit the top of the tunnel directly, but nothing happened except for shaking down some broken earth. I even took advantage of this time to turn on my flashlight and look up and down how the tunnel was made.

This is actually an "A" shaped fortification, and the math teacher in junior high school told me that triangles are the most stable, and I think he must have told this secret to Yue Devil...... This is not? The tunnel of the Yue Devil is made of rows of logs on the ground to form a triangle, the top is nailed with long nails, and some parts are also reinforced horizontally with logs, and then paved with a thick layer of soil...... There is no doubt that this method disperses the liliang from the top through the logs into the ground, making the tunnel impregnable.

Of course, if it's long-range artillery fire, then I believe it will still be able to blow up this tunnel, but it's just ...... The fortifications were built on the anti-slope of the high ground, and the only thing that could be blown up was the less powerful mortars.

......A few minutes later, we heard the signal from the observation post outside the tunnel, and we lined up again to drill out of the tunnel.

It should be said that the time of the Vietnamese army's bombing was so short that I was a little surprised, weren't those Vietnamese troops outside a regiment of the 316A Division? How can the artillery bombardment be organized in just a few minutes?

Climb along the trench to the top of the hill position, set up the rifle and look down, and I am even more puzzled...... There are only a few craters on the inclined plane.

You must know that this slope is not an ordinary slope, the Vietnamese army originally stationed on the 217 heights in order to be able to block our army's offensive more haode, it is densely buried on this slope is densely covered with mines, and even pulled two barbed wire...... Although our troops had also launched an attack on this slope before, they were exceptionally blocked by these fortifications and the Vietnamese firepower on the top of the hill, unable to advance half a step at the foot of the mountain.

Therefore, I took it for granted that if the Vietnamese army wanted to attack the 217 heights, the first thing to do was to use artillery shells to remove the mines and barbed wire on the slope.

However, the Vietnamese army does not seem to have done so......

Later, I learned that it wasn't that the devils didn't want to do it, but that they couldn't.

The 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army originally rushed to Sabah to reinforce Lao Cai, and the ammunition brought with the army was not much, and I took my soldiers to blow up a large number of artillery and shells on the triangular heights during the battle of Dai Nai, although it was replenished in the next few days, but Vietnam was fighting on two fronts at this time, and it can be said that the domestic resources were seriously lacking, so the artillery ammunition replenished into Sabah was simply a drop in the bucket.

This is also the reason why the artillery of the 316A of the Vietnamese army did not dare to go head-to-head with the artillery of our army...... The number of artillery and ammunition is not at the same level, where can it be tough.

After that, the artillery of the Vietnamese army was used several times to attack our interspersed troops, so the artillery soon fell into a dilemma of running out of ammunition.

So there is this scene in front of us...... The Vietnamese army only fired artillery for a few minutes, and there were only a few craters on the inclined plane, some of which were fired by the soldiers of the 447th Regiment before.

In this case, I did not think that the Vietnamese would dare to charge our positions, but I quickly learned that I was wrong......

Because in the next second, a company of Vietnamese troops slowly pressed towards our position under the cover of ten tanks.

Some might say...... Will the Vietnamese army send only one company too few soldiers?

We have a company of soldiers on the 217 heights, right? Then, according to the principle that the attacking side must have at least twice as many troops as the defender to achieve balance, the Vietnamese army must have at least two companies.

But that's just the general situation, and the situation is now...... The slope of the 217 heights is full of mines, and if the troops' charging surface is spread too wide, it seems that they are stepping on mines.

Therefore, I think the offensive idea of the Vietnamese army should be to use firepower and troops as much as possible to make a passage on the 217 heights.

It should be said that the Vietnamese army is still better than our army in terms of infantry coordination, after all, they are all veterans who have fought in battles, and they have all fought with the Yankees, as the so-called has never eaten pork and seen pigs walk, and of course they will learn a little from them after fighting with the US army for so long.

So looking at that plane at this time, it really looks like a bit of a U.S. military...... The tanks drove unhurriedly in front, at a certain distance from each other and marched forward in a straight line, while the infantry interspersed and used the cover of the tanks to follow...... If it weren't for the uniforms on their bodies and the weapons in their hands, they might have been mistaken for Yankees.

With the sound of a "rumbling" motor...... The Vietnamese tanks drove to the foot of our hill and stopped, and then the ten tanks "creaked" to adjust the angle of their turrets......

Seeing that the angles of those tank guns were all adjusted in one direction towards the slope of the 217 heights, I knew that I was right: the devil is going to use all the weapons at his disposal to make a passage in the minefield of this slope. (To be continued......)