Chapter VIII Artillery Observers (II)

"Bang!" After a single gunshot, the "telescope" no longer exists.

It should be said that this artillery observer of the Vietnamese army is very smart, he is not just separated from his comrades who came with him at a distance...... I didn't even find out when he was separated from the others, no doubt it would have allowed him to escape from the machine-gun fire, allowing him to concentrate on observing and guiding the shells.

On the other hand, his disguise is also successful, with black rags and black mud, and then ducking behind the black stone, at first glance it looks like a stone.

But the fault was that he should not have directed the shells into the vicinity of our high ground, which allowed me to be sure that he was in my sight and was looking for it purposefully.

"Bang!" Then another bullet came out of the chamber of my gun.

All right...... Now I know that there are usually two Weishenme artillery observers, and they are not just substitutes, but also a division of labor: one observer is responsible for guiding the shells to observe the landing point of the shells and calculating the corrected coordinates in real time. And the other...... It is responsible for communicating with the artillery units in the rear through walkie-talkies.

As I could see, after the first artillery observer was killed by me, the other artillery observer was so frightened that he immediately crawled out from behind the rocks in an attempt to divert the target.

His reaction was quick, but alas...... Carrying a walkie-talkie on his back made it impossible for him to move quickly, so he had to die.

At first I was weird, as long as he stayed where he was, there would be no problem, and I didn't even notice that there was a person behind him.

But thinking about it quickly became clear, artillery observers...... It is a more important and hated individual objective on the battlefield than a sniper. The reason is that snipers are nothing more than shooting guns. There is also a limit to the number of people who can be killed. It's more about causing a kind of psychological pressure on people. And what about artillery observers...... Once they are allowed to exist on the battlefield for a long time, it is very likely to attract a large number of accurate and ruthless long-range artillery.

It is precisely for this reason that once the opposing sides discover the enemy's artillery observers, they will concentrate their firepower and artillery fire on them indiscriminately...... So the Vietnamese artillery observer had to escape.

It's just that what he didn't expect was ...... So far, I seem to be the only one in our army who has discovered the presence of artillery observers, and because the enemy and us are too close, the two 82 guns we brought with us will not be able to play a role...... In the past, this shell was only afraid that the shrapnel flying indiscriminately would kill more of his own people.

So in these respects, it was safer for him to continue to hide behind rocks.

The battlefield is often like that, and making the wrong decision means death. And there can be no chance of re-election.

"Well played!" I heard the deputy division commander shouting: "These two shots saved our entire army!" ”

As soon as I heard what the deputy division commander said, I felt that he still had some level and vision, not only to see the identities of the two Vietnamese soldiers I had just killed, but also to know the meaning behind my two shots: If I hadn't fired these two shots, the shells of the Vietnamese devils would have been intercepted on this road...... Not much, just two or three shells every few seconds, then even if we have the ability to go to the sky, we will not be able to save the 168th regiment.

Then I turned my gaze back to the grass...... The few remaining Vietnamese soldiers had already retreated into the corner of our shooting under the cover of the grass, apparently realizing that they had been targeted by snipers.

Fortunately for me, those more devils shrank inside and didn't move after hiding in a dead corner. I don't know if it's because of the lack of bullets or because they understand that with their strength they can't stop the 168th regiment, in short, they didn't even shoot a gun......

Later, I realized that I had actually misunderstood the goal of this Vietnamese army: I originally thought that this Vietnamese army was using a dozen men to stop the 168th Division so that its follow-up troops could follow. In fact, their real purpose...... It was to cover the two Vietnamese artillery observers.

So, two artillery observers have died at my hands. That also means that the mission of this Vietnamese army failed, and they chose to protect themselves.

As soon as the Vietnamese army's shooting stopped, the soldiers of the 168th Regiment let go of their legs and retreated towards the stone bridge, watching the soldiers walk towards the stone bridge through the road, and we on the high ground couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But before we could breathe a sigh of relief, a whistling sound from the sky couldn't help but make my heart throb...... It wouldn't be the Vietnamese artillery observer who reported the corrected haode coordinates to the Vietnamese artillery in time!

But I didn't think much about it at the time, and I kept my body low and stuck to the foxhole and didn't move...... Soon there was a "boom" explosion...... But as soon as I heard the direction from which the explosion came from, I was relieved: the road was on our left, and the Vietnamese artillery shells were exploding on the right.

It is obvious that the Vietnamese artillery has not been corrected in time, and their artillery is just trying their luck.

A few minutes later, as soon as the cannon stopped, Scar poked his head out of the fortifications and smiled at me, "Hehe": "You kid! It saved our lives again, and if we hadn't killed those two Yue devil observers just now, I'm afraid these shells would have fallen on our heads.

The soldiers around him couldn't help but be a little inexplicable when they heard Scar say this, they were all recruits who had only been in the war for more than ten days, and how could they know about the crisis just now. It wasn't until Scar explained it that they understood.

"That's it...... Why is this devil's cannon so inaccurate! Xiaoshi touched his head and smiled: "It turns out that the platoon commander knocked out the eyes of their artillerymen!" ”

"Hey...... I say! As if he remembered something, the scholar said: "Artillery observers still have this role, so how many artillery observers have just been assigned to our unit...... Isn't it just a baby? ”

"Isn't that right?" Company Commander Luo interjected next to him: "So...... In the future, you will protect me from the ponies, and you are the only one who asks if there is any accident! ”

Xu Guochun pretended to be surprised and sighed a few times: "Let's go back and treat Marx as our ancestors, and we will rely on them to fight in the future!" ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Marx is the nickname given by the soldiers to the artillery squad leader headed by him, because his surname is Ma, he has a single name, and he can also write poetry...... So Xu Guochun gave him the nickname Marx.

In other words, the people who are artillery observers need some culture, because they have to calculate ballistics or coordinates and other things, and it is difficult for people who have no mathematical skills to learn that.

"Company commander!" At this time, Xiao Shi shouted stupidly on the side: "We have so haode babies to put away, why don't you bring them with you this time?" ”

"Are you stupid?" The company commander scolded angrily: "Our task this time is to cover the retreat of the troops, and you let the artillery go to ...... Who is going to blow up? What's more, if we're going to blow it up...... Isn't it enough to contact you directly on the phone? 581 Heights is not that you can't see us here! ”

"Oh...... This one! Little Stone touched his head in embarrassment.

The deputy division commander looked at this scene and kept nodding his head next to him, and said to Company Commander Luo: "No wonder your unit can become a hero company...... After a fight, it's like a person who has nothing to do! ”

"Hey!" Xu Guochun said big things on the side: "What can such a small battle be counted? We've never seen any winds and waves......"

"Got you!" Xu Guochun's words immediately caused a commotion from the surrounding soldiers, and also provoked several people from the deputy division commander.

But before the laughter of the crowd fell, they heard the sentry shout: "There is a situation! ”

The crowd quickly dispersed and ran back to their bunkers as fast as they could, ready for battle.

I raised my gun and looked at the other side...... It's true, there have been groups of Yue devils in the jungle on the opposite highlands, and it seems that they are all in a hurry to intersperse to stop the 168th Regiment, all of them are lightly armed, and they can't wait to rush down with guns as soon as they come up.

"Hit!" As soon as Commander Luo shouted, the soldiers all opened fire, whether it was a machine gun or a submachine gun, all of them greeted the group of Vietnamese soldiers vigorously.

Some people may say, isn't the firing range of our submachine gun only more than 300 meters? Will it be effective to fight these more than 600 meters of Yue devils?

In fact, this effect is really effective, because the range refers to the AK47's ability to effectively hit and destroy targets at 300 meters. But in fact, the bullets of this AK47 are very powerful, and they are lethal when they hit the target at a distance of 1,000 meters, just because the weapon is relatively crudely made...... The characteristics of Soviet-style weapons, coupled with the flutter of the barrel during continuous firing, make the accuracy very low, so more than 300 meters is almost the limit of what the AK47 can hit the target.

But at this time, we don't require accurate hits, and the Yue devils are charging towards the soldiers of the 168th Regiment in a dense manner on the high ground opposite, right?

Maybe this is because the more devils are too anxious, or maybe they are singing triumphant songs all the way, so they didn't expect that there would be another team waiting for them.

Some people may say, won't the death of the dozen or so Vietnamese soldiers before give them a wake-up call? But there is still a communication problem here, the Vietnamese army just now is afraid that they are directly in contact with the artillery, not to mention that the Vietnamese soldier with the walkie-talkie on his back also died under my gun, so even if they want to remind them, they can't get in touch.

In this day and age, it is of course very dangerous to charge in a dense formation, because not only will it be bombarded by enemy artillery, but the fire coverage of rifles will be equally terrible.

Dozens of people on our high ground had dozens of guns, and they were either AK or machine guns, and the bullets were like rain falling from the top to the bottom, left and right, and the bullets were rushing towards the Vietnamese troops...... In an instant, a large number of Vietnamese troops rushing in front were knocked down.

The Vietnamese army that followed them soon discovered that we were on the high ground, and at the same time realized that our high ground was the key to victory in this war, so they organized their troops to rush at us without saying a word...... (To be continued......)