Chapter 188: Crisis
"Kill!" With a loud roar from the soldiers of the Seventh Company, the Seventh Company soon rushed to the 1019 Heights.
Because the Vietnamese army did not expect that there would be so many Chinese soldiers lurking in front of their positions, nor did they expect that the Chinese army would suddenly launch a charge on the 1019 heights...... The 7th Company's latent position was only 130 meters away from the nearest Vietnamese position, and it only took more than a minute for the 7th Company to rush into the Vietnamese defense line under the full sprint of the 7th Company.
In the past minute or so, those Vietnamese soldiers who had slept in the cat's ear hole or in the tent had just experienced a round of artillery bombardment by our army, and before they could react to what was going on, they suddenly found that the Chinese soldiers had come out of nowhere.
Their first reaction was, of course, to grab their guns and organize defenses, but where would the soldiers of the Seventh Company give them this opportunity, and after throwing a volley of grenades, the two sides quickly started hand-to-hand combat.
Needless to say, the battle ended after ten minutes, and the Vietnamese army knew that it was impossible to hold the 1019 heights in this situation, so they left dozens of corpses and retreated to another hill on the 1019 heights, and the 7th Company only paid the price of five casualties to take the 1019 heights.
"Battalion Commander Yang!" I soon received a call from Division Commander Jiang, and his tone on the phone was not much excitement, but with a little worry: "The 1019 Heights have been taken, but the ammunition depot on the Heights was detonated in time by the Yue Devils!" ”
"Oh!" This is unexpected, but at the same time it is expected.
It is said that it was unexpected because we gave the Vietnamese army very little time to react to this attack, and it was only ten minutes from the beginning to the end of the battle. It can even be said that it is faster than a well-planned special operation. Such a fast speed still can't take the ammunition depot on the 1019 heights. It's a bit surprising.
It is expected because of ...... Now that the war has been fought, the Vietnamese army is afraid that they will know that our next step is to fight the Bali River Dongshan, so of course they will also be prepared.
What's more, for the 1019 highland attacked by the Seventh Company, the altitude of this highland is more than 1,000 meters, and it also takes more than ten hours to go up the mountain, which is difficult to supply, so the importance of the ammunition depot is self-evident, and the Vietnamese army will not leave the ammunition depot to our army even if it is the last man.
And that's exactly what I guessed. The Vietnamese troops in the east mountain of the Bali River consciously transferred their ammunition backwards from the day our army took Lao Mountain.
The purpose was obvious, it was unwilling to make the same mistake on the Laoshan line, and after the position was taken by the Chinese soldiers, many ammunition fell into the hands of the Chinese soldiers because it was too late to destroy.
When it comes to destroying ammunition, it seems very simple to say, but it is not simple at all.
The main reason is that these ammunition are so precious that each box has to be carried by manpower for more than ten hours to reach the position, of course, the Vietnamese army will have a shorter time to carry due to the mountain road.
Therefore, the Vietnamese army will not blow up the ammunition depot until the last moment...... Bombing too early is asking for trouble, and resisting the attack of the Chinese army also requires a lot of ammunition, and blowing up the ammunition depot yourself is tantamount to asking for trouble.
To put it simply. It is precisely this time that is difficult to grasp, so it will be the situation that the ammunition depot of the Vietnamese army will be captured by our army during the reconquest of Lao Son.
In this way, the Vietnamese army on the east side of the Bali River will learn to be obedient. In response, they took two steps:
One is to divide the ammunition into several parts and move them back in layers.
The advantage of this is obvious: once the front line cannot withstand the attack of the Chinese army, even if there is no time to bomb the arsenal, the ammunition that falls into the hands of the enemy is very limited. If you don't have enough ammunition on the first line, you can put some effort into transporting it. Moreover, at any time and place, the Vietnamese army will have corresponding ammunition depots to quickly replenish it when it retreats.
Another measure is to have a dedicated person responsible for detonating the ammunition depot.
These "special people" don't even need to go to the battlefield, they stay with the ammunition depot all the time, and when they retreat, they are the last to retreat, and they may not even be withdrawn...... Withdrawal must also be done only after the ammunition depot has been guaranteed to be blown up.
It is precisely because of this that although the battle of the Seventh Company was fought cleanly and beautifully, it still failed to take the ammunition depot.
As a result, the Seventh Company will soon face a serious problem: they are a hidden force, and they do not have much ammunition with them, and now they are stationed on high ground at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters above sea level, and they will undoubtedly face the dilemma of running out of ammunition and food soon.
"What does the division commander mean ......" I thought about it and said, "Is it for the helicopters of the synthetic battalion to transport supplies for the seventh company?" ”
"Yes!" Division Commander Jiang replied: "You also know, the supply pressure in the direction of Laoshan and Songmaoling is also very large, we have no manpower to open up another supply line, and the geographical location of the 1019 Heights is very important, on the other hand, we still need a few days to complete the offensive preparations for the attack on Balihe Dongshan, so we asked the Seventh Frontier Company to hold the 1019 Heights for a few days!" And this is obviously impossible to do without supplies, is there a problem? ”
"No problem!" I replied.
What else can I say at this point? It is obvious that the refusal of this task means that the life and death of the Seventh Frontier Defense Company are disregarded.
But if there is no problem at all, then not necessarily.
First of all, of course, it is too dangerous to use helicopters to transport supplies, and it is okay to transport them once or twice, but the first few times the Vietnamese army has no way to take helicopters without preparation. However, the number of times is too long, and our army only occupies one of the highlands on the first line of the East Mountain of the Bali River, which means that there is only one direction for the helicopter to fly, so it is very likely that the Vietnamese army will wait on the flight path of our army with anti-aircraft machine guns and other weapons.
On the other hand, I also think it's a bit inappropriate. The reason is that the mission of our synthetic battalion is to protect the artillery sighting radar, and now it has been repeatedly involved in this battle, if there are a few helicopters missing, can we still effectively protect the artillery targeting radar according to the original plan?
Eventually, though, I was able to get through to the Agent Company.
"Is there a problem with using helicopters to deliver supplies to the 1019 Heights?" I asked.
"Battalion commander!" Scar replied, "I was just going to report to you!" ”
"What's the situation?"
"Remember what we said earlier about planting plainclothes police among the people?" Scar replied.
"Hmm, they have news?" I couldn't help but frown.
"Yes!" Scar replied, "We received a message that several suspicious people secretly went into the jungle with a basket of food on their backs, because considering that these plainclothes police officers are not trained to follow the jungle, I didn't let them follow!" ”
"Hmm!" I nodded.
Of course, Scar's approach is correct, you must know that those plainclothes police are police, even if we don't think about their lives, this follow-up jungle is very likely to be discovered by Vietnamese army agents and startled.
But at this time, I didn't pay much attention to this matter, the Vietnamese army agents, there are many people along the border, especially when this battle starts, in order to obtain more military intelligence, both sides will send agents to infiltrate the enemy's territory.
At the same time, my thinking at this time was that if this part of the Vietnamese army agents was large, then they should have taken action when our army regained Lao Son, so even if there were Vietnamese army agents, it would only be a small group of agents.
Later, I realized that I was too underestimated.
"What are you going to do!" I asked Scar.
"I'm going to go down the vine!" Scar replied, "Send a few people to follow you secretly first, see the situation and then make the next decision!" ”
"Hmm!" I nodded and said, "One qiē should be careful, and the other is ...... For the problem of transporting supplies to the 1019 Highlands, you can also arrange it! ”
"Yes!" Scar answered.
After discussing it with Scar in detail, we decided that the ammunition to be delivered to the Seventh Company should be in place at one time. The reason is as mentioned before, the route of the helicopter to the 1019 heights is too simple, and it is very likely that it will be ambushed by the Vietnamese army a few times, but the first time it was unexpected by the Vietnamese army, so it was the safest.
Moreover, the sooner the time of this transport operation, the better, because it will not be long before the soldiers of the 7th Company will be short of ammunition, and if it is too late, I am afraid that it will be too late.
As we thought, the Vietnamese army quickly gathered two companies of troops to launch a tentative attack on the 1019 heights. The purpose of this offensive was obvious, which was to consume the ammunition of the seventh company.
At this time, we had only one way, that is, to try to block the attack of the Vietnamese army with the artillery of the artillery battalion, and at the same time to complete the delivery of supplies to the seventh company as much as possible.
The time was set for the early hours of the next day...... Although the Zhiwu is equipped with equipment for night flight, it is still quite dangerous to fly at night in the jungle, so the best option is to do it during the day. Considering that the vigilance of the Vietnamese army was low during the early hours of the morning, the time was finally chosen in the early morning.
I didn't really care too much about this mission, because at this time I had been focusing on how to cover the 7th Company with artillery fire...... Now the Vietnamese army is taking a cautious approach, and they have changed their previous offensive methods and advanced towards the 1019 heights in the form of cover and dispersion.
To put it simply, this method is a bit similar to the lurking method when the Seventh Company took the 1019 Heights, that is, using the cover of the grass to sneak into the front of the 1019 Heights and build fortifications, so the front of the position seems to have no enemies at a glance, but it seems that there are enemies everywhere, as long as one is not careful, there will be groups of Vietnamese troops attacking the heights.
This also makes it difficult for our artillery to play its role...... I don't know where the enemy is hiding, and if you want to cover it with shells, you will waste a lot of shells and get only a small result.
What I didn't realize was that there was already a bigger crisis looming around us...... (To be continued......)