Chapter V: Capture of Prisoners (3)

After all, the reconnaissance brigade is a battalion establishment, and each platoon participates in the capture of prisoners once or twice, and there are dozens of times.

Of course, it is impossible for all of these captures to be concentrated in the Lao Son area...... Although the defensive line around Lao Son was not short, after our army launched several capturing operations against it, the Vietnamese army increased its vigilance and strengthened its vigilance.

On one occasion, the Vietnamese army set a trap specifically for our prisoners, that is, they deliberately arranged a sentry that looked easy to be captured, and secretly arranged several more secret posts around this sentry.

Even I believe that there are many similar traps on the front line of the Vietnamese army during this time, and this is because the Vietnamese army is not sure which target our army will choose to start, so they simply come to "cast a wide net", anyway, this arrangement does not require many manpower, and it is only a matter of spending more time.

From this point of view, the battlefield is actually a constant interpretation of "the road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high", after all, both sides pay their own lives, so they will always do their best to meet each other's moves.

Of course, this arrangement of the Vietnamese army was very effective, because at this time, the capture group of our reconnaissance brigade was quickly attracted by the sentinels placed in the open place by the Vietnamese army...... In fact, this is also a kind of arrogance caused by the success of the reconnaissance brigade in several successive captures, so it did not realize that the Vietnamese army actually had other arrangements.

Needless to say, this was the first failed capture of the reconnaissance brigade.

Fortunately, at the last moment, the sentinel of the Vietnamese army as a decoy was abnormal...... According to Wang Yunhai, the commander of the fifth platoon who commanded the capture, it was when they secretly approached the Vietnamese sentry. It was found that the eyes of the Vietnamese sentries always drifted to their location, intentionally or unintentionally. And the movements suddenly become unnatural.

This aroused Wang Yunhai's suspicions. Because it is obvious that this Vietnamese sentry has noticed that something is wrong, according to common sense, as a sentry, if he finds something wrong, then he should inspect and confirm it, and this Vietnamese sentry not only did not do this, but pretended not to see it...... Isn't this a joke with your own life and the fate of your troops?!

So there's only one explanation that makes sense...... This is a trap laid by the Vietnamese army, and this Vietnamese sentry is not joking with his own life, but using his own life as a bait to lure the reconnaissance team forward.

From this point, we can also see how crazy the Vietnamese army is, and they will use their own soldiers as bait.

It's just a pity. Although this Vietnamese sentry has commendable courage, his acting skills are not good enough...... In fact, he can't be blamed for this, no one can remain calm and natural as usual when he knows that there are enemies sneaking towards him in the dark and that he may kill himself at any time.

Thinking of this, Wang Yunhai immediately made a decision, and immediately issued a code to cancel the retreat of the whole army.

The Vietnamese outposts quickly noticed this, and immediately two platoons of Vietnamese troops chased them in the direction of our retreat while firing guns, and another platoon penetrated the retreat of our capture group from the flank in an attempt to encircle our troops.

At this time, the receiving group reacted in time, and they provided fire cover for the retreat of the capture group at the first time, and then laid a large number of mines in the rear of our troops as quickly as possible...... Of course, this mine did not dig any more holes. It's just a matter of activating the mine and putting it in the grass.

These are the results of Chen Qiaoqiao's training, and they have been practiced again and again. So the warriors are very familiar with this, even in the dark.

The Vietnamese army obviously did not expect that our army would also use this kind of trick that should have been an emergency for Vietnamese agents, and one accidentally hit a mine twice in succession, which slowed down the pursuit time. The speed of the Vietnamese army was so slow, and our capture and reception team quickly separated from the Vietnamese army and entered the cover range of the fire group...... This point is quite important, if the enemy and the enemy do not break away, the fire team will not be able to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy in this dark night, and will not be able to provide fire cover for our troops.

So in the end, our army successfully escaped from the trap of the Vietnamese army, but paid the price of one death and two injuries in the process.

I don't want to criticize them for what they did wrong, after all, the price of one death and two injuries is heavy enough for them, so I simply said to Xu Liangbin: "Pay attention to summing up experience, don't make the same mistake next time!" ”

Xu Liangbin was surprised by this, and when he recalled this incident afterwards, he sighed: At that time, he actually hoped that I would scold him and even punish him severely, which would make him feel better. But I just said such an understatement, but it made him panic.

What he didn't know was that I actually wanted this effect, because only in this way could he remember it more closely, and he could seriously summarize why he failed, where it was or how to avoid it.

In fact, it was the soldiers of the entire reconnaissance brigade who learned from the pain, after all, this was the first time that the reconnaissance brigade had suffered such a big blow since its formation.

The result was that the capture points were too dense for the enemy to be prepared for.

When I heard this answer, I was deeply gratified, because it means that the fighters of the reconnaissance brigade are quite mature in their thinking.

The reason why I say this is because under normal circumstances, our army and the Vietnamese army are still very similar psychologically...... This may be because Vietnam and China belong to the same system, or because the Vietnamese army was trained by our army, so they are very similar in terms of combat style and so on.

The psychological similarity shows that Xiàn does not admit defeat, and where he falls, he will naturally hope to get up there. The most typical example of the Vietnamese army in this regard is the July 12 Campaign, they knew that our army had artillery sighting radar, and no matter what plan they made in this situation, it would be very dangerous, but they were still not convinced, and the result was at the cost of thousands of casualties.

In fact, our soldiers also have such problems...... To be precise, this is not a problem in many cases, because a unit wants to maintain a tenacious fighting style. It is necessary to have this kind of stubbornness that does not admit defeat.

But it is said that "too much". There must be a degree to everything. This is what we Chinese call the "golden mean".

The same is true of "not admitting defeat", if this kind of stubbornness is just right, then it can be continuous transcendence and continuous progress. But if it passes, it is obsessed and does not know how to be flexible.

In this respect, Chinese culture is really broad and profound, and has a long history......

To put it simply, if the battle was defeated in the Laoshan area according to the thinking of ordinary troops, then the post-war summary is likely to summarize various reasons, such as insufficient planning, insufficient coordination, insufficient preparation, and so on. The final result is to continue to trouble the devils in the Laoshan area, and if you don't gnaw a few pieces of this hard bone, you won't be a hero.

The result of this is that the Vietnamese army in the Lao Son area is already on guard, and even if we are well-organized and can occasionally succeed a few times, it will inevitably have to pay a very high price...... After all, both sides are human beings, the more devils are not fools, and we are not immortals.

If we think about it in a different way, our strategic purpose is to capture prisoners, not to fight with the Vietnamese devils, then the situation suddenly becomes clear.

Just like the conclusion that the reconnaissance brigade finally came to the conclusion: the capture points were too dense.

The meaning of the words. It is to disperse to other places to carry out capturing operations.

Of course, this is correct, and you must know that the Sino-Vietnamese border is nearly 1,500 kilometers. The old mountain is just one of those points. In such a long defensive line, the Vietnamese troops in the Lao Son area are on guard, which does not mean that the Vietnamese troops in other places are also on guard. Even if the Vietnamese troops on the entire defense line were to get the news, it would be impossible for such a long line of defense to be free of holes in every place.

Second, if we disperse the capture points, it will make the Vietnamese soldiers in the entire defense line panic, and they will not be able to defend this side if they are guarded against that side, and they will lose this side after they are defended, which will put a kind of psychological pressure on the Vietnamese army.

This is what we said earlier about "there is no line of defense that cannot be impenetrated", and it is precisely this tactical thinking that the Vietnamese army agents used in the special operation against us.

So I didn't say anything, I immediately agreed with this, and asked Xu Liangbin to formulate a corresponding plan under this tactical thinking.

The plan came out quickly, in fact, it was not complicated at all, it was just a change of capture points on the fly, and even Xu Liangbin dispersed the reconnaissance team to use it. That is, in the past, the reconnaissance brigade of one battalion was concentrated in the area of Laoshan, but now it is divided into several parts as a platoon and scattered on the entire front to look for fighters.

In this way, it was really like what I thought before, and the people of the Vietnamese defense line were panicked and exhausted to deal with it.

What's even more interesting is that Xu Liangbin has never given up the battlefield in this area of Laoshan...... As I said before, as a member of our soldiers, he actually still has the idea of "getting up from where he falls", but reason makes him temporarily press this thought into his heart.

But he actually kept a hand in secret, that is, he arranged two scouts to secretly observe and pay attention to the defense of the Vietnamese army in the Lao Son area.

Just as he had hoped, after a long time, there were also captures in various parts of the defense line, which made the Vietnamese troops in the Lao Son area think that the Chinese soldiers had moved the prisoners to other directions, so they relaxed their vigilance.

And at this moment, Xu Liangbin summoned the reconnaissance brigade again and turned around and dealt a severe blow to the Vietnamese army...... That night, Xu Liangbin actually sent five capture teams at the same time, and successfully captured four Vietnamese prisoners, only four of whom were captured because another group was too heavy to kill the prisoners.

It can also be said that the reconnaissance brigade has taken a ruthless breath of anger, but the Vietnamese army is helpless at this fickle tactic of the reconnaissance brigade.

In this regard, Division Commander Jiang specially called me, and he laughed on the phone: "It's still that your synthetic battalion has the ability, even if we fought a big battle before, we didn't catch a few prisoners...... When you come, our prisoner camp will not be enough. ”

I believe this, I am also a person who has fought with the Vietnamese devils on the battlefield, and I know that I have to capture Vietnamese prisoners on the battlefield...... Unless they were seriously injured and passed out or were forcibly pressed by a few of us and couldn't move.

"Did these captives provide any valuable information?" I asked.

"This ...... Not really! Master Jiang replied a little helplessly: "You also know, the devils are very hard, and they don't want to say anything." Remember a Vietnamese female communications soldier you caught last week? ”

"Yes." I replied.

It was an accident that this female communications soldier was captured by our army, and that time Xu Liangbin tried to penetrate into the depths of the Vietnamese army to carry out an operation, after all, the capture operation has been going on for a while, and it has also reached the third stage, which is the time to go deep into the enemy's territory to carry out some relatively simple tasks.

Originally, Xu Liangbin was not asked to do anything this time, but just asked them to pretend to be Vietnamese devils and go deep into the border to see if they could deceive the Vietnamese army or the Vietnamese people, and at the same time, it was also to test the results of the reconnaissance brigade's "camouflage training" during this period.

As a result, on the way back, I found several Vietnamese signal soldiers sending telegrams in the grass, and these signal soldiers were all women.

As I said before, the Vietnamese army suffered heavy losses in the 7.12 battle because of insufficient troops, so many Vietnamese troops who were not familiar with the terrain of Lao Shan were replenished, so there was such a scene...... Several Vietnamese army female correspondents used the radio to contact the troops in the bushes.

As soon as they saw Xu Liangbin and the others coming, they greeted them as if they had met a savior and asked for directions.

This made Xu Liangbin and others very difficult:

First of all, because Xu Liangbin and others don't want to kill women...... It's one thing to make up your mind before the war, it's another thing to really face women, the Chinese soldiers are not the same as the Vietnamese soldiers, we don't like them who grew up in decades of war, so they will naturally be soft-hearted when facing the vulnerable.

The second is that Xu Liangbin's mission this time is not to kill people or capture prisoners.

Therefore, Xu Liangbin and his entourage had enough reasons not to do it, even if they knew that the signal corps often held many military secrets.

But why should these female communication soldiers be unlucky, one of them actually sensed that something was wrong...... Later, I learned that it was because the Vietnamese would not be so friendly to women in their speech and behavior, but Xu Liangbin and others almost treated these Vietnamese female soldiers as if they had met female soldiers in their own troops.

It's no wonder that they show their feet, you must know that in Vietnam, female soldiers fight during the day and sleep with officers at night, and we in China ...... The female soldier is a little red in the green bushes, all of them are protected by the male soldiers, this difference can be said to be a heaven and an underground, and it is strange that it does not show flaws. (To be continued......)