The battle finally began at half past four the next evening.

I also had a heated argument with Commander Huang and several military staff officers about the start of the war.

Many people think that it is more appropriate to start the meeting in the middle of the night, because it is completely dark at this time, and it is the time when the Vietnamese army is resting and sleeping, and it is easier to catch the Vietnamese army by surprise at this time.

But my view is not like this, on the one hand, I know that life on the highlands is often reversed, especially the two highlands of 481 and 544...... These two heights were natural hazards and commanding heights for the Vietnamese army, and they only needed to arrange a few artillery observers to observe with high-powered binoculars from the hilltop position during the day...... A 20-kilometer radius is within their observation range.

So...... There is no doubt that the day is the time for them to rest, and the night requires full attention to be on guard against a sneak attack by our troops.

Of course, this was only for the Vietnamese troops on the two heights of 481 and 544, as for the garrisons of the 518.6 heights and Tong Mian ...... I believe that their work and rest time is still normal, after all, there are two natural dangers ahead, and if the enemy hits, they will have reaction time anyway.

On the other hand, I also know that the Vietnamese army is extremely short of supplies...... At this time, our country was already in a state of material scarcity, but Vietnam was even poorer than us, and it was a little unimaginably poor, which can be seen from our previous situation against the 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army in Yunnan...... Their weapons and equipment are indeed good, but most of them were given by China and the current Soviet Union, but in terms of life...... Even the ace division went to the battlefield and was reluctant to wear even shoes.

In this case. The regular life of Vietnamese troops on the front line was to eat two meals a day. Rice is usually eaten...... It's also a blessing for us. You can also eat rice on the battlefield. But in fact, after some contact with the Yue devils, I knew it...... The more devils have no choice but to do so, because they don't even have compressed biscuits and canned food, which are very suitable for carrying...... Once you start a war, you can't always bring rice or rice, you don't have time to cook with rice, and it will become moldy and spoiled within a few hours of carrying rice.

Therefore, they are not actually a luxury, but to save and keep compressed biscuits and cans, and wait until the time of war to send them to the soldiers with bullets. In this way, the troops will be able to maintain their combat effectiveness for a longer period of time.

It is no wonder that on the 581 heights before, the Vietnamese army would do everything possible to exchange homemade jewelry for compressed biscuits and canned food in our hands...... These are things that we are tired of eating for a long time and want to vomit...... For them, it is a rare combat reserve.

So I know very well that the Vietnamese army has to cook, and this cooking time is almost four o'clock. At this time, it is almost the time for the front-line Vietnamese soldiers to get up after resting, they have to eat a meal, and then rely on the energy of this meal to fight for a whole shift, and then eat another meal at dawn the next day......

So I thought...... If our army starts fighting at half past four in the afternoon, that is, the cooking time of the Vietnamese army...... Do the Vietnamese army still have time to cook and eat? And then if the battle is fought until dawn the next day...... At that time, the Vietnamese army should have not eaten for 24 hours!

Besides, the fight starts at half past four. It was getting darker and darker, and we had to wait for a few hours before we started anyway...... At that time, the weather should also be suitable for our army to intersperse.

So the time for the start of the war was set. It's four o'clock in the evening!

The first to fire were two artillery battalions in the direction of Banwang...... The two artillery battalions, one on the left and one on the right, slammed a bunch of shells at the two heights of 481 and 544 for a total of half an hour...... Of course, the Vietnamese artillery soon began to suppress our artillery fire...... The advantage of the Vietnamese occupation of two commanding heights is here, and the artillery observers located on them can quickly calculate the artillery positions of our troops from the light of fire and smoke.

However, this played into the hands of our artillery...... Because the artillery of our army in the Banwang area is not two artillery battalions on the left and one on the right, but two artillery regiments on the left and one on the right!

As soon as the Vietnamese army opened fire, it meant that the artillery positions of the Vietnamese army were also exposed, so the artillery roared loudly in an instant...... Other artillery lurking and immobile soon fired patches of shells at the Vietnamese artillery positions...... Before the infantry battle began, the battle of wits and courage of the enemy and our artillery had already begun.

Then when it was about to get dark...... Two infantry regiments shouted loudly and rushed towards the 481 and 544 heights of the Vietnamese army!

The more devils look at it...... It is unbelievable, the first charge of the Chinese army used two infantry regiments, and the mountains are full of people, so there must be no two divisions in addition to the follow-up troops and reserves?!!

So the guns and cannons slammed down the hill one by one......

But actually...... The two infantry regiments of our army just bluffed, and when it was about to get dark, they launched a charge to let the Vietnamese army see the size of our army, and then they took advantage of the night to rush and retreat...... Only one or two companies actually rushed to the front to shoot and artillery, and this one or two companies were scattered and occupied a large area.

The purpose of this was to reduce casualties and to give the Vietnamese army the illusion that there was a large force attacking in front of them.

So it was a matter of course...... The Vietnamese army will think that Banwang is the main direction of attack of our army.

I think that at this time, the Vietnamese troops stationed in Banwang had already begun to ask for help from Lu Binh...... Although they had boasted about Haikou before, saying that this Banwang was an impenetrable defense line, when the artillery was suppressed and they thought they would face "two divisions...... This will inevitably cause hair in the heart.

At this time, I thought that the headquarters of the 320th Division in Luping would be wondering: "What the hell is the Chinese army doing?" Do you really want to use the corpse to pile up this Banwang? You must know that Banwang is stationed with a regiment of the 320th Division, plus a geographical advantage...... Even if the Chinese army has an advantage in artillery fire, it will have to pay heavy casualties in order to capture Banwang! ”

But in the end...... They will still decide to send troops to reinforce Banwang, not only because of its military value, but also because of the propaganda and political significance of the only area that penetrates 4 kilometers into the Chinese defenses.

Thereupon...... I received a telegram from the military department: "Everything is normal! ”

This is my code for haode with Commander Huang, and when I say "everything is normal", it means that Luping has sent reinforcements to Banwang.

As for how our army knows this...... The Vietnamese army has planted spies and spies in our country, and of course our army will also plant spies in Vietnam, and this means is necessary...... And it doesn't seem to be very difficult, first of all, there are many Chinese stranded in Vietnam, and secondly, many Chinese have lived in Vietnam for decades and then were driven back by Vietnam, again...... There are also many border people who cannot tell whether they are Vietnamese or Chinese.

It's easy to get a few spies or spies out of these people, and they don't seem to need to do any dangerous things...... All you need to do is hide in the jungle on the side of the road and observe if there are Vietnamese troops passing by.

All right! This is Jihua's first step, so that the Vietnamese army thinks that Banwang is the main direction of attack of our army, and consumes as much ammunition as possible of the Vietnamese army on the 481 and 544 heights.

It is clear that the first step of the strategic objective has been achieved...... So the battle for Aidian soon began.

The momentum of the fight on Aidian's side is much greater than that of Banwang...... The two artillery regiments deployed on this side, together with the mortars attached to the infantry, fired indiscriminately at the Vietnamese line on the opposite side almost at the same time......

The deafening sound of artillery rang out for half an hour, and only the Vietnamese army was in the direction of a fire, and the whole thing seemed to be caught in a sea of fire...... Then the artillery fire extended further, and a regiment of infantry rushed towards the Vietnamese positions with shouts of artillery fire......

In this place of Aidian, because our army has always occupied Qingcaoling...... That is, the 540 highland, which can clearly observe most of the opposite section of the road...... This also means that our army can easily block the logistics supply line of the Vietnamese army with artillery fire, but on the contrary, the supply line of our army does not have too much danger...... At this time, our army attacked it with two artillery regiments and an infantry regiment, and it was like destroying the withering and pulling the match in three or two blows.

Of course, some of these Vietnamese troops hid in tunnels or caves and could not be found for the time being, but this did not stop the pace of our army's advance...... For those Vietnamese troops in the caves, they only need to casually leave a company and block it with firepower, and then use flamethrowers to burn them one by one.

Then the artillery fire was quickly directed at Luping, a few kilometers away (in a straight line), and the infantry also strode towards Luping under the cover of tanks...... Aidian is only thirteen kilometers away from Luping, and because the Vietnamese army is insufficient, they put most of their troops on the border, and even the militia of Luping Gong'an Tun has been put in the Banwang area, so the garrison of Luping only has two battalions of the 320th Division that are training mechanized infantry......

So ...... I think the commander of the Vietnamese army must have been surprised: "It turns out that the target of the Chinese army is not Banwang, but Luping!" This move is to strike the east and the west! ”

Then another phone call was made to Banwang, and the Banwang garrison was asked to carefully observe the offensive situation of the Chinese army...... Sure enough, it's a bluff!

So I didn't need to think about it too much, and immediately pulled back the reinforcements sent to Banwang, and not only that, but also made a battalion of mechanized infantry in Banwang ready for reinforcements......

So I received another telegram from Commander Huang: "Two cuts are normal! (To be continued......)