Smoke filled the air, and bullets flew everywhere.

No sooner had the long-range artillery bombardment stopped than the sound of gunfire and the rumble of tank motors followed...... At this time, fifteen tanks of our army had already lined up in a triangular formation, and like an arrow, they rushed towards the Tongmian Commune at the foot of the 518.6 highland mountain.

Tongmian Commune originally belonged to Ningming County, China, where more than 100 border families originally lived, but they had to move away because of the Vietnamese army's attack on the Banwang area during the counterattack war.

And it is very coincidental that most of the houses in Tongmian Commune are exactly on the anticline of the 518.6 highland...... In fact, it is not a coincidence that the highlands in this area are all in the direction of Vietnam, which is relatively gentle and the direction of China is steep, so the suitable place to live is of course the direction of Vietnam.

Herein lies the benefits of anticline...... Most of the shells fired from the Chinese direction will be blocked by the 518.6 heights and cannot threaten Tong Mian, so Tong Mian has become a natural haven for the Vietnamese army, and the units replaced by the Vietnamese army, the cooking squad and even the headquarters of the 5th Infantry Regiment are located here.

As we can see now, the small open field in front of Tongmian Commune has been bombed and riddled everywhere, but the houses in the night are as good as ever, except for a few that seem to have collapsed by shells.

But...... This does not affect our attack on Tongmian, because the current Tongmian is already a positive slope for us instead of an anti-slope!

In fact, this is the prelude to our offensive.

The purpose of our bombing of the open ground in front of Tongmian with artillery fire......

One is to cover the advance of the tank...... If there were any mines or anti-tank mines, or even anti-tank trenches, in this open field, they would be almost gone.

The second is to drive all the stragglers of the Vietnamese army to Tongmian to concentrate...... This devil is very ghostly. They all have experience in fighting. And we all know that tung cotton is a dead end for the Chinese army. Therefore, as soon as there is a cannon sound, it will run towards Tongmian like a conditioned reflex......

In fact, what our tank troops are most afraid of is that the enemy's forces are scattered, especially now that it is still in the dark, and our army is not familiar with the terrain, so the Vietnamese army only needs to disperse and hide somewhere, and then carry a rocket launcher on its back to shoot a few shots at our tanks...... Our fifteen tanks can't stand it.

But now, after a burst of shelling, we basically don't have to worry about the Vietnamese army in other places, so we just concentrate our firepower on Tongmian and hit it hard!

"Put!" As soon as I gave the order, the mortar company, which had already prepared in the rear, fired rows of shells at Tongmian.

The mortar company used the 10 minutes of the shelling just now to build a simple mortar position with the help of an engineer bulldozer...... Heavy mortars have a range of five or six kilometers. There was no need to arrive to build a position in Tongmian, so at the beginning of the shelling, they found a position under the cover of the engineer company and an infantry squad to start building a position, so they only had ten minutes.

It is said to be simple here, because this position is nothing more than a dirt ditch pushed out by bulldozing...... But the ditch was enough to provide the mortarmen with the necessary cover. Mortars are known to emit a flash of fire and a puff of smoke when a shell is fired...... If there were no fortifications to cover the work of a few mortars squatting on the flat ground, there was no doubt that they would be hit or suppressed by enemy fire.

But it would be much better to have a trench as cover for a trench, where the mortars and gunners hid in the trenches, and the shells hit curves, while the bullets fired by the enemy hit straight lines...... To put it simply, mortars will blow up the enemy. But the enemy could not hit the gunners hiding in the ditch.

So this time Tongmian's house was no longer spared, with a burst of fire and explosions. In the direction of Tongmian, there was a sound of building collapse and screams!

But this is not the end, but only the beginning...... It's night, and the night combat ability in 59 is very poor, that is, the night vision device is not good...... However, no matter how difficult the night vision goggles are, they can still see the fire that explodes, and each tank is followed by infantry to indicate its direction and target...... So the tanks also found their target, and more than a dozen tanks turned their muzzles, and then fired a salvo......

"Boom ......" Tong Mian soon burst into a more violent fire.

This tank gun is a little different from a mortar...... Although the caliber of the tank guns in 59 is only 100 mm, and the heavy mortars of our army even have a caliber of 120 mm. However, compared with mortars, tank guns have a large charge and muzzle velocity......

Needless to say, the greater the power of the explosion, and the greater the muzzle velocity means that the energy released when it hits the target is also greater...... It's like the same car driving fast and hitting someone is not the same as driving slow and hitting someone.

Most of the houses in Natongmian are earthen walls and tile roofs, where can they withstand such a blow...... So after a few pieces of mortar and tank artillery shelling, the whole thing fell apart in front of us like a toy. At this time, the resistance of the Vietnamese army was negligible, even negligible......

But that's not surprising...... Although these buildings have been converted into firing points by the Vietnamese army, most of these firing points are oriented towards the north, that is, in the direction of the Chinese defense line...... Then we suddenly appeared behind them, and the room either didn't have a suitable perforation, or the equipment was bombed into the sky before it could be moved.

As for the Vietnamese army on the 518.6 heights...... They do have a condescending advantage over our army, but helplessly, their defense line is also facing north...... For them, it was not enough to turn the muzzle of the gun in one direction, because their line of defense was facing north, so most of the tunnels and caves with firing points were gathered near the hilltop position...... Only here can we defeat the Chinese army rushing up from the north!

Even if they turn their guns around...... It is also thousands of meters away from the tung cotton at the foot of the mountain, and it is still in the dark night. So they could only watch as the tung cotton behind them was blown to pieces, and even at this time there were many Vietnamese soldiers who didn't know what was going on.

Seeing that this tung cotton was almost fried, I ordered into the walkie-talkie: "Forward!" ”

So the steel torrent of tanks pounced on Tongmian like a roaring beast, followed by groups of infantry heavily armed and armed with guns...... The already bombed-out buildings could not withstand the crushing and ramming of the tanks, and soon turned into piles of rubble with a muffled sound.

However, I have to admit that the fighting spirit of the Vietnamese army is still very commendable...... Even in this situation, knowing that it was impossible to win, they crawled out of the rubble one by one to do zuihou resistance.

Since at this time, the vast majority of Tongmian were not combat troops...... A mechanized infantry battalion has already supported Luping, and the remaining combat strength is all some cooking soldiers, orderlies, guard companies, etc., plus many people were buried under the rubble by a burst of artillery bombardment, so they have very few bazookas, and most of them are rushing towards our tanks with explosive packs, cluster grenades, etc......

But such resistance is clearly pointless...... If our tanks had not been covered by infantry, they might have succeeded, but the problem is that we have ...... Not only are there many more, but there are also many of them, and they are all infantry who have been trained to know how to cover tanks!

As a result, the resistance of the Vietnamese army soon turned into a struggle of zuihou, and the spirit of heroic fighting was only screaming and groaning under the frantic fire of our soldiers' submachine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns...... In front of me and the fighters was the most negative teaching material of the "spiritual supremacy" theory.

At this time, the Vietnamese troops on the 518.6 high ground reacted and fired a few flares at Tong Mian...... The illuminated battlefield couldn't help but startle everyone, not only the Vietnamese army, but also those of us who were on the battlefield...... I couldn't see the whole battlefield because of the darkness just now, but now I can take a look at it in the light of the flares...... The village that was still there just now had been bulldozed as if it had been wiped by a big hand, and there were broken walls and corpses of Vietnamese soldiers everywhere, and occasionally a few Vietnamese soldiers who were not dead were still crawling and struggling on the ground...... But soon it was turned into a hornet's nest with a burst of gunfire......

This is my order before the start of the war, that no prisoners be taken...... We are an intertwined force, and the presence of captives will only cause us chaos or more potential danger, so there is no doubt about that.

At this time, I suddenly saw several fighters bending over and throwing up...... Then I remembered that this was the first time that the soldiers of the company participated in actual combat, and it was also the first time they had killed someone!

Maybe they couldn't see in the darkness just now, or maybe they forgot their nausea because of the tension of the battle...... Now the whole battlefield suddenly appeared in front of them under the action of flares, so they could no longer hold back the flurry of stomachs.

However, not all recruits are in this way...... People have different personalities and react differently to the battlefield, and some people even get excited about killing...... Such a person is a perverted killer in peace shijie, and he may be a hero on the battlefield.

Of course, such people are still a minority after all, and the vast majority of the soldiers of the first company are still shocked by the scene in front of them, and even if they don't spit it out on the spot, their faces are pale and full of horror.

However, the previous training has made them understand one thing: the battle is not over, the fiercer and more brutal battle is yet to come, and this is not the time to release the fear in their hearts! (To be continued......)