Although we were reluctant to face it, by 12 noon, all three bases of shells were fired.

According to the fighters of the artillery unit, from the beginning of the battle to the time when the shells ran out at noon, just one artillery regiment fired tens of thousands of shells, and the barrels of the guns were all red.

We've always wanted to save some shells along the way, and that's exactly what we do...... If it weren't for our conscious savings, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to stick to twelve o'clock.

As a matter of fact, most of the time our artillery units use artillery shells as a last resort, that is, as long as we do not fire the first-line positions, it is very likely to fall into the hands of the Vietnamese devils, which forces us to fight.

But as a result of such a fight, there are fewer and fewer shells.

Towards 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the density of artillery fire gradually decreased, and then changed to limited fire assistance to the front-line positions, and finally there was no sound at all...... The last shells were fired.

Facts also proved that these shells we fired were necessary, because at the moment when the sound of our artillery stopped, the Vietnamese army seized this opportunity to launch a fierce attack on our position, and in just half an hour, all the front-line positions of our army were lost except for the 142 heights.

This is not to say that our infantry did not fight bravely enough, and I don't know how many soldiers held their positions until the last moment in these half hours, or even died with the Vietnamese army with explosives bags.

But things are just as it was said before, because of the continuous offensive of the Vietnamese army that lasted for eight hours...... The Vietnamese army attacked our defense line with a force of 18,000 men in turn, and although most of these attacks were blocked by our artillery shells outside the fire wall, some Vietnamese devils were very lucky to rush into our defense line.

These Vietnamese troops will not be able to cause damage to our fortifications. In addition, the mines, barbed wire and roadblocks in front of the position were all covered with the corpses of Vietnamese soldiers. So the Vietnamese army was given good conditions for the charge.

Fight with the corpses of your comrades...... It may sound cruel. If you ask people in a peaceful society to talk about it, it is disrespectful to the dead. However, the battlefield is like this, and if the enemy is not defeated with the resources that can be used by one qiē, then it is very likely that more living people will be turned into corpses, and even the sacrifice of these warriors will become meaningless because they cannot take the enemy's position.

Therefore, the battlefield and the peaceful society are two completely different worlds, which refers not only to material life, but also to the way of thinking.

The Vietnamese army's use of corpses is still the old method, one is to use corpses as sandbags in dangerous places to pile up into machine gun forts...... The terrain around Laoshan is steep in the north and gentle in the south. That is to say, the terrain on this side of the Vietnamese army's charge is relatively gentle, with a slope of only 30 or 40 degrees, unlike the side where we charge has a slope of 60 degrees, so the Vietnamese army easily built fortifications with flesh and blood on the road they charged, and even used corpses to pile up a traffic trench in some places.

The other is to make a ready-made protective color out of a corpse...... There are corpses all over the ground, isn't it? As long as the charging Vietnamese army lay on the ground, no one knew which of these "meats" on the ground were dead and which were alive.

The Vietnamese army made full use of these two points and first launched a group charge against our army's position...... Rows of bullets were fired by our soldiers, and they saw the Yue devils fall in pieces like harvested rice, but in fact, many of these people fell on purpose.

This trick of the Vietnamese army is actually not new, our second company saw this set of the Vietnamese army in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in 79. Therefore, the soldiers on the front line of our army also know very well that many of these Vietnamese soldiers are "fake death...... After all, they also have experience in fighting the Yue devils. And the veterans also talked about it when they shared their experiences.

But even if you know, you can't do anything about these "fake death" devils, there are too many corpses in front of them. Unless they can blow up all the corpses with mortars, they will not be able to remove the "fake corpses" hidden inside.

Of course, it was impossible for the warriors to do this, and the shells on the high ground could be said to be more expensive than gold, so they had to let it go.

As a result, the Vietnamese army had an advantage in the next charge......

At this time, our soldiers had to face the enemy in two directions, one was the Vietnamese army charging towards the defense line under the cover of machine-gun fire. The other direction is the "fake corpse" that hides in the corpse and secretly shoots cold shots at our soldiers or throws grenades.

It should be said that this is invincible, and the Vietnamese army is still a master, at this time their frontal charge is completely regardless of casualties to attract the attention of our army as much as possible, and then when the battle is in the heat of the day, the "fake corpse" suddenly jumped up and threw the grenade into the trench of our army.

So it didn't take long for the news of the loss of the defensive positions of our army on the front line one by one.

To everyone's surprise, on the contrary, the 142 heights, which were found to be the most difficult to defend at first, were not taken by the Vietnamese army.

I soon realized that this was due to Huang Jianfu's tank company.

Sure enough, after a phone call was reached to the division headquarters, it was known that the tank unit was fighting with the Yue devils on the 142nd heights.

Huang Jianfu's tank company has now expanded to 20 tanks, and his method of playing is to divide these 20 tanks into four parts, with five tanks in each team.

Three of them are located on the left, center, and right of Heights 5 and 6 not far behind Heights 142, from which they can quickly reinforce the left and right flanks of Heights 142 from different directions, and the remaining part is used as a reserve.

The Vietnamese army did not expect that our army would put tank troops in this area, and in addition, the first batch of Vietnamese troops who rushed up were hidden troops within the Qingshui Kou, so they were not equipped with much heavy equipment or anti-tank weapons at all, so our tank troops had the opportunity to show their skills.

Moreover, Huang Jianfu's timing of putting the tank troops into battle was also just right...... From the very beginning, the 40th Infantry Division knew that there was a tank unit in the direction of the 142 Heights, so they asked Huang Jianfu to go to reinforcements several times when the 142 Heights were in danger, but Huang Jianfu did not hear it and remained still.

Until our artillery shells ran out and the Vietnamese army rushed to the 142 heights in pieces...... At this time, the surface position of the 142 heights had been lost, and the soldiers of our army on the 142 heights retreated into the tunnels to continue to hold on, and in order not to delay the opportunity for combat, the Vietnamese troops blocked the entrance of the tunnels of our army with firepower and turned the main force to the No. 5 and No. 6 positions behind the 142 heights.

According to Huang Jianfu, at least one battalion of Vietnamese troops had been assembled at Heights 142 at that time, and these Vietnamese troops were also actively preparing for the attack on Heights 5 and 6 by accumulating ammunition and building machine-gun positions on Heights 142.

At this moment, Huang Jianfu's tank unit moved.

Three tank units attacked at the same time, with the infantry of the 40th Division, inserted into the enemy positions from three directions straight towards the 142nd height...... Heights 5 and 6 were only a few hundred meters away from Heights 142, and the tank troops reached Heights 142 in just a few minutes, and ten minutes later occupied the nameless heights of the Vietnamese troops behind Heights 142, that is, they cut off the retreat of the Vietnamese troops near Heights 142 and formed an encirclement posture.

So a massacre unfolded near the 142 Heights.

A battalion of Vietnamese infantry was surrounded around Heights 142 and could not move, facing a steel defensive line of Chinese soldiers constructed by a combination of tanks and infantry. The Vietnamese army, which had just taken the 142 heights, did not have any fortifications, and they did not have suitable anti-Tan weapons...... Most of the rockets they carried were anti-infantry incendiary bombs, so they could only use the most primitive methods, that is, under the cover of machine gun fire, holding explosive packs and cluster grenades, to rush to our tanks.

But of course, our soldiers will not let them succeed lightly.

At this time, our army was not what it was like when it fought a counterattack war in 79, even if it was an ordinary unit such as the 40th division of Commander Jiang, there was also a subject of infantry coordination in peacetime training, so tanks and infantry complemented each other's strengths and weaknesses, and constituted an impenetrable great wall of steel in front of the Vietnamese army.

Later, when I asked Huang Jianfu why he endured until this time before making a move, Huang Jianfu replied like this: "The Yue devils have no artillery and no anti-tank equipment, so it is precisely when we have a large number of casualties and the enemy's vital forces." If you fight early and let the more devils prepare, isn't it cheaper to get more devils? ”

I only had a wry smile when I heard this, Huang Jianfu still lacks a long-term strategic vision, that is, the reason why he fights like this is not for anything else, but to be able to kill a few more devils to relieve hatred.

What he didn't know was that his approach had actually achieved another purpose: most of the 18,000 people that the Vietnamese army had invested in Qingshuikou at this time had actually been killed or wounded, so even if they were several times more numerous than us, they were still short of troops, and now they had been coldly annihilated a battalion on the 142nd Heights, and there was no way to organize more follow-up troops to invest in the 142nd Heights for a while.

And because the 142 heights were the outposts of the first line of Songmaoling, although the direct Vietnamese army took several highlands on the first line of Songmaoling, they could not get sufficient supplies and reinforcements in time and the defense was weak.

On the one hand, this made it impossible for the Vietnamese army to expand its gains, and on the other hand, it also laid a good foundation for our army's subsequent counteroffensive to achieve rapid victory.

I think that after knowing that there was a problem in the direction of the 142 heights, the commander of the Vietnamese army should be so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded his mother! (To be continued......)