Chapter 149: Armored Vehicles (3)
When our armored convoy was guided all the way into an armored convoy by the Yue devils, I couldn't believe that I had such good luck!
There are thirty armored vehicles of the Yue devils, and there will not be a few tanks of the Vietnamese army...... It takes more than 30 armored vehicles to carry infantry to cover the tank, and if the infantry of a squad cooperates with a tank, then it means that there are more than 30 tanks.
However, it does not seem strange that more than thirty tanks are also a tank battalion...... You must know that this is almost the chance for the 320th Division of the Vietnamese Army to recapture Zuihou in Banwang, so the artillery and tanks are ...... Of course, it's just a desperate gamble to use as many troops as possible.
Besides, the Vietnamese army knew that our army had fifteen tanks, so it was not surprising that they would send more than thirty tanks...... Fifteen were used against Chinese tanks, and another fifteen were used to assist the offensive on the heights...... In this way, you can win the 518.6 highland smoothly with a lightning speed or a big score!
Thinking of this, I secretly said to myself...... If this really allowed the Vietnamese army's more than 30 tanks to successfully capture Tongmian...... Then our synthetic battalion will only be pressed and beaten.
Let's not mention that the thirty or so tanks have tank guns...... Even more than 60 anti-aircraft machine guns on tanks and armored vehicles will make us unbearable...... At that time, there was nothing to fight in this battle, and the Vietnamese army's various armored vehicles pressed us with firepower, and the infantry rushed again...... Ten minutes can end the battle.
And what's even worse is that we can't run if we want to...... There was only one place on the 518.6 heights in the direction of Tong Mian, which was relatively gentle, but this place was sealed off by the Vietnamese armored troops and a large number of infantry. The other directions were steep and just like we had just seen...... The Vietnamese army has already built a defensive line and is ready to block the retreat of our army.
And so. If this battle develops according to the vision of the Vietnamese commander. It is very likely that our battalion will be completely annihilated when it reaches Zuihou. Then the 320th Division can not only pick up the face that was lost before, but also be able to enjoy the scenery...... They can even brag about it: "The reason why the 518.6 heights will be taken away by the Chinese army this time is actually that our army lured the enemy to go deeper, deliberately ceding the heights to the Chinese army and then annihilating them in one fell swoop!" ”
The right to speak in war has always belonged to the victor. In this regard, it is most appropriate to use the ancient Chinese saying that "the winner is king, and the loser is the villain".
However, it seems that the battle will not go as smoothly as the Vietnamese commander imagined...... Because we have been successfully integrated into the Vietnamese army's armored forces.
What are the Vietnamese armored forces waiting for?
Just think about it and I understand, they are waiting for tank troops...... Armored vehicles are much faster than tanks. Especially compared with tanks with poor night vision (the Vietnamese tank formation may have a T62 with strong night vision, or an old American tank), so the problem of coordination between the tank formation and the armored vehicle formation arises at this time.
There are actually several options here, one is to have the armored vehicle slow down and follow the tank...... However, it is clear that this is not a haode method, as the armoured vehicles and tanks would be too large to advance together...... More than 30 tanks plus more than 30 armored vehicles, that is, a large area of black pressure, so that the enemy will be covered by artillery fire for more than half of it, especially the advantage of armored vehicles is that they are fast, let it slow down and follow the tank...... In fact, it is to throw away the greatest advantage.
The second is to calculate the time well and stagger the departure time of the two armies. Then let both forces reach their destination almost simultaneously.
This sounds perfect, but it doesn't really fit the battlefield, because tanks need infantry cover at all times...... Otherwise, one will accidentally fall into the enemy's ambush.
So the synergy of armored vehicles with tanks. Sometimes a paragraph-by-paragraph follow-up approach is taken...... That is to say, the armored vehicle takes advantage of its speed and sensitivity to the battlefield to be relatively advanced, and cooperates with the reconnaissance of the motorized department while advancing, and after opening a distance from the tank unit, it will find a place to cover and wait for the tank to follow up...... Especially when they are about to enter the main battlefield, the armored forces will have to stop and wait for the tank units to go first.
Now we are integrated into the Vietnamese armored forces, I think they are the armored units that are waiting for the Vietnamese tank troops.
However, it is clear that the Vietnamese armored unit did not know that ten armored vehicles would join their ranks along the way...... Because at this time, a Vietnamese officer had already turned around from the turret and shouted at us: "Which unit are you from?" Who is the commander? ”
As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help but be stunned...... Before we went to the battlefield, we had indeed studied the numbers of Ban Wang's troops, but now the Vietnamese armored unit in front of us is obviously not Ban Wang's troops, besides...... There are still a lot of Banwang infantry around us, and I said that I was a certain unit that was originally stationed in Banwang, so it wasn't like it was revealed in two and a half years!
To put it simply...... It was the Vietnamese infantry in Banwang who thought that we were the armored troops of the Vietnamese army, and the armored department of the Vietnamese army thought that we were in Banwang...... So before it was possible to "get along peacefully", but the Vietnamese officer asked...... We can't hide it.
However, I did not hesitate, because I knew that the more I hesitated, the more suspicious the other party would be, so I immediately replied, "Sir, we are ......"
I deliberately lengthened my voice a little when I said yes, and then waited until I heard the whistling of a cannonball nearby before continuing: "The ...... of the 3rd Regiment"
When I said the word "three", it was the time when the bomb exploded, and I deliberately kept my voice down, so in fact, no one around me heard the number.
I noticed that the Vietnamese officer on the other side was not suspicious, so I continued to say loudly: "Our commander's name is Nguyen Van Zhan!" ”
I was confident when I said this, because even if I didn't know each other's names, the Vietnamese infantry and armored soldiers would guess each other...... This may be someone from the opposing unit, so I don't know.
So I was fooled by this......
But unexpectedly, the Vietnamese officer quickly raised the microphone in his hand and ordered me: "Bring in your communication!" ”
"Yes!" I answered the call and made a gesture of delivering an order and drilled into the armored car...... But in fact, I secretly complained in my heart, our communication and the communication of the Yue devil are fundamentally different things, where is this to be answered......
However, this request of the Vietnamese army can also be said to be not excessive at all...... Only by connecting the communication can we unify the command!
But this also means that we will soon be recognized by the Vietnamese army...... I didn't expect Zuihou to fall on this little thing!
Never mind! It's just going to fight with the devils, and I can't hide it anyway...... You can fight as much as you can!
Thinking of this, I immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and was about to give the order to start...... However, at this moment, a Vietnamese shout suddenly came from outside: "All of them, get ready for battle!" ”
At this time, my head couldn't help but "buzz", could it be that the more devils found the problem first?
No way! There was no suspicion on the face of the Vietnamese officer just now!
Then I heard the Vietnamese officer shouting: "Comrades! Let's go and give those Chinese soldiers a little color! Let them know how powerful our 320 Division is! ”
"Long live the 320th Division!"
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Then there was another shouting ...... So I knew that I had misunderstood the meaning of the Vietnamese army, and they were ready to go!
Then I couldn't help but rejoice...... Does this mean that the tank units of the Vietnamese army have come up, does it mean that the attack on the 518.6 heights is about to begin, and more importantly...... Do the Vietnamese officers no longer have time to care if our communications are received or not?!!
As I expected, it didn't take long for a motor to roar from the other side, and then the Vietnamese officer waved his hand and shouted, "Go!" ”
The armored troops poured out of the valley like a long dragon...... Our armored vehicles were originally arrived in Zuihou, so naturally they walked in Zuihou.
Although I had been mentally prepared for a long time, I was still taken aback by the formation as soon as the armored vehicle walked out of the valley...... Looking through the observation hole of the armored car, the night was full of tanks and armored vehicles, and occasionally a few shells exploded near us, and the fire would illuminate the armored unit like a torrent of steel...... Not to mention the rest, even the dust raised by the track and the exhaust fumes from the diesel engine are a little breathless.
Originally, I thought that the fifteen tanks of our synthetic battalion were majestic enough, but compared to the troops in front of me...... That's a lot worse.
I couldn't help but feel a little hairy in my heart...... Can we beat the team in front of us?
After a rough calculation, the Vietnamese armored forces are indeed as I guessed before...... There are more than 30 armored vehicles and 30 tanks, although I do see some old M41 and M60 tanks...... In fact, the M60 tank is still very practical for armored troops, because it can be converted into an engineering vehicle at any time, which can be used as a tool for both fighting on the battlefield and as a tool for sappers, so there is no need to go on the road like our synthetic battalion and have to carry bulldozers and cranes.
However, even if the Vietnamese army is replenished with M41 and M60, which are not strong in combat, these 30 tanks are twice as many as the number of tanks in our army...... What's more, the combat effectiveness and quality of our army's 59 are not good!
"Battalion commander! What to do? The guard next to him couldn't help asking: "...... are so many tanks of the enemy"
"What to do?" I scolded angrily: "Pass the order and prepare for battle!" ”
At this time, we actually have no way out, so we can only use all our liliang to fight! (To be continued......)