Chapter 56: Zheyin Mountain (21)
The Vietnamese army's attack on our pillbox group finally slowed down after forty minutes.
Not because of anything else, but because they suffered too many casualties, or that they had exhausted all means but in the end there was no progress.
In less than an hour, the Vietnamese army made more than 20 large and small charges against us, and each charge had to leave a pile of corpses on the position, and now a thick carpet of dead bodies has been piled up in front of our position, most of which are headed in our direction and extend radially outward with the center of the pillbox, not to mention two or three hundred.
If nothing else, let's just say two or three hundred corpses...... This is already more than half of the 1142 highland garrison, plus its wounded, I am afraid that the reinforcements that come up after it will make us lose our combat effectiveness.
Later, according to the confession of the Vietnamese prisoners, in order to recapture its headquarters, the Vietnamese army invested four companies, and these four companies were all the main companies on the Yin Mountain, all of them were veterans who rolled on the battlefield, but even so, they were finally beaten and lost confidence.
At this time, I thought that the Vietnamese commander ordered the attack to be stopped, but it was not.
From the Vietnamese prisoners, I heard something that I had never heard before: the soldiers of the four companies of the Vietnamese army responsible for attacking our pillbox group disobeyed the order...... That is, the company commander of the Vietnamese army was still shouting and rushing forward, but the soldiers didn't care so much, and no one rushed at this time.
On the one hand, this is due to the large number of deaths of Vietnamese commanders...... The Vietnamese army, like our army, has to rush to the front by the grassroots commanders, and its command system is the same as ours: the deputy company commander is the deputy company commander when the company commander dies, and the platoon commander is the deputy company commander when the deputy company commander dies.
There is no big problem in commanding like this, after all, these Yue devils are experienced veterans and know what to do. But the new commanders are not necessarily as obedient as the previous commanders, nor do they necessarily have the same courage as the previous ones, and even they themselves do not want to continue fighting like the fighters.
On the other hand, it was the Vietnamese army who generally believed that it was a meaningless sacrifice to continue fighting like this.
I agree with this point, the Vietnamese army can be said to have exhausted all methods, and even if it was me at that time, from the perspective of the Vietnamese army, I didn't know how to fight this battle.
Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that the Vietnamese army, which has always refused to admit defeat, will disobey orders in battle, and even be forced to be rushed by the officers, and there are signs of mutiny.
And the effects of this wavering military morale soon spread...... Many Vietnamese troops will think that since they can't break through this bunker group now, it means that they can't reinforce the headquarters, and the inability to reinforce the headquarters means the loss of Zhiyin Mountain. Thereupon...... Simply withdraw from Yinshan.
There is a saying that "defeat is like a mountain", which is the phenomenon of people, people's psychology is so strange, if you don't admit defeat from the beginning and don't give in half a step, then it is very likely to persist until the end, but if there is a little bit of good thought, even if it is just a little sprout, and this little sprout is not extinguished in time, then it will soon be like a flood that bursts the embankment.
So at that time, a few soldiers planned to sneak away, until they were caught by the Vietnamese commander and shot on the spot, and this momentum was temporarily stopped.
This is a situation that has never appeared on the battlefield: a defensive battle, a defensive battle in which our army defends the main attack of the Vietnamese army...... To be precise, it was a defensive battle on the local battlefield of the secret service battalion defense. The main attacking side is the Vietnamese army, and if it can't be attacked, it can not attack or postpone the attack, right? There's no need to run away!
But this defensive battle was fought like this, and the Vietnamese army almost completely collapsed and almost withdrew from Yinshan.
However, I think that the emergence of this phenomenon cannot be said to be entirely due to our synthetic battalion, and part of this is also due to the pressure brought to the Vietnamese army by the 51st Division preparing to attack Yin Son on all fronts.
In the end, the Vietnamese army in front of us still did not withdraw from Yin Shan...... This must be, otherwise the news will soon spread throughout the heights of the Yin Mountain, and then the entire defense line will collapse quickly.
But in fact, they didn't have the evacuee, and Yinshan couldn't play much of a role, because they were already a force with no morale and no temper.
The sky gradually brightened, the pointer slowly pointed to seven o'clock, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when I looked at the few signal flares rising in the sky...... The general assault on Yin Mountain has finally begun.
As usual, this artillery was no longer almost aimlessly fired as in the previous month, and most of this artillery was fired by our artillery lurking in the front line of the enemy's position, either to blow up the Vietnamese army's mines, or to blow up obstacles, or to blow up its fortifications.
The artillery preparations lasted for half an hour, only to blow up the entire sky of Yinshan Mountain was covered by gunsmoke, and the sky that had just been lit up fell into darkness again, giving people the illusion that the sun was setting as soon as it came out.
Then came the sound of gunfire and artillery...... There is not too much shouting and killing, and our army is no longer interested in this at this time, unless it is shouted in order to boost morale and intimidate the enemy when it is counter-charging against the enemy, under normal circumstances, like this time the 51st Division attacked against Yinshan, that is, the powerful coordination of infantry and artillery...... After the infantry takes a step forward or tests the target with firepower, those who can use artillery will use artillery to bombard, and it is really impossible to use artillery considerations to do it themselves.
However, I think that the 51st Division should not have any difficulty in interspersing and dividing and encircling the Vietnamese army, after all, the headquarters of the Vietnamese army is already in our hands, and the troops in its various positions can no longer effectively coordinate, on the other hand, the main force of the Vietnamese army on the 1142 heights has been greatly damaged by us, and a large number of troops have been pinned down by us here.
Facts have also proved that I am right, our army has an interspersed unit and even took down 17 large and small Vietnamese troops in one go. Of course, this is also related to the combat effectiveness of the fighters of the 51st Division themselves.
As for the two hundred coffins that Master Xu prepared before, I think one hundred is too much.
I would like to pay tribute to all the soldiers of the 31st Division of the 11th Army in the above chapter, the division successfully recaptured Yinshan at the cost of 115 casualties in the battle of Yinshan, a total of 55o enemies were killed in this battle, 18 enemies were captured, the wounded enemy could not be counted, 19 artillery pieces of 6o caliber or more, 151 guns of various kinds and a batch of military supplies were captured. r1152
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