Of course, the battle of the infantry is not as smooth sailing as we think, and it cannot be as simple.

The reason is that the terrain of Lao Son is complex, and there will always be some positions that are dead ends for artillery, for example, some high ground facing us is a cliff, and the infantry must go up from the side by bypassing the front.

Highland artillery like this is somewhat powerless.

Heights 50 is one such highland...... Heights 50 is a high ground located on the east side of the main peak of the old mountain, and its special feature is that it is composed of three small mountain packs, and the machine guns of the main peak of the old mountain and the adjacent 57 heights can also provide fire cover from a high position.

As you can imagine, a high ground like this...... When our infantry attacked it, they had to bear fire from several directions at the same time, and the artillery basically did not play much role, so we could only watch our infantry continue to launch wave after wave of attacks on the high ground under the fierce fire of the Vietnamese devils.

Only then did I realize what Division Commander Jiang had said before, that is, it was prescient to combine the old and new sets of tactics.

Although traditional tactics are unscientific in many places, that is, they will cause a large number of casualties on the battlefield, sometimes the battlefield needs to use life and courage to attack the enemy's fortifications and positions.

At this point, the new tactics are inappropriate on the battlefield.

The expression of the U.S. military during the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea is actually a classic counterexample...... At that time, the tactics used by the US military were not unsophisticated, but under their tactics and training, only one conclusion could be drawn in the complex terrain of North Korea. That is, it will not work to charge with warriors. It had to be bombarded with planes and artillery.

As a result, the most thing the US military did in the Korean War was to bombard indiscriminately with aircraft and artillery.

Just like it is now. If we overturn all the traditional tactics, then we will be very helpless in the face of terrain such as Heights 50...... Artillery can't be blown up, and there is no air power to use, if there is one, it is a helicopter.

However, it is obvious that the helicopter is not suitable for use on such terrain, because when the helicopter attacks the 50 heights, the anti-aircraft machine guns on the main peak of the old mountain can condescendingly rush at the helicopter...... At that time, I was afraid that it would be a helicopter nightmare.

Therefore, at this time, you can only directly charge it with infantry, and launch a charge that collides between flesh and steel.

Although I can't see the exact condition of Heights 50 in my telescope...... I actually don't like it. In the first battle in the past, even if I couldn't know the battle situation in every corner in detail, I could know what I wanted to know at the first time.

But now, it seems like I can only stand on this high ground and look through the telescope.

However, this does not seem surprising, I am now commanding artillery, and the main task of the synthetic battalion is to protect the artillery aiming radar and use the artillery aiming radar to guide the artillery operation, so of course there is no need to know too much about the situation of the infantry.

To be precise, it's not that it's not necessary, but it's not necessary to know about these conditions in the first place...... At this time, the infantry command was only afraid that it would have been busy for a long time, even if it took the time to inform me. I'm afraid we won't be able to help much.

But I was still able to deduce the general situation from some of the details I saw in the telescope...... For example, the smoke from the explosion of mortars and grenades, and the wake of tracer bullets.

Tracer bullets are a very dangerous thing. Because when it emits light, it is actually telling the enemy sniper his own position.

But sometimes I really have to use it.

The reason is that our army's communications equipment is insufficient...... At this time, our army still has nearly four million people, so it is impossible to have a miniature walkie-talkie like our synthetic battalion, which can communicate anytime and anywhere. Even ordinary troops do not have communication facilities in the infantry and the mortar units attached to them.

As a result, a problem arises, that is, the problem of infantry and artillery coordination, especially in the old mountain position with deep forests and dense grass, it is difficult to see the people in front of them from a distance of more than ten meters, so the coordination is even more difficult.

This problem is solved by tracer bullets, that is, the infantry in front shoots a series of tracer bullets in the direction of the Vietnamese fortifications to indicate the target for the rear rocket launcher shooter, recoilless gun shooter or mortar, so that these equipment can be targeted.

From this, I also know that this must be the obstruction of our army in the hidden fort of the Vietnamese army.

As we know, these bunkers are very difficult to destroy with equipment such as Bazookas, unless they can punch Bazookas and the like into them.

Of course, it is very difficult to do this with rocket launchers that are not very accurate, not to mention that these infantry are still suppressed by the multi-layered fire of the main peak of the old mountain and the No. 57 heights.

Then there seems to be only one thing that can be done, which is to rush forward with a grenade or explosive bag......

To my surprise, however, our infantry took a different approach: they attacked Heights 50 in separate parts of Heights 57.

I couldn't help but secretly say in my heart that I had a good fight...... At least in this way, Heights 57 will not be able to divide firepower to interfere with them, and at the same time, the limited support firepower on the main peak of the old mountain is also facing a dilemma, how good are they to support Heights 50? It's better to support No. 57 Heights!

No matter which choice the Vietnamese army on the main peak of Lao Shan makes, the other high ground is in danger of being taken by our army.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Heights 57 to be taken by our troops, and then Heights 57 became another powerful fire support point for our infantry.

Under the cover of the fire of the No. 57 heights, our infantry took the No. 50 heights in one fell swoop under the rain of bullets and bullets of the Vietnamese army.

Of course, I couldn't put myself in the shoes of the fierce Cheng Dù of this battle, and I learned afterwards that the Ninth Company, which attacked Heights 50, suffered heavy casualties precisely because of this battle. And among some of the fighters who survived this battle was a hero of the Vietnam War who is in the modern age of the people...... Shi Guangzhu!

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I would like to pay tribute to Comrade Shi Guangzhu, the leader of the fourth squad of the Ninth Company in this chapter, Comrade Shi Guangzhu was wounded many times in the process of attacking the No. 50 high ground of Laoshan, and insisted on fighting even though his eyes were seriously injured, and finally led the soldiers to take the position. (To be continued......)