Chapter 62 Anti-Tank Missiles
It would be fine if it was just the tank troops of the Yue devils who found out...... Our position was a ridge position relative to the Vietnamese tank troops, and it was difficult for them to hit us no matter how fierce the fire of their anti-aircraft machine guns was, so we only had to change our position and then poke our heads out to shoot a bunch of rockets...... In this way, the tank units of the Vietnamese army have nothing to do with us.
But things on the battlefield won't be that simple...... The 5th Infantry Division of the Vietnamese Army was a unit trained by the Yankees, and its characteristic was that the coordination and cooperation between the various arms of the army were very good.
Like now...... The tank units quickly radioed the intercepted enemy situation and even our location to the rest of the Vietnamese army...... So we were miserable, first of all, several American tanks in front of us immediately turned their muzzles and muzzles and fired at us, and then the Yue devils who were charging also desperately set up machine guns and fired at us with pieces of bullets...... These were okay, and after a while a large number of mortar shells came in......
This is where we are, and the bullets and shells are flying all over the sky, and there are explosions and the screams of bullets and shrapnel everywhere...... Let's not talk about leaning out to fight tanks, we don't even have a chance to enter the tunnel, they are all crushed in the trenches and can't even lift their heads.
Actually, it should be said...... At this moment, the firepower of our army should have prevailed.
Infantry, although our army is much smaller in number than the Vietnamese army, we have a large number of weapons and ammunition, especially those two grenade launchers, which make our firepower in this local area much greater than that of the Vietnamese army in front. You must know that this grenade has a long range, a fast rate of fire, and a large killing range, and we are condescending, so it can be said that it is too easy to use it to suppress anti-aircraft machine guns and the like.
The more devils anti-aircraft machine guns on tanks...... It doesn't matter. Wouldn't it be enough to shoot a few shots from the tank? This grenade can't penetrate the tank's armor piercing. But the fragments can kill the anti-aircraft machine gunners, or at least suppress them.
On the other hand, this artillery...... In this local area, our artillery is also not as large as that of the Vietnamese army. But at this time, the Vietnamese artillery was obviously at the end of its strength, because their ammunition depots and supply lines were all in our hands, plus the previous toss...... There are no more shells left in the Vietnamese artillery.
But...... Theoretically, our infantry and artillery were stronger than the Vietnamese army, but we were unable to move under tremendous pressure from the Vietnamese artillery and infantry in the gorge.
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There is only one reason, our army has no combat experience and poor coordination ability.
For example, infantry...... The cannon platoon operating the grenade launcher was afraid that it didn't realize that the focus of this battle was the Vietnamese tank unit in the canyon, so it didn't have the awareness of suppressing the Vietnamese army's firepower to cover for us.
Another example is artillery...... Long-range artillery fire is of little use because it will hit our own positions. And what about mortar troops? At this time, I was afraid that we were still looking for and calculating the positions of the Vietnamese army's mortar units in order to strike at the Vietnamese army.
So each unit and each branch of the army fought its own battle...... But this doesn't seem to blame them, everyone is a new recruit on the battlefield, and they are still farming and untrained before the battlefield, so if they can cooperate to the level of the Vietnamese army as soon as they come up, then they should be said to be battlefield geniuses.
It's just that this has made us suffer, obviously the Vietnamese tanks are at our feet, and we are holding anti-tank weapons in our hands...... But he was powerless, so he could only watch as the T62 slowly pushed the wreckage of the tank away, and then drove over one by one under the cover of friendly fire.
"Marx!" I shouted at the intercom at the sound of gunfire: "One more shot!" Another cannon according to Taniguchi! ”
"Yes!" Marx also knew that this matter was not trivial, so he did not dare to slack off. Immediately another order was sent to the howitzer regiment.
Soon there was another whistling of shells in the air, and our position was at the mouth of the valley...... So it's even more lively now. The enemy's guns and our howitzers were intertwined with all kinds of firepower, and all around us was smoke, and the oxygen in the air seemed to be drained, and there was a foul smell of gunsmoke.
After a few minutes, the gunfire and artillery finally stopped, and I poked my head out to take a look...... After all, it was still a little late, and through the smoke and moisture, I could see that several tanks had already rushed through the canyon and into the dead end of our artillery fire before the artillery fire, roughly counting that there were six in total...... And five of them are T62s, and only one is a T54.
You must know that the T54 of the Vietnamese army tank is the middle level of our army's 59, not to mention the T62, which is more advanced than the T54. Imagine ...... The Vietnamese military first considered that there would be such a situation, that is, a few tanks at the head of the platoon and a few tanks at the end of the platoon were likely to be hit, so the main force, the T62, was placed in the middle.
Seeing this, my heart couldn't help but sink...... This is the death chance, putting six modern tanks into the positive slope...... That's where to fight, I'm afraid that our machine gun positions and grenade launchers won't be able to keep them. And our ability to hold this 581 heights is completely dependent on the firepower of these equipment...... If this equipment is bombed or suppressed, it means that the Vietnamese army will soon rush up and dismantle us.
I think...... We killed so many people before the more devils, and the more devils must be very willing to torture us before letting us die!
What to do? What to do?!!
I have to admit that I'm in a hurry...... I just became a company commander, do I want to let the Yue devils kill the whole army?
But what can be done? Call for artillery bombardment?
These devils are as good as ghosts, and they have been prepared for this, and before that, they have built a dozen tank bunkers at the foot of the hill opposite us......
This so-called tank bunker is actually very simple, it is to build a road where the tank can hide in the anticline of the high ground, so that the tank can drive close to the side wall of the anticline...... As you can imagine, the tanks hiding there could not even hit them with the trajectory of a mortar.
So it became impossible to hit tanks with artillery.
Send someone to rush down and hit the tank?
That's even more ridiculous...... In front of us was a whole division of the Fifth Infantry Division of the Vietnamese Army, and we only had one company, even if we were all Rambo, we would not be able to rush in front of the tank.
"Company commander! What to do? Watching the tanks enter the bunker one by one, one of the fighters next to him asked.
I sighed helplessly and said, "Let's go back to the position first!" ”
A few dejected people carried the two corpses and the three wounded back to the position...... These soldiers were killed and wounded in the artillery fire just now. We now have a numb mentality towards casualties, and at the beginning we would sigh for the sacrifice of our comrades, and now our thoughts are...... Sacrifice is sacrifice, and I don't know when it will be my turn.
After returning to the position, the units also suffered casualties of varying degrees, mainly because the shells would blow up their own positions when they blew up the tanks...... Some fighters did not have time to enter the pit and were either injured or hit by shrapnel.
I still feel guilty about this, after all, this is what I asked the artillery to fire...... But fortunately, the casualties were not too great, eleven people were killed and fifteen were injured.
I learned after the war that the fighters didn't blame me at all.
In their words, it is, "What's wrong with letting your own people's shells hit?" If you don't fight this...... Let all the tanks of the Yue devils come over, then we won't be finished in a few clicks! ”
"Such a fight is to exchange more than a dozen of our comrades for seven tanks plus dozens of tankers, no matter how it is calculated, it is worth it!"
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But at this moment I didn't say anything, and the fighters didn't say anything. There are two reasons, one is that they are worried that it will affect morale, so everyone tacitly agrees. Secondly and more importantly, the fighters know that we face a more serious problem...... How to face the upcoming offensive of the Vietnamese army, if this problem is not solved, then we are very likely to be wiped out, so why talk about other problems?
However, at this time, the more devils were not in a hurry...... In fact, they don't have to rush, for them, these six tanks breaking through our army's defense line means a sure victory, right? Then they can be fully prepared to strike a fatal blow at us.
So...... The Vietnamese army did not hesitate to build an inclined plane suitable for tank fire at the foot of the hill opposite us, and did not hesitate to distribute machine gun ammunition and fire cover units......
And what about us? But there is nothing they can do with them.
"Company commander!" The reader said angrily: "That grenade launcher is far away, isn't it?" Let's get them in trouble......"
I couldn't help but smile wryly and shook my head: "Maybe it's okay to give them some trouble, but a grenade can't penetrate a tank's armor, and a tank gun can blow a howitzer away in two hits...... Doing so will only end faster! ”
"What then?" The scholar said unwillingly: "Are we just waiting?" ”
"What else can be done then?" Zhang Zuoliang said with some distress: "The Yue Devil tank is at least a thousand meters away from us, and the anti-tank weapons ......can't reach it at all."
Zhang Zuoliang's words are actually what I want to say, but as a company commander, I can't say these words...... My soldiers all looked at me, and I was so angry that the whole army was bored.
But on second thought, it's not right!
Just because our anti-tank weapons are out of reach doesn't mean that the Yankees' anti-tank weapons are out of reach, right?
I seem to remember that the old man mentioned it, saying: "The Yankees' anti-tank missiles are called easy to use, once ...... If we hadn't found a batch of anti-tank missiles, our entire company would have been finished! ”
Right...... It's anti-tank missiles, did we leak something in the ammunition depot? (To be continued......)