Chapter 184: Stepping Stones

The pre-war preparations went well......

First of all, Chen Guohao's approval instructions came to our battalion headquarters...... This must be agreed to by him, because the soldiers of the Ninth Frontier Division are stationed on those heights, and we snipers wear strangely shaped "auspicious suits" to go up, so it is strange that they are not beaten by them as more devils.

The second is to assign tasks...... This step is not difficult, that is, to assign these heights to the sniper unit in the squad. The difficulty is ...... These heights were unfamiliar to the warriors, so they had to know the heights they were responsible for before going up. This is the only way to find a suitable sniper position and color Geely's camouflage.

However, Chen Jiahao solved the problem for us in this regard...... Maps with contour lines and files with vegetation and topographic information were quickly compiled into us. From this point of view, Chen Jiahao is quite cooperative with our work.

Zuihou is to take advantage of the darkness to enter the lurking position...... It wasn't that difficult, because most of the time my sniper unit was moving, camouflaging, and lurking on our own side...... But the problem is that this is the night, and the more devils still have the habit of touching holes at night...... So no one knows if it's an enemy or their own people.

Besides, the fighters who went to the front were accustomed to laying mines or mines around their positions...... Especially the hole in the cat's ear, because our army is not good at night fighting, so before the night comes, it is even more necessary to use mines around to prevent the Vietnamese army from touching the hole...... Moreover, the mines laid out here can be said to be completely unorganized, and the mines laid out on each high ground are different every day.

This caused a lot of trouble for our sniper troops. zuihou can't help it...... The most primitive way to communicate is to send two fighters from each high ground to lead the way to the snipers and match the code beforehand.

But even so, it is not easy for the sniper unit to enter the sniper position smoothly, because the snipers are scattered in groups and sniper positions, so it can be said that it is not enough to use only two fighters to lead the way...... Even in this darkness, there is a high chance of accidental injury......

In fact, this did happen, because several sniper fighters were pulling weeds for camouflage...... As a result, the soldiers of the Ninth Frontier Division were "uproaring", but fortunately there were no casualties, otherwise it would have been called unjust.

Zuihou was finally set up at three o'clock in the morning...... The reason I know this information is that each sniper is equipped with a miniature walkie-talkie, which makes it easy for them to report their situation to us, so that we can clearly mark where they are lurking on the map.

The next thing is to wait...... But fortunately, the wait was not long. The weather in Vietnam starts to brighten up around 6 o'clock in the morning. So we only had to wait for more than three hours.

But it soon became clear to me that waiting only three hours was not enough, because Vietnam was very humid and the temperature difference between day and night was very large...... To put it simply, it is cold at night, but the temperature rises rapidly during the day. This makes the fog in the jungles of Vietnam heavy.

Especially since there was a light rain last night. So this morning, the mountain was full of mist, and the green mountains and green water were like a fairyland...... But everyone knows that under the smoky beauty. What is hidden is what kind of pain and ugliness.

Time passed minute by minute, and it seemed that it was approaching noon, but there was no sign of the fog about to disperse......

Zhao Jingping couldn't help frowning: "It seems that today is another busy day!" ”

I understand the meaning of Zhao Jingping's words, although the range of the SVD sniper rifle is long. But the fog can obstruct the sniper's line of sight...... If you can't see people, you can't fight, not to mention that in this weather, Vietnamese snipers won't come out to act.

But at this moment, the weather suddenly cleared, and the sun tore through the layers of thick fog as if it wanted to run out to breathe, and then the fog disappeared into the sunlight in pieces like a vampire afraid of seeing the sun.

"Units report the situation!" I can't help but be overjoyed to see this, maybe this is a great opportunity for us...... The reason is that the sky suddenly clears, and the Vietnamese snipers will think...... The Chinese military association will take advantage of the fog to come out to breathe, so when the fog clears, it is just right to come out and beat him.

"A platoon has a good line of sight, the enemy is not moving!"

"Good sight in the second row! The enemy is not moving! ”

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"Get ready for battle!" I ordered: "Units can lock on when they find a target, but they are not allowed to shoot!" Repeat, don't shoot, wait for my order! ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

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A response from the platoon commanders came from the walkie-talkie...... It's nice to have a miniature walkie-talkie, which makes it easy for me to command snipers lurking across the entire front. If this was before...... The phone line alone would have been tied for a few days, and there was a good chance that the sniper's location would be exposed.

"The second platoon has discovered the enemy!" Immediately followed by the report of the second platoon commander Hua Bin: "The target is located on the No. 3 high ground, a total of six people, six sniper rifles, ......"

Hua Bin's report quickly made me realize that the establishment of Vietnamese snipers is also divided into formal and informal like in the Soviet Union, otherwise it would not be possible for six people to hold six sniper rifles......

"Attention units!" I ordered again: "Prioritize targets in pairs or hidden in the shadows, and distribute firepower reasonably!" ”

"Yes!"

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The so-called distribution of firepower refers to the fact that each sniper locks on to a different target...... This is of course important because if there is no allocation, then in extreme cases all snipers will lock on to the same target, so even if all snipers are good marksmanship, there is still only one target that can be hit.

This is actually the coordination within the sniper unit, but because the sniper groups are very scattered, the coordination between them is not easy...... But a miniature walkie-talkie can solve this problem very well. It seems that all the groups of snipers need to do is connect with each other to target their own targets and not duplicate them.

Therefore, this miniature walkie-talkie is not just a communication tool as it seems on the surface, but its greater role in the army is to make a troop "scattered...... That is, on the surface, it seems to be scattered in different positions, but it is a unified force that can cooperate with each other.

"Report!" Hua Bin reported to me again through the walkie-talkie: "The Yue devil has launched a feint......"

"Hold on!"

"Bang bang ......" At this time, the sound of gunfire was already coming from the high grounds, and at first it was only one or two places, but it did not take long for it to spread like a plague throughout the battlefield.

The Vietnamese army is playing their old tricks again...... Draw our troops to the hilltop position, and then annihilate them one by one...... This time, though, they'll soon find that the situation is unlike any other.

This is the moment I was waiting for...... The Vietnamese snipers fired their guns, which meant that their attention was completely focused on the soldiers of our Ninth Frontier Division, and our snipers could easily lock them in...... This is the so-called praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches are behind!

"Units report lockdowns!" I almost gritted my teeth and gave this order, because I knew that I couldn't afford to waste time right now, and that every second could represent several lives.

"A row is locked!"

"The second row is locked!"

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"Hit!" As soon as I gave the order, a burst of gunfire rang out on the battlefield...... This piece of gunfire would not have been heard at all if you had not listened carefully, because it was almost masked by the sound of gunfire and artillery on the battlefield. But I can still feel it, because the battlefield suddenly fell silent after the gunfire......

As for the weishenme, it will fall silent...... Needless to say, the sniper unit with the Vietnamese army as the main force is afraid that it will no longer exist after the gunfire in this area.

I could almost see the tragic sight of one Vietnamese sniper after another falling to the ground with their guns...... I'm afraid that they won't know where the gun that hit them is until they die.

Then I don't need to command, the snipers know what to do...... The snipers, with the cooperation of the observers, select their targets one by one as fast as they can, until there are no more targets on the battlefield that are worth killing or the bullets in the magazines are gone.

And then just like we usually train...... The snipers evacuated by a pre-set route with their guns in hand...... However, the snipers did not seem to need to be in such a hurry, because the Vietnamese army had been stunned by this sudden scene, or because their snipers were almost completely wiped out at this moment, which had seriously affected their combat effectiveness, so their reaction was much slower than we thought...... So much so that the snipers all took refuge in a safe area, followed only by a limited number of mortar shells.

"Good!" There was a cheer from the command...... So far, we can say that we have won a complete victory, the greatest victory in the shortest possible time and at the lowest cost, and the Vietnamese army has not even had a chance to retaliate.

But what happened next left me and the Chiefs of Staff dumbfounded...... A few red signals were raised, and pieces of shells with a sharp whistling sound crossed us and smashed into the positions of the Vietnamese troops, followed by a burst of earth-shattering explosions...... The soldiers of the Ninth Frontier Division have already rushed to the position of the Vietnamese army with rifles with bayonets on them!

That's when I understood...... Chan wants more than just these victories! We are just a stone for him! (To be continued......)