Of course, the casualties of our troops are insignificant compared to the possible casualties of the Vietnamese army.

And I believe that if I had not made a tough decision in time, the 2nd Artillery Company at this time would have suffered more casualties as foreseeable.

This time it really hurt the artillery of the Yue devils, and we waited on the position for more than half an hour without a sound, and finally collected our troops and returned to the camp.

Later, I learned from the intelligence officers that this battle only hurt the Vietnamese army, and the Vietnamese army only arranged a total of three artillery regiments in the direction of Lao Son...... This was determined by the lack of artillery of the Vietnamese army and the fact that there had not been much fighting in the Lao Son direction. At this time, the directions of Phaka Mountain and Ku Lam Mountain were the areas where artillery battles were frequent, and most of the Vietnamese artillery was concentrated in those two directions.

That is to say, we knocked out two-thirds of the artillery strength of the Yue devils in the Laoshan area in this battle, but fortunately, the Yue devils were smart and stopped this artillery battle at the last moment, which saved an artillery regiment.

This artillery battle undoubtedly caused a sensation within the Vietnamese army, and the commander of the Vietnamese artillery division lost his job and was imprisoned for improper command.

Of course, it was not only the Vietnamese army that caused a sensation, but also our troops as if they had exploded, and they all inquired about which unit fought this artillery battle. As a result, after asking and asking, he naturally knew about the synthetic battalion, so the reputation of the synthetic battalion suddenly resounded on the front line.

Of course, none of this is our concern.

After returning to the headquarters, Zhao Jingping and I frowned at the post-war summary meeting, which formed a strong contrast with the excitement of the soldiers returning victoriously.

"Didn't we go a little too far this time?" Zhao Jingping said: "The original plan was to boil frogs in warm water, but I didn't expect this dozen to be like this!" ”

"Then what else can be done?!" Zhang Zuoliang said: "Can we still watch the second artillery company being blown up by the Yue devils and ignore it? ”

"That's not what I meant!" Zhao Jingping said: "I mean...... In this case, will the matter of artillery sight radar be immediately put in front of the Yue devils? We've just started this test. If the devils know from this, we have a cannon sighting radar and send agents against it. Then our work will be difficult and even more dangerous in the future! ”

"That's what I'm worried about, too!" I nodded: "I didn't expect the first test to disrupt our plans. However, this also proves that this thing can play a huge role in actual combat! ”

"Besides......" After thinking about it, I said: "We don't have to worry too much about this matter, it's useless to worry about things that are already like this, and now the top priority is to send a few people to the 40th division to listen to the news!" ”

"Send someone to the Forty Division?" Hearing this, Zhao Jingping couldn't help but wonder: "The Forty Division is our own army, where to listen to the wind?" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded, "Listen to what they have to say about this battle and what they think." Fortunately, we had made a 'telescope' arrangement before, if the soldiers of the 40th Division believed this statement. Then the more devils are on their side, there will be no eight or nine! ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, Zhao Jingping couldn't help but nodded in realization.

The matter of probing the mouth was quickly arranged by Zhao Jingping, but the result was a little unexpected for us, and we sent a few people to inquire but did not find anything, and the response was "The soldiers of the 40th Division are very strict-mouthed, and we are almost regarded by them as agents of the Vietnamese army."

Hearing this, the soldiers and I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and in the end, we could only contact the cadres of the 40th Division through Staff Officer Guò Wei, and then ask these cadres to do an investigation.

The results of the investigation were just as I thought, and although the soldiers of the 40th Division did not say anything, they actually set their eyes on the 723 Heights where we had arranged "new telescopes"!

"Needless to say?" One soldier put it this way: "A few days ago, a company of troops was newly transferred to defend the 723 heights, and then it was heavily guarded, and no one was allowed to go up. Those who are able to enter the 723 heights are subject to strict inspections. I already knew that the 723 Heights must be famous, and sure enough, it didn't take a few days...... Our artillery comrades gave the Yue devils a hard lesson. Hey...... It's a fun battle. It made me want to be an artilleryman! ”

After hearing the results of this investigation, I was a little relieved, and after thinking about it, I said to Staff Officer Wei: "Inform the 40th Division to strengthen the defense of the 723 Heights, and the Vietnamese army agents are likely to target the 723 Heights!" ”

"Yes!" Staff Officer Wei responded.

In fact, there is no need for me to explain this at all, and the cadres of the 40th Division are not fools, and after they realized that the reason why our artillery was able to win that miraculous victory was entirely because of the 723 heights, they immediately sent an additional company to strengthen the defense of 723.

But as the saying goes, there is no unbreakable defense line, and in the end, the 723 heights still let the Yue devil agents break through.

The Devil Agents are shrewd, and they are taking advantage of the inertia of our soldiers when dealing with the 723 Heights.

This inertia can also be described as a subconscious, and there is a story about this inertia: a sheep farmer, before driving the sheep out of the sheepfold, put a wooden pole across the exit, and the sheep had to jump over the pole when they came out of the pen. So the first sheep jumped over, and the second sheep jumped over...... Until the last few sheep, if the shepherd suddenly pulled the pole away, the sheep did not need to jump over, but they still jumped up and jumped over naturally.

In fact, people also have this kind of inertia, which may not be felt at ordinary times, but unconsciously they make a subconscious action without thinking about it.

This kind of action has the potential to be beneficial to us.

For example, if you repeat tactical actions over and over again in training, you will naturally make corresponding tactical actions when you encounter danger on the battlefield.

But it can also be disadvantageous.

Vietnamese agents, for example, sent a small force every night to harass the 723 Heights, and the symbolic assault quickly retreated in the night.

One night is like this, two nights is like this...... Moreover, the artillery has not moved, which is called by our soldiers as the Vietnamese artillery was frightened by our army.

It wasn't until more than half a month later that the artillery suddenly bombarded the 723 heights indiscriminately, and at this time, our army's artillery radar was not in the state of being turned on, so it could not provide support, and then the Vietnamese army agents launched a strong attack on the 723 heights from the other side with extraordinary combat effectiveness, and the 723 heights were soon broken through by the Vietnamese army. (To be continued......)