At three o'clock in the morning, all the artillery units got up silently and began the final preparations.

These preparations include a final check of the equipment and the preparation of shells.

Of course, the infantry had already begun to prepare for it, and by this time they had even infiltrated the front line of the Vietnamese position.

That's why infantry is hard and dangerous...... In fact, this battle is not bad, if it is a small-scale battle in peacetime, because the terrain in this area of Laoshan is more complicated, and it takes five or six hours or even longer to go up and down the mountain.

So there will be a problem here, that is, if you want to fight a night battle, then it will be almost dawn for the troops to go down the mountain to reach the front of the Vietnamese army's position, so there will not be much time to attack the Vietnamese army's position, and once dawn, it will be tantamount to asking for death if a small number of people attack the enemy's defense line without a large amount of artillery support.

That's why our troops had to adopt such an approach...... Let the troops bring enough dry food, spend one night down the mountain and lurk in front of or near the Vietnamese position, and then wait for more than ten hours, that is, until the next night, and then launch an attack on the Vietnamese position.

One can imagine what kind of torture this kind of long-term lurking and high-intensity combat after lurking will be to people's will and body.

The reason why we say that the battle in front of us is good for the infantry is because we are scheduled for daytime. That is, the infantry no longer had to lurk at the front of the position for a whole day, as before.

In comparison, the artillery is much easier, at least they don't need to bear as much pressure as the infantry, and they don't have to directly face the fire points of the devils.

The hour hand walks slowly. All the qiē went very smoothly...... That's why I know that. This is because the neighborhood has been quiet until now. This shows that the Vietnamese army did not pay attention to the preparations of our army at all, including the lurking of infantry at the front of its positions.

What I don't know is that there were actually two accidents.

One accident was when the lurking infantry accidentally struck a mine...... This is a very normal thing, just like we have encountered before, the more devils have a very good way of laying mines, they not only bury mines in the ground, but also hang mines on trees or crush them under stones, etc. This made the infantry advancing in the dark unguarded, so that there were many lurking people. Then it is inevitable that a few soldiers will hit the mine.

However, the infantry had already taken this into account, so they strictly ordered in the morning not to make any noise even if they were injured by a mine, so as not to prematurely reveal the combat intentions of the troops.

To do this, it's hard to be honest...... Just kidding, usually we can't help but scream even if we are suddenly pricked by a needle, let alone break our legs or hands by a landmine.

However, the first attacker did just that, and neither of the two fighters in these two accidents made any noise...... Later, I learned that one of them had bled profusely and died because the Vietnamese army continued to fire flares and could not receive timely medical treatment.

Although the troops that served as the first attack were all sharp knife units of various divisions and regiments, this was not something that ordinary people could do.

The silent tactic is effective for two reasons:

The first is, of course, that the Vietnamese army did not believe that the Chinese soldiers could remain silent even if they were injured by landmines. Exactly, it can't be said that they don't believe it. In fact, there are countless examples of being injured in the Sino-Vietnamese border war without saying a word, and there are also Chinese soldiers. There are also quite a few Vietnamese troops. But under normal circumstances, no one can endure this kind of pain.

Another reason is also because of the way the devil lays mines.

As mentioned before, the Yue Devils not only bury mines in the ground, but also hang them in trees or entangle tripwires in the grass. This will indeed make our soldiers unable to defend against it. But again, sometimes a gust of wind or a few small mice crawling over it is very likely to trigger a mine.

In other words, these devils have long been accustomed to listening to the sound of the mines exploding one by one, at most they take a flashlight, a searchlight, or a few flares to take a look, and they don't take it seriously if they don't find any problems.

Another surprise that I did not expect, that is, because it was dark and the road was slippery, the two regiments that served as the first attacker, namely the 119th Regiment on the left flank responsible for the main attack on the 662.6 heights of Songmaoling and the 118th Regiment on the right flank responsible for attacking the 1072 heights of the main peak of Laoshan, had nearly one-fifth of the soldiers who failed to keep up.

Although I didn't expect this before, I still feel that it is excusable...... We ourselves have fought in the terrain of Yunnan, and we know that this place is densely forested and densely grassed, and even if we march in broad daylight, we may fall behind and scatter, not to mention that these troops are secretly marching at night.

The so-called secret march means that you can't shout loudly to find your teammates when you are separated, which undoubtedly increases the chance of falling behind.

But I was relieved that by dawn the next day, the scattered troops had found their troops from all directions and were engaged in battle. According to later statistics, except for one soldier who was pierced by a bamboo stick array on the road and could not reach it, no one was left behind.

This illustrates two things:

First, the military quality of the fighters has been generally improved.

You must know that if this is fought in 79, let alone a soldier, the company commander is dizzy when he encounters this situation, and he doesn't know where to go...... I can't read a map and I can't tell the direction!

But now, there are so many scattered soldiers who can find their troops in time, which at least shows that their ability to look at pictures and find points is practiced at home.

The other is that the will to fight of the troops has not only not decreased, but has greatly improved compared with 79.

Although most of the soldiers in 79 were good soldiers, there were also many bad soldiers...... In fact, this is very normal, there are too many people, and quite a few of them are engaged in production and construction and lack training, and they will naturally have a cowardly mentality when they go to the battlefield. Among them, there are a small number of quite "smart" soldiers who deliberately get lost and get separated during the battle, and then come back after the battle.

Nowadays, these soldiers who are on the main attack mission and scattered in the dark, as long as they hold a little negative thought, not to mention that they deliberately cannot find the troops, as long as they delay a little time to find the troops, they will probably not have to rush to the front line.

But none of them did.

You must know that it is to play with life, so the consciousness of these fighters is really admirable.

In fact, what I don't know is that these scattered troops not only do not have this kind of desertion mentality, but they are also always worried about affecting the combat effectiveness of the troops because they can't catch up!

"Report the weather!" I shouted to Zhao Jingping, who was not far away.

"The weather is good!" Zhao Jingping replied: "Only the main peak area is a little misty!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded.

According to Chen Weihua, this is because rain and fog will make electromagnetic waves not easy to penetrate, so the detection range will be shortened over a large distance.

Thinking about it, I think this statement makes sense, which is also the reason why the submarine does not use electromagnetic waves instead of sonar in the sea control and measurement...... Electromagnetic waves travel a short distance in the water, so they will naturally be affected in rainy and foggy days.

Little by little, I watched the second hand turn straight up, and then three red flares rose in the sky.

"Hit!"

As soon as I gave the order, the communicator, who had already been prepared, shouted into the microphone: "Fire! ”

In an instant, a piece of artillery in the direction of our army spewed out tongues of fire, and one shell after another dragged the tail line straight to the direction of the Vietnamese army like a bolt of lightning, followed by a loud "boom" sound, and the entire Vietnamese army camp was blown up.

Of course, these firing cannons are only part of the artillery fire of our army.

The distribution of artillery fire of our army is as follows: Two howitzer regiments and one rocket artillery regiment of the Fourth Artillery Division, their task is the task of destroying the minefields and obstacles at the front of the Vietnamese army's positions that Division Commander Jiang asked me to perform, and this task is relatively easy, as long as we use the artillery sighting radar to correct the coordinates of the Fourth Artillery Division and quickly guide its artillery into the designated area, and the next thing is that they only need to gradually extend the artillery fire forward, that is, blow up the front line of the Vietnamese army's position.

The three artillery regiments in the hands of Division Commander Jiang, that is, the artillery regiment of the 14th Army, the artillery regiment of the 40th Division, and the artillery regiment of the 41st Division, which were not assigned to me, were tasked with bombing important military targets of the Vietnamese army.

For example, the Vietnamese army headquarters, highway bridges, ammunition depots, or blocked roads that our military first reconnoitred.

Of course, I don't need to think about this, in fact, Division Commander Jiang was right not to assign this task to me, because there are too many of these targets, for example, there are fifteen of them just need to be blocked with artillery fire...... If we still let the artillery aiming radar cooperate, I am afraid that the artillery aiming radar will not be able to keep busy for a while and a half.

After all, the artillery sighting radar has a more important task, that is, to prepare the artillery to strike at the Vietnamese devils.

That is to say, at this time it was six artillery regiments that opened fire, and the shells were pouring towards the enemy's position like sea water, and at first you could hear the sound of "boom", and after a few minutes it was a "rumbling" sound, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was the sound of artillery or the explosion of shells.

It is conceivable that the Vietnamese army has been blown up into a mess by this sudden blow at this time.

Moreover, I can also judge that several artillery regiments commanded by Division Commander Jiang are hitting very accurately, because in the telescope, I can clearly see the flames of the second explosion of the two Vietnamese ammunition depots. It seems that their artillery scouts and scouts have also worked hard in this area.

The only thing that didn't do it was the artillery battalion of our synthetic battalion.

We are waiting, waiting for the shells of the enemy...... (To be continued......)