The situation at this time can be said to be very unfavorable to our army, and this disadvantage is mainly due to the insufficient number of mortars in our army...... There was only one mortar battery with a dozen guns...... Moreover, these guns were divided into two directions to provide fire for positions 4 and 5, in other words, there were only six or seven guns in each direction......

If these six or seven cannons fall into the hands of King Chuang and the artillery of our army's synthetic battalion, it may be enough, King Chuang will play with three shells to land at the same time, and six or seven cannons can be used as more than a dozen cannons in his hands.

But these artillery were the artillery of the second battalion...... Usually without training in this area, no matter how powerful King Chuang is, it will not play a role at this time.

Therefore, even though our mortar unit worked very hard to blast shells at the charging Vietnamese army, it still could not stop the offensive of the Vietnamese devils.

And on the other hand...... The 7th and 8th companies were charging towards Mount Faka...... However, because there was no artillery support, the fire of two squads of the Vietnamese army was crushed at the foot of Phaka Mountain...... This is not a question of a small number of people, but that the Vietnamese army occupies a favorable position, has arranged firepower in advance, plus sufficient ammunition...... The two squads are also fully capable of blocking a company.

So I was faced with a dilemma: should this only artillery company continue to be used in the hilltop position or provide artillery cover for the seventh and eighth companies......

If it continues to be used on the hilltop position, then the pressure of the fighters in the No. 4 and No. 5 positions will indeed be less, but the 7th and 8th companies will not be able to change the status quo of being suppressed by the enemy for the time being, and if they rush hard, they will inevitably cause great casualties...... This is a defeat for both the whole battle and the part of the battle.

If the mortar company is diverted to provide artillery cover for the seventh and eighth companies, then the problem of the seventh and eighth companies can indeed be solved...... But for the No. 4 and No. 5 positions, which were already under great pressure, it was undoubtedly worse!

Zhao Jingping obviously took this into account as well...... One of his great things is that he can think what I think. So without saying a word, he asked King Chuang to contact the artillery unit to provide fire cover for the seventh and eighth companies.

But I know it...... I'm afraid it's too late!

A rough estimate...... King Chuang contacted the artillerymen. Artillery laid out positions. Then provide coordinates to adjust the elements...... Even if the artillery is well-trained and the contact is smooth, it will take ten minutes, to say the least. And these ten minutes...... I'm afraid that the Yue devils have already grabbed the No. 4 and No. 5 positions.

So I gritted my teeth and immediately ordered: "Order the mortar troops...... Immediately divert the firing direction to provide fire cover for the 7th and 8th companies! ”

"What?" Hearing this, Zhao Jingping couldn't help but be stunned. 、

"Execute the order!" I accentuated my tone.

"Yes!" Zhao Jingping answered, and immediately conveyed the order to the walkie-talkie.

My thoughts are...... If this continues, the 4th and 5th positions will change hands anyway, and our army will end in failure, so it is better to gamble...... Let's see if the seventh and eighth companies attack Faka Mountain first or the devils take the top position first!

That's the only way to have a glimmer of hope, isn't it?

It's just that the No. 4 and No. 5 positions, which were already dangerous, have now lost the cover of mortars...... The soldiers stationed on it are only afraid that they will be more than lucky!

However, there is no way to do this...... Although I feel that this order is a little unworthy of these fighters, I can only choose this way!

I even added an order...... "Order the comrades in positions 4 and 5, no matter what method is used, even if there is only one person left, you must resist the Yue devil for me!" ”

It may sound cruel, but sometimes orders have to be given on the battlefield...... However, this order could not be conveyed to positions 4 and 5, because positions 4 and 5 were already seriously understaffed. Even the communicators went into battle with bayonets, so no one could receive my orders at all.

But it's the same whether they receive my orders or not, because that's what they do......

Soon the mortars shifted the direction of fire ...... Because these mortars are guided by our army's artillery observers located on helicopters, it is often only two or three shells that can blow up a firing point for the Vietnamese devils...... We sent a total of six helicopters to intercept the artillery observers, these six helicopters were originally responsible for commanding three mortar companies, but now two mortar companies have been blown up by the Vietnamese army...... There is redundancy for this artillery observer.

So the artillery observers on each helicopter were responsible for directing the two mortar fires...... As soon as this shell hit, it was like having eyes, and it blew up the defense of the two squads of the Yue Devil on the spot, paralyzing!

"Rush!" With the shouts of the soldiers of the seventh and eighth companies...... The soldiers rushed up to Mount Faka with the help of artillery fire.

You must know that the soldiers of the 7th and 8th companies of Lu Dao are the same as the soldiers on the 4th and 5th formations, and they also know very well in their hearts that this time they came up to save these comrades...... Helplessly, this time on the battlefield, there was an artillery blockade and a fire blockade, so that they could not move several times, and there was nowhere to hold a fire in their stomachs, and now there was finally an artillery to clear the obstacle for them...... So he spread his legs and rushed to the top of the mountain like a 100-meter sprint, the speed was fast...... I couldn't tell if they were going up or down.

The mortar unit also followed closely under the command of the artillery observer and extended to the depth of the Vietnamese army. It's like opening the way in front of the Seventh Company and the Eighth Company, blowing up the Vietnamese army all the way!

This made the charge of the Seventh and Eighth Companies like a bamboo...... However, this is also the reason why the Yue Devils didn't expect the defense of those two squads to be defeated so quickly, and at this time they were still concentrating on attacking the hilltop position...... Now it's really a belly-back enemy. You can't prevent it even if you want to.

However, even so, it would take some time for the soldiers of the 7th and 8th companies to rush to the 4th and 5th positions, so this gave the Yue devils some time......

It can even be said that it is not just some time, but forcing the Yue devils to occupy positions 4 and 5...... The reason is very simple, the Chinese army behind it is a new force, although the number of Vietnamese troops is comparable to that of the Chinese army, and the quality will not be worse than that of the Chinese army, or even condescending...... But the question is, if you turn back and fight...... Then they will be threatened from both the top and bottom of the mountain at the same time...... This is unbearable for any of the troops, although the Chinese servicemen in the hilltop positions may be running out of ammunition.

So at this time, the Vietnamese army seemed to have only one choice...... That is to take positions 4 and 5 before the 7th and 8th companies rush up and collapse their own troops.

Once the 4th and 5th positions are taken...... Only then can they truly occupy favorable terrain and organize an effective defense.

In other words...... That is, although the charge of the 7th and 8th companies was to reinforce the No. 4 and No. 5 positions, but in this short moment, it made the Yue devils make up their minds to fight to the death and further increased the pressure on the No. 4 and No. 5 positions.

The Vietnamese army's reaction was exactly as I feared...... When the 7th and 8th companies rushed up, they didn't know who shouted at them, so the Vietnamese army no longer cared about what grenades and explosives bags would be thrown down on the No. 4 and No. 5 positions...... They all crawled out of their bunkers and howled and rushed towards positions 4 and 5......

Almost at the same time, news of a large number of Vietnamese troops attacking from position No. 3 came again...... This is not that the Vietnamese army is in a hurry, but that the Vietnamese army is worried that the Chinese troops in position 3 will desperately suffer casualties through the artillery fire blockade to rescue positions 4 and 5, so this move seems to be attacking but is actually containing.

I didn't know until after the war...... For this battle, the Vietnamese army had a regiment of infantry alone...... This regiment was used to attack Puliude, Chaka Hill and Faka Mountain...... Especially on the side of Phaka Mountain, the Vietnamese army has prepared two battalions.

When I heard the news, I couldn't help but lean in my heart...... We don't have more than a company on Faka Mountain, and this Yue devil uses two battalions to gnaw hard, and that's not counting the dozen or so tanks.

The first to lose was Position 5.

Originally, I thought that the situation in position 5 would be better than that of position 4, because position 4 was out of ammunition first, and position 5 still had some ammunition left......

But sometimes there is a surplus of ammunition and there is not much left, and that's when the situation is worst...... The reason is that as soon as the gun is fired, the enemy knows the location of the target, so he holds the gun forward and suppresses the fire for a while, and then uses a few more devils to bypass the not tight fire network...... At this time, there was not much ammunition left in the No. 5 position, and the firepower could not be called a "fire network" at all...... Then a couple of grenades were thrown.

Soon, one, two, large numbers of Vietnamese troops broke into the trenches of position No. 5...... The fighters on position No. 5 had no way to retreat, so daggers, bayonets, butts, stones...... Everything that can be used has been used, and the soldiers on both sides have returned to the most primitive state of human combat.

Under the light of the flares, we in the helicopter could see everywhere the enemy and the enemy scuffling below...... Even we can't tell which of those who are fighting together are enemies and which are our own people.

At this time, I wanted to do something, but I knew that I couldn't do anything...... If the battle had reached this point, the loss of position No. 5 would have been doomed, and no one would have been able to change this fact.

So I could only watch this tragic scene, watching those heroes fall on the battlefield one by one!

The battle was over in a few minutes......

On the small hill of the No. 5 position, the two squads of our army killed a total of more than 50 Vietnamese soldiers, and all the soldiers of the two squads were sacrificed on the No. 5 position, and none of them flinched.

Later, I learned that before these two squads went to the battlefield, they had written an oath in the army that they would "rather die one step forward than take half a step back." (To be continued......)

PS: I would like to pay tribute to the heroes of the 7th class stationed in the 5th position of Faka Mountain in this chapter! In the Battle of Phaka Mountain, nine people from the 7th squad held the No. 5 position, killed more than 40 Vietnamese soldiers, and all of them died heroically.