Chapter 51: Anticline Tactics

The Vietnamese offensive soon began, just as I expected...... As soon as they formed a line of defense with tanks, they went on the offensive.

The usual artillery bombardment began, but this time the Vietnamese bombardment focused on the hilltop position...... Obviously, they were worried that we would be laying mines there again. Then a team of more than a dozen people came up to "step on the thunder......

What the Yue Devils didn't expect at all was that this time we had completely abandoned the defense of the hilltop position, which surprised those Yue Devils who were responsible for stepping on the mines, and they never planned to go back alive at all, so they never thought that this mission would be so easy, so they checked back and forth on the hilltop position several times before reporting the situation to the Vietnamese army in the rear.

This time, the devil is a little overwhelmed...... This kind of psychology is actually understandable, and when a victory comes too easily on the battlefield, then you have to think about whether it is a trap. Obviously, the Vietnamese army has this mentality...... As a result, the Vietnamese army did not dare to send a large number of troops to rush to the top of the hill...... In the end, only one platoon was sent to touch it carefully.

From this point on, I seem to have made a mistake...... I should give full play to the set of "there is fiction in reality, and there is reality in fiction", and the devil thinks that he has defeated us. This will at least allow the Yue Devil to lose some more troops.

But then again, take the initiative to abandon the hilltop position and use the anticline to fight...... The more devils are no strangers to this set.

In fact, this trick was first used by our army when it was dealing with little Japan...... Many people think that the hilltop position is not the commanding heights? Doesn't giving up the initiative put the initiative in the hands of the enemy? What's in it for you?

But this is a helpless choice...... The reason is that the artillery firepower of our army is inferior to that of the enemy, and the artillery is inferior to the enemy. Then holding the hilltop position will suffer heavy casualties. The position is dead. It takes people to defend. If everyone is finished, the position will naturally not be able to hold. So...... Concessions to positions and terrain on the battlefield are sometimes necessary, and the goal is to preserve the survival of Liliang and persist in the struggle against the enemy.

It would be different if you abandoned this hilltop position, first of all, the enemy's long-range artillery fire and direct-aim artillery fire, as well as fire cover units, such as howitzers, recoilless guns, tank guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc., will be ineffective...... These are all low angles of fire or straight lines, aren't they? The hilltop position is in the way!

Only mortars can work, but mortars will also have no target because they can't see the back of the mountain...... One might say that it was possible to direct firing from the hilltop positions with artillery observers...... First of all, the artillery observers had to save their lives.

All in all...... Taking the initiative to abandon the position on the top of the mountain is a way of playing that chooses to sacrifice the small and take the big when the firepower is absolutely weak. In the words of the old man, it is: "Give up a little geographical advantage, and greatly weaken the advantage of the enemy's firepower!" ”

Since the founding of our army, it can be said that almost all wars have been fought under the weakness of firepower...... First Little Japan, then the Kuomintang, and then the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Indian border conflicts (the only exception to this was the Sino-Indian conflict of '62, in which the Chinese army had an advantage in equipment).

Therefore, it is only natural that this kind of anti-slope tactics will be carried forward in our army, especially in the era of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, because at that time there was the greatest disparity between the enemy's equipment and our equipment...... We still use the weapons made by all countries in the World War II era, but we are dealing with the Yankees' aircraft artillery...... But the Yankees' aircraft and artillery were stunned and could not push the front forward. The secret lies in the fact that the Chinese military used the tactics of combining anti-slope planes with tunnels, which greatly weakened the role of the US military's modern equipment.

The same. The Yue devil also fought the Yankees a few years ago...... Of course, they also knew that the Chinese army had used weak equipment to fight the Yankees on the border between the two Koreas, so it was logical...... Like vampires, they learned a lot of tactics from us and applied them in real combat.

Instead...... It is ourselves, but because of the turmoil of ten years and the long time without training, we have forgotten the experience and tactics of our ancestors in exchange for blood and lives.

The reason why I remember this set is thanks to the old man.

I remember the old man saying, "Fight with the Yue devils...... The artillery fire of our army is generally fiercer than that of the devils, so the anticline is not commonly used, but if the cannonballs can't be connected for a while, then the anticline tactics are your magic weapon to save your life! ”

Right now...... I think that's where this magic weapon comes in.

This anticline tactic is very mysterious, in fact, it is to build several trenches on the anticline according to the terrain and the characteristics of our enemy and our equipment...... As for how many roads to build, it depends on time or effort.

At the extreme, the more the merrier...... The more trenches, the more we can block layer by layer, right?

However, human strength and time on the battlefield are limited, so we have to build only three trenches in a hurry.

The first trench was the most important and dangerous, because it was only about forty meters from the hilltop position.

One saw forty meters...... I think many people know that this distance is the range of throwing grenades. Yes, indeed...... This trench was set up specifically for throwing grenades. The fighters hiding in this trench could easily throw grenades up the hilltop position......

As now, at my command, the soldiers in the first trench set fire the haode grenades they had prepared and threw them at the top of the hill. Then there was a chaotic sound of "boom" on the hilltop position, and only the devil screamed strangely.

Some might say...... The more devils have occupied the commanding heights, and they are on the top of the mountain...... The grenade must have been thrown farther than us, and since we can throw the grenade on the hilltop position, the more devils will definitely be able to throw the grenade into our trench. You can even say ...... A grenade would be more lethal if it exploded in a semi-enclosed space such as a trench.

There's nothing wrong with that...... But if this trench was so simple, it would have been impossible for the volunteers to defeat the Yankees on the battlefield of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, right?

The trick is ...... The trench had to be dug narrower, and all the earth had to be dug up on the side of the hilltop position. Naturally, there was a bulge on the side of the hill near the hilltop position, and the other side of the trench was much lower than that......

For such trenches...... One can imagine what will happen to the grenades dropped by the Vietnamese troops from the hilltop position. Like I see it now...... The Vietnamese did throw grenades in the direction of our troops, but these grenades were either blocked by the salient and exploded in front of the trench, or they jumped from the salient to the other side of the trench and exploded...... Hardly any grenade can be thrown into the trenches.

In other words...... It's that our army's grenades can hit the devils, but the devils can't hit us.

And what about the weishenme saying they are dangerous? The reason is that it is too close to the devil...... At a distance of more than 40 meters, it only takes a few seconds for the Vietnamese devils to rush down from above, and at this time, the PLA soldiers in the first trench will be exposed to the guns of the Vietnamese army without even a quick reaction.

So there is a second line of trenches...... The second line of trenches is about two hundred meters away from the first, and at this distance, the weapons of our troops can not only hit the hilltop positions of the Vietnamese troops, but also provide fire cover for the first line of trenches...... The trench was furnished with a large number of AK47 and Type 56 submachine guns and rocket launchers, as well as squad machine guns.

This is a distance that Vietnamese grenades cannot reach, and if the Vietnamese army wants to break through the first line of defense...... That would undoubtedly have to break through the firepower network consisting of the second line of defense.

This is not? The two lines of defense cooperated with a fierce attack on the hilltop position, and the bullets on the second line of defense could not hit many enemies...... This is because the bottom-up hit has an elevation angle, so it is difficult to hit an enemy lying on his stomach. But it can crush the enemy on the hilltop position and immobilize, so the fighters of the first line of defense can throw grenades at the hilltop position.

Anyway, there are plenty of grenades and they are cheap, and there are dozens of boxes of ammunition from the rear that can be carried for us to carry casually, so there is no need to think about whether there is enough at all.

As for the third and defensive lines...... It is more than 600 meters away from the summit position...... This is the limit of the range of the Vietnamese M16, but it is within the range of machine guns, heavy machine guns and mortars, so several machine guns and mortars are arranged here to suppress the fire of the Vietnamese army's hilltop position.

Another, more important ...... That is, once the fighters of the first line of trenches can no longer hold on, they can retreat to the third line of trenches through the communication trenches under the cover of the fire of the second and third trenches......

Some people may say that if the Yue devil occupies the first trench, won't he be able to use that trench to confront our army?

This is another wonderful thing about the first trench, its unique design of high in front and low in the back makes it a trap in itself, a trap that is both simple and practical......

I don't know if the Vietnamese army we're facing knows this, or if they're trained by the U.S. military and are not familiar with this anti-slope tactic, so I wanted to try them.

So I asked Scar to put the Yue devil down through the walkie-talkie......

The so-called put-and-go, that is, the fighters of the first trench retreated through the communication trenches, and the firepower of the second trench was collected.

Unexpectedly, as soon as our firepower was so collected, the more devils thought that we were running out of ammunition...... The Vietnamese devils have enough reason to believe this, after all, our army's ammunition depot has been "blown up" by Vietnamese agents, isn't it? So they were waiting for this moment, so they shouted like a tidal wave and rushed over the hilltop position...... (To be continued......)