"Pass the order on!" When I was waiting for the artillery fire in the direction of the Vietnamese army to be lowered by our army again, I said to Zhao Jingping: "Our purpose is to exchange cannons for howitzers and mortars of the Vietnamese devils, so the gunners on the front line, no matter what the circumstances, must save their lives first!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Jingping responded, and immediately passed this order to the artillery of the first-line cannon.

As it turned out, my order should have been more resolute, that is, it was more appropriate that "no one should be allowed to protect the artillery".

But it seems inappropriate to give such an order, because it is also necessary to protect the artillery on the battlefield, and of course it should be protected if it is possible not to injure one's own life.

So I have room for this order to grasp.

What does it mean to "put life first"? The soldiers on the battlefield, especially the artillerymen, do not know whether they are in danger or not when the shells do not blow up...... Naturally, it is impossible to determine when it is time to carry out the command to "save life first".

In fact, in the final analysis, it was the artillerymen who were unwilling to throw away their guns to carry out my orders.

You must know that the artillery is very familiar with test firing and the like, so when the Vietnamese army began to test fire at our artillery positions, they should have realized that it was time to carry out the order to abandon the artillery and evacuate.

But many of them are reluctant to do so...... This is a phenomenon of the Chinese army, or it can also be said to be a habit, that is, the habit of "the cannon is in the people, and the cannon is dead".

So. Although I have already given the order. But in the end, more than twenty gunners died because they were unwilling to give up their guns.

Of course. At this time, I had no choice but to grit my teeth and hold on.

In fact, if we just look at the numbers in comparison, our artillery still has a big advantage.

The current situation, to put it bluntly, is that the Vietnamese army exchanged the few howitzers or mortars for the cannons of our army...... In this regard, the Vietnamese artillery is indeed commendable.

However, the reality is very cruel, they still follow the traditional artillery bombardment method, using the artillery observers on the old mountain to calculate the coordinates of our cannons, and then use the method of test firing to achieve the goal of guiding artillery fire into our artillery positions.

Although the Vietnamese artillery observers are condescending. Moreover, it should be said that the Vietnamese artillery observers and artillery suzhì were quite good, because in the following artillery battles, they sometimes succeeded in introducing artillery into our artillery positions with only two test shots, and even hit the first shot a few times.

I think this is like what we often say, "when you are strong, you are strong, and when you are weak, you are weak", because the Vietnamese army encountered such accurate and powerful artillery of our army, so strong that they did not have time and opportunity to fire a second shell, so this put a lot of pressure on all units of the Vietnamese army...... The test launch must be completed in the shortest possible time, otherwise there is a high probability that they will not even have a chance to open fire.

This made the Vietnamese artillery much better than usual.

But even so. They were still doomed in this artillery battle...... What our military uses is not a "new type of telescope", but an artillery sighting radar. Accurate and rapid calculation of the enemy's artillery positions with artillery sighting radar.

In addition, at the beginning of the war, I consciously only pushed a part of the cannon into position...... For example, the hilltop position, which could have held five cannons, was pushed up with only two. As a result, the Vietnamese army was able to hit far fewer targets.

So at this time, there was a tragic scene on the battlefield: the artillery of both the enemy and us did not care about their own life and death, and carried out a simple exchange on the battlefield.

To be more precise, it should be that the Vietnamese army completely disregarded life and death and did not care about any price, because every time they fired a cannonball, a large number of shells would soon come up and blow them to pieces along with the artillery, and they were several times more casualties and destroyed artillery than our army.

After more than an hour, the Vietnamese artillery fire finally fell silent.

I think there are two reasons why there is no sound from Vietnamese artillery:

First, after such an exchange of artillery, which was already small in the Vietnamese army, there is now very little left, and it is impossible to continue fighting if it wants to.

Second, the Vietnamese army saw that the cannons in the direction of our army had gradually decreased, and at this time they could no longer pose much of a threat to them, so they planned to stop.

What they don't know is that this is actually a kind of psychological warfare on my part......

In this "exchanged" artillery battle, I have always given the Vietnamese army a kind of hope, that is, the rest of the cannons have not been pushed into the position, and the first batch of thirty cannons has been pushed up on the hilltop position.

This will give the Vietnamese army a wrong understanding, they think that the Chinese soldiers only need to prepare these 30 cannons, as long as they beat these 30 cannons almost, then it means that they can win the strategic victory in this battle, at least their infantry and fortifications stationed on the old mountain will not be threatened by cannons in a short time.

People are often like this, if I am in this "exchange" artillery battle, if one door is broken and one door is pushed, then the Vietnamese army will soon realize that the Chinese soldiers have prepared a large number of cannons, and they will not be able to win in this "exchange" battle and their sacrifice is meaningless, so this "exchange" artillery battle will not continue, and those remaining artillery will also leave us with some hidden escapes.

But now it's different.

Seeing that the Vietnamese artillery was not sustainable, I just nodded at Zhao Jingping, who soon gave an order to the first-line cannons.

Then, in the desperate eyes of the Vietnamese army, more cannons of our army were pushed up to the hilltop position.

So the previous scene was restored in the direction of Lao Son: the howitzers unveiled the skin graft according to the big target, exposed the Vietnamese fortifications under the vegetation, and then bombarded them one by one with cannons.

Some of the Yue devils hiding in the fortifications also knew that they could not escape or hide under such a blow...... If you want to escape, our howitzers and mortars will be completely destroyed immediately, and there was a fortification where 11 Vietnamese soldiers escaped before, and they were all blown into the sky by a salvo of our mortar troops. If you want to hide, the result may be even worse, because it means that they will have to face the cannon, and eventually they will either be buried alive in the collapsed tunnel or be shocked to death.

So soon there was a new situation, when our howitzer unveiled the graft cannon and was ready to start, the Vietnamese soldiers hiding inside often stretched out the white flag, and then several Vietnamese soldiers crawled out tremblingly, kneeling in front of the fortifications waving the white flag and waving and shouting.

"What should I do?" Zhao Jingping looked at me.

Zhao Jingping is asking me if I want to surrender.

At this time, the decision is obviously in the hands of the artillery unit under my command, our infantry is not so stupid, the artillery may open fire at any time, and they dare to go up and accept the surrender?!

I thought about it...... The reason why we have to consider it is because we have experienced too many examples of false surrender of the Vietnamese devils before, and now we have to face a lot of Vietnamese fortifications, if all the fortifications come like this, it will undoubtedly slow down the attack speed of our army and increase the casualties of our infantry.

However, on the other hand, if these surrendered Vietnamese soldiers were killed, it would undoubtedly arouse the mortal spirit of all the Vietnamese troops stationed on Lao Mountain, and this is not what I wanted to see.

So in the end, I still squeezed a few words out of my teeth: "Stop the shelling, let the infantry go up and take the surrender!" ”

On the other hand, I ordered the artillery to aim their guns at the Vietnamese devils who surrendered...... My message to the Yue Devils is that as long as they make any rash moves, then they will soon fly into the sky.

Our infantry apparently knew this as well...... It is said that they are also soldiers who have dealt with a lot of Yue devils on the front line, where will they not know how many tricks the Yue devils have, not to mention that at this time, there are artillery things that can cause great psychological shock can be used, how can they not use them.

So when it was surrendered, our infantry only sent two or three soldiers, with small trumpets, and shouted at those Yue devils from afar: "Nuokong Songye, loyal to the magnanimous poisonous soldiers!" ”

Then the Vietnamese army will obediently pile up the weapons next to them, and slowly raise their hands and walk over.

Of course, there are some special cases in this, such as some Yue devils will tie grenades under their clothes...... This kind of guy is planning to die with the Chinese soldiers, but the funny thing is that before this guy reached the camp of our army, he let the two of his own people next to him suppress and disarm.

Most of the more devils are still quite tenacious in their will to fight, but there are actually not a few more devils who are timid and afraid of death, especially now.

The reason why I say this is because the overall quality of the Vietnamese army is actually no longer than 79 years...... You must know that the Vietnamese army that our army faced at that time was the elite soldiers of the Vietnamese army after decades of war and disarmament.

However, now, on the one hand, the number of casualties of the Vietnamese army on the battlefield continues to increase, and on the other hand, it is necessary to ensure that there are enough troops to garrison the front line, and there is a shortage of troops, which can be seen from the increasing number of female soldiers in the Vietnamese army...... In the past, although there were female soldiers in the Vietnamese army, the proportion was not very large, and these female soldiers did have their advantages, such as Chen Yiyi and Chen Qiaoqiao.

But as the war dragged on, the Vietnamese army had to recruit a large number of young people with little experience from the civilian population to the front...... We will even find teenage children in captivity, so we can also see how far the Vietnamese army has been depleted.

In other words, on the whole, the entire 10 years of the border war against Vietnam were actually a process in which the military strength and national strength of the Vietnamese army were declining, while the military and national strength of China were constantly rising.

This comes and goes, and the difference can not be calculated in the Dao. (To be continued......)