I can very well understand the expression of the soldiers of the first battalion, because I know what kind of role they played in the Vietnamese army's "encirclement and reinforcement" operation.

Of course, we know that this is not just a matter of fighting, but a game of "cat and mouse", the Vietnamese army is a cat, our army is a mouse, the Vietnamese army can eat our army at any time but deliberately does not do so, and this also uses a fatigue offensive, hunger offensive, etc., these tactics are all a kind of psychological torture for the besieged soldiers, if it were not for the soldiers' willpower is more firm, they are afraid that they would have committed suicide because of the collapse.

However, just when they thought that they had no hope of living, and even when they were ready to give their lives to stop the other troops, a way of life suddenly appeared in front of them, how could this not make them cry with joy.

"Thank you, comrade, thank you!" A cadre with a black face holding my hand over and over again, he is still a strong one, and there is still no tears on his face.

"Are you Company Commander Xu or Company Commander Jiang?" I asked.

From the information I got from the 703rd Regiment, I know that these six platoons have two company commanders, one surnamed Xu and the other surnamed Jiang.

"Report!" One of the cadres stepped forward and replied: "My surname is Jiang, may I ask comrade ...... you?"

"I'm Yang Xuefeng, the commander of the synthetic battalion!"

"Hmm!" Company Commander Jiang couldn't help but light up his eyes: "It turns out that you are the synthetic battalion, no wonder you can occupy the main peak so unknowingly, and no wonder you can fly down from the main peak......"

"Fly?" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this, and then I quickly thought that Company Commander Jiang was referring to the trick we used to use paragliders.

The word "flying" to describe paragliding may be an exaggeration to us. But for Company Commander Jiang and his party, it is worthy of the name. The reason was that they were in the trough of smoke at that time. I didn't know what was going on, and suddenly I saw dozens of our soldiers falling from the sky like gods.

This makes some superstitious people among our soldiers believe that we are their "saviors", and that it is Yunyun, the messenger sent by God to save us...... In this era, the cultural experience of our soldiers is generally not high, and the cultural process is not high, which means that there will inevitably be some people who believe in superstition.

In fact, having said that, superstition is ubiquitous even in modern societies with a high level of culture.

This superstition is unacceptable if it is in our political thinking, but it plays an unexpectedly positive role in this battle...... It was precisely because many fighters believed that "the heavens will not kill him", so they quickly mustered up morale and joined the ranks of breaking through.

Otherwise, in the state of a battalion at this time. There are wounded soldiers and lack of food and ammunition, even if there is no resistance from the Vietnamese army, it is difficult to maneuver to the main peak in more than an hour.

"And what about Company Commander Xu?" I asked.

He ...... Sacrificed! Company Commander Jiang replied gloomily: "After he was wounded, he insisted on leaving the medicine for other soldiers, and as a result, the wound became infected......

"Oh!" I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "I have been on the battlefield in Vietnam, of course, I know what the result of refusing medicine after being injured in this jungle full of poisonous mosquitoes and bacteria will be, and it is no exaggeration to say that this result is predictable and worse than sacrificing under the guns of the enemy." It is a pleasure to die under the enemy's gun, and if you are injured and infected, you will face fever, inflammation of the mouth, and maggots...... Then he slowly died in torture.

Therefore, it is difficult for me to imagine that a company commander would be willing to leave medicine to the soldiers, after all, a company commander is more important than a soldier in battle, right?

Although this is indeed an objective fact. Although this company commander Xu did a stupid thing, it was precisely because of such stupid things that our army made the entire army unified.

This may be what we often call the spirit of the army. It used to be hard for me to understand this, but now I'm used to it.

Later, I learned that these platoons of the first battalion were able to successfully reach the main peak not only because of the above reasons, but also because the commander of the Jiang company in front of me also made a lot of efforts.

Because when an army is on the verge of collapse, it is most necessary to have a leader or a strong will, and if there is no such person, then the whole army is likely to do extreme things because of the extreme demoralization. For example, I couldn't stand the torture and chose to die with the Vietnamese army, etc.

Company Commander Jiang is such a person, he keeps cheering up these soldiers under him, and constantly does the ideological work of the soldiers, so these soldiers have persisted until now.

"Count the casualties, and then go down and rest!" I said, "Recharge your energy and prepare to defend the main peak with our battalion!" ”

"Yes!" Company Commander Jiang responded.

The statistics soon came out, the casualties were much higher than I had imagined, the actual number of six platoons reaching the main peak was only one hundred and five, and only about fifty of them were still capable of fighting, and even some of these fifty or so were slightly wounded.

I couldn't help but sigh secretly: The Vietnamese army is not stupid, they know that there is not a lot of people who "encircle the point and send reinforcements", and even the more people they have, the more difficult it is for them to control them, so they have a planned and step-by-step "clean-up" of some people.

But in any case, we still succeeded in rescuing these people, which was a victory for our army both tactically and strategically.

I think that the Vietnamese commander was only afraid to jump to his feet when he heard the news, who would have thought that a Chinese army that was originally used as a decoy would now not only successfully escape from their encirclement, but also become a force to defend the main peak.

Then I quickly grasped the anger of the Vietnamese army, because the soldiers of the first battalion had just been settled...... Settling in here is just a matter of moving them to pre-dug trenches and anti-artillery holes. Of course, before that we will send them the necessary food and water.

The Vietnamese artillery fire soon came up, like last time, these artillery fire was still mortar, the difference is that this time the Vietnamese bombardment is much more intensive than before, and it is also much more violent, and the shells only blow up our army's hilltop position is flying sand and rocks, and the smoke of gunpowder is filled.

I QUICKLY JUDGED FROM THE SOUND OF THE EXPLOSION AND THE UNUSUALLY VIOLENT VIBRATION THAT THIS WAS A 120MM HEAVY MORTAR OF THE VIETNAMESE ARMY.

We have learned this thing before, and I remember that in a previous battle, the Vietnamese army also sacrificed this large-caliber mortar, and the shells it fired with a delay fuse destroyed our army's fortifications over and over again.

But I am well aware that large-caliber mortars like this also have a weakness with other heavy equipment, and that is the difficulty of logistical supply.

OF COURSE, COMPARED WITH THE 122MM HOWITZER, THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS 120MM CALIBER IN LOGISTICS SUPPLY ARE STILL QUITE OBVIOUS, BECAUSE THE WEIGHT OF ITS SHELLS IS ONLY ONE-HALF OF THAT OF THE HOWITZER, AND THE WEIGHT OF THE GUN BODY IS EVEN ONLY ONE-TENTH OF THAT OF THE HOWITZER, BUT ITS MORE THAN TEN POUNDS OF SHELLS WILL UNDOUBTEDLY EXERT CONSIDERABLE PRESSURE ON LOGISTICS IN TRANSPORTATION AND OPERATIONS.

So at first, I didn't think that the Vietnamese army would mobilize a large number of heavy mortars against us in such a short period of time, and even if the Vietnamese army had artillery, it would not be able to transport many shells!

BUT APPARENTLY I WAS WRONG, BECAUSE NOW THE MORTAR SHELLS OF 120MM CALIBER ARE SOLIDLY SMASHING ON THE MAIN PEAK POSITION.

LATER, I LEARNED THAT THE VIET NAM ARMY'S 120MM HEAVY PRESSURE COULD BE ADJUSTED TO THE DIRECTION OF THE MAIN PEAK SO QUICKLY BECAUSE...... In fact, the Vietnamese army was ready to use mortars to fire back at our artillery early on, that is, these mortars were not actually used against us.

This strategy is a bit like the one of Tian Ji horse racing...... The Vietnamese army knew that its long-range artillery was far inferior to that of the Chinese army, and it could not be compared with our army in terms of quantity or logistics and transportation, so in this battle, the Vietnamese army simply did not increase the number of its own long-range artillery and shells, anyway, no matter how desperate it was, it still couldn't compare with the Chinese army!

So the Vietnamese army cleverly shifted the focus of increasing firepower, that is, equipping a large number of heavy mortars.

In this way, the superiority of the Vietnamese army's artillery fire can smoothly avoid the edge of our army, first of all, under the same transport capacity, one howitzer can transport two heavy mortar shells, and one howitzer can transport more than a dozen heavy mortar shells.

Secondly, heavy mortars are very easy to maneuver and are suitable for mobile warfare in artillery warfare.

Thirdly, the heavy pressure can be fired in a position close to the anticline, that is, in the dead corner of our army's long-range artillery fire, which makes our army have a long-range artillery fire that is more powerful than the Vietnamese army, but can only stare at the Vietnamese army's heavy force.

Just like what we are experiencing now, the Vietnamese mortars are fighting happily at our hilltop positions, but our troops are simply unable to suppress them.

I have to admit that the Vietnamese army was very wise in this move.

These heavy mortars were originally scattered in all directions of the Kulin Mountain, and their mission was to provide fire cover for the eight forward positions.

However, after the main peak was taken by our army with lightning speed, the Vietnamese army realized that if it wanted to keep the forward position, the key was whether it could snatch the main peak back, so it immediately pulled a heavy force regiment to the foot of the main peak where we were stationing.

The shelling lasted for more than 20 minutes, and when the artillery fire finally stopped, I asked Zhao Jingping with some anger: "Where is our mortar unit?" Why not suppress? ”

"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping replied a little helplessly: "Most of our mortars are light mortars, and it would be good if these mortars could hit such a height as the main peak, not to mention suppressing the heavy mortar troops of the Vietnamese army!" ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but curse secretly: I didn't expect this more devil to give us an unexpected surprise.

In this way, I am afraid that it means that the future war will not be as smooth as we imagined. (To be continued......)