I guessed correctly, the Vietnamese artillery shelling continued until the sun was about to set......

It should be said that at this time, the shelling of the Vietnamese army did not stop, not only did not stop, but intensified, and there were several smoke bombs mixed in with it...... As a result, the several highlands that had been bombed to smoke were even darker at this time.

At this time, the Vietnamese infantry moved...... The Yue Devils were very careful in their movements, as I had thought before, they were moving in a low posture through the shadow of the setting sun.

I have to admit that the Vietnamese commander's plan is indeed very good...... It is important to know that at this time, Phaka Mountain was sandwiched between the two heights of our army, Pu Liude Heights and Zhaoka Mountain Heights, and the Vietnamese army attacked Phaka Mountain from any direction...... will be subjected to side fire from both directions of Puliude and Takasan...... The Vietnamese army had suffered this before, and in their last attack on Phaka Mountain, their frontal charge was basically repelled by mortar fire from Pu Liude, Zhao Ka Shan and the rear.

Because of this experience, the Vietnamese army will naturally no longer casually launch an attack on Phaka Mountain...... Just as they are doing now, riding the afterglow of this setting sun to move in the shadows, plus the three heights of the front line were bombed everywhere with smoke and dust...... At this time, when you start a charge, few people will notice, and even if you do...... The rays of the setting sun and the smoke and dust of gunpowder also greatly reduced the accuracy of the defenders' shooting, which made it very likely that the Vietnamese troops would rush to position 3 on Phaka Mountain...... And once they rushed to position No. 3...... Then the balance of victory will soon tilt in the direction of the Vietnamese army.

Fortunately, we were prepared for this......

We didn't wait for these fifteen minutes...... Every minute and every second on the battlefield is precious, and we now have fifteen minutes more...... We still don't have a good grasp of the truth.

Of course...... I don't need to worry about these things, otherwise wouldn't all my staff officers have nothing to do?!

What I'm going to do...... It was Zhao Jingping who reported to me the battle plan they had discussed in a short period of time. I'll just nod my head!

Zhao Jingping's preparations mainly did the following......

The first is, of course, to contact the artillery units and prepare them...... This is the most important force in coordinated operations. Because time is limited at this time...... It's only a short fifteen minutes. This means that in those fifteen minutes...... It's not fifteen minutes yet, so we have to leave more time to prepare for the next step. In other words...... We had to get in touch with as many artillery units as possible in a matter of minutes.

Of course, the artillery units mentioned here are by no means just mortar units...... Although the main body of this battle should be the mortar unit, because the enemy launched an attack on the anti-slope of Mount Faka, which was a dead end for long-range artillery. But this does not mean that long-range artillery units do not need to prepare...... Otherwise, what if the Vietnamese long-range artillery suddenly suppressed our mortar position? This will not only cause losses to our mortar troops, but will also waste an opportunity to strike at the Vietnamese artillery.

This matter was quickly entrusted to King Chuang, who was an artillery staff officer...... It is much more sensitive to the terms or coordinate data between artillery than others. Therefore, the contact and communication with the artillery of various units has always been done by him.

The second is to make the helicopter units combat-ready......

It's only now that I've realized how useful helicopters are on the battlefield, like now...... In this kind of smoky battlefield, the only thing that can accurately hit the devils is the helicopter...... They can be said to have almost no dead spots on the battlefield, and they can observe the movements of the enemy forces in close range and in all directions, and can provide valuable information to our troops behind the battle line at any time.

The last thing was to have several helicopters with several artillery observers on board to take off urgently.

The helicopters are tasked with...... Get in touch with our mortar troops, and be ready to provide coordinates for the mortar units to guide them to pursue and kill the Vietnamese troops. There were even a couple of artillery observers who had some time left...... So he commanded the mortar unit to conduct one or two test firings.

Needless to say, the purpose of the test launch...... The purpose is to see if the coordinates provided can be accurately typed in the expected position.

The reason why we are so confident and bold to test the ...... It is because at this time the Phaka Mountain has been blown into pieces, and at this time, we will not attract the attention of the Vietnamese army if we blow a few shells on the anticline of Phaka Mountain, because they will want to...... Maybe this is the result of your own artillery getting closer...... After all, this is very possible, the mortars of the Vietnamese army are all mobile guns, and after a few rounds, they have to shift their positions and then re-observe the target and open fire...... This is a lot of conversions. It's inevitable that mistakes will be made when you're busy.

And that's exactly what happened...... Although the target of the Vietnamese artillery was the anti-slope of Phaka Mountain, in fact, there were quite a few shells that fell on the positive slope. This also made the effect of our army's test firing not very ideal, because our artillery observers could not determine which shells were fired by our artillery! So after two test shots...... They thought that there was no need to take the risk of exposing our military's plans to complete the test launch, so they gave up the test launch, which was an action that was somewhat more rewarding than worth the loss.

I watched through the telescope at the two Vietnamese companies that were touching up to Phaka Mountain, but Zhao Jingping, King Chuang, and other staff officers on the side looked at me with nervous faces......

I know why they are so nervous about Lu, at this time, the Vietnamese army has already touched the halfway point of Phaka Mountain, if they don't fight again...... The more devils are likely to invade the limit of our army's mortar blockade, and this limit is the position where the shells may accidentally injure their own people.

But I never gave the order to shell, but continued to wait......

Until the original fierce artillery fire of the Yue devil suddenly stagnated...... This is the moment I waited, because I knew very well that if the Vietnamese infantry wanted to rush up, the Vietnamese mortars would definitely reduce the bombardment density or even stop the bombardment...... The Vietnamese army is also worried about accidentally injuring their own people!

And this is when the Vietnamese army shouted and launched a charge on the No. 3 position of our army...... The Vietnamese army would even think that Position 3 was within easy reach for them at this time, but they would soon find out that they were wrong, and they were very wrong!

"Put!" I squeezed a word out between my teeth.

King Chuang, who got the order, immediately shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Release!" ”

All of a sudden, there was a roar of cannon...... The sound of the artillery sounded almost the moment the artillery of the Yue Devils stopped, and the mortars of the two mortar regiments poured countless shells on the anticline of Faka Mountain almost at the same time......

At this time, the Vietnamese troops halfway up the anticline of Phaka Mountain thought that the artillery should stop bombing at this time, so they shouted and rushed to the No. 3 position as fast as they could......

So we smashed a batch of shells head-on and immediately blew up the Yue devils on their backs, and I could clearly see in the telescope that the Yue devils were thrown into the air by the shells and then fell to the foot of Mount Faka!

What's even more ridiculous is ...... A considerable number of the commanders of these Vietnamese infantry thought that it was a mistakenly bombing by their own mortar unit, so they all shouted wildly on the walkie-talkie: "What's the matter? Didn't it say that the artillery would stop bombing? Why are you still frying? And it's blowing up on our own heads! Immediately order the artillery to stop the bombardment! ”

That's what I'm looking for...... The Vietnamese army will have such a misunderstanding, which means that they will continue to charge...... They thought the shell would stop soon, so despite the heavy casualties they inflicted on it, the commander continued to order them to charge forward......

So for the Vietnamese army, this tragedy happened...... Groups of Vietnamese troops were driven out of their bunkers by the commanders and charged forward, and another was blown to pieces by our artillery fire...... You must know that there are only a few roads that can be taken on this Faka Mountain, and we can use two artillery regiments to blockade it so that we can completely block the route of their charge, but the Vietnamese army still drilled into this wall of fire in batches.

Finally...... Seven or eight minutes later, the Vietnamese commanders realized that it was not a "mistaken" bombing by their own artillery, but a shell from a Chinese soldier...... So they finally stopped directing their men to rush upward, but by this time it seemed too late, and their troops had suffered heavy casualties in just a few minutes!

But the Vietnamese army did not want to admit defeat...... In my opinion, a wise commander should admit defeat at this point and pull the troops back immediately.

The reason is simple...... At this time, we were able to accurately grasp the time when the Vietnamese mortars stopped bombing, and at the first time carried out an artillery blockade of the Vietnamese army's "surprise attack", in this case...... If the Vietnamese commanders were still sensible, they should understand that their "surprise attack" was no longer a surprise attack, and that the enemy had probably prepared for it in advance...... In other words, there is a high probability that there is a trap in front of them.

But what is clear is ...... Although the commander of the Vietnamese army is talented, that is, when I knew the planning of the Vietnamese army in the Dao Dao...... I lamented that the commander of the Vietnamese army could make such a plan. But he didn't seem to be sane enough...... As it is now, not only did he not pull back the troops on the battlefield...... Instead, they sent one additional company to support, and then charged again......

However, there is nothing surprising that the Vietnamese army's performance on the battlefield often feels so crazy and incredible...... Perhaps the Vietnamese commander had in mind that the Chinese soldiers at Phaka Hill had already suffered heavy casualties at this time, as long as they could break through the artillery blockade and reach position No. 3...... Then the victory is theirs! (To be continued......)