Chapter VI Reconnaissance Operations
In fact, it can also be said that the female correspondent of the Vietnamese army is not smart enough.
If they were smart enough, they should have quietly and perfunctorily scouted the soldiers of the reconnaissance brigade for a few times, and then it would not be too late to warn the other Vietnamese troops after Xu Liangbin and his party walked away.
But these female signal soldiers chose to question Xu Liangbin and his party...... For example, their numbers, what tasks they performed, etc., so Xu Liangbin naturally knew that he had missed something, at least this proved that they were suspicious, so he killed them when he was forced to do so.
Considering that the correspondent has a very important intelligence value, he took the female communication soldier led by him to the captive and brought it back.
I've seen the female correspondent who was brought back, dressed in a fashionable way compared to the other Vietnamese soldiers, with curly hair and a beautiful hairpin...... Although this is nothing for our country, for Vietnam in this era, it is basically rich or expensive to perm hair.
It's just a pity that we can't find out her true identity in the end.
"She's dead!" Master Jiang continued with some helplessness: "The injury on her shoulder was not life-threatening, but we injured her on the front foot, and she tore it open and threw away the back foot, and she deliberately hid the wound. You also know what the result will be, the wound quickly becomes infected, fever develops, and then it ......"
I couldn't help but be speechless, this kind of death was not a pleasure, because it had to endure the pain of illness for days or more.
However, this also seems to prove that she still has nostalgia for this world, that is, she herself does not have the courage to commit suicide, and on the other hand, she is unwilling to survive on her own so that our army has the possibility of obtaining valuable information. So he chose this method to force himself to die.
There are inner contradictions and struggles in this. It's a little unbearable to think about. But war is so cruel, both against the enemy and against us.
From this, I also know that captives are not of great value...... The Vietnamese prisoners didn't provide much useful information, so it was a bit of a loss to risk the reconnaissance team to carry out this mission.
Of course, at this stage, we are only using prisoners to achieve the purpose of actual combat training of the reconnaissance brigade, and on the other hand, it is not right to say that there is no value at all, at least capturing prisoners can increase the pressure on the front-line troops of the Vietnamese army for a considerable amount of time...... Not a single person is lost today, and not a single person is lost tomorrow, which is a rather severe blow to the morale of the troops.
Seeing that the reconnaissance brigade was able to skillfully infiltrate the Vietnamese defense line and carry out some activities within the Vietnamese defense line. We felt it was time for the next phase of training, or action.
At this time, we no longer dare to have the mentality that we don't think it's a big deal like before, after all, we all know that this infiltration into the Vietnamese defense line to carry out the mission is not a joke.
But what kind of tasks to perform?
To be honest, we still had a hard time facing this problem.
As I said before, almost all of the advanced equipment of the poor devil comes from the Soviet Union, and it is obtained for free, which means that blowing up the equipment of the Vietnamese army is of no strategic significance, unless we want to drag down the Soviet Union by blowing up the equipment, but this is impossible.
As for blowing up bridges and roads, this method is generally not useful until the battle is white-hot, such as during the reconquest of Laoshan. We coldly blew up the bridges and roads of the Vietnamese army, so that the supply of the Vietnamese army was interrupted for more than ten hours or even longer. That's a great support for the battle.
But now...... The big battle has ended, and now there is only a little sporadic battle on the front of Lao Son, and it is obvious that the Vietnamese army is no longer able to organize a large-scale counterattack, and our army has no intention of advancing further, so the battle line can be said to be basically stable.
In this case, it is obviously pointless to blow up bridges and roads, it is just to disgust the Vietnamese army engineers.
"I think, let's look for the artillery position of the Yue Devil!" Zhao Jingping said: "Now the Vietnamese troops in front of Laoshan know that our army's artillery sighting radar has withdrawn from the battlefield, so they are raising their heads again, and we are suppressing their arrogance at this time. โ
This might be a good choice.
On the one hand, it is because this is indeed a result, even if it can blow up a few small-caliber artillery pieces of the Vietnamese devils, it is also a reinforcement to the front-line troops of our army that will cause damage to the Vietnamese army.
On the other hand, the task of infiltration targeting the artillery positions of the Vietnamese army was relatively simple. The reason is that when carrying out this task, the members of the reconnaissance brigade do not need to get close to the Vietnamese artillery positions, they only need to lurk far away, and then guide the artillery fire into the designated position, and even their identities will not be exposed.
But......
"If this had been before, it would have been a good choice to target the Vietnamese artillery positions." I said: "But now, after the 7.12 battle, on the one hand, the Vietnamese artillery has been convinced by us, and even if it is raised now, it is all cautious." On the other hand, it is only a matter of seconds for the artillery to hit the Vietnamese artillery or destroy its artillery, and we have to risk the lives of our reconnaissance brigades to carry out such a task...... Isn't that a little unworthy? โ
This is actually very easy to understand, I think even the soldiers will have such a mentality, in the past it was because there was no way, now as long as the artillery radar is turned on, it can be completely and easily suppressed by the Vietnamese artillery, so why bother to infiltrate and reconnoitre.
"What's more." I continued: "Since the Battle of July 12, the Vietnamese artillery has suffered heavy losses, and its artillery must have been no longer large-scale......
Speaking of which, I will set my sights on Staff Officer Wei.
Staff Officer Wei quickly nodded in affirmation of my statement: "According to our intelligence, there is only one regiment of Vietnamese artillery in front of our army, and most of them are mortars that can move quickly. โ
This is actually very easy to understand, and the Vietnamese army will also be worried about what if the Chinese army secretly transports the artillery radar again. Therefore, the large-caliber long-range artillery of the Vietnamese army does not have much survivability, but the kind of large-caliber mortar that can be towed by three wheels on the side is much more practical.
"So......" I said, "in this case, the Vietnamese artillery is relatively scattered, and the dispersion determines that our results will not be great." At the same time, its artillery positions are maneuverable at any time. This made it quite difficult to detect their artillery positions. In a nutshell. That is, it is difficult, dangerous, and the results are small, and the strategic significance is not great. โ
"Of course." Seeing that the cadres nodded frequently, I continued: "The purpose of our formation of the reconnaissance brigade is not entirely to inflict great losses on the Vietnamese army, but to contain the Vietnamese agents, so some comrades think that the results of the battle are not important. However, we said that if the reconnaissance brigade did not achieve certain results, or if it killed 1,000 enemies and lost 800 of its own, then it would not be able to pose a threat to the Vietnamese army. Naturally, it will not be able to contain the Vietnamese army agents, so the two should be unified. โ
"The battalion commander is right." The instructor agreed: "If you just scratch your boots, or put the reconnaissance team itself in danger by blowing up a limited number of artillery pieces, it may not only fail to play a shocking role, but will also make Vietnamese agents laugh." โ
This is also true, you must know that the target of the Vietnamese army's sneak attack is our army's artillery radar, while our target is the Vietnamese army's artillery, which is readily available to us......
"So." In the end, I came to the conclusion: "I think we should choose the Vietnamese army headquarters or arsenal as a target!" โ
The value of these two is obviously higher than that of the Vietnamese artillery.
Needless to say, the Vietnamese army headquarters is something that can't be found by artillery sighting radars, and whether it is wartime or peacetime, a sneak attack on the Vietnamese army headquarters can deal a severe blow to the morale and even talent of the Vietnamese army...... A good group of commanders cannot be trained in a moment. Nor can it be obtained from the Soviet Union.
As for the arsenal, this means that the Vietnamese army will lose money and labor.
It is well known. The Vietnamese army was underdeveloped...... This is actually related to the 79-year self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, when our troops withdrew from Vietnam, they withdrew all the way and blew up bridges and roads. In the next few years, although the Vietnamese army needed to build bridges and roads along the border because of the war on the border, first, because Vietnam was poor and lacked funds, and secondly, because the climate in this area was dry and rainy, the bridges and roads built in the dry season were washed away within a few months of the rainy season.
In fact, the main reason is that our army bombed too hard at the beginning, dozens of kilometers of roads, whether it is bridges or roads, whether it is roads or railways...... Destroying miรจ blasting was carried out, and even the roadbed and bridge foundation were not spared, which made it difficult for the devils to repair.
This is also one of the reasons why the front-line Vietnamese army has been short of supplies in recent years.
As I said before, the Vietnamese army generally only eats a bowl of white rice for a meal, and there are no vegetables, and our army's canned food or compressed biscuits are rare supplies for them, and they have to exchange these things with us with handmade products made of bullet shells, and then bring them to use in battle.
In fact, it is not so difficult in Vietnam, but because of the heavy logistical pressure, in order to be able to transport enough bullets and shells, it can only compress rations.
Therefore, blowing up the arsenal will undoubtedly add to the already overburdened logistics.
This is what I said, only by hurting the Vietnamese devils can the Vietnamese army agents have to see the moves, so we have achieved our goal of containing the Vietnamese army agents.
After all, the Vietnamese army also knew that our army had artillery sighting radars, and the Vietnamese army, which was unwilling to admit defeat and had more direct ideas, had been trying to deal with artillery targeting radars with local methods...... In other words, this is also the tradition of the Vietnamese army, and when they faced all kinds of high technology of the US army, they also used local methods to defeat them, and now when facing our army's artillery sighting radar, the first thing that comes to mind is naturally the use of local methods.
The goal is settled, and the rest becomes simpler.
Our first step was to set our sights on the Vietnamese army's large arsenal, something like a transit depot...... Having fought on the battlefield, we know very well that in order to facilitate the management of ammunition, the munitions brought from the rear are usually transported to a large arsenal in a unified manner, and then continuously transported to the front line in different directions and routes according to the different needs of the front line.
The reason why we chose such a large arsenal from the beginning is that we know that special operations are not the same as ordinary operations. The biggest difference is that this kind of special operation is the easier it is to fight at the beginning, just like capturing prisoners, the Vietnamese army was not prepared at all at the beginning, so we hit one by one, and later the Vietnamese army will set a trap and wait for us to jump down after it has defense.
The same is true for special operations against arsenals and the command of the Vietnamese army. Therefore, we should start from the beginning, and the more we go forward, the higher the vigilance of the Vietnamese army, and the more likely or difficult it is for us to succeed.
Of course, this is also a challenge for the reconnaissance brigade, because the location of the transit station is generally a place with more developed transportation and a denser population, for example, our army's transfer station is located in Kunming, which has an airport and a railway station.
And the transit station of the Vietnamese army, from Chen Qiaoqiao's mouth, we know that it is located in Lao Cai...... Lao Cai is a transportation hub, with roads and waterways leading to various places, as well as a railway directly to Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, where all kinds of ammunition and supplies can be collected by guรฒ vehicles and boats.
Obviously, this meant for the reconnaissance brigade to infiltrate Lao Cai without being detected by the Vietnamese military and civilians in Lao Cai.
However, this is also an opportunity for the reconnaissance brigade, which is the so-called fishing in troubled waters, and only in places with many people can the reconnaissance brigade get close to the arsenal and launch a sneak attack on it.
"It's not an easy task." "Although I know very well the exact location of this arsenal in Lao Cai, the management of the Vietnamese arsenal is very strict, and every team that goes to the arsenal to collect ammunition has to go through several checks, such as passwords, documents, etc., and even then they still have no direct access to the arsenal," Chen Qiaoqiao said. โ
I know this, the Vietnamese army's method is to have a transit point between the arsenal and the troops receiving the ammunition, just like the arsenal we came into contact with when we infiltrated the "underground Great Wall" in Lao Cai...... Vietnamese troops who collect ammunition and supplies must wait outside, and the staff of the arsenal will deliver the ammunition they need to the transit station according to the order.
In other words, if we disguise ourselves as Vietnamese soldiers receiving ammunition, then we can only reach this transit station.
This was apparently to prevent the enemy from infiltrating the forces and posing a threat to its arsenal...... After all, the Vietnamese army is a unit that has fought for decades, and at the same time, they are also good at special operations, and the troops who are good at special operations naturally know how to prevent the enemy's special operations.
Of course, it is also impossible to storm the arsenal, because first, the Vietnamese army has very tight defenses against the arsenal, and second, it is impossible for the number of people of our army's reconnaissance brigade to infiltrate into it. (To be continued......)