Chapter 208 Mortars

At first, I wasn't sure if the Yue Devil would underestimate the enemy, but when I saw the Yue Devil transfer the mortar to the edge of the jungle and assemble it with a swagger, I knew that the Yue Devil underestimated us.

The Vietnamese army judged that a squad of seven people could also get closer to the high ground where the enemy had been stationed more than 100 meters, which showed that the enemy's firepower was not very strong; Moreover, in the case of such a close distance, it took more than 20 shots to annihilate seven targets, which shows that the marksmanship is not very accurate. Preliminary estimates of the composition of the enemy's fire were three to four 56 and a half ...... As for the comrade-in-arms who was killed at a distance of 400 meters, the PLA can also hit a target more than 400 meters away with accurate marksmanship, maybe it is luck.

So the Vietnamese army didn't take us seriously at all...... It was most suitable to deal with such a target mortar hiding in a civilian house, so I didn't think much about it, so I turned the mortar up.

The reason why the Yue devils dared to do this was mainly because the edge of the jungle was more than 400 meters away from our location, and they knew very well that our army's 56 and a half could only hit targets within 400 meters, while the range of mortars was several kilometers...... So it's a situation where they can beat us, but we can't beat them.

But what they didn't expect was that I was holding a sniper rifle in my hand......

At first, I also aimed my scope at the gunners who adjusted the elements, but then I thought about it: all of these devils have excellent military quality, and there are more people in a unit who can shoot mortars, and it seems that I can't kill a few gunners like this, they are just a few people.

With that in mind, I aimed my crosshair at the mortar that had just been assembled.

At this time, I couldn't help frowning...... The difficulty comes from two sides, one is that the mortar is 82 mm caliber. In addition, the barrel of the gun is no more than the thickness of a calf. In other words...... I was going to hit a calf at a distance of more than 400 meters.

Another. It's just that I'm not sure if this can achieve the purpose of scrapping the mortar, saying that this American equipment is very sophisticated, and the other meaning of precision is that the internal parts are compact, and any little sand or dust can make American equipment problematic. So I believe that if this mortar had been American-style equipment, it would probably not have been able to fire this shot in the past. However, the Vietnamese army was equipped with Soviet-style equipment......

Later, I learned that in fact, the structure of the mortar is very simple, and there are basically no internal parts. It's just that there is a thimble at the bottom of the barrel.

But at the time, I didn't care so much, Zuihou still decided to use the dead horse as a live horse doctor, and it didn't matter if I tried.

So he immediately aimed at the barrel of the mortar, held his breath, and then pulled the trigger......

"Bang!" A gunshot was followed by a "clang" of metal, and the mortar quickly fell to the side under the impact of the bullets.

This scene couldn't help but stunned the gunners who had just assembled it, maybe it was hard for them to imagine that anyone would target a mortar and still be able to hit it from a distance of 400 meters...... Then it quickly occurred to them that if someone could hit a mortar at this distance, it would be easy to hit them.

So in the next second, they all fled in the direction of the jungle.

However, the performance of the three is different, and one is running wild. One cat scurried on his waist, and the other crawled on his stomach in the direction of the jungle.

I quickly judged the difference between them. The one who ran wild was probably a recruit, and the shot had made him unable to hold his breath and flee without exposing a large part of his body. So he was the easiest to take off, and I barely had time to aim before I shot him to the ground.

Then there is the cat's waist and scurry...... He was the smartest and quickest of the three, and they were only a dozen meters away from the jungle, so a low-risk sprint was the best option, as it didn't expose too much area and didn't give me much time to aim and shoot.

This is not? It was only the time I had killed a Vietnamese soldier who was almost in the jungle.

It's a pity that he ended up slowing down...... Just as he was about to duck into a tree trunk, a bullet I fired knocked him to the ground in time.

The remaining Vietnamese soldier ...... Although he said that his quality was good enough, and he fell to the ground and crawled forward at the first time, he was not smart enough...... There was nothing wrong with crawling forward, but it was wrong that he gave me so much time that he only climbed half way after I killed two Vietnamese soldiers.

You know, if he walks in a low posture like the second Vietnamese soldier, then I can only choose one of the two of them...... It's a pity that they didn't cooperate tacitly, so I Zuihou fired a bullet to complete the feat of annihilating these artillerymen.

Perhaps it was only then that the Vietnamese commander realized that he was wrong: it was not a few 56 and a half nor ordinary PLA soldiers who were aiming at them on the opposite high ground, but a sniper armed with a sniper rifle. However, by this time he had already paid a heavy price, three mortarists plus a mortar......

It wasn't long before I was convinced that the mortar was dead, and that it was the only mortar that the Vietnamese had carried, because there was no mortar in the subsequent battles, and the mortar that I had broken was ...... The Vietnamese army didn't even bother to carry it back.

When I thought about it later, it was the bullet I hit the mortar that had dented the mortar barrel or deformed it a little. You must know that the penetration of sniper bullets is still very large, and the mortar and the shell must be very tight, the barrel is almost just enough to allow the shell to slide in, and in a relatively confined space, the thimble ignites the bottom fire of the shell (there is an embedded propellant at the tail of the mortar shell, commonly known as the "primer") to fire the shell...... As a result, as long as the barrel is a little deformed, the shell will not be able to plug in, and even slide to the bottom but not hit the primer because of the unsmooth gliding......

In short, the Vietnamese army's initial light on the enemy made it very easy for me to deal with an effective weapon against us -- mortars.

This scene made Bu Chen, who was watching it, shout "Fight beautifully!" The female soldiers hiding in the second line also let out cheers...... At first, I wondered how they would know about my shooting when they were all behind, but when I turned around, I realized that they were poking their heads out of my rooftop fortifications to watch the battle!

The Vietnamese troops, on the other hand, were so angry that they swept through our positions with machine guns and submachine guns...... It's just conceivable that their kind of untargeted strafing will not pose any threat to us at all.

Perhaps to boost morale or to vent their resentment, the Vietnamese army soon launched a charge.

This time it was a platoon that came up...... Like the rest of the Vietnamese army, most of them had AK47s in their hands, including three rocket launchers, and a few light machine guns set up in the jungle as cover for fire.

Obviously, the Vietnamese army wanted to let those bazookas rush within range and shoot at close range at the houses where we were under the cover of firepower and troops.

Seeing the Vietnamese army in this posture made me feel a little relieved, because from this I knew that the Vietnamese commander was not a clever commander, otherwise...... It is impossible for him to be so breathless and misjudge the situation on the battlefield one after another.

First of all, the previous light enemy, and now only one platoon was arranged to charge with bazookas.

To know...... In the case of insufficient firepower of our troops, especially when the two of us only have a slower 56 and a half and a sniper rifle in our hands (our army has an AK47 in the second line, but the Vietnamese army does not know this), then they should rush to the front...... Isn't it not possible to give full play to the advantages of their large number of people in view of the lack of firepower of our army? If they do, perhaps they will be able to capture the high ground we are stationed on with a single charge.

But they didn't do it, what's the use of a bazooka? Our room was only half exposed, and they were firing from the bottom up, and because of the angle and the wind deviation of the rockets, the probability of them hitting us should be very small.

What can a platoon of troops do? He wouldn't have thought that seven people could rush to a distance of more than 100 meters, so thirty or so people would be able to attack our army's position!

But when I think about it, what I have in my hands is not to slack off or underestimate the enemy, after all, this carelessness will cost us all our lives.

So I turned around and ran back...... While making the female soldiers retract their heads and hide, they got out of the back door and went around to the hilltop position to arrange the haode sniper position in advance. That's the benefit of the position we have set up...... It can change positions very freely, and because most places are on the anticline, there is no need to worry about the bullets of the Vietnamese army when transferring positions.

Because of the large number of enemies, I did not dare to slack off, and when I reached the sniper position, I raised my gun and knocked down two Vietnamese soldiers, and then when the Vietnamese machine gunners turned their attention to our side, I quickly changed positions and poked my head out and fired a few more shots......

At this time, Xiao Chen also followed, and he followed me in the same way, switching positions from time to time to shoot at the Vietnamese army...... Xiao Chen also seemed to have entered the battle mode at this time, so he played quite well, and after a while, he defeated four or five, plus the ...... who fell under my hands The Vietnamese army rushed into 200 meters and was almost half down.

At this time, the Vietnamese bazooka shooter opened fire, and with a few screams of "chirp", several rockets came down with tail smoke...... But as I had expected, these rockets were either blocked by the salient of the hilltop position, or they flew over our rooftops, posing no threat to us.

However, the Vietnamese army still did not give up on rushing upward, and the machine guns and submachine guns fired at us like crazy, and the bullets poured down on the hilltop position, pressing our sniper position to the death.

Then I knew that they were creating another opportunity to rush into a distance of fifty meters and throw a grenade. (To be continued......)