Chapter 35: Smoke Bombs

Fortunately, the more devils were fooled.

The method was that Deputy Battalion Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Shen deliberately leaked the "news" in plain language.

Of course, this process is not so simple, we also know that the Vietnamese devils are not fools, if we leak the information to the Vietnamese army so easily, then the first consideration of the Vietnamese army should be whether this information was deliberately leaked to them by the Chinese soldiers.

So Commander Shen and Deputy Battalion Commander Chen staged a scene, they first used code language to contact, you and I sent several messages, the content is that Deputy Battalion Commander Chen reported to Commander Shen that he could not find the location of the six platoons, and Commander Shen immediately ordered Deputy Battalion Commander Chen and others to withdraw, after all, if you don't know the location of friendly troops, this rescue operation will not be meaningful.

However, Deputy Battalion Commander Chen disobeyed the order and insisted that he must find the six platoons before he was willing...... This is also reasonable, those six platoons and Deputy Battalion Commander Chen are all soldiers of the first battalion, brothers who are usually born and die together, and now the brothers are in trouble and naturally refuse to give up until the last moment.

But the most intolerable thing in the army is to disobey orders, so Commander Shen was furious, and scolded Deputy Battalion Commander Chen in plain language on the walkie-talkie: "What kind of reputation are you doing? Don't know how to save the location? You are irresponsible for the lives of your subordinates, irresponsible for yourself. I sue you, you have to go back now, and you have to go back if you don't go back! ”

Although this remark does not clearly tell the Vietnamese army what is going on, such a thing as "leaking information" is often the more unclear the other party is, the more believing the other party is, and there is enough information here, such as "I don't know how to save the location". Another example is "Go back, you have to go back." If you don't go back, you have to go back".

So the Vietnamese army compared the previous code words...... I don't know if the Vietnamese army will be able to decipher these codes. But combined with this plain message, it is easy to think that it was the Chinese soldiers who were unable to carry out the rescue because they lost contact with the six platoons.

Just when I was still thinking about what method the Vietnamese devils would use to indicate the location for us if they were fooled, the Vietnamese army had already done it.

Their method was surprisingly simple, which was to fire a cannon at the positions of the six platoons, which also used two incendiary bombs. You must know that it is already the rainy season in Vietnam at this time, although it has not rained for a few days, but the jungle is very humid, and two clouds of green smoke are emitted from this incendiary bomb, which can be seen from afar.

From this point of view, the more devils are also quite clever. They also understood that "leaking information" could not be too obvious, and pretending to be a mistake let us know the location of the six platoons.

But what they don't know is that they have actually fallen into our trap at this time.

"Hey!" Seeing this, Scar couldn't help but say excitedly: "The more devil is really fooled!" ”

"The devil is so easy to deceive?" Li Zuolong still couldn't believe it.

"What are you talking about?" Liang Lianbing replied: "It's not that the devils are easy to deceive, but our battalion commander is clever!" ”

"That's it!" The surrounding soldiers also echoed: "We have been following the battalion commander for so many years, when have we ever suffered a loss at the hands of the Yue devils?!" ”

"Which devil can ignore our battalion commander?"

"Our battalion commander is full of flowers, not only for the enemy, but also for women!"

There was a "coaxing", and the soldiers all burst into laughter.

I can only smile bitterly, saying that it's not a good thing to be too familiar with my subordinates, and it's a little light and heavy when I talk about it.

"Battalion commander!" At this time, Zhao Jingping walked up to me and said, "Head Shen's side is ready!" ”

"Hmm!" I nodded and ordered, "Action!" ”

The rescue operation quickly proceeded as planned, and the battle plan was of course the same as we had set before.

First of all, Regiment Commander Shen made a series of reactions because he knew the position of the six platoons, and these reactions included mobilizing three companies to move towards the position of the six platoons from different directions. It should be said that this is indeed a good choice. Because at this time, even a fool knew that the Vietnamese army was playing the game of "encircling points and sending reinforcements", so if they wanted to rescue people without sending out troops to be surrounded again and again. It seems that there is only one way, and that is to send enough troops to make it impossible for the other side to swallow it.

Secondly, in order to cooperate with the rescue work of these three companies, the other units of the 703rd Regiment launched a fierce attack on the high ground garrisoned by the Vietnamese army with the support of artillery.

This series of actions is actually just to convince the Yue devils that our several companies will insert between the main peak and the No. 27 high ground from north to south, and then take out the troops who are surrounded by a battalion.

This is very important to us, because only in this way will the Vietnamese army arrange the main force to the north of the six platoons, that is, the Vietnamese army did not expect that our real purpose was to bring the six platoons to the main peak, and there were not many troops between the main peak and the six platoons.

After all, at this time, the strength of the Yue devils was insufficient, and their total strength on the eight heights at the front of the main peak was only one reinforced battalion, and these troops could not be separated by our army's feint. The strength of the six platoons besieging us was no more than one reinforced company...... Maybe this is a shame for our army, a reinforced company of the Vietnamese army can surround six platoons of our army and be unable to move, but in fact this is very common in modern military affairs, because there are no bullets and no supplies, even if there are more people, it will not help.

This is the case with six platoons of our army being besieged by a reinforced company of the Vietnamese army...... Although the number of our army is not less than that of the Vietnamese army, it has run out of ammunition and food, and the Vietnamese army even only needs to arrange two people to hold two AK47s to guard a traffic artery, so many times the war cannot be simply compared by the number of people, especially when individual weapons are highly developed in modern times.

And if most of the strength of this reinforced company was attracted to the north by the three companies of Commander Shen...... Only in this way can we prevent the six platoons from joining forces with our troops, otherwise these six platoons are very likely to regain some of their combat effectiveness after they are resupplied, and then the Vietnamese army will be in great trouble. So on the south, that is, on the side facing us, there were only a small number of Vietnamese troops.

Of course, we can't be sure whether the Vietnamese army will make such a deployment, and I can only speculate that the Vietnamese army will do this.

So sometimes fighting a war is a matter of luck.

I looked at my watch and felt that the time was almost up, so I nodded at Zhao Jingping, who immediately sent a telegram to the regiment headquarters for the next step.

It didn't take long for rows and rows of shells to come from the direction of our troops, and the target was exactly where six platoons were located.

Of course, these shells are not lethal shells, but smoke bombs of all colors.

Because the location of the sixth row is the valley between the main peak No. 27 highland, and the air is relatively humid and the smoke is difficult to dissipate, these smoke bombs immediately envelop the valley in a cloud of smoke.

In fact, we also have smoke bombs, but the shells are quite precious to our troops on the main peak, and our supplies are all sent by helicopters at the risk of being destroyed, so let the rear artillery do it as much as possible.

This time, I think the devils are wondering: Aren't the Chinese soldiers going to enter this valley to rescue people? So what are you doing with smoke bombs? Isn't this more disadvantageous to the Chinese military who are not familiar with the terrain ?!

But this is just the beginning, and what they didn't expect was yet to come......

By this time, we already believed that the encircled six platoons had lost their combat effectiveness or were no longer capable of breaking through the encirclement of the Vietnamese army, after all, they had been surrounded for several days, and their ammunition and food should have run out long ago.

That is to say, they no longer have the ability to rush to the main peak on their own to join our army, so they need our army to send a team to join them, so that they can not only inform them of their current situation and the orders of their superiors, but also carry some supplies and ammunition to restore them to a part of their combat effectiveness.

However, this is nerve-wracking again.

The focus of our rescue operation is surprise, isn't it?

If we had sent a force from the main peak to rush down to join the six platoons, the Vietnamese army would soon realize what we wanted to do. In other words, it is still possible to meet with six platoons, but after the rendezvous, it will arouse the alarm of the Vietnamese army, and it will be difficult to rush back to the main peak at that time.

So we had to find a way to meet up with the six platoons in a short period of time, and rush back to the main peak with the six platoons before the Vietnamese army could react.

This would have been almost impossible under normal circumstances, because it would have been at least an hour's journey from the main peak to the valley where the six platoons were located, and by the time we arrived at the valley, the Vietnamese army had already realized that they had been deceived and turned their guns in time to return to help.

But it wasn't very difficult for us because we had paragliding.

The good thing about paragliding is that it doesn't necessarily need to skydive to take off, as long as there is a suitable slope...... The slope is generally about 30 degrees, and if the slope is too large, people will not be able to stand firm and run on the slope, and if it is too small, it will be difficult for the paraglider to fly off the ground.

There happened to be such a slope on the main peak, so the part of the road that would have required us to march for an hour and break through the obstacles of the Vietnamese army was only a matter of minutes for paragliding.

Of course, the paraglider was very likely to be attacked by the Vietnamese army in the process of gliding to the valley, after all, we were in the sky at that time, which was equivalent to a target...... This is also a disadvantage of paragliding, although it is highly controllable, it will also stay in the air much longer than a paratrooper parachute.

That's why we're putting a lot of smoke bombs in the valley. (To be continued......)