Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Battle of Mount Faka (3)
"No matter what method you use!" I was a little out of breath when I heard the news, and grabbed the communicator's microphone and ordered to the scar on the other end: "You can take down this line of defense within ten minutes!" ”
The reason why I am so anxious is that I am worried that the Vietnamese troops in position No. 3 are prepared, and if this continues, this battle will definitely become more and more difficult to fight. The other is because it was getting dark......
Originally, our plan was to take this Faka Mountain before dawn...... Darkness has an advantage for our offense, although we have been avoiding night battles with the Vietnamese army...... This point is determined by the quality and coordination of the Vietnamese army being better than that of our army, and the terrain is also more familiar than that of our army.
But it's different now...... You must know that we are now a special agent company, and we have undergone targeted and systematic training...... It's not that I'm bragging, but the current agents are much stronger than the Vietnamese army in terms of combat quality, combat experience, and coordination of various parts, not to mention that our army is still "sneak attacking" at this time, so this night battle is naturally beneficial to our army.
This is after taking the Faka Mountain...... Then the next step is naturally defense, so needless to say...... Naturally, it's advantageous in the daytime, and the sight is good, isn't it? As long as we put all kinds of equipment on Faka Mountain, we can suppress the Vietnamese army at the foot of the mountain from afar.
This will undoubtedly buy our sappers time to build fortifications and come down in the day...... The sappers' fortifications were almost finished, so that we could hold on at night.
It was with this in mind that we set the start time for 5 a.m....... Count to take Mount Faka in an hour, and then it's time to defend and build fortifications!
But......
Now a hidden line of defense appeared out of thin air, and the whole plan was disrupted, once this line of defense was allowed to hold out until dawn...... Our "sneak attack" plan is over.
"Yes!" Scar answered. But after some hesitation...... Another embarrassed report: "Battalion commander...... What if...... What if there are casualties? ”
"Battalion commander!" Zhao Jingping also persuaded on the side: "This line of defense cannot be attacked hard...... In total, Mount Faka is just over 100 meters wide. Any two machine guns can block this surface. What's more, the Vietnamese army still has two squads ......"
"Hmm!" I couldn't help frowning when I heard this.
Scar and Zhao Jingping's worries are reasonable, and there will naturally be casualties in the assault, although we are a special agent company, and it is also a special agent company with helicopter cooperation...... I believe they are more than capable of taking down this line of defense in a short period of time!
However......
On the one hand, the higher authorities already had a limit on the number of casualties in this battle.
On the other hand...... I was reluctant to let my men ram the enemy's guns...... These are brothers with whom I have been born and died for many years!
"Staff Officer Zhao!" The instructor said in a hurry: "If you take this line of defense...... This will affect the victory of the whole battle! Then...... We're only afraid of ......"
The instructor also has a point...... You must know that the battle has already begun, and the agent companies of our two platoons have been put on the back of Faka Mountain, if the battle situation is allowed to develop like this...... The result will undoubtedly be a tragedy.
So this fight will not work, and it will not work if it is not fought...... For a while, everyone in this command plane was very embarrassed!
"Battalion commander!" King Chuang suggested on the side: "Let the mortar unit and the helicopter unit cooperate with the agent company to take down this defensive line!" ”
The idea is good...... You must know that every soldier in our special service company will report the coordinates, and there are also artillery observers on the helicopter. This will guide the mortar troops to blast through the hidden line, and the helicopters can also cooperate with the bombing...... That's what our synthetic battalion is good at, isn't it? It can easily achieve effective coordination of air, foot and artillery.
But this plan was quickly rejected by Zhao Jingping......
"Listening to the report of the second company commander just now...... Zhao Jingping shook his head and said: "Many of this hidden defense line are composed of tunnel fortifications and traffic trenches...... You don't have to have mortars and rockets to hit them! ”
When we heard that, we were silent...... We've all built tunnels on the position, so of course we know how strong this thing is.
In other words, the more devils now build a set of anticline fortifications...... The tunnel is hiding soldiers and storing things at the same time...... It also became a point of fire!
"Battalion commander!" Ding Chengdong suggested: "We can order the soldiers of the second battalion to attack this line of defense from the flank......
That's a good proposal too...... The two platoons of the 2nd Battalion were in positions No. 4 and No. 5 on both flanks...... It was only necessary to bypass these two positions from the flanks and reach the flanks of this line of defense...... And the weakest part of the defense line is the flank, and even the Vietnamese army can't see the enemy coming up from the flank in the tunnel!
But Zhao Jingping quickly shook his head: "I'm afraid that it won't work...... Not to mention that the two flanks of Phaka Hill are steep and difficult to walk and full of mines, once the Vietnamese army found out that the second battalion was moving towards both flanks...... The troops of the 2nd Battalion will be flanked by the Vietnamese positions Nos. 3 and 4 or 3 and 5......"
So this plan was quickly rejected again!
Now I was so anxious that I scratched my head and scratched my ears...... There is only one word in mind, is it to "choose the lesser of two evils"!
And as time went on, I seemed to have less and less choice...... But when I thought that there was a high chance that there would be heavy casualties in the agent company, I couldn't give this order!
Suddenly, I had an idea...... grabbed the walkie-talkie and ordered: "Second company commander...... Immediately launched a feint attack on the Vietnamese lines. And hit a few smoke grenades to cover the attack of the second platoon! ”
"Yes!" Scar answered without even thinking about it.
Although he didn't know what I was asking him to do, the time of the battlefield didn't allow him to ask more.
"Second Platoon Leader!" Then I contacted Li Zuolong...... Li Zuolong's platoon was used as a reserve. That's where this comes in.
"Here!" Li Zuolong answered on the other end of the microphone.
"This hidden line of defense of the Vietnamese army will be handed over to you!" I said: "The company commander will launch a feint attack on the enemy and fire smoke grenades...... You will directly descend to the Vietnamese defense line to attack the enemy, especially the Vietnamese army's tunnels...... Tactics of rappelling attacks, understand? ”
"Understood!"
"Pay attention to coordinate with the company commander!" I said, "Don't get hurt by mistake!" ”
"Yes!"
When I put down the microphone, my hanging heart was lowered a little...... I'm still quite confident in the cooperation between the secret service companies, which is what they usually practice, and because they have been fighting together for a long time...... They all know each other very well and have a tacit understanding.
On the other hand, it seems that the concealed defense line of the Vietnamese army is also very suitable for direct airborne landing by helicopter...... In order to achieve the purpose of concealment, there must be some camouflage at the top...... Otherwise, the purpose of concealment will not be achieved at all.
This makes it difficult for them to react quickly to the helicopter units that suddenly reach their heads, especially in the tunnels of the Vietnamese army...... You must know that the thing in the tunnel is solid, but its line of sight can only be seen at the angle at the mouth of the tunnel, as for the top of the head...... Even if we pee on it, I'm afraid they won't find out!
Zhao Jingping and the other staff officers listened to my order and nodded in agreement, but because the battle had already started at this time, they also consciously did not speak, and each waited for the battle situation reported in the walkie-talkie!
Just like I thought...... Because of the long-term cooperation, Li Zuolong and Scar's two troops cooperate quite well...... They made the necessary contact in the shortest possible time, and two minutes later the battle began.
First of all, Scar's troops launched a feint attack on the Vietnamese army...... The purpose of this feint attack was not only to attract the firepower and attention of the Vietnamese army, but also to discover as many Vietnamese firepower points as possible.
Of course, because this was only a feint, and the soldiers were shooting out of sight of the Vietnamese army and moving their positions appropriately, there were not many casualties.
Then, Scar thinks the time is right...... The timing mentioned here is to basically grasp the light and dark firepower points of the Vietnamese army, and the bright firepower points...... Needless to say, report the coordinates to the helicopter and let the helicopter deal with it.
As for this dark firepower...... The hidden point of fire is also the fire point formed by the mouth of the tunnel, which is difficult for helicopters and mortars to deal with, and many of the fire points of this hidden line of defense are made up of the mouth of the tunnel. Needless to say, this kind of firepower point is naturally fought by Li Zuolong and them......
Scar first fired several smoke bombs at the enemy position, and almost at the same time, our mortar unit fired a burst of smoke bombardment at the No. 3 position of the Vietnamese army, followed by several smoke bombs...... This is all in preparation for the helicopter of Li Zuolong and others to enter the battlefield.
Then have the fighters fire a few more rows of tracer bullets...... Needless to say, the role of this thing is to indicate targets for the helicopter unit, such as the location of the Vietnamese defense line and the location of the tunnel. The other is to indicate their own position for the helicopter unit.
After that, it is time for the helicopter formation to enter the battlefield......
This batch of helicopters has been carefully prepared...... Each of the ten helicopters carried only three people, which just happened to bring one platoon of Li Zuolong.
Here's how the assignment of the three is ...... Two men carried AK74s and grenades to prepare to rappel down to the ground, and one carried a sniper rifle or light machine gun to provide fire cover for the two men on the helicopter, in this state of poor visibility...... In fact, light machine guns are more practical, and of course sniper rifles are also necessary...... Even because there were few helicopters at this time, some of the fighters responsible for covering carried both sniper rifles and light machine guns...... Anyway, it's all on a helicopter, and there is no problem of inconvenient maneuvering.
It is also because of the small number of people who intercept that the helicopter can carry more ammunition.
With the sound of a piece of helicopter slurry breaking through the air...... Ten helicopters lined up in a straight line and swooped down in the direction indicated by tracer shells towards Mount Faka...... (To be continued......)