As soon as we crossed the blockade line of the Vietnamese platoon, the tide of battle changed dramatically.

Originally, the Vietnamese army was still attacking our army on two sides, but now it has become a combined army...... In other words, we only have to deal with one side.

Of course, the other side of us may not be safe at this time, because there are still a few Vietnamese agents who are preparing to blow up the bridge...... But that's just a few people, and we only need to divide an armored vehicle and bring a few soldiers up to search for them.

The Vietnamese soldiers guarding the highway bridge had two choices, to blow up the bridge or not to blow it up......

But it didn't matter to us anymore, because by this time we had already occupied the high ground, and the fighters had already built a defensive line on the high ground and armored vehicles, and we were fully capable of holding off the attack of the Vietnamese agents...... So whether the Vietnamese army bombs the bridge or not has no effect on us at all.

Of course, the Vietnamese army Zuihou still chose to blow up the bridge...... The explosives have already been loaded, so it is impossible to give them to the Chinese soldiers like that, and after blowing up the bridge, it can still stop the pursuit of our army...... The Vietnamese soldiers guarding the highway bridge saw our armored car with a few infantry going up, and after blowing up the bridge in a panic, they fled from the broken bridge.

We didn't go after them...... Because our mission at this time was to protect the prisoners and block the attack of the Vietnamese agents, the few Vietnamese agents who escaped were not in our consideration at all. As a result, the armored vehicles quickly turned around and joined the line of defense against the main forces of the Vietnamese army.

In terms of the comparison of forces...... The Vietnamese army still has more troops than us, and in the battle just now, both sides suffered casualties and losses, and the Vietnamese army agents lost dozens of people...... But they still have about two platoons of troops.

Our losses were two armored vehicles and more than two dozen fighters...... An armored car was hit by a car. The driver, as well as the machine gunner, were knocked unconscious. But was rescued. However, the armored car did not have time to drive away, and then it was blown up when the car was blown up, and the other armored car was destroyed by the Vietnamese army's rocket launcher. Most of the casualties were from Scar's unit, plus the main force was also wounded when it broke through the Vietnamese fire blockade, so there was still one platoon left.

Two platoons of the Vietnamese army against one platoon of our army...... Judging from the comparison of troops, the Vietnamese army still has a chance to win. It's just that this opportunity is not very big...... The reason is that our army has two armored vehicles with great firepower and can advance and retreat, and we also occupy high ground...... The most important thing is that the Vietnamese army is still fighting on the territory of our army!

To fight in the territory of our army, we must take into account one issue...... That is, it is necessary to fight quickly, otherwise once the nearby troops hear the gunshots...... Then they will have difficulty even escaping.

It is precisely because of these considerations...... I didn't think the Vietnamese agents would attack us. After all, the Vietnamese agents are not stupid, they should know that this is the time to retreat.

But I soon found out that I was thinking wrong again...... The Vietnamese agents hesitated for only two minutes...... Or they didn't hesitate for even two minutes, because they also needed time to allocate the offensive task and make some necessary preparations. Then they took advantage of the night to grab the AK47 and leap towards us in two directions......

Later, I thought about it and felt that the reason why the Vietnamese agents chose to attack rather than retreat in time...... In fact, there was a last resort, and the reason was that the Soviet soldier...... The Soviet soldier they killed.

I think there is also an element of the Vietnamese army's special agents who are not clear about the meaning of the mission.

Their task, of course, was to kill the Soviet prisoners and then blame the Chinese army...... There is no doubt about this, according to their thinking, this ambush battle is unprepared, and the number of troops is almost twice ours, so it is not a problem to complete this task at all. So as a matter of course, an order was issued to the secret service that Soviet prisoners should be killed.

But the battlefield is always full of uncertainties. Who would have thought that this mission, which was supposed to be a safe and secure task, would go wrong because of only two cars, and who would have thought that a Soviet soldier would run away alone and surrender......

It would have been in this case. The Vietnamese agents should not have shot the Soviet prisoner without the certainty that they would have wiped out the Soviet prisoner, but the problem was that the Vietnamese agents were divided into two parts...... Moreover, the Vietnamese army agents were not equipped with miniature walkie-talkies and could not contact their superiors in time, so they stubbornly held on to the order and shot the surrendered Soviet soldier.

That's a problem...... Several other Soviet prisoners are watching, and a few of them are the most haode witnesses, and the presence of those Soviet prisoners means that the Vietnamese army's plan to take the blame will be ruined, and it may even threaten the relations between Vietnam and the Soviet Union...... How did the Vietnamese government explain to the Soviet Union!

So they had only one choice, and that was to attack...... Kill us all at all costs or kill those Soviet prisoners!

Thinking of this, I smiled at Eugene and the Soviet lieutenant colonel, and said, "I really didn't expect it...... We can say that we are enemies, Vietnam is your ally, but now it is your allies who are chasing you, and we are protecting you! ”

With a complicated expression, Eugenya translated my words to the Soviet lieutenant colonel, and then said to me: "Comrade of the People's Liberation Army...... Lieutenant Colonel Ivanovich said that as long as we can return to the Soviet Union safely, we will definitely expose this matter to our government and make those Vietnamese cubs pay the price! ”

I smiled noncommittally: "Forget it!" You should learn a little bit...... Don't think that far on the battlefield! If you can save your life...... But I want you to remember one thing, if you survive, it will be my men and the Chinese soldiers who paid for it with their lives and blood, as long as you know in your hearts that it is enough to remember this! ”

"Of course!" Eugene replied.

I replied like this...... It's because I'm not naïve enough to think that just a Soviet soldier would smash the alliance between the Soviet Union and Vietnam. The interests between countries are clear, the Soviet Union needs Vietnam as a thug to contain China, and Vietnam also needs the support of the Soviet Union, so the Soviet Union may be secretly angry or ask Vietnam to give an explanation...... But in the end, it won't work.

But I didn't have time to think about it that much at this time, because by this time the Vietnamese agents had already rushed up......

This time, the Vietnamese army can be said to have struck an all-out blow...... So they didn't leave reserves at all.

It is right not to leave reserves...... Because the Vietnamese agents did not have time, they only had one chance to attack, and they delayed for more than ten minutes...... I'm afraid that reinforcements from our army will arrive.

However, due to the limitations of the terrain in this area...... As I said before, the front is the road, the left wing is the high ground, and the right wing is a cliff of more than 30 meters...... As a result, the Vietnamese army could only attack us from two directions, namely the road and the left flank heights!

Obviously...... The Vietnamese only diversioned the offensive on the frontal road, where they had only two mortars, one machine gun and about two squads of infantry, while most of the rest were placed on the left flank.

This arrangement, of course, is correct, because our army has armored vehicles guarding the road...... Moreover, the armored vehicle can advance or retreat by relying on the high ground, and if it further emerges from the turret, it will shoot a burst of machine guns, and if it takes a step back, it will retract into the high ground and no one can hit it...... Therefore, the Vietnamese army would not have any hope of attacking from this section of the road, and they could only focus on the high ground on the left flank, which was also in line with the characteristics of the Vietnamese army that was good at fighting jungle warfare.

Besides, the main force of the Vietnamese army is placed on the left flank, which is also a kind of strengths and avoids weaknesses, and the left flank is a place where the firepower of armored vehicles cannot reach, and if the armored vehicles want to suppress the left flank with firepower, they must drive out of the high ground and poke out most of the hull...... So it will become a target for Vietnamese mortars.

This is also the reason why the Vietnamese army placed mortars on the front...... There they could, on the one hand, suppress armored vehicles, and on the other hand, provide fire cover for the Vietnamese troops on the left flank.

Moreover, the offensive of the Vietnamese army agents is a little different from that of ordinary troops...... The attack of the ordinary troops of the Vietnamese army will always rush forward with a shout after a burst of artillery fire, and the charge is still a relatively dense charge. This was not the case with Vietnamese agents, whose attacks were more of infiltration, stealth, or approaching than attacking......

I don't know what words to use to describe it, but at first glance, the attack of the Vietnamese army agents looked like unconnected soldiers relying on the terrain and bunkers to advance towards our positions, and they were very scattered and spread out over a wide area, and the heights of the entire left flank were full of Vietnamese agents. On closer inspection, it was found that they were connected, supporting each other and covering each other.

In terms of attacking formation...... If it is too scattered, it means that the firepower per unit area is insufficient, and it is not convenient for the soldiers to communicate and cooperate with each other, and if it is too concentrated, it means that it is easy to be killed by the enemy's firepower.

Therefore, I think there must be a reason why the Vietnamese army agents dared to divide the formation so widely...... There is no need to think much about this reason, that is, they are confident in their individual combat effectiveness and their own cooperation, so they dare to attack our army's defense line in such a scattered manner in this dark night.

From this point of view, I still quite admire the quality of the Vietnamese army, because I know that the Vietnamese army does not have a miniature walkie-talkie, not even a Vietnamese army agent...... So there is no micro walkie-talkie to contact and dare to be so scattered...... If it were an ordinary army, I am afraid that it would have been fighting on its own for a long time...... It's hard to communicate with each other, and if you shoot a few shots or get blown up by a shell, you don't know where the friendly troops next to you are running or what they're going to do.

But Vietnamese agents dared to do that...... I think they only have one thing to rely on, and that is the tacit understanding they have cultivated in battle. (To be continued......)