Chapter 169 Grenades

The two anti-chemical warfare troops were quickly brought up, and they were assigned to the left and the right in the trenches of the forward position, where they were able to control most of the area in front of the position.

They were instructed to drain the fuel in the Molotov cocktails as quickly as possible as soon as the fight began. The goal is to prevent these Molotov cocktails from becoming a source of damage to our troops.

Of course, it does not seem difficult to fulfill this order, since the flamethrowers used by our army at this time do not have a large capacity...... I learned from Company Commander Luo that at this time, our army was using a Type 74 flamethrower, which had three fuel cylinders, each with a capacity of 3.4 liters, and it was all sprayed after three sprays. This is still a big gap from the flamethrower that is commonly used in the world, which only has two oil bottles, a capacity of fifteen liters, and can be sprayed more than a dozen times.

In this respect, our army's flamethrowers are more difficult to be exploded by the enemy, and if they are sprayed three times, they will be empty, and they can also be used as body armor...... It's just that if this thing explodes in the trenches, it's no joke, so it's better to be careful to be on the safe side.

The next thing to do was to prepare the soldiers of the fourth company, who had prepared seven or eight grenades each, in addition to their various weapons. Of course, these grenades were unscrewed with the safety cover.

Zuihou was the unit of our second company, and they quickly entered the trench located in the middle of the mountain under the command of Company Commander Luo, and the bayonets of the submachine guns in their hands were open, ready for close combat. The space at the top of the hill was limited to accommodate two companies at the same time, so that's all we could do.

After that, with the order of the regiment commander, the battle began.

Rising into the sky were three flares. As soon as the flares rose into the sky, the front of the position was illuminated as if it were day.

The flare is the signal to start. So, without saying a word, the two anti-chemical warfare soldiers stood up and pulled the trigger on the corpse in front of the position...... "Teng". Several fire dragons skewered out of the jets in the hands of the anti-chemical warfare soldiers one after another, and in an instant, the front of the position was burned into a fiery red. However, because the range of the flamethrower was only forty or fifty meters, it only ignited a small part of the front of the position.

At the beginning, those more devils didn't move, which had to make me admire the will of the more devils, they could keep quiet in such a blazing fire...... Even I was a little skeptical that there was something wrong with my reasoning.

However, in the next second, I saw a Vietnamese soldier covered in fire screaming and jumping up...... Finally someone couldn't help it.

Since someone set a precedent, there was no need for other Vietnamese devils to hide anymore, so the Vietnamese soldiers who were set on fire soon rolled on the ground one by one. Roughly counting, there were more than a dozen Vietnamese troops lurking more than 40 meters in front of our army's trenches...... It's scary to think about. At this distance, they can even throw grenades into our trenches, so you can imagine how much impact this will have on our positions if they start fighting.

The rest of the Vietnamese army soon realized that they had been exposed.

The first thing to fire was the covering fire of the Vietnamese army, including tank guns, machine guns, mortars and anti-aircraft machine guns...... There are even tanks that are carefully camouflaged with vegetation, which is difficult to detect even under flares. This also proves that the Vietnamese army was fully prepared, but they were not very lucky, and we saw through it before they planned to attack.

Then a large number of Vietnamese troops emerged from the forest and rushed towards the 217 heights, looking like a reinforced company. This is not because the Vietnamese army has not arranged enough troops, but because the slope of the 217 heights is only enough for the troops of a reinforced company.

Zuihou was the Vietnamese soldier lurking in the corpse who stood up and shouted with his gun in his hand and rushed towards our position......

It can also be seen from the order in which the units of the Vietnamese army appear that the coordination and cooperation between their units are quite in place.

According to the common people's thinking, if the lurking troops in the corpse are discovered, it should be the hidden troops who charge first. But two problems arise in this way:

One: Without fire cover, the lurking troops can't rush far. If that's how it goes. They were afraid that they would be wiped out by a single bullet from us before they could rush to the top of the mountain, and of course the devils would not do such a stupid thing.

Two: The number of hidden troops is small. As I predicted earlier, there were two platoons of dozens of people. So even if these few sleeper troops can rush to the top of the hill to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, what if the follow-up troops are annihilated by the enemy before they arrive? The result would still be ineffective.

Therefore, the order of the Vietnamese army's attack was as follows: to suppress the firepower of our army's position with various weapons, to cover the latent troops to rush to the hilltop position, and at the same time the follow-up troops followed up as quickly as possible.

And...... All this was the reaction of the Vietnamese army after being caught off guard, and the combat effectiveness of the 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army can also be seen.

This coordinated strike by the Vietnamese army seemed to be very effective, and the soldiers of the fourth company on the hilltop position had to withstand the fire attack from the Vietnamese army. All of a sudden, there were shells and bullets, and all that was there was a whistling sound over the entire hilltop position.

I think this should be because the Yue Devil has already adjusted the Zhuyuan or the angle of shooting during the day, otherwise...... It is impossible for them to grasp the positions of the various firing points of our army's hilltop position in this night. Of course, there is also T62 tank firepower with night vision capabilities, but it is estimated that there are not many T62s left in the Vietnamese army.

Then, just as the Vietnamese army's various weapons were frantically suppressing our position, the Vietnamese army, lurking in the corpses, launched a zuihou charge at our position......

From this point of view, the commander of the Vietnamese army was quite far-sighted, and made adequate preparations for this battle at night during the day, and all the details were very thoughtful.

As a result, the situation was very critical for our side, and all our soldiers were crushed in the trenches and could not lift their heads, while the Vietnamese army's latent troops were getting closer and closer to our positions, and once they were forty or fifty meters close to our positions...... They will be able to throw rows of grenades into our trenches.

There is no doubt that at this time, the lethality of grenades is definitely stronger than those tanks and anti-aircraft aircraft, maybe only such a row...... The first line of defense of our army is about to be broken by the Yue devils.

It's just a pity that it's not just the devils who are prepared.

"Di Di Di ......" Just as the enemy approached our defensive line, the commander of the fourth company blew the whistle with all his might.

This is a common method of communication in our army, often on the battlefield because the sound of guns is too loud, it is difficult to ensure that all soldiers hear and carry out orders, so we will make an appointment before the war to hear the whistle to do something, and sometimes we will use the length and frequency of the whistle to express different information, this time...... The whistle is the command to flick a grenade.

The advantage of a grenade is that you don't have to stick your head out to shake it...... This can be thrown out of hiding in the trenches. Some people may say, is it accurate to throw it out like this? Can you blow up the more devils? This is also with a grenade, so the more devils we can blow up, the more devils weishenme can't blow us up?

This is the advantage of being condescending, we don't need any precision to throw this grenade, all we want is to explode a barrage outside the trench so that the Yue devils can't advance; It's the same grenade, just because we're condescending, so we can throw it farther...... So it's really that we can blow up the more devils, but the more devils can't blow us up.

So let the tank guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the devil beat loudly above our heads, and we just hid in the trenches and threw grenades out with our eyes closed.

In order to keep all the fighters on the same page, the fighters had to wait for the whistle of the fourth company commander to blow another grenade after each grenade. So I only listened to the "boom" outside the trench, and the outside of the trench was blown up like a wall of dust and smoke.

As there were fewer and fewer grenades, the problem ensued...... Our grenades are limited, aren't they? It's not a way to throw it off one after another, is it?

In fact, there is really no need to throw one after another, the purpose of this is not to kill many enemies or make the enemy never come up, but to delay the Vietnamese army's charge.

Is there any use in delaying the charge of the Vietnamese army?

Of course it is useful, isn't it very good for coordination and cooperation between the various units of the Vietnamese army?

So...... Can the Vietnamese army's fire cover continue when the Vietnamese army's latent troops rushed to the hilltop position? If the cover of fire continues to fight indiscriminately, it is very likely that it will be your own people!

However, at this time, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the Vietnamese army could not see when their charging troops would rush to the enemy position, nor did they know when to stop firing.

As a result, the coordination between the Vietnamese troops acting as fire cover and the troops lurking and charging became a problem.

I think that there are several options for the coordination of the two units of the Vietnamese army:

First, it seems unlikely that a walkie-talkie will be used to make contact, because if the sleeper troops have a walkie-talkie on their backs, the target is so big that even if they pretend to be dead, we will use guns and guns to destroy the walkie-talkie...... Moreover, the sound of gunfire on the front line will also affect the walkie-talkie call, which seems to be inappropriate in the fleeting battlefield of fighter planes.

The second is to use the night vision ability of the T62 tank to judge. However, this method was quickly denied by our army's flamethrowers, and although the fire head in front of the trench was getting smaller and smaller, it was still enough to affect the night vision of the T62.

Third, it is judged by the sound of the grenade exploding.

According to the Yue devil's jihua, it was to crush us in the trenches with firepower, and then the lurking troops rushed forward and threw rows of grenades before continuing to charge...... How would they know whether the rows of grenades that exploded were the enemy's or their own?

So, just as I expected...... After our grenades exploded several times outside, the cover of Vietnamese fire quickly stopped. (To be continued......)