"Fire!" I ordered.

Although I know that it is impossible for the Vietnamese army to move positions so quickly at this stage of artillery preparation...... At this stage, the task of the artillery is to clear the infantry of mines and other obstacles, and after the bombardment, the artillery fire has to be extended, so it is impossible to move the position with a few shots.

However, I am not stupid enough to wait for the Vietnamese devils to finish their shells before making a move, because this will mean that our troops on the front line will suffer even greater losses.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

……

More than a dozen communicators conveyed orders to their artillery units, which were responsible for liaison.

Then I heard a strange roar of "woo", and soon bright lines pointed directly at the Vietnamese army's position appeared in the sky......

In normal times, these bright lines are not terrible.

Just like we often say in the army, "veterans are afraid of guns, new recruits are afraid of artillery", that is, compared with the enemy's artillery bombardment, experienced veterans know that guns are actually more dangerous and difficult to dodge than guns.

But now it is different, because these cannons have artillery sight radars to provide them with coordinates and even shoot at the right time, so these shells are like eyes pointing where to shoot, which is of course more lethal than the "guns" that veterans are afraid of.

Just as I expected, after only two rounds of artillery fire, there was a lot less artillery sound in the direction of the Vietnamese army, and after two more rounds, there was basically no more artillery sound in the direction of the Vietnamese army...... In my binoculars, I watched with satisfaction as the Vietnamese positions erupted one after another with fire. From my experience, I can judge that these fires were caused by the secondary explosion caused by our artillery shells when they blew up the Vietnamese artillery shells. The flames were noticeably bigger and brighter than those exploded by howitzers!

Later, I learned that the Vietnamese army was ready to bomb our positions for half an hour...... Our troops laid too many mines at the front of the position. Plus barbed wire and various barricades. This can't be cleaned up without half an hour of bombing.

This meant that the Vietnamese artillery had to concentrate a large number of shells near the artillery positions. Otherwise, the continuity of its firepower cannot be guaranteed.

As a result, the results of our round of artillery shells were great, and the detonation of those shells lifted the entire Vietnamese artillery position into the air, according to the information reported by our intelligence officers planted in the Vietnamese army...... The artillery positions they found were invariably scorched earth, littered with fragments of cars, artillery, and corpses, all of which were intertwined and radially spread outward from the center of the artillery position, and flew as far as a kilometer away.

At this moment, I think the Vietnamese commander should have realized that he had been fooled, that is, the Chinese soldiers actually had a storage of artillery sighting radar on the front line. And it has been in a state of preparation for a long time.

The commander of the Vietnamese army at this time...... If it is wise, I think he should have ordered the offensive to be halted immediately, because it is clear that there is no hope of victory in this all-out battle that is about to be launched with the Chinese soldiers having artillery radars and the Vietnamese troops having no means of countermeasures.

Of course, that's not what I'd like to see.

I could tell that the Vietnamese commander was hesitating, because by this time there was silence in the direction of the Vietnamese army, and even the other part of the artillery that was supposed to open fire at this time was silent.

In fact, the current hesitation of the Vietnamese commander is actually meaningless.

The reason is that we thought about this situation early in the morning...... What if the Vietnamese army realized that they had been fooled, that is, retreated after suffering heavy casualties in the artillery?! If that's the case. Then it is very likely that the results we have achieved with such great effort are only a few artillery battalions.

Although this result is quite impressive, it is still far from what I expected. So of course I won't let that happen.

The solution was to block the retreat of the Vietnamese army...... The Vietnamese army was to organize operations on a campaign-scale scale in the Lao Son area. Its personnel and supplies had to pass through the mouth of the water before they could deploy their forces along the terrain, and there was no other way.

THEREFORE, WE ARRANGED AN ARTILLERY REGIMENT, THAT IS, THE 320 ARTILLERY REGIMENT, TO USE 122MM CALIBER HOWITZERS TO SPECIFICALLY BLOCKADE THE VIET VIET ARMY'S QINGSHUIKOU AREA.

In other words, when the Vietnamese army lurked in front of our position, they had no other choice.

The only thing we don't know...... It is how many infantry the Vietnamese army lurked in front of our position.

In this regard, I and the staff officers of the 40 th Division, Jiang Division, and I had a guess: Considering that our army has more than 2,000 troops at the front of the position on the front line of Lao Son, it can be inferred that the strength of the Vietnamese army is very likely to be two to three times that of our army, that is, about 6,000 people.

Therefore, what we expected in this battle was actually to be able to surround the Vietnamese army with artillery shells of more than 6,000 troops, who would have thought that after the war, we would know that the Vietnamese devils would actually invest more than 18,000 people in one breath...... It is no wonder that they will call this operation "open meal", if according to the previous way of fighting, after the artillery fire was prepared, more than 10,000 people poured up, and there were 20,000 troops in the follow-up, then it would be strange if we were not divided.

However, as the saying goes, "Crimes made by heaven are forgiven, but self-inflicted sins cannot be lived", and the result of this was that 18,000 of its elite soldiers jumped into the trap carefully laid by us.

Seeing that the commander of the Vietnamese army was still hesitating, I was a little impatient, and turned my head and ordered Zhao Jingping: "Pass the order down and let the 320th Regiment complete the test firing at Qingshuikou!" ”

"Yes!"

Several rumbling artillery sounds were soon heard in the direction of Qingshuikou, and under the guidance of the artillery sighting radar, the 320th Regiment completed the test firing with only two shells.

These two shells are nothing in this battlefield where the sound of artillery has long been rumbling, and if you don't pay attention, you will even ignore it as a stray bullet.

But...... I think it was a bolt from the bottom of the tongue in the eyes of the Vietnamese commander, because it would make him realize that there was no turning back.

Now there are only two paths before the Vietnamese commander:

One way is to continue to hold the troops, leaving the Vietnamese army lurking in the grass and woods.

But this approach apparently did not last long, as the Chinese soldiers would undoubtedly carpet bombard the front of the positions with artillery fire.

The other way is to fight to the death and attack the defense line of the Chinese military according to the plan.

I believe that the Vietnamese army will choose the second way, on the one hand, because lurking in front of us is the 316A Division that does not admit defeat, and they cannot afford to lose this person. On the other hand, because it will be dark in two hours, they will not even have a chance to fight to the death. (To be continued......)