Chapter 163 Tanks

The battle was very fierce, the charging Vietnamese troops fell one after another, and the Vietnamese fire on the tank line was almost incessantly strafing our troops. Of course, tank guns and mortars seem to be useless when they hit the back, after all, there are only a limited number of shells on tanks, and some of them are armor-piercing shells against tanks.

The continuous fighting was so exhausting that my soldiers and I couldn't even breathe...... It is said that we have not rested much since the beginning of this battle, first fighting the enemy in the front, and then clearing out the remnants of the Vietnamese army...... It can be said that at this time, our physical strength has almost reached its limit.

Company Commander Luo also thought about using the fourth company that was ready to replace us to exchange positions...... But after discussing it with the head of the regiment, he dispelled this idea.

There are two reasons for this:

One is that the battle is going on too tightly, and the more devils are wave after wave, they always fight our army when the previous wave attacks the slope, and the latter wave uses the tank defense line to follow closely and prepare for battle, just waiting for the previous wave to fight almost before rushing forward.

Such an offensive density makes us dare not easily change defenses, because when the troops change defenses, especially in narrow trenches, it is easy to be crowded and chaotic...... There's a good chance that they'll break through the defenses.

Another reason was that the regiment commander was worried that even if we succeeded in changing guards, the new fighters would not be able to adapt to such a tense and fierce battle for a while...... This worry is also reasonable, just like a person who has just woken up is not suitable for doing strenuous exercise or is not suitable for relaxing immediately after strenuous exercise, this war must also be psychologically prepared to enter the combat state in order to fight well.

Some might say...... That would allow the substitute four companies to be replaced in squads or platoons. That way there will be no confusion. Second, you can also let the soldiers of the fourth company enter the combat state one by one, right?

This is indeed an approach. But...... If this is done, another problem will arise - the problem of command coordination.

Some people think that this is not simple, and it is enough to directly let the substitute troops obey the orders of Company Commander Luo.

In many cases, a commander should be familiar with the soldiers under his command, at least the cadres and backbones, and have a general understanding of their abilities and combat effectiveness, before assigning tasks or making decisions according to their abilities.

If there are a bunch of fresh faces coming up at once, it's not just that Lian Commander Luo has no bottom in his heart. Even we, the soldiers, are weak in our hearts, and then we wonder in our hearts: Can these newcomers hold our flanks? Can you keep pace with us on the battlefield? Can we trust them with our lives?

Therefore, under such an attack by the Vietnamese army, we can only grit our teeth and hold on, after all, it is nothing to be tired and tired compared to losing our lives.

"Bang bang...... "I don't know how many Vietnamese soldiers have been defeated, and my main target is the fire cover of the Vietnamese army on the Vietnamese tank defense line."

Because I know that compared to the Vietnamese troops who charged, the troops covered by the Vietnamese army's firepower were our biggest threat. As long as their firepower can successfully suppress our firepower...... Then there is no need to think too much, the Vietnamese army will rush up one after another. Otherwise, those charging Vietnamese soldiers would be nothing more than targets for the soldiers' guns.

But while fighting, I had a kind of helplessness in my heart.

I've got a sniper rifle in my hand. Although I was able to kill the Vietnamese machine gunners and mortar gunners on the tank line one after another...... However, the machine gunners of the more devils are one after another, and it should be said that almost everyone of the devils can shoot machine guns. Because I saw that they seemed to be able to fire at our hilltop position with a random infantry coming up and picking up a machine gun, I could not finish the fight.

I'm afraid this is the terrible thing about the 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army, they are not only excellent in military quality, but what is even more terrifying is that they seem to have been trained to have no sense of death.

However, I think there should be part of the reason for this, that they clearly know that if they don't capture this 217 height, they can only wait to be surrounded and annihilated.

As the battle heats up, the passage on the 217 heights is getting wider and wider, and the Vietnamese army is able to invest more and more troops. At first, a company had to be divided into several batches, and then there were two platoons, and now it was enough for a company to spread out on the inclined plane......

Of course, the price paid by the Vietnamese army was also very heavy, the stumps and broken arms of the corpses were all over the ground on the slope, and there was also a battalion of Vietnamese devils who died under our guns...... In the past, the Vietnamese army would drag the bodies back between battles, but this time they did not.

I think this is intentional by the Vietnamese devils, although the corpse will slow down the advance of the Vietnamese army to a certain extent, but at the same time, it can also suppress the mines underground...... This will enable the Vietnamese troops to attack our positions with greater confidence and boldness. The lesser of two evils, the Vietnamese army is not a fool, and of course they know that the latter is more beneficial to them.

However, I later learned that the Vietnamese army did not drag the body back for another purpose.

But that's a story for later, and I just think it's a little strange now...... Didn't the Vietnamese army in front of us have only two regiments? If the Yue devils consume their troops at this rate, then I am afraid that there will be no need for the main force of our army to come over and encircle and annihilate them...... As long as we have enough ammunition, it will only take two or three days, and the 316A Division of the Vietnamese Army will probably cease to exist.

"How much ammo is left?" I asked Wu Zhijun.

Wu Zhijun's squad was often tasked with transporting ammunition for our platoon, which was also to give them time to adapt to the battlefield.

"This ......" Wu Zhijun was a little embarrassed when he heard this question: "Report platoon commander, I didn't have time to count!" ”

"Hmm!" So I changed the way I asked, "How much is it consumed?" ”

"Let's make a big three!" Wu Zhijun replied: "The more devils have a lot of ammunition, they are all like ammunition depots!" ”

I nodded with satisfaction, it makes sense for the Vietnamese army to store so much ammunition in the pass, after all, this is a canyon that is not open for a long time, and the most feared thing about a military point like this is that there is no ammunition, plus the Vietnamese devils think that it should be very safe here, and storing ammunition in this area can also become a logistics supply station for the main force of the Vietnamese army...... It's just that they could never have imagined that these ammunition would fall into our hands.

Now, thirty percent of the ammunition has annihilated a battalion of the Vietnamese devils, which means that all the ammunition can fight out a regiment of the Vietnamese army...... Even if there is still a regiment of the Yue devils, if we defeat a regiment like this, I don't believe that they will dare to continue fighting like this!

Even if they dare to fight like this, then I believe that the ammunition of the Yue devils is almost exhausted. And we can still go to the corpses of the Vietnamese soldiers in front of the position to pick up bullets and continue to fight, right? It would be difficult for the Vietnamese army, which was on the attacking side, to do this.

So I felt even more strange, could it be that the more devils would really fight like this? Is it really like this with human lives?

Just when I was wondering, another group of Vietnamese attacking troops came up.

This attack seemed to be a little different from the previous ones: there were more people ready to charge after entering the tank line, and there was a reinforced company, and it continued to increase, especially ...... I also saw that several more boxes of artillery shells were brought up, which meant that the Vietnamese army was about to shell our positions again.

Sure enough, after the two shells exploded on our position, the Vietnamese army shouted and charged at our position, and they took their bayonet guns and stepped on the corpses of their comrades and piled them up on our position like ants, and the anti-aircraft machine guns and tank guns soon rang out......

This did not surprise me, in some ways, the Vietnamese were not purely seeking death, they were very good at using craters and the corpses of their comrades as cover, and they even successfully built two machine gun positions on the slope.

How did the Vietnamese army do it?

There will always be some places on the high ground that are uneven, and some parts such as the ridge will block the angle of some machine gun fire from our army's hilltop position. Of course, it could not be a dead end for all the machine guns of our army, in fact, from the perspective of just spreading in a straight line, if there is a place where all the firepower of our army is dead, then the Vietnamese troops hiding there will also not see any firepower of our army.

The Vietnamese army chose those positions that were difficult to cover with firepower, first using tank guns or mortars to blow up a few holes, and then the first group of people came up to dig a few times and piled up a few corpses...... After the sacrifice, the second group came up and continued to pile the corpses up, so that a machine gun position with corpses appeared there in a few seconds!

This may be unimaginable in the peaceful shijie, but we can accept it on the battlefield, because it is already full of death, killing and cruelty.

What is strange to me is that the Vietnamese Weishenme will fire a few shells every few moments, and they seem to be deliberately firing mortars and tank guns together, one after another......

Then, I found an even bigger problem with where the shells landed: sometimes the Vietnamese mortars were in a hurry to get the shells out and they didn't have the right head at all.

Then I knew that they were not doing this to cover the charge of the troops, but to hide something.

What is hidden?

The only thing that can be hidden by the sound of cannons is sound...... So I took my gun back and hid in the trenches and listened carefully, and sure enough, I heard something in the gap between the cannons:

It's the sound of the tracks...... The sound of the tank's tracks! (To be continued......)