Chapter 18 339 Highland

Today I drank a few more glasses of wine with a friend who had fought in Laoshan. The writing may be a bit messy. Please forgive me, book friends!

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Chapter 18 339 Highland

With the unanimous consent of many cadres, the acting regiment commander had to change the marching route according to our wishes. However, I could see that his face was obviously unhappy. I could easily see this that the Third Battalion Commander Zhang Jianzhong (I really don’t want to call him the regiment commander in my heart) was originally a person who was happy or unhappy and quickly put on his face, just like others said to him, he was a stubborn bull.

The reason why I am unwilling to call him the regiment commander is that I feel that he is not competent for the position of regiment commander. If this was during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, I would have given this issue a question for the soldiers to discuss, this would be normal, and in most cases, I would even be recognized and praised by my superiors. But now... the Third Battalion Commander has obviously regarded me as a thorn in my eyes and a thorn in my flesh. I can't say... He would also regard me as a threat to the regiment commander's position.

However, I also know that in this era, there are very few who can handle their own positions. Many experienced commanders and many senior talents who fought during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea were criticized and fought during the ten-year *** period, and those who were dismissed. Even General Xu Shiyou, the commander-in-chief of this counterattack, was imprisoned and tried, and even almost lost his life.

General Xu Shiyou has had such experiences, and there is no need to say anything else. This directly led to many capable and talented generals in our army criticizing and fighting, and dismissing them. So... Most of the commanders and commanders are originally battalion commanders, company commanders and other figures. It is not that they cannot be the division commanders or regiment commanders, but that their own abilities are quite different from these positions. This is also one of the reasons why various armies have generally suffered from command chaos and suffered great casualties during the counterattack.

For example, our current acting regiment commander has very little military qualities and tactical ideas.

The troops soon embarked on the march again, and the route was jointly set by several border residents, including Hu Shaowen, who was less than seventeen years old. From this aspect, it was also fortunate that the troops recruited several border residents who were familiar with the terrain to interpret, otherwise we would have no other way.

However, I soon learned that the marching route set by the border residents was not easy to walk. In fact, this could not be regarded as a route at all, because there was no road at all. There were dense forests everywhere, and it was simply a deep mountain forest that no one had walked through. The soldiers walking in front had to use mountain swords to open the way.

According to Hu Shaowen, they occasionally went up the mountain to chop firewood before coming to this mountain called Babian Mountain, and they were not very familiar with the terrain here. But no matter what, I think instead of taking the route that the Vietnamese army has known to die, it is better to enter the deep mountains and forests to make a try.

The facts also proved that my idea was right. After more than two hours of difficult marching, we finally walked out of the forest and turned into another path under the leadership of Hu Shaowen and others. Then we turned around along this path. After more than half an hour, we arrived at the destination Highland 339.

But... is this the 339 Heights? We all expressed doubts about this. One reason is that no one has seen the 339 Heights, and the other reason is that the mountains in Vietnam seem to be about the same height. We really have no way to confirm from this elevation that the high ground in front of us is the 339 Heights that our superiors require us to occupy.

"The enemy's troops are not large! Daqing only has two companies!" After observing the high ground in front of me for a while, I estimated the number of Vietnamese soldiers on this high ground based on my experience.

It can be said that our change of route was very successful because we directly interspersed to the rear of the high ground in front of us, so the tunnels and fortifications on the back slope of the Vietnamese army were all exposed to our sight, but the Vietnamese army knew nothing about our troops.

"But the superior said that there was at least one battalion of Vietnamese troops on this high ground!" Captain Li hesitated: "Can we make a mistake? The high ground we are going to capture is not this high ground!"

"It should be no mistake!" After thinking about it, I replied: "The reason why the fewer Vietnamese troops stationed here are probably because they know our interlude route, so they called out some to set up an ambush on our interlude route!"

"Oh, it makes sense!" After hearing what I said, Captain Li nodded in agreement.

From this aspect, it is a good thing to let the Vietnamese army know our interlude route, at least it will be much easier for us to capture the high ground in front of us now.

After obtaining this consensus, Captain Li and I carefully crawled back from the thatch and reported the reconnaissance to the acting commander.

"What are you waiting for?" Captain Zhang heard our report and raised the machine gun in his hand and said, "Let's kill you now! Comrades, follow me..."

"Captain!" I hurriedly stopped and said, "Why should we ask for the artillery fire support from our superiors? Let's use the artillery to beat them hard first!"

In fact, my real purpose is not this, because I know that artillery fire support cannot cause much damage to the Vietnamese army hidden in the fortifications of the reverse slope. My purpose is actually to make the Vietnamese army focus all its attention on the forward slope. A shooting of artillery fire is enough to make them think that our army is going to attack them. Just when they are ready for battle on the back slope, we suddenly rushed up from the back slope, and the battle will become very relaxed.

"Okay!" Captain Zhang didn't like my suggestion, and waved behind him with some displeasure and called the communications soldier.

"Hey! I'm the 639th regiment, and we have successfully penetrated into the 339th Height!"

"Yes, yes! We ask for gunfire support!"

"What? Coordinate? I know the ball coordinates. You can't just let the artillery fight in the direction of the sun..."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but open my mouth for a long time and couldn't close it. I could just let the artillery fight in the direction of the sun? Commander Zhang didn't even know the basic military knowledge!

But the hardship is that I can't calculate the coordinates! So I hurriedly asked: "Who do you know how to calculate the coordinates?"

The soldiers were stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then shook their heads one after another, but they didn't know anything about it.

No wonder they are. Many of them have only been in the army for a few months. Who can play with the long-range artillery coordinates?

In fact, this is also a common problem for our troops in counterattack wars. Although our artillery has far exceeded that of the Vietnamese troops, few people in front-line combat can accurately calculate the coordinates, so that artillery soldiers are useless in counterattack wars.

Soviet Marshal Zhukov once said: "It's such a big joke that you don't need cannons when fighting!" Unexpectedly, after decades of saying this, this scene of no cannons really appeared on the battlefield of counterattack war.

In desperation, I had to suggest to Captain Zhang again: "Captain, why don't the mortar in our group be concentrated on the mortar and the rocket launcher hit the enemy's high ground and then launch a charge..."

"You said you were the one who said you didn't use it!" Captain Zhang replied angrily: "Det you, just do what you said!"

Upon hearing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. Sometimes I really wanted to give this commander a fierce gun.

“Be ready for battle!”

“Be ready for battle!”

...

The orders were passed one by one, and I don’t know if Captain Zhang didn’t want me to continue to perform or what, our company was actually arranged as a reserve team. The first echelon attacked Captain Zhang’s original third battalion. I think Captain Zhang was more or less a little more comparing to me.

Actually, I didn't want to show off this. I just didn't want the soldiers to suffer unnecessary casualties, but now it seems that this is probably inevitable.

The mountains of Vietnam were filled with thatched grass more than half a person tall, which gave us good cover. Commander Zhang led the soldiers of the Third Battalion and the 40th Bazooka shooter to crawl forward, and our reserve team followed closely behind.

It can be seen that the Vietnamese army on the 339th high ground did not expect that there would be an enemy situation in the rear, and they were very relaxed in their vigilance. Some of them were holding guns and smoking, while others gathered together to chat in groups of three or five. So much so that our team of hundreds of people approached more than 300 meters from the 339th high ground, and they had not found any abnormality.

Originally, according to my opinion, it was not too late to lurk as close as possible until the enemy discovered it and then launched a strong attack. But Captain Zhang, who was in front, obviously did not have the patience. Because at this time, I had already heard the sound of his ordering to fire on the intercom.

More than twenty mortars roared at the same time. Because the 40 bazooka was close to the range and the effective range was only 300 meters, they all walked in front with Captain Zhang. At this time, they stood up from the grass and pulled the trigger at the Vietnamese troops.

"Boom..." sounded randomly. Although it was not as loud as long-range artillery fire, it was quite accurate. One round of artillery shells accurately hit the Vietnamese machine gun positions and fortifications, knocking one Vietnamese army after another into the air, and some even hit the tunnel entrance of the Vietnamese army directly.

The Vietnamese army was not prepared for this sudden blow and immediately became in chaos to find a hiding place. However, because most of their fortifications were facing the front slope, they did not have much defense for the firepower coming from behind, so they soon fell under our army's shells, and the rest rushed into the tunnel in panic.

"Comrades! Fight!" Seeing the enemy's scene, Captain Zhang yelled and grabbed the machine gun and rushed forward with the soldiers of the Third Battalion. However, their storm formation was still a dense formation that made me shake his head.

"There are all!" Looking at the group leader Zhang and his men who rushed up, I immediately ordered to the intercom: "Continue to move forward in secludedly, go around the wing of the 339 Highland, and listen to my orders!"

"yes!"

"yes!"

...

"Planer Commander Cui!" The nervous voice of Commander Li came from the intercom: "We are the reserve team of Commander Zhang. What if Commander Zhang fails to attack and orders us to go up?"

"I can't wait for him to ask us to come up!" I replied, "Be ready to attack the flanks immediately!"

I admit that I did not listen to my superiors’ orders and do my own things, but I also knew very well that I was not self-righteous, but to minimize casualties among the soldiers.

When I was observing the positions of the Vietnamese army just now, I learned from the fortifications they built that the Vietnamese army in front of us were a well-trained force. Because their fortifications are the backscene fortifications we used on the Korean battlefield. The tunnels are divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower, and their respective positions are distributed according to the range of weapons. For example, the upper edge is grenadier, the middle is AK47, and the lower layer is heavy machine guns and mortars. The traffic trenches are also distributed in an orderly manner. If the tunnels and anti-aircraft holes are pearls, then the traffic trenches are stringed with pearls, which string them into a whole with the top position.

It's really similar to the tactics we used to deal with the United Nations during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, it's just a model. No wonder a veteran who returned from the counterattack said that fighting the Vietnamese army is actually fighting against one's own shadow, and fighting against one's own shadow is painful.

And because these shadows are all veterans who have experienced many battles, they are more like the volunteers when they resisted the U.S. aggression and aid Korea. But now we are almost the same as the puppet troops who did not have much combat experience in the early days of the Korean War.

Of course, I would not let the situation of the Volunteer Army fighting the puppet army happen. So I took the soldiers of the Fifth Company to carefully touch the 339 flank.

I believe that Commander Zhang's attack will fail because I know the Vietnamese army's back-slope tactics very well. I even know what the Vietnamese army will do next. The Vietnamese army on the top of the mountain revolves the guns and imposes firepower suppression on Commander Zhang and others; the Vietnamese army in the tunnel only needs to pile up a few sandbags at the entrance of the tunnel and then set up a few machine guns to transform the tunnels into bunkers. Therefore, the entire back-slope will soon be transformed into a point-side defense system.

Perhaps Captain Zhang and his team would gain the upper hand in the initial attack because of their unprepared attack, but once the Vietnamese army reacted, their offensive would soon be frustrated.

That’s right! I thought of this a long time ago, but I didn’t tell Captain Zhang. Firstly, it was because I knew Captain Zhang would definitely not accept my opinion and fight in my way. Secondly, I felt that it was better to have a short pain than long pain. Now the Vietnamese army is insufficient, which just makes Captain Zhang suffer a little. If I take action in time, the casualties of the soldiers would not be very large. If it was in another place, I’m afraid it would be as simple as suffering.

The purpose of my doing this is to make Captain Zhang realize his own mistakes. If he cannot recognize his own mistakes, then I can continue to consolidate my prestige in the army. Although doing this is a bit selfish and at the cost of the lives of the soldiers, if I want the soldiers to avoid greater casualties, this is the only way.

The battle situation was indeed as I imagined. The Vietnamese army quickly organized defense. The third battalion led by Captain Zhang was quickly suppressed by the Vietnamese army's firepower. Although the soldiers who were on the cover mission kept bombing and firing at the Vietnamese army with mortars, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns, the effect was not great due to angles and hiding in the tunnels.

Commander Zhang is worthy of being a stubborn bull. In this case, he organized the soldiers to launch charges again and again. However, they were all shot down by the Vietnamese ak47 and grenades again and again. Although the ak47 is not accurate, its rate of fire, capacity and penetration are excellent weapons for dealing with human sea tactics. In addition, the cooperation of the grenades and the high visibility during the day, it would be strange if the commander Zhang's troops could rush up.

Just when Commander Zhang was fighting with the Vietnamese army, the fifth company climbed to the flank of the 339th Highland without knowing it. The Vietnamese army focused all their attention on Commander Zhang's troops, and in addition, the Fifth Company learned how to disguise itself when he was in the recruit battalion. At this time, they were all wearing disguise made of weeds, and were mixed in the thatch. If they didn't look carefully, they really couldn't see anything. So all of our company had sneaked to the designated location without any danger.

"Report the situation!" I couldn't wait to grab the walkie-talkie and ask.

I know that every minute now means that many soldiers are sacrificing under the enemy's guns, and the first second means that the lives of the soldiers are passing away, so I dare not delay them every minute.

“The second row is in place!”

“Three rows are in place!”

“In one row!”

"Yeah!" I nodded secretly and immediately ordered: "The second row attacks along the left side of the ridge, the third row attacks along the right side of the ridge, and the first row serves as a reserve! Target the top position, set off!"

With a "Teng!", "grass men" suddenly jumped up from the grass, covering each other's alternating progress towards the 339 Highlands.

I also held a rifle and led a team of soldiers to attack along the left side of the ridge. The reason I let a row be used as a reserve team is because its platoon leader is the recruit Yang Songjian. If possible, I would give him more time to study than to go to the battlefield.

I am really familiar with the Vietnamese army's back-slant tactics, so I am very clear about the weaknesses of this tactic. Its weakness is this ridge connecting to the top position.

Not only is the slope of the ridge smooth and convenient for climbing, but more importantly, the ridge is the dividing line between the forward incline and the reverse incline. The Vietnamese army located on the front incline of the top position cannot see the troops on the right side of the ridge, and the Vietnamese army also located on the back incline cannot see the troops on the left side of the ridge. This can successfully divide the enemies on the top position into two. At the same time, due to angles, it is difficult for the enemies on the top position to form cross fire on the opponents on the ridge. These are undoubtedly necessary conditions for us to successfully attack the top position. Once we capture the top position, we can condescend to deal with the Vietnamese army in those tunnels.
Chapter completed!