Chapter 89: Thunder

I wish you all a happy Teacher's Day! I also wish you a happy Teacher's Day! I went to drink with a few friends in the evening so the update was too late, I'm sorry...

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Chapter 89: Thunder

"kill!"

The castle on the left had been blown up, so the soldiers had no worries, so they shouted and rushed towards the top of the mountain from several directions with their weapons. Our army was only a few dozen meters away from the top of the mountain. After rushing forward for a while, they reached the range of grenade throwing. At this time, the soldiers naturally didn't need me to give orders, and they each ignited the grenades and threw them row by row at the top of the mountain.

Just heard the sound of "boom...", and the soldiers immediately installed bayonets and rushed into the smoke that exploded from the grenade...

Our army took only a few minutes to charge and took down the position on the top of the mountain.

I think one of the important reasons why we occupied the top position so quickly was that the Vietnamese army was very confident in the bunker group in front of their positions. They didn't expect that we could pass the firepower area of ​​the bunker so quickly and launch an attack on the top position. Our army only suffered some zero resistance.

This was also proved when cleaning the battlefield after the war. We only found more than twenty bodies of Vietnamese troops on the top of the mountain positions. Most of these Vietnamese troops died on the row of grenades thrown out by the soldiers when they assisted.

When the Vietnamese army stationed on another inclined surface realized that the situation was critical and rushed to reinforce, it was too late. The soldiers of the Fifth Company had already organized defenses on the top of the mountain using the trenches built by the Vietnamese army. The submachine guns and machine guns were on the edge of the trenches... The Vietnamese Japanese who came to reinforce were swept down by our army like rotten wooden stakes!

As for the bunkers behind us, let alone... If the bunker is in the front, it is a protector. If the enemy goes around behind, it is actually a big coffin. The soldiers seem to have to climb from behind to the top of the bunker, and then throw grenades into the perforation hole from top to bottom.

If the Vietnamese army opened the iron gate of the bunker and ran away, it would be the happiest thing for the soldiers. Several soldiers were ambushed at the iron gate of the bunker. As soon as the iron gate was opened, they would ignite the grenade and throw it to the iron gate. The iron gate could no longer be closed. Some soldiers were guarding with submachine guns, and many enemies rushed out and could fight them clean!

However, the bones of the Yue Japanese were really hard. The inclined surface was unevenly divided into two layers of defense. In total, there were six bunkers. Except for the two injured Vietnamese soldiers who were injured in the bombardment, they climbed out to surrender. The rest were to resist stubbornly even knowing that they were dead. Another bunker in the Vietnamese army even detonated all the ammunition in the bunker and committed suicide... His purpose was very obvious. One was to not want the bunker to be used by our army, and the other was to not want the ammunition and weapons in the bunker to be left to us.

The Vietnamese army fought bravely, which is a fact. Whether we are willing to admit it or not, it exists objectively. However, war, especially modern wars with highly developed weapons and equipment, does not require only courage or spirit to defeat everything. Countless painful historical lessons tell us that even if the citizens of some countries are brave and have a high level of thought, they can only use rotten eggs to deal with the enemy's tanks in war!

What's more, our army has even surpassed the courage and spirit of the Vietnamese army.

So in just one hour before and after the entire battle, our army successfully occupied the inclined surface facing our army on the main peak. As for the inclined surface of the Vietnamese army, as I expected, because the south was the dead corner of our artillery fire, the Vietnamese army built a large number of trenches, tunnels and bunkers there, and even I could see the barrels of several howitzers in the jungle below it...

The battle situation quickly stabilized, and infantry charges were obviously impossible. With the support of artillery, the Vietnamese army launched two counterattacks on the mountaintop position controlled by our army, but our army simply attacked them. So the two sides were in a stalemate around the front and back slopes.

The most active at this time was the artillery of both sides. The mortars had a curved ballistic and could directly cross the top of the mountain to blow up the enemy's position. So the 60 artillery and 82 artillery were all used, and the artillery of both sides became busy. The Vietnamese army had preset positions coordinates, so they were accurate and ruthless, which made our army dare not hide in the trenches dug by the Vietnamese army, and had to rebuild a trench in another location.

Our army won the victory in occupying the top position of the mountain, and arranged several members of the shooting team to pretend to fire cold guns on it, and then arranged several shell observers to take walkie-talkies to report coordinates to the artillery, which only made the Vietnamese guns furious, and they didn't dare to come forward and shoot for a long time.

After successfully seizing a slope of the main peak, I naturally did not need to retreat to a camp headquarters modified from a cave below the slope at the risk of being bombed by Vietnamese artillery fire.

"Chief of Staff!" After getting off the position, the first thing I did was to report to the regiment headquarters: "A inclined surface of the main peak and the top position on the top of the mountain have been taken down by us..."

"What? So fast?" My results surprised the Chief of Staff.

"Yes!" I replied: "But the inclined surface on the south is still under the control of the Vietnamese army. The fortifications of the Vietnamese army's counter-sloping surface are very complete, and our army lacks heavy weapons, so it will be difficult to defeat it for a while!"

What I am talking about is the fact that in order to facilitate climbing, we rarely carry heavy machine guns, heavy weapons such as 100mm mortars, and the south is also a blind spot of our army's artillery fire.

"Hurry up!" The Chief of Staff said the same thing: "You must completely take down the main peak before the Vietnamese reinforcements arrive!"

"Yes!" I responded, but after a change of tone, I suggested: "Chief of Staff, we can basically play the role of Komashan until now, such as condescending firepower support to the 536 Highlands, and bombing the Vietnamese army on the 417 Highlands. All we lack is long-range heavy weapons, ammunition and coordinates of each highland..."

"Well!" As soon as I reminded him, the Chief of Staff quickly reacted: "Yes, we will send someone to send you ammunition and equipment, and then use signal flares to indicate the directions, and take down the small highlands around Kumashan in one breath!"

"Yes!" After hanging up the microphone, I suddenly felt a lightening all over. It can be said that now, the task has been almost half completed.

"Battery Commander!" At this time, two soldiers walked into the battalion headquarters and reported: "Comrade Wu Jianguo has been found, but... he has died!"

"Um!" I was stunned when I heard this, and then nodded silently.

Wu Jianguo was the warrior who could blow up the Vietnamese army's castle after being injured and rolled down the mountain with the Vietnamese officer. Although his sacrifice was expected, he felt quite touched when he heard the news of his death. Just now, I planned to deal with this troublesome guy after coming back! But I didn't expect that I would no longer have the chance to punish him.

"Battery Commander..." A soldier solemnly took out a blood-stained envelope from his pocket and said, "This is the letter we have found on him!"

"Yeah!" I clicked and signaled them to put the letter on the table.

The bright red on the desktop envelope stinged my eyes like the fiery sunlight, and also my heart. It reminded me of when I was still in the recruit camp, I told the soldiers to write a letter to my family, or to give it to my comrades or put it on myself.

To be honest, I don’t want to receive such an envelope. What I hope is that they can hand over the letter to their families. But then again, if they can really go home safely, there is no need to show this letter to their families.

I took the letter and felt heavy on my hands. The blood on the envelope had not dried yet, and the address had been covered by the blood. I didn't want to read the contents in the letter because I didn't want to make myself sad. This emotion is not suitable for the battlefield. But I was worried that the blood would penetrate into the letter and wipe away all the contents on the letter paper, so my family could not see the last words of their children. So I had to use my trembling fingers to take out the letter paper and spread it on the shell box...

I saw that it was written on it (the following is the original text of Comrade Wu Jianguo’s suicide note):

“Dear Mom and Dad:

Now I am going to participate in the war of anti-aggression..., I participate in the self-defense counterattack war, which is the glory of our whole family, because I am the People's Liberation Army of China and shoulder the important task of defending the motherland. If I sacrifice, you must not be sad for me, you should be proud of me... Parents, you only have me, one of your only sons,... In the 16 years of ups and downs, your two elders have done their best for the emperor. Now I use my blood and life to repay you and defend you. I have a clear conscience in this regard. Mom, I will not surrender in the face of any enemy!"

Looking at the content of this letter, I couldn't help feeling a little sour. My tears almost fell down, but in the end I still held back. I called the instructor and told me: "This is Comrade Wu Jianguo's suicide note. It will be kept well after drying. You must hand it over to his family in person!"

"Yes!" the instructor responded, his eyes soon attracted by the bloody letter, and then his eyes turned red after a while.

I shook my head and sighed. In our army, there are more than one comrade like Wu Jianguo. So... in order not to let more such letters be delivered to their families, I have to treat the battle in front of me more cautiously!

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"Report!"

"Report!"

...

I convened the company commanders of each company to hold a combat meeting. Xu Yongjian and his hometown came soon, but they still couldn't wait for Li Zhifu. Just as I was about to let the communications soldiers contact Li Zhifu through the radio, I saw him covered in dust and came in.

"Happy! So damn it!" Li Zhifu laughed as soon as he came in: "Let's fight the Japanese. The Japanese invaders don't even have the strength to fight back now, and even the big *** has to be packed in canned boxes and throw them out..."

With a coaxing sound, all the soldiers laughed.

"You went up to fight the Japanese again?" I asked.

"That's not yet!" Li Zhifu replied: "Our shooting team and the artillery were so exciting. They were both guns and cannons. I looked at itchy and followed them up and fired a few shots!"

"Are you fighting against the Japanese?" Xu Yongjian asked.

"Isn't this nonsense?" Li Zhifu patted the Type 56 rifle on his back and raised his head: "If you don't say you're going to blow, there are no more or less, there are exactly three!"

"It's not bad!" The hometown man said with a smile: "I said... it's time for you, the fifth company, to rest! When will we have fun with our sixth company?"

"Hey... it's still early!" Li Zhifu hurriedly refuted, "I'll talk about it when I'm going to play for two more days, brother!"

"Tsk!" said the hometown in a miserable manner: "We are afraid we can't even pick up the Japanese hair when we play for two more days!"

With a coaxing sound, the soldiers laughed again.

"I said Captain Li..." Xu Yongjian asked again: "Didn't you use a submachine gun? When did it become 56 and a half?"

"I borrowed it from the kitchen squad!" Li Zhifu replied: "Of course, the submachine gun is good for wars. If you want to fire cold guns... the submachine gun is not as good as 56 and a half! But compared with the battalion commander's gun..."

As he said that, he pretended to be drooling at the sniper rifle that I was hanging on the cave wall, which made everyone laugh!

"Comrades!" I really didn't want to interrupt them, but the situation on the battlefield did not allow me to do so.

Of course, the soldiers understood what I meant, and put away their joking faces and surrounded them.

"What's going on now?" I turned my eyes to Li Zhifu, who had just come down from the position.

"The situation is obviously beneficial to our army!" Li Zhifu stepped forward and replied: "Our army occupied the top position of the mountain and could suppress the firepower of the Vietnamese army from a high point, but... some of the reinforced concrete fortifications built by the Vietnamese army on the back slope are very strong. If you want to knock them down in a short time, you are afraid there will be difficulties!"

"Yeah!" I nodded.

The question raised by Li Zhifu is exactly what makes me headache. Now the superior's strategy is to firmly control the outer highlands of Lang Son. After occupying these favorable terrain, even if the reinforcements of the Vietnamese army have arrived in Lang Son, they cannot do anything to us. But now...

"Battery Commander!" The hometown people thought about it and continued: "If the main peak of Komashan is not really controlled by our army, and there are small groups of Vietnamese troops everywhere in the jungle that interfere with our army's logistics... Once the Vietnamese reinforcements come, we are likely to be surrounded!"

"Being surrounded is second!" I replied with a frown, "What I am more worried about is that if Komashan is in the current situation, it will threaten our army's consolidation of various surrounding highlands, and will be defeated by the Vietnamese army at that time, and the consequences will be unimaginable!"

I said this and everyone was stunned. In fact, the reason is very simple. Now the main peak is half of our army and the Vietnamese army. So where we can use mortars and heavy machine guns, the Vietnamese army can also be attacked... In other words, today I can use artillery machine guns and other firepower to assist our army to capture highlands such as 417 and 536, and tomorrow the Vietnamese army can do the same! So the battlefield will undoubtedly become a life-and-death battle.

The high grounds defended by our army are actually under the attack of Lang Son and the outer Vietnamese army. If this battle continues... I am afraid that there will be only disadvantages but no benefits for our army!

"So we have only one choice!" I concluded: "That is to firmly control the main peak of Komashan before the Vietnamese reinforcements arrived. Only in this way can we take the initiative in the entire battle!"

"But... how to fight?" the hometown man said hesitantly: "There are cliffs on both sides that cannot be climbed. We can only attack one road from the top of the mountain, but the Vietnamese army was prepared long ago..."

"Can the commando be sent to the front of the inclined surface of the Vietnamese army?" Xu Yongjian suggested: "Then carry out a two-sided attack on the Vietnamese army..."

"Not good!" I shook my head and denied this plan: "Although this can attack the Vietnamese army from both sides, the Vietnamese army still hides mobile troops in the jungle. When our army launches an attack, the Vietnamese army's mobile troops launch a raid on our commando... The commando will be hit fatally!"

Everyone couldn't help but remain silent after hearing this.

Damn! As I thought about it, I felt unhappy. We all occupied the top position of the mountain and were fighting against the Vietnamese army. But we couldn't do anything about them. It was like a hungry sweating at the table full of food but couldn't take their own people!

Suddenly, a battle scene flashed through my head when the U.S. aggression and aid Korea, and I couldn't help but scream excitedly: "There is a way!"

"Is there a way?"

“Tell me…”

...

The soldiers couldn't help but look happy when they heard this.

"Have you ever used Rolling Thunder?" I asked.

"Get out of the thunder?" The soldiers all looked at each other. They didn't even know if they had used it.

"That's right, it's just a thunder!" I turned around and ordered: "Communication officer... ask the regiment headquarters to send another batch of explosive packs immediately and the blasting tube comes up!"

"yes!"

"Company Commander Xu! You will immediately lead the Fourth Company to pick up the troops transporting supplies from our army, and protect the strategic materials to the main peak smoothly!"

"yes!"

"Company Commander Chen! You lead the six-component raft wood, the size and length of the wood are for easy transportation and rolling quickly on the inclined surface!"

"yes!"
Chapter completed!