Chapter 216 Radar
More than a month later, the soldiers of the Special Reconnaissance Brigade and I could go on missions alone without the accompanying pilots. Of course, considering that the soldiers' flight time is not long, the pilot level is far less than that of professional pilots... By the way, those pilots who can join our Special Reconnaissance Brigade are all top pilots, and it is almost impossible for us to surpass them in such a short time, so it is okay for us to drive the plane for training, but when we really want to perform the mission, we still have to let those professional pilots go on.
The life of the special reconnaissance brigade soon entered the training and mission mode. That is, when you are fine, you will train as usual, and when you have a task, you will go to the battlefield according to the orders.
The training subjects are not fixed. Sometimes when you shoot targets, you sometimes practice parachuting, etc., but the difficulty is not high, and the rest time is also regular. The reason is that we must maintain strong physical strength and energy and be ready to meet new tasks at all times.
As for the tasks we have accepted during this period, it doesn’t seem worth mentioning to me. Sometimes we just want to blow up the ammunition depot or supply warehouse of the Vietnamese Japanese. Sometimes we just want to kill a few senior officials of the Vietnamese army after meetings...
Of course, there is a reason why these tasks are assigned to us. Most of the ammunition and supply warehouses we are responsible for destroying are far away from the border. As I said before, it is extremely difficult for ordinary scouts to perform such tasks. However, for our special reconnaissance brigade, it is enough to choose a suitable opportunity and then take a helicopter to launch a sudden attack on the target.
Some people may say, are the Japanese devils the fools? They won’t take precautions in advance?
This is just like we are powerless in the face of the sneak attacks by the Vietnamese agents. The Vietnamese Japanese also cannot know the time and location of our sneak attacks. Even if we know that we will sneak attack this ammunition depot... but for one day, two days are OK, one month or two months?
The Vietnamese army has agents and spies in our army, and our army also has agents and spies in the Vietnamese Japanese troops. Therefore, the Vietnamese army has carefully set up traps and guarded them for ten days and half a month without seeing us. As soon as they evacuated our helicopter, they immediately came to their ammunition depot...
I remember when we were carrying out the mission of Faka Mountain, we were trapped in Faka Mountain without anyone to reinforce, and there were helicopters and soldiers at the base, but they could not reinforce because there was no suitable person to command it. With this lesson, I felt that I, as a battalion commander, did not need to go on the battle in person every mission. This might allow the soldiers to make fewer mistakes, but it would not allow them to grow up independently. Just like parents who spoiled their children, if they paved all the roads and helped them do everything for them, the children might be very comfortable in their lives, but they would never become a pillar of the country...
So I consciously asked Li Zhifu and his hometown to lead their company to carry out the mission alone. The facts proved that their command abilities were quite good. After fighting several battles, they completed the mission in a short period of time with extremely small casualties.
I was a little worried about Li Zhifu because I knew he was a person who was not serious about the problem. On the battlefield, he would often have impulsive momentum or sacrifice a few people to fight against the enemy... In our special reconnaissance brigade actually had the most taboo to fight against the enemy when performing special missions, because each of us is a precious resource, so unless it is to achieve some strategic purpose, fighting against the enemy is to fight with the enemy with golden bullets!
However, after he had several missions, I felt relieved. When Li Zhifu was taking the troops on his own, he seemed to have become a different person, and he had completely lost his temper.
When I asked him this question, he said excitedly: "Actually, it's because I'm lazy! I'm usually lazy to use my brain with you, Battalion Commander Cui, and I just want to fight and kill Japanese people. I'll say whatever I think. But it's different to take the troops up by myself. That's not my life alone! We have to consider these dozens of brothers under our command. It's impossible not to think about it!"
After a pause, he added a few more words to the back: "Captain Cui, in fact, this is also your contribution! With you for so long, your combat habits and methods are all in my mind. When I encounter difficulties, I will think in my mind... What would I do if it were Captain Cui! Don't say it, this move is really effective. There is no way, as long as I think about it, there will be a way! Look, these battles are still good! That's all Captain Cui, you live in my heart..."
I glared at the following words and swallowed them all into my stomach. I couldn't help but curse: This guy just said that he had made progress! I immediately used a sentence to describe a martyr to describe me!
Not to mention Li Zhifu was able to stand alone, the people in his hometown. In fact, I never doubted the people in his hometown. The only mistake he made was to wait for a soldier who did not arrive at the assembly ground in time because of his calf.... Although the soldier who was shot was rescued, the team paid the price of two deaths and one injury because of those two minutes of waiting.
I couldn't help but get angry at him for this, because we have already made regulations on the safety of the entire army, especially if the helicopters are surrounded by the enemy at the assembly site, it will have a devastating blow to our entire army. Therefore, if the person who has not arrived at the assembly site within the specified time is considered to have been sacrificed. As the company commander of the special reconnaissance brigade, he would not have understood these principles, but he still did this on the battlefield.
But then again, sometimes I wonder what I would do if I had encountered this situation? Can I watch my comrades only have two minutes away from the assembly ground, and they are still soldiers who are dragging their injured legs and rushing on their way without caring about it? He obviously did not sacrifice, can I treat him as a sacrifice?
The answer is no, I will also save him like a fellow villager. From this point of view, I am the same kind of person as a fellow villager. In fact, most soldiers will choose to rescue him, but I will not leave the entire army like he did, but only one helicopter...
However, this cannot be told to the soldiers, especially Li Zhifu and his hometown people cannot know it, because I know very well that if they do it like me, the casualties of our special reconnaissance brigade will soon rise in series.
It is indeed affectionate and righteous to save people, but the behavior of affectionate and righteousness is not suitable for the battlefield!
The only task I personally commanded during this period was the assassination of a senior Vietnamese official. The reason why this task was carried out by our special reconnaissance brigade was because the meeting had begun for a while when our spies learned about the meeting of a senior Vietnamese official, and it could end at any time.
Of course, ordinary reconnaissance troops cannot deal with this situation, so this task was sent to our special reconnaissance brigade in a hurry.
Unlike other tasks, we usually choose the attack time. Most of them are the agents or spies from our army to prove that the target has no traps. However, this time it is not the case. It can be imagined that the senior officials of the Vietnamese army must have a very strict defense during the meeting. In other words, what we are going to bite a hard bone now, and we don’t have time to prepare for the mission. So I dare not be slow, and took more than fifty soldiers on board the helicopter like firefighters and flew into the air.
The time of this operation was so rapid that we only got the location of the target from the radio on the plane and the Vietnamese army's military distribution and firepower configuration.
The reason why I added the word "big lament" before the distribution of the Vietnamese army's troops and firepower configuration is because the Vietnamese Japanese are also very skilled in keeping the information confidential. Judging from previous experience in carrying out missions, the intelligence sent by our agents and spies is only a small part of the Vietnamese army. The real firepower is hidden in the forest or in the tunnel, and it will soon take effect whenever there is any situation. The people in my hometown have suffered such a loss. They passed through a forest without enemy situation according to the intelligence but were attacked by the Vietnamese military's surface-to-air missiles... Fortunately, the Vietnamese military's technology of launching missiles is really not very good. In fact, the Vietnamese Japanese also obtained these equipment from the Soviet Union and couldn't wait to bring them to the battlefield before they were trained. This is also the reason why the people in my hometown can still survive until now.
"Wang Yunming!" After looking at the map, I ordered Wang Yunming: "Let's go from the south..."
"What? Go from the south?" Wang Yunming turned around in confusion while driving the helicopter, saying, "The news from the base... Isn't there an enemy anti-aircraft machine gun position in the south? We are still going from the south?"
"That's right! Just go from the south!" I ordered with certainty.
"Yes!" Wang Yunming responded and immediately conveyed my order.
What I believe is that the Yue Japanese are also very clear that there are spies from our army inside them, so I boldly guess... The Yue Japanese will likely follow us in the firepower configuration with a move, there is real and virtual. If we follow this thinking, the most dangerous place is undoubtedly the safest place!
Sure enough, I guessed that the Vietnamese army actually had only a few old anti-aircraft machine guns in the south. It was a bit too little to shoot down these things with just a few searchlight columns... So we rushed into the village.
Later we learned from the agents that the Vietnamese army always thought we would not be able to attack from the south, so we arranged anti-aircraft guns and even surface-to-air missiles in other places.
And I didn't expect my luck to be so good. When we arrived in this village, it was the time when the senior Vietnamese military officials were about to leave after the meeting. The lights were illuminating seven and eight jeeps all the way, so what else was there to say? We rushed up and called...
As the saying goes, our playing style has improved a lot from before. We used to only know how to open a few holes next to the helicopter and shoot out. But after the experience of throwing landmines down from the helicopter last time, we learned to be smart. Since we can throw landmines down, why can't we throw other things? For example... blasting tubes, grenades...
I don’t want the grenade. It’s not powerful and often doesn’t explode. The blasting tube is long and difficult to carry and throw it down. The most suitable one is the explosive pack... So, every time we operate, we will prepare dozens of explosive packs on the helicopter, and a soldier is responsible for dropping explosive packs on the helicopter. That’s great! It’s like bombs.
At this time, these explosive packs came in handy. With my order, the ten helicopters were hundreds of explosive packs thrown down like eggs. Then, before we could fly far behind us, a "boom" sound came, and the jeep were completely trapped in the sea of fire.
"Battorney General! Do you still need to go down and confirm?" Li Zhifu asked, looking at the smoke behind him.
"Check it out!" I cursed at the radio in anger: "Didn't you see the Japanese everywhere below? Do you want to go down and seek death? Everyone returns to the camp..."
"Just go back to the camp like this?" Some soldiers still didn't believe it. We didn't seem to have a shot in this trip, and we just threw explosive packs down.
"Battery Commander, what if the target is not cleared?" The people from the hometown asked with some concern.
"That depends on luck!" I said: "If the target is not cleared, there is nothing we can do. The senior Japanese officials of the Vietnamese may not be worth more than our lives! Return to the camp!"
Later, the news we learned from the agents was that this time the gains were quite good. The ancient brain killed three regiment commanders and two chiefs of staff... So this time it became the easiest time for us to carry out the mission.
But the next task was not so easy!
Since the Battle of Faka Mountain, the Vietnamese agents have disappeared from our sight without any movement. This is also the reason why we have been able to be so smooth during this period. However, I know that this time will not be too long. The Vietnamese agents are hiding in the dark like a cunning fox. They are not not acting or afraid of us, but are waiting for an opportunity and a suitable opportunity...
Finally one night, I got the news that they took action!
I slept soundly in the room that day, and Liu Yun moved out because my injury was healed. Since I let Li Zhifu and his hometown do the task, I have less things to consider, and the burden on my shoulders has become much lighter. All I have to do is train with the soldiers during the day, and then when Li Zhifu's hometown comes back after he finishes the task, he just points out what is inadequate and what is not good enough. So I slept very well during this period, and sometimes I don't even have a dream and I'll sleep until dawn.
But that night, he was awakened by a rapid knock on the door. As soon as he opened his eyes, he heard the call of correspondent Xiao Chen from outside the door: "Captain Cui! Captain Cui...Politician Yang asked you to go to the battalion headquarters for a meeting immediately!"
"Come soon!" As soon as I was Gulu, I rose from the bed, put on my military uniform and buckled my armed belt without thinking, and also looked at the multi-functional watch on my wrist, at five o'clock in the morning...
My intuition told me that something important happened, otherwise the camp would not have asked me to have a meeting at this time, and Xiao Chen would not have used the word "right now".
When I hurried to the camp, I felt a different atmosphere. Lin Xue and other chiefs of staff were there, and everyone showed a cautious look on their faces.
"What happened?" I asked.
No one answered, and after a while, Political Commissar Yang spoke: "The gun-aiming radar I told you last time was blown up by Vietnamese agents!"
"What?" Hearing this, my head was short-circuited for a few seconds. I knew very well the role of this artillery radar in our army. It is now equivalent to the eyes of our artillery troops. Without it, our artillery troops will soon be weakened. Once the artillery weakens, it means that the casualties of infantry will soon rise sharply...
"How could such an important thing be bombed? Why is there no one to protect it?" I asked.
Political Commissar Yang and Lin Xue looked at each other, then shook their heads and said, "We didn't expect that the Vietnamese army would get the information about our artillery radar so quickly. A few months ago... they didn't know that we had the artillery radar equipment, and they thought we were building artillery observation stations on the high ground..."
After Political Commissar Yang said this, I understood that as the saying goes, "It is a blessing to lose one's horse." At that time, the Vietnamese army suffered heavy casualties because they did not know that our army had gun aiming radar attacks the meaningless high ground. However, it is precisely because of this that our army was careless that the Vietnamese army did not know that we had this kind of equipment and had no precautions. It should be said that there was no sufficient strict prevention. Because I knew that there would always be any precautions for this kind of equipment!
"The time for the attack of the Vietnamese agents was three o'clock in the morning!" Lin Xue introduced: "According to the news we received, this operation was planned and commanded by Major Chen Mingxing, deputy commander of the Special 212821 Special Agent Regiment directly under the Secretariat Command. They used the platoon of the 7th Company of the 40th Company of the 40th Company of the 40th Company of our 14th Army and the 15th Border Regiment to infiltrate the Simberlin radar position on the left wing of our army, located in the shallow depth of Bajiaoping on the 792 Highland. After easily killing our sentinel, the Vietnamese agents laid explosives on the radar and laid tripline mines at the entrance of the radar tent... The rest was a complete massacre and detonating the radar..."
I couldn't help but feel silent after listening to Lin Xue's introduction. It's not difficult to see from what she said that our army's intelligence department is not weak, because in just two hours, we can find the enemy's number or even the commander.
"What else can we do?" I asked: "The radar has been blown up, and we have no power to restore the sky!"
Chapter completed!