blood of vietnam war

Chapter 160 Two Charge Mine Clearance

"Boom..." With a loud bang, the shells of the tank hit the position on the slope one after another. Because the tank guns have a high accuracy rate and they shoot at close range, the shells hit the slope very accurately. There were two bullet craters.

The slope is full of mines, so each shell can always detonate a few mines... After that, several tanks slowly raise the barrels, and there is another row of shells extending along the upward edge of the crater...

This is a good way to open the way, using tank shells to clear mines, and because our army's mountaintop position is too far away from the Vietnamese tanks, anti-tank weapons such as rocket launchers are basically useless.

Some people may say, why don't we use mortars?

Not to mention that blind shooting with mortars is very difficult to hit tanks, and mortars only have anti-personnel bombs and incendiary bombs, which are generally used to target infantry and have little effect on tanks, at most That is, when it hits directly, it can stun the tanker inside.

If we have enough shells, then it seems to be possible to do this, but the problem is that shells are in short supply for the Vietnamese army and our army.If it is used to fight tanks like this, it is undoubtedly a waste, so we can only watch those tanks busy under our noses.

But... I am not very worried about this kind of action of the Vietnamese army.

First of all, landmines are not all that sensitive. Some landmines will not explode no matter how you hit them due to quality problems. I don’t know when they will explode if you touch them casually... and the middle of the crater hit by the tank gun There are also many gaps, and it is impossible to clear all the mines.

Secondly, the passage blasted by the Vietnamese army with tank guns... but it is only a dozen meters wide. I don't believe that such a small passage can play any role in the charge of the Vietnamese army.

So I waited patiently on the top of the mountain with the soldiers, and I wanted to see what the Yue Guizi would do next.

Finally, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the Vietnamese army tanks had finished their tossing, and then the Vietnamese army hiding behind the tanks really shouted... holding the submachine guns in their hands, they blasted a passage along the tanks under our surprised eyes. 217 rushed up from the high ground.

The military quality of the Yue Guizi is not weak. They advance and shoot like monkeys on the slope, sometimes charge and sometimes lie down, and most of them advance along the crater.

But... as I said before, the shells cannot completely clear the landmines.

So, those Vietnamese soldiers were running...Suddenly there was a bang, and the whole person was blown up and rolled over. When he fell to the ground, he was already missing a leg.This is not bad. Some Vietnamese soldiers triggered the landmines just when they were lying down. Unable to die for a while, he lay on the slope and let out a shrill and desperate scream, but no one paid attention to him...because the other Vietnamese troops had to charge... Maybe they were ordered not to slow down their progress because of the wounded, so He could only let the scream get weaker and weaker, and finally gradually disappeared in the battlefield.

The soldiers and I looked at all this in disbelief. In our eyes, these actions of the Vietnamese army were almost the same as courting death... For the Vietnamese army, the only thing that can charge is the ten thousand bombs thrown by the tanks. A passage several meters wide, not to mention that the mines in that passage have not been cleared, we can just set up a few machine guns and crush them to the ground.

However, the Vietnamese troops in front of us seem to ignore this at all, no matter whether there are landmines under their feet, or whether there are black holes in our army's positions aimed at them... they are still advancing while holding their guns Charge us.

The Vietnamese army finally got close to our army's mountaintop team... roughly two-thirds of the Vietnamese army rushed up successfully. From this aspect... this offensive of the Vietnamese army seems to be very successful.

However, as Company Commander Luo yelled: "Fight!" The various weapons in the hands of the soldiers suddenly sprayed flames at the Vietnamese army, knocking down the Vietnamese army rushing ahead in an instant, and followed the other soldiers. The last Vietnamese army was also overwhelmed on the ground and could not lift their heads.

But the Vietnamese army didn't do nothing... After lying on the ground, they pulled all the things that could explode, such as grenades and explosives, and blew them around. I searched for explosives on the Internet, and when I found them, I didn't care about the 21 and threw them nearby.There are even many Vietnamese soldiers who have been injured by landmines and injured their feet and hands, still insisting on crawling around...

So I understood that the Yue Guizi were using their lives to open up a passage as wide as possible... This reminded me of the scene when our army's engineers and soldiers used their bodies to clear mines at the beginning of our army's general offensive... I have to admit that the Vietnamese army was indeed very brave in combat.

It is precisely because of the meeting of these two armies with extraordinary courage on the battlefield that this thrilling scene takes place.

Then, before the Vietnamese army used for mine clearance was completely wiped out by our army, the Vietnamese army launched another round of attack.

This round of attack was a bit different from the previous round. The Yue Guizi first came with a fire cover.This fire cover came from the tanks parked at the foot of the hill.

On the one hand is the tank gun... At this time they have adjusted the shooting angle. Although the elevation angle of the tank gun is limited, as you saw on Mount Dai Nai, the Vietnamese army knows how to use the terrain to adjust the tank gun elevation angle.

On the other hand, there are anti-aircraft machine guns on tanks. There will be ten anti-aircraft machine guns on ten tanks. Before, they might be worried about being suppressed by our army's condescending firepower. When our army focused its attention on the Vietnamese army on the slope, one by one got out of the tank and grabbed the machine gun to shoot at our hilltop position...

On the other hand, there are mortarmen and machine gunners who use the armor of the tank to hide behind the tank and shoot at my position on the top of the mountain.Needless to say, these mortar gunners are all experienced and accurate gunners, because they are using the few artillery shells of the Vietnamese army to carry out precise strikes on our army's positions.

As soon as the firepower from these three sides came up, our hilltop position was bustling like you exploded a pot. As soon as the shells were sent to our front position, the bullets swept away in pieces... the whole position was beaten to pieces in an instant. The smoke and dust were everywhere, and it was almost impossible to see where the Yue Guizi was.

At this time... the second batch of Yue Guizi crossed the tank's defense line and charged towards our army.

From this point of view, the coordination between the various units of the Vietnamese army is indeed very good, and the timing of the infantry's charge is also the moment when the tank fire suppresses us.It is conceivable that when we reacted a little bit, the assault troops of the Vietnamese army had already deployed their forces on the passage in front of the tanks and cooperated with the tank troops to suppress our army... So the Vietnamese army is likely to be in this situation. Under the suppression of firepower, they rushed to our army's hilltop position.

At this time, I couldn't help but feel a little strange. Yue Guizi's charge method seems to be very effective. Why didn't my 447 regiment attack this 217 highland before?

After thinking about it later, I quickly understood that the biggest difference is...the troops of the 447th regiment are surrounded by the Vietnamese army. If they also attack the 217 Heights with all their strength like these Vietnamese troops, then there is no doubt It will be attacked by Vietnamese troops from other directions, and it may even be attacked from the front and back... So the battlefield is often not isolated.

However, such a charge by the Vietnamese army does not seem to be able to achieve the goal easily, because our army also has our artillery and our defensive troops.

At this time, it was time to use artillery shells. After Company Commander Luo called for a while on the walkie-talkie, our artillery behind the 217 Heights soon fired a row of artillery shells at the tank defense line... There are not many artillery shells in this row, but Only a dozen rounds.According to the head of the regiment, we have to persist on this high ground for five or seven days, but our shells are very limited, so we should use them sparingly.

But these shells played a lot of roles, because they exploded around the tank defense line of the Vietnamese army... The shrapnel exploded by the shells flew from the bottom up, and the anti-aircraft machine gunners of the Vietnamese army on the tanks were high-altitude gunners. Standing on the tank, so they have a high chance of being killed by the shells. Even if they are not directly hit by the shrapnel, they will be knocked down by the shock wave of the shells, so the moment the shells sound... the fire cover from the tank defense line It was much weaker in an instant.

The company commander took advantage of this time to give the order to attack.

We have also deployed more than a dozen machine guns on the top of the mountain, and a few of them are anti-aircraft machine guns that the Yue Guizi had originally placed on the top of the mountain... These machine gun positions are arranged very cleverly, and they are all built on the top of the mountain without exception. The ridgeline position of the hilltop position, that is, people and guns are hiding on this side of the slope, but the bullets fired can hit the position of the Vietnamese army on the other side.

These points... are beyond the threat of direct-firing weapons like tank guns, so they can shoot against the Vietnamese army most of the time.

Coupled with the light and heavy machine guns we deployed on the trenches and the AK47s in the hands of the soldiers, it only took one shot to seize the advanced firepower of the Vietnamese tank defense line.

The fire cover of the Vietnamese tank defense line was suppressed by our army, and those Vietnamese troops who rushed up the reverse slope were exposed to us alive... It should be said that these Vietnamese troops are very pitiful. They can serve as cover There were only small craters blasted by mortars and tank guns. Our army was condescending, and the high angle of fire made these craters unable to provide them with enough cover, so with the sound of gunshots... another company of the Vietnamese army lay down On the ground.

However, just like the previous batch of Vietnamese soldiers, this batch of Vietnamese soldiers tried their best to detonate the explosives they carried nearby before they died.

As a result, the passage on the minefield became wider and wider under the attack of the Vietnamese army... (To be continued.)