blood of vietnam war

Chapter 150 Interlude

Our army's plan to attack Sabah was basically carried out in accordance with the tactical idea of ​​"breaking through the front and outflanking the two wings".This is true in the small direction, and the same is true in the general direction.

In the small direction, our regiment used this tactic to attack the highlands of the Vietnamese army. In the general direction, the attack on the entire Sabah was also our regiment's breakthrough from the front, and the other two regiments outflanked it.

This kind of tactic cannot be said to be wrong. After all, it is a land war and our army has the upper hand. It is natural to divide and encircle. This can give full play to the advantages of our army to a large extent.

But... I have to say that this tactic is still very old.

The U.S. military has shifted its focus to a more flexible sky as early as World War II. After mastering the air supremacy... it can bomb the enemy's railways, roads, bridges, etc. at will to paralyze its traffic, causing other Soldiers, munitions, supplies, etc. cannot be supplied; military facilities such as arsenals, power stations, oil depots, and barracks can also be bombed, so that the enemy’s supplies cannot be supplied; important military targets can also be beheaded to attack their command systems; Occupy important military locations with paratroopers...

In this way, the tactics will be flexible and changeable. If used well, it is entirely possible to carry out a scalpel-like attack on the enemy and disintegrate the enemy's defense in a short time at the smallest cost.

It should be said that our army also has the opportunity to develop this kind of tactics. The reason is that during the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, our army has achieved great breakthroughs in both air force and army equipment because of the aid from the Soviet Union... If it develops in the right direction , then our army should at least have an air force available, not to mention being able to catch up with the United States and the Soviet Union.

There are many reasons for this result:

On the one hand, for a long time, our army believed that infantry was the most important role on the battlefield.

This has something to do with the fact that the PLA has mostly won victories on the ground with tenacious will since its founding. The most convincing thing is that our army can win against the United[***] aircraft, Cannons, warships... So many people believe that as long as the army is strong enough, as long as the soldiers are brave enough to fight, and their political stand is firm enough, then even the most powerful enemy can be defeated.

Spiritual atomic bomb, quite a few people in this era believe that the most important thing is the brave and tenacious fighting spirit.

On the other hand, during the ten years of turmoil, our military's scientific research has not only failed to make progress, but has actually regressed...

So, until now, our air force is still not suitable to participate in the battle... According to the superior, it is to avoid the escalation of the war, but everyone knows... This battle has been fought like this, isn't it enough to escalate?

So now we have to use infantry to intersperse as in the era of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea...

When I was walking on the road, I was wondering: Why didn't the superiors send more troops to support the besieged interspersed troops?The focus of the Vietnamese army's attack is me interspersing troops, isn't it?Then their strength will definitely not be small, so what role can our company play?Isn't it a drop in the bucket?

It was only later that I realized that our company was not the only one that went to reinforce the troops, and that the superiors also had their reasons for doing so.

Company Commander Luo said at the meeting... a battalion of our army's penetrating troops suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat before they penetrated to the designated position.This battalion can be said to be the most suffocating force on the battlefield, because they didn't even see the shadow of the enemy... They were killed and injured by the intensive bombardment of the Vietnamese army's long-range artillery fire while passing through a bamboo forest Most of it.

Of course, Yue Guizi's long-range artillery can't compare with my army on the frontal battlefield, but it is more than enough to deal with our army's penetrating troops... and there are many advantages in dealing with our army's penetrating troops.

First, the artillery of the Vietnamese army can bomb with targets.

It is not difficult to do this, the Vietnamese army only needs to send a few observation posts with radios to observe from high places... Even the Vietnamese army does not need to send observation posts at all, just send a few rifles to the people in the Vietnamese villages Phone... Those ordinary people will report our army's movements to the Vietnamese army in due course.

So... no matter where our troops go, the Vietnamese artillery can know the exact location.

Second, the Vietnamese artillery does not have to worry about our artillery returning fire.

If the artillerymen of our army want to retaliate and fight back or suppress firepower, they must calculate the maximum position of the artillery positions of the Vietnamese army based on the trajectory of the shells fired by the artillerymen of the Vietnamese army... However, if these shells are blown towards our troops Yes, that is, it was bombed behind the Vietnamese army itself, so our army could not tell whether these shells came from our artillery or the Vietnamese artillery.

Therefore, the Vietnamese artillery can be said to choose the time and place to bomb our army's interspersed troops at will.

Just like the Vietnamese army chose the bamboo forest at the beginning... Anyone who has combat experience knows that bamboo forests or forests can double the lethality of shells, because those shells will explode on the top of the target because of the bamboo forests and forests After such an explosion, the shrapnel shot from top to bottom like a goddess scattered flowers, and there were also large pieces of bamboo pieces and branches that were blown to pieces like arrows...

So the first interspersed unit of our army returned because of too many casualties and no success. It is said that only a few dozen people in a battalion can come back alive, and all of them are wounded... and the Yue Guizi lost it seems Only some shells.

The second penetrating force of our army was much more careful. Instead of concentrating on breakthroughs, they were divided into several parts and interspersed towards the target by different routes.

But the problem is...

This tactic of interspersing is often used when the enemy does not know, or even if the enemy knows it, they do not know where we are going to intersperse.

At this time, the Yue Guizi not only knew that our army was going to penetrate, but could even deduce from the route where and where our army was going to penetrate... So it was expected that the second penetration force would be surrounded by the Vietnam Army.

It is precisely because of this experience that the superiors know one thing: the troops sent for reinforcements should not be too concentrated, otherwise they will be easily covered by the artillery fire of the Vietnamese army, so the company is divided into several batches from different routes. Go to reinforce the interspersed troops trapped in the encirclement.

However, decentralization also has its own problems with fragmentation...

After resting in the position for an hour, we set off before dark.

Company Commander Luo won this one-hour rest time from the head of the regiment. The reason is that our army has been carrying out the mission of clearing and suppressing since the start of the war last night.

Of course there will be no problem with the head of the regiment, but because of the urgent battle situation, we are only allowed to rest for an hour... This hour may not be a big deal for others, but for us, it is to give us a chance to recharge our batteries. Opportunity... Thinking about it afterwards, if it weren't for this hour, I'm afraid our army would be exhausted in the following battles.

After the rest, it is necessary to replenish food and ammunition... Actually, there is no need to say more about this. Even Wu Zhijun's recruits know that these are the most important things for interspersed troops.

Then we marched along the road to the flank for more than half an hour. In order not to be too conspicuous, we changed to a small road at Chen Yiyi's suggestion.

As they walked, the troops arrived at a small village. The village was so small that there were only eight or nine thatched huts, so that even Chen Yiyi couldn't name the village.However, experience on the battlefield tells us...any village in Vietnam may be a trap, so we dare not be careless and stopped our march outside the village.

I raised my binoculars and looked towards the village, but I couldn’t see any activity in the village, only four Vietnamese women were working in the fields five to 60 meters behind, and beside them, there were three buffaloes gnawing leisurely. grass on the edge of the field.

From the surface, there is nothing unusual about the village, and it can even be said that the village seems not to have been affected by the external war... It's like a paradise.

We are not surprised at this point, it should be related to Vietnam being in a state of war for many years, the Vietnamese seem to have adapted to how to continue living during the war years.

So... when this battle started, the Vietnamese people who would be afraid or had the conditions would migrate to the south long before the war, and the remaining Vietnamese people would be unable or reluctant to leave.They have no choice but to keep working... people have to live, don't they?So this land still needs to be planted. It is impossible for them to not plow the land and eat for as long as the war is fought.

"Second platoon leader!" After observing for a while, Captain Luo ordered me: "You can speak Vietnamese, take a class to see the situation!"

"Yes!" I answered, and set off with Chen Yiyi's second class.

The reason why she took Chen Yiyi with her was, of course, because she was familiar with the situation in Vietnam. I think the company commander actually meant that.

We walked into the village very carefully with guns in hand, and searched every house... We did this because we were worried that there were tunnels in the house or hidden Vietnamese troops, although we didn't have a company, so we didn't have to worry about small groups of Vietnamese troops. , but you can never go wrong with being careful.

However, after searching for a while, nothing unusual was found. I just saw three ordinary Vietnamese women eating in a hut.

When they saw us [***] Chinese who suddenly appeared in front of them, they seemed a little flustered. I was ashamed to let the soldiers go in and rummage through the boxes like this, and I also considered that we had to hurry up and march...so only this The hut was not searched.

Later I realized that I had made a mistake: on this battlefield, any Vietnamese who looked like civilians was likely to be an enemy. The reason was that almost all the people in Vietnam were soldiers. Doubts should not be let go. (To be continued.)