War Military: From 1978

Chapter 194: Squadron Leader, Iron Mine!
Gao P is actually the first stage strategic goal of Chu An and his team.

Now that the high P has been breached, the first stage should be completed.

However, due to the emergence of the granary, the ultimate strategic goal of the first phase, high P, seems a bit boring.

"Boom~Boom!"

The sound of gunfire began to ring out again on a large scale in the afternoon of the 25th.

The surrounding Vietnamese devils began to attack again.

This was because they received direct orders from their superiors in the south, ordering them to recapture the three high grounds and granary at all costs.

Although the battle was fierce, Chu An didn't even have the chance to go on the field and fire a shot.

Not only him, but also the soldiers of Regiment C on Sanpinshan Heights and Southwest Heights had no chance to attack.

The Vietnamese devils couldn't defeat us at all.

When it comes to positional warfare, they are really too inexperienced.

As we marched, our army broke through countless of their positions, while they rarely broke through our positions.

We suffered losses during the march and during their nighttime cold-blooded attacks.

But now, after our army organized its forces and held its ground relying on the favorable terrain, they were directly beaten into Muggles.

Most of them are militiamen who can only shoot and run in the jungle. Faced with the mountain siege that is like a meat grinder, they will basically retreat on their own after a while.

But that’s not always the case.

The high ground in the northwest was almost taken up by the Vietnamese at dusk.

It is said that in that direction was a regiment of the enemy's 346th Division.

The enemy's 346th Division is the absolute ace unit of the Vietnamese devils on the GaoP side, the kind with a long list of honors. Its combat effectiveness is very strong and it is also the main target of our army.

This is also the reason why our army’s command did not hesitate to mobilize troops from all over to search for the 346th Division headquarters in Anle area after learning that it was in Anle area.

But in the end, a near miss is still a near miss.

After nightfall, the regiment of the 346th Division was defeated.

Moreover, with the support of other units of our army, we drove them back two or three kilometers at a time.

"We just received news from above that we have to cancel the second phase of the combat mission!"

In the trench where Chu An's anti-artillery hole was located, Chu An and Cui Jiying were sitting there, each holding a cigarette.

Chu An turned his head after listening to his words and asked, "What is the second phase of the combat mission itself?"

He really didn't know. He was just a deputy company commander and didn't even know that the attack was divided into several stages.

"Encircle and destroy the enemy's 312th Division!"

"All right!"

Chu An didn’t even know where the 312th Division was.

"It's actually none of our business. We've somehow become the main force, but we're not the full main force. Our First Battalion, under the leadership of the Commissioner, is still holding the position in Tong L, protecting the logistics route!"

Chu An didn't know what to say.

In this battle, Regiment C really missed the target completely.

As a second-line support force, everyone thought the mission would be easy before the battle.

After all, according to the assignment of tasks before the war, they followed the main force to collect spoils, and their main task was to clear out the enemies defeated by the main force, capture the enemies defeated by the main force as prisoners, and at the same time ensure the logistics of the troops.

But now, since the supplies were delivered to the First Regiment, the combat mission of the C Regiment has been completely deviated.

"Let me tell you something!" Suddenly, Cui Jiying looked around, lowered his voice and turned his head.

"Ok?"

"Actually, the army wanted to transfer you directly to the reconnaissance brigade this time, and even made you a squadron leader, but our division commander strongly rejected it!"

"Ok?"

Chu An was stunned for a moment, and the hand holding the cigarette stopped.

Cui Jiying laughed: "Disappointed?"

"No!"

Chu An shook his head.

The squadron leader of the reconnaissance brigade is indeed very powerful. To put it more intuitively, this is a position equivalent to the level of company commander to deputy battalion commander, which is one or two levels higher than Chu An's current position as deputy company commander.

But Chu An had always been in Regiment C. Even though there were only a few veterans left in the reconnaissance platoon, Chu An was reluctant to leave. Besides, switching to an unfamiliar unit on the battlefield was not a good thing.

"The division headquarters values you very much. We haven't promoted you yet because our division only has our regiment at the front, and our regiment only has one special forces company. But after the war, we will definitely treat you, a hero, very well!"

After a pause, Cui Jiying smiled and said, "Maybe after the war, I'll have to call you Chief!"

"No, Captain, please don't joke like that!"

Although Chu An made many contributions in this battle, Cui Jiying, who was from the special forces company, also fought bloody battles with the regiment headquarters all the way.

He was temporarily transferred from deputy political instructor to commander of the special forces company before the war. He would definitely be promoted after the war, and if nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely be promoted above the deputy battalion level.

"Haha! Go get some rest. We'll have reinforcements tomorrow and we might have another mission!"

Cui Jiying threw away his cigarette butt and patted Chu An on the shoulder: "You are the best soldier I have ever led. I am proud of you, but take it easy on the battlefield. If you survive until the end of the war, I will ask your sister-in-law to prepare a table of delicious food, and then I will get a few bottles of good wine and we will get drunk together!"

"it is good!"

Chu An smiled and nodded.

The squadron leader did not cause any emotional fluctuations in Chu An.

He stood up and crawled into the bomb shelter. He was wet and uncomfortable huddled inside, but he didn't have any other requests at the moment.

The artillery fire on the front line is still going on. Compared with his comrades who are still fighting, he is feeling more comfortable now.

The night passed in the sound of gunfire.

On the afternoon of the 26th, the sound of artillery fire in the surrounding areas gradually subsided.

This is the Vietnamese devils breaking up into small groups and running away again.

Because a large force of our army is coming from the rear.

This time, our army once again sent in three divisions, and along with these three divisions came a large number of supporting militiamen.

This was a new force, a large force of more than 30,000 people, who were coming straight at us. The Vietnamese soldiers who were surrounded near Sanpin Mountain dared not stay there any longer.

Even Sanpin Mountain couldn’t be taken down.

Now that so many soldiers from the Flower-Growing Family are coming behind them, if they are attacked from both inside and outside, they will all die here.

So even though they were very reluctant to lose the granary, they had no choice.

"Orders from above indicate that our regiment will begin tomorrow morning with a dragnet-style sweep along Highway 34 to eliminate any remaining enemy forces!"

In the evening, just after Chu An received fifty newly arrived retired reconnaissance veterans, the regiment held a meeting and the regiment commander issued new orders.

"Just us?" The acting commander of the third battalion couldn't help but ask.

"Of course it's not just us!" The regimental commander looked at him and said, "Except for the first division that will continue to guard this area, the rest of the troops will carry out this mission. All of our troops will use the highway as the basis and conduct a dragnet-style clearance within a five-kilometer area.

This is our second phase of the mission!"

After a pause, the captain spoke again: "In this war, our mission has been completed. Now it's time to expand our victory!"

"Chu An!"

He turned his head and looked at Chu An!
"To!"

"come over!"

He walked towards the map, and Chu An followed him.

The regiment commander pointed to a point on the map and said, "Here, there's an iron ore mine owned by the Vietnamese. It's an important strategic material. Although it's beyond our army's clearing range, we absolutely cannot allow them to mine it normally. So we have to destroy it. Think of a way to take some men to destroy it first!"

"Yes!"

Chu An didn't expect that he would be given such a task suddenly.

But he understands the truth.

Iron is an absolutely important strategic material in war. War weapons cannot do without iron, but this is the enemy's iron ore. We keep it just for them to mine it and make weapons to attack us.

So destruction is also necessary!

Visually estimate the distance from the iron mine to the highway on the map.

About eight kilometers.

It is indeed beyond the scope of liquidation.

In other words, he would probably have to go deep into the enemy's territory alone with the scouts on this mission.

But Chu An didn’t think too much about it. Destroying the mine didn’t mean he was going to take it down!

(End of this chapter)