Chapter 104 Bridgehead
Originally, I thought that the Vietnamese army would encounter the tenacious resistance of the Qiqionghe Bridge. At least... I thought I should also see the wounded people retreating from the Qiqionghe Bridge, the people or the troops who were reinforced by the Vietnamese army. However, after arriving at the Qiqionghe Bridge, there was nothing, that is, the people who did not retreat nor the Vietnamese army troops who came to reinforce through the bridge. The entire stone arch bridge was deserted and there was nothing but the defense of the Vietnamese army and about a company in the bridgehead.
Later I learned that the people in the North Langshan District of Langshan had already retreated to the South District, but the Vietnamese army was reluctant to cross the river to reinforce the Vietnamese army in the North Langshan District of Langshan District for various reasons. At this time, they were in a dilemma.
Without reinforcements, you can only watch the destruction of the North District, and watch the friendly forces in the North District be surrounded by enemies and then annihilated.
Reinforcement... it is very likely that the troops sent to the north will soon be in a situation of fighting for the back-to-earth battle. After all, the northern area was already surrounded by our army's encirclement highlands, including Komashan. Our army could cover the entire northern area with condescending artillery fire at any time. Therefore, the reinforcements sent to the northern area are likely to become troops that need reinforcement immediately.
From this point of view, I think the Vietnamese army has actually realized to some extent that our army is using the tactic of surrounding points to attack reinforcements to expand the results, so even hesitated to reinforcements to the North District.
But we can't care so much. As soon as the tank troops snatched up, they saw that there were only such enemies guarding the bridgehead, and they started to fire without saying a word. Anti-aircraft machine guns fired rows of bullets at the Vietnamese army, and the tank guns also shot one round of shells to the bridgehead bunkers. The infantry hiding behind the tanks also shot rockets and recoilless cannons at the enemy.
Battalion Commander Wu took three tanks without saying a word, and then rushed towards the Vietnamese bridgehead position like lightning...
In fact, this was planned for a long time. The reason why Battalion Commander Wu brought two tanks to the Vietnamese bridgehead regardless of the danger was because we were worried that the Vietnamese army would blow up the bridge in a hurry. Later I realized that this worry was completely unnecessary. The Vietnamese army was not worried at this time that our army would fight across the southern area along the Qiqiong River Bridge. In addition, the Vietnamese army had a large number of troops in the northern area to resist desperately and did not withdraw. They wanted to keep this retreat and escape back, so the Vietnamese army guarding the bridgehead had no intention of blowing up the bridge and was not ready to blow up the bridge.
But at this time we didn't know this. We only knew that we had to take down this bridgehead as quickly as possible and firmly control it in our hands.
Perhaps the Vietnamese army was really empty, or they didn't expect that we would conquer the big ones so quickly, Xiaoshishan took the Qiqiong River Bridge, and the Vietnamese army guarding the bridgehead were obviously not prepared. They didn't even have basic anti-tank weapons.
After rushing up, several tanks of our army were as if they were in a no-man's realm. They easily rushed to the barbed wire set up by the Vietnamese army in front of the position, detonating infantry mines. Two 7.62mm machine guns on the front side of the tank made a "knock" sound, making the Vietnamese army fly and scream. Then the tank roared and ruthlessly crushed the Vietnamese machine gun fort with thick covers, crushing the shooters and anti-aircraft machine guns inside into a bloody and bloody ball...
Of course, several of the Vietnamese soldiers rushed up with explosive bags and wanted to blow up the tanks, but this brave move was not suitable at this time, because on the other side, there were soldiers from our shooting team staring at them through the scope of the sniper rifle.
"Bang bang..." Two gunshots, a Vietnamese army, who was holding a pack of explosives, rushed towards the tanks and fell into a pool of blood.
The courage and wisdom of this Vietnamese army are unquestionable. He ran along the tank's route and ignited the fuse of the explosive pack before jumping. In this way, even if he was shot dead by a bullet on the way, the explosive pack could pose a certain threat to the tank.
But his wishful thinking was wrong. A explosive pack of such a large size and a white smoke all the way quickly attracted my attention. I shot the explosive pack away with one shot, and then ended his life with another bullet.
Only then did I realize that he was an officer with two red bars on his shoulders. But no matter how brilliant the record he had ever had, no matter how wonderful his life had before, he was only worth one bullet on the battlefield.
"Bang!" Another gunshot, and a bloody light immediately disappeared from my sight.
The Vietnamese army was obviously very experienced. He advanced along the dead corner of the tank's sight to a crater, preparing to burn the explosive pack when the tank ran over. It should be said that he had succeeded. I watched him jump into the crater with the explosive pack, but he was unable to kill him because he was slowing down. If he just waited for the tank to drive up like that, then I was very likely to be powerless and could only watch him die with a tank...
But... he was not very confident in his judgment, either because he was accustomed to the movements, or because he was worried that the tank would turn halfway, so he poked his head out and observed the position of the tank. This gave me the chance to kill him...
"Bang!"
This shot shot a Vietnamese army that suddenly emerged from the bunker. When I found him, he was holding a rocket launcher in his hand and aiming at our tank. What made me even more angry was that I also recognized that the rocket launcher was the Type 69 40mm rocket launcher produced by our army...
I couldn't help but say something secretly. With the power of Type 69 and 40 fire, I could easily penetrate the armor in 59. As long as I discovered that he or the gun did not hit him, our army would likely lose a tank!
At the same time, I couldn't help but curse in my heart: "***My God, I was still asking us for money and equipment yesterday. Today I will use our money and equipment to hit us!
The soldiers were also very happy at this time. Machine guns and submachine guns swept to the enemy's positions one by one. Anyway, the tanks were not afraid of bullets, so there was no need to worry about accidental injury. The bullets passed in pieces, killing iron, guns, sandbags, cement and gravel on the Vietnamese positions, and everything was flying and jumping around like boiling. After a while, only two bunkers on both sides of the bridge head were still shooting guns out randomly, but the tanks in the 59th stopped and leisurely turned the turret to an angle, and then a "boom" sound... directly hit the shells into the shooting hole of the bunker.
The battle ended soon, and when the guns and cannons stopped, the screams and wails of the Vietnamese army quickly turned into pieces, with smoke, blood, corpses and injured Vietnamese army spread throughout the bridgehead positions.
But this is not the final result. I waved my hand and ordered the soldiers: "The Fifth Company is responsible for defending the bridgehead position. The tank troops cooperate with other troops to immediately seize the surrounding commanding heights and build a defensive position!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded, and used tanks as cover to divide them into several directions, first searching for houses on both sides of the highway, and then launching a charge against nearby commanding heights.
I don't have to worry too much about these things. As the commander of the first battalion, He Liqiang naturally has a way to coordinate such trivial matters. In addition, most of the Vietnamese army's troops were fighting fiercely on the front line of the North District, and the troops behind were really not worth mentioning, so soon our army successfully occupied the three commanding heights behind the bridgehead.
These three commanding heights are defended by the 7th, 8th and 9th companies of the Third Battalion. The 4th and 6th companies of our battalion began to conduct a detailed search of the houses in the occupied areas under the cover of the tank troops. After all, the near of the bridgehead can now be said to be our base, and we cannot let any danger lurk within our army.
With the cover and help of tanks, this kind of search mission is not difficult. Although the houses in Vietnam have turned from wooden houses to brick and tile houses at this time, there seems to be no difference between these in front of tanks. Of course, the soldiers also knocked on the door when searching for these houses, but they just asked the tanks to knock on the door...
This does not mean that our troops are cruel or something. The facts also prove that there are no ordinary people in these places. Just imagine that there will be no ordinary people who will not leave even though they know that our army will be coming soon? So even if there are some agents pretending to be ordinary people, we are a unit that has carried out the network and clearing mission in Tongdeng. At this time, we will not repeat the same mistakes and believe in the nonsense of "not touching the Vietnamese people every grass and every tree".
Under my leadership, the soldiers of the Fifth Company began to clean the battlefield. We held the bayonets and were about to walk towards the injured Vietnamese troops, but suddenly the whistling of artillery shells came from the sky.
At this time, the soldiers knew what was going on, so there was no need for me to give orders. They scattered themselves in search of cover and lay down. I had just been hiding in a crater, and the shells exploded near us.
With loud noises, the bodies of the Vietnamese army were blown into the air one by one and then divided into several pieces and fell down. At this time, what fell on us was no longer the sand and gravel of the past, but the blood and corpse fragments of the Vietnamese army...
"513!513, I am 335, I am 335..." I saw Zhu Jixing holding a walkie-phone microphone in front of me, keeping calling, but his voice was soon drowned in the rumbling explosion. I could only see him continuing to call under the pieces of blood falling down.
After a while, the explosions around gradually weakened, and then bursts of explosions came from the south bank of Qiqiong River. It was obvious that Zhu Jixing had promptly reported the coordinates to our artillerymen who were preparing in Tongdeng area, and now he had successfully suppressed the artillery fire of the Vietnamese army.
"Good!" I nodded to Zhu Jixing, and Zhu Jixing smiled embarrassedly, as if he was doing something insignificant.
But I knew that this was definitely not a trivial matter. We didn't have to hurry to build a good position just now. If the Vietnamese artillery fire continued to bomb like this for a few minutes, I think the Fifth Company would definitely suffer considerable casualties.
Several soldiers also patted Zhu Jixing on the shoulder gratefully, and some even gave him thumbs up, which made Zhu Jixing feel even more ashamed.
Looking at the bridgehead, we were already a mess, but now it turned into a pile of hodgepodge. Broken weapons, broken wood, bloody corpses, internal organs, broken limbs and broken arms were all mixed together. The entire position seemed to be biting the devil's teeth for a while.
These Yue Japanese devils were really cruel, regardless of whether there were any wounded people among their comrades. This was a blow... Later I found out that this was actually good, and even more cruel is still behind!
"Build a position now!" I called out to the intercom. At this time, guarding the bridgehead was undoubtedly the most important thing.
"Battery Commander..." Shunzi, who was covered in dust, climbed out of a Vietnamese corpse with difficulty. Looking at the scene, he couldn't help complaining: "It's all blown up like this, and there are corpses everywhere... How can he build a position?"
"Why can't you build a position?" I glared at him and cursed: "What's wrong with the corpse? If you don't want to become like them, start doing fortifications immediately!"
"Yes!" Shunzi responded and took off the engineer shovel on his back helplessly.
After all, I am still a soldier who has been on the battlefield for a few days! I am still afraid of corpses... Looking at Shunzi's complaints, I couldn't help but shake my head. If this were a veteran on the Korean battlefield, I would probably catch these corpses without hesitation and build them into the trenches to block bullets!
"Battery Commander..." At this time, the communications soldier, who was so smoked by the artillery fire, rushed to me panting and said, "The telephone number of the regiment headquarters..."
"Um!" Only then did I remember that after taking down Da and Xiaoshishan, I had not reported the situation to the regiment headquarters until then. This time, the regiment headquarters must have asked about the situation because of the gunfire call just now.
So as soon as I took the microphone, I replied: "Reporting to the leader, we have taken down the Big and Xiaoshishan Mountain, and now we have successfully occupied the bridgehead of the Qiqionghe Bridge! Please instruct the next action!"
"Good guy!" The laughter of Political Commissar Huang came from the other end of the microphone: "We were wondering just now whether you had built a big or small stone mountain! I didn't expect that even the bridgehead was allowed to be defeated! How about it? There was no big casualties!"
"There are no major casualties!" I replied: "Political commissar, please rest assured. We must guard the bridgehead and never let the reinforcements of the Vietnamese army take a step from here. Our troops vow to live and die together with the positions!"
"What's the matter of survival?" Political Commissar Huang said dissatisfied: "I want you and Daqiao to be there!"
"Yes!" I responded, and a hint of warmth arose in my heart.
Chapter completed!