War Military: From 1978

Chapter 158: Battle to hold the position!
"Captain, the enemy reinforcements from Squad Z are less than five kilometers away. The regimental commander has ordered us to capture this area before the reinforcements arrive!"

Under a hidden slope somewhere below Hill 312, a Vietnamese communications soldier quickly conveyed the order from his superiors.

"Reply to the regimental commander. I request the mobilization of all troops from Squad J. In addition, I request support from the regimental artillery company!"

This Vietnamese captain was a little petty. He didn't say that he could complete the mission, but instead asked for support.

In fact, he had passed on false intelligence to the regiment more than an hour ago.

He said that the troops of the Flower-Growing Family occupying Hill 312 had at least a reinforced platoon, and that they were suspected to be a reconnaissance battalion of our army behind enemy lines.

His superiors believed this.

Because the Flower Growers' scout brigade has indeed caused them to suffer a lot of losses.

Chu An and his men were scouts. When the war broke out, they entered the battlefield first, but they did not actually go deep into the battlefield. Moreover, they were only a regimental-level reconnaissance platoon with limited strength.

But Chuan and his men did not leave the main force, but what about the other scouts?

You know, before the battle began, no scouts were seen in many of our main forces.

Where were their scouts?
The reconnaissance team has been formed.

A scout battalion of two to three hundred men, commanded by a division or directly by an army, would penetrate deep into enemy territory even the day before the war began.

Some of them also carried out the mission of clearing the way and conducting reconnaissance, but others carried out the mission of reconnaissance and sabotage behind enemy lines.

For example, enemy heavy artillery groups, enemy supply lines, and enemy material warehouses.

All important combat resources are their targets.

This is also the reason why Chu An and his men have not been targeted by heavy artillery until now.

The heavy artillery group of the enemy's main force, the 346th Division, had long been destroyed by the scouts.

Some also retreated south and hid.

Hill 312 is not a T-zone. Its strategic significance is not worth it for the Vietnamese to risk exposing the remaining heavy artillery group and destroying it.

Of course, heavy artillery cannot be used, but the large-caliber mortars of the local armed group guarding T can still be used.

Four 120-caliber mortars fired directly from the T-direction.

For a moment, the position on the top of the mountain was shaken by the explosion.

However, this is actually of no use to the team guarding the mountain.

The Vietnamese devils have now become experts at digging holes. Given time and conditions, they can build better positions in their territory than we can.

Both high machine guns and heavy machine guns have anti-artillery fortifications built of concrete.

After years of fighting with the Eagle Empire, the Eagle Empire's most powerful weapon is air strikes. The anti-aircraft and anti-artillery engineering systems on their positions cannot be destroyed unless heavy artillery is used.

So even though the Vietnamese devils now have large-caliber mortars, their heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns have never failed to fire.

However, the Vietnamese devils obviously also knew this.

The reason they bombed the top of the mountain this time was actually because they received false information from the people at the foot of the mountain. They really thought that there were many people on the top of the mountain, so they wanted to launch a surprise bombing to see if they could kill some of the people from the Flower Growers.

Then they adjusted the muzzle of their guns.

The shells fell, all aimed at the area above the mountainside.

But in fact, this is of no use.

The Vietnamese artillery fire came from the southeast.

The artillery shells hit the hillside of the hill and can only hit the southeast side of the hill.

When Chu An saw the enemy artillery shells, he shouted to the three scouts who were blocking the enemy on this side to retreat directly to the position on the top of the mountain.

The terrain is high, and the cliffs on the south are too big to climb because the Vietnamese devils blew up the mountain to build roads, while the terrain on the east is relatively flat. Now that the fog has disappeared and they have retreated to the top of the mountain, they can directly use the Vietnamese devils' complete fortifications to fire at the enemies who want to climb the mountain from this side.

Apart from this side, the other directions up the mountainside are blind spots for mortars.

Chu An and the others didn't care at all about the ground shaking beneath their feet.

How can I take you seriously when I know you can't blow me up?

So we continued to occupy the advantageous position twenty or thirty meters below the top of the mountain to block the Vietnamese devils who wanted to come up from below.

"Platoon leader, Squad Leader Cheng reports that more than a hundred people have come out of Squad J!" A soldier carrying a walkie-talkie more than ten meters away suddenly yelled at Chu An.

"Have Squad Leader Cheng keep a close eye on them. Find a good opportunity to contact Squad One and use your high machine guns and heavy machine guns to deal them a blow. Don't let them get close!"

After Chu An shouted, he directly inserted the magazine in his hand, which had not yet been loaded, into the Type 56 magazine carrying bag on his body.

He was just loading bullets again.

Before the battle, he carried five AK magazines filled with bullets, but now only one of them has bullets left, so until now, everyone has been hiding and loading the loose bullets they carry into the empty magazines.

"Okay!" After hearing Chu An's words, the soldier retreated behind the bunker and used a walkie-talkie to contact Li Guoping on the top of the mountain.

Chu An took over his output and put pressure on the mountainside below.

Yes, the Vietnamese devils have already reached the mountainside. There is nothing we can do about it.

They were too few in number, and the Vietnamese devils attacked from all sides. They were unable to defend the huge high ground and could only keep retreating to the top of the mountain.

"boom!"

Suddenly, there was an explosion on the top of the mountain. Then, the soldier who had just contacted Li Guoping changed his expression and shouted at Chu An.

"Platoon leader, the No. 1 high-altitude aircraft position was hit by a rocket launcher!"

Chu An felt conflicted.

In order to prevent artillery fire, the Vietnamese enemy's high-altitude machine gun defense fortifications were similar to bunkers, with only some shooting holes on one side.

The Vietnamese devils had fired rocket launchers at the bunker before.

But as long as they don't get in, they can't threaten the people inside at all.

But now.
Chu An gritted his teeth, leaned forward and fired a volley of bullets at the Vietnamese devils who were crouching and moving on the mountainside.

"Let's hold on!"

Chu An only shouted this.

It is inevitable that comrades will sacrifice their lives in war.

It was just a high-altitude camera position on the top of the mountain. It was a group of comrades from the artillery reconnaissance squad that he had been leading since he came out of the recruit company.

Chu An didn't know who was sacrificed.

But no matter who it is, there is no time to feel sad now.

"Pah! Boom!"

The gunfire continued.

So far, the reconnaissance platoon has suffered five casualties and two deaths.

Two of them were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and the remaining three who were lightly injured were transferred to the bunker inside the position to operate heavy machine guns or load ammunition.

Chu An and the remaining six people continued to hold their position at a height of about ten meters below the position.

Can't retreat anymore.

not enough people.

Although the fortifications built by the Vietnamese devils could defend against artillery fire, they also limited the space for combat.

If they all retreated into their positions, the mortar fire from the Vietnamese would surely pin them down inside the fortifications.

Then, as soon as the Vietnamese mortars stopped firing, the Vietnamese soldiers rushing in from the blind spots of defense and shooting from all directions could kill them all in one wave.

Just like when they attacked the four Vietnamese soldiers who were defending their position, they were killed by the Vietnamese soldiers who rushed over in groups.

However, up to now, the Vietnamese devils actually don’t dare to charge at all.

Of the people they attacked on the mountain, less than forty were still able to fight.

Attack the high ground from all sides, which is full of mines and traps.

Because of this, they suffered dozens of casualties.

Then Chu An and his men resisted step by step, and grenades and bullets were continuously thrown from above.

They lost at least dozens of people.

There were originally about two hundred of them, and now some commanding personnel and artillerymen remained below.

In this situation, if the commander at the foot of the mountain had not been holding the line, they would have retreated long ago.

But even so, the gunfire on the mountain gradually subsided.

The Yue devils were ready to wait for the reinforcements from Ban J to join them.

However, at this moment, something happened that shocked them.

Class J's reinforcements were actually very cautious. They didn't dare to take the road, but instead walked through the mountains, preparing to attack directly under the cover of the jungle.

But suddenly, bullets from the machine guns rained down on the jungle where they were.

And it wasn't just the heavy machine guns. There were also two AKs firing at them simultaneously in the jungles on both sides.

Why are high ground strategically important?

This is because occupying high ground allows one to strike all targets within visual range from a high vantage point.

They came here before because the top of the mountain was covered with fog and there was no vision. Even with Chu An and the others acting as eyes for the high machine guns and heavy machine guns, the actual suppression power was not strong.

But there is no heavy fog now, and they still want to come over. They are just dreaming.

A high-altitude machine gun can make them unable to raise their heads.

(End of this chapter)