sjar Chapter 622 Speed of Life and Death
Chapter 622 Speed of Life and Death
Zhao Cheng did not stop killing until the morning of March 10, and came to a small place called Banzhuang in the southwest of Gaoping.
这里将会是整个自卫反击战我军单次损失最大的地方，50军150师448团2营。这个被配属给41军指挥的部队。
When all the troops were retreating, they went against the flow and took the initiative to attack, covering the retreat of the 121st Division of the 41st Army, attacking from east to west, and returned to Molong in the west.
An operation that was originally going smoothly failed due to a series of mistakes.
When Zhao Cheng arrived at Banzhuang, our troops had already captured it. However, he did not go into the city to join our troops, but instead lay in ambush on the outskirts.
At night, the 2nd Battalion of the 448th Regiment began its operation. They first continued their attack to the northwest. At this time, the Vietnamese army had already begun to counterattack, and the counterattack was quite fierce.
This is mainly because the Vietnamese army is now in a state of universal military service, and the troops can assemble and start fighting quite quickly.
Zhao Cheng looked at the Second Battalion which was about to reach the valley and knew that they could not delay any longer. If they delayed any further, the Second Battalion would reach the valley in five minutes.
Zhao Cheng began to fight against the Vietnamese ambush on the hill to the right of the valley and soon found an ambush site.
This is a part of the Vietnamese army's public security forces, with only more than 30 people and no heavy weapons.
Zhao Cheng took out a grenade and threw it at the Vietnamese troops lying in ambush below.
"Boom!" A burst of explosions was heard, and three or four Vietnamese soldiers in the ambush point below were killed. Then Zhao Cheng began to fire with the AK47 in his hand.
"Da! Da! Da!" The single-shot assault rifle had clear and pleasant sounds, combined with Zhao Cheng's changing attack positions, making the Vietnamese soldiers below think that their ambush had been discovered.
The Vietnamese troops at this ambush point then launched an all-out counterattack, and for a moment the sound of gunfire echoed throughout the valley.
At this time, the 2nd Battalion of the 448th Regiment outside the valley also stopped advancing.
"Commander, there is a lot of gunfire ahead. It should be an exchange of fire between our troops and the enemy. What should we do?" The second battalion commander looked at his commander and asked anxiously.
"Send a few people to investigate, and the rest of you rest here!" The team leader looked at the map in his hand, thought for a while and said.
The battalion commander wondered if this wasn't a good idea. What if the troops ahead couldn't hold on?
In fact, this is not the commander's fault. Although he is a commander, he has never fought in a war and has not even been to Zhurihe.
This was his first time to fight abroad. Although he was the regimental commander, he had to go down to the front line to command due to orders. He went to the second battalion, the political commissar went to the first battalion with the strongest combat effectiveness, and the deputy regimental commander went to the third battalion.
In the previous battles, he had achieved some results by relying on a steady and cautious approach, but to be honest, those were just minor fights.
After all, it would be a bit unreasonable for a whole regiment of troops to not win against a few small forces. And now, from the sound of gunfire, it was clear that the sound of gunfire in the valley ahead was deafening.
The enemy was undoubtedly facing a large number of Vietnamese troops. Whether his second battalion could handle them was still an unknown. Furthermore, it was also necessary to determine what troops were engaging the Vietnamese troops up front.
Soon, the scouts sent back news that the ones fighting ahead seemed to be a small unit of ours, and there were several ambush points of the Vietnamese army on the mountains on the right side of the valley ahead.
Hearing this, the regimental commander and the battalion commander both broke out in cold sweats. If the small unit in front had not suddenly opened fire and awakened the ambushing Vietnamese troops, their battalion might have walked directly into the enemy's ambush!
"Commander, what should we do? How do we rescue that small force?" the second battalion commander asked anxiously.
By this time, he had figured it out. They must have noticed the Second Battalion coming and were afraid they would be ambushed, so they attacked the Vietnamese! This was like a great benefactor to his entire battalion, and he had to rescue them!
But now, whether the rescue can be carried out still requires the approval of the regiment commander. If he doesn't nod, there is no way for him to mobilize the troops.
"Can we bypass this place and surround the enemy?" The regiment commander looked at the map, thought for a while and asked.
"Commander, it will take a lot of time to go around. Doing so may cause heavy casualties to the troops fighting in front! There is not enough time! I think we can split our troops into two groups. You lead the troops to attack from the left mountain range, and I will lead the troops to rescue people on the right!" said the battalion commander.
Looking at the map and the occasional flashes of fire not far ahead, the regimental commander had no choice but to agree with the battalion commander's battle plan.
Soon, the first and second companies, led by the regimental commander, launched an attack on the mountain range on the left side of the valley and soon engaged in a firefight. For a moment, the sound of gunfire echoing in the valley became more intense.
The battalion commander led the third company and the battalion's direct troops toward the mountain range on the right. At the foot of the mountain, they saw a Vietnamese soldier killed by Zhao Cheng.
Less than a hundred meters up the mountain, the battalion commander saw the first ambush site. The ground was littered with corpses, but none of them were from our army; they were all from the Vietnamese public security forces.
"Battalion Commander, the troops fighting here are very powerful! They killed a whole platoon of enemies in such a short time. Where did this small group of elite troops come from?" The third company commander looked at the scene in front of him and clicked his tongue non-stop.
"Stop talking nonsense and continue the attack. We can't let them get into danger. After all, they saved our lives!" The battalion commander didn't want to argue with the third company commander and directly ordered the troops to continue the attack.
Soon, the second ambush point appeared in front of the second battalion commander. This should also be a small ambush point, with about fifty people inside.
But now they are completely suppressed. On the mountain above them, our soldiers are attacking them.
"Attack!" the second battalion commander shouted, and the soldiers who had come up the mountain immediately began shooting at the enemies who had their backs to them. However, due to the narrow mountain road and complex terrain, only the twenty or so people in front could attack.
But these people were enough, and they caught the Vietnamese army off guard. The first round of shooting killed nearly 15 Vietnamese soldiers. Soon, the two people here were wiped out.
"Brothers on the mountain, which unit are you from?" The second battalion commander, hiding in the trench, shouted towards the top of the mountain. The third company commander was busy preparing for the enemy's counterattack.
"Are you from the Second Battalion of the 448th Regiment?" Zhao Cheng answered when he saw that the troops at the foot of the mountain had been wiped out.
"Yes! May I ask which unit you are from?" the second battalion commander continued to ask.
"Don't ask for now. There are still many Vietnamese troops lying in ambush ahead. You should attack quickly. I will cooperate with you from above! I am alone! The main force still depends on you!" After Zhao Cheng finished speaking, he no longer answered, but continued to move towards the mountain.