Chapter 570 The Battle of Xishan
Xishan is located in Guangzhi Province in northwestern Vietnam. It is about ten kilometers west of the Laos border and about twenty-four kilometers north of the demilitarized zone. It was the end of the western section of the demilitarized zone defense line along the South Vietnam at that time, and only forty kilometers away from Chebang, the largest transportation station of the "Ho Chi Minh Road", and its strategic position is very important.
"Although the Xishan base is heavily defended by the United States, it is actually far from Fudi in South Vietnam. It is less than 30 kilometers away from the actual control line between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Therefore, once the battle begins, North Vietnam can quickly concentrate its troops to siege, and the base only has one highway to Saigon. Wu Yuanjia's strategy is not head-on. Although overall he hopes to take a full-scale attack, it is not the case in Xishan. His purpose is to surround the points and attack aid, which is often used by Eastern countries." Selov briefly introduced the situation around the Xishan. The old marshals of the Ministry of National Defense nodded frequently. At least this small political commissar still has the ability to talk about the war on paper.
"How long will it take if we attack the US military bases that are also guarded?" Defense Minister Marshal Grechko turned around and asked Marshal Sergei Bilizov next to him.
"A regiment of the US Marine Corps? I heard that the US Marine Corps has higher combat power than the US Army?" Marshal Biliusov, chief of the Soviet General Staff, lowered his head and thought for a while, "It will take about twenty-four hours. Our artillery fires in one round. Basically, the Stream Base should not exist anymore. The tank troops can declare the victory of the war once they rush."
Marshal Bilizov's words were based on the equipment standards of the Soviet Red Army. If the Soviet attacking troops had two divisions, there would be at least 600 tanks, and the same number of cannons and cannons with a base of cannons. With the tank troops rushing, they could basically conquer the Xishan base. However, the equipment of the Vietnamese army would definitely not be comparable to that of the Soviet Red Army. This is wrong.
"I concluded that the United States would never allow the aggression and aid to succeed. The US military has an absolute advantage in maintaining regular warfare on North Vietnam, so it will definitely order the Xishan base to stick to it and strangle North Vietnam with regular warfare and firepower advantages." Serov said in a very affirmative tone, "We can only give North Vietnam a certain amount of strengthening in the military, and I hope they can withstand it. We can only help the Vietnamese in the areas we are good at, so the artillery of the two artillery divisions has been transported to Hanoi."
The Soviet tank and artillery advantages continued until the collapse of the Soviet Union. In terms of tanks, the tanks could be at the same level in any aspect with a weight of 20 tons less than the West. In terms of artillery, the Soviet artillery of the same caliber has always been farther than the artillery of the United States and Europe. In the Vietnamese environment, this is a very big advantage.
As for the weather factors after the start of the battle, it is not within the discussion of this Soviet Defense Ministry meeting. I believe that the Vietnamese themselves understand better when the battle will start, if they do not want to be taught to be a human being by American bombers every day.
"What will the final battle look like depends on the Vietnamese themselves. Let's wait quietly!" Marshal Huaseylevsky pinned his pen on his chest. As a staff officer in the Soviet Union, he experienced this combat meeting more than any marshal, but he was not interested in Vietnam's offensive plan this time. After all, it was not a matter of his own country.
"Because of Indonesia's discoloration, the US government is forcing a breath and must succeed in Vietnam. However, if there are a large number of casualties and injuries in the US military, even if the US media is still reporting that it is on the verge of victory, their people will not believe it. Even if it is possible to lose the entire Southeast Asia, the Americans first think about the matter of being deceived by the government and become suspicious of their own country. Once this happens, our country can try to conduct a tentative attack to see if the United States can continue to fight." Shelov thought optimistically, "They always think that they are invincible in the world. Now it should be our turn to give the Americans a few punches to make them wake up!"
Hanoi, Vietnam, is like usual. As the end of the year approaches, a rare look of comfort appears. Ordinary people will not find that the central government has transferred a lot of troops to fight. The Vietnamese Communist Party also has its own underground party organizations in Saigon and other big cities. These underground party members often attack the enemy by fighting and running, thus seizing a large amount of weapons and ammunition. In addition, they also bought a large amount of weapons and ammunition from the black market. In fact, the Vietnamese Communist Party often enters and leaves the city to visit relatives or leave the team to go back to the city for vacation. It is also an open secret. According to tradition, a war that lasts for a long time will always be quit before the Spring Festival. Although they have not reached an agreement on the duration of the truce.
After washing up, Yegrove went out and received a batch of artillery shells from the train station. He was rarely seen so serious. All the shells were transported by Soviet air defense forces in Hanoi, rather than fake North Vietnamese soldiers. It can be seen how much he attached to these shells.
"Col. Yegrove, why do we carry these shells for North Vietnam by ourselves? It is not something we can give us?" A captain of the National Air Defense Force felt a little puzzled.
"This is not an ordinary shell, it is a good thing from our General Administration, specifically used to deal with the high-tech Americans." Yegrove smiled and said, "Stop talking nonsense, it will definitely be effective at that time."
Yegrove is a cadre of the Seventh General Administration of the KGB. This general administration is the KGB's Electronics Administration. This batch of shells is specially made electromagnetic shells. The bomb includes a metal cylinder, which is surrounded by a coil. The armature drum is filled with high-energy explosives, and the entire device is wrapped with a hard shell. There is a space between the stator coil and the armature drum. This type of bomb also requires power, such as a row of capacitors that can be connected to the stator.
Yegrove himself was not very clear about the typical shells that were rushed to work in the Soviet Union, and even whether these shells were useful or not. He was very clear about the relevant principles, but whether they would work, you can see if they looked at the results of the North Vietnamese artillery shelling.
The KGB used the Vietnam War to test its own research results. Anyway, the United States had been doing this for a long time, spraying leaf defocused agents without any scruples, regardless of the impact of these chemicals on human genetics, and using solidification on a large scale completely, completely ignoring the tragic situation of these civilians. The Soviet Union used electromagnetic shells to see if the US high-tech monitoring was impeccable, and there should be no problem at all.
Yegrov wanted to use real wars to achieve the results of KGB-related electronic research after the successful interference of Indonesia, so as to use larger war examples to make the Soviet Ministry of Defense understand that although they already value electronic warfare, in fact, electronic warfare is far beyond their imagination. Support for war examples is more useful than ten thousand saliva.
At this time, the central government of North Vietnam had been persuaded by Wu Yuanjia, and relevant military preparations were underway. When the full attack on various cities in South Vietnam became fierce, the US military, which had been stretched too long, would inevitably avoid the occupation of the Xishan base. In this way, General Wu Yuanjia would repeat his victory in Dien Bien Phu 14 years ago.
General Wu Yuanjia is already planning to take action. The radio from Hanoi also constantly mentioned great victory, and also mentioned the need to spread the war to various cities in South Vietnam. The 325th and 304th divisions of the regular North Vietnamese army were advancing towards the Xishan area, while the third division of North Vietnam was lined up on the road and was ready to intercept the U.S. reinforcements. It is obvious that North Vietnam has issued a letter of war to the U.S. army. The two North Vietnamese divisions deployed in Xishan once participated in the Dien Bien Phu Battle and had rich combat experience and tenacious combat power.
"According to the news about our KGB in Saigon, the situation in Saigon has been optimistic recently. The large cities of South Vietnam have always been in charge of their own garrisons. There are not many US troops in Saigon, so your forces lurking in Saigon should first kill the US military. After all, they only have a few hundred people!" Yegrov told Wu Yuanjia the news that the KGB in Saigon. Of course, the Soviet Union hoped to die a little more Americans. As for whether you can liberate the whole country, what does it have to do with me?
"Thank you for the news from the Soviet Union, but we understand how to fight." Wu Yuanjia thanked politely. The battle in Xishan will begin first. When all the attention of the US military is attracted, he will order the entire Spring Festival offensive to be launched in full.
At this time, the North Vietnamese combat troops were approaching Xishan. They replaced the new weapons provided by the Soviet Union. The air defense forces had been deployed. William Westmoreland had seen through the deployment of North Vietnam that the opposite side was going to duel with himself in Xishan. He was happy to make this judgment. General William Westmoreland had always felt powerless to exterminate the guerrilla warfare that North Vietnam would run away. This kind of formal war was a war model that the United States liked.
Except for the Soviet Union, who dares to fight us head-on? And this time the Soviet Union really came, and of course the Soviets did not appear on the battlefield. The United States fought in Vietnam. Apart from the Americans themselves, the Soviet Union was most concerned about how the United States fought. What deployments the US military had, those weapons, and what new tactics had appeared, the Soviet Union has been paying attention to it silently.
In late January, North Vietnam's troops were deployed in place, and the air defense forces were successfully deployed. The war suddenly began. In the early morning, the Vietnamese artillery suddenly shot at the US military in Xishan. The artillery fire density was unprecedented: 130mm cannons, 152mm cannons, 122mm rocket launchers, and the infantry's 60mm and 82mm mortars. The Vietnamese army concentrated almost all artillery.
The 152mm Cannon Regiment poured all Soviet electromagnetic shells onto the US military positions in the Creek and Mountains, where the US military deployed various types of electronic sensors. Vibration sensors and high-sensitivity monitoring equipment allowed the US military to monitor all information from ordinary dialogue to radio communications.
After the bombing, all electronic instruments on all positions were scrapped. The KGB was worthy of being the most conscientious department of the Soviet Union and successfully destroyed the electronic equipment that the US military relied most. (~^~)
Chapter completed!