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Post by lei_lord_demon »
26 Oct 2004, 14:05
This report was written
by a PLA Artillery Regiment commander during the Second Sino-Vietnamese war. I
am not believe it is but is pretty close to what I had read from the Second
Sino-VN war. This report does give great details.
Note:
Mountain Laoshan, height
1422 meter above sea level. Laoshan means "The Old Mountain" in
Chinese. Mt. Laoshan is located inside Vietnamese territory near the Chinese
border. After the 1979 Sino-VN War, Mt. Laoshan has been used as a stage point
for Vietnamese forces to conduct large scale raids into China.
Early 1984, our regiment
(Regt) received order to take Mt. Laoshan. Feb. 18, advanced to Ei-Liang. 20th
to Ma-Sho Hill. Then 40 days of preparation. April 1, 3 companies were join the
"142 project", they fire a few around and then retreat to forces
enemy to return fire and give out their position. We use heavy guns to suppress
them. April 26, everything is ready and the 119th Artillery Task Force were
created.
To take a fire base, we
advanced at night. No one can makes any sound. We took apart the Type 85 gun.
We reassemble it after we moved it to the firebase. The fire OP is only 500
meter away from the enemy. To help to see the road during darkness, white bed
sheet were used. Our guns were park next to the right side of an abandoned
house. 4th Company (coy) was so close to the enemy, only 400 meters away, it
will act as direct fire.
April 28, 0550, artillery
fire began. After 34 minutes of artillery Bombardment, the earth started to
move. By 0624, infantry started to attack right after the Bombardment stop. The
VN force reacted in two minutes. First shoot took out the platoon (Plt) leader.
He is the first comrade to die at Laoshan. We gave support fire for our
infantry. Infantry advanced by jumping from one shell crater to another. After
9 minutes, they took the 662.6 high ground. 54 minutes later, Mt. Laoshan was
in our hands. By 1530, the 20 or so high grounds east of 662.6 high ground was
in our hands also. We also knock out an enemy tank with 5 direct artillery hits.
June 11, 0300, a single
flare was fired into the dark sky. We begin to question what was going on. For
half an hour, we could not connect to other units with telephone calls. 2nd coy
was also cut off. Only one Plt commander reported in and order us to fire. We
refused because our men are up there. We ordered 5 recon troop from 2nd Btn to
the front, but they where push back by enemy fires. Sunrise, recon commander
with a Plt of recon also get push back. At this point we knew our forward
position has been by over ran by enemy. 0530, with the support of a howitzer
Bnt, we launched our counterattack. Within half an hour, we took our position
back. 0600, next wave of enemy started their attack. Our infantry kept calling
for arty fire supports. 500 to 600 enemy troops were attacking our lines when
our multiple rocket launchers (MRL) began to fire. We were able to hold our
positions with estimated 100 enemy killed. A second howitzer Btn join the
bombardment. Until 1500, enemy forces were unable to reach our line. A
reinforced enemy company was trying to cross the river and attack our flank.
The division (div) commander ordered me to fire. We first fire 10 degree to the
left and then 10 degree to the right. The enemy company did not made it back to
their side
July 12, Enemy counter
attack.
After June 11, we have
learn our lesson. All tubes were under my command. 82 mortar is under Btn
command. 100mm mortars were dig in and under my direct command. 12 arty
companies, including 4 tank companies were divided to each troop. The added
firepower were directed to routes of most likely enemy advance. Those paths
were divided up. Each coy is in charge a selection of the path. Two companies
will fire at the main road to slow down the enemy advance. Three MRL companies
were stationed in 152 high ground. One of them will be command by Li Hai-Ren.
The code name for firing was Wild Boar.
We knew what the
attacking enemy units were by July 12. Our guess were the VN 356th Div's two
Regt, one Regt from the 316th Div, and 6 other independent regts will take
part.
We also predicated the
enemy will attack at 0500. At 0000, we had 2.5 times of normal ammo ready for
our artillery. 0300, HQ give out 3 locations and ordered 3 arty companies to
fire at them randomly.
After the fire salvo, I
spoke to the infantry Regt commander Chang Yo-Hop. I asked him if he was the
enemy commander where would be the most likely area to attack? He pointed out
to the a 300 meter clearing to the north of the rive.
I agreed with him and
order 6 arty companies to target 1000 meters around that area. I reported this
decision to the arty command. The vice Div commander gave me the go ahead. I
ordered the guns to fire a salvo every 10 minutes. After the second salvo,
nothing seem to happen &((&@)! (deleted Chinese dirty words) I order
flares to fire and the result was nothing. Wasted ammo. HQ ordered us to stand
down. It is after 0300, many troops went directly to sleep.
Only later that we have
found out the VN attacking force was only 500 meters away from our line. Two VN
Btn commanders were kill on the spot. Even without their commanders the VN
troops did not give out their position. Even their wounded did not scream. They
quickly move the wounded out of the area after the flare went down. Their
discipline was unbelievable.
0500, all hell broke
lose. Fire fights happened at all points. We also got our first POW at this
point after had causing heavy casualties on the enemy. From the POWs, we had
found out what happened in earlier evens. The enemy force was so discipline
that they launched their attack by following the time table even without their
Btn commanders. The enemy also did an excellent job in avoided detection. They
did not even use any wireless communications before their assault.
Once the enemy started
the attack, the front called for fire support. I was worry about hitting our
own men. HQ reminded me to shield off the front line by firing at the second
wave. The first wave of attack was usually only a coy strength. Where as the
rear could be a whole Regt supporting it. Our MRL fire 13 salvos nonstop. In
addition to 85mm howitzer, 100mm mortar, 152mm howitzer had also joined the
fire support.
We fire 200 meter ahead
of the front at six points. From left to right and back to the left again. Our
artillery fires created a firewall around our front. We killed many enemies and
some of our tubes were growing bright red. That day, our Regt fired over 10,000
rounds.
By noon, all our rounds
have been expended. When this info reached Chang Yo-Hop, he was not happy.
Without our arty firewall, there was no way to stop another attack by those six
VN regiments. I already ordered ammo replenishment since the early morning when
the first shot were fired.
When 470 truckloads of
ammo arrive at 1300, VN forces already took over the 164 high ground. One of
their Btn was down to only 6 people left and they were still keep going. A
counter attack was conducted right away by our infantry. The heavy artillery
bombardment just prior to our counter attack took 2 cm off the top soil on that
hill. The hill was back in our hands in 15 minutes. VN force refuses to gave
up. Waves and waves of the enemy infantry were sent back up the hill. After it
was over, we counted around 3700 enemy dead bodies were left on the
battlefield. Our Div commander, who was a veteran of the civil war, he said he
never saw that many dead bodies since that war. We took the weapons and the
belt off each VN body and gave them to each one in our Regt. That night, 7 of
us in the Regt command with Chang Yo-Hop smoked 4 packs. We could not eat. We
just keep drinking until 4 cases of "Spirits" were gone.
July 14, we gave signal
to let the VN to recover their dead. We ask them to carry a red cross flag,
under 50 people and no weapons. 60 to 70 VN troops showed up and without any
flag. Once we notice they were breaking the agreement by carrying an AA gun, we
open fired. We did not care. None of the 60 survived. No more recovery detail
was conducted afterward. It was summer, hot and rainy. No one can stand the
dead bodies anymore. We had to send our anti-chemical units out to burn all
those bodies with flame throwers.
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