Fu Quanyou received information from the reconnaissance unit that the Vietnamese army had gathered heavy troops in the Qingshui area and was preparing to implement the "third campaign plan." He immediately reported the news to command.
After studying it, the command issued an order: "You wait for the opportunity, you must fight with majesty and be afraid of the enemy!" "In order to prepare, they went deep into the front line of our army, secretly preparing.
Since the defeat at the Battle of Song Mao Ling in 1984, the Vietnamese army has been brewing a new recovery plan. In the past five months, they have advanced the trench fortifications by more than 15,000 meters, reaching the front of our army's position.
Although the defeat in the Battle of Songmaoling left them with more than 3,000 people and their vitality greatly damaged, they never gave up harassing our army's defense line and often launched small-scale offensive battles.
In the face of the aggressive Vietnamese army, the 1st Army, which had just changed its guard and came to the Lao Son position, was not afraid. Fu Quanyou led the soldiers, most of whom came down from the Korean battlefield, and they were all good at fighting.
In the face of the frantic provocation of the Vietnamese army, they launched a powerful counterattack.
In December 1984, the Vietnamese army launched a large-scale attack on our army's Lao Son position. Although the 1st Army and the 11th Army had just changed defenses at that time, the Vietnamese army did not have any advantage in this offensive and was quickly suppressed by our heavy firepower.
The December offensive was more like a test of our army's strength. This battle made Fu Quanyou question, which was completely different from the usual combat style of the Vietnamese army, which was usually like a "mad dog", but this time it quickly withdrew.
Such an unusual behavior made Fu Quanyou even more suspicious of the other party's intentions, so he arranged a reconnaissance unit in advance, requiring 24 hours to pay attention to the situation of the Vietnamese troops in the opposite position and prepare for battle.
In January 1985, the Vietnamese side proposed a "Tet ceasefire", which seemed to be humanitarian, but in fact Le Duan used it as an excuse to restore strength. In order to delay time, the Vietnamese army is preparing for another ceasefire while making preparations for a ceasefire on the surface.
On January 12, 1985, news came from the forward positions that the Vietnamese army began to transport large numbers of troops to the front line, and as expected, the Vietnamese army planned a surprise attack.
Fu Quanyou guessed that the Vietnamese army had assembled a large number of troops in the Qingshui and Hoang Luo areas in order to facilitate the smooth progress of the "Third Campaign." Later battles also confirmed this speculation, and the Vietnamese army attacked the defensive positions of the 1st Army in turns with a total of 9,000 men with 7 battalions and heavy firepower and logistics units.
In the five months of preparation before this, the Vietnamese army's fortifications had been extended more than 15,000 meters forward, and the nearest point was only 20 meters from our positions. In this area, the Vietnamese army has deployed more than 10 cave fire points and 4 guard posts in the area of Heights 138 alone, and there are even more sentry posts planted in the shadows.
From these, it can be seen that the battle was premeditated. But these small actions of the Vietnamese army have long been known to Fu Quanyou, and in order to lure the enemy into the depths, he did not startle the snake.
In this way, under Fu Quanyou's calculations, the Vietnamese army extended the position fortifications by 15,000 meters, and after the preparations were completed, 115 The Great War is about to break out.
In this battle, the PLA, under the leadership of Fu Quanyou, successfully realized the disadvantage to the advantage. Fu Quanyou carried out the logistical support work of rational deployment in the defense area, and the main direction was the logistics command headquarters led by the 12 th Automobile Regiment, the 44 Hospital Field Medical Center, one ** station, and one automobile repair company to carry out the work in the area from Masupo to Wenshan, and was mainly responsible for the logistical support work of five infantry regiments, four artillery regiments, three divisional organs, and units directly under the army.
At the same time, in the secondary direction, the logistics command led the field medical center of the 64 Hospital, one ** station, one ordnance repair company, and one automobile company to carry out logistics support tasks in the Nanwen River, forming a kind of support system that combines points and lines and has strong stability.
These preparations ensured that the 1st Army successfully counter-killed the enemy in the enemy's long-planned offensive plan. However, Fu Quanyou did not take this lightly. He judged 662 from the intelligence sent back from the frontThe 6 heights will be the main target of the Vietnamese army, which has a special geographical location and is of great strategic importance to the Nala area.
According to the Vietnamese army's trench extension tactics, the heights have been successfully extended to the front of the positions on the flanks of our army's defensive positions, forming a dog-tooth intertwined trend with our army's positions.
Fu Quanyou was vigilant about this and was fully prepared.
After learning the news from the front, Fu Quanyou immediately formulated a defense plan and ordered the troops to complete the deployment as soon as possible. At that time, the main defensive force of the Laoshan battlefield was the 1st Division of the 1st Army, equipped with the 36th Division of the 12th Army, the 9th Artillery Division and the Army Direct Detachment, and the defending force of our army had a total of 26,624 people.
Under the command of the army commander, the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 1st Army was assigned to the mortar platoon of the artillery company of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the machine gun company of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the 9th squad of the regimental engineer platoon, the mortar platoon of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 6th Battalion of the Divisional Chemical Reconnaissance Squad 1 was responsible for the defensive task of the position and prevented the enemy from attacking in the direction of Nala, and the remaining troops carried out defensive operations in accordance with the original deployment.
At that time, the defensive deployment plan for key positions was: 4 companies of infantry defended the No. 1 position; The 6th Infantry Company was responsible for defending the Horn position; The 5th Infantry Company was responsible for the defense of the position No. 262 and its southeastern heights.
The battalion mortar positions were set up on the southeast and southwest sides of Litou Village, and the artillery battalion observation positions were set up at positions 148 and 146. At that time, the specific time of our army's attack on the Vietnamese army was uncertain, so we could only make defensive preparations as soon as possible after learning the news.
The battle was mainly carried out by the 1st Division of the 1st Army, which uprooted enemy strongholds while defending itself. The 1st and 3rd regiments were responsible for engaging the enemy, and the divisional and regimental artillery groups were responsible for fire support.
In the course of engaging the enemy, the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Regiment was responsible for fighting on the unnamed heights southeast of Heights 116; The 3rd Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 7th Regiment was responsible for operations on the 968 heights.
During the deployment, Fu Quanyou ordered the heavy firepower units to focus their shooting in the direction of Nala, and the defense point was on the high ground. In order to ensure victory in the battle, Fu Quanyou also stationed troops in some key positions in advance.
At around 3 a.m. on 15 January 1985, the Vietnamese army launched artillery fire on various positions defended by the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment in the Nala area. Having received the attack, the fighters in the forward positions went into bunkers and waited for the bombardment to end.
After an hour of artillery fire, the 1st Battalion of the 821** Regiment of the Vietnamese Army launched an assault on Heights 146 at 4 a.m. in three directions.
Seeing this situation, our army did not panic, and counterattacked in an orderly manner under the command of Fu Quanyou.
The battle on the 142 position was the most difficult part of this defensive battle, the Vietnamese troops made several assaults under the cover of artillery fire, but they were all repulsed by our troops. Next, the Vietnamese army continued to carry out artillery attacks on our troops, and the positions of our troops were almost destroyed.
After the heavy fire was over, the Vietnamese army again sent two battalions of troops to attack our troops. After fierce fighting, the Vietnamese army was finally defeated. After they were defeated again, they were already close to madness, and there was no respite.
At five o'clock in the morning, they sent two more companies to launch a third attack on our position. In the face of such a stubborn enemy, the various holding detachments of our army carried out a strong counterattack, and after ten minutes of fierce fighting, the intruding enemy was destroyed.
At half past five, the Vietnamese army sent a small force to secretly approach position No. 142 from the northwest side, and at the same time sent two platoons to attack the No. 145 height, in an attempt to capture the position by attacking the east and attacking the west.
Although their strategy was good, our army still could not be defeated. At this time, the Vietnamese army carried out a fourth attack. After several successive attacks were repulsed by our troops, the Vietnamese army became angry and carried out a long artillery attack on two positions of our army, and after this attack, the fortifications of our army on both positions were almost razed to the ground.
However, our army still fought with the Vietnamese army. The battle on several key positions continued until about 10 a.m., and Fu Quanyou decided to launch artillery attacks on our army's negative No. 2 and negative No. 3 heights in order to contain the Vietnamese army's firepower.
Under the cover of artillery fire, our troops quickly approached the north side of the negative No. 2 high ground at about 10 o'clock under the cover of artillery fire and dense fog, quickly captured the negative No. 2 high ground under the condition of gaining an advantage, and organized fire to suppress the enemy on the negative No. 3 high ground.
During the battle on the minus 3 heights, the PLA encountered some minor difficulties. At that time, the Vietnamese army arranged many hidden fire points on the position, and the heavy firepower of our army could not play its due role, resulting in three successive attacks without success.
At around 12 o'clock on the 15th, the 9th Company successfully occupied the negative No. 2 high ground and sent part of its troops to attack the northeast side of the negative No. 3 high ground to support the actions of the right attack detachment.
The battle entered a white-hot stage, and in order to speed up the process of ending the battle, Fu Quanyou adjusted the battle plan, on the one hand, to organize a recoil detachment, and on the other hand, to restore the No. 142 surface position before dark.
In the process of implementing the plan, our troops divided into multiple routes and successfully occupied the negative No. 3 heights. At this time, the negative position of the Vietnamese army had been completely controlled by our army.
At 18:30, the 8th Company of the 2nd Regiment and the 6th Company and 6th Squad of the 1st Regiment launched another counterattack on the No. 142 surface position, and after 30 minutes of fierce fighting, they successfully resumed their original positions at 19 o'clock.
By this time the battle had progressed, the Vietnamese army had shown signs of decline, and had lost many positions. Seeing this scene, Li Duan couldn't bear it, not only did he not succeed in winning 6626 heights, on the contrary, also lost the positions that had been occupied.
Subsequently, the Vietnamese army gathered the main force and planned to attack Heights 116. Heights 116 are located at 6626 southeast side of the highlands. After the PLA captured the minus 2 and minus 3 positions, although the situation of the enemy on three sides of the No. 116 position improved, the ground fortifications were seriously damaged, and it was still difficult to defend.
On the night of the 15th, the Vietnamese army carried out artillery bombardment on the 2nd and 3rd heights and the entire defensive position of the 1st Battalion in an attempt to recapture the position. After learning of the situation, Fu Quanyou immediately ordered nearby troops to support the battle of position No. 116 and the heights of minus 2 and minus 3.
The shelling continued one after another overnight, and in the early morning of the 16th, the Vietnamese army carried out a two-hour artillery bombardment of position No. 116. Subsequently, the Vietnamese army launched 7 consecutive counterattacks on the negative 2 and negative 3 heights, but finally returned without results.
The battle lasted until January 18, 1985, when Fu Quanyou ordered the regimental artillery group to suppress the Vietnamese artillery positions with one howitzer battalion, another howitzer battalion to fire at the No. 411 heights, and one 130 rocket artillery battalion to fire at the 432 heights.
After a rapid fire attack, the heavy fire support of the Vietnamese army was destroyed, and the Vietnamese army retreated. At this point, "1.15 "The battle is finally over. In the course of the battle, the 1st Division of the 1st Army of the People's Liberation Army successfully repelled many attacks by the elite units of the Vietnamese army, severely damaged the 122nd Regiment, the 149th Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the 876th Regiment, and the 1st Battalion of the 821** Regiment of the Vietnamese Army, destroying a total of 1,385 enemies and winning the battle.