Chapter 280 Building a Position

After arriving at the coast, the large ship slowly stopped, while the engineers used oars to row the small boats to the coast. Each small boat carried several pre-made standard springboards, and these boats had been simply modified

, the iron parts needed to fix the springboard are added to the hull. The engineers only need to align the holes on these springboards with the protrusions of the iron parts and put them down to fix the position.

It is also very simple to dismantle, just lift up the springboard and remove it. This structure was tried out during the rehearsal at the base camp, and then some minor modifications were made based on the actual situation so that the engineers could temporarily find it.

It can be assembled on various small boats, and the fixed parts will not become loose and slip due to the fluctuation of waves.

After the boats entered the predetermined position, the engineers put away the oars, pushed out the gangplank on the boat, and began to build pontoons between the boats. The person responsible for directing the operations of the engineers was Harugong, the deputy commander of this combat operation. The cavalry under his command

Although the company also came this time, due to the short time it took to form the army and the small establishment, the cavalry company was not responsible for the combat mission of directly facing the enemy. Harugong did not want to sit in this seat doing nothing, so he

He took the initiative to take over the command of the engineers. He was responsible for the command and coordination of building pontoon bridges, building fortifications, and setting up camps in the early stage of landing.

I have to say that the hard training during this period of time has played an role. Although it was the first time for the engineers to actually fight, the whole process of building the floating trestle was relatively smooth. It only took 20 minutes to build the first trestle.

.This trestle is more than 20 meters long, with five small boats used as piers in the middle. The bridge deck is made of three two-foot-wide wooden springboards. Its load-bearing strength is enough to bear the transportation of a 12-pound army cannon.

After the first trestle was built, people on the sea-going ship immediately began to land. The first thing transported to the shore through the floating trestle were various materials for building fortifications loaded on multi-functional trolleys. The civilians pushed the trolleys ashore quickly, and then followed the instructions

The road signs left by the leading troops were sent to the predetermined positions together with the goods and vehicles.

After that, three similar floating trestles were erected from south to north at a frequency of five minutes. Two of the trestles were responsible for unloading various combat supplies, while the two trestles to the south were used to dock troop transport ships.

, the soldiers participating in the battle climbed down from the rope net on the side of the ship, and then quickly transferred to the shore through the trestle.

At five o'clock in the morning, the first batch of civilians and engineers who landed had arrived at Qian Tiandun's location, and quietly began construction to build a defensive position. By this time, it was already dark, and even without a telescope, you could observe two miles away with the naked eye.

The South Vietnamese Army camp outside the ground. The terrain between the defensive positions and the South Vietnamese Army camp is flat. Except for some bushes, there are not even patches of woods. This is what the command is most worried about - if the South Vietnamese Army early in the morning

After discovering the existence of the landing force and immediately organizing an offensive to attack, the vanguard force, which has neither defensive positions to rely on nor heavy fire support, may not be able to withstand it.

Fortunately, such a situation has not happened so far. The teams observing the enemy's situation at the commanding heights on both sides of the north and south will report the situation to their companions in the positions below through walkie-talkies every two minutes. The patrol soldiers of the South Vietnamese Army are only in the camp area. They were milling around a hundred meters away, with no intention of expanding the scope of their reconnaissance, and they obviously wouldn't notice that a large group of people were secretly building fortifications two miles away to the east.

What the executive committee designed was a defense line located at the narrowest point of the pass and recessed toward the coast. The outermost layer was an area composed of several snake-belly wire fences, Luzhai and Juma, with several obstacles arranged crisscrossed together. , forming an obstacle zone about six to seven meters wide, which is enough to delay the opponent's offensive when it launches an attack. These obstacles are semi-finished products transported from the base operation. The civilians use multi-functional vehicles to transport them to the predetermined location and assemble them directly before placing them. Get to the battlefield.

The second obstacle after this obstacle zone is the trench that the civilian workers are digging desperately. The command headquarters once hoped to dig this trench to at least two meters wide and one meter deep before the war started, but the former engineer Qiao Zhiya rejected this possibility - without the help of construction machinery, it is impossible to complete such a large amount of excavation in two or three hours with manpower alone. Two or three days is probably about the same. So the final command The Ministry could only compromise with reality and changed the construction standard of trenches to a very vague statement of "a depth that can effectively block the enemy."

The third line of defense is a simple defensive wall composed of multi-functional carts and a large number of wooden prefabricated parts. This defensive wall can effectively defend against the shooting power of matchlock guns at a distance of 100 meters. As for the bows and arrows used by the South Vietnamese Army, Not to mention. If there is time, the civilians will also use the earthwork from the trenches excavated around the perimeter of the defensive wall to reinforce the wall to further increase the defensive power.

There will be a movable gap in this wall about every 40 meters. When necessary, the multi-functional trolley at the gap will be removed, and the gun positions blocking the back will be exposed. Such gun positions are located on the entire defense line. There are five places in total, each with four to six artillery pieces. Of course, the monkey version of the artillery exported to North Vietnam will not be placed together with the original genuine ones used by the Haihan Militia. This is not Is there any secret that needs to be guarded against by the North Vietnamese military, but purely for the sake of combat effectiveness - the monkey version of the artillery is not as good as the original version in terms of range and accuracy. The same aiming method will have different shooting effects, and this time the artillery The sighting and command of the troops are all handled by the crossing officers. If the two types of artillery are mixed, it will easily cause confusion in the shooting effect.

Due to the prefabricated design, the construction speed of this simple defensive wall is also very fast. According to the speed calculated during the military exercise organized by the base camp, with sufficient material and manpower support, the construction of a 100-meter-long defensive wall only takes about ten minutes. It only takes five to twenty minutes. If you build a traditional log wall, you have to dig out the trench first and then bury it. No matter how fast it is, it will take two or three times as long.

Compared with the previous exercises, this combat operation also added a new defensive device behind the wall - the ceiling. This is also a new thing that the base camp rushed out based on the battle reports sent back from the front. It can basically only be used. It is used in positional defense warfare. The structure is very simple, just a wooden shed supported by a number of wooden pillars. Its main function is to prevent the opponent's archery troops from being ejected. Its coverage is specially calculated for the range of the South Vietnamese archers. This was to ensure that the South Vietnamese Army's bow and arrow projectiles would not cause large-scale damage to their own positions. Later, when the civilians were free, they would also cover the wooden shed with a layer of floating soil to prevent the opponent from using rockets to attack.

During the offensive and defensive battle on the mountain defense line, the South Vietnamese army's tactics of inflicting damage on the North Vietnamese army by intensively throwing arrows left a deep impression on the military observers of the advance team. Compared with the worthless peasants and soldiers of North Vietnam, the huge investment

All the soldiers of the Haihan Militia are treasures. In order to reduce the casualty rate, the Military and Police Department has tried every means to provide better protection measures for the soldiers as much as possible based on the existing technology.

Due to the particularity of the weapons and combat methods currently used, the protection methods of the Military and Police Department are still relatively biased. Whether it is a defensive wall or a ceiling, they are mainly aimed at the collective combat environment, rather than targeting individual soldiers. In North Vietnam

In the eyes of the officers, the reason why the Haihan soldiers wore commoner and rattan helmets was because they were extremely confident in their combat capabilities and did not need protective measures such as iron armor at all.

At 5:30, the sea-going ships had returned to the two offshore islands one after another to start the second round of transportation. In addition to a large amount of combat materials, this second round of transportation also included frontline headquarters.

All command personnel headed by Yan Chujie will be transferred from Hunguo Island to land to direct this operation from the front line. Although this approach is extremely risky, it also reflects the military and police department's sufficient confidence in its own strength.

——If you still don't have the strength to defeat a group of monkey soldiers after traveling for more than half a year, then everyone should stop thinking about global hegemony and daydreaming about "there is only one China in the world".

About twenty minutes later, a group of South Vietnamese soldiers patrolling outside the camp finally noticed the noise coming from the direction of Linhai Pass in the east - more than 500 civilians and engineers were working hard to dig trenches in front of the camp and build fortifications.

, the crackling noise made has been carried to the west along the wind.

At this time, the entire defensive position has begun to take shape, with 90% of the surrounding obstacle laying work completed, 70% of the walled wall completed, the trench is being excavated, and nearly half of the scheduled area of ​​the ceiling at the back has been built. There are seven subordinates of the Haihan Militia.

Five companies of the company's combat organization have arrived at the front-line positions, and 70% of the North Vietnamese Army's combat team of more than 2,400 people has been in place. The remaining personnel are also in the process of being transported from the island to the mainland.

Among them, the login is expected to be completed within an hour.

This patrol team that discovered the abnormal situation had a chance to interfere with the process of the landing troops building defensive positions, but then they made a huge mistake - the officer leading the team did not send someone back to the camp to report in time, and

He led the team directly towards the position, probably because he wanted to confirm what was going on here first.

"Attention to the base, attention to the base, this is Lookout Post No. 1. A group of South Vietnamese troops are approaching the base on foot from the west. The distance is about 800 meters, and there are about 20 people... equipped with four archers, and no muskets are seen.

Weapons of this type.”

The warning from the early warning post on the nearby hill came from the radio station of the headquarters. Yan Chujie immediately issued an order to the combat troops on the front line: "A South Vietnamese patrol is approaching us. Prisoners are given priority. If this cannot be achieved, then put them on the spot."

Eliminate them, don’t let them escape alive!”

"It's done!" Qian Tiandun put down the walkie-talkie and immediately asked several platoon leaders to summon the special operations company. Since the opponent was only a patrol team of twenty people and had no firearms, it was perfect for his own special operations company to fight.

Already.

After the follow-up troops arrived at the position, Qian Tiandun's special operations company had already given up the front position to other combat units, while his own troops concentrated in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain to the north. After receiving the order to attack, the special operations company

The company slowly moved northwest along the mountains from the forest.

Under the command of the lookout post on the top of the mountain, the special operations company avoided the path of the South Vietnamese patrol. More than a hundred soldiers hid in the forest, watching silently as the South Vietnamese soldiers came up from a distance of about a hundred meters away.

Go east.

Covert operations like this are one of the daily training subjects of the special operations company. The soldiers have already done many forest marches, concealment, and lurking drills like this in the dense forests of Cat Ba Island, and they are quite familiar with it.

No one made any noise during this period. It was not until the South Vietnamese army walked out for a while that Qian Tiandun gave the order to outflank. Hundreds of soldiers slowly walked out of the dense forest from their hiding places and outflanked the South Vietnamese patrol's back road.

The patrol did not realize that their back road was blocked at first, and continued to move eastward. When they passed through the last bush that blocked their view, they suddenly discovered that they were only 40 to 50 feet ahead.

A low wall nearly five feet high appeared, and hundreds of people were silently digging trenches in front of the wall. Behind the low wall, several wooden watchtowers could be faintly seen being built.

Among them, although the other party did not raise any banner, it was obvious that these people did not belong to South Vietnam.

"Not good!" After this thought flashed through the mind of the South Vietnamese officer leading the team, he immediately subconsciously prepared to send someone to report back to the camp. The South Vietnamese army never thought that North Vietnam could actually send troops to the battlefield by sea, and overnight

Such a large-scale fortification was built in this place in a short period of time. Could it be that the North Vietnamese side invited some experts who knew magic to help in the battle? But when they tried to return the same way, they found that they had been attacked by a group of people wearing colorful short shirts.

Troops armed with muskets blocked the way.

The officer leading the team naturally recognized the uniforms of the North Vietnamese Army. The group of people in front of him were not dressed as the North Vietnamese Army, and they were all equipped with muskets. He did not care to find out the origin of the other party. He knew very well how powerful the musketeers were.

At this moment, conveying the military information back to the main camp was the most important thing, and orders were immediately given to break out.

This order itself was not wrong, but when he encountered the special operations company, he just happened to run into an enemy. The distance between the two sides was already very close. If he ordered a collective charge, the special operations company, which was still in marching form, would not have time to start the battle.

In addition, it is the first actual combat, and you might be able to make some money back from the fight. But if you disperse like this, your shortcomings will be completely exposed to the opponent. The number of people in the special operations company is this patrol

The number of troops is nearly ten times greater. When the individual soldiers' abilities are already stronger than their opponents, how can something slip through the net?

As soon as the officer leading the team came face to face with him, Qian Tiandun stabbed him in the shoulder with a bayonet and he fell to the ground. Then several militiamen came up and twisted his arms, stripped off his armor, and tied him up from behind.

Others who tried to escape had no chance at all. They were quickly caught up by the militiamen, and several bayonets were fired at them. They lost their lives one after another without even a chance to struggle.

The only injury suffered by the special operations company was that a militiaman was shot in the thigh by a South Vietnamese archer who put up a stubborn resistance. Fortunately, the vital part was not injured. He could just go back to camp and have a minor surgical operation to remove the arrowhead, but he might not be able to participate in the subsequent battles.

.However, compared to being hit by an arrow in the thigh, the fate of the South Vietnamese archer was much more tragic. Before he could shoot the second arrow, he was surrounded by a whole squad of militiamen and stabbed all over with bayonets.

The entire combat process lasted less than three minutes and ended, and the result was unsurprisingly one-sided. The special operations company wiped out the South Vietnamese patrol without firing a single shot, and once again displayed it in front of colleagues in the Military and Police Department.

gained strength.

The previous time they went to the south to perform a reconnaissance mission, the North Vietnamese military was not able to witness the performance of the special operations company on the spot, but this time they actually saw how the Haihan soldiers fought. The entire patrol was destroyed by these seamen in a matter of seconds.

The Han soldiers were wiped out cleanly. This result also gave the North Vietnamese Army, which was still a little uneasy, a little more confident.

Although the screams of the South Vietnamese patrols were inevitably heard during the fighting, the special operations company still relied on this operation to help them win another half hour of precious time. Waiting for the lookout post to report to the west

When the South Vietnamese Army camp dispatched an organic unit to the defensive position, 90% of the combat troops had already landed. The CCP Army and the Haihan Militia had already lined up their teams and started to enter combat positions in batches.

It was just after 6:30 in the morning. In addition to the relatively shallow trenches, other defenses had also been laid out in various ways. Even a nine-meter-high observation tower behind the position was put into use.

The extensive use of prefabricated parts in the landing construction was the main magic weapon for the Hai Han militia to build a defensive position in just two or three hours. The North Vietnamese officers who witnessed the whole process had nothing but praise.

It's easy to say. Such design and construction capabilities are completely unimaginable by the current North Vietnamese army. It seems that these things are not complicated. If they really want to build them, it seems that North Vietnam can also build them. But this kind of creativity and synergy

But it is something that the North Vietnamese army does not possess.

Some North Vietnamese officers even secretly pondered in their minds, if the Han militia in Shanghai was the North Vietnamese army, how should they prevent the opponent from launching a landing operation from the sea to the land? With the current state and combat level of the North Vietnamese army, could it be possible to engage the North Vietnamese army near the coast?

Do vigilante groups compete for supremacy?

"All front-line construction personnel have returned to their positions, and all troops have entered a state of preparation for war!" The latest order issued by the headquarters indicates that the battle that the military and police have been waiting for for a long time is finally about to begin.
Chapter completed!