Chapter 1412 Going deep into enemy-occupied areas

Morgan has been staying in Sanya for the past few years, and his work mainly focuses on training medical personnel. Although he is also responsible for the selection and training of snipers, due to the environment in Sanya, there are very few opportunities to guide students under battlefield conditions. Even

For himself, he will gradually lose the feeling of fighting because he has been away from the troops and combat environment for too long.

Fortunately, Morgan was alone and had no family burdens. After handing over the affairs of the medical department to Johnson, he was free to concentrate on leading the troops in the war. While leading the students to practice techniques and tactics, he himself was in a state of continuous recovery.

In the process.

The M200 sniper rifle, known as the "Reaper", that he brought with him when he traveled through time. Because the ammunition stock is getting less and less, he rarely uses it anymore. It is basically kept as a collection at home. And Morgan now uses it

His main weapon is, like other snipers, a homemade sniper rifle produced in this time and space. Of course, due to his special status, his rifle is also a highly customized and unique version, and there are still many differences from the mass-produced model.

For example, in order to install the sight he brought from another time and space on the gun, a specially made base was made for this purpose, and the size of the rifle was also tailor-made according to his body shape and personal usage habits.

Morgan spent nearly an hour examining the terrain of the hill, selected several locations with good views as alternative firepower points, and planned two retreat routes.

The lunch of the sniper team is very simple, just cold water and dry food. Everyone is the same, even Morgan is no exception. Although the logistics department of the Ministry of National Defense also prepared self-heating military rations for frontline field troops, Morgan did not want to carry it during this mission.

There was too much extra weight to carry, so I did not choose self-heating military rations that came with a heating pack. Fortunately, this field mission would not last too long, and I could survive with a few days of dry food.

After eating and resting for a while, everyone gathered together and set off again. Before leaving the forest, Morgan used a telescope to carefully confirm that there was no trace of the Hou Jin Army within a visible radius of several miles before giving the order to continue heading northeast.

The rest of the journey is an area that the Haihan Army has never explored before. Even last year, the Marine Corps pretended to attack the Jinzhou Isthmus and confronted the Hou Jin Army for several days, but it did not launch activities in this area. The military only relied on the

The easy-to-collect military maps of the Ming Dynasty and the descriptions of the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong, coupled with the satellite maps in the Sanya database, roughly depict the topography here. However, the satellite maps referenced by the military are from hundreds of years later. During this period

The terrain changes definitely exist, so Morgan can only use it as a reference, and the specific situation still needs to be manually explored bit by bit to master.

As this place is getting closer and closer to the Jinzhou base camp of the Houjin Army, the possibility of the appearance of a Houjin patrol will naturally increase. If Morgan wants to lead a sniper team in this area without losing any blood, the risk will also increase.

Quite a few. Every time the team traveled a few hundred meters, they would stop and use telescopes to observe the surroundings to ensure that they could detect possible enemy forces as soon as possible and take concealment measures in advance.

Half an hour after setting off, Morgan finally spotted the first Houjin patrol he encountered today through his telescope. Judging from the direction of travel, they were heading towards the hill where the sniper team stopped to rest in the morning. But Morgan

Before leaving, he carefully ordered his soldiers to remove all traces so that the Houjin people who patrolled there would not discover his whereabouts.

The sniper team did not try to launch a surprise attack on the patrol. Instead, they avoided the opponent's route in advance and hid in the snowy fields. They wore camouflage uniforms with gray and white as the base color. They only needed to lower their bodies and stay still.

It is difficult to detect their presence from a distance.

Because they reacted in advance, the Houjin patrol did not notice the presence of the sniper team at all and went straight south. Morgan confirmed from the telescope that this patrol had a total of twelve people, three cavalry and nine foot soldiers, and the number was about the same as that of the sniper team.

His team is similar. However, Morgan does not intend to take action against this patrol. It is not a problem to kill these Houjin soldiers, but he cannot confirm whether there are other Houjin patrols nearby. Once he shoots, he may attract

A bigger trouble. And there isn't much shelter on this plain, so it would be quite troublesome to quickly dispose of a dozen corpses.

After the Houjin patrol slowly disappeared in the snow, Morgan signaled the sniper team to emerge from their respective hiding places, and then continued to move north. Morgan knew that from this point on, the sniper team had officially entered enemy-occupied territory.

In the future, we may encounter the post-Jin army more frequently, so we must be very careful at the moment.

Although Haihan had fought against the Hou Jin Army on land several times, he did not have a traceable pattern for the enemy's patrol arrangements. According to the confessions of the prisoners, the arrangements of the Hou Jin Army in this regard were basically

It depends on the commander, and there is no definite rule. Some officers attach great importance to peripheral defense, so they will arrange relatively intensive patrols, and even send out small teams to carry out alert defense at a location twenty or thirty miles away from the camp;

Some careless officers may only place a few guard posts near the camp and not spend much time on it.

Morgan didn't find it strange. After all, in his eyes, the Post-Jin Army was still a relatively primitive armed form. In terms of the completeness of the military system and command system, it was far inferior to the Ming Dynasty. However, the Post-Jin Army also had its own

Its unique strength is its extremely high field mobility. The Later Jin Army relied on this characteristic to defeat the Ming Dynasty, which could only defend the city and did not dare to engage in large-scale field battles. It has been in a passive position for a long time. In terms of land mobility,

, even the Haihan Army, which was invincible in fighting all over the Far East, did not dare to say that it could defeat the opponent of the Hou Jin Army.

Haihan's own cavalry troops are both small and expensive, and it is impossible to draw them out to fight a war of attrition with Hou Jin. Therefore, in large-scale field battles, Haihan cannot expect his own cavalry troops to play a big role.

It was just to contain the opponent. However, in the small-scale confrontation between reconnaissance and cavalry, the Haihan cavalry had obvious equipment advantages, which also caused Hou Jin to suffer some hardships in the confrontation before winter.

According to the recent observations of the Special Operations Battalion, Houjin has rarely sent out a whole team of cavalry for patrol and reconnaissance tasks. They usually use a combination of infantry and cavalry. Morgan believes that this may be due to the cavalry stationed in Jinzhou at Lushun and Jinzhou Isthmus.

The consequences of the heavy losses in the battle. The Houjin patrol just encountered also confirmed the accuracy of the special operations battalion's intelligence, which is good news for the sniper team's operations.

After walking cautiously in the snowy wilderness for about three hours, Morgan confirmed the second target location of the trip through the telescope. There was also a hilly area ahead, and the area was larger than the place he had stayed at before. This was

The hills are located on the west coast of the peninsula, and the raised terrain extends all the way to the sea and submerges into the Bohai Sea. This place is only three or four miles away from the narrowest section of the Jinzhou Isthmus. It can be said that it has entered the Haihan Spring Offensive.

The preset battlefield area is also the key area for Morgan's inspection during this trip.

If this place is used well, it can not only be used as a firepower point for snipers from above, but it can also be turned into a forward position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, allowing Haihan's participating troops to complete their assembly here.

Of course, as one of the few commanding heights nearby, Morgan believed that the Hou Jin Army would definitely realize the strategic value of this place and might have established an armed stronghold here earlier. So he was not in a hurry to get close to this hill.

He directed the sniper team to stop more than a mile away, each found a bunker to hide, and first used telescopes to conduct detailed observations of the target area from a long distance.

In this kind of snowy weather, it is difficult to observe the situation in the mountains and forests from a distance of more than a mile, even with sharp tools such as telescopes. So Morgan gave up after trying for a while. He even

No matter how powerful he is, it is impossible to see clearly the situation in the distance through the falling snowflakes. This place is no better than the previous place, and the possibility of Hou Jin stationing troops here is much greater. Morgan does not dare to act rashly, and can only wait patiently for the sky to clear up.

Take action after it gets dark.

The group of people waited for a long time. Although they were wearing a lot of clothes, their hands and feet were still numb from the cold due to not moving for a long time. Fortunately, everyone had ginger slices, chili peppers, spirits and other warming things with them.

, taking a sip from time to time to keep the body warm. This continued until the sky darkened, and then the sniper team cautiously moved towards the hills. Morgan turned on the night vision goggles, and after approaching, he confirmed that there were no enemies lurking in the night within his field of vision.

, and then used bird calls to signal the team to quickly enter the forest.

Everyone formed a long snake formation in the forest to obtain the maximum surveillance range, and then slowly moved forward. After climbing to a high place, Morgan could already see the enemy appearing without having to put on the night vision goggles again.

Within the field of vision.

There are three fires burning in a mountain col on the downhill side, and there are more than ten tents nearby. There are several private houses not far away, and lights can be seen shining through them. It looks like this place was set up by the late Jin Dynasty.

A stronghold, but it was far away and it was difficult to see how many people were moving there.

Morgan secretly rejoiced. After that, the Jin army obviously found a place to camp in the lee of the wind, but did not set up a lookout post high on the hills, which was why they were attacked so easily. If the opponent had arranged a few at high places,

Although the sentry might not be able to hide from Morgan's night vision goggles, the sniper team would have to spend a lot of effort to get close enough to deal with the sentry.

The opponent obviously didn't expect that there would be Haihan soldiers crossing the plain area of ​​more than 20 miles to reach this place, and they were not prepared at all for the south direction. Morgan judged the situation between the enemy and ourselves, and felt that he wanted to be silent.

It was impossible to deal with the enemies at the foot of the mountain. As long as their whereabouts were exposed, the enemy would be alerted, and the safety of the retreat route could not be guaranteed, so they suppressed the idea of ​​taking action.

However, he is also a very brave man. Although he discovered that the enemy troops were stationed nearby for disaster relief, he did not intend to evacuate the place immediately at night. This trip took great risks and Morgan still hoped to understand the surrounding situation.

After thinking for a moment, he chose to lead the team around to the seaside side of the hill. In the past, Haihan launched raids on the Liaodong Peninsula from the sea in the Yellow Sea because he did not want to alarm the Ming Dynasty.

The fleet sailed into the Bohai Sea, so Morgan believed that the coastline near the Bohai Sea might be a defensive blind spot for the Jin army.

The foothold Morgan finally chose was separated from Houjin's stronghold by a mountain ridge less than 100 meters high. He then set up a sentry post on the mountain ridge to monitor the movements of Houjin's stronghold. Under his leadership, the others followed him in the forest.

A temporary camp was quickly set up.

When the sniper team set off, they only brought a special marching tent, which consisted of two shrink poles, a large piece of waterproof canvas, an oilcloth floor mat and several lengths of rope. When setting up, the poles were used to hold up the middle section of the canvas, and then connected with

The ropes of the canvas are pulled to nearby trees, and the stress points of the canvas are dispersed. Then the canvas and ground mats are fixed with ground nails. Although the structure of this triangular tent is simple, it can accommodate more than ten people after it is set up.

A person can lie in it, and the force is dispersed and not easily collapsed by the snow. It is a field equipment specially developed by the logistics department for the Liaodong operation. The sniper team is considered to be the first batch of trial users.

In addition, each member of the team is equipped with a camping sleeping bag with a duck down lining. Without this thing, Morgan would not dare to take this group of men to camp overnight in the wilderness at temperatures of ten or twenty degrees below zero. The two soldiers from the special operations battalion were accompanying him.

This is the first time I have used this thing, and it can be regarded as a blessing from the sniper team. After sleeping in it, I couldn't help but be amazed. I feel that this thing is indeed much more convenient than a quilt.

"Silence! Go to bed immediately and don't snore at night!" After Morgan whispered the order, the tent immediately became quiet. Although he couldn't control snoring at all, with so many people crowded in a tent, no one could listen.

At this time, you can try to stop the person from snoring.

In order to prevent the sentries on duty on the ridge from being overwhelmed, Morgan set a guard changing time of every two hours, so that everyone could take turns and rest for a few hours. He believed that the Hou Jin army on the other side of the ridge would not be idle either.

I went out to patrol the mountains in the middle of the night, so I fell asleep quickly and confidently.

Before dawn, the sniper team had already woken up and packed their bags quietly. Regardless of whether he would leave this place today, Morgan did not want to leave any traces here.

Everyone silently drank the cold water in the kettle that had been kept unfrozen by body temperature, ate some dry food, and even finished breakfast. Then Morgan led the team back to the mountain ridge to observe the movements of the enemies down the mountain.

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Chapter completed!