"Beep, beep, beep..." The assembly whistle sounded in the camp.
Motoda and his team lined up outside the camp. Each of them carried seventy or eighty kilograms of equipment.
Except for large items that are shipped in advance, personal items must be carried with you.
Liu Qingnan personally led the expedition to Bunama this time. He didn't like to command from behind.
The matter of sitting in the middle was left to Wang Yan.
He led a total of two detachments, each with nearly 3,000 people.
The establishment of Yangtze Security has not yet been completed.
Although a plan has been drawn up, it will soon be adapted according to the division model of the regular army.
However, the military team in Canada felt that it should be adapted after the expansion of the army.
Therefore, currently, Yangtze Security still uses the original organizational model of detachment, brigade, squadron and squad.
The most basic level of combat organization is the squad, usually fifteen people, and each squad has three five-person combat groups.
One of the groups was a fire support group, equipped with two grenades.
Each squadron has about 200 people and a 30-man cannon squad. It is equipped with two rotary machine guns and four mortars. This is the vital support at the squadron level.
A brigade has about 800 people, consisting of three squadrons, as well as security, logistics, and communications personnel directly under the brigade.
Three brigades and one detachment.
There is also an artillery squadron directly under the detachment, equipped with 10 56mm howitzers and 5 75mm cannons.
and a squadron of cavalry, about two hundred men.
Such a detachment can basically handle most battles independently.
In order to attack Bunama this time, Liu Qingnan decided to bring two detachments in consideration of the need to continue fighting.
The narrow terrain there makes it impossible to deploy two detachments.
However, Liu Qingnan was prepared to let the two detachments fight in relays.
Anyway, they have boats and can land anywhere on the coastline.
When a detachment is tired, they board the ship to rest while rushing to the next landing point.
Time enters July, the fourth year of the revival.
Donghua also uses the Chinese calendar.
On July 10th, the war started simultaneously at Arica and Alfonso.
Prior to this, the scouts from both sides had been fighting for many days.
Donghua will always send people to infiltrate and monitor the location where the coalition forces cross the river.
The coalition forces also need to send people to clear out the other party's monitors.
In this way, a cat-and-mouse-like battle began in the tropical rainforest north of the Putumayo River.
The Donghua Army sent Yin Di'an soldiers who were most familiar with the jungle.
There are also Yin Di'an soldiers in the coalition forces.
The Yin Di'an people in the Donghua Army are the masters of the country. But in the coalition army, the Yin Di'an people only exist as a servant army.
The combat subjective initiative of the two is obviously not on the same level.
In the end, the coalition forces could only choose two locations to cross the river at the same time.
However, these two crossing points were detected by the Donghua Army.
The coalition deployed a total of 160,000 troops on the northern front.
Another 70,000 people, mainly Tingen federal troops, were under the command of the southern theater.
According to discussions between President Mariana Rodriguez and Major General Wolseley and others, they indeed placed the main offensive force on the Putumayo River on the eastern front.
Another 60,000 troops were deployed in southern Ecuador for defensive operations.
Their offensive and defensive direction was exactly opposite to Tian Fang's arrangement.
Tian Fang's main attack direction was along the coast of Ecuador.
The direction of the Putumayo River is the defensive direction.
The number of Donghua troops here is only half of that of the coalition forces.
Because there are no decent cities along the Putumayo River.
Therefore, the Donghua army placed its blocking locations along the river.
At some important river crossing points, the Donghua Army dug trenches and fortifications.
On the night of July 10, the coalition forces sent two regiments of Colombian soldiers to paddle secretly to the other side in small boats.
Because the Donghua Army has set up a position by the river. If you build a pontoon bridge directly on the river, you will definitely be discovered by the Donghua Army.
The commander of the coalition forces on the eastern front, Colombian Army General Reyes, believed that the vanguard should be sent to seize the beachhead first.
Then build the floating bridge.
In order to save time, the ships that the coalition forces will build the pontoon bridge have already been prepared.
At that time, as long as the boat is pushed into the river, the pontoon will be built soon.
Arica is the confluence of the Igalabarana River and the Putumayo River.
The intersection of the two rivers formed a sandbar in the middle of the river. The river water was divided into two halves.
Guarding opposite Arica is the Third Division of the Donghua Army, whose commander is Huang Xing.
Huang Xing served as the commander of the newly formed Army's Third Regiment during the Donghua War of Independence.
Later, the army expanded, and his troops were expanded into the Army's Third Division, with more than 7,000 people in the entire division.
These more than 7,000 people are responsible for guarding more than 50 kilometers of river section.
Placing heavy troops everywhere will definitely not work.
The method adopted by Huang Xing was uniformly deployed by the Donghua Army.
Then build outposts and observation towers along the river, and then deploy your troops in key areas along the river.
There is a squad of army soldiers stationed at Post C in the East 3rd District of Arica, belonging to the 3rd Battalion and 1st Company of the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Division.
The squad leader's name is Cao Shifu, and there are 11 people in the class. The deputy squad leader is a Yin Di'an named Tofu.
The other nine warriors included six Chinese and three Yin Di'an.
"Yas, you have the best hearing, listen to what's going on on the river?" Tofu, the deputy squad leader, is in charge of the evening shift.
Because the coalition forces had already arrived on the other side of the river, they did not slack off and had been working hard on vigilance in the past few days.
"Deputy monitor, you can't hear anything. No, the monkeys are making noise in the forest opposite. They must have been disturbed."
Monkeys are very alert social animals.
What could possibly disturb someone in the middle of the night?
"Deputy squad leader, would you like to fire a flare and have a look?" Yas suggested.
"You can't use flares casually. They will alert everyone this late at night. Let me take Kula to the river to have a look."
After a while, Tofo left the trench with another Yintian soldier named Kula, who put the flare gun on his waist.
They slowly walked toward the river.
The outpost is still a hundred meters away from the river. At night, such a distance will already affect the observation.
TOEFL walked in front, and Kula followed him, carefully looking at the surrounding situation.
"Wow..."
Only a few dozen meters could be seen on the river, and beyond that was darkness. Tofu put his ear to a big rock by the river.
There was a slight and rhythmic sound of water splashing.
Yes, this is the sound only made by paddling.
Thinking that he heard it wrong, TOEFL asked the soldier who was following him to listen too.
"Deputy monitor, yes, someone is rowing a boat."
"Let's go." TOEFL didn't fire the flare gun here, otherwise the two of them would be doomed here.
The two of them hurried back to the outpost, and Kula woke everyone up. Fortunately, everyone was sleeping with their clothes on.
"TOEFL, what's wrong?" Squad leader Cao Shifu had just been woken up and was startled.
"There are people rowing on the river."
"Then why don't you hurry up and fire the flare gun?"
"Okay, let's fight now. Cover your eyes first."
"Bang!" The white flare flew in an arc toward the sky above the river.
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Cao Shifu opened a little gap first, and then moved his hand away.
He finally saw the scene on the river.
"Hit..." Taking advantage of the light of the incendiary bombs, the eleven people in the post and eleven guns fired at the river.
Incendiary bombs flew into the sky one after another at nearby outposts. Finally, we were able to determine the enemy's landing location.
The reserved reinforcements will go to that place first to provide support.
Cao Shifu and his men have to hold the post for ten minutes, and reinforcements will arrive soon.
The troop rowing on the river was the Eldora Regiment.
The coalition armies are generally organized according to regions.
In order to make up the 1,500 soldiers of this regiment, almost two-thirds of the young adults in the entire Eldora area were drawn.
This time the coalition forces were able to gather more than 200,000 soldiers, and they had almost mobilized to their limit.
The leader of this regiment is named Ospina. He is a young major officer, less than thirty years old.
His family is a wealthy local family and owns several large manors.
"Sir, they won't find us at night like this, right?" asked a young man named Maura next to Ospina.
"Shut up, Maura, if you ask questions again, they will hear you."
The soldiers sat on both sides of the boat, paddling carefully and making as little noise as possible.
There were approximately twenty-five soldiers on each boat.
Ospina's boat was at the end of the group.
Suddenly, a white light lit up. The originally neat fleet suddenly became panicked.
Many people were temporarily blinded by the sudden flash of white light.
When people cannot see, they will instinctively panic.
"Don't panic, speed up and rush over." The invisible soldiers rowed the boat according to their own memories.
In the panic, some boats collided with each other, making a "bang" sound, and someone lost his seat and fell into the river.
This made the already panicked fleet even more chaotic.
Some boats lost their direction and yawed downstream.
"Bang bang bang..." Sporadic gunshots rang out from the opposite river bank.
Several soldiers who were rowing became the unlucky ones.
As the coalition soldiers adapted to the light of the flares, they rowed faster.
The flares fired by the Donghua Army actually helped the coalition soldiers rowing in the river.
"Bang!"
The first coalition ship hit the shore directly. The coalition soldiers on top jumped directly into the shallows and ran to the shore.
"Damn it, why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet? Let's hit those people who came ashore first." Cao Shifu yelled.
The enemy has more than 1,500 people and only needs 60 small boats. Each row of six boats has a horizontal width of one hundred meters.
Only one of their outposts can be attacked.
Logically speaking, the company headquarters should organize soldiers to support this side.
The outposts on both sides cannot be moved. They must stick there to prevent the enemy from outflanking.
"Bang bang bang..." The rifle accurately shot the coalition soldiers who landed on the beach.
But soon, except for one of the six ships at the front of the opponent's row, all the others docked.
In this way, more than a hundred people from the other side landed.
These eleven people alone can't stop us for long.
"Throw the grenade!" Cao Shifu shouted.
His squad was not equipped with a rotating machine gun. The firepower of the rifle alone was too weak, and the shooting accuracy in the middle of the night was not good either.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Several grenades exploded around the landing point.
The post was located high up, so Cao Shifu and the others were able to throw the grenades such a long distance.
Finally, under the explosion of the grenade, the disembarking coalition soldiers who were forming a team fell down one after another.
"Okay, that's it, we must hold them back."
"Ah!" came a scream.
A Chinese soldier named Bai Bo was hit by a bullet and fell to the ground.
It turned out that the enemy on the beach was shooting at the outpost.
Although the soldiers in the outpost are hiding behind bunkers, they will inevitably be hit by the opponent's salvo.
"Don't panic, keep shooting."
"Ah!" screamed.
A coalition soldier who rushed to the outpost was knocked to the ground.
Three minutes have passed since the enemy was discovered, and more than a hundred enemies have landed.
The coalition forces suffered about a dozen casualties, and the Donghua Army suffered one casualty.
"Squad leader, the enemy is coming, why haven't we received support from the company yet?" TOEFL said anxiously.
This group of people will soon be blocked by the enemy in this outpost, and everyone will run out when the time comes.
"Don't worry, kill one and earn one." Cao Shifu was anxious, but he couldn't just abandon the post and escape. Even if he was hiding in the post and fighting the enemy hand-to-hand, he had to hold the enemy back.
"Okay, kill."
From a distance of tens of meters, the enemy can press forward in an instant.
Three more soldiers fell, and there were still seven soldiers in the post who were able to fight.
At this time, the enemy's face can be seen even without flares.
The outpost where Cao Shifu and the others were located was a simple small artillery tower with a two-story height and a civil structure.
With so many enemies, this outpost can be completely overwhelmed.
"Da da da..." The clear sound of machine gun shooting suddenly rang out from a bush a hundred meters away to the left of the post.
"It's the company headquarters' machine gun." Cao Shifu said excitedly.
A large number of enemies in front of the outpost fell instantly.
The machine gun position and the sentry post happened to form a cross firing.
Cao Shifu and others took advantage of the enemy's attack rhythm to be interrupted by machine gun fire, and stretched out their heads to shoot at the enemies by the river as quickly as possible.
Finally, more than half of the first wave of enemies who landed ashore suffered casualties. They lay down by the river looking for bunkers to fight back.
However, at this time, the enemy's second wave of landing troops also reached the shore.
Maybe this time an officer came ashore, and the landing coalition soldiers no longer took time to form a team, but directly rushed towards the outpost and the machine gun position.
After firing continuously for a minute, the machine gun finally stopped.
The machine gunner nervously changed bullets.
Taking advantage of this gap, the coalition soldiers rushed forward.
"kill……"
The sound of a killing sound sounded. There were still six people left in the guard post.
Cao Shifu was still pulling the bolt of the gun.
These few minutes were like a race against death.
"Reinforcements from regiment headquarters should be coming soon."
"Boom, boom, boom..." The explosion of artillery shells sounded on the river beach.
This is a mortar for regimental reinforcements.
With the sound of mortars.
A burst of intensive running sound came over.
Cao Shifu took a look behind the post and saw a group of reinforcements wearing green military uniforms running over panting. They entered the battle as soon as they reached the river.
Soldiers lay down by the river one by one, shooting at the beach.
The reserve company from the regiment headquarters came over.
As long as this wave of enemy attacks can be blocked, more and more reinforcements will be gathered on Donghua's side.
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