Two hours before the First Fleet broke into Liaoluo Bay, Xue Ziliang and his detachment were quietly sailing on the Shijing River.
It was four o'clock in the morning, the darkest time before dawn. However, Xue Ziliang did not dare to be careless at all - the moon in the sky was too bright. If it weren't for the heavy clouds today, he would not have dared to do it so blatantly.
Driving on the river.
The engine of the motorboat vibrated slightly under the silencer - this motorboat was originally a lifeboat on the Fengcheng ship, and could accommodate up to twenty-four people and necessary food and drinking water.
Due to limited gasoline, these lifeboats were used for a period of time during the landing, and then sealed. This time they were deliberately re-opened and put into use - the machinery factory specially manufactured matching silencers.
The night before, they drove this motorboat into Liaoluo Bay. Relying on gasoline supplies in a sheepskin bag towed behind the speedboat, they arrived at Baisha Village at the mouth of the Shijing River that night and lurked there.
Baisha Village is only six kilometers away from Anping. Even if you sail at an economical speed, you can get there in less than an hour. The propellers stir the river water, and there is a low sound of waves. Probably because it is quite far away from the land, the shore seems quiet.
Quietly, not a sound can be heard,
He glanced at the luminous watch. It was now a quarter past four o'clock, and he would arrive in Anping soon. From now on, he had to be as careful as possible - because at this time, some people had already gotten up and started to move around.
Of course, even if someone discovers their strange little boat now, it may not necessarily be a threat. The common people will at most make interesting conversations about "strange monsters" on the spot, and may not enthusiastically run to Anping to report it immediately. Even if he does
I have to report that the speed of the motorboat is much faster than them.
The moon in the sky was bright and dark, which made Xue Ziliang habitually feel very nervous - he would rather carry out combat missions on dark cloudy nights. A figure suddenly exposed under the moonlight would often attract fatal bullets. Fortunately, they were not the only ones in time and space.
.No one can fire threatening bullets from three hundred meters away, nor can they be suddenly shot by machine guns or automatic rifles.
Sitting on the small boat were the team members for this operation. Each of the twelve team members were armed to the teeth. Apart from the fact that the uniforms and BDU made by Lingao were a bit shabby, they were no different from the armed reconnaissance team he had commanded back then. They also had smeared paint on their faces.
Got to be dark.
They were equipped with a short barrel of a Fal automatic rifle, a carbine type with a folding stock, a machine gun and two shotguns. On the deck in the middle of the boat, something was wrapped with tarpaulin and ropes.
On this broad and unobstructed river, the team members were silent. They only looked around anxiously from time to time and listened attentively. The vast river was completely silent, and there was no ship moving. Only occasionally could they see it.
At what time was the lonely fishing fire? The river water lapped at the hull of the small boat, making slight noises.
When the luminous watch on Xue Ziliang's wrist pointed to 4:30, the sound of the motorboat's engine disappeared, the hull slid slowly, and finally stopped. Xue Ziliang carefully observed the scheduled rendezvous point on the river. He used a tactical flashlight to
The shore sent out a light signal. Once, twice... After the third time, the corresponding light signal lit up from the night on the shore - these were the two hiking pioneers he sent last night to guide them.
logged in.
Xue Ziliang blew a whistle gently and cut through the dark night sky, telling the team members that the landing point had arrived. The team members sitting on both sides picked up the oars and rowed the boat carefully. Xue Ziliang held the engine handle tightly with his right hand. Adjust the speed. Use your left hand to hold the compass as flat as possible in front of your eyes to maintain an accurate angle with the navigation beacon on the shore.
Ten minutes later, Xue Ziliang heard the team member he arranged to lookout at the bow of the boat say in a low voice, "We're here." He quickly looked up: they were already very close to the land: less than 50 meters. At this time, the moon was covered by dark clouds. He could vaguely see a black earth bank directly ahead, with many trees on it. There was a stench of rotting water plants in the air.
The motorboat drifted toward the beach under the impetus of inertia. After a while, a slight friction sound was heard between the bottom of the boat and the beach, and the motorboat ran aground on the beach.
A black figure appeared in front of him. There were phosphorescent identification strips on his chest and back. He was the team member who came to rescue him. He made gestures to guide the landing site. Xue Ziliang walked around the pile with gentle hands. Weapons and equipment, he walked towards the bow of the ship. He stretched out one leg over the side of the ship to explore the river beach, holding the cable in his hand to prevent his feet from getting stuck in the mud. According to the prior reconnaissance, the river beach in this area was a mixture of sand and gravel, but he Still have to be extremely careful.
In the next five minutes, Xue Ziliang used an infrared telescope to observe whether there was any movement in the direction of Anping. The city was just 500 meters away, facing them through low sand dunes and bushes. But at this time, there was no sound. , their arrival did not cause any alarm.
A road extends from Anping and passes about a hundred meters away from the sand dunes.
The team members carefully unloaded the equipment on the boat one by one, and then towed the unloaded motorboat to a hidden place behind the sand dunes, and fixed it with sharp iron stakes and cables to prevent it from being floated by the tide.
Xue Ziliang climbed up the sand dune and observed Anping City with an infrared telescope. This original coastal town was renovated by Zheng Zhilong and became huge. It is surrounded by solid blue stone walls and a majestic water city gate stands on the river. A long The 25-kilometer long stone bridge spans the river connecting Jinjiang and Nan'an counties. It is the famous Anping Bridge.
There are many large and small ships moored on the water around Anping Bridge. Several of them are the three-masted gunboats highlighted by the Intelligence Bureau.
However, their target is not these ships - that is the task of the navy. Their first task is to "behead" the head of the Zheng family and try to kill several of the main leaders of the Zheng family.
It is obviously impossible for them alone to invade Anping, but there are only a few exits in Anping. As long as they control a few access roads, they can effectively snipe the enemy when they escape. Even if they cannot catch them all, at least they can It can also cause significant damage.
He checked his watch. According to the plan, the teams controlling the other two roads should have arrived. But so far they have not sent out the required radio signals, which makes him a little anxious.
He turned around and ran back to the sand dunes, whispering and ordering them to prepare weapons. The thing wrapped in oilcloth was untied. Inside was a small disassembled artillery piece. The disassembled metal parts had been wrapped in sacks in advance.
piece to make a sound in case of collision.
Under his command, the artillery components were moved onto the sand dunes, followed by the shell boxes one by one. Ying Yu opened the tool box and began to install it. He worked quickly and quietly.
The location of this sand dune was selected based on the results of many field reconnaissances. First, it can effectively control the road from Anping to Nan'an. Second, the distance from here to the center of Zheng Zhilong's mansion in Anping Town is only 704 meters. Direct shelling of the enemy
The idea of a hub is very tempting. Although the navy's fleet will bring more intense artillery fire to Anping after its arrival, they will not be able to hit the enemy's vital points so accurately.
"The rest is up to you."
"Don't worry, you should worry about the skills of Lin Shenhe and the people in the machine factory." Ying Yu said.
After measuring the position with the compass in his hand, he accurately set the artillery position at the compass point pointed out to him by Xue Ziliang, with the muzzle facing Zheng Zhilong's mansion. Then, he carefully rotated the artillery's elevation screw, striving to achieve the desired height.
In the first shot, it hit the center of Zheng Zhilong's mansion.
As long as a few shells fall into the center of the mansion, the frightening effect caused is enough to make the opponent lose their will to fight - after all, it takes some effort to storm the reinforced city wall of Anping Town, so it would be better to let the enemy escape without fighting.
This time, the so-called "Trial 32-year-old brigade gun" designed by Lin Shenhe was used. This artillery was originally designed to provide lightweight artillery support for battalion-level troops and was used to replace the current role of this type of artillery.
A 12-pound mountain howitzer for the mission. Therefore, it must be as light as possible, easy to maneuver, less dependent on logistics, capable of supporting large elevation angle launches, and at the same time, a certain shooting accuracy and killing effect must be ensured.
The "Trial 32-year-old brigade gun" is a multi-purpose field gun designed based on this requirement.
This type of artillery adopts a 70mm caliber and adopts rifled breech loading. Although it is not a tube annealing gun, it uses a friction recoil absorption device. Because the gun body is lighter, the recoil absorption efficiency is higher, which greatly improves the rate of fire.
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In order to reduce the weight of the rapid-fire gun, the length of the barrel is appropriately shortened. The ammunition types used are mainly low-pressure grenades and shrapnel shells. The shells use separate metal cartridges to match the vertical wedge-type breech used in the artillery.
The vertical wedge breech is easy to load quickly at large elevation angles, and can take into account productivity and weapon performance at the current industrial level - the wedge breech has a simpler structure than the screw breech, is simple and fast to operate, and is safer.
Because of the rifled structure, the decrease in accuracy and muzzle velocity caused by shortening the barrel length can be compensated. However, considering that the pointed cylindrical shells fired by the rifled gun cannot bounce, solid shells are no longer used.
While reducing the weight of the gun body, the shooting elevation angle of the rapid-fire gun has been greatly increased - up to 80 degrees, and it has a certain degree of deflection capability.
Roughly speaking, this is a copycat version of the Japanese 92 Infantry Cannon. However, due to limitations in materials and craftsmanship, the size and weight of the artillery are larger than those of the 92 Infantry Cannon.