The troops set out after dark, marched all night, and entered the Baopang Mountain area to hide. After resting for a whole day during the day, they continued marching at night. With the help of complete maps and night vision equipment, they suddenly arrived at the Dangnamen stronghold in the morning.
The cottage stands on a small earth hill, surrounded by solid stone and wood walls and watchtowers. The fortification level is quite good and can withstand ordinary attacks.
The terrain surrounding the cottage as seen from the telescope is not steep but quite complex. It is good that the terrain of the cottage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but once it is surrounded, it is difficult to break out, so bandits generally do not build cottages in special locations.
On a dangerous road, the priority is to be able to escape quickly under adverse circumstances. If they come in force, Dang Namen will have time to withdraw from the stronghold and use the terrain to escape. But now, He Ming has commanded the troops.
Before dawn, they quickly seized the three main entrances and exits near the mountain village and blocked the escape route - all thanks to modern maps and night vision equipment.
"All troops have arrived at the scheduled location and are building fortifications!" the trainee staff report reported.
"Order all troops to pay attention to the enemy's movements." He Ming put down his telescope and glanced at the map. Troops were assigned to block the escape routes here.
"Everyone, please move quickly!" Panda urged his engineers and the education soldiers assigned to him. They were lying on the ground, digging holes and burying simple anti-infantry mines. Others were building and shooting with soil.
Used parapet.
In addition to the main road into the mountains, there were three roads that the bandits could escape from, with Datai Slope being the most difficult to block. The other two were mountain paths. Twenty soldiers built temporary low walls of dirt and shrubs.
Use a volley gun and grenades to stop the bandits.
But Dadaipo is not a small road, it is a wide slope. If the bandits are allowed to rush through this place, they will have countless mountain roads to choose from.
Panda had no choice but to intercept the bandits in this open area.
His military strength is second only to the troops directly under the command post. There is an infantry platoon, an engineering class and thirty "educational soldiers". The educational soldiers have not yet been equipped with guns, only bayonets and temporary spears. They wave flags and shout, filling
It's enough to fill the scene.
Fortunately, he brought a common weapon used by engineers: landmines.
Of course, this mine is not any kind that everyone is familiar with. Although some people call it the claymore directional mine, it is actually a primitive and crude anti-infantry directional mine. It is so simple that it does not require a mine shell. As for the angle of orientation, it is not
Only God knows.
All the equipment is a pack of black powder, a fuse, an iron plate and a pile of scrap copper and iron. Dig a shallow hole on the roadside, put the explosive bag, cover it with an iron plate for orientation, and then pile it up.
The upper layer contains all kinds of fragments that can break a person's head. Of course, all metals are strategic materials nowadays, so there are no iron plates in the mines that Panda carried, but hardwood boards. According to the test results,
As for the scrap copper and iron used as shotgun shells, they are replaced by gravel - these gravels are carefully selected from the quarry and are basically the same size.
Panda's engineers are laying such land mines at every intersection where they can escape. Originally, only fuses can be used to detonate land mines, and it is difficult to control the time of ignition. Laying fuses must be both concealed and reliable.
Difficulty. Since the chemical industry department developed white phosphorus and red phosphorus, the technical problem of pulling fire tubes has finally been overcome. Although this technology mainly facilitates the launch of artillery, engineers have also enjoyed the benefits of this improvement.
The width of the entire large platform slope is about 60 meters, and each directional mine can cover a distance of about 5 to 6 meters. Panda has set up three groups of mines crisscrossed on the entire slope, with fifteen mines in each group.
"Everyone listen to my command and set the scale at 100 meters." Yang Zeng laid out the battle plan for his soldiers. "We will use the second line and fire the volley according to the command. Do you understand?"
"Understood!" the soldiers replied in unison.
"Okay, everyone, bayonets on!"
The soldiers pulled out their bright bayonets from their leather scabbards and mounted them. Yang Zeng checked the soldiers' bayonets, guns and ammunition, and said a few words to the education soldiers in the back. It was his first time on the battlefield.
The new recruits were all trembling a little, and they didn't know how to hold the spears.
Yang Zeng said a few encouraging words. Although he did not have any military experience, he also knew that they could not be counted on in an emergency. They had to rely on veterans - the so-called veterans only had a few more months of training. Fighting
My experience is that when pirates attacked, they fought once. Some people simply lined up once and didn't even get the chance to fire on the pirates.
Seeing Chief Pan commanding the soldiers with shovels to dig holes everywhere, Yang Zeng couldn't help but feel guilty. Although he already knew about "landmines" when he was an officer, he had no idea how powerful it was. If he could
It would be nice to have a cannon here, he thought.
Panda himself didn't have much confidence. He looked at the fire tubes, fuses and hair ropes of the directional mines everywhere, and also tried to pull them in the air a few times to ensure that there were no obstacles when pulling, and that he could
Effective anger - whether you can survive the fierce charge of the bandits depends on how powerful this "Tiannu Scattered Flowers" is.
If the bandits are really brave enough to step on landmines and open a path without fear of death, then Panda has one last trick - a grenade. Engineers are setting up this simple "small cannon"
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This is a cheap and simple weapon developed by the weapons design team of the Ministry of Mechanical Engineering. Since the invention of the "hand-held shotgun", the weapons team has set off a wave of design of disposable simple support weapons. This grenade is the
The product of climax.
A cast iron pipe, with a gunpowder bag inside, and a cast iron No. 4 bomb - the hammer-type grenade that once terrified the New Army soldiers and created the Army's first martyr has removed the throwing rope and is propelled by black powder.
It can be thrown at an angle of 65 degrees to 50 meters away, but the accuracy can only be said to be that the direction of the throw is generally correct.
The detonating fuse on the No. 4 bomb will be ignited at the same time when the propellant explodes - similar to the ignition method of a grenade launched by a smoothbore gun. However, the problem of grenades also exists here - about one-third of the No. 4 bomb will be ignited at the same time.
The bomb will not detonate. The detonation rate is much lower than manually igniting it and then throwing it out.
"Even if it doesn't explode, it will explode if hit on someone's head, even if it is a solid bullet." Panda was not very picky about this kind of weapon. He brought twenty of them out as a test.
All ammunition is pre-loaded, the launch port is sealed with wax paper, and there is a wax-sealed ignition port at the tail. When launching, just insert the flame tube into it and pull the hair. The grenade barrel is equipped with a simple bracket.
And the bottom plate, if you are not afraid of the danger of exploding the chamber, you can also hand-hold it and launch it.
This kind of grenade can theoretically be reloaded on the battlefield, but for safety reasons, the military industry department recommends that the troops recover it after firing and return it to the factory for reloading.
If the last move fails to stop the enemy, he will have to rely on rifle fire and hand-to-hand combat. Although Panda has absolute confidence that the highly organized and disciplined infantry bayonet fight trained by professional soldiers can completely defeat the bandits, but
I still can't help but feel a little trembling in my heart.
The anti-bandit troops suddenly arrived at the city, which surprised Dang Namen, who had just woken up in the morning. He had his own source of intelligence: he knew that this group of pirates from Australia was going to clear out the green forest recently. At first, he didn't take it seriously, after all, in the mountains and in the sea
It is a matter of well water and river water, and the "Thirteen Villages" area under his control has also expressed surrender to this group of Australians, and they should be given a lot of money, so there is no reason to beat him.
He climbed up the village wall and looked out. On the hillside a mile away, there were densely packed Australian troops wearing tight gray trumpet jackets. Some of them carried blunderbuss, and some of them had spears, all shining in the sun.
It was hard to tell how many people there were.
Such a group of people actually marched in the mountains at night and arrived at his mountain stronghold silently. Thinking of this, he suddenly became frightened - the Australians suddenly arrived in full force, and they must have bad intentions. He had heard about Australia before
People's firearms are very powerful, and cannons are even more indestructible - if you stick to the stronghold, you will definitely die. Now call all the leaders:
"Everyone, please don't mess up!" He glanced at the panicked leaders - the other party's troops arrived so suddenly and secretly, which greatly shocked the gangsters, "The thieves have powerful firearms, we can't fight them head-on, prepare to 'lose water'
'Bar!"
"Liu Shui" means to disperse and escape to various secret camps in the mountains, wait for the wind to pass, and then come out to regroup. This is a common trick used by bandits.
"Boss of the Party!" Zhao Haiqing, one of the Four Great Vajras, said, "It is easy to make water, but the women, gold, silver and food in the village..."
"Why do you care about this?" Although the Dang family is reluctant to part with it, they have a big idea after all. "If you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood. You should always have money and women. It's a waste to lose your life! Let's go quickly.
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The leaders heard what was right and dispersed, telling the bandits to prepare for "flooding". There was a chaos in the village. The bandits were unwilling to leave their money and stuffed their bodies with large ingots of silver, foreign money and jewelry. Everyone was stuffed.
The gangsters knew something was wrong, but the group of bandits who were already in chaos ignored his orders. The gangsters had no choice but to take seven or eight of their cronies and "run the show" on their own.
"Light a fire! Burn the stronghold!" Dang Namen ordered.
"Boss!" Even though they knew that these things were definitely not theirs, they still couldn't bring themselves to burn down the lair that had been there for many years.
"Don't be reluctant to part with it!" Dang Namen spat fiercely, "If you don't burn it, you will be advantageous to these thieves. If you burn it all, everyone will be wiped out!"
In fact, the party members still have a calculation in mind. Once the fire breaks out, the Australians who come for wealth and food will rush to put out the fire and will not bother to chase them, and everyone will easily escape.
"Fire! Fire!" someone shouted at the command post.
"The enemy is starting to run away." He Ming said, raising his telescope.
In an instant, I saw the village gate open wide, and through the telescope, I saw bandits carrying large and small bags, armed with knives, axes, guns and spears, dividing into groups and fleeing in all directions.
He Ming paid attention to their direction and made sure that there was no missed path on his side.
After a while, gunfire rang out in the distance, and puffs of white smoke rose among the green mountains and green waters, which was quite beautiful.
"It started on the mountain pass on the left!"
He Ming adjusted the focus of the telescope to see the battle situation, but could not see anything clearly. The large amount of smoke when the rifle was fired obscured the battlefield.
He frowned and turned the camera to another mountain road where the bandits had broken through. The terrain here was slightly more open, and the smoke would soon be carried away by the wind. Only forty or fifty bandits were seen, wearing bulging clothes and carrying packages on their backs.
They were rushing towards the slopes on both sides of the mountain pass. White smoke was sprayed from time to time from the positions above. The bandits who were shot rolled down the hillside. Some were injured and fell to the ground, struggling desperately on the ground.
"Strange, what kind of armor are they wearing?" He Ming felt strange. He had never heard of bandits wearing armor.
In the dying struggle of a beaten man, several white coins rolled down from his torn clothes.
It turned out that all the bulging bags were filled with belongings. Everyone suddenly realized. Some people said: "It's really a waste of money. It's hard to escape with all these burdens. If you don't bring them, you might still be able to escape."
"Not necessarily -" someone just retorted and heard an explosion in the distance. A white smoke rose from the mountain pass, gravel and soil flew everywhere, and someone could faintly hear screaming. This was a claymore mine being fired.
It exploded.
"It exploded! It exploded!" Following the excited voices of the staff behind him,
Directional mines were detonated one after another, and nothing could be seen in the telescope. He Ming put down the telescope and asked: "Is there any new movement in the village?"
"Not yet. The fire was very big. People probably ran out."
"Command the first platoon to move towards the gate of the cottage. Wait for an opportunity to occupy the cottage. Don't rush to put out the fire." He Ming ordered, "Give them the artillery." The top priority is to annihilate all the bandits. It doesn't matter if the property in the cottage is there or not.
, it has no serious impact on the overall situation.
The bandits who were preparing to "flow water" were driven back from various intersections. They never dreamed that the enemy would actually set up ambushes in these places, waiting for them to rush in. Several groups of bandits who attempted to "flow water" were beaten at the intersections.
Their heads were badly bruised and most of them were dead or injured. Many people ran back again.
The party's brain is very quick, and knowing that hesitation now is a dead end, he quickly greets everyone:
"Don't be messy, throw away all the money you have, life and money, let's all stand out from Dataipo!"
Under his repeated shouting, more than a hundred people gathered around him. They were all in panic all day long, staring at the door of the party, asking him to come up with an idea quickly.