"Lingao." Bei Wei murmured to himself, holding an infrared telescope made in Russia. The scene under the infrared telescope was a bit blurry, but the general outline could be seen clearly.
Bei Wei has traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland in the past. From the well-preserved Pingyao in Shanxi and Fenghuang in Hunan to the ancient city with only its wall foundations left, he has seen all kinds of ancient cities. But county towns like Lingao are still the first
I saw it once - oval, long from east to west, short from north to south. To put it figuratively, it looks like an olive.
The entire Lingao County faces south, backed by high mountains and facing the Wenlan River. The river bends from the south to the northeast, forming a bend. The river environment embraces the city pool, "because the river is a pond", there is no dedicated
moat.
Visual inspection shows that the height of the city wall is about 7 meters. The city perimeter is very small, and Beiwei estimates it is only about 1.5 kilometers. Although small, the fortification is not bad. Each city gate has towers, and there seems to be gun emplacements.
The walls are all covered with bricks and stones. The Ming Dynasty was very willing to spend manpower and material resources on urban fortification. Even small border counties like this were heavily fortified. Bei Wei remembered that he had visited the ruins of an ancient city in a big country in the universe: rocks + mud.
The so-called city walls that were piled up haphazardly are not as high as the walls of the elementary school where I went to school. The city gates are just like the tunnels under the train embankment. It is truly worthy of the people who traveled around the world to spread the fire of civilization to the four ancient civilizations and finally retired to the peninsula.
The largest country in the universe.
At this moment, from the infrared telescope, one could see the bonfires and lanterns on the city wall. Soldiers were walking back and forth on patrol. It seemed that the defense was very tight. However, even he, who had never studied the history of ancient wars, could tell that
There are big loopholes in the city gate's defense. The east and west gates are at opposite ends of the olive, completely protruding outwards, with no cover on either side. Attackers can concentrate on storming the top gate without worrying about the firepower of the two wings. As for the firepower on both wings.
Facing the south gate of Wenlan River, it is also the most prominent point in the middle waist of the entire 'olive'.
There are some vague buildings outside the east gate, but there are no lights and it is dead silent. There is also a long stone bridge with multiple arches on the Wenlan River outside the south gate. This was built by Lu Sheng, the county magistrate during the Yongle period, in the Yuan Dynasty.
It was rebuilt on the basis of the Taiping Bridge wooden bridge. The bridge has nine holes and is named Linjiang Bridge.
"It seems that the county already knows that we are coming." Li Jun whispered.
"Stop talking and be alert." Bei Wei adjusted the focus of the telescope.
At dusk, Ma Qianzhu approached Bei Wei and asked him to lead a capable reconnaissance team to advance inland along the Wenlan River and penetrate directly to the foot of Lingao County.
"Get under Lingao City as quickly as possible and monitor the movements of the county town." Ma Qianxu told him, "It is not your task to survey along the road."
After receiving the order, he immediately transferred three people from the military team who had just rested, and one person from the communications team. After selecting the necessary equipment and making some preparations, he set off after nightfall.
"Your mission is not to fight, but to monitor the other party's movements. Don't kill people unless necessary."
According to the nature of this mission, the reconnaissance team members all put on camouflage uniforms. In addition to the rifles, they also brought a Saiga-308 rifle with a scope, an infrared telescope and a 2-watt radio.
Cross-country travel at night may be difficult for ordinary people, but it is not difficult for soldiers. Not to mention that each of them is equipped with a pair of low-light night vision goggles. What is slightly more difficult is that they do not have a high-level map of this time and space in their hands.
It was difficult to judge his direction, so Bei Wei decided to walk along the river as much as possible - according to the geographical data of this time and space, Lingao County is 12 kilometers upstream along the river, and there are obvious landmarks like Bairen Beach on the way that can be used as a reference.
Coupled with the compass and map interpretation, you will not get lost without a guide.
If it is a normal road, even an ordinary person can walk 12 kilometers in 3 hours on foot. Although there are no roads at the moment, when the staff traveled, they discovered that there are basically no complex terrains on both sides of the Wenlan River, and it can take up to 4 hours.
Already.
In fact, they were faster than they imagined. Wearing night vision goggles, the team marched along the river without resting along the way. They already saw the lights of Lingao County in 3 hours.
A small hillside was chosen across the river. This is a forest of mixed trees. It is located between the south gate and the east gate of the county. It faces the city wall across the river and can clearly monitor the south gate and east gate. The reconnaissance team built a
After observing the position, powder was sprinkled to repel snakes and insects. The temperature was already very low at Lingao in September and the dew was heavy. The team members set up small sheds with raincloths and began to wait in shifts.
"Captain, the headquarters has called us and wants us to report the situation." Li Yunxing, the telegraph operator, reported.
"This is Bei Wei at the telegraph machine."
"This is Ma Qianzhu at the telegraph machine. How are you doing?"
"Very good. The reconnaissance team arrived in Lingao at 21:12 on September 1st of the lunar calendar." Bei Wei lowered his head and looked at his watch, "We are currently under observation."
"How is the current situation in Lingao?"
"We have entered a state of alert. There are about 20 people patrolling and standing guard on the south wall from west to east."
"Continue to monitor and contact us at any time if there is any situation. Over." Ma Qianzhu ended the call and looked up at the clock on the ship. The hour hand had pointed to 9:30 in the evening. More than ten hours had passed at t on the dth.
With a large amount of supplies and equipment, the beach base has begun to take shape. The current camp is enough to withstand attacks by hundreds of local armed forces. However, the reports coming from everywhere are not optimistic. Some basic building materials are in short supply, and it took many man-hours to build it.
Most of the facilities are temporary buildings. Many basic livelihood facilities are not in place.
There was zero contact with local people. Although the military team members on the cordon found a lot of traces of human activities, they had not encountered any local people yet. The lookout post on the beacon tower found that a small number of sailboats passed by the sea from time to time, but as
Not a single fishing boat appeared near Changgong Bay, the main fishing ground for Lingao fishermen. Apparently they were scared away by the beacon's alarm.
At the summary meeting on the first day, many executive committee members believed that the originally planned turtle flow strategy was too conservative. What happened on the d-day proved that being in Bobu Port was not conducive to the upgrading of the base. The current situation, according to Wang Luobin
It is an endless cycle: not enough building materials - cannot build production bases - no production bases - cannot produce building materials - not enough building materials. To break through this cycle, we must go out quickly and establish industries in places suitable for development.
base.
Judging from the news from the reconnaissance team, the locals are now panicked and are just keeping their doors closed and will not attack the traversers at all. This is a good opportunity to quickly expand the scope of control and upgrade the base.
The meeting decided to dispatch a second reconnaissance team at dawn tomorrow, with the task of surveying and mapping the terrain and surveying resources in nearby areas.
"At the same time, we will send out another line survey team to survey and design the Bopu-Bailintan Highway." Wen Desi's colored pencils drew a line on the transparent board of the map, "We are surveying, designing and constructing. In addition to
Maintain the necessary manpower and equipment to continue unloading all labor and machinery into this project. Try to open up the connection between the two places within three or four days, so that by D+5 we can start construction work in Bairentan
.
"Both survey teams require military teams to perform security tasks, right?" He Ming asked, "The military team must apply to recruit ten additional militiamen to enter active service."
Wen Desi frowned. Human resources are currently very tight. Once the road construction begins, it goes without saying that the labor force will be even more scarce. However, the military team is indeed stretched to the point where twenty-one people are responsible for land and sea security.
, lookout, and after a day of rest, four more were sent to conduct reconnaissance. The others are still at various towers and sentry posts - they can only take turns to take a nap.
"Okay, I can give it to you." Wen Desi made up his mind, "Each surveying and mapping team will send two guards." He glanced at He Ming, "Isn't this a big problem?"
He Ming nodded: "No problem. The labor force is currently tight in the organization. Military personnel also have to participate in labor when they are not on duty."
"It's very hard for you to be on guard all day."
"I have discussed with Bai Yu, Zhao De, and Chen Haiyang to adjust the military team's duty plan. Everyone responsible for security duties must work for 2 hours a day. I took the lead."
The sky gradually became brighter, and the early morning of D+1 fell on the first reconnaissance team. Everyone was wearing a camouflage cloak, and the dew made them all wet.
Through the telescope, one could see people on the top of the city taking down their lanterns and extinguishing them while yawning. The fires of the torches were all extinguished, and there were curls of green smoke in the morning light.
At night, I saw vague buildings outside the east gate. They turned out to be temples and other buildings. There were open areas around the city, with large expanses of wilderness mixed with some paddy fields, and several residential settlements scattered throughout.
Wei Aiwen slowly climbed to Li Jun's observation position and said, "Brother Li, let's do it."
"What do you want to do?"
"Go to the county seat."
"Just the five of us?" Li Jun glanced at the three people sleeping under the camouflage shed. This Xiao Wei is really a left-leaning adventurist.
"We have five semi-automatic vehicles. Are we still afraid of these natives? We rushed up and scared them all away with a burst of bullets."
"Then you go put on your raincoat first."
"Why?"
"If we dress like us, we will definitely be treated as monsters and splashed with blood and shit."
"..." Wei Aiwen knew this was impossible. His real idea was to shoot. After getting the SKS, he shamelessly got a Russian-made R14 scope and pestered the Beiwei gang.
He was practicing. He had fired "empty shots" dozens of times during the alert yesterday, and he was eager to find a chance to try his marksmanship today.
Bei Wei was awakened by their words and said: "Save it, the task given to us by the Executive Committee is reconnaissance, not fighting. Shooting rashly will expose our intentions. Besides, the purpose of this time is firstly reconnaissance and secondly training.
Training the team. Didn’t you just fall down tired as soon as you got here and sleep for most of the night before waking up."
"I worked half the night for you, you have to remember to pay me back next time." Li Jun said, "I am in my thirties, and working the night shift is harmful to my health..."