Chapter 1235
Scouting the enemy
Chapter 1235 Scouting the enemy
Performing a high-risk mission such as sneaking into the enemy's rear for reconnaissance, the possibility of directly confronting the enemy is not small. Naturally, Roger will not hesitate to distribute the best equipment to his subordinates. This is a life-saving thing in critical times.With these dozen or so bursting rifles in hand, even in a relatively passive situation, you can use multiple layers of firepower to cover and retreat in batches to leave the battlefield.The firepower output level of this team is probably equivalent to more than five times that of the Haihan Army. As for the opponents with more primitive weapons, the gap in firepower is even greater.
As for Roger's own main weapon, he still uses the HK416 automatic rifle he brought over during the time travel, plus a MK23 pistol.However, in recent years, due to the dwindling stock of ammunition and the relatively limited level of bullet reloading technology, the use of reloaded bullets has caused greater wear and tear on the barrel of the gun. Roger has rarely used them for daily shooting training.Usually, Roger, like the officers under him, used the new [-]-type burst rifle for training, and only when performing combat missions would he take his housekeeper out of the warehouse and use it.
After Roger and the Xingdao base were powered on, he asked Marcus to put away the radio, and he got up to help his men set up the tent together.Although there were 11 people in this operation, in order to reduce the luggage as much as possible, only four double tents were brought over, and the remaining three were just in charge of night duty.Although the tent cloth itself is a camouflage canvas with army green as the background color, which has a certain visual concealment effect, Roger and others carefully cut down some shrubs from nearby, and arranged a second layer of cover outside the tent.In this way, as long as the distance is a little farther, it is difficult to find that there are still a few tents on the mound.
Roger didn't know if there would be Johor patrols around here, so these concealment methods must be completed before dawn. A safe logistics base is of great significance to the operations in the next few days, and Roger also spared no effort to get Make this first session as seamless as possible, and the next few days will be less stressful.
After completing these basic tasks, Roger checked the time. There were still about three hours before dawn, so he immediately arranged for the on-duty personnel before dawn, and then asked the rest of the people to hurry up and rest.
Roger got into the tent and lay down, closing his eyes and forcing himself to sleep.Although it was very difficult to fall asleep in this environment, it was not the first time that Roger was on the battlefield, so he quickly adjusted his mind and fell into a deep sleep.On the contrary, it was the first time for several of his subordinates to carry out such a combat mission, and they were inevitably nervous, so they did not sleep as comfortably as he did.
Only Marcus has a big heart, but no one will worry that he won't be able to sleep. On the contrary, Roger is afraid that this guy's snoring is too loud to expose the target, so he sent him to the night watch.Marcus didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he walked away with the rifle in his arms.
Perhaps it was due to the fatigue on the road today. When Roger woke up again, he was awakened from his sleep by Marcus. It turned out that it was getting dark outside and it was time to start action.
Roger turned over and got out of the tent. After confirming that it was not raining, he signaled everyone to hurry up and eat some dry food, and then checked his equipment to prepare for departure.The weather in this area is not stable recently, and there will be sudden wind and rain at any time. It is rare that the weather is fine. Roger also hopes to seize this opportunity to take action.
Because he was worried that lighting an open fire in the wild would reveal his whereabouts, Roger also specially prepared dry food for field battles during these few days of operations. Although the taste is not that good, but in just a few days, it is not a big problem to persist, let alone at night Back here, you can also eat self-heating military rations that are not so easy to carry, and make up for the lack of nutrition and taste a little.After everyone checked their equipment, Roger gave the order to set off.At the same time, the three guards who were on duty last night were left here.Although I didn't sleep all night last night, but the visibility is good during the day, it only needs two people to be on duty at the same time, and the three of them can take turns to rest for a few hours, and it's not a big problem to catch up on sleepiness and refresh at night.
According to the confession given by the previous captives, it can be speculated that the assembly point of the Johor Army here should be located on the plain a few miles to the east, which became the key inspection target of Roger's trip.However, at this time, it has been two or three days since Haihan caught the Johor spies. It is unclear whether there is any change in the deployment of the Johor Army, so Roger is still very careful to follow the standard operating plan for military reconnaissance. Made arrangements.
Roger divided the eight people including himself into two teams, with a distance of about 30 meters in the middle, and marched eastward side by side.This is a safe distance between the two teams to ensure that they can clearly observe each other's situation in the forest, and at the same time, the field of vision is wider.If you encounter an enemy, you can immediately deploy a larger firepower output area, and when you need to retreat, the two teams can also output firepower in batches to cover your companions. This can be regarded as a tactical routine for small teams to fight in the field.
In addition, Roger asked everyone to hide their whereabouts as much as possible, and not to take the initiative to contact the outside world. Even if they find Johor citizens or soldiers who are alone, they should not do it easily with the mentality of capturing prisoners—even if they want to capture them alive, it will be too late. We have to wait until we return to Xingdao.Roger didn't want the Johor Army or the British to be aware of his reconnaissance operations. From a certain perspective, he hoped that after the reconnaissance of the enemy's situation, the opponents could continue to implement their established plans and treat Starport as nothing. The target of defense, and the Haihan Army can wait for them to come to your door.
Of course, Roger doesn't really think that his opponent is so vulnerable. Perhaps Haihan can barely achieve such an effect due to the temporary cover-up of combat intelligence information, but the opponent must not be aware of Haihan's vigilance at all. , that may be more difficult to accomplish than sneaking behind enemy lines for reconnaissance.As long as the team of Johor spies captured by Haihan did not return to the north of the strait after the agreed time, the Johor army would definitely notice that something went wrong in this link.And who can guarantee that the spies who sneaked into Xingdao are the only ones caught?Roger knew that crossing the sea at night to find them, if the opponent wanted to cross the strait for reconnaissance, he would not fail to think of such a simple method.
Roger and his party walked cautiously through the forest. All their faces were covered with green and black oil paint, and they were covered in head-to-toe camouflage clothing to completely conceal their bodies.The body of the sniper's rifle was covered with various colored cloth strips, which completely lost its original outline. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't tell that it was a long rifle.This group of people was marching in the forest, even if they were seen once or twice by accident, it would probably be considered an illusion caused by vertigo.
As Roger marched, he did not forget to ask his subordinates to make marks along the way that only he himself would be aware of, so as not to take time to identify the direction when he returned.It took about an hour and a half for the reconnaissance team to finally reach the edge of the dense forest. Looking out through the gaps in the trees, they could already see traces of farmland cultivation on the plain in the distance. There should be people living nearby. Inhabited villages or towns exist.
Although there were no signs of human activity within the range of vision, Roger still cautiously ordered his men not to go out of the forest boundary for the time being. Their camouflage was out of the forest, and the concealment effect was not so ideal.It is safer to stay in the woods until the target is located.
Roger took out his binoculars and began to check the situation in the distance on the plain.What he held in his hand was not the copper telescope produced in Sanya, but a high-end telescope brought over from another time and space when he traveled back then. He could clearly observe the situation 3000 meters away.
"Keep going east!" Roger spent a few minutes checking the surrounding environment, but in the end he didn't get any useful information, and finally decided to continue walking east along the edge of the forest for a while.
About half an hour later, the scene presented in front of Roger had already proved the correctness of his last decision. A village appeared on the plain outside the forest, and outside the village was a stretch of tents, big and small. There are hundreds of them.As for the owners of these tents, they have already appeared in the field of vision of the telescope in Roger's hand.
"It's the Johor Army." Roger announced his observations softly: "We have found the right target!"
Through the binoculars, Roger saw Johor soldiers marching in formation holding weapons, as well as military flags planted everywhere in the camp.The current discovery has proved that the confession of the captives is basically true. The Johor Army has indeed assembled thousands of troops near the strait. Although the British people mentioned by the captives have not been found yet, Roger believes that they should be in the Johor Army. Near the station, maybe in a secluded camp on the opposite side lived the British who feared the world would not be chaotic.
The Johor army's garrison is only about one mile away from the closest dense forest where Roger and the others are hiding. This distance is relatively safe, and it is indeed very suitable for performing surveillance tasks.If it weren't for the fact that their team was too small in strength, they would definitely have a good harvest if they rushed out from this angle to attack the Johor Army head-on.
"It would be great if there was artillery support and air strike power!" The current situation made Roger couldn't help recalling the war in the world before he traveled. Covered by heavy firepower, it can be liquidated in an instant, and there will be no chance of escape.
Of course, it is impossible to have fire support from the rear right now, and Roger can only be obsessed with it, and then seize the time to check the location on the map he prepared, and mark this Johor army station.
In order to get a better viewing angle, Roger also ordered one of his men to go up the tree with light clothes, and use a telescope to count the approximate number of Johor Army tents at a high place, and use this to infer the strength of the garrison here.
This is undoubtedly a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, but at present, this is the only way to measure the strength of the opponent without contacting it at all, and by the way, it can also find the British who have not yet been discovered.
Although Roger believed that the British' actions in Johor were likely to be low-key and secretive out of concerns about neighboring countries including Haihan, but he still told his men to pay attention to check whether there were red, white and blue troops in the opponent's camp. The tricolor flag, probably the most striking British symbol he could think of right now.
When it comes to the origin of the British flag, we have to mention King James I who ascended the throne in 1603. He also has another identity, that is, King James VI of Scotland.Although he is the king of the two countries, this man did not make any achievements in history during his tenure. If he insists on finding some historical achievements for future generations to brag about, then perhaps there are two things worth remembering .
One is that James ordered the compilation of the English version of the Bible, and English can later be called one of the most common languages in the world, which is also an important reason.The second is the national flag used by the United Kingdom in later generations, the Union Jack or the Union Flag, which also started from him.
Prior to this, England had been using the St. George's flag with a red cross on a white background as its national flag since 1200, while Scotland set the St. Andrew flag with a white X-shaped cross flag on a blue background as its national flag a little later.After James I ascended the throne in England to unify the two countries, he overlapped the patterns of the two flags to serve as the national flag of Great Britain. After Ireland and Great Britain formed the United Kingdom in 1801, the red X-shaped cross flag St. Patrick's flag representing Ireland was added to this flag, and finally the tricolor flag that later symbolized the United Kingdom was formed.
Although the flag of St. Patrick, which symbolizes Ireland, has not yet been added, the British flag already has the basic appearance of the three-color Union Jack flag, which can be said to be very recognizable.And this flag has been a nautical flag since its birth, used by both military and civilians. Even an unofficial civilian armed trade organization like the East India Company will also use the Mi Ziqi as a symbol of its camp.If there are British people here, then there should be a flag representing the British royal family.
However, it took much more time to count the tents than to find the conspicuous flags. The scouts who climbed up the trees to observe did not slip down until more than an hour later and reported their findings to Roger.
According to his calculations, there are more than 400 tents within sight. However, due to the strength of the Johor Army, the tent system is not uniform. It is difficult to generalize how many people live in large and small tents. Can calculate an approximate number, no less than 2000 people.It is also possible to say that 3000 people were squeezed out.But he didn't see a trace of the three-color rice flag that should have been eye-catching.
Roger thought about it for a while, and he already had a calculation in his heart. Either the British was so low-key that he didn't even hang up the flag, or he was not stationed here.Roger thinks that the possibility of the former is not high. Although the British are making small moves in Johor secretly, their purpose is to occupy a foothold in the Strait of Malacca to demonstrate the existence of their national interests. It would be too embarrassing not to even show the banner.
(End of this chapter)
Performing a high-risk mission such as sneaking into the enemy's rear for reconnaissance, the possibility of directly confronting the enemy is not small. Naturally, Roger will not hesitate to distribute the best equipment to his subordinates. This is a life-saving thing in critical times.With these dozen or so bursting rifles in hand, even in a relatively passive situation, you can use multiple layers of firepower to cover and retreat in batches to leave the battlefield.The firepower output level of this team is probably equivalent to more than five times that of the Haihan Army. As for the opponents with more primitive weapons, the gap in firepower is even greater.
As for Roger's own main weapon, he still uses the HK416 automatic rifle he brought over during the time travel, plus a MK23 pistol.However, in recent years, due to the dwindling stock of ammunition and the relatively limited level of bullet reloading technology, the use of reloaded bullets has caused greater wear and tear on the barrel of the gun. Roger has rarely used them for daily shooting training.Usually, Roger, like the officers under him, used the new [-]-type burst rifle for training, and only when performing combat missions would he take his housekeeper out of the warehouse and use it.
After Roger and the Xingdao base were powered on, he asked Marcus to put away the radio, and he got up to help his men set up the tent together.Although there were 11 people in this operation, in order to reduce the luggage as much as possible, only four double tents were brought over, and the remaining three were just in charge of night duty.Although the tent cloth itself is a camouflage canvas with army green as the background color, which has a certain visual concealment effect, Roger and others carefully cut down some shrubs from nearby, and arranged a second layer of cover outside the tent.In this way, as long as the distance is a little farther, it is difficult to find that there are still a few tents on the mound.
Roger didn't know if there would be Johor patrols around here, so these concealment methods must be completed before dawn. A safe logistics base is of great significance to the operations in the next few days, and Roger also spared no effort to get Make this first session as seamless as possible, and the next few days will be less stressful.
After completing these basic tasks, Roger checked the time. There were still about three hours before dawn, so he immediately arranged for the on-duty personnel before dawn, and then asked the rest of the people to hurry up and rest.
Roger got into the tent and lay down, closing his eyes and forcing himself to sleep.Although it was very difficult to fall asleep in this environment, it was not the first time that Roger was on the battlefield, so he quickly adjusted his mind and fell into a deep sleep.On the contrary, it was the first time for several of his subordinates to carry out such a combat mission, and they were inevitably nervous, so they did not sleep as comfortably as he did.
Only Marcus has a big heart, but no one will worry that he won't be able to sleep. On the contrary, Roger is afraid that this guy's snoring is too loud to expose the target, so he sent him to the night watch.Marcus didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he walked away with the rifle in his arms.
Perhaps it was due to the fatigue on the road today. When Roger woke up again, he was awakened from his sleep by Marcus. It turned out that it was getting dark outside and it was time to start action.
Roger turned over and got out of the tent. After confirming that it was not raining, he signaled everyone to hurry up and eat some dry food, and then checked his equipment to prepare for departure.The weather in this area is not stable recently, and there will be sudden wind and rain at any time. It is rare that the weather is fine. Roger also hopes to seize this opportunity to take action.
Because he was worried that lighting an open fire in the wild would reveal his whereabouts, Roger also specially prepared dry food for field battles during these few days of operations. Although the taste is not that good, but in just a few days, it is not a big problem to persist, let alone at night Back here, you can also eat self-heating military rations that are not so easy to carry, and make up for the lack of nutrition and taste a little.After everyone checked their equipment, Roger gave the order to set off.At the same time, the three guards who were on duty last night were left here.Although I didn't sleep all night last night, but the visibility is good during the day, it only needs two people to be on duty at the same time, and the three of them can take turns to rest for a few hours, and it's not a big problem to catch up on sleepiness and refresh at night.
According to the confession given by the previous captives, it can be speculated that the assembly point of the Johor Army here should be located on the plain a few miles to the east, which became the key inspection target of Roger's trip.However, at this time, it has been two or three days since Haihan caught the Johor spies. It is unclear whether there is any change in the deployment of the Johor Army, so Roger is still very careful to follow the standard operating plan for military reconnaissance. Made arrangements.
Roger divided the eight people including himself into two teams, with a distance of about 30 meters in the middle, and marched eastward side by side.This is a safe distance between the two teams to ensure that they can clearly observe each other's situation in the forest, and at the same time, the field of vision is wider.If you encounter an enemy, you can immediately deploy a larger firepower output area, and when you need to retreat, the two teams can also output firepower in batches to cover your companions. This can be regarded as a tactical routine for small teams to fight in the field.
In addition, Roger asked everyone to hide their whereabouts as much as possible, and not to take the initiative to contact the outside world. Even if they find Johor citizens or soldiers who are alone, they should not do it easily with the mentality of capturing prisoners—even if they want to capture them alive, it will be too late. We have to wait until we return to Xingdao.Roger didn't want the Johor Army or the British to be aware of his reconnaissance operations. From a certain perspective, he hoped that after the reconnaissance of the enemy's situation, the opponents could continue to implement their established plans and treat Starport as nothing. The target of defense, and the Haihan Army can wait for them to come to your door.
Of course, Roger doesn't really think that his opponent is so vulnerable. Perhaps Haihan can barely achieve such an effect due to the temporary cover-up of combat intelligence information, but the opponent must not be aware of Haihan's vigilance at all. , that may be more difficult to accomplish than sneaking behind enemy lines for reconnaissance.As long as the team of Johor spies captured by Haihan did not return to the north of the strait after the agreed time, the Johor army would definitely notice that something went wrong in this link.And who can guarantee that the spies who sneaked into Xingdao are the only ones caught?Roger knew that crossing the sea at night to find them, if the opponent wanted to cross the strait for reconnaissance, he would not fail to think of such a simple method.
Roger and his party walked cautiously through the forest. All their faces were covered with green and black oil paint, and they were covered in head-to-toe camouflage clothing to completely conceal their bodies.The body of the sniper's rifle was covered with various colored cloth strips, which completely lost its original outline. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't tell that it was a long rifle.This group of people was marching in the forest, even if they were seen once or twice by accident, it would probably be considered an illusion caused by vertigo.
As Roger marched, he did not forget to ask his subordinates to make marks along the way that only he himself would be aware of, so as not to take time to identify the direction when he returned.It took about an hour and a half for the reconnaissance team to finally reach the edge of the dense forest. Looking out through the gaps in the trees, they could already see traces of farmland cultivation on the plain in the distance. There should be people living nearby. Inhabited villages or towns exist.
Although there were no signs of human activity within the range of vision, Roger still cautiously ordered his men not to go out of the forest boundary for the time being. Their camouflage was out of the forest, and the concealment effect was not so ideal.It is safer to stay in the woods until the target is located.
Roger took out his binoculars and began to check the situation in the distance on the plain.What he held in his hand was not the copper telescope produced in Sanya, but a high-end telescope brought over from another time and space when he traveled back then. He could clearly observe the situation 3000 meters away.
"Keep going east!" Roger spent a few minutes checking the surrounding environment, but in the end he didn't get any useful information, and finally decided to continue walking east along the edge of the forest for a while.
About half an hour later, the scene presented in front of Roger had already proved the correctness of his last decision. A village appeared on the plain outside the forest, and outside the village was a stretch of tents, big and small. There are hundreds of them.As for the owners of these tents, they have already appeared in the field of vision of the telescope in Roger's hand.
"It's the Johor Army." Roger announced his observations softly: "We have found the right target!"
Through the binoculars, Roger saw Johor soldiers marching in formation holding weapons, as well as military flags planted everywhere in the camp.The current discovery has proved that the confession of the captives is basically true. The Johor Army has indeed assembled thousands of troops near the strait. Although the British people mentioned by the captives have not been found yet, Roger believes that they should be in the Johor Army. Near the station, maybe in a secluded camp on the opposite side lived the British who feared the world would not be chaotic.
The Johor army's garrison is only about one mile away from the closest dense forest where Roger and the others are hiding. This distance is relatively safe, and it is indeed very suitable for performing surveillance tasks.If it weren't for the fact that their team was too small in strength, they would definitely have a good harvest if they rushed out from this angle to attack the Johor Army head-on.
"It would be great if there was artillery support and air strike power!" The current situation made Roger couldn't help recalling the war in the world before he traveled. Covered by heavy firepower, it can be liquidated in an instant, and there will be no chance of escape.
Of course, it is impossible to have fire support from the rear right now, and Roger can only be obsessed with it, and then seize the time to check the location on the map he prepared, and mark this Johor army station.
In order to get a better viewing angle, Roger also ordered one of his men to go up the tree with light clothes, and use a telescope to count the approximate number of Johor Army tents at a high place, and use this to infer the strength of the garrison here.
This is undoubtedly a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, but at present, this is the only way to measure the strength of the opponent without contacting it at all, and by the way, it can also find the British who have not yet been discovered.
Although Roger believed that the British' actions in Johor were likely to be low-key and secretive out of concerns about neighboring countries including Haihan, but he still told his men to pay attention to check whether there were red, white and blue troops in the opponent's camp. The tricolor flag, probably the most striking British symbol he could think of right now.
When it comes to the origin of the British flag, we have to mention King James I who ascended the throne in 1603. He also has another identity, that is, King James VI of Scotland.Although he is the king of the two countries, this man did not make any achievements in history during his tenure. If he insists on finding some historical achievements for future generations to brag about, then perhaps there are two things worth remembering .
One is that James ordered the compilation of the English version of the Bible, and English can later be called one of the most common languages in the world, which is also an important reason.The second is the national flag used by the United Kingdom in later generations, the Union Jack or the Union Flag, which also started from him.
Prior to this, England had been using the St. George's flag with a red cross on a white background as its national flag since 1200, while Scotland set the St. Andrew flag with a white X-shaped cross flag on a blue background as its national flag a little later.After James I ascended the throne in England to unify the two countries, he overlapped the patterns of the two flags to serve as the national flag of Great Britain. After Ireland and Great Britain formed the United Kingdom in 1801, the red X-shaped cross flag St. Patrick's flag representing Ireland was added to this flag, and finally the tricolor flag that later symbolized the United Kingdom was formed.
Although the flag of St. Patrick, which symbolizes Ireland, has not yet been added, the British flag already has the basic appearance of the three-color Union Jack flag, which can be said to be very recognizable.And this flag has been a nautical flag since its birth, used by both military and civilians. Even an unofficial civilian armed trade organization like the East India Company will also use the Mi Ziqi as a symbol of its camp.If there are British people here, then there should be a flag representing the British royal family.
However, it took much more time to count the tents than to find the conspicuous flags. The scouts who climbed up the trees to observe did not slip down until more than an hour later and reported their findings to Roger.
According to his calculations, there are more than 400 tents within sight. However, due to the strength of the Johor Army, the tent system is not uniform. It is difficult to generalize how many people live in large and small tents. Can calculate an approximate number, no less than 2000 people.It is also possible to say that 3000 people were squeezed out.But he didn't see a trace of the three-color rice flag that should have been eye-catching.
Roger thought about it for a while, and he already had a calculation in his heart. Either the British was so low-key that he didn't even hang up the flag, or he was not stationed here.Roger thinks that the possibility of the former is not high. Although the British are making small moves in Johor secretly, their purpose is to occupy a foothold in the Strait of Malacca to demonstrate the existence of their national interests. It would be too embarrassing not to even show the banner.
(End of this chapter)