Chapter 1412
Going deep into enemy-occupied areas
Chapter 1412 Going deep into enemy-occupied areas
Morgan has been staying in Sanya for the past few years, and his work mainly focuses on training medical staff.Although he is also responsible for the selection and training of snipers, but limited to the environment in Sanya, he rarely has the opportunity to guide students under battlefield conditions.Even for himself, he gradually lost the feeling of fighting because he had been out of the army and the combat environment for too long.
Fortunately, Morgan was alone and had no family burden. After handing over the affairs of the medical department to Johnson, he got out and concentrated on leading the army to fight.While leading the students to practice techniques and tactics, he himself is in the process of constant recovery.
The M200 sniper rifle known as the "Grim Reaper" that he brought over during time travel, because the stock of ammunition is getting less and less, he has rarely used it anymore, and basically kept it as a collection at home.And the main weapon Morgan uses now is the same as other snipers, a self-made sniper rifle produced in this time and space.Of course, due to his special status, this rifle of his is also a highly customized and unique version, and there are still many differences from the mass-produced model. A mount was made, and the size of the rifle was tailored to his size and personal usage habits.
Morgan spent nearly an hour inspecting the terrain of this small hill, selected several locations with a good view as alternative firepower points, and drew up two retreat routes.
The lunch of the sniper team is very simple, cold water is dry food, everyone is the same, even Morgan is no exception.Although the logistics department of the Ministry of Defense also prepared self-heating rations for front-line field troops, Morgan did not want to carry too much extra load on this mission, so he did not choose self-heating rations with heating packs.But fortunately, this field mission will not last for too long, and I can persist in eating dry food for a few days.
After eating and resting for a while, everyone assembled the team and set off again.Before walking out of the forest, Morgan used a telescope to carefully confirm that there was no sign of the Hou Jin army within the visible range of several miles, and then ordered to continue to advance northeastward.
The rest of the journey is an area that the Haihan Army has never explored before. Even last year, the Marine Corps pretended to attack the Jinzhou Isthmus and confronted the Houjin Army for several days, but they did not carry out activities in this area.The military only relied on the military map of Ming Dynasty collected with great difficulty, as well as the descriptions of the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong, together with the satellite map in the Sanya database, it roughly depicted the topographic map here, but the satellite map that the military referenced was hundreds of years later The terrain changes during this period must have existed, so Morgan can only use them as a reference, and the specific situation still has to be manually explored bit by bit to grasp.
And here is getting closer and closer to the Jinzhou base camp of the Houjin army, and the possibility of the appearance of the Houjin patrol team naturally increases accordingly.If Morgan wants to lead the sniper team in this area without bloodshed, the risk will also increase a lot.The team will stop every few hundred meters and look around with binoculars to ensure that possible enemy troops can be found in the first place and take concealment measures in advance.
Half an hour after setting off, Morgan finally found the first post-gold patrol team encountered today in the telescope.Judging from the direction of travel, they were heading towards the hill where the sniper team stopped to rest in the morning.However, before Morgan left, he ordered his soldiers to remove all traces very carefully, so as not to let the post-jin people who patrolled there discover his whereabouts.
The sniper team did not attempt to launch a surprise attack on this patrol, but avoided the opponent's route in advance and hid in the snowy field.They were dressed in gray and white camouflage suits. As long as they lowered their bodies and remained still, it would be difficult to detect their existence from a little distance away.
Because of the response in advance, this post-gold patrol team didn't notice the existence of the sniper team at all, and went straight to the south.Morgan confirmed from the binoculars that the patrol team consisted of 12 people in three rides and nine steps, which was similar in number to his team.However, Morgan did not intend to take action against this patrol team. It would not be a problem to kill these post-gold soldiers, but he could not confirm whether there were other post-gold patrols nearby. Once they fired shots, it might cause even greater trouble.Moreover, there are not many shelters on this plain, and it is quite troublesome to quickly dispose of more than a dozen corpses.
After the back gold patrol slowly disappeared in the snow, Morgan signaled the sniper team to emerge from their hiding places, and then continued to advance north.Morgan knew that from now on, the sniper team had officially entered the enemy-occupied area, and that they might encounter the Houjin army more frequently in the future, so he was also very cautious at the moment.
Although Haihan had fought several times with the Hou Jin army on land, he hadn't sorted out a traceable rule for the enemy's patrol arrangements.According to the confession of the captives, the arrangement of the post-Golden army basically depends on the commander, and there is no definite charter.Some military officers attach great importance to peripheral defense, so they will arrange more frequent patrols, and even send a small team to a position twenty or thirty miles away from the camp to perform security defense; while some careless officers may only deploy some security around the camp. Whistle, don't spend too much time on it.
Morgan didn't find it strange. After all, in his eyes, the Hou Jin Army was still a relatively primitive form of armed forces. In terms of the integrity of the army system and command system, it was far inferior to that of Daming.However, the Hou Jin Army also has its own unique strengths, that is, its extremely high field mobility.Relying on this feature, the Hou Jin army defeated Daming and could only defend the city, not daring to engage in large-scale field battles with it, and was in a passive position for a long time.In terms of land maneuverability, even the Haihan Army, which has been invincible in the Far East, dare not say that it can beat the opponent of the Houjin Army.
Haihan's own cavalry troops are small and expensive, and it is impossible to pull them out to fight a war of attrition with Houjin. Therefore, in large-scale field battles, Haihan can't expect his own cavalry troops to play a big role. It's just to contain the opponent.On the contrary, in the small-scale confrontation of reconnaissance cavalry, the Haihan cavalry had obvious equipment advantages, which also made Houjin suffer a lot in the confrontation before winter.
According to the recent observations of the Special Operations Battalion, Hou Jin rarely sends a whole team of cavalry to take on patrol and reconnaissance missions. They usually use a combination of infantry and cavalry. Morgan believes that this may be the cavalry stationed in Jinzhou in Lushun and Jinzhou Isthmus. The consequences of heavy losses in the battle.The Houjin patrol team we met just now also confirmed the accuracy of the special warfare battalion's intelligence, which is good news for the sniper team's actions.
After walking cautiously in the snow field for about three hours, Morgan confirmed the second destination of the trip through the telescope.There is also a hilly area in front of it, and the area is larger than the place where we stayed before.This hill is located on the west coast of the peninsula, and the uplifted terrain extends to the seaside and submerges into the Bohai Sea.And this place is only three or four miles away from the narrowest section of the Jinzhou Isthmus. It can be said that it has entered the preset battlefield area of Haihan's spring offensive, and it is also the focus area of Morgan's inspection trip.
If this place is used well, it can not only be used as a condescending firepower point for snipers, but also can be turned into a forward position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, allowing Haihan's troops to complete the assembly here.
Of course, as one of the few commanding heights nearby, Morgan believes that the Houjin Army will definitely realize the strategic value of this place, and it may have established an armed stronghold here earlier.So he was not in a hurry to get close to this hill, but directed the sniper team to stop at a distance of one mile, each of them found a bunker to hide, and first used the telescope to conduct a detailed observation of the target area from a long distance.
In this kind of snowy weather, to observe the situation in the mountains and forests from a distance of more than one mile, even with a sharp tool like a telescope, it is difficult to achieve the desired effect.So Morgan gave up after trying for a while. No matter how powerful he was, it was impossible for him to see the situation in the distance clearly through the swirling snowflakes.This place is no different from the previous place, and the possibility of Houjin stationing troops here is much greater. Morgan dare not act rashly, and can only wait patiently for the sky to darken before acting.
The group of people waited for a long time. Although they were wearing a lot of clothes, their hands and feet were numb from the cold because they had not moved for a long time.Fortunately, everyone carried warming things like ginger slices, chili peppers, and spirits on their bodies, and they would take a bite from time to time to make their bodies hot.In this way, they persisted until the sky darkened, and the sniper team cautiously touched the hill.Morgan turned on the night vision goggles, and after approaching, he confirmed that there were no enemies lurking in the night within the field of vision, and then he signaled the team to quickly enter the forest with birdsong.
Everyone formed a long snake formation in the forest to obtain the largest monitoring range, and then slowly moved forward.After climbing to a high place, Morgan could already see the enemy within his field of vision without putting on the night vision goggles again.
There are three fires burning in a mountain depression in the direction of the downhill, and there are more than ten tents nearby.There are several private houses not far away, all of which can be seen with lights shining through. It seems that this place actually looks like a stronghold established by Hou Jin, but it is far away and it is difficult to see how many people are in that place.
Morgan secretly rejoiced that after that, the Jin army obviously found a leeward place to camp, but they didn't set up a lookout post on the high hills, so they were so easily touched by their own family.If the opponent placed a few sentries at a high place, although Morgan's night vision goggles might not be able to be fooled, the sniper team would have to work a lot to get close to the sentries.
The other party obviously never thought that there would be Haihan soldiers coming to this place through the plain area of more than 20 miles, and they had no defense against the southward direction.Morgan judged the situation of the enemy and the enemy, and felt that it was impossible to deal with the enemy down the mountain without making a sound. As long as the whereabouts were exposed, it would scare the enemy, and the safety of the retreat route could not be guaranteed, so he suppressed the idea of doing it.
However, he is also a bold person with high skills. Although he discovered that the enemy's disaster relief troops were stationed nearby, he did not intend to evacuate the place immediately at night.Taking a great risk to come here this time, Morgan still hopes to find out the surrounding situation before leaving.After thinking for a while, he chose to lead the team to the seaside side of the hill.In the past, out of the consideration of not wanting to alarm Daming, Haihan launched raids on the Liaodong Peninsula from the sea in the Yellow Sea, and did not allow the fleet to sail into the Bohai Sea, so Morgan believed that relying on the coastline of the Bohai Sea might be a defensive blind spot for the Jin army.
Morgan's final foothold was only separated from the Houjin stronghold by a mountain ridge less than [-] meters high, and then a sentry was set up on the mountain ridge to monitor the movements of the Houjin stronghold.The others quickly set up a temporary camp in the forest under his leadership.
When the sniper team set off, they only brought a special marching tent, which consisted of two shrinkage poles, a large piece of waterproof canvas, a piece of oilcloth floor mat and several sections of rope. The ropes of the canvas are pulled to the nearby trees, and the stress points of the canvas are spread out, and then the canvas and the floor mat are fixed with ground nails.Although this triangular tent has a simple structure, it can accommodate more than ten people to lie in it after it is set up, and it is not easy to be crushed by the snow due to the scattered force. It is a field equipment specially developed by the logistics department for the battle in Liaodong. The first batch of testers.
In addition, each member of the team was equipped with a camping sleeping bag with a duck down liner. Without this thing, Morgan would not have dared to take the gang to camp overnight in the wild at minus ten or twenty degrees.It was the first time for the two soldiers from the Special Operations Battalion to enjoy this thing, and it was considered to be the light of the sniper team. After they fell asleep, they couldn't help but marvel at it, feeling that this thing was indeed much more convenient than a quilt.
"Shut up! Go to sleep immediately, and don't snore at night!" After Morgan ordered in a low voice, the tent immediately fell silent.Although I can't restrain myself from snoring, but with so many people crowded in a tent, anyone who hears it can try to stop the person from continuing to snore.
In order to prevent the sentinels on duty from being overwhelmed, Morgan set a guard changing time of two hours, so that everyone could take turns to rest for a few hours.He believed that the Hou Jin army on the other side of the mountain ridge would not be idle until midnight to patrol the mountain, so he quickly fell asleep with confidence.
Before dawn, the sniper team had already woken up and packed their bags quietly.No matter whether he would leave this place today or not, Morgan didn't want to leave the slightest trace here.
Everyone silently ate some dry food in the cold water in the kettle kept at body temperature without freezing, even if it was breakfast.Then Morgan led the team back to the mountain ridge to observe the enemy's movements down the mountain.
(End of this chapter)
Morgan has been staying in Sanya for the past few years, and his work mainly focuses on training medical staff.Although he is also responsible for the selection and training of snipers, but limited to the environment in Sanya, he rarely has the opportunity to guide students under battlefield conditions.Even for himself, he gradually lost the feeling of fighting because he had been out of the army and the combat environment for too long.
Fortunately, Morgan was alone and had no family burden. After handing over the affairs of the medical department to Johnson, he got out and concentrated on leading the army to fight.While leading the students to practice techniques and tactics, he himself is in the process of constant recovery.
The M200 sniper rifle known as the "Grim Reaper" that he brought over during time travel, because the stock of ammunition is getting less and less, he has rarely used it anymore, and basically kept it as a collection at home.And the main weapon Morgan uses now is the same as other snipers, a self-made sniper rifle produced in this time and space.Of course, due to his special status, this rifle of his is also a highly customized and unique version, and there are still many differences from the mass-produced model. A mount was made, and the size of the rifle was tailored to his size and personal usage habits.
Morgan spent nearly an hour inspecting the terrain of this small hill, selected several locations with a good view as alternative firepower points, and drew up two retreat routes.
The lunch of the sniper team is very simple, cold water is dry food, everyone is the same, even Morgan is no exception.Although the logistics department of the Ministry of Defense also prepared self-heating rations for front-line field troops, Morgan did not want to carry too much extra load on this mission, so he did not choose self-heating rations with heating packs.But fortunately, this field mission will not last for too long, and I can persist in eating dry food for a few days.
After eating and resting for a while, everyone assembled the team and set off again.Before walking out of the forest, Morgan used a telescope to carefully confirm that there was no sign of the Hou Jin army within the visible range of several miles, and then ordered to continue to advance northeastward.
The rest of the journey is an area that the Haihan Army has never explored before. Even last year, the Marine Corps pretended to attack the Jinzhou Isthmus and confronted the Houjin Army for several days, but they did not carry out activities in this area.The military only relied on the military map of Ming Dynasty collected with great difficulty, as well as the descriptions of the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong, together with the satellite map in the Sanya database, it roughly depicted the topographic map here, but the satellite map that the military referenced was hundreds of years later The terrain changes during this period must have existed, so Morgan can only use them as a reference, and the specific situation still has to be manually explored bit by bit to grasp.
And here is getting closer and closer to the Jinzhou base camp of the Houjin army, and the possibility of the appearance of the Houjin patrol team naturally increases accordingly.If Morgan wants to lead the sniper team in this area without bloodshed, the risk will also increase a lot.The team will stop every few hundred meters and look around with binoculars to ensure that possible enemy troops can be found in the first place and take concealment measures in advance.
Half an hour after setting off, Morgan finally found the first post-gold patrol team encountered today in the telescope.Judging from the direction of travel, they were heading towards the hill where the sniper team stopped to rest in the morning.However, before Morgan left, he ordered his soldiers to remove all traces very carefully, so as not to let the post-jin people who patrolled there discover his whereabouts.
The sniper team did not attempt to launch a surprise attack on this patrol, but avoided the opponent's route in advance and hid in the snowy field.They were dressed in gray and white camouflage suits. As long as they lowered their bodies and remained still, it would be difficult to detect their existence from a little distance away.
Because of the response in advance, this post-gold patrol team didn't notice the existence of the sniper team at all, and went straight to the south.Morgan confirmed from the binoculars that the patrol team consisted of 12 people in three rides and nine steps, which was similar in number to his team.However, Morgan did not intend to take action against this patrol team. It would not be a problem to kill these post-gold soldiers, but he could not confirm whether there were other post-gold patrols nearby. Once they fired shots, it might cause even greater trouble.Moreover, there are not many shelters on this plain, and it is quite troublesome to quickly dispose of more than a dozen corpses.
After the back gold patrol slowly disappeared in the snow, Morgan signaled the sniper team to emerge from their hiding places, and then continued to advance north.Morgan knew that from now on, the sniper team had officially entered the enemy-occupied area, and that they might encounter the Houjin army more frequently in the future, so he was also very cautious at the moment.
Although Haihan had fought several times with the Hou Jin army on land, he hadn't sorted out a traceable rule for the enemy's patrol arrangements.According to the confession of the captives, the arrangement of the post-Golden army basically depends on the commander, and there is no definite charter.Some military officers attach great importance to peripheral defense, so they will arrange more frequent patrols, and even send a small team to a position twenty or thirty miles away from the camp to perform security defense; while some careless officers may only deploy some security around the camp. Whistle, don't spend too much time on it.
Morgan didn't find it strange. After all, in his eyes, the Hou Jin Army was still a relatively primitive form of armed forces. In terms of the integrity of the army system and command system, it was far inferior to that of Daming.However, the Hou Jin Army also has its own unique strengths, that is, its extremely high field mobility.Relying on this feature, the Hou Jin army defeated Daming and could only defend the city, not daring to engage in large-scale field battles with it, and was in a passive position for a long time.In terms of land maneuverability, even the Haihan Army, which has been invincible in the Far East, dare not say that it can beat the opponent of the Houjin Army.
Haihan's own cavalry troops are small and expensive, and it is impossible to pull them out to fight a war of attrition with Houjin. Therefore, in large-scale field battles, Haihan can't expect his own cavalry troops to play a big role. It's just to contain the opponent.On the contrary, in the small-scale confrontation of reconnaissance cavalry, the Haihan cavalry had obvious equipment advantages, which also made Houjin suffer a lot in the confrontation before winter.
According to the recent observations of the Special Operations Battalion, Hou Jin rarely sends a whole team of cavalry to take on patrol and reconnaissance missions. They usually use a combination of infantry and cavalry. Morgan believes that this may be the cavalry stationed in Jinzhou in Lushun and Jinzhou Isthmus. The consequences of heavy losses in the battle.The Houjin patrol team we met just now also confirmed the accuracy of the special warfare battalion's intelligence, which is good news for the sniper team's actions.
After walking cautiously in the snow field for about three hours, Morgan confirmed the second destination of the trip through the telescope.There is also a hilly area in front of it, and the area is larger than the place where we stayed before.This hill is located on the west coast of the peninsula, and the uplifted terrain extends to the seaside and submerges into the Bohai Sea.And this place is only three or four miles away from the narrowest section of the Jinzhou Isthmus. It can be said that it has entered the preset battlefield area of Haihan's spring offensive, and it is also the focus area of Morgan's inspection trip.
If this place is used well, it can not only be used as a condescending firepower point for snipers, but also can be turned into a forward position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, allowing Haihan's troops to complete the assembly here.
Of course, as one of the few commanding heights nearby, Morgan believes that the Houjin Army will definitely realize the strategic value of this place, and it may have established an armed stronghold here earlier.So he was not in a hurry to get close to this hill, but directed the sniper team to stop at a distance of one mile, each of them found a bunker to hide, and first used the telescope to conduct a detailed observation of the target area from a long distance.
In this kind of snowy weather, to observe the situation in the mountains and forests from a distance of more than one mile, even with a sharp tool like a telescope, it is difficult to achieve the desired effect.So Morgan gave up after trying for a while. No matter how powerful he was, it was impossible for him to see the situation in the distance clearly through the swirling snowflakes.This place is no different from the previous place, and the possibility of Houjin stationing troops here is much greater. Morgan dare not act rashly, and can only wait patiently for the sky to darken before acting.
The group of people waited for a long time. Although they were wearing a lot of clothes, their hands and feet were numb from the cold because they had not moved for a long time.Fortunately, everyone carried warming things like ginger slices, chili peppers, and spirits on their bodies, and they would take a bite from time to time to make their bodies hot.In this way, they persisted until the sky darkened, and the sniper team cautiously touched the hill.Morgan turned on the night vision goggles, and after approaching, he confirmed that there were no enemies lurking in the night within the field of vision, and then he signaled the team to quickly enter the forest with birdsong.
Everyone formed a long snake formation in the forest to obtain the largest monitoring range, and then slowly moved forward.After climbing to a high place, Morgan could already see the enemy within his field of vision without putting on the night vision goggles again.
There are three fires burning in a mountain depression in the direction of the downhill, and there are more than ten tents nearby.There are several private houses not far away, all of which can be seen with lights shining through. It seems that this place actually looks like a stronghold established by Hou Jin, but it is far away and it is difficult to see how many people are in that place.
Morgan secretly rejoiced that after that, the Jin army obviously found a leeward place to camp, but they didn't set up a lookout post on the high hills, so they were so easily touched by their own family.If the opponent placed a few sentries at a high place, although Morgan's night vision goggles might not be able to be fooled, the sniper team would have to work a lot to get close to the sentries.
The other party obviously never thought that there would be Haihan soldiers coming to this place through the plain area of more than 20 miles, and they had no defense against the southward direction.Morgan judged the situation of the enemy and the enemy, and felt that it was impossible to deal with the enemy down the mountain without making a sound. As long as the whereabouts were exposed, it would scare the enemy, and the safety of the retreat route could not be guaranteed, so he suppressed the idea of doing it.
However, he is also a bold person with high skills. Although he discovered that the enemy's disaster relief troops were stationed nearby, he did not intend to evacuate the place immediately at night.Taking a great risk to come here this time, Morgan still hopes to find out the surrounding situation before leaving.After thinking for a while, he chose to lead the team to the seaside side of the hill.In the past, out of the consideration of not wanting to alarm Daming, Haihan launched raids on the Liaodong Peninsula from the sea in the Yellow Sea, and did not allow the fleet to sail into the Bohai Sea, so Morgan believed that relying on the coastline of the Bohai Sea might be a defensive blind spot for the Jin army.
Morgan's final foothold was only separated from the Houjin stronghold by a mountain ridge less than [-] meters high, and then a sentry was set up on the mountain ridge to monitor the movements of the Houjin stronghold.The others quickly set up a temporary camp in the forest under his leadership.
When the sniper team set off, they only brought a special marching tent, which consisted of two shrinkage poles, a large piece of waterproof canvas, a piece of oilcloth floor mat and several sections of rope. The ropes of the canvas are pulled to the nearby trees, and the stress points of the canvas are spread out, and then the canvas and the floor mat are fixed with ground nails.Although this triangular tent has a simple structure, it can accommodate more than ten people to lie in it after it is set up, and it is not easy to be crushed by the snow due to the scattered force. It is a field equipment specially developed by the logistics department for the battle in Liaodong. The first batch of testers.
In addition, each member of the team was equipped with a camping sleeping bag with a duck down liner. Without this thing, Morgan would not have dared to take the gang to camp overnight in the wild at minus ten or twenty degrees.It was the first time for the two soldiers from the Special Operations Battalion to enjoy this thing, and it was considered to be the light of the sniper team. After they fell asleep, they couldn't help but marvel at it, feeling that this thing was indeed much more convenient than a quilt.
"Shut up! Go to sleep immediately, and don't snore at night!" After Morgan ordered in a low voice, the tent immediately fell silent.Although I can't restrain myself from snoring, but with so many people crowded in a tent, anyone who hears it can try to stop the person from continuing to snore.
In order to prevent the sentinels on duty from being overwhelmed, Morgan set a guard changing time of two hours, so that everyone could take turns to rest for a few hours.He believed that the Hou Jin army on the other side of the mountain ridge would not be idle until midnight to patrol the mountain, so he quickly fell asleep with confidence.
Before dawn, the sniper team had already woken up and packed their bags quietly.No matter whether he would leave this place today or not, Morgan didn't want to leave the slightest trace here.
Everyone silently ate some dry food in the cold water in the kettle kept at body temperature without freezing, even if it was breakfast.Then Morgan led the team back to the mountain ridge to observe the enemy's movements down the mountain.
(End of this chapter)