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Chapter 118 The Technique of Ranging

"Coo! Coo! Coo!" In the sparsely populated place by the big river, birds chirped, and the waves crashed against the shore.

A dense group of people stopped here, with blood on their bodies.Everyone is fully armed and panting.

These people are the two Japanese airborne special warfare squadrons, Kurokawa and Kato, which fought with 5000 people successively in Shangwangzhuang. Now the two sides have joined together, leaving only one squadron with more troops.

They didn't take the obvious road, and all retreated eastward in the wasteland far away from the village and town, relying on the direction of the sun and the compass, the wild road was difficult and it took a lot of energy.

At noon, the soldiers sent to investigate entered a town along the way and found that there were posters offering rewards for their whereabouts everywhere.It shows that the exchange of fire in Shangwangzhuang has spread around, and the Chinese army is checking their whereabouts everywhere.

Although the giant doesn't care about the harassment of mosquitoes, it's always bleeding, isn't it?Whether it's Kato or Kurokawa, as commanders, they don't want their elite soldiers to bleed in some meaningless and worthless battles.

Panting heavily, Heichuan squatted on the ground, opened up the map and confirmed his position, and said happily, "Yoxi! Kato-kun, cross this river, and walk ten kilometers east to Pukou, the river in Pukou Opposite is the capital of China. Now our army has attacked the capital of China in three directions, and our navy has been swimming on the Yangtze River, which means that as long as we reach Pukou, we can get supplies!"

Kato stood up with a face full of reconciliation, "Kurokawa-kun, why should we save face if we just withdraw like this! We have not completed the tasks assigned by the three generals, General Kawashima, General Hase, and General Benzawa. Zhuang, we don’t know how many casualties we caused to the teachers and students of Huangpu. This is the worst task completion in the history of the Airborne Special Forces, and this shame is caused by you and me!”

Kurokawa put away the map, shook his head at what Kato said, and said, "Kato-kun, the teachers and students of China Whampoa are not a single team as we expected before. He can call the nearby China army to come to support at any time. And the people of Whampoa The instructors are very cunning, they didn't come out to fight us, but occupied a favorable fortification and stood by for help."

Different from Kato's idea, Kurokawa felt that although the mission was not completed, the performance of the soldiers was good enough. After all, the enemy was twelve times larger than himself. There were more than 2000 teachers and students in Whampoa, and more than 6000 people. A local security regiment with more than a thousand people, the enemy has at least 500 people, and the two squadrons of myself and Kato have no more than [-] people.

Of course, Kurokawa still doesn't know that Shangwangzhuangli is actually more than half of the teachers and students of Whampoa, but despite this, such a record has been explained to both the top and bottom.

After all, before the departure, no one expected that there would be a regular army around the Whampoa teachers and students, and there were two security regiments stationed there. This was completely different from the expected one-on-one fight with the Whampoa teachers and students.

I came for special operations, but ended up fighting a positional battle abruptly, and my advantages were greatly compressed. Many soldiers were shot by stray bullets before they even showed their usual training. It was not worth it. The task performed by your own soldiers should be to become a sharp knife in large-scale group battles and behead the enemy commander!
Kato was not reconciled to go to Pukou to board a naval ship and go back in such a despondent manner, especially since he took the lead in attacking the teachers and students of Whampoa but returned without success, which made him unacceptable.

"Kurokawa-kun, your point of view is wrong, we should defend the honor of the Airborne Special Forces! The support of the regular Chinese army this time is just a coincidence. Intelligence has confirmed that they were originally going to Nanjing, and we just happened to meet. Otherwise, why should we care about the two local security groups in China? It is impossible for these Whampoa teachers and students to meet the regular Chinese army every time, as long as you keep an eye on them, you will definitely find an opportunity and give them a fatal blow when they are lax!"

"Mr. Kato, look at our soldiers. They have gone through a night of fighting, coupled with the long-distance rapid march, they have exhausted both physical strength and ammunition. In order to avoid the encirclement and suppression of the Chinese army, we cannot go to inhabited areas. Zhuangzi rests! My soldiers have lost half to buy you time. I am your equal. I don’t need to listen to your command. Now I will not follow your advice! My soldiers are not worth dying like this , Just now I ordered the communications unit to send a report, and when we arrive at Pukou, the naval ships on the Yangtze River will respond, if you have any ideas, please tell the general."

In the opposite direction, the teachers and students of Whampoa from Shangwangzhuang went all the way west, following the footsteps of the setting sun, they saw the general outline of Shitang Town thirty miles away from Shangwangzhuang when night fell.

There are more than 900 people, and the team winds into a long dragon.According to the previous practice, the Infantry Section topped the front to clear the way.

The instructor Liu Yueyang next to him stopped, stretched his left arm straight, raised his thumb, closed his left eye and opened his right eye, and then closed his right eye and opened his left eye after a while. After three breaths, he turned his head to face each other. Looking at the students of the first unit of the Infantry Division, they said, "There is still about 600 meters away from Shitang Town, and everyone is there. With your head raised and your back straight, the spirit of Huangpu is displayed!"

Li Chong wondered how instructor Liu could measure the distance with his thumb, and asked curiously, "Instructor Liu, how did you measure the distance from us to Shitang Town?"

Liu Yueyang looked at the students and said curiously, "The Artillery Brigade will definitely not ask. Range measurement is also very important for the infantry department. It will also be useful for you to command marches and operations in the future. Of course, you don't need to use equipment to measure accurately like the artillery. Before I didn’t teach you in my classroom, so I will teach you now.”

Instructor Liu Yueyang led the team to Shitang Town and talked about the technique of distance measurement.

"Usually there are only two ranging methods that we use in the march. The first method is based on common sense. Those who are not good at mathematics can use it. Usually, an adult, in the case of good visibility, if he can measure distance according to his clothes He and the voice can distinguish between men and women, then within 500 meters, they will not be able to distinguish clearly if they exceed 600 meters. People with normal vision can roughly see a cross space formed by Chengren's two legs walking at most 700 meters away. There is no intersecting space. As for kilometers, you can barely see a person squatting or standing and other large body movements. Remember these points to roughly judge the approximate distance.”

"This method is simple and does not require skills. It can be done as long as you wear your eyes. However, it has a flaw. The error in the estimated distance is a bit large."

(End of this chapter)