Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1244 Under Anping City
Two hours before the First Fleet broke into Liuluo Bay, Xue Ziliang and his team were quietly sailing on the Shijing River.

It was four o'clock in the morning, and it was the darkest time before dawn.But Xue Ziliang didn't dare to be careless at all - the moon in the sky was too bright, if it wasn't for the cloudiness today, he really wouldn't dare to drive on the river so blatantly.

The engine of the motorboat vibrated slightly under the muffler-this motorboat was originally a lifeboat on the Fengcheng wheel, and it could accommodate up to 24 people and the necessary rations and drinking water.

Because of the limited gasoline, these lifeboats were used for a period of time during the landing, and then they were sealed. This time, they were specially re-opened and used-the machinery factory specially manufactured the matching silencers.

The night before, they drove this motorboat into Liuluo Bay, relying on the gasoline supplies in the sheepskin bag towed behind the speedboat, they arrived at Baisha Village at the mouth of the Shijing River that night.And lurked locally.

Baisha Village is only six kilometers away from Anping, even if sailing at an economical speed, it will take less than an hour.The propeller stirred the river, and there was a low sound of waves.Probably because there is a considerable distance from the land, the shore seems quiet, and there is no sound at all.
He glanced at the luminous watch, it was a quarter past four, and he would arrive in Anping soon.From now on, everything should be as careful as possible-because some people have already gotten up and moved around at this time.

Of course, even if someone finds their strange boat now, it may not pose any threat. At most, the common people will talk about "monsters" on the spot, and they may not rush to Anping immediately to report enthusiastically.Even if he was going to report, the speed of the motorboat was much faster than them.

The moon in the sky is always bright and sometimes dark, which makes Xue Ziliang feel very nervous habitually - he would rather carry out combat missions in the dark cloudy night, and the figure suddenly exposed under the moonlight will often attract fatal bullets.Fortunately, in this time and space, except for them, no one can fire threatening bullets from 300 meters away, and they will not be suddenly shot by machine guns or automatic rifles.

The team members of this operation were sitting on the boat. The twelve members were armed to the teeth one by one. Except for the uniforms made by Lingao and the BDU, they were no different from the armed reconnaissance team he had commanded back then.His face was also smudged black.

They were armed with short barreled FAL automatic rifles, folding stock carbines, a machine gun and two shotguns.On the deck in the middle of the boat, something was wrapped in tarpaulins and ropes.

On this wide and unobstructed river, the team members were silent, but looked around anxiously from time to time, and listened attentively.Everything is silent on the wide river, not a single boat is moving, and only occasionally can we see a few lonely fishing boats.The river slapped against the hull of the boat, making slight noises.

When the luminous watch on Xue Ziliang's wrist pointed to 4:30, the sound of the motorboat's engine disappeared, and the boat slowly slid and finally stopped.Xue Ziliang carefully observed the scheduled meeting point on the river.Signal the shore with a tactical flashlight.One time, two times... After the third time, a corresponding light signal was lit from the night on the shore-this is the two hiking guides he sent last night to guide them to land.

Xue Ziliang whistled lightly, cutting through the dark night sky.Tell the team members that the landing site has arrived.The team members sitting on both sides picked up the oars together and rowed the boat carefully.Xue Ziliang held the engine handle tightly with his right hand to adjust the speed, and with his left hand held the compass in front of his eyes as smoothly as possible to maintain an accurate angle with the navigation lights on the shore.

After 10 minutes, Xue Ziliang heard the team members he arranged to look out at the bow of the boat say "arrived" in a low voice, and he quickly looked up: they were already very close to the land: less than 50 meters.At this time, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and he could vaguely see a black earth embankment directly in front of him, with many trees on it.There was a stench of rotting weeds in the air.

Driven by inertia, the motorboat drifted towards the beach.After a while, there was only a slight friction sound between the bottom of the boat and the river beach, and the motorboat ran aground on the beach.

A black figure appeared in front of his eyes, with phosphorescent identification strips on his chest and back, it was the team member who came to meet him.He gestured to show where to land.Xue Ziliang walked around the pile of weapons and equipment lightly, and walked towards the bow.He stretched out one leg over the side of the boat and leaned towards the river beach, holding the cable in his hand to prevent his feet from getting stuck in the mud.According to the previous reconnaissance, the river beach in this area was mixed with sand and gravel, but he still had to be extremely careful.

In the ensuing 5 minutes, Xue Ziliang used the infrared telescope to observe whether there was any movement in the direction of Anping.The city was just 500 meters away, across the low sand dunes and bushes.But there was no sound at this time, and their arrival did not arouse any alarm.

A road extending from Anping is passing about 100 meters from the sand dunes.

The team members carefully unloaded the equipment on the boat one by one, and then dragged the unloaded motorboat to the hidden behind the sand dunes, and fixed it with sharp iron stakes and cables to prevent it from being floated up by the tide.

Xue Ziliang climbed up the sand dunes and observed Anping City with an infrared telescope. This original coastal town was rebuilt by Zheng Zhilong to a grand scale, surrounded by solid blue stone walls, and a majestic water gate stood on the river.A [-]-kilometer-long stone bridge across the river connecting Jinjiang and Nan'an counties is the famous Anping Bridge.

There are many large and small ships moored on the water around Anping Bridge.Several of them are the three-masted gunboats highlighted by the Intelligence Bureau.

But they weren't targeting the ships -- that was the Navy's mission.Their first task was to "behead" the head of the Zheng family, trying to kill some of the main leaders of the Zheng family.

It is obviously impossible to invade Anping with only a few of them, but there are only a few exits in Anping. As long as you control a few access routes, you can effectively snipe when the enemy is escaping. Even if you can't catch them all, at least It can also do serious damage.

He looked at his watch. According to the plan, the teams controlling the other two roads should have arrived.But so far they hadn't sent out the required radio signal, which made him a little anxious.

He turned and ran back down the dunes, whispering orders for them to prepare their weapons.What was wrapped in the oilcloth was untied.Inside is a small cannon that has been disassembled.The disassembled metal parts were wrapped in sacks in advance to prevent them from making any noise when they collided.

Under his command, the parts of the artillery were carried up the dunes, followed by shell boxes.You should open the toolbox and start to install it.He worked quickly and quietly.

The location of this sand dune was selected by them based on the results of many field investigations. First, it can effectively control the road from Anping to Nan'an. Second, the distance from here to the center of Zheng Zhilong's mansion in Anping Town is only 704 meters.The idea of ​​directly bombarding an enemy's central nervous system is very tempting.Although the navy's fleet will bring more intense artillery fire to Anping after its arrival, they cannot hit the enemy's vital points so accurately.

"It's up to you next time."

"Don't worry, you should still worry about the craftsmanship of Lin Shenhe and the people from the machinery factory." Ying Yu said.

After measuring the azimuth with the compass in his hand, he set the artillery position exactly on the compass point that Xue Ziliang pointed out to him, with the muzzle facing directly at Zheng Zhilong's mansion.Then, he carefully rotated the screw of the cannon's elevator, trying to hit the center of Zheng Zhilong's mansion with the first shot.

As long as a few shells fell into the center of the mansion, the frightening effect would be enough to make the opponent lose his will to fight - after all, it would take some effort to storm the fortified city walls of Anping Town, so it would be best to let the enemy flee without fighting.

This time, the so-called "Try 32 Years Brigade Cannon" designed by Lin Shenhe was used.The gun was originally designed to provide lightweight artillery support for battalion-level units, replacing the 12-pound mountain howitzer currently used in this role.Therefore, the weight must be as light as possible, easy to maneuver, less dependent on logistics, able to support high-angle launch, and at the same time ensure a certain shooting accuracy and lethal effect.

"Try 32 Years Brigade Gun" is a multi-purpose field gun designed based on this requirement
This gun uses 70mm caliber and uses rifled breech loading.Although it is not a tube annealing gun, it adopts a friction recoil absorption device. Because the gun body is lighter, the recoil absorption efficiency is higher.The rate of fire has been greatly improved.

In order to reduce the weight, the barrel length of the 70mm rapid-fire gun is appropriately shortened.The types of ammunition used are mainly low-pressure grenade and shrapnel.The ammunition uses separate metal cartridges to match the vertical wedge breech block used by the artillery.The vertical wedge breech breech is easy to load quickly at a high elevation angle, and can take into account the production and weapon performance at the current industrial level. The wedge breech breech is simpler in structure than the screw breech breech, and the operation is simple and fast, and the safety is better.

Because of the rifled structure, the decrease in accuracy and muzzle velocity brought about by shortening the barrel length can be compensated, but considering that the pointed cylindrical projectile fired by the rifled gun cannot bounce, it is no longer equipped with solid bullets.

While reducing the weight of the gun body, the shooting elevation angle of the 70mm rapid-fire gun has been greatly increased-up to 80 degrees, and has a certain ability to shoot.

Roughly speaking, this is a copycat version of the 92 infantry gun of the Japanese army. However, due to limitations in materials and craftsmanship, the size and weight of the artillery are larger than that of the 92 infantry gun.

(End of this chapter)