Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 319 The Battle of Baopang Mountain

The troops set off after dark, marched hurriedly overnight, and entered the Baopang mountain area to hide.After resting all day during the day, they continued to march at night. With the help of complete maps and night vision equipment, they suddenly arrived at Dangnamen's cottage in the morning.

The cottage stands on a small earthen hill, surrounded by solid stone and wood walls and enemy towers. The level of fortification is not bad, and it can resist ordinary attacks.

The terrain around the cottage seen through the telescope is not precipitous but quite complicated.It is good that the terrain of the cottage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but once it is surrounded, it will be difficult to break out. Therefore, the bandits' cottages are generally not built on particularly dangerous and dead roads, and they can escape quickly under unfavorable circumstances.If they came in mighty force, Dang Namen would have time to exit the stronghold and use the terrain here to scatter in all directions.But now, He Ming has commanded the troops to quickly seize the three main access passages near the cottage before dawn, blocking the escape route - all thanks to the modern map and night vision equipment.

"The troops have all arrived at the scheduled location and are building fortifications!" The trainee staff reported.

"Order all troops to pay attention to the enemy's movements." He Ming put down the binoculars and glanced at the map.The passages that can escape here are all arranged for troops to take on blocking tasks.

"Everyone, move quickly!" Panda urged his engineering soldiers and the education soldiers assigned to him.They were lying on the ground, digging pits and laying simple anti-personnel mines.Others are building parapets for shooting with earth.

In addition to the main road into the mountain, among the three roads that the bandits might escape, Dataipo is the most difficult to get stuck, and the other two are mountain paths. Twenty soldiers built a temporary low wall of mud and bushes. Bandits can be stopped with a volley and grenades.

But Dataipo is not a small road, it is a wide slope. If the bandits are allowed to rush through this place, they will have countless mountain roads to choose from.

Panda had no choice but to intercept the bandits on this open ground.

His strength is second only to the troops directly under the command post, with an infantry platoon, an engineering squad and thirty "education soldiers".The education soldiers have not been equipped with guns, only bayonets and temporary spears.Waving the flag and shouting, the scene is still going well.

Fortunately, he brought a common weapon for sappers: mines.

Of course, this landmine is not any kind that everyone is familiar with.Although someone calls it a Claymore directional mine every day, it is actually a primitive and crude anti-infantry directional mine.So simple that you don't need a shell for mines.As for the angle of orientation, only God knows.

All the equipment is a pack of black powder, a fuse, an iron plate and a pile of scrap copper and iron.Dig a shallow pit on the side of the road, put explosives on it, cover it with an iron plate for orientation, and then pile up a layer of various fragments that can make people's heads bleed.Of course, metal is now a strategic material, so the landmines carried by Panda did not have iron plates, but hardwood planks. According to the test results, as for the scrap copper and rotten iron used as shotguns, they were replaced by gravel. ——These crushed stones are all carefully selected from the quarry, and the size is basically the same.

At every escape intersection, Panda's engineers are laying such land mines.Originally, only a fuse could be used to detonate a landmine, and it was difficult to grasp the timing of the ignition. However, laying the fuse must be concealed and ensure reliable ignition is a difficult point.Since the chemical industry department came up with white phosphorus and red phosphorus, the technical problem of pulling the fire tube has finally been overcome-although this technology mainly facilitates the firing of artillery, engineers also enjoy the benefits of this improvement.

The width of the entire large platform slope is about 60 meters, and each directional mine can cover a distance of 5 to 6 meters.Panda set up three groups of landmines crosswise on the entire slope, each with fifteen mines.

"Everyone listen to my password and set the scale at 100 meters." Yang Zeng arranged a battle plan for his soldiers, "We will line up in two and shoot salvos according to the password. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The soldiers replied in unison.

"Okay, all bayonets!"

The soldiers pulled out sharp bayonets from their leather sheaths and put them on.Yang Zeng checked the soldiers' bayonets, guns and ammunition, and spoke a few words to the education soldiers behind them.The recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time were a little trembling, and they didn't know how to hold their spears.

Yang Zeng said a few words of encouragement. Although he didn't have any military experience, he knew that they could not be counted on in an emergency.We still have to rely on veterans—the so-called veterans are nothing more than a few more months of training.Combat experience is fighting a battle when pirates attacked.Some people simply lined up once, and didn't even get the chance to fire at the pirates.

Seeing Chief Pan commanding the soldiers with shovels to dig holes everywhere, Yang Zeng couldn't help but feel guilty. Although he already knew about "landmines" when he was studying as an officer, he really didn't know how powerful it was.It would be all right if there was a cannon for it, he thought.

Panda himself didn't have much confidence.He looked and looked at the fire tubes, fuses and pulling ropes of the directional mines everywhere, and tried to pull them a few times to make sure that there were no obstacles when pulling them, and that they could fire effectively—whether they could be reached? To stop the rush of the bandits, it depends on how powerful this "Heavenly Girl Scattering Flowers" is.

If the bandits are really brave enough to "pig sudden" and use their flesh and blood to step on landmines to open a path, then Panda still has the last resort-the grenade.Engineers are setting up this simple "small gun".

This is a cheap and simple weapon created by the weapon design team of the Mechanical Department. Since the invention of the "hand-held shotgun", the weapon team has set off a climax of designing one-time simple support weapons. The product of orgasm.

A cast iron pipe with gunpowder inside, and a No. 65 cast iron bullet—the hammer-ball grenade that once terrified the soldiers of the new army and created the army’s first martyr was removed and propelled by black powder. It can be projected at an angle of 50 degrees to a distance of [-] meters, but the accuracy can only be said that the direction of the projectile is generally correct.

The detonating fuse on the No. [-] bomb will be ignited at the same time at the moment when the propellant explodes-similar to the way a smoothbore gun fires a grenade, but the problem with the grenade also exists here-about one-third of the four The bomb will not be detonated.Compared with manual ignition and throwing it out, the detonation rate is much lower.

"Even if it doesn't explode, it will bloom when it hits a person's head, even if it's a solid bullet." Panda is not very picky about this kind of weapon.Twenty of them were brought out as a test.

All the ammunition is pre-loaded, the launch port is sealed with wax paper, and there is a wax-sealed ignition port at the tail. When firing, just insert the trigger tube into it to pull the trigger.The grenade is equipped with a simple bracket and base plate, and can also be fired by hand if you are not afraid of the danger of blasting the chamber.

This kind of grenade can theoretically be reloaded on the battlefield, but for safety reasons, the military industry department recommends that the troops be recovered and returned to the factory for refilling after launching.

If the last resort fails to stop the enemy, the only option is rifle fire and hand-to-hand combat.Although Panda had absolute confidence that the highly organized and disciplined infantry bayonet fighting trained by professional soldiers could completely defeat the bandits, but he still felt a little trembling in his heart.

The bandit suppression troops suddenly approached the city, which surprised Dang Namen who had just woken up in the morning.He has his own source of information: he knows that this group of pirates from Australia is going to clear the green forest recently.At first he didn't take it seriously, after all, the mountains and the sea are things that don't interfere with the water, and the "Thirteen Villages" area under his control also expressed their surrender to these Australians, and they should be given the same amount, so there is no reason to come Hit him.

He climbed up the wall and looked over, and on the hillside one mile away, there were densely packed Australian horses and horses in gray tight-fitting small jackets.One part carried a blunderbuss, the other a spear, all gleaming in the sun.For a while, I couldn't see how many people there were.

Such a team actually marched in the mountains at night, and came to his cottage silently. Thinking of this, he suddenly became terrified-the Australians came suddenly in full armor, and they must have bad intentions.He had heard that the firearms of the Australians were very powerful, and the cannons were even more indestructible-the defense of the stronghold would definitely end.Immediately call all the leaders under his command:

"Everyone, don't mess up!" He glanced at the somewhat panicked leaders—the other party's men and horses came so suddenly and secretly, which greatly shocked the gangsters, "The gangsters have powerful firearms, we can't fight them head-on, prepare to 'flow water' 'Bar!"

"Flowing water" is to disperse and flee to various secret camps in the mountains to hide and wait for the wind to pass before coming out to gather. This is a common trick of bandits.

"Boss of the party!" Zhao Haiqing, one of the Four King Kong, said, "Flowing water is easy, but the women, gold, silver and food in the village..."

"Why do you care about this?" Although the party's sect was reluctant, he had a big idea after all, "If you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood. You will have money and women at any time. It's a fart if you lose your life! Let's go .”

The leaders heard the reason, dispersed separately, and told the bandits to prepare "flowing water". There was chaos in the village for a while, and the bandits were unwilling to throw away their money, so they stuffed large ingots of silver, foreign money and jewels on their bodies. Full, bulging all over.The party knew something was wrong, but the gangsters who were already in a mess ignored his orders at all.The party's sect had no choice but to "flow water" by itself with seven or eight cronies.

"Light it up! Burn down the cottage!" Dang Namen ordered.

"Boss!" Even though he knew that these things were definitely not his own, but burning down the lair that had been entrenched for many years, several cronies still couldn't do it.

"Don't be reluctant!" Dangmen spat viciously, "If you don't burn it, it will be cheaper for these thieves. Burn it all, and everyone will be wiped out!"

In fact, the party still has an abacus in mind. When the fire breaks out, the Australians will rush to fight the fire for the sake of goods and food.

"Fire! Fire!" someone shouted from the command post.

"The enemy has started to run away." He Ming said and raised the binoculars

In an instant, the gate of the village was wide open, and in the binoculars, the bandits were carrying big bags and small bags, holding knives, axes, guns and spears, splitting into multiple groups and fleeing in all directions.

He Ming paid attention to their direction and made sure that there was no path that his side missed.

After a while, gunshots sounded in the distance, and puffs of white smoke rose from the green mountains and green waters, which was quite beautiful.

"It started on the mountain pass on the left!"

He Ming adjusted the focal length of the telescope to see the battle situation, but he couldn't see anything clearly. The battlefield was blocked by a large amount of smoke when the rifle was fired.

He frowned, and turned the camera to another mountain road where the bandits broke through. The terrain here is a little more open, and the smoke will be carried away by the wind soon. There are only forty or fifty bandits, all dressed bulging, carrying packages They were rushing up the slopes on both sides of the mountain pass, and white smoke was sprayed from the position above from time to time. The bandits who were shot rolled down the hillside, and some were injured and fell to the ground, struggling desperately on the ground.

"Strange, what kind of armor are they wearing?" He Ming wondered, he had never heard of bandits with armor.

A man who was shot was dying, and a few pieces of white silver rolled down from his torn clothes.

It turned out that the bulging bags were filled with belongings.Everyone suddenly realized.Someone said: "It's really a man's death for money. It's not easy to escape with so many burdens. Maybe you can escape without it."

"Not necessarily—" Just as someone retorted, an explosion sounded in the distance.A cloud of white smoke rose from the mountain pass, gravel and soil flew around, and someone was vaguely heard screaming.This is the soil Claymore mine was detonated.

"It's detonated! It's detonated!" Following the excited voices of the staff behind him,

The directional mines were detonated one after another, and nothing could be seen in the telescope.He Ming put down the binoculars and asked, "Is there any new movement in the cottage?"

"Not yet. The fire is very big. People must have come out."

"Order a platoon to move towards the gate of the cottage. Take the opportunity to occupy the cottage. Don't rush to put out the fire." He Ming ordered, "Give them the cannon." The most urgent task is to wipe out the bandits, whether there is property in the cottage or not. , is no longer a big problem for the overall situation.

The bandits who were preparing to run the water were driven back from various intersections. They never dreamed that the enemy would actually set up ambushes in these places, waiting for them to rush.Several groups of bandits who attempted to "flow water" were beaten to death at the intersection, and most of them were killed or injured.Many people ran back again.

The party's mind is extremely quick, knowing that hesitating now is a dead end, so he hurriedly greeted everyone:

"Don't be messy, throw away all the money on your body, if you have life and money, let's protrude from Dataipo together!"

Under his repeated shouts, more than 100 people gathered around him, all of them staring at the door of the party in panic all day long, asking him to come up with ideas quickly.

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The deeds of the Dangnaguo bandits come from the records of banditry activities in the Republic of China period in the Lingao literature history.

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