The forest is full of trees thirty or forty centimeters thick, and since they have not been cut down for hundreds of thousands of years, some trunks are so thick that it takes two or three people to hug them. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 As far as the eye can see, the trees generally grow to twenty or thirty meters, and the majestic giant trees that are thirty or forty meters high are also often visible.

The density of trees is also very high, and the distance between the two trees is only three to five meters, so that the branches of each other are intertwined. The dense foliage was like a huge green net, covering the sky and making the forest very dark, even during the day, as if it were five or six o'clock in the evening. Only in the occasional place where the foliage is sparse, a little light can be seen from above, and it will fall to the ground in speckles.

It was with this little bit of sunshine that under the shade of the trees, dense shrubs grew. At the root of the tree, you can see clusters of colorful mushrooms, most of these mushrooms are poisonous, and they look bright in color, but they will be poisoned if you eat them.

Perennial leaves fall, forming a metre or two thick leaf on the ground. When they decay and decompose, they become more rocky particles that become soil, which then provides sufficient nutrients for the forest.

But before that, the countless cascading fallen leaves were like a swamp. On the surface, it seems that it can walk, but once it steps on it, it cannot support the weight of the human body, and it is deeply immersed in the fallen leaves, suffocated to death, and stunted by the poisonous gases released by the rotting leaves, and then becomes the food in the mouths of passing beasts.

There are several major dangers in the primeval forest, one is that it is difficult to find the way without seeing the light of day; Second, the trees are dense and obscured from view, making it difficult to determine the direction; The third is that the dead leaves block the ground, and there is no way to judge whether there are pits below, and if you are not careful, you may step into the air and fall into a deep pit or a cliff; Fourth, the scenery is always the same, which is easy to bring mental fatigue, and then cause a sense of panic that I don't know when I can get out of the jungle, lose my rational judgment, and finally die of physical exhaustion; Fifth, there are bushes, and it is very physically demanding to cut the way out; Sixth, there are many snakes and insects in the forest, which are easy to be bitten by poisonous snakes and mosquitoes.

Because the primeval forest is so dangerous, during the Battle of Rolling Dragon, when the Western Route Army tried to cross through the forest and then outflank the enemy's rear town of Lashio, it would get lost in it, and a large number of people were separated before they reached the place where the battle was launched, and finally collapsed, and more than half of them never returned.

It is also for this reason that although the military sub-district is long and narrow, the narrowest point in the middle is only about seven kilometers. However, instead of leaving the mid-range that was easy to attack, the army launched a strong assault on the fortified fortress. It's not that they don't want to, it's that they can't!

Anyone knows that it's easy to get into the forest, but it's even harder to get out of it intact! Don't look at the hundreds of thousands of people in the Wei Ding army, if the whole army enters the forest, it is estimated that no more than two-thirds of them will be able to come out alive in the end!

But Guan Fei and them just want to enter this terrible primeval forest!

Just as the army can only gnaw hard bones and attack from both ends, if the main force of the army division does not enter the primeval forest, it will also not be able to go around behind the enemy.

When it comes to defense, this stretching forest that runs hundreds of kilometers from north to south and dozens of kilometers from east to west is the best barrier. However, during the attack, this boundless primeval forest also became a stumbling block that hindered the military division's outward advance.

However, no matter how difficult it is, if you want to break out of the enemy's encirclement and fight on the outside, this difficulty must be overcome no matter what.

Guan Fei held a thin bamboo pole more than two meters long in his left hand, carefully tapped the fallen leaves in front of him, and tested whether it was solid ground or mud below according to his feel. The machete in the other hand took advantage of the situation to cut off the branches and leaves of several bushes around him to make a way.

These shrubs are very nasty, and most of them have spikes in order not to be eaten by the herbivores of the forest. Walking in the bushes, the clothes on the body will often be hooked and torn, and the sharp wooden thorns will also take the opportunity to pierce into the flesh and release the toxins hidden in it, although it will not be fatal, but it will make the thorn area red, swollen, itchy and painful, extremely uncomfortable.

In order to open the way, Guan Fei wore a double-layer denim training uniform, and tied his trousers tightly with ropes to prevent poisonous insects and leeches from escaping in. He also wears a pair of thick gloves on his hands and a veil on his face to block mosquito bites.

The good thing is that it's winter.

Although it is not cold in winter, it can still be as low as freezing or even below in the high mountains of about 1,000 kilometers. At the summit of almost two thousand meters, there is even snow.

During this season, evergreen trees in the forest also lose their leaves to reduce nutrient consumption. Therefore, although the head is still obscured by dense foliage, it is still much better than summer, at least not to the point where you can't reach out and lose sight. The low bushes, with a large number of branches had also withered, could no longer stretch freely and occupied all the space, leaving a relatively wide path for the march.

Poisonous snakes and mosquitoes in the forest, which also become very scarce this season, either hide underground to hibernate or freeze to death.

And another advantage in winter is that the ground at the fallen leaves will also be frozen hard, as long as you are sure that there is no pothole underneath, you will not be afraid of falling into the mud.

Excluding these biggest dangers, it is easy to get lost in the forest or something, in the eyes of Guan Fei, who has the help of the biological auxiliary brain to guide the direction, it is not a matter at all!

If it weren't for this reason, he would not have been able to come up with a plan to go around the enemy lines through the primeval forest.

If it was summer, then he would rather fight Kangka and Long Kang to the death with the Wei Dingjun than propose to enter the primeval forest - that would be 100% suicide, not a strategy!

As his old subordinates, Sun Yaohua and others were well aware of his ability to find his way through the jungle, so although everyone hoped that he could stay in the military division and command the battle. But after thinking about it, jumping to the outside line to fight was the only option to break the situation, so he had to agree that Sun Yaohua would stay in the military subdivision and he would lead the main force to attack.

Behind him, there is the special operations detachment of the military division.

There were only 30 of them, carefully selected from the whole army, and half of them had experience in martial arts and were athletic.

At this moment, they were all wearing double-layered training uniforms and carrying half-human-high marching backpacks, following closely behind Guan Fei.

The ten men in front also brandished machetes, cutting off the branches of the bushes that blocked the way around the area along the gap opened by Guan Fei, so as to open a wider road to facilitate the march of the large army. The middle ten people used the self-luminous paint spray cans in their hands to spray arrows on the trunks of the trees next to them, pointing out the direction of progress for the troops behind.

The last 10 fighters carried a plastic box sprayed with pesticides on their backs, spraying snakes and insects repellent potions on the ground.

Where the potion was sprayed, the sound of rustling could be heard, and from time to time a snake could be seen scurrying through the fallen leaves, fleeing into the distance.

In winter, the forest is not completely free of snakes and insects, they just hide from the cold. The temperature in the forest is several degrees higher than in the wilderness, and the decomposition of fallen leaves also releases a certain amount of heat, which is suitable for snakes and insects to survive the winter.

However, the smell emitted by snake repellent and insect repellent drugs is the most annoying for them, and it is also mixed with drugs such as realgar, which are very sensitive to snakes, so they can't avoid it when they smell it. Therefore, where the agent is sprayed, a large number of snakes and insects can be seen spreading out on both sides, leaving a clean and harmless road.

There is a way forward to explore and open the way, and there are glowing arrows on the trunk to indicate the direction, so you can see it clearly even in the dimly lit forest, so you don't have to worry about getting lost. Where to go and where not to go have been demarcated, and some dangerous areas have been highlighted with red paint, and the movement of the large army has not slowed down much because it is in the forest.

This time it was an external battle, and the soldiers carried a lot of materials, such as sleeping bags, tents, blankets, compressed biscuits, chocolates and other high-calorie food, water bottles, toothpaste, toothbrushes, towels, lunch boxes, and other daily necessities, as well as automatic rifles, ammunition beyond the normal combat base, grenades, grenades, gas masks, and other combat materials, and each person carried more than 30 kilograms.

Some fighters carrying heavy weapons, in addition to their personal belongings, also have to carry heavy equipment such as triangular stabilizers, gun barrels, ammunition boxes, heavy machine guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns, and the weight is even higher.

However, due to the scientific design of personal carrying equipment, it is very close to the body, and as long as all kinds of personal items and ammunition are placed reasonably, they do not feel very heavy to move.

It's like walking with a person on your back, and if the other person spreads his hands and moves behind his back, it must be very difficult. But if he honestly lies on his back, the two of them are close to each other, and he wraps his arms around the neck of the person in front of him, he will walk easily, which is a truth.

This personal carrying device was not invented by Guan Fei, he just directly copied the template in the war game. At the beginning, as soon as it was issued for trial, it was well received by the soldiers of the army, and they all said that with this carrying device, it was much easier to walk, and there were more things that could be carried, and everyone liked it very much.

After trying it in China, they also said again and again, especially the front-line troops and logistics departments, they were full of praise for this kind of carrying equipment, and a large number of troops were distributed. In last year's self-defense and counter-attack war, the border defense units were collectively equipped with this kind of carrying equipment, and the results were very remarkable; the troops' marching speed, marching distance, and the amount of equipment they carried were greatly increased, their range of activities was wider, their tactics were more flexible and changeable, and their results were also greater.

In fact, in the European and American armies in the future, they used this kind of carrying gear to carry a larger amount of carrying, and a soldier could carry a weight of 40 kilograms or even a maximum of 60 kilograms.

However, the Oriental body is slender, and its strength is inferior to that of Caucasians and Blacks, and most of them travel by car and walk a little, which is completely different from that in China. At the same time, the people of this era were generally malnourished and not tall, so the weight limit set by the military sub-district was around 30 kilograms, and only under special circumstances would the weight be raised to 40 kilograms, which was already the limit, and it could not be marched and fought for a long time.

The troops set out at seven o'clock in the morning, resting for a quarter of an hour for every hour of march in between. At noon, I had dinner and rest, and I stayed for a total of one and a half hours. The march lasted until 7 p.m., and the cumulative travel time of the whole day reached nine hours, because it was a mountain march, the speed was not very fast, and the average speed was about the same as that of an ordinary person walking, about four kilometers per hour.

Eventually, the full-day march reached a distance of thirty-two kilometers.

This speed is neither fast nor slow, in military terms, it belongs to the state of regular marching, that is, the speed at which continuous marching can be maintained for a long time, not even a rapid march, let alone a forced march.

When it was time to camp in the evening, everyone generally felt that they were not tired, and some suggested that they should simply march all night in order to walk a little more. However, this impulsive proposal was naturally rejected immediately, and there was no possibility of passing it at all.

Guan Fei deliberately chose the camp in a small mountain col, which is more than ten kilometers away from the nearest village, and there is no one in the vicinity, and there are surrounding mountains to block it, so there will be no medicine pickers and hunters wandering nearby. The tent is entrenched in the woods, and it will not be detected by the planes in the sky.

Considering that there was no enemy situation around, only some branches and trunks were placed around the camp as railings, some bells were hung as warnings, and several guard posts were set up on the hills and passes. Anyway, the air force did not have the ability to fly at night, so everyone was relieved to boldly raise a fire in the camp, eat a hot meal comfortably, scald their feet with hot water, and then got into their sleeping bags and fell asleep.

Guan Fei and other commanders went down to each battalion and company, inspected it, understood everyone's mood, boosted morale, and helped several soldiers pick up the blisters on their feet and return to the headquarters.

The headquarters is composed of five tents connected together, which are used as command rooms, communication rooms, war rooms, and rest rooms.

It was very quiet in the communications room, and a group of accompanying combat staff officers had already attached antennas to the top of the trees, were wearing headphones, listening attentively to the telegrams sent by the military sub-districts, and recording them with pencils, and there was no ticking sound of the telegrams. According to the regulations, during the long march, they only received electricity and did not return calls, so as to maintain radio silence and avoid being detected by the enemy through radio direction finding, so as to prepare in advance.

After all, the Dingding Army is rotten, and it is also a regular army, and it is impossible for them to have radio side, which was rotten on the street during World War II.

"How's it going?" Guan Fei straightened his back, sat upright on the maza, took a sip of a cup of hot water, and asked with concern.

Today, pathfinding is basically the operation of the biological auxiliary brain autonomously, and the physical exertion is precisely controlled. A quarter of an hour's rest along the way was enough to restore his strength, so he didn't feel tired at all, his eyes were still bright, and he still maintained his vigorous energy.

The staff officers were a little tired.

Don't look at them as just staff officers, they usually have to follow the march and practice, so they won't be so tired. However, in this external operation, everyone's weight was beyond the normal range, and they staff officers also had to help share the part, and they walked down all day, although the speed was not fast, and the consumption of physical strength and energy still made them feel extremely tired, and they were fighting with their eyes while sitting.

But now was not the time to rest, they had to hold on, receive all the messages, present them to the higher chiefs, and arrange for tomorrow's march before going to sleep.

"Today is the first day of the march, the situation is not bad, after the various units are closed, it is found that two people are behind. The company commander to which they belonged had already returned to look for them, and there were glowing arrows indicating the direction, and it was unlikely that they would get lost. It is estimated that I was physically exhausted and could not walk halfway through, so I should be able to find them quickly.

In addition, eleven men in the whole army did not stumble in the course of the march; The two of them did not pay attention to rolling downhill, and the fall was not heavy, but it seemed that they could not continue to keep up with the speed of the troops; There were also three people who had diarrhea and couldn't march. In view of this, the command planned to leave a squad to take care of them, and when the two soldiers who had fallen behind caught up, they would rest here collectively for two days, and then return to the military subdivision by the same route, and no longer participate in this operation. ”

Yu Baihai sat down and didn't care about taking a breath, so he drank boiling water while taking over the situation sorted out by the staff officers and reporting to Guan Fei.

"Not bad!" Guan Fei nodded in satisfaction.

Eighteen people were left behind on the first day, which is not a large number. It is impossible to march in this complex mountainous area, and it is impossible to keep up with all of them. Tourists will inevitably have an accident when sightseeing in well-equipped scenic spots, let alone an army that is heavily armed and carries tens of kilograms.

In order to ensure the security of the military division, he left behind three troops: the second battalion, the fifth battalion, and the guard battalion. Among them, the guard battalion is the most well-equipped and the soldiers are of the highest quality, and it seems that the combat effectiveness is also good through the all-army competition and yesterday's night attack on Peng Desheng's troops.

With 2,000 people, plus the 4,000 militia division led by Geng Feng, it is not very difficult to hold the territory of the military subdivision in a short period of time.

What's more, before he left, he also told Sun Yaohua and Geng Feng to ask the guards led by Feng Aiguo to arrive at the Qingshui River defense line in a row. If the enemy does not move, do not provoke them for the time being. If the enemy is attacking the root in a big way, they should use the surrounding complex terrain as a cover, do not resist hard, and divide into small teams to carry out guerrilla warfare and plant mines on the main communication routes to try to drag the enemy down.

At the same time, the cement factory in Guogen was temporarily requisitioned, thousands of migrant workers were recruited, and the engineering battalion cooperated with the engineer battalion to urgently build forts in Shizhai, Shimashan, Laoxigou and other places. The 1st Guard Company and the 1st Regiment of the Militia entered the fortress and implemented the policy of echelon resistance and gradual retreat, not seeking to block the enemy's attack, as long as they could delay their advance and prevent the county town of Guogen from falling too quickly.

He was also prepared for the worst if the county town of Guogen fell to the enemy.

Therefore, the follow-up main defense line will be set up behind the county town of Guogen, with Xingga Mountain and Huoshi Mountain as the last line of defense, and it is necessary to prevent the enemy from approaching the military subdivision and avoid burning the flames of war to Xincheng.

The entire territory of Guogen is 5,700 square kilometers, and its territory is 10 times that of the military sub-district, and there is most room for maneuver. The territory is also mountainous, and there are many places suitable for blocking positions, and if the enemy's offensive spirit is gradually consumed, judging by his command ability over Sun Yaohua and others, he should be able to rest assured.

I dare not say more, there is no problem at all in resisting for a month or two.

After reporting on the summary of the march, Yu Baihai reported the telegram he had just received: "Today, the 88th Division launched another attack on the Kangka defensive line, and after retreating 10 kilometers, they climbed the ridge from both sides and tried to attack our defensive line from a high position. On the instructions of the forward observation posts, our heavy artillery bombarded them, and the enemy suffered heavy losses due to the lack of shelter on the hills.

In view of the enemy's stubborn determination to fight, regardless of casualties, a platoon defending the first line of defense took the initiative to retreat and put it down. Then, in the process of descending the mountain, they again encountered artillery fire from our front, guns and grenades, as well as dense nets of fire from the fire points in the tunnels on the mountain walls on all sides, killing the enemy front-line commander on the spot and killing and wounding more than 200 people. Due to the heavy artillery bombardment cutting off its reinforcement channel, the remnants of the Weiding army retreated, and our army took advantage of the victory to pursue and regain the first-line fortifications again.

After the incident, a total of one major battalion commander, one captain, one company commander, and one lieutenant platoon commander were killed, 103 enemy soldiers were killed, nearly 200 wounded, and 51 soldiers of the Vicious Army were captured before they could escape. Our army lost two people, seriously wounded three people, and slightly injured 29 people, all of whom were evacuated to the Xincheng People's Hospital for treatment.

Another ......"

He looked at the message, then raised his head and said with a little sadness: "The soldier who was wounded in the head yesterday has passed away in the hospital today because of intracranial hemorrhage and the rescue was ineffective!" ”

Guan Fei was silent.

Thinking of a lot of victories, that can only be seen in novels. In reality, he has done everything he can to equip his troops with the best protective equipment, but it is impossible to avoid casualties, all he has done is to reduce the number of casualties in his troops.

War, that's how cruel it is!