When he arrived to see them off, Division Commander Liao came over and told him that the engineer unit had built two cross-shaped searchlight arrays.

As he spoke, he handed the relevant drawings and pictures to Guo Zhuocheng.

Guo Zhuocheng took the drawings without any surprise, and after a while, he asked him to arrange for personnel to fax the drawings and pictures to the National Institute of Space Research immediately, and the experts there will judge the quality and whether they can ensure that the satellites in the sky can take pictures.

Due to technical reasons, China's reconnaissance satellites mainly concentrate their reconnaissance areas in the Pacific Rim. The main reason for the inability to conduct global reconnaissance is the obvious lack of long-range measurement capabilities. Although there have been two ocean-going survey vessels so far, the "Yuanwang-1" and the "Yuanwang-2", neither of these ships can meet the needs of global surveys in terms of endurance or telemetry, and can only provide measurement numbers for satellites and ICBMs in the coastal waters or in the central and western waters of the Pacific Ocean.

At this time, China did not have overseas bases and could not build its own telemetry stations outside its territory, so China's satellites, especially reconnaissance satellites, were mainly concentrated in the Asia-Pacific region. Just like the Dongfanghong-1 satellite, it basically circles the Pacific Ocean and plays the music of "Dongfanghong", with an operation cycle of 06 minutes, that is, less than two hours, and the satellite passes through the same place.

Although the current orbit of China's reconnaissance satellite, which is an experimental satellite, is very different from that of Dongfanghong-1, its activity area is not large, and it is basically in South Asia, Australia, and the North Pacific Ocean, which circulates every few hours. Of course, the entire territory of Vietnam falls within the scope of reconnaissance satellite reconnaissance.

When Commander Liao transmitted the pictures and the latitude and longitude coordinates of the cross-shaped searchlight array to the Space Research Institute, the experts there immediately entered the two coordinates into the computer, and at the same time issued a command to the satellite in the sky through the Guò ground remote control station, ordering the satellite to fine-tune the relevant status and take pictures at regular intervals.

When the satellite reached the skies over the Sino-Vietnamese border after the SE darkened, the aerial camera mounted on it began to work, aiming at the dark ground at a set time frequency to take one black and white photo after another.

Fortunately, the weather was very good, there were no dark clouds in the sky, and most of the places with lights on the ground could be photographed by satellites.

Early the next morning, the satellite tossed the photofilm in accordance with the remote control command and threw it in a designated area in Luhe Province. It took only three hours for the soldiers on the ground, who were already on standby, to find the sealed canister that sent the SHE radiolocation signal and quickly sent it to a certain unit for washing.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, several sets of photographs developed on film were sent by helicopter to the Space Research Institute and the Front-line Cruise Missile Launch Command.

To everyone's surprise, the cross-shaped searchlight array appeared on several aerial photographs.

It's normal to think about it, although the current satellite resolution is not good, and it is almost impossible to distinguish anything from an object about ten meters long. However, the light is clear in the dark night, and the searchlight is naturally clear in the shape of a cross.

With these two cross-shaped light arrays as references, the lights on other photos can directly use a ruler to produce the relevant latitude and longitude coordinates, and even an expert can complete it without the need for an expert.

Not only were all the photos taken last night sent to the former Directive Bullet Command, but the photos taken before were also delivered.

Guo Zhuocheng, Division Commander Liao, and several cruise missile experts and invited officers immediately studied the photos. They circulated among experts and officers, as well as those who had fought in the area. A staff officer marked the lighted spot on the map according to the location measured on the photo.

Guo Zhuocheng took a few photos selected by Jing and looked at them carefully, and then said: "I also think that these pillars of light are the pillars of light of trucks." Photographs taken during the day show that they were walking on the E-Highway and delivering weapons, ammunition and other supplies to villages near the Jade Dragon Stream. ”

The photos taken at night are not on the road, the river, the houses, only the lights. However, because the reference is determined, and the village near the Ngoc Long Stream and the provincial capital of the province near China are constantly lit, this is equivalent to providing a reference for the evening photo, and it will soon be possible to link the terrain here with the aerial pictures and military maps taken during the day, and it will be easy to judge the movement of the Vietnamese army at night: the Vietnamese army is transporting weapons and ammunition on a large scale.

This point is not only Guo Zhuocheng has come out, but many officers have also come out.

Guo Zhuocheng, who served as the host, said: "We have judged that the Vietnamese army is transporting a large amount of ammunition to the village of Yulongjian, and from the photos of the past few days, the volume of the delivery is very large. In addition, our scouts had heard the sound of heavy trucks a few miles outside the village, which meant that the quantity of the munitions was very large and required a large area to stockpile.

Comrades who have been to this village, please tell me where these weapons are kept. If we strike with cruise missiles, the focus will be on the east or west side of the village, whether it is south or north.

This issue must be clarified before the strike is launched, otherwise the money we waste on cruise missiles will greatly exceed the losses of the Vietnamese, which will be a little funny and a little bit more than worth the loss. Of course, it really can't be done, that can only be like this, it is also good to consume a little vitality of the Vietnamese army, at least in the future, it can reduce some pressure on our defenders in Fashi Mountain. As long as we can avoid the loss of a soldier, our strike will not be a failure. ”

Guo Zhuocheng finally asked, "Who said first?" ”

As soon as Guo Shucheng's words were asked, the eyes of several officers fell on a burly officer.

The officer was thinking while holding the photo, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him, he put down the photo, smiled wryly, and steadied himself, and then said loudly to Guo Zhuocheng: "Report to the chief!" I once led a company there. From these aerial pictures, the Vietnamese army transported weapons and equipment here for at least three days and three nights. Even if it's an ordinary truck, it's our 'Jiefang' truck, and these weapons, equipment, food supplies, etc., can fill all the open space in the village, maybe they can't be stacked.

Because everyone knows that some weapons and equipment or food are packed in wooden boxes, which can be stacked up and stacked to the height of one person or even two people. However, some weapons and equipment cannot be stacked, such as tanks, personnel carriers, artillery, and so on. It is impossible for them to be temporarily assembled at the front line, and if these are all imported, whether it is the Soviets or the Vietnamese themselves, they must doubt whether they can be assembled on the front line, and whether Xing can guarantee it, so these weapons must be shipped over after they are loaded, and the place where they are needed is naturally greater,......"

Before he finished speaking, an officer next to him interjected: "Battalion Commander Wang, you just say be refreshing." I'm tired of hearing all this stuff. You say, did they put their weapons and equipment in the east of the village or in the west of the village? ”

Battalion Commander Wang glanced at Guo Zhuocheng and said, "I don't think they put weapons and equipment in the village. ”

"Ahh

An officer with a black and red face blurted out and asked, "Didn't you put it in the village?" How can it be? Did they put it in their stomachs? Eaten? ”

Even Guo Zhuocheng looked at him puzzled and asked, "Then where do you think they put their weapons?" ”

The officer who was so verbose just now said, "Battalion Commander Wang, what are you talking nonsense? They didn't put their weapons in the village, did they put them in the cellars, or did they push them into the river? The pictures you took at night didn't see the lights move much, except for the car lampposts, the lights in the village didn't move. ”

As he spoke, he tapped his finger on the photo and raised it towards the people around him.

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

According to the general thinking, where the weapon is unloaded, the lights will be placed there to facilitate the driver's driving and the unloading person's handling. From the car driving with the headlights on, the village can be brightly lit out of the Vietnamese army There is no concept of light control, because everyone knows that the squadron will not send planes to cross the border to strike, and at present, the range of 55 mm caliber howitzers is only more than 20 kilometers, and it is impossible for other shells to hit nearly 50 kilometers away from the border.

For the Vietnamese army, they only need to guard the place where the weapons and ammunition are stored and do not allow small groups of Chinese agents or scouts to wreak havoc, and there is no need to be too cautious.

Since there is no concept of light control, and since there is no need to be too cautious, the Vietnamese army will not install electric lights where the weapons are stacked. Because the black light is blind, the unloading and stacking personnel are not only inefficient and very dangerous, in the dark handling, stacking, placement are easy to collide, casualties are a trivial matter, in case of the explosion of shells or something, then the situation will be difficult, the dead people are not a few, the loss of materials is not what they can bear.

So the place where there is a light in the village is where their weapons and ammunition are stacked, which is where they store each other.

The lights are all in the village, they didn't put their weapons here, did they really store them in the ground or throw them into the river at the edge of the village?

Battalion Commander Wang said solemnly: "Since there is no pile in the village, and there is no sign of them being transported outside the village, I suspect that they hid their weapons in the cave at the back of the village. ”

"In a cave?" Everyone looked at him in amazement.

An officer shook his head again and again, "Are you speculating? You just said that there is no stacking in the village, can a cave be stacked, how big a cave must be? Is there such a big cave there? ”

Guo Zhuocheng also felt a little incredible, what a big cave this must be, it needs to be loaded with tanks, personnel carriers, artillery or something. He asked incredulously, "Have you ever seen that cave?" ”