After being woken up from his sleep, Qi Rui heard the guard say, "Chief of Staff, the landing has begun." ”

Qi Rui got up in response, he didn't go out to watch immediately. The Great Lakes are large, but they are also crisscrossed by lakes in China and North America. The number of lakes similar to those in North America is very large. When I actually carried it out, I found that such time-tight and task-heavy work relied more on well-trained grassroots backbones. At this time, let alone the chief of staff, even if the regiment commander is in charge of command, it is easy to cause chaos.

Therefore, Qi Rui put forward a plan in the plan to go down to the troops first and then go to each headquarters, and after practice, it proved that there was no problem and it was approved. Since the plan was formulated by Qi Rui, he naturally had to abide by it. didn't leave the cabin, Qi Rui just folded the futon on his bunk and packed it. Naturally, there was the most extreme scenario in the plan, and a large number of trucks were destroyed. At this time, all the remaining trucks were to be used to transport supplies, fuel, artillery, and the wounded. Even the personnel of the military headquarters had to march on two legs. If things get to this point, a complete marching backpack becomes extremely important.

The military headquarters was not forced to make preparations for the landing, and Shi Dakai's youngest son, Captain Shi Qian, took the lead in jumping off the landing craft that docked. The military shoes of the Liberation Army have gone through straw sandals, cloth shoes, rubber shoes, leather boots, and military boots. Now is the fifth generation of military boots stage. The soles of the boots are lined with thin steel plates, and the sharp stones and wood branches on the ground are powerless against the steel plates, even if they can pierce the rubber soles. Captain Shi Qian only cared about whether he could stand firm.

The ground at your feet isn't even as soft as you might think, and Lake Superior is a mountain lake, with some of the soil on its shore being solid ground mixed with a lot of gravel. After going ashore, the captain led his troops straight to the high ground ahead. Traces characteristic of glowsticks soon appeared on the high ground, and the light green glow signaled "everything is normal". Two days ago, the Liberation Army sent a commando team to lurk in this area, waiting to guide the landing force.

Carrying the machine gun to the high ground, Captain Shi Qian breathed a sigh of relief after making sure that the surroundings were safe. The landing was the most dangerous time, and all the troops were gathered together, and if they were attacked by the enemy's heavy fire, they would inevitably lead to heavy casualties.

Turning his head to look at the lake, he saw that the shadows of the boats on the dark lake gradually formed a brilliant light and shadow. It was a glimmer of light emitted by luminous paint, though not strong enough to illuminate the hull of a ship. But in the dark night, this light is enough to act as a guide.

After the boxes are put together, the three-millimeter steel plates are laid up, and the holes that have been made on the top are placed against the welded steel rings on the boxes, and the positions are fixed with latches. The huge floating dock was completed. Landing ships do not need to dock directly, and vehicles can be unloaded at such piers in deep water. During landing training, these luminous paints mark the route and identify the various connection points. The effect is better than flashlights and lights.

As you can see from the glow-in-the-dark signs, there are at least five floating docks parked on the shore. The sound of metal boxes clashing, the sound of trucks passing through the steel docks. The silence of four o'clock in the morning on the darkest day was broken.

Each floating dock allows three trucks to travel side by side. At six o'clock in the morning, Captain Shi Qian received an order from the battalion commander, "Get in the car and leave!" "Handing over the machine gun to the replacement troops, Captain Shi Qian and his troops followed the battalion commander down the heights. The soldiers' equipment has been placed on the prescribed vehicles and secured. I shone a flashlight on it and made sure that the truck's license plate was correct. The captain commanded the troops to get into the car, and the vehicles of the first formation departed.

For just over an hour, in addition to the sound of landing, Captain Shi Qian heard the humming of chainsaws and the sound of trees falling to the ground. Now he finally saw that the sappers had carved a passage through the woods at great speed. To save time, the trees should be broken lower than the truck chassis. From time to time, the wheels pressed against the stumps, and the bumpy vehicle was like a ship in a storm. Every soldier has to do everything he can to hold on to the railing to stabilize his figure.

No one spoke, everyone kept their mouths shut, biting their tongues was not a joke, but a very real threat. From the darkness before dawn to the twilight of the sky, this endless bump seems to never end. At this moment, the driver suddenly opened the window leading to the rear compartment, "Tell everyone, you don't have to cross the woods ahead!" ”

As soon as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the car was bumpy again. Compared to Fang Cai, these bumps are very light. It's just that the difference in mood makes everyone have great opinions about this horse-like bump, and there is a rather cheerful shouting and scolding in the carriage.

Shi Qian leaned out of the observation window on the roof of the carport. The sky was gray at dawn, and if you look closely, you can be sure that it looks like a sunny day. The trees behind it still look so dense that the road through the forest seems to be non-existent. You can only see a part of the trucks driving out of the forest.

Turning ahead, all you can see is the shadows of the mountains. All the troops had to do was make their way through the never-before-arrived mountainous region towards an even stranger land. Even if there are a thousand uneasiness in my heart, since I get in the car, I have no choice. Shi Qian retracted into the carriage, waiting for a new order.

The landing began at 4 o'clock, and by the time the military headquarters was ready to land, it was already 7 o'clock in the morning. Qi Rui stayed on the ship where the headquarters was located and didn't go out, and the information about the landing kept coming to the headquarters. After the landing, the 1st Division set out with the whole army, and the 2nd Division had also completed the landing and started to set off. The third division is landing, and according to the plan, at the same time as the landing of the third division, the headquarters will also land.

The three divisions did not line up in a long snake formation, but set off in three ways. The 1st Division was in the center first, and the 2nd and 3rd Divisions were left and right. The military headquarters chose to act with the guard battalion behind the 1st Division.

Qi Rui walked out of the cabin with the members of the military department, and at this time, the fluorescent paint had long been unable to see the light. Pieces of steel on the edge of the floating dock, which act as a springboard, are being hitched on the landing ship at different angles and heights. When they landed last night, they were all single-story transport ships, in order to prioritize efficiency. After dawn, the landing ships were all three-story transport ships, with ropes tied to the hooks at the tail of the trucks, and the landing ships controlled the pulleys that gradually lowered down the gangplank. The landing ship has 10 trucks on each floor, which can land three vehicles at the same time. If you don't look at it well, you will empty a layer after a while.

In addition to trucks, there are also oil tankers. Each vehicle did not have much fuel when it landed, and after the landing was completed, it was filled with fuel and the oil drum was loaded with fuel before it could set off. In addition to this, more than a hundred oil trucks with huge tanks on trucks followed the troops.

After casually glancing at the landing field, Qi Rui found that such a huge plan was completely contained in his head. All kinds of numbers, all kinds of models, divided into categories. A thought suddenly popped up in Qi Rui's mind, if he unfortunately died in this battle, the tombstone would simply be engraved with a line of words, "This person did not die from enemy artillery fire, but died from the weight of the numbers in the battle plan." ”

This is a somewhat humorous thought, but it's not that Qi Rui is afraid of death, but the number is too large, which is large enough to expel any irrational thoughts.

On April 15, the morning after the Chinese troops landed, an American cavalry arrived at the landing ground. This area is a place with high mountains and dense forests, and if it were not for the large number of aerial photos provided by the Chinese Air Force to find a way through and send a reconnaissance team to do on-the-spot reconnaissance, it would not be reasonable to see the passage through this area. In order to quickly pass through the woods, the Chinese army even used explosives. The movements of the Chinese are so loud that the Yankees cannot be unaware of them at all. However, after all, the mountains are high and densely forested, and it is not easy for Americans to come here. What's more, I heard that there may be a large number of Chinese troops here, and the American cavalry in charge of exploring the road trembled along the way, and the speed of action was also greatly affected.

There were no Chinese as expected, and there was no fighting. The American cavalrymen who arrived at the landing ground with their horses held their breath and looked at the huge traces that were far beyond their imagination. The wheel marks could be seen on the shore of the lake several miles wide, and there was also a lot of oil on the ground. There were no other horse's hoof marks, nor did they have the kind of trampled paths left by the footsteps of the infantry.

Following the trail, the American cavalry became more and more frightened. A strange path unfolded before their eyes, one that was crushed by something far more powerful than the cavalry and infantry. The road was rather winding and twisty, and if the infantry and cavalry had opened the way, they would not have chosen such a wasteful route under any circumstances.

In order to figure out what really happened, the cavalry could only follow this obviously stupid route, and it took four hours to follow the obviously newly opened road through the woods. After passing through the woods, in the fairly flat field, a large trail leads to the south. There was no one to be seen on the empty plain, only this trail leading straight to the south.

"What the hell did the damn Chinese do?" The cavalry captain couldn't help but curse. Something must have happened, something must have happened that the cavalry captain could not understand. Only by scolding like this can he ease the uneasiness in his heart.

"Shall we go along?" The team deputy asked.

The captain thought for a while and said, "You take a few people with you, and I'll go back and report now." ”

Hearing this order, the deputy of the team immediately greeted the female elders of the captain. Such a strange situation can at least prove that a large number of Chinese have passed here, and wouldn't it be a death to rush to follow? But since the captain gave the order, the deputy had no other way but to obey the order.

Seeing the captain leave quickly with some of the people, the deputy slowly urged the mount to move along the tracks. The other cavalrymen also knew the danger ahead, and since the captain had already reported the news, everyone was not willing to run too fast to catch up with the Chinese.

On the morning of 16 April, the captain of the reconnaissance unit finally returned to the place of departure. At about the same time, the artillery positions of the 24th Army, after two days of marching, had been determined to shoot at the Central Plains, and in the dawn of dawn, the guns were pointed at St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota. The infantry of the vanguard crossed the field and began to advance towards the city of St. Paul.