"Lingao." Bei Wei held a Russian-made infrared telescope and muttered to himself. The view under the infrared telescope is a little blurry, but the general outline is clear.

Beiwei has also traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland in the past. From Pingyao, Shanxi, and Phoenix, Hunan to the ancient city with only the wall foundation remaining, I have seen all kinds of ancient cities. But this is the first time that a county town like Lingao has been seen -- oval-shaped, long from east to west, and short from north to south. Figuratively speaking, like an olive.

The whole city of Lingao County faces south in the north, backed by high mountains and mountains, and faces the Wenlan River. The river bends here to the northeast, forming a bend, the river water is environmentally friendly and hugs the city, "because the river is the pool", there is no special moat.

The height of the castle wall is about 7 meters. The circumference of the city is very small, and it is estimated that Beiwei is only between 1.5 kilometers. Although it is small, the fortification is not bad, and there are towers at the gates of each city, and there seem to be gun emplacements, and the walls are all covered with masonry. The Ming Dynasty was very willing to spend manpower and material resources on urban fortification, and even such a small border county was heavily fortified. Bei Wei remembered that he had traveled to the ruins of an ancient city in a large country in the universe: the so-called city wall built up of rocks + mud was not as high as the wall of the primary school where he had studied, and the city gate was the same as the tunnel under the train embankment. It is really worthy of traveling around Shijie to spread the flame of civilization to the four ancient civilizations, and Zuihou retreated to the first power in the universe on the peninsula.

(Note: At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the height of Lingao County was only one zhang when it was first built, and it was the imperial widow in Jiajing, and the city wall was increased to two zhang, and at the same time, the tower was repaired, and the city wall was wrapped in bricks and stones)

At this moment, from the infrared telescope, you can see that the bonfire lanterns on the city wall are one after another, and the soldiers are patrolling back and forth, and it seems that the defense is very tight. However, even he, who had never studied the history of ancient warfare, could see that the fortification of the city gate was very flawed. The east and west gates are located at the two ends of the olive, completely protruding outward, and the two wings are uncovered, so the attackers can concentrate on the onslaught gates at the tip without worrying about the firepower of the two wings. As for the south gate facing the Wenlan River, it is the most protruding place in the middle waist of the entire 'olive'.

There are some buildings outside the east gate, but there are no lights, and there is a dead silence. On the Wenlan River outside the south city gate, there is a long continuous arch stone bridge, which is rebuilt on the basis of the wooden bridge of Taiping Bridge in the Yuan Dynasty during the Yongle period, the bridge has nine holes, named Linjiang Bridge.

(Note: This bridge, also known as Wenshui Bridge, was renovated in the Qing Dynasty, was heightened and widened in the 50s, and was used until the end of the 60s of the 20th century, and in 1970, the ancient bridge was demolished. ）

"Looks like the county already knows we're coming." Li Jun whispered.

"Don't speak, be vigilant." Bei Wei adjusted the focal length of the telescope.

At dusk, Ma Qianzhuo approached Beiwei and asked him to lead a capable reconnaissance team to advance inland along the Wenlan River and directly into the city of Lingaoxian.

"Insert it into Lingao City with the fastest action and monitor the movement of the county." Ma Qianzhuo told him, "It's not your task to survey along the road. ”

After receiving the order, he immediately transferred three personnel from the military group who had just rested, and one more person from the communications group. After picking up the necessary equipment and preparing a little, we set off after nightfall.

"Your task is not to fight, but to monitor the other party's movements, there is no need not to kill people."

According to the nature of the mission, the scouts changed into camouflage uniforms and, in addition to rifles, specially brought a Saiga-308 rifle with a scope, an infrared telescope and a 2-watt radio.

Off-road at night may be somewhat difficult for the average person, but it is not difficult for military personnel. Not to mention that they are also equipped with a pair of low-light night vision goggles each. What is slightly more difficult is that there is no Lingao map of this time and space in his hand, and it is difficult to judge his position on the way, so Beiwei decided to follow the river as much as possible - according to the geographical data of this time and space, 12 kilometers up the river is Lingao County, and there are obvious landmarks such as Bairentan on the way as a reference. Combined with the compass and map reading, you won't get lost without a guide.

If it is a general road, 12 kilometers can be walked by ordinary people for 3 hours. Although there are no roads at the moment, when the staff officers traveled, they found that there was basically no complicated terrain on both sides of the Wenlan River, and it was enough for four hours at most.

In fact, they were faster than they imagined, and the team marched along the river while wearing night vision goggles, without rest along the way, and they had already seen the lights of Lingao County in 3 hours.

A small hillside was selected across the river, which is a mixed wood forest, which is in the middle of the south gate and the east gate of the county, facing the city wall across the river, and can clearly monitor the south gate and the east gate. The scouts set up an observation position here and sprinkled the powder to repel snakes and insects. In September, the temperature was already very low and the dew was heavy, so the team members set up a small shed with rain cloth and began to wait in shifts.

"Captain, the command has called and asked us to report the situation." Li Yunxing, who served as a newspaper operator, reported.

"This is Bei Wei next to the telegraph."

"This is Ma Qianzhuo next to the telegraph, how are you doing?"

"Good. The reconnaissance team arrived at Lingao at 21:12 on September 1 of the lunar calendar, "Bei Wei looked down at his watch, "It is currently under observation." ”

"What is the current situation in Lingao?"

"It has been put on alert, and there are about 20 people patrolling the southern wall from west to east."

"Continue to monitor and contact you anytime you have any situation. Complete. Ma Qianzhuo ended the call, looked up at the clock on the ship, the hour hand had pointed to half past nine in the evening, more than ten hours had passed on the day of D, a large number of supplies and equipment had been unloaded, and the beach base had begun to take shape. The camp is now strong enough to withstand the attacks of several hundred local fighters. However, the reports from everywhere are not encouraging. Some basic building materials are scarce, and most of the facilities that have been built with a lot of man-hours are temporary structures. Many basic livelihood facilities are also not in place.

The contact with the locals is zero, and although the military team members on the cordon have found a large number of traces of human activity, they have not encountered the locals for the time being. The lookout post on the beacon tower spotted that a small number of sailing boats passed by on the sea from time to time, but there was not a single fishing boat near Changgong Bay, the main fishing ground of Lingao fishermen. Apparently scared away by the alarm of the beacon.

At the summary meeting on the first day, many members of the executive committee believed that the original Jihua turtle flow strategy was too conservative, and everything that happened on D-day proved that the Snail in Bopu Port was not conducive to the upgrade of the base. The current state, according to Wang Luobin, is an endless cycle: there are not enough building materials - no production base - no production base - no building materials - not enough building materials. To break through this cycle, we must quickly go out and establish an industrial base in a suitable place for development.

Judging from the news from the reconnaissance team, the locals are now panicked and just keep their doors behind closed doors, and will not attack the traverser at all. It is a good opportunity to quickly expand the scope of control and upgrade the base.

The meeting made a decision that a second reconnaissance team would be dispatched at dawn tomorrow with the task of mapping the terrain and surveying resources in the adjacent areas.

"At the same time, we will also send another line survey team to survey and design the Bopu-Bairentan Highway." Wen Desi's colored pencil drew a line on the transparent plate of the map, "We are surveying, designing, and constructing, and all the labor and machinery except for maintaining the necessary manpower and equipment to continue unloading are put into this project. We will try to open up the connection between the two places in three or four days, so that by D+5 we can start construction work in Bairentan.

"Both survey teams need military teams to defend them, right?" He Ming asked, "The military group has to apply for the recruitment of 10 additional militiamen into active duty. ”

Wen Desi frowned, human resources are quite tight at the moment, and once the road construction begins, it goes without saying that there is a shortage of labor. But the military team was indeed stretched to the point of being overstretched, with twenty-one men to be in charge of land and sea vigilance, and four more were sent to reconnoiter without rest at the end of the day, and the rest were now in the various towers and outposts - they had to take turns napping.

"Well, someone can give it to you." "Each survey team will have two guards. He glanced at He Ming, "This is not a big problem, is it?" ”

He Ming nodded: "No problem." Organizationally, there is a tight labor force right now. Military team members are also required to participate in labor when they are not on duty. ”

"It's been a hard day for you to be on guard."

"I have discussed with Bai Yu, Zhao De, and Chen Haiyang that the duty plan of the military group will be adjusted, and each person on the alert duty must take 2 hours of labor every day, and I will take the lead."

As the sky grew brighter, the early hours of D+1 descended on the First Scouting Team, each wearing camouflage cloaks, and the dew made them wet.

In the binoculars, you can see the people on the top of the city yawning and taking down the lanterns and extinguishing them, the torches are extinguished, and the smoke curls in the morning light.

At night, I saw the vague buildings outside the east gate, which turned out to be temples and other buildings. The city is surrounded by open fields, with large areas of wilderness mixed with paddy fields, and several residential settlements scattered in between.

Wei Aiwen slowly climbed to Li Jun's observation position and said, "Brother Li, let's do it." ”

"What do you want to do?"

"Go to the county seat."

"Just the five of us?" Li Jun glanced at the three people who were sleeping under the camouflage shed. This Xiao Wei is really a left-leaning adventurist.

"We're five semi-automatic, and we're still afraid of how many natives he has? Rushing up and scaring them all away with a single bullet. ”

"Then you go and put on your raincoat first."

“weishenme？”

"If you dress like us, you will definitely be treated as a demon splashing dog blood and."

"......" Wei Aiwen also knew that this was impossible, his real idea was to shoot meat, after SKS got his hands, he asked for a Russian-made R14 scope with a dead face, and pestered Bei Wei to help him practice, yesterday when he was on alert, he had been "empty" dozens of times, and today he was looking for a chance to try his marksmanship.

Bei Wei was woken up by their words, and said: "Save it, the task given to us by the Executive Committee is to reconnoitre, not to fight, and to shoot rashly will expose our intentions, and besides, the purpose of this time is to reconnoitre, and the second is to train and train the team." You didn't get tired and lie down as soon as you got here, and you woke up after sleeping for most of the night. ”

"I've taken half the night for you, you have to remember to pay me back next time." Li Jun said, "I'm in my thirties, and I hurt my body on the night shift......