150 people set off towards Lingshui County with neat steps, and behind the team was a baggage team of no less than 300 people. There were no horses in Yulin Bay www.biquge.info the military committee requisitioned all the cattle and hired more than 300 people as a baggage team, and Luan Xu's logistics team worked overtime to make some wooden ox carts. All the rations, tents, and baggage were put on the carts, and the soldiers carried only their own weapons and 3 days' rations.

It is about 150 miles from Yulin Bay to Lingshui County, and according to pre-war calculations, it may take four days. It's not that the army is too slow, it's that the ox carts of the logistics troops really can't go fast.

Seeing that the sun was in the west, the team traveled more than 40 miles. The first platoon led by Second Lieutenant Li Fuqiang waited for the afternoon before seeing the large army slowly appear in the field of vision. In the modern army, a 5-kilometer weight-bearing cross-country pull can be completed in a maximum of 20 minutes. Han Wantao applied this subject to the training of the Ming Dynasty army, although it was impossible to meet the requirement of more than 20 minutes, but after nearly three months of training and sufficient nutrition every day, these soldiers could still complete it in 40 minutes. Li Fuqiang's first excluded weapons and rations, water bags, and nothing else, and he traveled lightly. It took less than half a day to reach the intended location.

When the large force arrived, the soldiers of the first platoon had just woken up from a nap.

"How's the situation around?" Han Wantao, Jiang Beiming and several squad leaders got together.

"Report sir, everything is normal. This is a topographical map of the surroundings, and I discussed it with the 3 squad leaders and suggested that the camp be located here. Li Fuqiang spread out a piece of paper and pointed to a place on the map.

"What do you think?" Han Wantao asked Jiang Beiming.

"Don't ask me, you decide for yourself." Jiang Beiming said, "You are the commander of this operation, I am only representing the Military Commission, and I will not express my opinion." Besides, I'm from the Navy, and you're in the Army. ”

Han Wantao stared at the map for a while: "No problem, just set up camp according to your plan, and in addition, put the machine gun team in front of this place." ”

This was the first actual combat camp, and Han Wantao ordered to be meticulous in strict accordance with the requirements of the training. The whole baggage team and all the soldiers were busy working collectively, setting up tents, digging trenches, ramming earth walls, setting up horses, and after an hour, the camp was set up, and the smell of food came from all around.

Jiang Beiming and Han Wantao took the squad leaders to inspect and returned to the tent satisfied. There is no canvas in Yulin Bay yet, and after discussing with each other, the two committees decided to make some simple tents out of cotton cloth first, and this time the bandits also wanted to test whether such tents were really practical. In the tent, only the squad leader served by the traverser was left, and everyone was snoring and eating with their rice bowls.

The marching rations cost the military council a lot of brains, and Qiongzhou is located in the tropics, and it has been fighting outside for a long time, and it is easy to spoil and carry too much fresh meat and vegetables. The scientific research team could not do anything about it, but the logistics team went through several tests and provided some samples. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, corn, sweet potatoes and other American crops had been transmitted to China, but they had not yet been promoted. Luan Xu, whose family was in Shandong in his previous life, used rice flour and corn flour to make Shandong specialty pancakes, according to Luan Xu, this thing should be easy to carry and easy to preserve. The Sichuan people in the group made bacon and boiled rice flour and some scraps of pigs, cattle and sheep with salt to make something similar to the luncheon meat of later generations, which was kept in clay pots. On this expedition, Han Wantao brought a little bit of all the food developed by the logistics group in order to verify which is the future development direction of the army's rations.

"All sit down, all sit down." Jiang Beiming beckoned everyone to sit down, and took out a notebook from his pocket, "Let's talk about it, how does it feel about a day's march." ”

"Talk about feelings." Li Fuqiang took a bite of Luan Xu's pancake vigorously, "What the is this thing called, my cheeks hurt when I chew it." And what kind of luncheon meat, we don't lack salt in Yulin Bay, but we can't kill those who sell salt, what is the difference between this and eating pickles. ”

"Who told you to eat, tell me how you feel on the march." Han Wantao spit out something in his mouth with a "poof", "But you're right, this thing is really too unpalatable." ”

"If you want to talk about the feeling of marching, there is nothing else, just one, the marching speed is too slow." Li Fuqiang said, "You said that our baggage team is slower than the old cow pulling the broken car." Hey, don't say it, it's really an old cow pulling a broken car. ”

Li Fuqiang's words caused a burst of laughter from everyone.

"There's no way around this, our current mobility is really weak." Jiang Beiming explained, "We don't have horses, so we can only rely on foot. ”

"Hey, I really miss the infantry fighting vehicles of the past." Zhou Lei also served as a soldier before crossing.

"Don't talk about those useless ones, I still miss tanks." Li Fuqiang continued to ask Han Wantao, "Company commander, can we do this, let the baggage team walk slowly behind, let's have a quick march, I estimate that we can reach Lingshui County in 2 days at most, and a surprise attack can be done, and when we take the cottage, the baggage team just arrives, just let them carry the supplies, anyway, we each have 3 days' rations with us." ”

"It's not going to work." Han Wantao directly vetoed Li Fuqiang's suggestion, "The Military Commission means military training, not rushing. Therefore, we must fight steadily and steadily, step by step, and strive to expose as many problems as possible in the army's actual combat through this expedition; the results of the battle are not important, but the important thing is the problems, and the more exposed the better. It's really like you said, we don't have to go at all, Lin Zhaolong's marines will solve it. ”

Han Wantao's troops fought steadily for 40 miles a day, and walked for 4 days before arriving in Lingshui County. Lin Zhaolong was about to cry when he saw Han Wantao: "Why did you come, there is no fresh meat and vegetables, we have been gnawing on pancakes for a few days, and birds have faded out of our mouths." ”

"I'm afraid you'll have to nibble on pancakes for another day, and we've just eaten all the vegetables and meat." Han Wantao's answer made Lin Zhaolong feel like he was rushing to the sky.

"But don't worry." Jiang Beiming comforted, "Knock down the cottage, and you have everything." ”

In the evening, several officers and Li Shuang formed a circle in Jiang Beiming and Han Wantao's tent, and a topographic map was spread out on the ground.

"The situation has been reconnoitred. Wagangzhai should not know about our arrival now, our current location is about 4 miles away from Wagangzhai, and the large army can go there in half an hour. There is only one road from the foot of the mountain to the village, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the cottage is not too high, and it is more than 300 meters from the gate to the bottom of the mountain, that is, about 250 steps. Lin Zhaolong was afraid that Li Shuang would not understand the concept of rice, so he explained again, "The gate is made of wood, relatively strong, and there are earthen walls on both sides. There are about 300 people on the mountain. There are more than 200 young and strong, and the rest are old and weak and women. There are no firearms, but there are some rolling wood stones at the entrance of the village, and there is a back door leading to the back mountain in the cottage, and I don't know if there is a tunnel inside. In general, it shouldn't be difficult to knock down, but you have to figure out how to get close to the walled gate, if you attack it, I'm afraid there will be casualties. ”

"I can take my people to touch it in the middle of the night, and then close the inside and the outside, and open the gate. My 4 men still have a bit of kung fu. Li Shuang volunteered.

"Nope." Han Wantao arched his hand towards Li Shuang, "Thank you Brother Li for your kindness, but we must not let Brother Li take this risk." Brother Li, in our homeland, it is important to defeat the enemy, but protecting ourselves is the first thing, and we must not let any soldier die for no reason, let alone Brother Li. ”

Li Shuang didn't understand what Han Wantao meant, a war, an immortal can call a war. Besides, don't people have it, and if they die, they will recruit them, as long as they have money and food, they are afraid that they will not be able to recruit soldiers?

Seeing that Li Shuang didn't understand his words, Han Wantao didn't explain much, but said to the people around him: "Rest early tonight, ambush all in front of the mountain before dawn tomorrow morning, and launch a general attack as soon as dawn to catch him off guard." In addition, be prepared to hit the wood to deal with the walled gate. Lin Zhaolong, you lead your marines and the soldiers of the Yazhou Qianhu Institute to block the back door, and you must not let one go. This time we are going to go all out and leave no reserves. Also, Li Fuqiang, prepare more wooden shields to guard against bows and arrows. Prepare those thunderbolts and canisters of fire and burn them if you can't open them. "In addition to the thunder, the scientific research team also imitated the ** to make some oil cans, mixed with various grease, sulfur and oil in the crockpot, the test effect is not bad.

The sky in the east was white, Han Wantao raised his hand and glanced at his watch, it was now more than 5 o'clock in the morning in the future. The watches, especially the mechanical ones, carried by the traversers, have been confiscated and preserved as military supplies. 90 soldiers have been lying on their stomachs in the grass for more than two hours. Lin Zhaolong and Li Shuang led the landing team and Zhou Chongde's soldiers to leave in the middle of the night, and the soldiers of the first company were woken up from their sleep at 1 o'clock, and after eating, they sneaked to the foot of the mountain, and everyone's hats and clothes were full of branches. At present, the first company has no armor, and each person only wears a wicker helmet modeled after the helmet of later generations. Han Wantao held the binoculars and looked at it for a while, it was very quiet in front of the walled gate, and there were no people walking around.

Heralds. ”

"Here." A teenage Ming Dynasty warrior replied.

"The order went down, and the whole army crawled forward, arrived at the designated position and waited for the order." The so-called designated location is about 40 meters away from the gate of the wall, and this distance, whether it is a thunderstorm or a canister of oil, can be thrown near the gate of the wall.

"Yes." The herald turned and left.

The entire infantry company slowly moved forward, and from Han Wantao's position, it looked like 90 big green worms wriggling on the grass.

"Who!" Li Fuqiang finally climbed to a place more than 50 meters away from the Zhaimen, and suddenly a shout came from behind the Zhaimen, and then a head poked out.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh." Before Li Fuqiang could give an order, he shot several crossbow arrows from his left and right. The head behind the gate shrank back, and at the same time there was a banging sound.

"Damn, who the is in such a hurry." Li Fuqiang scolded in his heart, but he couldn't let him think about it anymore, "The first row, the wooden shield." Fire commanders and crossbowmen are ready. Grenadier drops. ”