Chapter 264: Crossing the River 1
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Two soldiers of Annan were carefully peering along the river, and since the soldiers of the New Army had formed a shooting team on the opposite bank of the river, Annan soldiers had left many bodies on the beach to the south. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis river, which is only fifty meters wide, was originally almost unattainable for the previous bow and arrow firearms, but in front of the Senate rifles equipped by the new army, it is not a problem at all, and now the new army will send a platoon from time to time to randomly inspect the beach on the north side of the Jiehe River, and once it finds a suspicious target on the opposite river beach, it will shoot directly after warning.
However, today was different from usual, and there were no soldiers of the New Army running back and forth or walking back and forth in neat lines on the opposite riverbank. At this time, it was quiet on the other side, and no one was even seen, "What are those rebels doing now?" ”
"I don't know, weird, don't they usually set up a formation by the river?"
"Why don't we take a closer look?" His speech was quickly interrupted by his teammates, "Are you stupid? Are there still few corpses on the riverbank? As long as they see it, they will be killed directly! I haven't lived long enough. ”
"But Lord Ruan wants us to ......," the speech was again rudely interrupted. Lord Ruan has asked us to monitor the activities of the rebels, so let's do it here. ”
"But I can't see anything!"
"Okay, if you want to see anything, go directly to the river beach, don't be in the woods with my cat, who knows if there are any new troops hiding in the woods on the other side waiting for us to go out and fight as rabbits."
"But what would you say if Lord Ruan asked?"
"How so? You're so stupid, you wouldn't say there was no movement, would you? If you want to die, get out of the woods, and if you don't want to die, hide here with me. I'm afraid that you won't be able to walk in front of Lord Ruan alive, and you have to be alive to answer Lord Ruan's question. ”
As they spoke, they suddenly heard something on the other side, but it seemed to be quite far away, and the two of them couldn't help but quietly raise their heads and look at the northeast side where the sound came from for a while, but they didn't see anything.
"What was that sound just now?"
"Whatever, as long as it's not the new army crossing the river, there's nothing to be afraid of, but even if it's the new army crossing the river!" The person who spoke originally wanted to brag, but he was still a little worried, so he changed his words, "Then they have to catch up with me." ”
"Huh? Why is there a fire over there? The sharp eyes suddenly pointed to the northeast, and the other person hurriedly turned his head to look, and sure enough, at some point, a pillar of smoke rose above the distant woods in the northeast, and this pillar of smoke was black, and the smoke was billowing upward.
"Maybe there's a fire in the Forces nouvelles camp? No wonder I didn't see the new army in formation on the riverbank. ”
"No, it doesn't look like it's on fire, it's coming from us." The sharp-eyed one stared at the pillar of smoke that was obviously moving this way, "Could it be that the poor mud-legged ones in the north are talking about the dragon pulling the cart?" ”
"Fart! Since ancient times, who has the ability to drive the dragon from the sky and pull the cart? What's more, the dragon can breathe fire, and whoever drives them will not be burned to death immediately? Who can harness the dragon? ”
That pillar of smoke is really the legendary dragon cart - the train. In the past few days, a large number of Dongfanggang migrant workers have laid an improvised railway near the river, using a roughly leveled roadbed. In order to hide the eyes and ears of the people, the Forces nouvelles have been leveling the river beach at a predetermined unloading point by the river to facilitate the construction of pontoon bridges. The railroad was not a one-off, and even though the train that now runs on it pulls five boats and a huge creature covered with several layers of canvas, the front end of the railroad is still being built westward, and its destination is the Glorious Ridge oil extraction. As a result of this operation, the railway, which had been straight on the map, had to make a small bend in the direction parallel to the river so that the road could be closer to 200 meters north of the unloading point. In order to make loading and unloading easier, the people also built a temporary station here according to the plan.
This train has changed a lot from the trains running on other lanes, although it still uses a steam engine, but it is already a newer star type II joint steam engine, this steam engine composed of three groups of two cylinders is much more efficient than the star steam engine installed on the Puma type 1 steam locomotive, and the layout is more reasonable and more efficient. The Puma 1 locomotive could only tow 60 or 70 tons of weight in six carriages, but the steam locomotive, now known as the Puma 2, was able to haul ten carriages and more than 100 tons of cargo.
The train was carrying a company of Army Logistics and the Third Army Combat Company, and these soldiers had serious expressions on their faces, clenching the weapons and tools in their hands one by one, and even no one spoke, everything looked very nervous. The train was slowly moving into the temporary station, and on the platform of the station stood three phalanxes of red-uniformed soldiers, these soldiers wore rattan helmets covered with white helmets on their heads, and there was a silver shining metal badge in front of the rattan helmet - since the new army fell into the hands of Qian Longzhou, it had almost become Qian Longzhou's private army, and he replaced the silver metal family crest for the new army soldiers according to his own preference - in fact, they recycled their original badges and then plated a layer of silver on them by electroplating, Anyway, the princess fund pays for it, so he doesn't have to worry about it.
At present, the new army has expanded to the size of a battalion, with three combat companies of more than 300 people, and nearly 1,000 logistics and training recruits. Under the training of the Marine Corps, the combat training of the new army has also gradually upgraded, no longer just training platoon shooting as before, more began to carry out assassination combat training, and some of the soldiers of the new army who shoot accurately have also been equipped with rifled versions of senate rifles, so that the combat distance of the new army will cover from 0 to 400 meters in face-to-face combat, so that no enemy has a chance to take advantage of it.
And because of the Battle of Glorious Ridge -- Wu Wenshan independently commanded a platoon of troops without an officer to block the attack of thousands of bandits for several hours, the role of non-commissioned officers became apparent overnight, and this situation had a violent impact not only in the Senate army, but also in the new army. At present, all non-commissioned officers must be specially trained to ensure that they will not collapse in the event of an unexpected death of an officer, and that they can also form an independent combat group with the non-commissioned officer as the core to continue fighting.
However, Qian Longzhou, who was standing in front of the queue at this time, was not happy at all, he was annoyed that the Army Officer School and the Army Non-commissioned Officer School did not recruit students from the new army, so that the combat training received by the new army could only be taught by the Marine Corps by sending a few training instructors to teach it. Moreover, the soldiers of the new army did not have the quality of the soldiers of the Senate army, they had not received cultural education, they did not have much sense of discipline, and they were generally relatively old, so there was no way to carry out civilized education methods, so they had to let a few high-pitched Marine Corps training officers scold on the playground, or just crackle and give three times all day. The loud cursing and crisp slaps on the training ground of the New Army every morning became a scene in Dongfang Harbor at this time, which made Qian Longzhou even more unhappy, but after several failed attempts to bring the New Army under the banner of the Senate, he had to give up and look forward to other ways out for the New Army.
As the train came to a complete stop, several veteran officers jumped out of the carriage transporting people, and saw Qian Longzhou, who was wearing a red military uniform, an armed belt, and a Glock pistol, all of them were stunned, but they all reacted immediately, Qian Longzhou was going to be directly involved in the rescue of prisoners of war as a representative of the Senate and the supreme commander of the new army this time, and they all smiled and shook hands with him.
Groups of army soldiers came to the platform in an orderly manner from the carriages, and for a time the sound of the soldiers' passwords and the clamor of sorting out weapons and equipment was endless.
"Report to the company commander, the first platoon has been assembled, please instruct!"
"Report to the company commander, the second platoon has been assembled, please instruct!" ……
While the soldiers of the combat units were counting the number of people, the soldiers of the logistics units were not idle at all, and they had already begun to unload the trucks in accordance with the predetermined tasks.
The sudden noise on the north side of the river naturally attracted the attention of the two spies on the south side, "Why did it suddenly become so noisy over there?" ”
"I don't know, it must be on fire, extinguish the fire there, otherwise why are so many people's voices?"
"It's possible, but the smoke is gone, if it's a fire, at least the smoke is still rising, right?"
As he was talking, he saw that the woods by the river had begun to be violently shaken, and there was a loud noise, and a large number of birds suddenly flew up, like a dark cloud, flying around the direction of the black smoke just now. The flock of birds flew up and down in horror, chirping and chirping as if the end of the world was coming, and the two spies here also began to see that their legs and feet were weak, and they had no idea what was going on there. Suddenly, with a roar, followed by a shrill sawing sound, some of the trees in the middle of the woods suddenly dwarfed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then vanished. The two spies have been hearing rumors about Dongfang Harbor all along, because the rumors of this kind of thing are the same as the clouds, and in the process of spreading, they will be added to the gas and vinegar by the communicators at will, and most of them are the power of ghosts and gods when they reach their ears, but it is no wonder that with the knowledge of the natives of this time and space, they really can't think of an explanation other than ghosts and gods. It's not that they've never seen a tree cut down, but what kind of person can cut down a tree so fast? And cutting trees makes such a dense sawing sound, at least a thousand saws are sawing wood at the same time, right?
As a yellow monster sprang out of the woods, the two were officially scared to pee on their crotch. The monster had two strange legs, walking on the ground in the forest, the monster waved a black arm, the front end of the arm was an indescribable thing, I saw the monster's arm grab a tree, and then there was a piercing sawing sound, and then the thick tree was broken, and then the monster lifted the tree, threw it forward, and cut off all the branches and leaves on the tree. Then he peeled off all the bark with a bang, and then cut the tree into three pieces and threw it aside.
The two of them watched all this dumbfounded, they had never seen cutting down a tree, it would take at least three people to cut down a tree like this for a day or two, and it would take at least a whole day to remove the branches and leaves on it, not to mention such a thing as peeling the bark, which could not be done in ten days and half a month. But it only took a few minutes for the monster in front of him to cut down the tree, peel off the skin, and remove the branches and leaves, "I'm afraid this monster is going to be sacrificed by people, right?" ”
"How do you know?" "Don't you see that monster has a crystal house on it? There were still people sitting inside, presumably as a sacrifice for the sacrifice. The traitor is really not human, and he can even do such a thing as human sacrifice......" The indignant words came to an abrupt end, for he clearly saw the monster on the other side walking to the riverbank, and then the door to the crystal room was opened, and the man inside jumped out and began to wave behind him. Then suddenly a group of soldiers dressed in blue poured out of the woods from the path they had just opened, and they carried a boat overhead and walked briskly towards the river, followed by a second, and then a third...... By the time they finally counted them, there were six boats, and the first had been launched, and the soldiers on it were skillfully maneuvering the boat, and anchoring the river that was not turbulent.
"Is this a river crossing?"
"Definitely, yes, otherwise what would you want the ship for? Go back and report ......"
Before they could decide what to do, the skilled blue-clad soldiers had lowered their boats into the water and skillfully steered the boats across the river, and now there were five boats crossing the river parallel to each other, all five boats were the same nine meters long and three meters wide, and the distance between the boats was almost the same. Then more blue-uniformed soldiers poured out of the woods, carrying huge, thick planks in their hands, shouting trumpets and marching forward.
"What are these people doing?"
"Damn! They're building bridges! "Obviously, the audience has understood what these soldiers of the logistics unit on the other side are doing." The hull of the ship is used as a bridge pier, during which wooden planks are laid, which can be used as a bridge. Although the bridge deck is low, it is used temporarily, and people and vehicles, cattle and horses can pass. Fast! Let's go back quickly and report to Lord Ruan. ”
At the moment when they stood up, three or four people in colorful clothes and swarthy faces suddenly jumped out of the bushes around them, and suddenly they thought they were ghostly mandrills, and almost scared the two of them again. "Don't move! Hands up! ”
Although the two of them didn't know who these people were, they knew at a glance that the firearm in their hands was extremely well-made, and they didn't know when and how these people came to them, so they were frightened and hurriedly threw the weapons in their hands to the ground and knelt on the ground. When they were escorted to the river beach by the advance team of the special reconnaissance team, they were greeted by a pontoon bridge five meters wide, on which groups of soldiers in red uniforms were running across the river, shiny rifles on their shoulders. With another loud roar, everyone looked in the direction from which the sound came, and an Apocalypse Tank was driving out of the road that had been cut by the automatic lumberjack......
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