Chapter 55: Outwitting Tiger Mountain
"Report!"
"Come in." As soon as he finished speaking, an army lieutenant in leather boots opened the curtain.
A command tent is abruptly erected at the suburban fork in Hazelal, the city closest to the border with Sielta, and is surrounded by field generator sets, a communications station made of solar panels, and several living containers and sentry posts.
"Report to the battalion commander, the day before yesterday we had found traces of that erratic road rage team at the foot of Mount Vitagore in the city of Hazelar, 35 kilometers near the border of Sielta......"
In the vast territory of the Elta Empire, the hostile forces that floated on the surface have disappeared. However, outside of the area of Cierta, which has been repeatedly cultivated by various security forces, there are still a lot of problems that need to be solved in the former Elta and the legacy of the war.
And the biggest problem is the suppression of bandits.
If these bandits look stupid and funny like the general crossing text, the protagonist's troops are all over the world and famous all over the world, and they don't know how powerful the protagonist is, let alone the fried chicken that the protagonist wants to use them as an example monkey, just know that the majesty of the king of the mountain and the king of the road will come all the way down the mountain. The favorite thing for the regular army to suppress bandits is to wait for work: the next big incense bait can catch a nest, so why not?
Wake up, that's a passive skill for the protagonist of the traversal text. If you really open your mouth when you see softness, and open your mouth even more when you see hardness, then you can't call it a bandit, we have to go to their hill to have a righteous hall, insert a substitute for the heavenly road, or simply order a green forest university to recruit disciples, and strive to recruit Fang La as soon as possible, and level the high level...... No, what is special, are you sure that the action on this mountain is not called the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and the action of eating hard is not called anti-encirclement and suppression?
Since ancient times, there have been few legends of bandits that take all the hard and soft, and there are legends, and I can't believe it. On the contrary, it is the slippery loaches who can listen and see all directions that can survive - it is always a rowing boat that can see more than others, so high that they don't know where to go, elders...... Phew, Mr. Darwin is not a fool. As for the "bandits" who have been talked about by the bald chairman for a lifetime...... Let's talk about what to eat at noon today.
"Very well, they finally couldn't stand the siege and decided to escape? Or plunder some supplies? "The commander of the second battalion of the third regiment of the Elta Army intends to take a test of the reconnaissance platoon commander who has made meritorious contributions in front of him, but in fact, the battle situation is completely clear after a little analysis by him and the battalion headquarters.
"Having lost their camp, they have no choice but to flee." The lieutenant with the report, that is, the commander of the reconnaissance platoon, replied. "This gang of road ragepers should be the remnants of the first line of bandits in the entire Vitagore-Danmuga Mountains, and the last time they were not completely caught, it was really ...... to the organization"
"Scout platoon commander!"
"Here!" The reconnaissance platoon commander, who was surprised that he was a little instigated, immediately touched the heel of his shoe and came to a standard stand.
"I command you not to blame yourself too much!" The battalion commander's tone was startled, and when he got here, he instantly softened. "They can run, on the one hand, the Yamaga were frightened and touched the stumbling mines we set up to lead away the main force, on the other hand, they are too familiar with the terrain and landforms, and our unmanned reconnaissance aircraft above the snowfall line not only have to narrow the scope of surveillance, but also lack discernment. All in all, you have been responsible for the storming of the bandits' camp. β
"Understood! What about the battalion commander, how is my reconnaissance platoon arranged? β
"Continue to follow, and hand over the main attack and escort tasks to the other brother troops." The battalion commander touched his chest pocket, but couldn't touch his e-cigarette. "However, it is necessary for your reconnaissance platoon to lower some of the observation posts below the snow line. We should come out and draw the snake out of the hole. However, the specific operation still depends on your own on-site judgment. β
"Yes!"
Snowfall on Mount Vitagore this year is earlier than usual, and although it is only a thin layer of pine forests and ground, the surface temperature of the rocks above the kilometer is already below freezing, and the snow layer can be preserved intact.
"Well, Earth Tiger received."
In the seemingly uninhabited pine forest, two shadows suddenly jumped down from the trees.
"Say, should we go to resupply first, or should we set up an observation post at the predetermined point first?"
"Let's finish the last shift." The seemingly older soldier of the two exhaled a long breath from the hood of the subarctic taiga camouflage suit. "We have enough supplies, enough to last until the shift change. Besides, it seems that the team leader is going to gather for a meeting, and if we go to supply now, it will be called an escape. β
The two of them walked cautiously along the exposed part of the rock, occasionally using binoculars to look around. Outside of their sight, there were many of the same observation posts carefully covering each other and heading towards the lower altitudes, leaving some room for the road fighters to die.
In the previous large-scale anti-bandit operation, it was because the unmanned nodes that "peeled onions" were disrupted by animals, so that the main force in the snow peak and the descending part of the besieged camp was transferred away from the mountain. In the end, although the vast majority of the bandits were caught by the reconnaissance platoon in an ambush on a certain mountain road under the arrangement of Longzyan, some of them still took advantage of the chaos and relied on their familiarity with the terrain to escape to the nearby Vitagore Mountain.
The valley road of Mount Vitagore is one of the important thoroughfares between Cierta and the Southern Metropolis Union. Of course, the capital line is much more stable than this road, but due to the lack of detours and the smooth cement pavement in the second half, many travelers have begun to choose this shortcut since the recovery of the whole territory of Elta.
With the help of a pickaxe and boots, climbing around the rocks is not a big problem. Soon the observation post was below the snow line, and the two soldiers stopped by a tree and lowered their backpacks.
"Do you come first or do I come first?"
"You go first." The older soldier leaned slightly, and the white and gray-black irregular digital camouflage on his body quickly blended into the ground, and from a distance it looked like a somewhat abrupt mountain rock.
The soldier next to him quickly took off his camouflage uniform, which was similar in style, and dropped the inside and outside. In fact, this camouflage coat does not have any inside and outside, it is nothing more than the camouflage that fits the evergreen coniferous forest, which is closer to the body and warmer.
After changing clothes, change pants. The camouflage cloth on the outside of the backpack had to be turned over and re-attached with Velcro, and finally even the camouflage strip on the modified Type 56 semi-automatic rifle in their hands had to be removed and wrapped around in a completely different color.
In just a few minutes, the white figure that had been moving between the snow-capped mountain cliffs was perfectly transformed into a jagged rock that walked through the rocks and trees.
"The king of heaven calls the tiger, the king of heaven calls the tiger, and our group has arrived at the predetermined place. Complete. β
"Holding the grass, it is worthy of the group of Chinese teachers, and they really ran fast enough......" On the side of the Tiger Group, the veteran in charge of the radio station did not reply immediately, but complained first. The Tiger received it and is expected to arrive in five minutes. β
The post-war arrangement of the Elta Army was to raise the professionalism and professionalism of the standing army to a level close to that of the PLA. As for the other three infantry regiments that joined the Elta Army before the war, they were dispersed and used as security forces in various places after screening, or they went directly back to work in their original units. Military cadres at all levels joined the expansion of the remaining three infantry regiments.
The three infantry regiments are expected to be expanded into three infantry brigades (less than full). To be honest, Elta's territory is so large (close to the size of the North American Federation) that it seems a little uncomfortable not to have a few army groups. However, considering that the land gap is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the principalities south of the land gorge have shown no signs of turning the sky in recent years, and the landing of Elta from the sea is really a fantasy, the armament size of the three fully equipped brigades is completely sufficient.
Among them, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade will focus on mechanized rapid response operations, and the 2nd Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Brigade will focus on training cross-sea and long-distance delivery operations. The 3rd Mountain Brigade, now the 3rd Infantry Regiment, focused on mountain operations.
On the one hand, the suppression of bandits is to eliminate the difficult threat to law and order, and on the other hand, it is to prepare for the barbarian clearance operation to open up the communication line on the west coast.
The Earth Tiger Group suppressed the speed while trotting down a dirt slope, and below was the Heavenly King Group, the Pagoda Group, and the River Demon Group, which had been waiting at the meeting point for a long time.
"Everyone is a battle-hardened elite, so I'll make a long story short." The leader of the Tianwang Group is a border sentinel of the former troops stationed in Tibet, not to mention the mountains, even the plateau and even the roof of the world. "Well, what the platoon commander conveyed to me was to lure the wolf out. So whatβ"
On the other hand, his deputy had already unfolded the map on the ground, although there were no colorful colors on it, but the map with clear contour lines was more suitable for the use of troops than satellite maps.
"If the bandits want to escape, they will choose the northeastern route, which is close to the edge of the road and the border. In other words, the position we are in now is the perpendicular elongation of the contour line. β
"So how do we make sure they come out of here and don't look further and move back and forth to trick us out of the nest?"
"That's a good question." The former border sentry pulled a tripping bolt from his backpack. "We still rely on it this time, but this time the treacherous thunder is remote-controlled."
The advantage of this tripping bolt is that it not only kills the tripwire's facing position, but also fires a signal flare from the mine's body and emits a loud beep at the same time.
"In the enemy's forward position?"
"Nope." The border sentinel's index finger shook slightly. "What Platoon Commander Lonziyan means is to put it in this position on the map."
"This is not the enemy's expected escape route. No, this extension leads directly to Headquarters? β
"As soon as the stumbling thunder sounds, let's just stop moving and still ambush here. I'd like to see if these bunny road rage brawns have the same courage as last time. β