A gunboat, which was not of great tonnage, cut a splash on the water, and a dozen soldiers in digital camouflage uniforms on the deck lay there, their steel guns tightly clenched, facing outwards on guard. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is a small formation of four gunboats, Vietnam's special terrain and hydrological environment, suitable for these gunboats with a displacement of tens to hundreds of tons, shallow draft, but very strong firepower compared to the Tay Son Army. The Datang Navy has started a new round of warship dumpling plan, and in fact, in recent years, Datang's ability to build warships can be said to have been significantly improved in quality and quantity.

For example, the Jiangnan Shipyard under the United China Special Economic Zone has gradually developed into an excellent shipbuilding enterprise capable of manufacturing heavy cruisers, the main warship, and there are more than seven shipyards capable of manufacturing ordinary small gunboats in the entire Far East, both private and state-owned. Concentrated in Goodway and China, there is also a shipyard in Cambodia capable of manufacturing gunboats, which has been opened in recent years.

The cost of gunboats is low, and they can make a difference in maintaining coastal security, and even anti-smuggling and rescue operations, so after the Qiulong class, Datang has successively launched a number of gunboat models, and some have even entered the service of the local coast guard. In addition to the Qiulong-class gunboats, armed with 76-mm guns and twin 57-mm guns, they were also equipped with a displacement of 60 tons; Toad-class gunboats armed with two twin 30mm guns; 260 tons of Xianhe class equipped with two twin 57-mm guns and two twin 30-mm guns; and the Black Scale class, with a displacement of 500 tons and armed with a 155-mm gun and two twin 57-mm guns.

Although they are small in tonnage, they don't have much armor. But they are equipped with the best naval weapons of today. The armor-piercing 57mm cannon was able to easily penetrate the ironclad hulls of the warships of the navies of the European powers. Coupled with their high speed of more than 26 knots and their inherent flexibility due to their small size, there is actually a voice in the navy that these small boats can be used to defend any enemy fleet in the coastal waters with numbers and firepower, and that the cruiser fleet of the large-scale decisive battle type should be controlled as much as possible to prevent the waste of resources.

Naturally, the Datang Navy understands very well that even if the gunboats can watch over their homes and homes in the coastal waters, Datang must safeguard its overseas interests. It is necessary to have a large fleet capable of a decisive battle on the high seas. However, the navy has not given up on building these small gunboats, and the Datang Navy now has at least 100 gunboats of different types in various bases, and their costs range from tens of thousands of Tang Yuan to hundreds of thousands of Tang Yuan, and the price is very cost-effective.

These gunboats were also particularly well suited to the Vietnam theater, where the Navy sent several small gunboat formations to operate offshore and even sail directly into the estuary for reconnaissance and strike operations before a large-scale landing operation.

Lying on the deck of the gunboat are the elite SEALs of the Marine Corps, who follow the gunboat formation into the Vietnamese waterways and are tasked with groping for the enemy. And if the opportunity is right, they are also authorized to strike at enemy weak points. Of course, everything should start from self-preservation.

A seaplane flew leisurely in the sky, Yang Youguang's nagging illness started again, he said: "Obviously there are these winged ones, and they still want us to sneak in, and this gunboat is jumping on the river, what kind of sneak is this." ”

Zhou Junbao lowered his wide-brimmed hat, the sun in Annan was a little scorching, and the air was still very humid, which made him uncomfortable, Zhou Junbao said: "Our operation this time, the writing is to infiltrate reconnaissance, read as sabotage behind enemy lines. What kind of firepower and deployment can the Xishan Army have? As long as our gunboats find the enemy within range of the river, it will definitely be a round of shelling, and then we people are actually going to finish up, and if the enemy is farther away from the river bank, we will have room to play. However, I don't think the captain will necessarily risk us leaving the gunboat too far to carry out the operation, although the enemy is not strong, but we do not have motor vehicles, and the mobility will be relatively poor, and the military strength of the Xishan Army is a lot after all, and it will be a trouble if we are besieged. ”

Yang Youguang continued to discuss: "Actually, I think we are just startling the snake, now the people of the Xishan Army must be alert when they see our gunboats, and when our large army begins to land in 12 hours, it will not be the Xishan Army that is completely unconscious." ”

Haiphong was still only a small fishing village with a few dozen households in this era, not a city with frequent trade and shipping, many cities prospered by shipping after modern times, especially in China, such as Dalian, Qingdao, and Shanghai. After the late 19th century, with the increase in the French invasion of Vietnam, Vietnam's coastal defense slowly became an important trading port in northern Vietnam.

As the captain of the team, Wang Tao compared the map at this time and sighed: "I thought that we would encounter some obstacles, but we advanced along the Taiping River, and we may have to touch Thang Long Mansion in a few kilometers, but the villages along the river are empty, and most of the fields are barren, and there are no military targets worth attacking." ”

Wang Tao's group of people are already in their thirties or even early forties, they love their military profession, and every time they participate in a war in the future, there will be one less chance of this, after all, one day, Wang Tao, Zhou Junbao and others will become instructors who teach recruits, and they can't continue to gallop on the battlefield.

Seal has been training new team members every year, and although the training and assessment are devilish, there are still some outstanding students who stand out. However, the number of seals is relatively limited, and Wang Tao and others have already felt that the existence of these people has hindered the addition of fresh blood. Of course, the Navy SEALs are extremely protective and attached great importance to veteran non-commissioned officers like Wang Tao and Zhou Junbao, because these people inherit the spirit of the Tang Dynasty and can help recruits master the necessary military skills and experience, so even if they are iron-clad soldiers, the wealth of their troops is not so easy to give up. Perhaps the special forces who are close to forty years old are not as good as they used to be in terms of physical fitness, but having such an old master officer in a squad is like having a treasure of infinite wisdom, which can greatly increase the chances of mission success. (To be continued.) )