Chapter 827: West Coast Expansion Plan (2)

Before Li Heng, who was drooling three feet long, didn't open his mouth to ask for it, Gu Renjie had already taken the initiative to say: "The army is the cornerstone of the North American colonies, and the incumbents of the branch have the status of soldiers. "Speaking of this, Li Heng has nothing to be polite about.

"Please convey to the second young master, the Jinshan Governor's Mansion will not take advantage of the telegraph company, and all expenses will be paid in gold." Li Heng hurriedly stated that the telegraph company was private, and the development of the style did not mean that it would be a loss-making transaction.

The matter of telegram belongs to self-casting, and Li Heng is not stupid, so he naturally knows what is going on. Turning his head to look at Tanaka Jie, he said: "The First Regiment of the North American Infantry of the Ming Dynasty, when will it be able to enter the battle?" Tanaka Jie snapped a straight upright: "Back to the Governor, you can do it at any time!" ”

Li Heng said: "In this place in North America, one person and one horse may not have too strong mobility, and I try my best to meet the requirements of one person and two horses." Half a month at the latest, what do you think? Tanaka Jie said: "Lord Governor, in fact, there is no need for the whole army to attack, just concentrate the existing horses and dispatch a battalion, and it will not delay things." ”

"It seems that your faith is very strong, and I want to see where your faith comes from." Li Heng said this, Tian Zhongjie had no choice, so he had to pull it out and slip away, who would believe the empty words. It was impossible to say that Tanaka Jie had to hold up the face of the mountain brigade, and he couldn't be stepped on in the face, so he immediately lost his smiling face, and said, "Please show the governor." ”

Li Heng didn't hide his thoughts of "embarrassing" others at all, and walked out of the door. Standing in the corridor and pointing to a piece of high ground to the south, he said: "The distance is about eight kilometers, we will set off at four o'clock tomorrow morning, and complete the preparations for the attack before six o'clock." Well. Horseback riding is not permitted. Well, it's an encounter. "This topic is called a lack of morality, everything else is easy to say, it is not too big a problem for mountain brigades not to ride horses, the key is that this topic is not authentic. The reconnaissance of the terrain before the war must not be enough in time, otherwise what is it called an encounter? You just can't send someone to investigate today. What are the troops deployed on the high ground? This is not unexplained. There are also no horses. What about the artillery? In particular, the 75 mountain guns were disassembled and carried on horses.

Dai Zhiyuan, who had not spoken, also felt that the egg hurt, knowing that this was deliberately embarrassing. I have the intention of killing the arrogance of the mountain brigade. So even if he felt that it was inappropriate, he didn't disagree with Li Heng on this point.

Tanaka Jie was certainly annoyed, but he had no intention of refutating it, and the military took obedience as his duty. A Lizheng replied crisply: "I understand the lowly position!" Li Heng and Dai Zhiyuan turned around and left without saying a word. After leaving the camp, Dai Zhiyuan finally spoke: "Brother Li, aren't you afraid of backfire?" Li Heng said with a smile: "They really have to do what I want, what about bowing your head and blessings, I am the navy." ”

Dai Zhiyuan couldn't help but laugh when he heard it, what he said made sense, they are the navy, even if they are slapped in the face by the mountain brigade, it is not a shameful thing. The two walked away triumphantly. When Tanaka Jie arrived, he gritted his teeth and called his subordinates to a meeting, and the matter was roughly explained. Everyone was very annoyed.

"These fishing guys, they really don't have any good things."

"After suffering a month and a half, I was thrown into this hellish place, and I was still such a governor."

"How will we live this day in the future? It's really a blood mold. ”

All kinds of complaints converged, and in general they were quite restrained and not out of control. Tanaka Jie patiently listened to a complaint, slapped the table hard, and made a loud "bang" sound, and the scene immediately fell silent.

"What do you have to complain about like a? Li Dashuan, I know you must have scouted the surrounding terrain, now report it. "Tanaka Jie is a doer, and he faintly feels that Li Heng's problem is not particularly difficult. If it's not the right place, this acting requirement is really detrimental. Mountain brigades are elite, and since they are elite, they must have an unusual sense of smell. The situation around the station, not to mention eight kilometers, even if it is within a radius of twenty kilometers, should be investigated. In fact, on the second day of landing, the commander of the first battalion, Li Dazhuan, received the task of Tanaka Jie, to explore the surrounding terrain, and if there was no arrangement above, he would have to disperse the camp. It is impossible for these thousands of people to be gathered together for a long time, and these are military common sense for officers.

Li Dashuan's face was a little dark, and he looked like a good person with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who knew that this thing would be exposed when he smiled, with a cunning and obscenity in his eyes that could not be shaken off. "Hehe, the chief still understands me." As he spoke, the cargo took out a hand-drawn map from his leather bag and spread it out, pointed to the map and said, "This is the barracks near the docks, and this is the high ground." My reconnaissance squad sent people to see it, the terrain is not too complicated, the worse thing is that there is no ready-made road to walk, there is a river here, when the sea tide is high, the river backs up, forming a depression with a diameter of about 500 meters. So, before you leave tomorrow, you should bring at least one sack per person. Of course, there is still some time for the sappers to deal with it, but it doesn't show the ability of the mountain brigade,......。 ”

Li Dazhuan said for ten minutes, and everyone else also spoke one after another, not as Tanaka Jie expected, these days when the troops were revising, the officers were not idle, and surveying the terrain was an instinct, and anyone could say one, two, or three to the nearby terrain.

"Well, I'm satisfied with the performance of the big guy, and at the request of the Governor, I set out at four o'clock in the morning, which is called the darkness before dawn. I guess I can't light the torches, so let's go back and get ready, and the officers will have a meeting at nine o'clock in the evening to see how they are ready. ”

At half past three in the morning, Li Heng and Dai Zhiyuan, who were smiling evilly, appeared outside the camp, which meant that they didn't plan to give people a way to live. It is to force the infantry regiment to complete combat readiness within two hours. When he found the headquarters, Li Heng didn't forget to remind: "The Mountain Brigade is an elite, Grandpa Chen and Governor Ben have infinite high hopes for you, behave well." ”

Anyway, the meaning is very clear, don't be smart, lest you be cleaned up in the future. Tanaka Jie replied with a smile that was more ugly than crying, and picked up the phone viciously and said, "In the last five minutes of preparation, I will accompany the Governor to stand outside the camp and wait for everyone to leave." ”

Putting down the phone, Tanaka made a gesture of please, this team of 3,000 people is quite a lot, plus the equipment, it will take more than ten minutes to set off alone. The marching in a company can pull out a kilometer.

At four o'clock, when the departure began at the camp gate, one infantry company after another trotted forward, all in good gear. When the last company went out and didn't see the 75 mountain artillery, Li Heng began to make trouble: "Commander Tian, there is no artillery, how can you solve the problem of fire support." Don't say I didn't tell you, the imaginary enemy today is the Europeans, entrenched on high ground, equal in strength to yours, surrounded by walls, with smoothbore guns and smoothbore guns. ”

At this time, he said that he was an imaginary enemy, and Tanaka Jie's face was expressionless, but he had the idea of strangling this guy to death and then surrendering to the military court. In the end, he replied with great restraint: "Please ask the commander to march with you." Li Heng and Dai Zhiyuan had already prepared, summoned orderlies, one person and one horse, and said with a smile: "That's what I mean." ”

Tanaka Jie is an officer, and it is no problem to march on horseback, but he sneered at this time, did not get on the horse, but set off with the regimental headquarters, and marched at a trot to catch up with the team in front. Li Heng and Dai Zhiyuan each took the orderly, they were very proud at first, and after walking for less than five minutes, they felt that something was wrong, the team in front of them actually didn't have torches, only a few flashlights emitted a faint light, not a beam. Soon after leaving the camp, the horse could not be ridden, there was no road at all, and there were constant ups and downs along the way, so he had to dismount and march. At this time, Li Heng and Dai Zhiyuan understood and were trapped!

On the ship, these two were heroes, and it was terrible to march on land against the mountain brigades. First of all, this shoe is not good, both of them are leather boots, and the leggings are not beaten, this is a model of being pitted. How to put it, the Mountain Brigade thought of the two of them in bad terms, so they didn't plan to give them a chance to find fault. After leaving the camp, the three infantry battalions took three paths and marched in unison towards the high ground in the shape of a "pin", and the regimental headquarters and machine gun company in the middle naturally fell at the end. Considering the problem of the road, the mountain artillery was not brought at all, the mortar was dismantled into several large pieces, and the soldiers ran on their backs, as long as they paid attention, it was not difficult to find that behind many infantrymen, they were carrying a mortar shell with a straw rope net pocket.

Although it is very sinful to march in the dark and shallow, it is even more sinful to lead a horse. But Li Heng and Dai Zhiyuan's eyes flashed with excitement, not to mention that they deliberately made things difficult, as the first colonial governor on the North American continent, Li Heng knew very well in his heart what such an elite force meant to him as a governor.

The darkness before dawn, the fingers are not visible, there are no torches, the flashlight has to be covered with a thin veil, and the light on one side is too eye-catching. When there was a shallow depression in front of them, Li Heng and Dai Zhiyuan finally had a chance to take a breath, they were tired enough to choke on the way, not to mention being left behind by the brigade, and the expression of a mountain brigade guard squad following the march behind them was not very good-looking.

When I quickened my pace to catch up, the sandbags on the shallow depression were already in the middle, and the soldiers were still passing the sandbags forward, only then did I notice that each soldier was carrying a small sack, which was too carefully prepared.

The water is not deep, and the sandbag is a foothold, and there are sharp soldiers in front of them holding wooden sticks to explore the way, and they look like skilled workers for many years. During the whole process, no one made a sound, and the soldiers of the machine gun company sat silently on the ground in the dark night in a platoon unit after passing the sandbags.

Finally found Tanaka Jie, who was squatting on the ground with a few officers and shining a flashlight around the map with a raincoat, and before Li Heng could speak, the flashlight in front of him shook a few circles, and someone whispered: "The road is open." Jie Tanaka immediately turned off the flashlight: "Let's go!" (To be continued......)