Chapter 158: Destroying the Ammunition Depot (I)
Twenty-one people asked for five rooms and stayed. After a while, these people all went out with large bags and small bags, and they wandered around the streets of Kupang Port in twos and threes, and the handsome man also took three people out of the house.
Instead of walking on the lively street, the four of them walked straight into a remote alley, and taking advantage of the opportunity that there was no one around, the four of them opened their bags and took out some clothes to change.
In a few moments, the four richly dressed merchants and guards had become the coolies that could be found everywhere on the docks. One of the guards asked the handsome man, "Deputy Commander Al, let's go." ”
The handsome man was none other than Al, the deputy commander of the Special Operations Division, and this time he had personally brought some scouts to Kupang Harbor to investigate, and he had also made some disguises to hide his elven characteristics.
Al nodded and said, "Let's go, let's go to the junction location." The four scouts, dressed as coolies with baggage, turned out of the alley and walked out onto the street, and walked forward for a while, and Al looked up to see the guise of a small teahouse in front of him, and a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Such little teahouses are ubiquitous in the docks, and they are used to quench the thirst of the coolies, so the furnishings are very shabby, and the tables and chairs are all black, apparently the result of the constant rubbing of the coolies' dirty clothes.
Al and the four of them walked briskly into the small teahouse, found a table in the corner of the wall and sat down. Al pretended to place half of the Lanfang silver dollar with irregular jagged edges in a prominent position on the table by accident, and after a while, a shopkeeper came over.
The shopkeeper took down the towel on his shoulder with his right hand, and greeted enthusiastically while wiping the table, seeing that no one was paying attention to them nearby, the shopkeeper reached out with his left hand in his arms, and also took out half of the Lanfang silver dollar with a jagged edge, and took advantage of the time to wipe the table, and gently returned to the side of Al's silver dollar.
Al quietly moved both silver dollars in front of him, and the two halves of silver came together to form a single silver dollar, and the jagged points were tightly sealed. The code matched, Al and the shopkeeper glanced at each other and nodded to each other.
The shopkeeper leaned in and whispered, "My lord, it's not been peaceful here lately, don't go out at night." ”
Al glanced at the customers in the store and whispered, "Is there any wind here?" ”
Dian Xiaoer said: "Since the Southern Fleet was completely annihilated by the iron-blooded army of the Savage Continent, it has become tense here, and now the entire port is loose outside and tight inside, because there are many Chinese here, the military is very careful, and the entire Kupang Port will be under martial law at night." ”
Al glanced at the bustling streets outside the window and said, "How is the garrison in the city now?" ”
Shopkeeper said: "The defenders in the city have three residences, there are more than 1,000 defenders in the city lord's mansion, there are more than 5,000 people in the barracks in the south of the city, and the remaining more than 3,000 people are stationed in the warehouse area in the west of the city. The navy is relatively well guarded, and we cannot reconnoitre, but from a distance, the 20 warships of the first detachment of the Northern Fleet are all in the military port. ”
After getting the information they wanted, Al and the others casually asked for a pot of tea and drank it. At this time, a commotion suddenly sounded outside the door of the teahouse. A man in the uniform of a colonel of the New Guinea Army, with a group of guards, was whipping a Chinese coolie. The eyes of the tea drinkers in the teahouse were all attracted to it, but as soon as they saw the colonel of the New Guinea Army, they all quickly lowered their heads and pretended not to see it.
Taking advantage of the shopkeeper's turn again, Al looked out the window and asked in a low voice, "Who is that colonel?" ”
The shopkeeper glanced back and replied, "That's Colonel Soska, the brother-in-law of the governor of Dhalan, and the commander of the division stationed in the warehouse, and he is the most domineering person, and things like this happen several times a day." ”
"Garrison the warehouse?" El glanced thoughtfully at Colonel Southca, a smile in his eyes.
Al led the people back to the inn, and the rest of the scouts had already returned, they had changed into their original clothes, and they had become merchants again, and a group of people gathered around a few tables downstairs for dinner. Song Zihui, the platoon commander of the reconnaissance platoon, said in a low voice: "Deputy division commander, today we have detected that the warehouse area in the west of the city is very tightly guarded, and it seems that there are double posts of light and dark posts, and there are a lot of big trucks here today, and what else do we want to transport." ”
Al nodded: "It is loaded with arms provided by the Saar Empire, it seems that they are going to transport the arms away, no matter where they are transported, it is a potential threat to our battle to seize the island, we should blow up this warehouse." ”
Song Zihui said: "But we didn't bring explosives, how can we blow them up?" Al laughed, "It's full of munitions, isn't there explosives everywhere?" ”
Song Zihui said with a smile: "They all use black powder, which doesn't have much explosive power at all, but it's very useful to ignite." ”
Decided to intercept this batch of munitions, Al and the others made careful preparations in the room, and when it was late at night, Al took twenty scouts to change into tight black clothes, jumped out of the back window of the inn, climbed over the courtyard wall and entered a small street, to see that there was no one around, Al led the scouts to run in the direction of the warehouse through the night.
They stopped a street away from the warehouse, and there was a tall building here, which should have been a temple or something. The temple was bustling with people during the day, but now it has fallen into silence.
Several warriors set up a human ladder, and Al and Song Zihui quickly climbed to the roof of the temple with the help of the human ladder. This is a very high terrain and close to the warehouse, so the reconnaissance view is quite ideal.
Al took out his binoculars and adjusted the focus to look at the warehouse, only to see that there were torches everywhere, and the night was as dark as day, but it provided convenient conditions for investigation. A large number of sentries and patrols swimming back and forth under the torches abound, and if you add a secret sentry that you can't see, there are no dead spots at all, and it is impossible to infiltrate.
Al frowned: "They are really strict enough about this batch of weapons, there are many sentinels, and the arrangement is quite reasonable, there are almost no dead ends, and it is difficult to sneak in." Song Zihui also nodded and said: "There are really a lot of sentinels, it seems that they attach great importance to this batch of arms, and we have no chance to sneak in at all." ”
Al nodded, "Let's find a way, we can always get in." If it really doesn't work, you can only go back and let the cruiser approach and bombard it. ”
Song Zihui proposed: "Since they are going to be transported abroad, it is better to wait for them to leave the harbor and let the cruiser block them outside, so that they may be captured." ”