Chapter 55: Attack on Shenlong Island
Three months later, in addition to the production of normal weapons, a batch of weapons specially requested by Yang Yifei also came out, and after selection and recommendation of various leaders, he selected a hundred disciples with extraordinary skills to form a "special forces" and began to teach them the skills of special operations and related theories.
Fifty of them were assaulters, forty were snipers, and ten were demomen.
The special operations of this era were not as complex as those of later generations, and roughly consisted of three aspects.
First, go deep behind enemy lines, attack the enemy's grain transport team, and cut off the enemy's grain and grass supply.
The second is to decapitate the enemy army and assassinate the enemy generals at all levels.
Third, destroy the enemy's gunpowder storage points, so that the enemy has no firearms to use and can only fight with cold weapons.
Different types of troops, the requirements for personnel skills and the equipment used are naturally different, the assault requires high martial arts, agile skills, physical strength, and the equipment is: a short musket, 30 rounds of paper shell bullets, a dagger, a long knife, 10 thunderbolts, and a hook and rope.
Snipers are required to have superb archery skills, strong arm strength, equipment includes: a longbow, fifty ordinary arrows, twenty burst arrows, five thunderbolts, a dagger, two fire folds, the thickness of a little finger, and two special incense sticks three inches long.
The so-called burst arrow is a bomb made of cardboard shell tied to the arrow near the arrow, and the companion will help light the fuse before shooting the arrow, and the explosion will occur after hitting the target.
This bomb is actually a super-enhanced version of the firecracker, with a slightly more charge than the Thunderbolt, and it also has broken porcelain tiles added to it, which is equivalent to a low-end version of the RPG.
The Demomen are required to be bold and careful, have a certain calculation ability, and have excellent endurance, and their equipment is: 20 catties of black powder, 5 catties of iron balls, 3 squares of tin foil, 1 roll of nitrified paper, 1 roll of fuse, 2 fire folds, and 2 special incense.
The combat routine of the special forces is basically as follows: when a small group of enemy troops transporting food, grass or other supplies is found, the sniper first shoots several rounds of burst arrows, and then the assaulter takes advantage of the smoke from the burst arrows to launch an assault.
After getting close to a certain distance, the thunderbolt beckons, and at this time there are basically no more enemies left, and then pull out a short musket to "check and fill in the gaps" to eliminate the remnants of the enemy.
At this time, the sniper will also switch to normal arrows for long-range precision shooting support, especially for fleeing enemy troops, try to ensure that all enemy troops are annihilated and not one is let go.
The main role of the Demoman is to make thunderbolts and paper shells anytime and anywhere, to replenish the ammunition consumption of the brothers, and the secondary role is to make explosives packs with tin foil, black powder, and fuses when encountering targets that need to be blasted, and blast the targets.
This special force can be regarded as a pilot project for Yang Yifei, and if it is a great success, it will be promoted to the entire Tiandihui, and if any problems are found, they can also be adjusted in time.
The leader of the special forces is temporarily served by Xu Tianchuan, the red stick, and if the special forces pilot is successful, this first batch of special forces will become the backbone reserve of the special forces of the Tiandihui, and will be stationed in each hall in the future to serve as the teaching team of the special forces of each hall.
After the establishment of this unit, Xu Tianchuan proposed that Yang Yifei give him a resounding name, just like in the pre-Qin period, the Qin State had Qin Ruishi, the Wei State had Wei Wushu, the Three Kingdoms Gongsun Zan had a white horse Yicong, Cao Cao had a tiger and leopard horse, Liu Bei had a white ear army, and the Yuejia army in the Song Dynasty had a Beiwei army, etc.
This suggestion is very reliable, even the special forces of the major military regions in later generations have their own names, and with their own names, they can enhance the cohesion of the special forces, the pride of the team members, and there are many benefits.
Yang Yifei patted his head, since this unit originated from Thunderbolt Hall, it was called the "Thunderbolt Special Attack Team".
This name, which is extremely vulgar in later generations, is both novel and loud in this era, which makes people unaware when they hear it, and Xu Tianchuan and the team members are extremely excited.
Yang Yifei integrated some special forces training projects suitable for this era in later generations and used them as members of the special attack team to boil their bodies, in fact, according to Yang Yifei's ideas, he originally wanted to pass on the hybrid yuan palm.
It's just that the effect of this exercise is too slow, and in terms of short-term physical improvement, it is not as fast as "prisoner fitness"!
So he had to abandon this idea and adopt the scientific training method of later generations.
Because these team members have practiced martial arts since childhood, their physical fitness is actually much stronger than that of the special commandos of later generations, and it is no problem for one person to fight four or five special forces in terms of hand-to-hand combat.
What Yang Yifei needs to do is to improve their tactical ability, and in terms of hand-to-hand fighting, he mainly teaches them the dagger assassination technique of killing with one hit.
The assaulter's knife technique was taught by Mao Shiba, and his "Five Tigers Broken Door Knife" was originally more suitable for battlefield fighting, and compared with other exquisite martial arts, the moves were more concise and effective faster.
Snipers don't do anything else every day, mainly exercising the strength of their arms and fingers, increasing the upper limit of the number of shots, and then they keep shooting arrows.
In later generations, sharpshooters were fed with bullets, and archers were similar, and they had to go through a lot of practice to reach the point where there were no arrows.
Yang Yifei also designed a professional leather finger sleeve for snipers, so that the bearing capacity of the finger skin and flesh can reach the limit, and it will no longer be a restriction on the upper limit of the number of times a sniper can open the bow, as long as the strength is enough, it is not a problem to shoot him ten or twenty arrows in one breath.
The training of special forces is in full swing, and the production of various weapons and equipment has long been on the right track, with stable output.
Eight months have passed, and under the condition that Yang Yifei strictly controls production safety, except for some disciples who have bumped and suffered some minor injuries, there has not been a single production accident in Perak Hall, but the production efficiency is very gratifying.
So far, thousands of people have made concerted efforts to produce more than 70 artillery pieces, more than 1,200 short muskets, more than 3,500 long muskets, more than 60,000 paper shells of long and short muskets, more than 1,000 flowering shells, more than 30,000 bursting arrows, and more than 120,000 thunderbolts.
This batch of firearms is enough for heaven and earth to fight a big battle, but there are enough firearms, but there is no manpower to use them perfectly for the time being.
In the past six months, in addition to the Thunderbolt special attack team, Yang Yifei also trained 500 musketeers and 300 artillerymen.
There is no way, Diaoyu Dao is still smaller, and the territory is not enough to carry out large-scale training, and the unit he trained is mainly used as the backbone seed of the Heaven and Earth Society, and in the future, it will be dispersed to various halls to serve as a teaching team.
If you want to carry out large-scale training overseas, it has become a top priority to take Shenlong Island, and when Shenlong Island is built as a military base of the Tiandihui, it can be used as the center and radiate to the surrounding seas.
There are also 71 islands of various sizes in the vicinity of the Diaoyu Islands, with a combined area of 7 square kilometers, which are not suitable for habitation, but more than enough to be used as training grounds for training troops.
When the firearms are sufficient, each hall of the Heaven and Earth Society can assign disciples to use Shenlong Island as a base and go to these islands every day to practice.
On this day, the sky was clear, Yang Yifei gathered his troops, and finally decided to attack Shenlong Island.