Approaching the shore, the ships slowly stopped, while the sappers rowed the boats toward the shore with their oars. Each small boat carried several pre-made standard gangplanks, and the boats were easily modified to add the iron parts needed to hold the gangplanks in place. The sappers only need to put the holes in these gangplanks on the protrusions of the iron workpieces to play the role of fixing the position, and the removal is very simple, just lift the gangplank and remove it. This structure was tried out during the rehearsal at the base camp, and then some minor modifications were made according to the actual situation, so that the sappers could assemble it on various small boats that they had found temporarily, and that the fixing places would not loosen and slip due to the undulations of the waves.

Once the boats were in their intended position, the sappers put away their oars, pushed out the gangplanks on the boats, and began to build pontoons between the boats. In charge of directing the operation of the engineer was the deputy commander of the operation, Harugong. Although the cavalry company under his command also came this time, because the army was formed for too short a time and the strength was too small, the cavalry company did not bear the task of directly facing the enemy. Halugong didn't want to sit in this seat and do nothing, so he took the initiative to command the sappers in his hands, and he was responsible for commanding and coordinating the construction of pontoon bridges, fortifications, and encampment in the early stage of landing.

It has to be said that the hard training during this period still played a role, although the sappers were actually fighting for the first time, but the whole process of building the floating trestle was relatively smooth. In just 20 minutes, the first trestle was built. The 20-meter-long trestle was made up of three two-foot-wide wooden gangplanks with five boats as piers, and its weight was strong enough to carry a 12-pound army gun.

As soon as the first trestle was erected, the crew of the sea vessels began to land. The first materials for building fortifications were transported to the shore through the floating trestle in guò, and the men pushed the carts to the shore quickly, and then sent them to the predetermined position with the goods and carts according to the road signs left by the vanguard.

After that, three similar floating trestles were erected from south to north at five-minute intervals. Two of the trestles were tasked with unloading all kinds of war materiel, while the two trestles to the south were used to dock troop carriers, and the soldiers of the participating troops climbed down from the rope nets on the side of the ships, and then quickly moved to the shore through the guò trestle.

At five o'clock in the morning, the first batch of landed civilians and sappers had already arrived at Qian Tiandun's location and quietly began construction to build a defensive position. By this time, the sky was already dark, and even without using binoculars, the South Vietnamese army camp could be observed with the naked eye two miles away. The flat terrain between the defensive positions and the South Vietnamese military camps, except for some bushes, and not even patches of woods, was also the most worrying point of the command, and if the South Vietnamese army discovered the existence of the landing force early in the morning and immediately organized an offensive to attack, the vanguard with neither defensive positions nor heavy fire support would likely be unable to carry it.

Fortunately, this has not happened so far, and every two minutes the group observing the enemy situation from the commanding heights of the north and south will report the situation to their comrades in the positions below by intermediates. The South Vietnamese army's camp seekers only circled a distance of 100 meters near the camp, and had no intention of increasing the reconnaissance range, and they obviously did not notice that a large group of men were secretly building fortifications two miles to the east.

The Executive Committee had designed a defensive line at the narrowest part of the pass, recessed towards the coast. The outermost layer is an area composed of several snake-bellied barbed wire, deer barricades, and horse-repellent horses, and several obstacles are intersected to form an obstacle area about six or seven meters wide, which is enough to delay the opponent's attack when he attacks. These obstacles are all semi-finished products from the main operation, and the people can directly assemble them and put them on the position after transporting them to the predetermined location with a multi-purpose car.

The second obstacle after this obstacle area is the trench that the people are desperately digging, the command once hoped to dig this trench to at least two meters wide and one meter deep before the war, but Qiao Zhiya, who used to be an engineer, vetoed this possibility Without the help of construction machinery, it is impossible to complete such a large amount of excavation in two or three hours with manpower alone, and it is estimated that it is about the same in two or three days. Therefore, in the end, the command could only compromise with reality and change the construction standard of the trench to a very vague statement of "the depth at which the enemy can be effectively blocked".

The third line of defense was a simple defensive wall made up of multi-purpose pallet carts and a large number of prefabricated wooden planks, which could effectively defend against the firing power of arquebuses at a distance of 100 meters, not to mention the bows used by the South Vietnamese army. If time is available, the people will also use the earthwork of the trench dug around the perimeter of the defensive wall to strengthen the wall to further increase the defensive power.

Every forty meters or so, there will be a movable opening in the wall, and if necessary, the multi-purpose pallet truck that is removed from the gap will reveal the gun emplacements that block the back. There were five such emplacements along the entire defensive line, each of which had four or six guns. Of course, the monkey version of the artillery exported to North Vietnam will not be arranged with the original and genuine version used by the Haihan militia. This is not a secret to guard against the North Vietnamese military, but purely for the sake of combat effect, the monkey version of the artillery is inferior to the original in terms of range and accuracy, and the same aiming method will have different shooting effects, and this time the observation and command of the artillery unit are responsible for the crossing officers, and the mixing of the two artillery pieces can easily cause confusion in the shooting effect.

Thanks to the prefabricated design, this improvised defensive wall is also very quick to build. According to the speed calculated when the base camp organized the military exercise, the construction of the 100-meter-long defensive wall will only take about 15 to 20 minutes under the condition of sufficient material and manpower support. If you build a traditional log wall, you have to dig out the trench first, and then bury it, and it will take two or three times as long to do it as fast as possible.

Compared to previous exercises, a new canopy of defensive devices was added behind the wall. This is also a new gadget made by the base camp based on the battle reports sent back from the front, and it can basically only be used for positional defensive battles. The structure is very simple, it is just a wooden shed supported by a number of wooden pillars, and its main function is to prevent the archers from throwing them. Its coverage was specially calculated for the range of South Vietnamese archers, ensuring that the South Vietnamese army's bow and arrow projectiles would not cause extensive damage to their own positions. Later, when the people are free, they will also add another layer of floating soil to the wooden shed to prevent the opponent from using rockets to attack.

During the offensive and defensive battles of the mountain lines, the military observers of the advance team were deeply impressed by the tactics of the South Vietnamese army in throwing arrows and arrows intensively to inflict casualties on the North Vietnamese troops. Compared with the worthless peasant soldiers in North Vietnam, the soldiers of the Hai Han militia who invested heavily were all treasures, and the Military Police Department also tried their best to provide the soldiers with better protection measures as much as possible on the basis of the existing technology in order to reduce the casualty rate.

Due to the particularity of the weapons and combat methods currently adopted, the military and police department's protective means are still relatively tendentious, and whether it is a defensive wall or a ceiling, it is mainly aimed at the collective combat environment, not at individual soldiers. In the eyes of the North Vietnamese officers, the cloth and rattan helmets of the Haihan soldiers should have been because they were extremely confident in their combat capabilities, and they did not need protective measures such as iron armor at all.

At 5:30 a.m., the ships had returned to the two small islands near the coast to start the second round of transportation. In addition to a large amount of combat materiel, the front-line command was also included in this second round of transportation. The personnel of the command headquarters headed by Yan Chujie will all be transferred from Duguo Island to the land, and they will command this operation on the front line. This approach is of course extremely risky, but it also reflects the military and police department's sufficient confidence in its own strength, if it does not have the strength to defeat a group of monkey soldiers after more than half a year, then everyone should not think about global hegemony and daydream such as "there is only one China in the world".

After about twenty minutes, a group of South Vietnamese soldiers patrolling outside the camp finally noticed the noise coming from the direction of the eastern Linhai Pass, and more than 500 civilians and sappers were desperately digging trenches and erecting fortifications in front of the camp, and the crackling noise had been transmitted to the west.

At this time, the entire defensive position has begun to take shape, the peripheral obstacle laying work has been completed, the wall has been completed seventy percent, the trench is being excavated, and the ceiling behind has also built nearly half of the predetermined area. Five of the seven companies under the Hai Han People's Regiment have arrived at the front-line positions, and 70 percent of the combat contingent of more than 2,400 members of the North Vietnamese Association has already been put in place. The rest of the personnel are also in the process of being transported from the island to land, and the landing is expected to be completed within an hour.

The patrol that discovered the anomaly had a chance to interfere with the process of the landing force building a defensive position, but then they made a great mistake, and the officer who led the team did not send someone back to the camp in time to report, but led the team directly to the position, probably to confirm what was happening here.

"Base attention, base attention, this is Lookout No. 1, there is a group of South Vietnamese troops walking close to the base from the west, about 800 meters away, the number is about twenty...... Equipped with four archers, no muskets or other weapons were seen. ”

The radio of the headquarters sounded a warning from the early warning post located on the hill next to it, and Yan Chujie immediately issued an order to the combat troops on the front line: "A patrol from South Vietnam is approaching us, prisoners are given priority, if it can't be achieved, then destroy them on the spot, don't let them go!"

"It's done!" After Qian Tiandun put down the walkie-talkie, he immediately asked several platoon commanders to summon the special operations company to assemble. Since the other party is only a patrol team of 20 people and has no firearms, it is most suitable for his own special operations company to fight.

After the follow-up troops arrived at the position, Qian Tiandun's special operations company had already ceded the frontal position to other combat units, while his own men and horses were concentrated in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain to the north. After receiving the order to attack, the special operations company slowly marched northwest along the mountain range from the forest.

Under the command of the lookout post at the top of the mountain, the special operations company avoided the route of the South Vietnamese patrol, and more than 100 soldiers hid in the forest, silently watching the group of South Vietnamese soldiers move eastward from a distance of about 100 meters.

This kind of covert operation is one of the subjects of the special operations company's daily training, and the soldiers have already done many similar exercises of marching, concealment, and lurking in the dense forests of Cat Ba Island, and they can be regarded as proficient, and no one makes a noise during this period. It was not until the South Vietnamese army walked out of a section that Qian Tiandun gave the order to outflank, and hundreds of soldiers slowly walked out of the dense forest from their hiding places and outflanked the South Vietnamese patrol.

The patrol did not realize that its back road was blocked at first, and continued to move eastward. When they passed through the last bushes that obscured their view, they suddenly saw a low wall nearly five feet high that was only forty or fifty feet ahead, and hundreds of men were silently digging a trench in front of it. Behind the low wall, several wooden watchtowers could already be faintly seen. Although the other side did not raise any banners, it is clear that these people did not belong to South Vietnam.

"Not good!" The South Vietnamese officer who led the team immediately subconsciously prepared to send someone to report back to the battalion. The South Vietnamese army never thought that the North Vietnamese would still be able to send troops to the battlefield by sea, and that such a scale of fortifications had been built in this place.

The officer who led the team naturally recognized the uniform of the North Vietnamese army, and the group of people who appeared in front of him was not dressed as a North Vietnamese army, and they were all armed with muskets. He didn't care about figuring out the origin of the other party, he knew very well the strength of the musket troops, and at this moment, the most important thing was to pass the military information back to the battalion, so he immediately ordered to scatter and break through.

There was nothing wrong with this order in itself, but when it met the special operations company, it just happened to run into the enemy. The distance between the two sides was already extremely close, and if he ordered a collective charge, the special operations company, which was still in the form of a marching army, would not have time to start a combat face, and in addition, it was the first time to fight, and maybe he could make some money back after the battle. But if you are so dispersed, you will completely expose your own shortcomings in front of your opponents. The number of people in the special operations company is nearly ten times that of this patrol team, and when the individual ability is already stronger than that of the opponent, how can there be any fish that slip through the net?

The officer leading the team was pierced through the shoulder socket by Qian Tiandun's bayonet and knocked to the ground, and then several militiamen came up and directly twisted his arm, took off his armor, and then tied him with his backhand from behind.

The others who tried to escape had no chance at all, and were quickly caught up by the militia, and then several bayonets beckoned together, and they lost their lives one after another without even having a chance to struggle.

The only injury that occurred in the special operations company was that a militiaman was shot in the thigh by a stubborn South Vietnamese archer, but fortunately it did not hurt the vital point, and he just returned to the camp for a minor surgical operation to remove the arrow, but I am afraid that he will not be able to participate in the follow-up battle. However, compared to the arrow in the thigh, the fate of the South Vietnamese archer was much more miserable, and before he could shoot the second arrow, he was directly surrounded by a whole squad of militiamen and poked with a bayonet in all directions.

The entire battle lasted less than three minutes before it ended, and the results were not surprisingly one-sided. Without firing a single shot, the Special Operations Company wiped out this South Vietnamese patrol and once again demonstrated its strength in front of colleagues in the Military Police Department.

On the previous reconnaissance mission to the south, the North Vietnamese military was not able to witness the special operations company's appearance on the spot, but this time they saw how the Hai Han soldiers fought. The entire patrol was cleanly cleaned up by these Haihan soldiers in a matter of moments, and this result also gave the North Vietnamese Liaison Army, who was still a little uneasy, a little more confidence.

Although the screams of the South Vietnamese patrols inevitably spread during the fighting, the special operations company still relied on this operation to help its side gain another half an hour of precious time. By the time the lookout post reported that a formed unit had been sent to the defensive position from the South Vietnamese army camp to the west, ninety percent of the combat troops had already gone ashore, and the Auxiliary Army and the Hai Han militia had already lined up and began to enter the combat position in batches, and it was just after half past six in the morning. In addition to the relatively shallow trenches, the fortifications have also been arranged, and even the nine-meter-high watchtower behind the position has been put into use.

The use of a large number of prefabricated parts in the landing construction was the main magic weapon for the Haihan militia to build a defensive position in just two or three hours. The North Vietnamese officers, who had witnessed the whole process, had nothing to say about it except in admiration. Such design and construction capabilities are completely unimaginable to the current North Vietnamese army. It seems that these things are not complicated, and if they were to be made, it seems that North Vietnam could also build them, but this kind of creative power and synergy is something that the North Vietnamese army does not have.

Some North Vietnamese officers even pondered in their minds: If the Shanghai Han militia is the North Vietnamese army, how should it prevent the other side from launching a landing operation from sea to land? With the current state and combat level of the North Vietnamese army, will it be able to compete with the coastal militia in the near shore?

"All the construction personnel at the front have returned to their positions, and all the troops have entered a state of readiness!" The latest order issued by the command indicates that this long-awaited battle of the military police department is finally about to begin