The North Vietnamese trainees have been undergoing intensive training at the Tu Son training camp for more than two months, but the instructors still believe that the training results have not reached the desired level, and there is still a gap between them and the Hai Han militia group. Of course, the objective reasons for this disparity are not only weapons, but also differences in the treatment of soldiers, the ways and means of doing political work for officers, and so on. According to the original plan of the Military Police Department, the trainees had to train with the spearmen for at least one to two months before they could be put on the battlefield to be tested in actual combat. But he didn't expect that the situation in Annam would be overturned by South Vietnam in a short period of time, and the Zheng regime had to pull this unformed army to the battlefield as a surprise soldier.

The Phalanx tactics of muskets and spears designed by the Military Police Department for the North Vietnamese trainees had high requirements for the marching operation of the array. The spearmen did not exist as the main force in the fight, but mainly to cover the safety of the musketeers. Especially when the attack was frustrated and the musketeers needed to retreat to safety to regroup their phalanx, they had to be spearmen in front to block the enemy's attack, and they had to block the bullets fired by the enemy's muskets in the face of the South Vietnamese army, who were using the same tactics.

No one dared to expect much from the spearmen who were temporarily pulled out, and the command only hoped that the North Vietnamese spearmen would not mess up on the battlefield at that time. But in addition to this hidden danger, how to put this group of spearmen on the intended battlefield is also a difficult problem.

"We don't have enough capacity. "After dawn, Sun Changmi came to the tent of the headquarters with porridge, and after hearing about the battle plan of the military police department, he immediately pointed out the problem to Yan Chujie: "We now have fifteen ships on hand in Yong'an Harbor," The ship was small and had to be responsible for guarding the outer seas, so there was no way to transport troops, so there were only 14 ships left, and we had more than 800 combat personnel of our own, more than 1,000 trained troops in North Vietnam, and more than 2,000 sailors in addition to the crew, and we had to bring with us a few hundred men who were responsible for logistics and baggage, and it was impossible to carry more than 1,000 spearmen on board. If you rely on those small boats in North Vietnam...... It would be better to let our boat make two trips. ”

"In other words, we can't complete the projection of troops at one time now?" Yan Chujie asked rhetorically.

"It's far from it, and it takes at least five or six big ships with four hundred materials to play around. Sun Changmi shook his head again and again and said, "Even if you collect all the remaining ships in the base camp, it is estimated that it will be enough." ”

Yan Chujie closed his eyes, pondered for a moment before he spoke again: "The arrow is on the bow, I have to send it, I have to wait for the ship from the base camp to come, the daylily is cold! If you can't achieve a one-time delivery, then divide it into two times!"

"Boss Yan, although Yong'an Port is only a dozen nautical miles away from the No. 2 location, but this comes and goes, counting the time for the two heads to get on and off the ship, the time interval between the two deliveries will be about six hours at the earliest!" Sun Changmi didn't care about eating breakfast, put down the bowl and began to calculate the possible problems: "The North Vietnamese recruits, if there is a battle without the cover of spearmen, it is a question whether they can last for six hours!"

Yan Chujie's face remained unchanged and said, "It doesn't take that long, about an hour is enough." We'll have the second force projection within an hour of launching the landing!"

"How is this possible?" Sun Changmi said in amazement.

"Look at the map again. Yan Chujie pointed to the satellite map of the warring area hanging in the conference room: "There are two small islands off the coast of Site 2, and you probably ignored their role. ”

There are indeed two very small uninhabited islands on the coast of Site 2, which are marked on the map as Daoguo Island and Hanluo Island, which are only 1,200 meters and 2,000 meters away from the coast of Site 2 respectively, and their area is very small, and the two islands together are less than one square kilometer, which is a small island of the same level as the Island of Denyo in the eastern sea. Since the two islands were too close to the coast and did not have the potential for development, no one had considered them of strategic value until then, and even the reconnaissance fleet did not specifically reconnoiter the two small islands, but only looked at them from a distance and determined that they were uninhabited.

However, the shortage of shipping capacity of the Ministry of Shipping made it impossible to complete the task of sending troops at one time, but the two islands suddenly had a use value. Sun Changmi is not a stupid person, Yan Chujie said this way, he naturally understood the other party's thoughts: "Boss Yan, do you mean to use these two small islands as transit stations to shorten the transportation distance of the secondary delivery?"

If these two uninhabited islands are well utilized, then the round-trip voyage of up to 30 nautical miles between the landing site and Yongan Port can be shortened to one or two nautical miles, and the problem of capacity shortage can also be well solved, not to mention two deliveries, even if it is four deliveries, it is estimated that there will be no problem. Of course, before that, the command headquarters still has to plan a relatively complete landing procedure, and when to send a part of the personnel to the small island near the shore first, and when to launch the landing, all of which still need to be carefully studied.

Two days later, the front command sent back the newly formulated combat plan to the base camp, which was approved by the Executive Committee. The landing operation began to enter the final preparatory period, and under the arrangement of the front command, the North Vietnamese spearmen who were transferred to Vinh An port conducted three days of joint training with musket units. Although the time is very rushed, it is better to practice than not to practice, and the battle situation has no time to let this side practice slowly, and the command can only treat dead horses as live horse doctors.

On January 28, the landing plan, which had been prepared for many days, finally entered the implementation phase. Although some good deeds have asked whether this operation should be named "D-Day", so that future historical materials can make a relatively high-level record of this first combat operation, the Military Police Department still willfully used the program code name of "Full Moon Operation", and if it didn't want to be a little rustic, would it still be a revolutionary army?

Zheng Bai, who got the news on the mountain defense line, finally breathed a sigh of relief, if the Haihan people did not send troops again, he felt that he could hold for three or five days at most, but most of them were killed here, and the king of the Qing capital, Zheng, had already given a death order, and did not allow the men and horses here to retreat again.

After the Haihan people arrived here, Zheng Bai also tried his best to meet their needs, from the people to the spearmen, from reconnaissance to combat, as long as the Haihan people put forward the request, Zheng Bai almost never refused. On the one hand, it is true that the order of Thang Long Province has played a role, on the other hand, Zheng Bai is really full of hope that the Haihan people who have been blown up to the gods can share their pressure, although it is impossible for the Haihan army of only more than 1,000 people to wipe out all the South Vietnamese troops here, but if they can launch some raids on South Vietnam from the sea to distract South Vietnam's attention, it is also a good thing.

But when Haihan really announced the start of the operation, Zheng Bai couldn't help but be a little worried, after all, his second son Zheng Ting was among the attack troops that were going to land behind enemy lines. Thinking of the sharp lethality shown by the South Vietnamese musketeers in the battles in the previous period, Zheng Bai couldn't help but sweat for his son's safety. According to the plan of the Haihan people, the North Vietnamese trained troops and spearmen would participate in the battle behind enemy lines, which meant that Trung Dinh was likely to bear the brunt of the attack of the South Vietnamese army, and the Haihan people would definitely not use their own troops as cannon fodder, and this errand could only be done by the North Vietnamese army.

As for the next battle plan of the Haihan people, Zheng Bai did not know in detail, and the Haihan people only left Feng Annan as a liaison officer in the mountain position. From the beginning of the landing, all the news from the front could only be obtained through the channel of the Haihan liaison officer, and the only thing Zheng Bai could do was to mobilize troops to cooperate in counterattack operations as much as possible according to the construction of the Haihan people.

However, Zheng Bai's idea that his troops would become cannon fodder was just a guess, and when the sky was getting dark that evening, the first batch of troops to board the ship at Yong'an Harbor was not only the North Vietnamese training troops led by Zheng Ting, but also the Hai Han militia group also set off on the ship together, including the fighters including the front-line command. At the same time, hundreds of civilians brought from the base camp were also set out, who were to take on the task of assisting the sappers in building fortifications after the landing.

After the departure of this fleet, only a small number of dock maintenance and baggage guards were left in Yongan Port. A few days ago, the bustling coastal beach suddenly returned to an almost primitive deserted state.

After the convoy set out, it made a big circle at sea, and only when it got dark did it slowly return to the vicinity of the two small islands off the coast of the intended landing site. The day before, the "Speedy" had already taken advantage of the darkness of night to send dozens of sappers to the island, and spent a day building an improvised trestle bridge on the eastern coast of the two small islands. The fleet returned from the open sea and could see the navigation lights lit up by the island's sappers, but the mainland to the west of the island could not be spotted at all.

The flotilla was divided into two groups and docked on two shores, closer to the coast were the Hai Han militia and baggage troops, and farther on Han Luo Island were North Vietnamese trained troops. The 2,000-strong troops landed on the island in the dark, which took nearly three hours, during which several North Vietnamese soldiers who landed on Hanla Island fell into the sea due to mild night blindness. The Haihan militia that landed on Duguo Island were lucky, because there was a section of the east side of the island that was relatively gentle, and it was not very difficult to land.

After completing the landing, the fleet left the island and headed out into the northern night. For the next day, the two forces will lurk on the island, waiting for the time to land. The Forward Command has also moved to Dugo Island, and in a day the personnel of the Command will also land with the large force. However, there will be troops left behind on the island, and a medical team led by Morgan will set up a simple field hospital here to accommodate some of the seriously wounded transferred from the front line, and after the injuries are treated on the island, they will be transferred to the rear by ship.

Before dawn, two sea boats dragged more than 20 small wooden boats back to Duguo Island. These boats were basically all the North Vietnamese could find in the vicinity, and they were to be used as piers for the construction of floating trestles at the beginning of the landing operation.

During this day, the South Vietnamese Army was not idle, and still arranged an offensive against the mountain line as always. After more than a month of fierce fighting, the North Vietnamese mountain defenses were in fact in tatters, much weaker than they had been when Phun Annan and Mu Sha Bai first arrived. Since the offensive of the South Vietnamese army did not stop for almost a day, the North Vietnamese could only repair the fortifications on the surface, and under the continuous attack, the walls in many areas had collapsed, and the defenders could only rely on shields and bodies to build defensive lines, and the entire defense capability was already in a precarious state.

Tranh Bai had to commit the last two reserves in this day's defensive battle, and it took a full day to repel three offensives by the South Vietnamese army. When he saw the South Vietnamese army under the mountain receding like a tide, the tired Zheng Bai suddenly collapsed to the ground, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

"General Zheng, you have done a great job and have done your duty, please believe me, from tomorrow, the battle situation will have a different direction!" Feng Anan stretched out his hand to help Zheng Bai up, and said to him with confidence: "The good days of the rebels have come to an end, it's time to use a counterattack to make them sober up!"

"I hope it can be as General Feng said!" Zheng Bai replied with a wry smile. He still has reservations about Feng Anan's optimism, although the Haihan people look very powerful, but with such a small number of troops, it is really difficult to say how much of a role it can play. Moreover, there are also firearms troops on the South Vietnamese side, who will be more powerful in the fight, Zheng Bai is not completely sure to bet on the side of the Haihan people, of course, if he sees the artillery shipped by the Haihan fleet in advance, maybe this idea will change.

This time, in addition to some of the artillery guns purchased by the North Vietnamese side in the early stage and the naval guns loaded on the sea vessels, the artillery company of the militia regiment was also equipped with more than 10 artillery pieces of different calibers. If it weren't for the limited number of artillery, the Military Police Department would have even thought of playing a seventeenth-century fire cover tactic with dense artillery fire. The command was full of confidence in blocking a 200-meter-wide front with more than 20 artillery pieces, not to mention that there were nearly 2,000 musket units that would cooperate with the artillery.

Regardless of whether it is public or private, the command will use a large number of artillery to attack in this landing battle, but the ammunition that is fired will be calculated on the head of the North Vietnamese regime according to the export price, and it will not be fought in vain! According to the calculations of the Military Police Department, every time a 6-pounder gun is fired, the crossing group will receive about one tael of silver, and the consumption level of a 12-pounder gun is half higher than that of a 6-pounder gun. If there is an opportunity to use the ship's guns, the command will not hesitate to give the order to fire. The war between North and South Vietnam was a struggle for attrition, but the participation of the Haihan militia in the war was purely to make money.

On this day, in order to conceal their movements, the lurking troops on both islands were not allowed to use open flames to cook, and everyone could only nibble on dry food and drink cold water during the day. Only a very small number of officers who crossed the crowd were eligible for "high-tech" self-heating boxed military rations. Although the chemical principle of this heating package is very simple, and it can be manufactured in the chemical workshop of Shengli Port, the batch is limited, and it is unlikely to be supplied to the militia in large quantities in the near future.

It wasn't until after dark that a sea ship brought hot food to the troops on the island, which was made from behind the mountain line and was still hot when it arrived on the island. This hot food will be served again before the attack in the early hours of tomorrow morning, ensuring that everyone can join the battle after they have had their stomachs fed. The pre-war meal was much better than usual, and the logistics killed a dozen pigs transported from Heitu Port in one go, and even the North Vietnamese soldiers were lucky enough to get a little oily.

A little later, the fleet again arrived at the two small islands, this time with more than 1,000 spearmen and some logisticians in charge of communications, cooking, and other affairs. Their embarkation point was not in the port of Yong'an, but on the coast behind the mountain line only two or three nautical miles away, which greatly reduced the fatigue of these men during transportation. After a day's rest, the troops who had been lurking on the island the day before had basically adjusted their physical condition and combat ** to a state of response.

At three o'clock in the morning, the "Speedy" again approached the shore of the landing site, repeating the previous landing method. The vanguard of this landing was a little larger than the small detachment last time, and in addition to a few fixed roles of the North American Gang, Qian Tiandun also brought a platoon of special operations company fighters to operate together. However, there was only one rubber boat on the "Speed", so two small wooden boats had to be towed at the stern, and after approaching the shore, the militiamen rowed to the shore in small wooden boats to land.

The landing went smoothly, and South Vietnam, as always, did not become prepared for the coastline to the east. After the group reached the pass, several members of the North American gang divided into two teams and climbed to the commanding heights of the hills on the north and south sides. In addition to reconnaissance and early warning, their mission is also to observe the enemy's movements at high points and provide real-time information to the command headquarters for reference, so as to make timely adjustments to changes in the battlefield.

Qian Tiandun and his men lurked at the foot of the mountain, and at the same time sent a message to the command through the Guò radio. At 3:50 a.m., Yan Chujie gave the order to start the operation. A few 400 boats towing a large string of small boats slowly turned out of the east side of the island and sailed towards the predetermined shore. The first people to land were not purely combatants, but mainly sappers and civilians. Their task was to erect a floating trestle for the subsequent landing force in the shortest possible time to facilitate the landing and unloading of the baggage.

Whether the floating trestle is built smoothly or not will directly affect the progress of the subsequent landing operation, so in addition to several drills in the base camp, after arriving at the battlefield in Annam, these personnel have also undergone very hard training, and now it is time for them to show their skills