A week later.

The whole regiment of Vega began to march towards the border line as ordered.

The border is more than 200 kilometers from the city of Kareni, and it takes two and a half days to reach the border on foot.

The border between Kareni and the United Kingdom is 2,374 kilometers, and the 3rd Regiment is responsible for the R68-T357 border, while the 4th Battalion is responsible for the T134-T357 area.

Border garrisoning is not the same as a simple patrol mission.

The patrol mission is only to patrol in shifts on some mountain cliffs, rapids, rapids, and primeval forests that cannot be broken through by large troops, and only some small pioneer teams, reconnaissance teams, and special forces of enemy countries can be encountered.

After completing the patrol mission, you can return to Kareni at any time to make repairs.

Speaking of which, patrol missions are just for training.

But the border is guarded differently.

The task of garrisoning the border line is generally based on the company as a unit, stationed for a long time at the pass junction that can march in large forces, and at the same time to carry out daily patrols and 24-hour shifts around this pass junction, each such pass intersection has a small guard tower, this guard tower can probably accommodate a company.

Meantime.

This watchtower also serves as a warning at any time, just like the Great Wall on Earth, in the event of an enemy invasion, it is necessary to light various colors of wolf smoke according to the number of enemies, and at the same time, the company needs to resist the invaders without receiving the order to retreat.

The danger of garrisoning is self-evident.

Once provoked by the opponent's large army, it is even possible that the building will be destroyed and people will be killed.

In addition to the danger, the border garrison mission is generally long, and the nearby is either lofty mountains or endless, except for the company's teammates, there are only insects and birds, and there are often untimely supplies, in terms of conditions, it is not many times more difficult than staying in Kareni.

In a nutshell.

The task of garrisoning the border is to distribute the frontier, and generally let the cannon fodder troops go to peck at each other with the harassment troops of the United Kingdom, and those who can survive for a year and a half will be included in the backbone of the army for systematic training, and those who can't survive are afraid that the grave grass is already three meters high.

Vega is stationed in a hilly area.

He is required to be stationed here for at least 3 months, and may face an order to increase the duration of the garrison when the garrison expires. This is the practice of the military department, first give you a hope to come back, let you continue to persevere, and when the mission time comes, you will be added 3 months, and so on.

"Company commander, the handover procedures have been completed. ”

Adjutant Char reported to Vega, who was standing on the commanding heights of the watchtower and looking into the distance.

The previous company had already disappeared at the end of the sunset, and even as night was about to fall, they couldn't wait to return to Kareny, for they had waited too long for this day.

"Thank you, adjutant. ”

Vega turned and walked down: "Let's arrange the personnel on duty tonight as soon as possible, I believe that most of the soldiers in our company have been stationed for several years, so ask their opinions as much as possible." ”

"Yes, the lower official will arrange it. The adjutant stepped back.

Vega began to revolve around this watchtower, which could accommodate 200 people, with a beacon tower at the top, and a large open space in front of the watchtower for the assembly of troops, as for the daily training of the army, it was generally directly applied to the daily patrol of the pass, which was a daily task that was most likely to encounter enemy troops.

Walk down the watchtower.

The soldiers were carrying supplies, and when they saw Vega, they immediately stopped their movements and saluted.

The mountain is high and the emperor is far away.

In this small watchtower, Vega was the most senior officer, and he had the highest command authority. The power of life and death of his 160 people is all in his hands, as long as this long-term mission is not completed for a day, then there is no need to transfer the mistake of a soldier to a military court, and Vega, as a direct commander, has the right to directly judge.

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Three days flew by.

Vega's troops have largely adapted to life here.

The biggest horror of the border garrison mission is loneliness and loneliness, and if you stay here for a long time, you are prone to some mental illness, after all, not everyone can adapt to the wild life in the wilderness for a long time.

Therefore, the combination of work and rest is particularly important.

If it were summer, Vega might have brought some soldiers to hunt or something like that, but this kind of snow-covered winter entertainment is correspondingly less.

Today is an exception, though.

Because there is news from the front that the United Kingdom army is approaching, the exact total number is not known for the time being.

"All of them, pass T315, go. ”

Vega led about 100 men to the pass, leaving about 30 men in the guard tower under the temporary command of the deputy company commander.

Reach the commanding heights of the pass.

Vega saw more than 30 subordinates who were already hiding here on daily patrol duty, and they were watching the enemy's every move with military binoculars, led by a squadron leader.

"Sergeant, report the situation. ”

"Yes, Company Commander. ”

The squadron leader put down the binoculars in his hand and said: "The enemy has a total of more than 500 people, and about half of the battalion is coming towards our side. ”

Guerrilla mode of warfare.

This is a form of warfare in the United Kingdom during the armistice, gathering several times the strength of the Imperial outposts, carrying out flexible surprise attacks, achieving the effect of destroying a single Imperial outpost, and quickly withdrawing after the destruction.

This is the case.

Due to the disparity in numbers, they can only release signals to evacuate temporarily, ensuring the safety of the soldiers first, and as for the destruction of the watchtower, they can only consider themselves unlucky and spend a lot of time and energy to repair it.

Of course, the empire is not the one who suffers.

Generally, regimental or battalion-level troops will regularly summon soldiers to adopt a similar strategy, and the losses of the two sides over the years have been half a pound or eight taels for so many years, but the recent border friction has intensified.

"Herald. ”

"To. ”

Vega said to the messenger: "Go back to the sentry tower to inform the deputy company commander to release the green wolf smoke signal, and prepare for evacuation, I didn't expect to hit a big luck just three days ago, it seems that everyone doesn't have to do anything in the future, just repairing the sentry tower is enough for us to be busy for more than half a month." ”

"Yes. ”

The messenger immediately galloped towards the watchtower.

Although he was ready to retreat, Vega did not immediately order the evacuation, because he still needed to wait for the retreat signal from the regimental headquarters, and it was a violation of the military order to evacuate without receiving the retreat signal.

Ten minutes later.

A pale red wolf smoke rose from the other side of the mountain.

The order of the regimental headquarters came.

But this is not an order to retreat, but a signal to meet the attack.