564 Jiamu Town
This mode of combat is seriously inconsistent with Hong Tao's habits, and it is impossible to give full play to too many equipment advantages in such a geographical environment. As long as the general direction is determined, the enemy can suppress the fire with dense fire, and then use the numerical advantage to intersperse the encirclement from both flanks.
Reeds and swampy wetlands can hold people back, but they can't stop bullets. Hong Tao has no magic power to protect his body, and if he can't protect a stray bullet, he will die, which is too dangerous.
In comparison, he prefers to carry out surprise sneak attacks, such as Jiamu Town. Although it is only a very inconspicuous town, the terrain is much more complex than in the wilderness, and the houses alone are enough to take advantage of the equipment to move around.
As an advance base, it is very likely that the Adjudicator's command structure is also located in it, and if it can be taken down or disrupted, the Adjudicator's commander can only transfer men from the front line to stabilize the rear, and the threat of Whitewater City Airport will be defeated.
If you want to ask people, will they not attack again after returning reinforcements? This matter is not for Hong Tao to consider. According to Zhou Yuan's explanation, the East Asian Alliance transport plane will arrive in three days, and in addition to weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies, there will also be two full squads of the Air Force Special Service Team.
With them, it shouldn't be a problem to deal with several times the adjudicator attack. In other words, as long as it drags on for two more days, this local battle will have no meaning for itself. You have to leave Whitewater City immediately to avoid being discovered by the Secret Service.
This point is also what Zhou Yuan particularly emphasized, and most of the backbone officers of the special service team are paratroopers who trained with him at the beginning, and there is no possibility that they do not know each other.
Zhang Weiping and Maitijiang saw that Hong Tao's face was stung by leeches with four or five small holes, and they were still talking and laughing without moving, the indignation on their faces immediately disappeared, and their resistance was less.
Only a few technical problems were raised about this plan, and after getting a satisfactory answer, he didn't say anything, and immediately assumed the role of guide and fire support, and handed over the command to Xu Xiaoman, which was equivalent to giving Hong Tao in disguise.
People are so weird, you save his life, he may not be really convinced, but if you scare him, maybe it will be better than saving his life.
Zhang Weiping must have known the story of Hong Tao's ambush in the stinky pond and the Maitijiang River, if the previous record can still be ignored with excellent weapons and equipment, now I really can't find any excuse to ignore it, one word, ruthless! Two words, too ruthless!
People who are so ruthless to themselves are also equipped with sophisticated weapons and have won more than one outstanding record, who is willing to make trouble without reason again, can only be convinced for the time being.
On the map, the valley of the Muzart River is about 60 kilometers from Jiamu Town, but Maitijiang says that the actual distance is about twice as farther. There are many man-eating swamps along the way that are simply impassable, so you have to go around and around.
However, with a guide who knows the local situation well and a hard-working desert boat that rarely loses its temper, even if it travels overnight, it is not much slower than during the day. During this period, Hong Tao also gave the head snake Maitijiang a class, which is not of much use at the moment, but may be able to save his life in the future.
Because of the coexistence of sand and ponds, there are many places along the way that look fine, but as soon as you walk up, the ground will become softer and softer, and eventually people and animals will be eaten. Therefore, according to Maitijiang, it is better to wade through knee-deep water than to go to a place where there is only a thin layer of water skin, and nine times out of ten it is quicksand.
But Hong Tao just didn't believe in evil, and secretly did experiments while following behind, and found a trick to quickly cross the shortcut road in less than a few kilometers, and by the way, Zhang Weiping and Maitijiang were also educated, and they really lived to learn.
Non-Newtonian fluids, after gently patting the sand with a thin layer of water with the soles of his feet, Hong Tao found that not all of these terrains are man-eating quicksands, and some places are likely to be Bingham fluids, that is, sometimes like liquids, sometimes like solids.
So whether the judgment is right or not, Hong Tao has no ability to calculate the correct result with a formula, so he can only take a stupid way - try it yourself!
He tied the rope around his waist, wrapped the other end around the camel's saddle, took a deep breath and ran with a run, and ran dozens of meters away from the quicksand in the stunned eyes of everyone, and stood safely on the other side.
The results of the experiment proved that some of the quicksand has accumulated over the years, and the upper layer is already a very, very fine mud, which belongs to the naturally occurring non-Newtonian fluid.
This state is very slow to respond to low stress, such as running quickly over, which is basically like stepping on a solid road surface, and is even less deformed than dry sand, and will not sink people into it.
But don't walk slowly, as the solid pavement will immediately turn into sticky mud, and the more you goo, the thinner the mud will be, and the easier it will be to trap people.
However, this kind of terrain cannot be used for the time being, people can run fast, and camels are really not good, especially camels that grow up in the New World environment, they have also evolved from the Desert Ship to the Wetland Boat.
When encountering this kind of terrain, no matter how you pull and whip, you must not move half a step forward. I don't know where they learned about rheology, but they have learned it very well, and they can recognize at a glance that the road ahead is unsafe.
The first half of the night went well, and there were no surprises on the camel, except for feeling a little wet and needing to repel the big flies that came in from time to time.
But at four or five o'clock in the morning, the sky suddenly fell with dense snowflakes. In the absence of wind, it is especially like cotton wool, even if it falls on his face and hands, Hong Tao reacts for several seconds before realizing that it is really snow.
Now I couldn't even travel overnight, and the snow soon covered everything. The ponds, sand, swamps, and reeds all turned white, and even the Maitijiang couldn't tell where to go and where to go, so they had to find a place to set up a tent and rest.
Fortunately, the winter temperature here is relatively high, don't look at the goose feather snow now, as long as the sun comes out, the temperature can rise to about 10 degrees immediately, and you don't have to worry about the road being covered for a long time.
Sure enough, the next morning, before the sun was fully revealed, most of the snow on the ground began to melt, and the path could be identified without the Maitijiang River leading the way.
He also found a trick, where there is a lot of snow, go wherever there is a lot of ground, and the ground below is basically solid. Where there is water, the snow melts first, and only dry sand can be left for a few more hours.
"After 3 kilometers of that road, Jiamu Town is located, but there must be sentinels of the adjudicators on the side of the road, these guys are very good at hiding, and it is not easy to spot."
At about five o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the camel caravan arrived north of Jiamu Town at the expected time. Hong Tao, Zhang Weiping, and Maitijiang found a small dirt slope and hid behind the reeds while enduring the ubiquitous harassment of biting flies while observing with a telescope.
About 800 meters to the south, there is an intermittent black line, which according to the map indicates that it should be an old-world highway, but in some places it has collapsed in a major earthquake or been washed away by heavy water, leaving only a rough outline.
A few kilometers further south of the highway is a relatively large lake, and on the west shore of the lake stands a number of ruins of buildings. Maitijiang said that it was Jiamu Town, where he had been stationed for more than half a year, and after the loss of Qiuzi City, it was used as an important stronghold of the rebels, but unfortunately it was not held.
"The adjudicator most likely set up the headquarters in the school and the town hall, and only those two places are still intact. But they are condescending, and it is difficult for us to get close. But he still knew the layout of the town very well, and he didn't need to look at it with a telescope to tell it clearly.
"I think it's at school, and I probably saw the Yagi antenna...... Is this lake saltwater or freshwater? ”
What Hong Tao saw through his telescope was basically the same, the town was at least four kilometers away from where he was standing, with a highway and a national highway in between. There is very little vegetation around the road, creating two natural blockades with a wide view, making it a bit difficult to launch a surprise attack from the north.
There are no roads to the west and south of the town, but there is a large bare Gobi that is a little dark. Maitijan said that it was not naturally formed, but that it was set on fire, and that the rebels burned it, and after the adjudicators occupied it, they burned more, and it was also not hidden and lurking.