Chapter 248: Retreat the Machine Gun
Again, the strategy can be coarse, but the tactics must be fine, and it must be extremely fine.
Based on the big judgment that "the Burmese army must send the Shadow Corps away", in the following time, Chen Shen arranged a series of pre-war preparations.
First of all, the four team members lurking in Jingdong City regained their identities and became active in their faces, taking advantage of the only 4 hours during the martial law period, spending three days to find out most of the possible evacuation routes.
The air route was originally the first to be ruled out, but after careful consideration, Chen Shen instead listed the "civil aviation evacuation" as the most likely route to be implemented.
The reason is very simple, Jingdong has an airport, there is civil aviation, and there are planes stranded at the airport at the moment.
The two sides have fought to this point, and the closure of the civil aviation airport is an inevitable strategy, and in fact it has been implemented for several months, but you must not assert that the Burmese side will not be able to do anything to send the Shadow Corps away in the name of "evacuating overseas Chinese".
Once this plan is implemented, what awaits the Dongfeng Corps will be an extremely complex combat situation.
In case the other party gets mixed up with other civilians who need to be evacuated, it really can't be beaten, and it won't work if you don't fight.
Therefore, the intelligence work must be done in advance, and if the other side has a move to mobilize civil aviation, it must make plans in advance to intercept the Shadow Corps outside the airport.
This work is very complex and requires a lot of experience and talent, because it already involves a high level of military secrecy, and even with the help of Xiaoyu's power, it is impossible to obtain accurate information within the "timeliness" required by the Dongfeng Corps.
Therefore, in order to ensure the saturation of surveillance, Chen Shen did not hesitate to ask Jiang He from Bao Xiaomei and sent him to Jingdong.
The process is quite tortuous, but the more tortuous it is, the more it shows that Jiang He is really a good hand at intelligence.
He made himself a monk himself, relying on his experience learning Buddhism after his daughter's death and the Thai language he already knew.
He did a good job, pretending to be a pure monk who didn't care about the outside world at all, was devoted to penance, and had no perception of the so-called battle situation, so he swaggered through the defense area of the three parties, directly entered Jingdong, and settled in a temple where he "once settled".
Wajongkan Buddha Temple.
In fact, he settled on a fart, and all his "memories" of this Buddhist temple came from the white dog.
Because this Buddhist temple is one of the footholds of the lion regiment in the past!
That's right, he really organized and dispatched all available information resources in a very short period of time and gathered them into a tenacious main line.
This kind of ability, if you want to say that you don't have some talent in your body, it's really impossible to do.
And after entering Jingdong, Jiang He also quickly started his work.
Unlike Bao Qi and Sang Ye, who stared at the airport and the oil depot, he stared at buses, hotel laundry rooms, and housekeeping companies.
Needless to say, the target is the "personnel transfer".
The hotel laundry room is designed to find the specific location of the stranded crew members.
There were only a few slightly more upscale hotels in Jingdong, and it took him almost no effort to find the crew members' accommodations, and then bribed the laundry staff to let her notify him whenever she saw a uniform for washing.
The reason is very simple, before the crew gets on the plane, the uniform must be washed and ironed.
And the third, for the male crew members-ββ is an extension of the second surveillance.
The two stranded planes, half male and half female, had been in Jingdong for several months, and it was impossible for them to endure loneliness.
And the "maid door-to-door service" provided by the so-called "housekeeping company" is an unspoken unspoken rule.
Keep an eye on them, and you can get more "first-hand information".
Of course, in addition to these three main lines, he also made a series of actions to obtain information for cross-validation.
When this series of strategies reached Chen Shen, even the well-informed him had a feeling of amazement.
Because, Jiang He has really done the ultimate in open source intelligence.
His set of combination punches is out, and the granularity of the intelligence is not even inferior to that of some closed-source intelligence obtained at high risk
Because of his arrival, the Dongfeng Corps' monitoring of the civil aviation evacuation route formed a closed loop, and the monitoring of other aspects was naturally handed back to Bao Qi and others.
Because the land and water routes are narrow and short, and the number of evacuees at a time is limited, it is basically impossible to involve the problem of rat throwers.
Three routes are blocked, and the last and most hidden route remains, which is to disperse and break through.
Yes, the Burmese army wants to send the Shadow Corps away, but this "sending away" is only an abstract concept, not a real one.
Therefore, it is still possible for these people of the Shadow Corps to disperse and evacuate in groups of 1 to 2 stragglers.
However, they can disperse and withdraw from Jingdong, but they can't disperse all the way out of Myanmar, because they are not local people in Myanmar, even if they are familiar with the terrain and cannot act in unison, the danger of exposure will only increase if the time is extended, not decreased.
Chen Shen judged that they must set up a meeting point, and the distance of this meeting point must not be too far away from Jingdong.
That's easy to do.
It's all taught by a master, and they can only work on the map, can I not think of the assembly point you can think of?
Chen Shen drew 50 possible assembly points around Jingdong according to various factors such as the deployment of the two sides, the surrounding traffic situation, the topography, and hydrology, and then asked He Bangxiong to divide 50 militias and deploy them to guard the rabbits.
He didn't expect these people to be able to hold off the Shadow Corps, not even for a second.
Because, as long as they saw the traces of the Shadow Corps' assembly, the Mi-171Sh of the Dongfeng Corps would pounce on their heads from Meng Bin within 20 minutes.
How far can they get out of the jungle in 20 minutes?
Not everyone is a forest river, at most three or four hundred meters.
At that time, if it is really lost, the big deal is to implement the plan of Li Bang and hang some gasoline barrels and throw them down
All arrangements were ready, taking advantage of the further contraction and deterioration of the situation in Jingdong, Chen Shen seized the time and began to conduct special training for the members of the Dongfeng Corps.
Because this time it's really going to be empty.
He didn't specifically pick the core group to train, but eliminated several people from the core group at the beginning.
White dogs, with mild fear of heights, have little impact, but it is difficult to correct in the short term and be eliminated directly.
Shi Dakai, one of the most stable snipers in the team alongside Yang Shu, simply didn't get off the plane.
Lin He's technical level is basically up to standard, but he lacks battlefield experience, and the psychology of "being afraid of bullets" has not been completely overcome, and he really can't fight and land.
After a round of selection, the Dongfeng Corps singled out 6 people, including Chen Shen, to enter the real rope descent training link, and after the start of training, another person was eliminated because of his large size.
Because according to Chen Shen's assumption, in extreme cases, they want to play jungle rappelling like the Brazilian gang, and it is better to operate with a little thinner and more flexible.
After the people were selected, the 5-member rappelling team entered an almost endless training, and the intensity of the training was so intense that Chen Shen dreamed of the sound of a helicopter bursting out.
According to the standard rappelling training guide, in fact, a team needs to go through at least three months of training to master the abseiling, but Chen Shen does not have that much time, so he applied the classic idea of a fire brigade in the north at the beginning, which was listed as a lesson plan.
First practice the building rope drop, and then when the conditions are ripe, go directly to the helicopter.
The two are so similar that even the Mi-171 helicopter is exactly the same, and judging from the results of the training, there is really a reason why this idea can be used in the lesson plan.
On the last day of training, when Chen Shen led the team to quickly slide down the Mi-171SH, all the members of the Dongfeng Corps were stunned by their smooth movements.
This made Chen Shen a little complacent-ββHey, who said that people can't practice?"
Isn't this practiced?
I don't need to be top-notch, high-intensity and high-motivation environment, and I can't practice at an average level?
Looking at the white dog standing on the ground sighing, Chen Shen couldn't help but laugh.
He crossed his arms to signal the helicopter to land, then turned to the white dog and asked:
"What, you want to try it too?"
The white dog was stunned for a moment, and finally shook his head.
"Forget it, there will be opportunities to practice in the future, but this time it is a war, so I won't hold back."
"But the rope landing is really handsome, this is one of the most representative pictures of 'special operations' in the eyes of my -ββ and many people."
"That must be handsome."
Chen Shen nodded slightly and continued:
"All tactics that can really form combat effectiveness are very handsome, in fact, there is no need to be so pompous, if one day, we can have the opportunity to overlook a real light infantry peak duel from a high place, you will find that the impact of that tactic is far stronger than helicopter rappelling."
"The arrangement of every firing point, every alternate cover, every interspersed and maneuvering, it will sometimes be as precise as a construction machine."
"Forget it, don't talk about this."
"The equipment I asked you to prepare, are you ready?"
"Ready."
The white dog hurriedly replied:
"Two RPDs, with a truncated barrel and a knapsack box for 600 rounds each, I've tested them, and the accuracy is very poor, but the suppression and flexibility are really amazing."
"Moreover, the ability to shoot sustainably is very strong, and I personally feel that it can make up for the lack of suppressive power in the PKM range we are using now."
"That's good."
Chen Shen nodded slightly, relieved.
In fact, in some film and television dramas, whether it is the truncation of the barrel or the hand-rubbing of the warhead, it can be called a typical mistake made by ignorant screenwriters.
Needless to say, the latter may even cause the bullet to fly out sideways due to the rifling entanglement problem after rubbing the bullet by hand, while the former will greatly reduce the accuracy of the firearm, or even reduce it to the extent that it is impossible to aim at all.
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However, everything is not absolute.
Some operations that seem outrageous can sometimes be found to suit them.
For example, the "jungle confrontation" between the Dongfeng Corps and the Shadow Corps is very likely.
The two corps cannot be said to be evenly matched, because the individual combat capability of the Dongfeng Corps is actually weaker than that of the truly professional Shadow Corps.
In this case, it is impossible for the Dongfeng Corps to play the same tactics of interspersing, intercepting, and raiding as the border battalion in Hongyan before.
The most likely scenario is a "grappling" in which they test each other under the cover of helicopters, and after a short period of contact, they quickly disengage.
In this case, the Dongfeng Corps' demand for mobility and firepower density is particularly critical.
In the jungle, the effectiveness of explosive weapons is greatly reduced, so to increase the firepower of the Dongfeng Corps, you can only rely on machine guns.
A machine gun that is light, powerful and capable of firing for a long time.
Retreat machine guns.
In other words, the truncated RPD was used as a retreating machine gun.
The so-called retreat machine gun concept refers to the machine gun that plays a role in fire suppression in the central stripping tactic, and the most typical representative is the M249 of the old United States and the M23 door machine gun system during the Vietnam War.
M249 is a new thing, the entire Dongfeng Corps only got one before, the firepower is obviously not enough, the M23 has long been eliminated, and that thing is also a heavy batch, in fact, it is not so easy to use.
There is only one retreating machine gun that has really been proven by the battlefield and can play amazing results, that is, an RPD with a truncated barrel and no crosshairs.
The firepower of this thing is so fierce that you can pull the trigger and not let go until you finish hitting a cartridge box, and the suppressive power is so strong that Lao Mei's own MACV-SOG (note) had to be snatched and used.
Although it is only an emergency product, under the current circumstances, it is really suitable for the Dongfeng Corps.
This thing is done, Chen Shen's confidence in facing the Shadow Corps can rise a lot.
He cast an appreciative look at the white dog again, and spoke:
"You've been doing well lately, you've been improving."
The white dog smiled and replied:
"I learned it all from the regimental commander - we still have time in the next two days, and I'm going to check the equipment again."
"If there's anything else that needs to be added, it's still too late."
"Yes."
Chen Shen nodded slightly and said:
"Let's do it, as long as we can take down the Shadow Corps this time, we can really rest for a while"
At the same time, inside the Jingdong City.
In a tiny little house, Connor has all his personal gear in order.
Two days later, he will withdraw from Kyungdong and Myanmar in accordance with the joint demands of the Burmese side and MPRI.
Without a doubt, it was one of the most painful failures of his career.
But returning to the whole process, he felt that he was not wronged by losing at the hands of that team.
It's not me who loses, Eisenhower has lost, what do I have to lose face?
Anyway, since I am asked to withdraw, then withdraw.
However, the retreat to the process is destined to be impossible to go smoothly.
Those people will not let go of their own team, and they will definitely catch up.
And as long as the two sides meet, it is destined to be a life-and-death struggle.
But, fortunately, I am ready for such a battle.ββ
MACV-SOG: Vietnam Military Assistance Command - Research and Observation Group
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