Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 60 Scouting Team

"Lingao." Bei Wei muttered to himself while holding a Russian-made infrared telescope.The scene under the infrared telescope is a bit blurry, but the general outline can be seen clearly.

Beiwei has traveled all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland in the past.From the well-preserved Pingyao in Shanxi and Fenghuang in Hunan to the ancient city with only the wall foundation left, I have seen all kinds of ancient cities.But this is the first time I have seen a county like Lingao—elliptic, long from east to west, and short from north to south.To put it bluntly, it looks like an olive.

The entire Lingao County faces south from the north, backed by high mountains and facing the Wenlan River.Here the river bends from south to northeast, forming a bend. The river surrounds the city pool, "because the river is a pool", and there is no special moat.

Visually, the height of the city wall is about 7 meters.The circumference of the city is very small, and it is estimated that Beiwei is only 1.5 kilometers away.Although small, the fortification is not bad. There are Qiaolou at the gates of each city, and it seems that there are gun emplacements, and the walls are all covered with bricks and stones.The Ming Dynasty was very willing to spend manpower and material resources on city fortification, and even such a small border county was heavily fortified.Bei Wei recalled that he had traveled to a ruins of an ancient city in a great country in the universe: the so-called city wall piled up with random rocks and mud was not as high as the wall of the elementary school where he had studied, and the city gate looked like a tunnel under the roadbed of a train.It really deserves to be the largest country in the universe that traveled around the world and spread the fire of civilization to the four ancient civilizations and finally retired to the peninsula.

(Note: At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Lingao County was only one foot high when it was first built. During Jiajing, it was used to guard against Japanese pirates. The city wall was increased to two feet. At the same time, Qiaolou was added and the city wall was covered with bricks and stones.)

At this moment, through the infrared telescope, one can see the bonfire lanterns on the city wall one after another, and the soldiers are walking back and forth on patrol, and it seems that the defense is very tight.However, even he, who has never studied the history of ancient wars, can see that there are big loopholes in the fortification of the city gate.The east and west gates are located at the two ends of the olive, completely protruding outwards, and the two wings have no cover. The attackers can concentrate on storming the city gate at the tip without worrying about the firepower of the two wings.As for the south gate facing the Wenlan River, it is at the most protruding part of the middle waist of the entire 'Olive'.

There are some vague buildings outside the east gate, but there are no lights, and there is a dead silence.On the Wenlan River outside the South City Gate, there is also a long stone bridge with multiple arches. It was rebuilt by Lu Sheng, the county magistrate during the Yongle period, on the basis of the wooden bridge of the Taiping Bridge in the Yuan Dynasty. The bridge has nine holes and is named Linlin Bridge. Jiangqiao.

(Note: This bridge, also known as Wenshui Bridge, was renovated in the Qing Dynasty. It was heightened and widened in the 50s, and it was used until the end of the 20s. This well-preserved ancient bridge was demolished in 60.)

"It seems that the county already knew we were coming." Li Jun said in a low voice.

"Don't talk, be careful." Bei Wei adjusted the focus of the telescope.

At dusk, Ma Qianju approached Bei Wei and asked him to lead a capable scouting team to advance inland along the Wenlan River, heading straight for the city of Lingao County.

"Put under the Lingao city as quickly as possible, and monitor the movement of the county." Ma Qianzhu told him, "It's not your task to investigate along the way."

After receiving the order, he immediately transferred three people who had just rested from the military group, and another person from the communication group.After picking out the necessary equipment and making a little preparation, we set off after nightfall.

"Your task is not to fight, but to monitor each other's movements. It is not necessary not to kill people."

According to the nature of this task, the reconnaissance team all put on camouflage uniforms. In addition to the rifle, they also specially brought a Saiga-308 rifle with a scope, an infrared telescope and a 2-watt radio.

It may be difficult for ordinary people to go off-road at night, but it is not difficult for soldiers.Not to mention that they are each equipped with a pair of low-light night vision goggles.The slightly difficult thing is that there is no Lingao map of this time and space in hand, and it is difficult to judge your own position on the way, so Beiwei decided to try to walk along the river——according to the geographical data of this time and space, Lingao County is located 12 kilometers up the river , there are obvious landmarks such as Bairen Beach on the way as a reference.Coupled with the compass and map interpretation, you will not get lost without a guide.

If it is an ordinary road, even ordinary people can walk for 12 kilometers in 3 hours.Although there is no road at the moment, when the staff travels, they find that there is basically no complicated terrain on both sides of the Wenlan River, and a maximum of 4 hours is enough.

In fact, they were faster than they thought. Wearing night vision goggles, the team marched along the river without resting, and saw the lights of Lingao County within 3 hours.

I chose a small hillside across the river. This is a forest of miscellaneous trees. It is in the middle of the south gate and east gate of the county seat. It faces the city wall across the river and can clearly monitor the south gate and east gate.The reconnaissance team built an observation position here, and sprinkled medicinal powder to drive away snakes and insects. At night in Lingao in September, the temperature was already very low and the dew was heavy. The team members set up a small shed with rain cloth and began to wait in shifts.

"Captain, the headquarters has called, and we need to report the situation." Li Yunxing, who was working as a radio operator, reported.

"This is Beiwei next to the telegraph."

"This is Ma Qianju next to the telegraph. How are you doing?"

"Very good. The reconnaissance team arrived at Lingao at 9:1 on September 21st of the lunar calendar." Bei Wei looked down at his watch, "It is currently under observation."

"How is Lingao's current situation?"

"It has entered a state of alert, and there are about 20 people patrolling and standing guard on the south wall from west to east."

"Continue to monitor, and contact us at any time if there is any situation. Finished." Ma Qianju ended the call, looked up at the clock on the disembarkation ship, the hour hand had already pointed to 09:30 in the evening, and more than ten hours had passed by T on D-day. A large number of materials and equipment, and the beach base has also begun to take shape.The current camp is strong enough to withstand attacks from hundreds of local militants.Reports from here and there, however, are not optimistic.Some basic building materials are scarce, and the facilities that took a lot of man-hours to build are mostly temporary buildings.Many basic livelihood facilities are also not in place.

The contact with the locals is zero. Although the military personnel on the cordon found a large number of traces of human activities, they have not encountered the locals yet.The lookout post on the beacon tower found a small number of sailboats passing by from time to time, but there was no fishing boat near Changgong Bay, the main fishing ground for Lingao fishermen.Obviously, they were scared away by the alarm from the beacon tower.

At the summary meeting on the first day, many executive committee members believed that the originally planned turtle flow strategy was too conservative, and everything that happened on D-day proved that Snail's presence in Bopu Port was not conducive to the upgrade of the base.According to Wang Luobin, the current situation is an endless loop: not enough building materials - no production base - no production base - no building materials - not enough building materials.To break through this cycle, we must go out quickly and establish industrial bases in places suitable for development.

According to the news from the reconnaissance team, the locals are panicking now, they just keep their doors closed and will not attack the traversers at all.It is a good opportunity to quickly expand the scope of control and upgrade the base.

The meeting made a resolution that at dawn tomorrow, a second reconnaissance team would be dispatched, tasked with surveying and mapping the surrounding area and reconnaissing resources.

"At the same time, another route survey team will be dispatched to survey and design the Bopu-Bairentan Highway." Wen Desi's colored pencil drew a line on the transparent board of the map, "We design and construct while surveying, except Keep the necessary manpower and equipment and continue to unload all the labor and machinery into this project. Try to open up the connection between the two places within three or four days, so that we can start construction work at Bairentan by D+5 .

"Should the military teams of the two survey teams carry out security tasks?" He Ming asked, "The military teams have to apply for the recruitment of ten additional militiamen into active duty."

Wen Desi frowned, the current human resources are quite tight, once the road construction starts, needless to say, there will be a shortage of labor.But the military team is indeed stretched to the point where 21 people are responsible for land and sea vigilance and observation, and four of them are sent to reconnaissance without rest all day, and the others are still in various towers and sentries— Can only take turns to nap.

"Okay, people can give it to you." Wen Desi made up his mind, "Each surveying and mapping team sends two guards." He glanced at He Ming, "Is this not a big problem?"

He Ming nodded: "No problem. Organizationally, the labor force is tight now. Military personnel must also participate in labor when they are not on duty."

"It's very hard for you to be vigilant all day long."

"I have discussed with Bai Yu, Zhao De, and Chen Haiyang to adjust the duty plan of the military team. Each person in charge of security tasks must spend 2 hours a day working, and I will take the lead."

The sky was getting brighter, and the early morning of D+1 fell on the first reconnaissance team. Everyone was wearing a camouflage cloak, and the dew made them all wet.

Through the binoculars, people on the top of the city could be seen yawning while taking down the lanterns and extinguishing them. The torches were all extinguished, and green smoke was emitting in the morning light.

At night, I saw vague buildings outside the east gate, which turned out to be temples and the like.The city is surrounded by open land, with a large area of ​​wilderness, mixed with some paddy fields, and several residential settlements scattered during the period.

Wei Aiwen slowly climbed to Li Jun's observation position, and said, "Brother Li, let's do it."

"What do you want to do?"

"Go into the county."

"Just the five of us?" Li Jun glanced at the three people who were sleeping under the camouflage tent.This little Wei is really a left-leaning adventurist.

"We have five semi-automatics, why are we afraid of some natives? One shot of bullets scared them all away."

"Then go put on your raincoat first."

"why?"

"If you dress like us, you will definitely be regarded as a monster who pours dog blood and defecates."

"..." Wei Aiwen knew that this was impossible. His real idea was to shoot the gun. After getting the SKS, he asked for a Russian-made R14 scope and pestered the Beiwei gang. He practiced, and he had "emptied" dozens of times yesterday when he was on guard, and today he was eager to find a chance to try his marksmanship.

Bei Wei was woken up by their words, and said: "Forget it, the task given to us by the Executive Committee is to conduct reconnaissance, not to fight. Shooting rashly will expose our intentions. Besides, the purpose of this time is reconnaissance and training Training the team. You didn't get tired when you got here, and woke up after sleeping for most of the night."

"I stood up for you for half the night, you have to remember to pay me back next time." Li Jun said, "I'm in my thirties, working the night shift hurts my health..."

(End of this chapter)