1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1146
"It's actually snowing!"

Gao Qiaonan stretched out his hand and caught the little snowflakes falling from the sky.The snowflake melted at the touch of his hand, before he could see it clearly, it turned into a small drop of water, making his palm slightly cold.It has been nearly eight years since Gao Qiaonan left his hometown. During this period, he has almost lived in the south, and he has never felt the taste of snow again. However, this sudden snowfall reminded him of the past in Dongying. life, and those beautiful snow scenes hidden deep in memory.

However, this kind of emotion only flashed in Gao Qiaonan's mind for a moment, and he quickly threw it behind him.Now that an important combat mission is being carried out, it is not the time to be distracted and miss my hometown.He led a team to lurk in the mountains and forests, with the purpose of monitoring the Ming army on the eastern plain. If the battle situation was tight, his army would play the role of attracting the enemy's firepower from behind.Of course, when the Ming army wanted to withdraw from the battlefield, the task of this unit was to disintegrate the opponent's combat power as much as possible and slow down its retreat speed so that friendly troops could rush over from all directions to complete the outflank.

Gao Qiaonan saw all the three offensives launched by the Ming army, and had a more objective understanding of the strength of the Ming army.He thought that compared with the opponents he had encountered before, the strength of this Ming army was quite good. Although Haihan repelled all three attacks and suffered a lot of casualties, it did not lose its position.

Gao Qiaonan believes that the most inappropriate aspect of the Ming army is that the reconnaissance of its opponents and the battlefield environment in advance is seriously insufficient, and the attack direction chosen was wrong from the beginning.If the Ming army could detect the status of the mining stronghold before the battle, they probably would not choose to attack here so recklessly. They could completely bypass the mining area and go directly to the county seat, relying on the existing defenses of the county seat and Qishan Qianhusuo City Fortification comes to deal with Haihan slowly.When Haihan wants to solve this problem, he will inevitably destroy the image of a good person he has created with great difficulty since he landed in Shandong.

After watching these three waves of offensives, Takahashi Minami can already be sure that the Ming army will not be able to enter the mining area. If such refueling tactics continue to fight, the number of lost soldiers will only continue to increase. When the casualties reach a certain percentage, they will It will definitely collapse on its own.If the opponent's commander is not so stupid as to be hopeless, then there are only two ways left. One is to go out in full force and directly use a wave of currents to attack Haihan's position, or there may be a chance to rush into the mining camp. Fighting; another solution is to give up continuing to attack, decisively leave the battle and withdraw from the battlefield.

Ninety-nine percent of the former is a dead end, while the latter still has a chance of survival, provided that the retreat route does not just hit one's own troops.If Takahashi Minami was replaced in the same position, then he thought that he would probably choose the latter without hesitation. After all, the green hills would not worry about running out of firewood, and they would try to preserve their strength when the situation was seriously unfavorable. It is a rational choice for the commander.

As soon as Gao Qiaonan had this idea, he saw that the Ming army started to make new moves.They did not launch a fourth attack on the mining area, but changed their direction and came towards the mountainous area where they were.

"I really plan to run away!" Gao Qiaonan murmured, "There is a way to heaven, you don't want to go!"

Takahashi Minami put down the binoculars and issued a combat order.A few days ago, when he led his team to escort the bandit leader of the Wanjia Army to dig Tibetan silver in the mountains and forests, he had basically figured out the geographical situation within a radius of several tens of miles.Although it is not said that they know everything about this area, compared to the Ming army outside the mountain who was eager to evacuate from the battlefield, it has already surpassed by a lot.Some of these places are suitable for ambush. He has paid attention to them before that. As long as the Ming army chooses to retreat to Dengzhou City through the mountains, it will definitely pass through some of them. has a definite advantage.

Guo Xingning also noticed the snowfall. Although it didn't look like much snow fell, based on his past experience, he knew that this kind of first snow might fall for several days in a row.However, his men and horses came out in a hurry, and they didn't all change into winter clothes. If the temperature dropped sharply on the way back, it would definitely affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.The journey from here to Dengzhou City through the mountainous area is at least a hundred miles or tens of miles. Considering that this wild environment is relatively unfamiliar, it will take at least two days or even longer to go back, so we must leave as soon as possible.

Until the Ming army entered the mountainous area, the Haihan army in the mining area hadn't chased them out, which made Guo Xingning relax a little. What he worried most was that the Haihan army would be as lingering as when they came.With the current state of the Ming army, if it is entangled by the opponent, it may be difficult to launch an effective counterattack, and Guo Xingning no longer wants to let his troops suffer more losses before returning to Dengzhou City.

I don't know if it's the cold weather or some other mysterious reason, after entering the mountainous area, Guo Xingning always felt chills down his spine.Out of the sensitivity of a professional soldier, he thought that he might have sensed some kind of potential threat, but looking around the mountains and forests, he didn't find any signs of trouble nearby except for his team of troops marching.

"It's true that the older you are, the less courageous you are! Why do you keep living and going back!" After Guo Xingning confirmed that his feelings were only due to suspicion, he couldn't help but secretly despised himself. It seemed that he hadn't commanded a battle for a long time. After Li suffered a loss, even the marching army became paranoid.

In fact, the distance between the Haihan Army and the Ming Army at this time was much closer than Guo Xingning imagined, but this army in ambush in the mountains was all dressed in full camouflage uniforms, and even their faces were covered with camouflage masks. The eyes, nose and mouth were outside, and many people also inserted a lot of bushes and leaves on their military caps. Even the main weapon rifle they were equipped with used branches to camouflage the body of the gun.As long as they are a few feet away, it is difficult to notice the Haihan soldiers hiding in the forest.

Most of the camouflage uniforms brought over from another world by the time-traversing people have been equipped for too long and have been replaced, but even if they were worn out and washed to pieces, these camouflage uniforms were not discarded, and were taken home by the veterans. Heirlooms at the bottom of the box.Now, the camouflage military uniforms and other matching military products equipped with field troops are all custom-made in the dyeing workshop in Sanya.In addition to the four-color mountain camouflage currently installed by the special warfare battalion, what was brought to Shandong this time was even hundreds of sets of snow camouflage, which were prepared to be used when the army entered the Liaodong area.

Gao Qiaonan led a few of his men in ambush in the grass just a few feet away from the Ming army's marching route, holding his breath and patiently waiting for the Ming army's large troops to pass by, then rushed out and touched the last one. Several Ming soldiers in front of them.They didn't use their rifles. When the Ming army in front heard the noise and came back to look for the people behind them, they found that their screams were already several feet away in the mountains and forests.

Some Ming soldiers were eager to save people, and rushed into the forest without waiting for the officer to give an order, but the forest was like a demon that could eat people, and the people who rushed in immediately fell silent.The officers who arrived later prevented the soldiers from rushing into the woods. Although they didn't know what happened in the forest, even a fool could guess that it was the Haihan people who were playing tricks—the whole Fushan County, At present, only the Haihan people dare to attack the Ming army.

The news of Haihan's sneak attack on the back road quickly spread to Guo Xingning, but Guo Xingning didn't pay enough attention to this information. He thought it was just a sporadic sneak attack by Haihan's small army deployed in the mountains. Let's not talk about whether we can chase these enemies in the middle of the day, so the marching process will be delayed, and if the large force of Haihan people catch up from outside the mountain, it will be a big deal.

"Gather the team, be careful, and continue marching!" Guo Xingning didn't dare to push himself any further, and just wanted to get the troops out of the battle as soon as possible.As for these Haihan armed men hiding in the forest and launching attacks, he can only turn a blind eye now, and can't care less about settling accounts with them.

Guo Xingning wanted to calm things down, but Gao Qiaonan was not so easy to deal with.Although there was light snow in the sky and the temperature dropped a lot compared to the previous few days, Takahashi Nan felt hot in his heart.The instruction he received before the operation was to hold down the Ming army as much as possible and kill its vital forces, and fighting in the forest was undoubtedly one of the favorite environments of the Special Operations Battalion.Although the natural environment here is quite different from that in the south, but during this period of time running back and forth in the nearby mountains and forests to perform tasks, I have almost gotten used to it.

After a small trial, Gaoqiaonan's men and horses began to use various means to continuously launch small-scale raids on the Ming army marching in the forest.In order to ensure their own safety, the raids of the special warfare battalion are basically based on the method of concentrating a small group of people and horses in one place to shoot coldly. At a distance of about 20 meters in the forest, they shoot a round at a place where the Ming army is denser. They immediately withdrew.If the Ming army chased them into the forest, several nearby teams would encircle them in the forest to deal with them. Otherwise, the team would immediately look for the next location suitable for a surprise attack and act again.

The troops under Gao Qiaonan's current command are only about [-] people, which happens to be the establishment of a reinforced company in the special warfare battalion. Before he took action, he delegated the command to the squad and platoon level, forming an action team with the squad as a unit. Take the platoon as a unit to coordinate actions locally.This command system gives subordinates a high degree of freedom of action, but at the same time, this combat method is also very difficult, because they cannot expose their traces too much, and almost all commanders and fighters at all levels can only rely on their own small teams. For the sake of fighting, it is impossible to transmit signals by means of shouting, musical instruments or flags. Once defeated, it will be very difficult to regroup in the forest. operate.

After walking in the forest for about an hour, Guo Xingning has already felt that the frequency of attacks from the forest is increasing, and now he does not need his subordinates to report, as long as he hears the sound of firecrackers firing from time to time in the forest, he knows the Haihan people In which direction another attack was launched.And these Haihan people were indeed very difficult to deal with. They would never show up to charge and kill them. They all hid in the woods and shot coldly.

Guo Xingning has now begun to regret choosing the plan of retreating into the mountains, because he found that the boundless mountains and forests did not provide good cover for his troops, but instead became the best cover for his opponents to hide their tracks and launch a sneak attack.Although the opponent's troops were obviously not many, it could be judged from the sporadic gunshots that they did not have many people gathering in the forest, but the damage caused to the Ming army was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

For such a situation, Guo Xingning could not come up with any effective countermeasures. He could only urge his troops to speed up the march in order to get rid of the entanglement of the Haihan people.But such a coping method obviously won't have any significant effect.And because of the continuous harassment and the inability to carry out effective counterattacks, the fighting will of the Ming army was gradually on the verge of collapse.

After marching for two hours, the physical fitness of the Ming army could no longer support the rapid march, so they could only stop to eat and rest.Guo Xingning drank a few sips of water, but had no appetite for dry food.The battle damage since entering the mountain has been equal to the casualties during the attack on the Haihan stronghold. If it continues at this speed, it may be difficult for my team to return to Dengzhou City safely.

Guo Xingning has now realized that he was able to constantly cause troubles for the Ming army along the way. The ones hiding in the mountains are definitely not the sporadic reconnaissance teams of the Haihan people, but the opponents specially deployed in this area in advance, waiting for the Ming army to pass through the mountains An elite unit that intercepts and kills when retreating.But the sad thing is that even if he knows the opponent's means and purpose now, he still can't think of an effective way to deal with it. The bright place acts as a living target.

Obviously this place is the territory of Ming Dynasty, and I am the owner of this place, but I was beaten by a group of outsiders and lost my way. This kind of humiliation made Guo Xingning's anger almost overwhelm his reason.But he knew that he couldn't admit defeat. If he couldn't bring his troops back to Dengzhou, it was very likely that no one in Dengzhou would know what happened at the Fushan Copper Mine.Guo Xingning summoned several riders and asked them to break out and return to Dengzhou separately. Because of the rush of time, it was too late to write letters slowly, so they could only convey Guo Xingning's warning message.

Of course, if you want to run a horse in this mountainous area, you will definitely not be able to run, so the speed of these riders is not much faster than that of infantry.As for whether they can break out of the encirclement encircled by the Haihan people, that's up to each of them.

When the Ming army stopped to rest, Haihan also died down and did not launch another offensive.Guo Xingning knew that this was because the opponent was taking the time to rest and replenish his physical fitness. If his troops wanted to get rid of the role of prey, then it was time to test their will and physical fitness.

(End of this chapter)