1627 Rise of the South China Sea

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The North Vietnamese trainees have received more than two months of high-intensity training in the Tushan training camp, but the instructors still believe that the training effect has not reached the ideal level, and there is still a gap compared with the Haihan militia.Of course, the objective reasons for this gap are not only weapons, but also differences in the treatment received by soldiers, the way officers do political work, and so on.According to the original plan of the Military and Police Department, the trained troops would have to train with the spearmen for at least one to two months before they could be sent to the battlefield to accept the test of actual combat.But I never thought that the Annan war would be overthrown by South Vietnam in a short period of time, and the Zheng regime had to pull this unformed army to the battlefield as a surprise soldier.

The military and police department designed the mixed phalanx tactics of muskets and spears for the North Vietnamese trained troops, which has high requirements for the marching and operation of the array.Spearmen do not exist as the main force for fighting, but their role is mainly to cover the safety of Musketeers.Especially when the attack is frustrated and the musketeers need to retreat to a safe area to reorganize the phalanx, they must have the pikemen stand in front to block the enemy's offensive-they need to block the enemy's offensive when facing the South Vietnamese army using the same tactics. It may be bullets fired by enemy muskets.

No one dared to have too much expectations for the spearmen pulled out temporarily. The people in the headquarters only hoped that the North Vietnamese spearmen would not mess up on the battlefield by then.But in addition to this hidden danger, how to put these spearmen on the predetermined battlefield is also a problem.

"Our transportation capacity is not enough." After dawn, Sun Changmi came to the headquarters tent with porridge, and immediately pointed out the problem to Yan Chujie after hearing about the military and police department's combat plan: "We now have fifteen ships on hand. In Yong'an Port, the "Flying Speed" ship is small and responsible for guarding the outer waters, so there is no way to transport troops, so there are only 800 ships left. We have more than 1000 combat personnel and more than 1000 North Vietnamese trained troops. The crew and sailors are already in their early [-]s, and we have to bring hundreds of civilians who are responsible for logistics and supplies. It is impossible to load more than [-] spearmen on board. If we rely on the small boats of North Vietnam... then it is better to let our ship run for two trip."

"That is to say, we can't complete the troop projection at once?" Yan Chujie asked rhetorically.

"It's far away, at least five or six large ships with [-] materials are needed to have a good time." Sun Changmi shook his head repeatedly: "Even if all the remaining ships in the base camp are collected, it is probably not enough. .”

Yan Chujie closed his eyes, and after a moment of contemplation, he opened his mouth again: "The arrow is on the string, I have to send it. I have to wait for the boat from the base camp to arrive, and the day lily is cold! If it can't be delivered at one time, then it will be delivered twice!"

"Boss Yan, although Yong'an Port is only a dozen nautical miles away from the No. [-] location, the time interval between the two deliveries will be about six hours at the fastest!" Sun Changmi didn't even care about eating breakfast, so he put down the bowl and began to calculate the possible problems: "The recruits from the North Vietnam, if there is a battle without the cover of spearmen, it's a question of whether they can last for six hours. !"

Yan Chujie replied with an unchanged face: "It doesn't take that long, about an hour is enough. We will complete the second troop projection within an hour of initiating the landing!"

"How is this possible?" Sun Changmi asked in amazement.

"Take a good look at the map." Yan Chujie pointed to the satellite map of the battle area hanging in the conference room: "There are two small islands near the coast of the second location. You probably ignored their functions."

There are indeed two small uninhabited islands on the coast of No. 200 site. They are marked as Hunguo Island and Hanluo Island on the map. They are only 2000 meters and [-] meters away from the coast of No. [-] site. They are all very small, the two islands together are less than one square kilometer, and they are small islands of the same level as Huanyue Island in the east sea.Because these two islands are too close to the coast and have no potential for development, no one thought that these two islands had strategic value before. After a careful look, it was confirmed that neither island was inhabited.

However, the shipping capacity of the Ministry of Shipping was short, and it was impossible to complete the task of projecting troops at one time, which made the two islands suddenly useful.Sun Changmi is not an idiot either, and since Yan Chujie spoke for this reason, he naturally understood the other party's thoughts: "Boss Yan, you mean to use these two small islands as a transfer station to shorten the second delivery. The transportation distance? This trick!"

If these two uninhabited islands are made good use of, the [-] nautical mile round-trip distance between the landing point and Yong'an Port can be shortened to one or two nautical miles, and the problem of shortage of transportation capacity can be well resolved, let alone It is estimated that there will be no problem with two deliveries, even four deliveries.Of course, before that, the headquarters had to plan a relatively complete landing procedure. When to send some personnel to the small island near the coast first, and when to initiate the landing, all these still needed to be studied carefully.

Two days later, the frontline headquarters sent back the latest combat plan to the base camp, which was approved by the Executive Committee.The landing operation began to enter the final preparation period. Under the arrangement of the frontline headquarters, the North Vietnamese Spearmen and Musketeers who were transferred to Yong'an Port conducted a three-day joint training.Although the time is short, practice is better than no practice. The battle situation has no time for this side to practice slowly, and the headquarters can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

On January 1, the landing plan that had been prepared for many days finally entered the implementation stage.Although some good people suggested whether this operation should be named "D-day", so that the historical materials of the crossing regime in the future can make a more lofty record of creating many first combat operations this time, but the Military and Police Department is still very concerned. The program code name of "Operation Full Moon" has been used arbitrarily-the soil is not soil, and the combat effectiveness is five. If you don't want to be more rustic, is it still a revolutionary army?

Zheng Bo, who got the news on the mountain defense line, finally breathed a sigh of relief. If the Haihan people don't send troops, he thinks he can defend for three to five days at most, but most of them will die here in the end—Qingdu King Zheng Bing has already A death order was issued, and the troops here were not allowed to retreat again.

After the Haihan people arrived here, Zheng Bo tried every means to satisfy all their needs, from peasants to spearmen, from reconnaissance to combat, as long as it was a request from the Haihan people, Zheng Bo almost never refused.On the one hand, it is true that the order from the Thang Long Mansion played a role. On the other hand, Zheng Bai also really hoped that the Haihan people who were boasted as gods could share his pressure, although the Haihan army with only more than 1000 people could not The South Vietnamese army is all wiped out here, but it would be a good thing if they could launch some harassing attacks on South Vietnam from the sea to distract South Vietnam.

But when Haihan really announced the start of the operation, Zheng Bai couldn't help but feel a little worried. After all, his second son Zheng Ting was among the attacking troops who were going to land behind enemy lines this time.Thinking of the sharp lethality shown by the South Vietnamese Musketeers in the previous battles, Zheng Bai couldn't help but sweat for his son's safety.According to the plan of the Haihan people, the North Vietnamese trained troops and spearmen will participate in the battle behind the enemy lines, which means that Zheng Ting will probably bear the brunt of the South Vietnamese army's attack target-the Haihan people will definitely not use their own troops to block the front As cannon fodder, this job can only be done by the North Vietnamese army.

As for the Haihan people's next battle plan, Zheng Bai didn't know the details. The Haihan people only left Feng Annan as a liaison officer in the mountain position.From the moment of landing, all the forward information can only be obtained through the channel of the Haihan liaison officer. The only thing Zheng Bai can do is to follow the advice of the Haihan people as much as possible and mobilize troops to cooperate in counterattacks.

However, Zheng Bai's idea that his own troops would become cannon fodder was just a guess. When the sky was getting dark that evening, the first batch of troops who boarded the ship at Yong'an Port were not only the North Vietnamese trained troops led by Zheng Ting, but also the Haihan militia. They also pulled out the camp and boarded the ship together, including combatants from the frontline headquarters.At the same time, hundreds of civilians brought from the base camp also set off. They will take on the task of assisting the engineers in building fortifications after landing.

After the fleet set off, there were only a small number of personnel left in Yong'an Port to maintain the dock and take care of the luggage.The bustling coastal beach in the past few days has returned to an almost primitive deserted state in an instant.

After the fleet set off, they made a big circle on the sea, and waited until it was dark before slowly returning to the vicinity of the two small islands off the coast of the scheduled landing point.The day before this, the "Flying Speed" had already sent dozens of engineers to the island in the dark, and spent a day building a simple trestle bridge on the east coast of the two small islands.When the fleet came back from the open sea, they could just see the navigation lights lit by the engineers on the island, but they couldn't find this trick at all on the mainland west of the island.

The fleet was divided into two teams and docked on the two coasts. The Haihan militia and supply troops were closer to the coast, and the North Vietnamese trained troops were placed on Hanluo Island, which was farther away.It took nearly three hours for the troops of more than [-] people to land on the island in the dark. During the period, several North Vietnamese soldiers who landed on Hanluo Island fell into the sea due to mild night blindness. Fortunately, the rescue was timely and no one was killed. .The Haihan militia that landed on Hunguo Island were luckier. There is a section of land on the east side of the island that is relatively flat, and the landing is not difficult.

After completing the landing, the fleet sailed away from the island and headed for the night in the north.In the next day, the two troops will lurk on the island, waiting for the time to land.The frontline headquarters has also moved to Hunguo Island, and the personnel of the headquarters will also land with the large troops in a day.However, there will be troops staying on Hunguo Island. The medical team led by Morgan will set up a simple field hospital here to house some of the seriously wounded transferred from the front line. Its severity was transferred by the ship to the rear.

Before dawn, two sea boats dragged more than 20 small wooden boats back to Hunguo Island.These small boats were basically all the ships the North Vietnamese could find in the vicinity, and they were to be used as piers for floating trestles at the beginning of the landing operation.

During this day, the South Vietnamese Army was not idle, and still arranged an offensive on the mountain defense line as usual.After more than a month of fierce fighting, North Vietnam's mountain defense line has actually become riddled with holes, much weaker than when Feng Annan and Mu Xiabo first arrived here.Since the offensive of the South Vietnamese Army did not stop even for a day, the North Vietnamese repairs to the fortifications could only be superficial. Under the continuous attack, the walls of many areas had collapsed in pieces, and the defenders could only rely on shields. With the body to build a line of defense, the entire defense capability is already in a precarious state.

Zheng Bai had to invest the last two reserve teams in this day's defensive battle, and it took a whole day to repel the South Vietnamese Army's three offensives.When he saw the South Vietnamese army retreating down the mountain like a tide, the exhausted Zheng Bai suddenly collapsed to the ground, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up.

"General Zheng, you have done a great job. You have done your part. Please believe me. From tomorrow onwards, the situation of the battle will be different!" Feng Annan said confidently while reaching out to help Zheng Bo. He said: "The good times of the rebels are over, it's time to use a counterattack to wake them up!"

"I hope it can be as General Feng said!" Zheng Bai replied with a wry smile.He still has reservations about Feng Annan's optimism. Although the Haihan people look very powerful, it is really hard to say how much effect they can have with such a small force.Moreover, there is also a firearms unit on the South Vietnamese side, who will be more powerful in the fight, Zheng Bo is not fully sure to bet on the Haihan people - of course, if he saw the artillery shipped by the Haihan fleet in advance, maybe this kind of Thoughts will change.

This time, in addition to some of the artillery purchased by the North Vietnamese side in the early stage and the naval guns loaded on the sea ships, the artillery company of the militia was also equipped with more than ten artillery pieces of different calibers.If it weren't for the limited number of artillery, the Military and Police Department even thought about using intensive artillery fire to play a fire coverage tactic in the seventeenth century.The headquarters is full of confidence in blocking a 200-meter-wide front with more than 2000 artillery pieces, not to mention that there are nearly [-] artillery units that will cooperate with the artillery.

Regardless of whether it is public or private, the headquarters will use a large number of artillery to attack in this landing battle-the ammunition fired is all calculated on the North Vietnamese regime according to the export price, and it is not for nothing!According to the calculations of the Military and Police Department, every time the 6-pound gun is fired, the Crossing Group will earn about one or two taels of silver, while the consumption level of the 12-pound gun is half that of the 6-pound gun.If there is an opportunity to use the naval guns loaded on the ship, the command will not hesitate to issue a firing order.The war between North and South Vietnam was a struggle for consumption, but the Haihan militia's participation in the war was purely to make money.

During this day, in order to conceal their whereabouts, the latent troops on the two islands were not allowed to use open flames for cooking, and everyone could only eat dry food and drink cold water during the day.Only a very small number of crossing officers are eligible to enjoy the "high-tech" self-heating boxed military rations.Although the chemical principle of this kind of heating pack is very simple, the chemical workshop in Shengli Port can manufacture it, but the batch is limited, and it is impossible to supply it to the militia in large quantities in the near future.

It was not until after dark that a ship brought hot food to the troops on the island—this was made nearby behind the mountain defense line, and it was still hot when it was transported to the island.Such hot food will be served again before the attack in the early hours of tomorrow to ensure that everyone can participate in the battle after eating.This pre-war meal was much better than usual. The logistics team killed more than a dozen live pigs transported from Heitu Port in one go. Even the North Vietnamese soldiers were lucky enough to get a little bit of oil.

A little later, the fleet arrived at the two small islands again, this time transporting more than a thousand spearmen and some logistics personnel responsible for communications, cooking and other affairs.Their boarding location was not at Yong'an Port, but on the coast behind the mountain line of defense just two or three nautical miles away, which greatly reduced the fatigue of these people during the transportation process.After a day of rest, the troops who had been lurking on the island the day before had basically adjusted their physical condition and desire to fight to the challenge state.

At three o'clock in the morning, "Flying Speed" approached the coast of the landing point again, repeating the previous landing method.The vanguard of the landing this time was larger than the previous squad. In addition to a few fixed roles of the North American Gang, Qian Tiandun also brought a platoon of soldiers from the special warfare company to act together.It’s just that there is only one rubber boat on the “Flying Speed”, so two small wooden boats had to be dragged to the stern of the boat. After approaching the shore, the militiamen rowed to the shore in small wooden boats and landed.

The landing process went very smoothly, and South Vietnam remained unprepared for the eastern coastline as always.After the team arrived at the pass, several members of the North American Gang divided into two teams and climbed to the commanding heights of the hills on the north and south sides.In addition to reconnaissance and early warning, their tasks will also observe the enemy's movements at high points, and provide real-time information to the headquarters for reference, so as to make timely adjustments to changes in the battlefield.

Qian Tiandun and his men were lurking at the foot of the mountain, and at the same time sent a message to the headquarters through the radio.At [-]:[-] in the morning, Yan Chujie gave the order to start action.Several four-hundred-year-old sea boats dragging a large string of small boats slowly turned out from the east of Wanyue Island and sailed to the predetermined coast.The first batch of personnel who landed were not pure combat personnel, but mainly engineers and civilians.Their task is to build a floating trestle for the subsequent landing troops to facilitate landing and unloading of luggage in the shortest possible time.

Whether the construction of the floating trestle is smooth or not will directly affect the progress of subsequent landing operations. Therefore, in addition to several drills at the base camp, these personnel have also undergone very arduous training after arriving at the Annan battlefield. It's time for them to show their talents.

(End of this chapter)