Soldiers' Assault: Veteran Special Agents and New Recruits

Chapter 443 One Man Against an Army

Although I have Google Maps installed on my phone, it doesn't provide detailed navigation for this country, and more importantly, many routes are not detailed.

In comparison.

Paper maps are still more reliable.

Use a compass to determine your current location, open a map and place it on the steering wheel, then head south along the route, carefully examining every location along the way.

soon.

A very easy-to-pronounce English bridge name has come into the spotlight for Jackie Chan.

Polini Bridge!

"It turns out that in the original storyline, it was the bridge leading to the port of Sansalem that was going to be blown up by the Red Turban Army in a few hours."

Jackie Chan muttered to himself.

He seemed to have grasped something, and focused his mind on it again.

"After the bridge was destroyed, Leng Feng had no choice but to risk crossing the combat zone to reach another port and board a ship. Doesn't that mean that this was the only route to Sankuga Town in the Kandal area?"

The moment Jackie Chan thought of this point, a thought naturally popped into his mind.

He immediately started looking at the map.

A few minutes later, Jackie Chan put away his phone and smiled confidently.

Infrastructure has always been one of the biggest challenges in Africa, and building bridges that allow ships to pass through is extremely difficult.

There are many small bridges for pedestrians along this 200-kilometer stretch of river, but only this one is a large bridge that allows vehicles to cross.

In other words.

In the original storyline, Big Bear and his group definitely took this shortest route.

According to the plot, when Leng Feng arrived at the hospital, the sun was already high in the sky. Although it was already afternoon, he was still able to run into Da Xiong and a group of people.

This proves that Da Xiong and the others probably crossed the bridge before noon.

Even if it's not 100%, it's still 50%.

The remaining 50% are because Big Bear arrived early and had already crossed the bridge to the Chinese-funded hospital, and may even be there now.

The butterfly effect brought about by Jackie Chan has already taken hold; anything can happen.

If that's the case, then we should wait even longer.

In any case, we can't find Dr. Chen before them. Rather than fighting head-on with such a large group of them to take him away, we might end up getting ourselves killed.

It would be better to set up a perfect ambush here and wait for the prey to come to us, thus increasing our chances of success.

Everything Jackie Chan prepared was for the purpose of an ambush.

"The Polina Bridge is narrow, allowing only one car to pass at a time. The convoy will be restricted here, making it the perfect spot to ambush them. You're the one."

Jackie Chan was very satisfied with the position and was very confident in successfully intercepting the enemy.

I raised my hand to check the time.

It's not even 1 o'clock yet.

Under the blazing sun, the grassland stretched as far as the eye could see, and the tall grass on both sides of the road rippled like ocean waves in the wind.

If there were no national war, you could drive freely across this grassland.

It's definitely a wonderful thing to enjoy life.

Unfortunately, this seemingly peaceful grassland is destined to be stained with blood today.

To achieve this perfect highway ambush, Jackie Chan needs to make the most of every "tool" he has.

The legendary roadside bomb IED has performed remarkably well in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.

It's practically an essential tool for murder and robbery.

If we could line up a row of these along this road and set them to be remotely detonated, it would be quite a sight to see the convoy drive by and then activate the remote control.

Unfortunately, the Poliniga Bridge is not very suitable here.

The "national highway," entirely constructed of cement and gravel, rendered the amazing IED obsolete.

Although it's just a three- or four-meter-wide cement road, which would be equivalent to a village road in China, in this backward and impoverished country, it is a genuine national highway.

The cement road surface was too hard; it was impossible to dig a hole and bury a bomb.

If you just place a few bombs on the highway, any driver who isn't stupid or blind will notice something's wrong and stop the car in time.

Even if they put branches or clothes to cover themselves, it would easily arouse the vigilance of Athena and the others.

They are professional PMCs!

However, it's not entirely hopeless. After all, difficulties are insurmountable, but people are adaptable, especially for a seasoned veteran like Jackie Chan, who has plenty of clever ideas.

On the highway that cuts across the grasslands, if you ask what's the one thing that will never raise a question, there's only one answer—

Without a doubt, they were the carcasses of various wild animals!

Along the way, Jackie Chan discovered many wild animals that had been hit and killed.

Jackie Chan had this idea at the time, so he excluded some that had been crushed or rotten to the point of being too large.

We collected a total of four other usable small animals, such as rabbits.

Now it's time to put my remaining energy to good use!

The four animal carcasses were all dumped on the road by Jackie Chan, making it seem like they were randomly killed, but in reality, it was a carefully planned scheme by Jackie Chan.

They are placed irregularly in random locations on the road, spaced between each other by ten to twenty meters.

Each corpse appeared harmless, but in reality, a high-explosive grenade was stuffed inside their stomach, with a carefully arranged trigger mechanism.

This ensures that when the tire runs over it, the grenade can be successfully detonated due to the force displaced by the impact.

Even if the car doesn't run over the grenade, Jackie Chan can still trigger it by shooting it from a distance with bullets.

With the booby traps set up, the next step is to "make them look good."

There is a big difference between animals that are crushed to death and those that are simply left on the ground. Usually, there will be blood and chunks of flesh squeezed out around the animal.

And these moved animal carcasses happen to have this missing loophole.

Jackie Chan is known for his steady and reliable approach to things, and this loophole must be plugged.

If you want to give them makeup, the method is actually very simple.

Find a stone and tap the four sides of the animal carcass. The rotten and smelly animal meat is very mushy. When you tap it with a stone, it turns into a paste and may even spurt out.

The ejected minced meat formed a pattern on the ground resembling a car crushing its way out.

Under the scorching African sun, the sprayed meat paste dries quickly, forming a realistic shape in less than half an hour.

Let alone seeing it from a distance while driving, even if you were right in front of it, most people wouldn't be able to tell the problem.

After setting up a nearly 100-meter-long series of booby traps, Jackie Chan did not stop working.

Instead, they continued towards the front of the first trap.

These are, after all, "booby traps" modified from hand grenades, not real "landmines," and their lethality to people inside the vehicle is very limited.

Fortunately, Jackie Chan had no hope that these booby traps would be enough to wipe out a convoy with just a few grenades.

Its main purpose was to disrupt the convoy and cause them panic and confusion.

Jackie Chan's carefully prepared treasure—the Type 58 twin anti-aircraft machine gun—was powerful, but it also had several fatal flaws.

It's bulky!

Slow fire switching speed!

Poor protective capabilities!

If we can't confuse the Red Turban Army enough beforehand and create enough chaos in the whole area so that they can't react quickly enough...

Even with the formidable firepower of the Type 58 twin anti-aircraft machine gun, it was impossible to complete this attack and achieve the feat of one man taking on an entire army.

In addition, Dane's Athena is a sniper with extremely accurate sniping skills.

The consequences will be unimaginable!

Therefore, Jackie Chan was prepared for this problem when designing the mission plan, and specially brought two "large watermelon rinds" from the embassy.

M-18A1 Claymore!

Claymore anti-personnel mines, also known as "directional mines" or "claymore mines".

It is the directional anti-personnel mine, which is highly praised by many military enthusiasts and has a similar weapon in my country.

As a powerful weapon for defending against infantry assaults, it originated in the United States, with the Claymore mine being the most famous model.

But its place of origin was Nazi Germany!

Nearly a century ago, during World War II, Nazi German scientist Hubert Erding discovered that when explosives were detonated behind a curved steel plate, most of the impact force would act perpendicularly on the steel plate during detonation.

During the explosion, the concave surface of the steel plate forms a high-speed penetrating body with astonishing destructive power.

However, Hubert did not think of how to use it at the time, so he did not make it into a directional mine, but simply added it to the structure of a landmine to increase its explosive destructive power.

And it was discovered and named the Misnae-Shaldin Explosion Effect!

Until the complete end of World War II, Germany, the leader of the Axis powers, collapsed rapidly, and its domestic technology and scientific research personnel were divided up among various countries.

This technology, which was not fully developed, eventually ended up in the hands of the Allied powers at the time.

The United States, which joined the war late in the war, was the victorious nation that suffered the least loss of national strength and profited from the war, thus seizing a large share of the "cake".

The technology related to the Misner-Shaldin effect thus fell into the hands of the United States.

A few years later.

The war on the peninsula suddenly broke out. The coalition forces led by the US military were overwhelmed by ZYJ's infiltration and penetration tactics, which was an enhanced version of "evolved guerrilla warfare."

American soldiers were always worried that the elusive Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldiers would suddenly appear from some corner and charge into their positions.

In order to hold their ground and prevent being outmaneuvered, the "United Miscellaneous Forces" urgently hoped to obtain a close-range lethal weapon that could curb this situation.

So the American military industry, having acquired the technology, thought of the landmines designed by Hubert Shardin.

At that time, military experts from the United States and Canada all presented their own designs.

But in the end, it was American Norman McLeod who won.

His design was more advanced, using steel balls instead of steel plates and plastic for the mine casing, weighing only 1.1 kilograms. The initial experimental model was called "T48 mine".

After the equipment entered the U.S. military's equipment inventory, it was named "M18 Anti-personnel Directional Mine".

This is also recognized by the academic community as the first formal anti-personnel directional mine.

After four years of continuous efforts, an improved version, the "M18A1," with 700 steel balls inside and a maximum kill range of 250 meters, was officially finalized and put into service in 1960.

Although the Korean War had long since ended, another "monkey civil war" had already begun.

The M18A1 directional mine has found its place, and its terrifying destructive power—which, once triggered and detonated, can clear an area of ​​tens of meters—has become a reality.

It became known to the world in one fell swoop.

That's it.

The "Claymore mine" gained global fame and became so popular that it was copied by many countries around the world.

In the early days, my country's weapons and equipment were all imitations and references from foreign countries. The Russians had the most weapons, and the Americans also had a considerable number.

Among them is the Chinese version of the "Claymore mine".

It contains 800 1.2mm steel balls, is a Type 66 anti-personnel directional mine, and is dark green in color, with one side printed with the direction facing the enemy.

Because of its unique green color and overall semi-circular shape, when you stick it in there, it looks like a standing watermelon rind.

Compared to the fancy name "Claymore mine" or the tongue-twisting name "anti-personnel directional mine," Jackie Chan prefers to call it "watermelon rind."

The effective killing area of ​​watermelon rind is 120 degrees, the concentrated killing area is 60 degrees in the middle, the optimal killing distance is 50-55 meters, and the killing height is within about 2.4 meters.

Based on his ingrained memory of how to use it, Jackie Chan walked to a position about 15 meters away from the first booby trap on the road, extending 50 meters backward.

He opened the carrying bag, took out the landmine, positioned the curved side facing the road, and then used the aiming hole above to locate it. He then inserted the lower bracket into the grass, thus setting up the first "watermelon rind".

Then they walked another ten meters to the side and found a perfect spot to set up the second "watermelon rind".

Next.

It's about installing a detonation device!

Jackie Chan is holding an M18A1 directional mine. This type of directional mine has two ignition systems: an electric fuse and a pull fuse.

In certain circumstances.

The pull-to-fire fuse device can also be changed to a "trip-fire" or "pressure-fire" device.

Given Jackie Chan's current terrain conditions and needs, as well as the subsequent attacks that need to be coordinated, the most suitable detonation method is undoubtedly "pulse electrical discharge".

The earliest method of detonation for the Claymore mine was a battery ignition system.

Because the battery was extremely easy to damage, it was later replaced with the "M57 igniter".

This thing sounds really high-end.

It's basically a small mechanical generator, and it works on the same principle as the trendy flashlights that light up when you press them, which will be a popular product in a few years.

Pressing the handle three times consecutively with the lighter generates a 3V pulse voltage, which is used to detonate the electric detonator.

A pulse igniter, a booster, an electric detonator, and about 91 meters of wire—that's all the components of a Claymore landmine.

The booster unit is not required when the engine is a single unit.

It was specially prepared for "one fire, multiple uses", and Jackie Chan just happened to be able to use it this time.

The directional mine has all the necessary accessories; the next step is deployment.

Unscrew the soft plug on the detonator chamber above the "watermelon rind" and carefully install the electric detonator.

Then, the lead wire of the electric detonator is led out from the wire hole at the top of the detonator chamber plug and connected to the wire.

Next, place the wire cloth next to another watermelon rind, cut off the excess wire, and connect the cut-off end to it in the same way.

This is the connection method.

These are the parallel landmines commonly used by the military!

With the directional mine assembly and connection completed at this stage, there are still about 170 meters of wires attached to the two watermelon rinds. Adding the 50-meter kill distance between the mine and the road, the front line can be extended to 220 meters.

The distance is neither too close nor too far.

This was the ideal interception distance in Jackie Chan's ambush operation plan.

(End of this chapter)