Chapter 1038 Retreat
Each team has multiple emergency plans for various unexpected situations that may arise during the operation. Although this retreat seems a bit hasty, it is not chaotic. The soldiers fired in batches to cover the retreat of their comrades. Although the natives were not afraid of death, they were unable to rush close to fight the Haihan soldiers under the suppressed fire. After several rounds of shooting, nearly half of the twenty or so natives on the opposite side had fallen. The remaining people felt so bad that they did not dare to rush forward to die, so they hid in the grass behind the trees and used the help of Attack around natural obstacles.
After Sun Zhen fired the signal flare and saw that the distance between the two sides had widened, he ordered an accelerated retreat without stopping to shoot at the pursuers. At this time, the village of Maolishe heard the noise, and people were already rushing towards the place where the accident happened. Within a short time, hundreds of young men had gathered. They were unwilling to give up when they saw that there were several casualties on their side, so they immediately followed Sun Zhen. The team retreated in the direction they were retreating from.
The team led by Sun Zhen was far away from the other three teams, so there was no other better way besides firing signal flares to notify friendly forces when retreating. Moreover, the natives have blocked the original retreat route to the east towards Houlong River. At present, they can only retreat into Maoli Mountain and use the mountains and forests to get rid of the pursuers.
Sun Zhen had several options before him. One was to find a place to lurk nearby, and wait for the storm to pass before trying to march eastward to the scheduled rendezvous point again. However, this carried the greatest risk. As long as the natives were not out of their minds, they would definitely seal off the vicinity of the tribe. area, the possibility that they could reach the rendezvous point on time before dark was extremely slim.
The second option is to follow the map signs, travel northwest from the current area, and travel longitudinally through the entire Maoli Mountain Mountains back to the coastal camp. This route doesn't look that far from the map, with a straight-line distance of less than twenty miles. However, because there are continuous mountains and hills in the middle, the actual marching distance is very likely to be more than twice this number. Considering that the soldiers only carried enough supplies for one day, this retreat route was also risky.
There is also a third route, which Sun Zhen felt was the safest when formulating an action plan before departure, which is to cross Maoli Mountain to the west. There is a mountain stream about ten miles away leading to the north, sharing the same river with Houlong River. Estuary. If you can successfully reach this unknown stream, you can try to make one or two bamboo rafts to go down the river. The traveling speed will definitely be much faster than traveling vertically across the entire Maoli Mountain.
However, there is an obvious problem with this route, that is, no one knows the specific conditions of this stream. The local garrison has not been to the upper reaches of this stream to conduct reconnaissance, but only marked such a water vein on the map. and general flow direction. As for why there is such a stream on the map that no one has visited on the spot, Sun Zhen doesn’t know the inside story. He only knows that the Ministry of National Defense has a large number of detailed map information on places that Haihan has not yet set foot on, and these maps are The accuracy is very high and can save a lot of pre-battle reconnaissance work. Sun Zhen has participated in various combat missions along the coast of Taipei and Zhejiang in the past year, and has fully proved the reliability of these map data, so he decided to use this route as his first choice for retreating to the coastal camp.
Before setting off, Sun Zhen carefully studied the large contour map provided by the headquarters, and marked the route in advance on the small military map he carried at all times. What he has to do now is to lead his team and leave here along the planned march route.
From the location of Maolishe to the nameless stream in the west, there are hills between one and two hundred meters above sea level. If you want to go in a straight line to the target area, there are too many hills that need to be climbed continuously. . Although these hills are not high, they will definitely waste a lot of physical strength and precious time of the soldiers. If you don't have this map as a reference and just look for the direction to go west, then it is very likely that you will not be able to get rid of the native title that is familiar with the terrain. Arrive at the end. The route marked by Sun Zhen on the map goes through the hills. The entire route is almost at the same height. There is no need to climb uphill or downhill. It seems to be winding, but the marching efficiency is much better than that of a straight line. .
It was precisely with such adequate preparation that Sun Zhen boldly chose to give up joining the large army and evacuate the dangerous area from the mountainous area alone. However, Sun Zhen also knew that the natives would probably chase him out immediately, so there was no way to calmly deal with the footprints left along the way. He could only move forward in one breath and try to widen the distance between the two sides as much as possible.
As Sun Zhen expected, these natives who are good at hunting prey in the forest are also very capable of tracking in the wild. Relying on the direction of the footprints left by their opponents in the mud during the evacuation process, hundreds of native warriors still refused to follow He chased him out without mercy.
The equipment load of an individual soldier of Sun Zhen's team is about twenty kilograms. This is also thanks to the command that the mission can be completed in just one day, and it is only a peripheral reconnaissance, so many equipment and supplies are omitted and not carried, otherwise Sun It is very likely that we will have to order to abandon some of the equipment and move forward lightly. But compared to the group of natives who chased them out with only weapons and water bags, the soldiers' loads were still quite heavy, which would slow down the long-distance march to some extent.
At this time, the field training they frequently conducted in the past came into play. Armed cross-country and emergency marches are training subjects that every special operations battalion soldier must complete regularly. At first, they were on Jiba Island in Annan, Luhuitou in Sanya, Penghu in Fujian, and Zhejiang. The exercises carried out in Zhoushan and other places really came in handy at this moment. I basically walked at a trot along the way. Only when I needed to re-identify the direction and confirm the route, I would stop for half a minute to drink water. Take a breather and take a break.
Some of the natives who were chasing after them were familiar with the terrain and had fast feet. However, running too fast at this time was not necessarily a good thing. When they got close, they were fired upon by the prepared special operations battalion team. It fell down directly. In the next two hours of chasing each other, the natives paid another four or five casualties. However, this only made their desire to fight stronger. Instead of giving up the pursuit, they stepped up their pace. Every time Sun Zhen and others stopped to rest, they could even hear the sounds of natives shouting to communicate with each other in the forest a few hundred meters behind them.
When Sun Zhen and others saw that the nameless stream really appeared in front of them, they felt relieved. This showed that the mark on the map was accurate. As long as you follow this stream to the north, you can return to the coast. In the camp. But new problems also emerged. Although this stream has certain navigable capabilities, they do not have enough time to make vehicles such as wooden rafts and bamboo rafts here, because the urgent pursuers are far away from where they are now. The location was probably less than a mile away, and it would only take a moment to catch up, leaving no time to stop and do anything else.
Sun Zhen also found that some people in his team had begun to show obvious physical decline. Although the rest of the journey only required moving along the valley and no need to cross mountains, there was still more than ten miles between the destination and the destination. The distance is so long that if you have to run back in one breath, you might be afraid that someone will be exhausted and fall behind halfway. Now we must try to hold off the pursuers and let those with weaker physical strength evacuate first.
Taking advantage of the short rest, Sun Zhen issued new instructions to his subordinates: "Meng Gui and Liu Da will stay and join me in blocking the pursuers. The others will each keep ten rounds of ammunition, and keep the excess ammunition." Leave it to us, find a place to wrap your backpack and other supplies in a tarp, and then go north along the stream and continue moving!”
Meng Gui and Liu Da, whom Sun Zhen named, are both physically strong and experienced in combat in his team, and they still have enough energy to carry out combat missions. Of course, this does not mean that others cannot continue fighting, but considering the combat effectiveness and the safety of the team, Sun Zhen does not intend to leave everyone behind to fight a blocking battle in which he may not be able to escape unscathed. Someone tried to speak out against this arrangement, but Sun Zhen decisively ordered: "There is no time to discuss the battle plan here right now. The sooner those who evacuate first return to the camp to ask for help, the greater our chance of getting out safely."
Following the military orders, the others quickly packed up their equipment, leaving enough ammunition for Sun Zhen and the others, and then took away their backpacks and found another place to hide them. In this way, the three of them were left with only sidearms and ammunition and a small amount of dry food and water. The load was suddenly reduced by half, making them more mobile.
"We still follow the standard procedure, shoot in turns, retreat one after another, and cover each other." Sun Zhen warned the other two people: "Each person can fire at most two shots. Don't be too lazy to fight. Try not to fire blanks. Only by ensuring the hit rate can we save us." ”
"Don't worry, squad leader!" Meng Gui patted the barrel of the gun in his hand: "After all, he is someone who has taken sniper classes for a few days. I will show you my skills later!"
"Come on, weren't you sent back because you failed the assessment?" Liu Da and Meng Gui have known each other for a long time, and they immediately exposed his shortcomings.
"That's an abnormal performance!" Meng Gui defended: "If Chief Morgan can give me another chance, I will definitely pass!"
"Okay, get ready to fight!" Sun Zhen stopped the two from continuing to argue and asked them to get ready quickly. Now that the firepower output has been reduced from ten guns to three, but the number of enemies has increased several times, the requirements for their shooting accuracy are even higher.
They didn't wait too long, and several natives with pheasant tail feathers on their heads appeared in sight. It was obvious that these natives who had been active in the mountains all year round were also a little bit overwhelmed by this pursuit trip. After running on the mountain road for more than two hours at a stretch, they were sweating and panting. They really couldn't figure out why these foreign invaders were so familiar with the terrain around Maolishe, and could run so fast in the mountains with a clear sense of direction, even surpassing the natives living here.
But no matter what, the hunt must continue. Maolishe will not let go of any opponent, not to mention that these guys have killed many people in front of their own homes. So even though they chased them through the mountain road for more than ten miles from Maolishe and still couldn't catch up with them, the natives still didn't give up and continued to follow at a distance. They have enough confidence in their own physical strength that even if it takes them three days and three nights, they must catch up with these bold intruders and punish and retaliate against them.
In the past hour or so, the opponent had not stopped to organize an attack, so the natives did not expect to be ambushed again here. Sun Zhen waited patiently for the leading native to enter the thirty-meter area before shooting. The target fell down at the sound, and the remaining people quickly lowered their bodies and looked around for where their opponents were hiding.
Sun Zhen took the time to change his bullets, found a target closest to him, took aim and fired again. This time, he missed the target by a slight margin and hit the tree trunk next to the target. Sun Zhen was so angry that he cursed, but he was not reluctant to fight. He picked up the gun and ran back.
Immediately after this movement, some natives saw his presence, and several people shouted and chased him. However, these people only chased them twenty or thirty meters away. They clearly saw that the target in front was still running, but another gunshot came from nowhere, and another one of the three was shot and fell.
Small groups of troops or even individual soldiers can run through each other, cover each other, and advance or retreat one by one. These are all combat skills that the Haihan Army must master. The special operations battalion has slightly upgraded this skill to allow the soldiers to This tactic can be used to the extreme in mountain and forest environments. Three people and three guns maintained a triangular formation in constant motion, and the natives would also find that the opponent fired in a different direction every time, making it increasingly difficult to judge the opponent's strength and deployment. To track a certain When the enemy hit the target, the next shot came from another direction, which made it difficult for the natives to even launch an effective counterattack.
Although Meng Gui was an "unqualified product" eliminated in the sniper selection, his marksmanship was indeed the strongest among the three. He fired five shots in three rounds, hitting three of them, while the other two During this period, the total number of people achieved the same result. This kind of cold-blooded sparrow battle is undoubtedly a method that is difficult for the natives who lack military literacy. The two sides fought for only a moment, and the pursuit team of up to a hundred people had been suppressed and did not dare to rush forward. .
Of course, using this tactic is not without cost. The three of them must constantly run and intersperse. They must maintain a clear awareness of the direction of travel and the positions of their teammates and enemies. Their physical strength is consumed much faster than simply There are more marches. However, within just a short moment of fighting, the three of them were already so tired that they were panting.
(End of chapter)