Chapter 1414 Ambush
There are no human beings within a few miles of this hilly area, so there is no need to worry about the sound of gunshots being heard in the wind and snow at midnight and disturbing other Hou Jin troops. As for coldly killing all enemies present, this has no psychological barrier for the soldiers of the sniper team. The information they received showed that the enemies in Liaodong were barbaric and cruel, and naturally they would not have any thoughts of mercy towards such enemies.
The forest was filled with a strong smell of blood. As if smelling this smell, the howling of wolves could be heard faintly in the snowy fields in the distance. Morgan ordered the fire in the center of the camp to be rekindled to prevent the beasts from getting too close. Then everyone dragged the corpses aside and piled them together, temporarily covering the blood stains and corpses with snow. This is not to worry about anyone discovering these corpses, but purely to prevent the smell of blood from spreading and attracting too many predatory beasts.
After killing a patrol consisting of twelve Houjin soldiers, the snipers did not feel much excitement. After all, the combat skills they needed to practice during this trip were not close-quarters assassinations. There was really nothing to kill these Houjin soldiers with a pistol. There is a sense of accomplishment. However, Morgan's order to dispose of the scene and the corpses of Houjin soldiers already showed a certain attitude, so the soldiers were waiting for his new instructions.
"We will stay here for a while." Morgan looked at his watch and then said to his subordinates: "Wait for the next enemy patrol to fall into the trap and use them as target practice!"
Of course, Morgan was not willing to take the risk and just completed the reconnaissance mission after traveling in such a long circle. The purpose of his trip was to provide the snipers with an opportunity for actual combat training, but if he has never even used the main weapon, what is it called actual combat training?
After these two days of reconnaissance operations, he could basically determine that this was the southern border patrolled by the Houjin Army. The nearest Houjin stronghold was about ten miles away. A patrol team would be sent here to change the guard the next day. , so they can just sit back and wait for the enemy team to arrive. As for how long it will take for the Hou Jin Army to react to this, Morgan is very optimistic. With the enemy's loose management system, it may be difficult to have a complete emergency plan.
However, out of caution, Morgan still sent one soldier from the special operations battalion to return to the mountain station more than ten miles away overnight to inform Gao Qiaonan of the trip and Morgan's arrangements. He does not need Takahashi Nan to send troops here to assist in the battle, but it is definitely necessary to be prepared for the response. In addition, he also needs some supplies from the rear in time. The sniper team did not bring much rations for this operation. If they wanted to stay active in the field for a few more days, they would have to rely on supplies from the rear.
Now that he was confident about occupying this place, Morgan naturally no longer worried about the fire exposing his whereabouts, and immediately ordered someone to boil a pot of water. The drinking water they had brought with them when they set out had long been used up, and now the kettles were filled with snow, frozen into a ball inside, making it impossible to drink. It was only then that I was finally able to eat a hot meal. After drinking hot water, everyone's spirits improved significantly.
The soldiers found some rice and marinated meat from Hou Jin's camp, and threw them into the pot to cook. Although this chowder has no taste at all, it is already good food for people who have been eating cold dry food in the wind and snow for two days.
After dealing with the belly, Morgan routinely deployed night sentries. The Haihan Army is not as chaotic as the Hou Jin Army. Even if there are only two or three people camping in the wild, they will arrange guard rotations. Of course, the direction that the sniper team needs to be alert to is just opposite to the Houjin patrol team, and the north is the direction that needs to be focused on.
After finishing all these things and setting up the tent, it was already eleven o'clock at night. Morgan fumbled his way into the sleeping bag, listening to the heavy breathing of his men in the tent, and felt calmer. Compared with the comfortable life in Hainan Island where everyone was there to serve and run errands, Morgan felt that it was only at this moment that he really felt energetic. The tension and excitement of fighting in the wild could not be experienced in the office anyway, and Morgan enjoyed this feeling so much that he didn't even want to go back to the rear where life was calmer.
Carrying out reconnaissance missions deep into enemy-occupied areas is something that no time traveler has done for a long time. Even front-line commanders such as Qian Tiandun, Wang Tom, and Harugong will not risk their lives easily. Only Morgan will still boldly conduct reconnaissance and exploration of unknown areas according to the habits of a sniper. Even if others think this is a unnecessary risk, Morgan will still do what he wants. Perhaps that's why Morgan's students admired him so much that some even regarded him as the founder of the special sniper unit. Although this patriarch is a Westerner, Morgan can now speak Chinese relatively fluently, which does not make his subordinates feel much alienated.
How the Haihan Kingdom will expand outwards in the future, where the Executive Committee's desire to conquer will end, and what plans the Ministry of Defense has, are actually not issues that Morgan really cares about. He is just a very pure soldier who wants to prove the value of his existence through constant fighting. Regardless of whether it is Houjin or any other armed force, Morgan will not hesitate to join the fight as long as the situation calls for it.
"War, especially winning a war, is really addictive!" A strange thought came to Morgan's mind, and then he fell asleep.
As soon as it got dark, Morgan was woken up by his subordinates. This was not because of something wrong, but because of his request before going to bed yesterday to wake him up immediately after his shift ended in the early morning. For the battle that may break out again today, Morgan must make some arrangements in advance in order to achieve the best results from this actual combat training.
According to the information currently available, there should be a patrol coming from the north today to replace the troops stationed here, so Morgan planned to use the patrol that came to his door as a target to let his snipers practice field combat. Considering that there may be so many cavalry in the patrol, in order to catch them all, the rider who is most likely to escape must be killed first. Therefore, the target of shooting must be divided into divisions, and the shooting angle must also be designed. Otherwise, all the snipers will be crowded together, and the area and power of the output firepower will not be able to reach its due level.
Based on the location where the Houjin patrol set up camp here, it is not difficult to deduce their route up the hill from the north. The multiple shooting positions designed by Morgan are aimed at this route, allowing the sniper team to Maximize the intensity of firepower output. When considering the shooting distance, the current geographical environment and climatic conditions need to be taken into consideration. If the snowfall continues, the visibility will directly affect the snipers' operations. These objective factors must be taken into account in advance.
Morgan was worried that the opponent's patrol would arrive early, so he got up early in the morning to make arrangements, keeping the initiative firmly in his own hands. But until noon, no one was seen in the north. Morgan had to leave half of the people on duty and take turns eating in batches.
It was not until around two o'clock in the afternoon that the Houjin patrol who came to change shifts finally appeared in the field of view of the telescope. Morgan immediately gathered his men and entered the combat position to wait for orders. This Houjin patrol team also has a configuration of twelve people, three cavalry and nine steps. It seems that this should be the standard configuration of the patrol team members of the Houjin Army. However, they probably wouldn't have thought that what was waiting for them in the forest was not their own companions, but the elite members of the Haihan army who were armed and ready to use them as live targets.
In order to be safe, Morgan arranged for the two men with the best marksmanship to be responsible for the three riders, and the rest were divided among the remaining people. Because the preparations for this sniper operation were sufficient, Morgan did not arrange observers according to the one-on-one principle. Instead, he gave the task of observing the results of the battle to the only non-sniper soldier, and let the twelve snipers brought out this time All soldiers act as shooters in order to maximize the training effect.
As the snow continued to fall, Morgan decided to move the target closer before shooting. Of course, this close range is relative to the range of a sniper rifle, and is still a distance that is difficult for ordinary rifles to aim with the naked eye.
But things did not progress as smoothly as Morgan expected. When the unit was still about a hundred feet away from the hill where the sniper team was hiding, it suddenly stopped silently. Morgan quickly picked up the binoculars to observe, and found that the rider on the horse seemed to be holding a pergola and looking towards the camp high on the hill here.
The sniper team had already counted the number of corpses after killing people last night, and conducted a patrol of the entire mountain this morning. It was basically certain that no fish had slipped through the net. And the corpses of those Hou Jin soldiers were all piled together. They were already frozen to the bone. It was impossible to see where the corpses were hidden at the foot of the mountain. So what were these Hou Jin soldiers looking at?
"Not good!" Morgan suddenly reacted. Although the Houjin Patrol Team has a careless side, this is a war zone after all. When the other party is handing over and changing the guard, if they just walk up like this, there will definitely be certain risks. After all, it is not surprising that a patrol team like this was suddenly taken away by the Haihan Army. Therefore, the personnel stationed here should set some kind of safety signal for the patrol team that comes to change the guard. Otherwise, it means that something has happened here. The problem should not be entered rashly.
This signal may be to hang a flag somewhere, or light a lantern, but the entire patrol died last night, and of course there was no time to leave a safe signal to the companions who arrived here the next day. This was originally a very basic approach, but Morgan had always looked down upon the military quality of the post-Jin army, so he ignored this factor intentionally or unintentionally. The other party did not see the proper safety signal in the visual distance, so he stopped in the snowy field and waited.
After Morgan figured out this link, he immediately ordered to prepare to fire. He originally wanted to put the opponent closer before taking action, but now that the flaw has been exposed, the opponent will probably no longer take the initiative to enter the range where he is most confident.
There are two paths before the Houjin patrol outside the mountain. One is to divide the troops and send people to the camp on the mountain to check the situation. The other is to immediately turn around and leave here to return to life. But the latter is obviously not very scientific. He ran away without understanding the situation, and it will definitely be difficult to explain to his superiors after he returns. So soon I saw two infantrymen separated from the team, approaching the camp at a fast pace.
Morgan noticed that the three cavalrymen had slowly dispersed, and seemed to be ready to abandon the infantry and retreat at any time. But this is not surprising in the post-Jin army. After all, their arms are divided into high and low status. These infantry without mounts are obviously inferior arms. Naturally, they are the most likely to be used as cannon fodder in battle.
Morgan knew that there was no time to delay. When the two infantrymen came up the mountain, even if they were killed quietly, if the Houjin army outside the mountain realized that something was wrong, the three cavalrymen would definitely turn around and run away. He put his eyes in front of the scope, silently aimed at the upper body of the farthest rider, then held his breath and adjusted his breathing, and pulled the trigger with extremely light and quick movements.
Immediately after a gunshot, the rider was shot. Before his companions could wake up, gunshots in the forest rang out one after another. More than a dozen bullets flew out from the forest, hitting him from top to bottom. These enemies had no cover in the snowy field. In just one breath, this round of attacks had knocked down eight people, leaving only one step and one step, still standing in shock among the fallen companions. The two infantrymen who were almost at the foot of the mountain were even more confused. They heard gunshots coming from the mountain, and when they looked back, most of their companions had fallen. At this time, should we rush towards the mountains where many enemies were ambushed, or should we turn around and run towards the plains?
Morgan ignored the two Houjin soldiers at the foot of the mountain, but immediately loaded the second bullet, then aimed at the last cavalryman who had turned around and was ready to escape, and pulled the trigger again. After the cavalryman was shot, he fell on his horse and did not know whether he was dead or alive, but the horse had already galloped away. The other infantryman was even more miserable. Before he could decide whether to run or hide, the second round of shooting came. He was hit by at least four or five bullets at the same time and almost fell to the ground. He was dead at the same time, faster than his comrades who fell in the first round of shooting.
"Shoot the horse!" Morgan shouted loudly.
Everyone reloaded quickly, then aimed at the horse that was carrying the shot cavalryman running away, and opened fire. Just in this short delay, the horse's speed had already increased, and the slightly chaotic third round of shooting accidentally missed the horse, and even Morgan himself fired a blank shot. .
(End of chapter)