Chapter 1146 Chase in the forest

“It’s actually snowing!”

Takahashi Nan stretched out his hand and caught the small snowflakes falling from the sky. The snowflakes melted at his fingertips and turned into a small drop of water before he could see clearly, making his palms feel slightly cold. Takahashi Nan had already left his hometown.

For nearly eight years, he had lived almost all of his life in the south, and he had never experienced snowy weather once. However, this sudden snowfall reminded him of his past life in Japan and the hidden things in Japan.

Beautiful snow scene deep in memory.

However, such emotions only flashed in Takahashi Nan's mind for a moment, and were quickly forgotten by him. He was currently performing an important combat mission, and this was not the time to miss his hometown. He led a team to lurk in the mountains and forests, with the purpose of

To monitor the Ming army on the eastern plain, if the battle situation becomes tense, his unit will play the role of attracting enemy firepower from the rear. Of course, when the Ming army wants to withdraw from the battlefield, the task of this unit is

Disrupt the opponent's combat effectiveness as much as possible and slow down its retreat, so that friendly forces can come from all directions to complete the outflank.

Takahashi Nan saw all the three offensives launched by the Ming army, and he also had a more objective understanding of the strength of this Ming army. He believed that compared with the opponents he had encountered before, the strength of this Ming army was already

Quite good. Although the three attacks were repelled by Haihan and there were a lot of casualties, the position was not disrupted.

Takahashi Nan believed that the most inappropriate thing about the Ming army was that it had seriously insufficient reconnaissance of its opponents and battlefield environment beforehand, and the chosen direction of attack was wrong from the beginning. If the Ming army could detect the situation of the mining stronghold before the battle,

, they probably would not choose to attack here so rashly. They could bypass the mining area and go directly to the county seat, relying on the existing defenses in the county seat and Qishan Qianshusuo City to slowly deal with Haihan. When the time comes, Haihan

If you want to solve this problem, you will inevitably destroy the image of a good person that you have worked hard to create since landing in Shandong.

After watching these three waves of offensives, Gao Qiaonan was certain that the Ming army would not be able to invade the mining area. If they continue to fight with such tactics, the number of casualties will only continue to increase. When the casualties reach a certain proportion, they will

It will definitely collapse on its own. If the opponent's commander is not hopelessly stupid, then there are only two options left. One is to go out in full force and directly use a wave to hit the Haihan position. Maybe there is still a chance.

Rush into the mining camp and start fighting; another option is to give up the attack and decisively break away from the battle and withdraw from the battlefield.

The former is 90% dead, while the latter still has a glimmer of hope, provided that its retreat route does not hit his own troops. If Takahashi Minami is moved to the same position, then he thinks he will probably

Choosing the latter without hesitation, after all, it is a wise choice for the commander to leave the green hills without worrying about running out of firewood, and to try to preserve his strength even when the war situation is seriously unfavorable.

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

Coming.

"I'm really planning to run away!" Takahashi Nan murmured to himself: "There is really a road to heaven and you won't take it!"

Gao Qiaonan put down his telescope and issued combat orders. A few days ago, when he led his team to escort the bandit leader of the Wanjia Army to dig for hidden silver in the mountains and forests, he had basically figured out the geographical conditions within a radius of dozens of miles.

Although he could not say he knew everything about this place, he was already much better than the Ming army outside the mountain who was eager to evacuate the battlefield. He had already paid attention to some of the locations suitable for ambushes before, and as long as the Ming army chose

If you were to retreat to Dengzhou City through the mountainous area, you would definitely pass through several of them. With deliberate calculations or not, Gao Qiaonan believed that his side had already gained a clear advantage in advance.

Guo Xingning also noticed the snowfall. Although it seemed to be sparse and not heavy, based on his past experience, he knew that this kind of first-time snow might fall for several days in a row. And his men came out in a hurry, and

Not all have changed into winter cotton clothes. If the temperature drops sharply on the way back, it will inevitably affect the combat effectiveness of the troops. The journey from here through the mountains back to Dengzhou City is at least a hundred or dozens of miles. Considering that this wild environment is relatively unfamiliar,

It will take at least two days or even longer to get back, so we have to leave as soon as possible.

Until the Ming army entered the mountainous area, the Haihan army in the mining area had not chased them out. This made Guo Xingning relax a little. What he was most worried about was that the Haihan army would be as haunted as when they came. Given the current state of the Ming army,

, if entangled by the opponent, it would be difficult to launch an effective counterattack, and Guo Xingning no longer wanted his troops to suffer more casualties before returning to Dengzhou City.

He didn't know whether it was the cold weather or some other mysterious reason. After entering the mountainous area, Guo Xingning always felt chills running down his back. Out of the sensitivity of a professional soldier, he thought he might have felt some kind of potential.

There was a threat, but looking around the mountains and forests, except for the march of his own team, he didn't find any signs of trouble nearby.

"It's true that the older you get in the world, the less courageous you become! Why do you keep living longer and keep going back?" After Guo Xingning confirmed that his feelings were just due to paranoia, he couldn't help but secretly despised himself. It seemed that he hadn't commanded a battle for too long.

After suffering a loss, even the march became suspicious.

In fact, the distance between the Haihan Army and the Ming Army at this time was much closer than Guo Xingning imagined. However, this army ambushing in the mountains and forests were all wearing full camouflage uniforms, and even their faces were covered with camouflage masks, only revealing their

Outside the eyes, mouth and nose, many people also put a lot of shrub branches and leaves on their military caps. Even the main weapon rifle they are equipped with is camouflaged with branches. As long as they are separated by a few feet, it is difficult to notice.

We arrived at the Haihan soldiers hiding in the woods.

Most of the camouflage uniforms that the time-travelers brought from another world had been replaced after being equipped for too long. However, even if they were worn out and washed, these camouflage uniforms were not discarded and were taken back by the veterans.

An heirloom at the bottom of the box. The camouflage military uniforms and other supporting military products currently equipped with field troops are all custom-made in the dyeing shop in Sanya. In addition to the four-color mountain camouflage currently installed in the special operations battalion, what was brought to Shandong this time was

There are even hundreds of sets of snow camouflage, ready to be used when the army enters the Liaodong region.

Gao Qiaonan and several of his men lurked in the grass just a few feet away from the Ming army's marching route. They waited patiently with bated breath for the Ming army to pass by, then took a chance and rushed out to touch it.

There were several Ming soldiers in front of them. They did not use rifles. When the Ming soldiers in front heard the noise and came back to look for these people behind them, they found that their screams were already heard in the forest a few feet away.

Some Ming soldiers were eager to save people and rushed into the forest without waiting for the officer to give orders. However, the forest was like a man-eating demon, and the people who rushed in immediately disappeared. The officer who arrived later stopped the soldiers.

Rushing into the forest rashly, although he didn't know what was going on in the forest, even a fool could guess that this was a dirty trick played by the Haihan people - in the entire Fushan County, currently only the Haihan people dared to confront Ming.

The army launched an attack.

News that Haihan launched a sneak attack on the back road quickly reached Guo Xingning, but this information did not attract enough attention from Guo Xingning. He believed that this was just a sporadic sneak attack launched by a small group of troops deployed by Haihan in the mountains. If he stopped to go to Lin

We are chasing and suppressing these enemies, whether we can catch them or not. This will delay the march and allow the large Haihan troops to catch up from outside the mountains, which will be a big deal.

"Gather the troops, be on guard, and continue marching!" Guo Xingning did not dare to make any more claims now. He just wanted to get the troops out of the battle as soon as possible. As for the Haihan armed personnel hiding in the forest to launch attacks, he could only turn a blind eye and ignore them.

Let's settle accounts with him.

Guo Xingning wanted to settle the matter, but Gao Qiaonan was not so easy to deal with. Although there was light snow in the sky and the temperature dropped significantly compared to the previous few days, Gao Qiaonan's heart was burning. The instructions he received before taking action

, the original purpose is to hold back the Ming army and kill its effective forces as much as possible, and fighting in the forest is undoubtedly one of the favorite environments of the special operations battalion. Although the natural environment here is obviously different from that in the south, during this period of time in

Running back and forth in the nearby mountains and forests to perform tasks, I have almost adapted to it.

After a small test of their skills, Gaoqiao Nan's troops began to use various methods 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 operations battalion basically consisted of small groups of troops gathering in one place and firing cold shots.

The main method is to get close to a distance of about 20 meters in the forest, shoot one round at the place where the Ming army is densely packed, and then withdraw immediately. If the Ming army pursues into the forest, several nearby teams will

Surround them in the forest and solve them. Otherwise, the team will immediately find the next suitable location for the raid and start again.

Takahashi Minami currently commands only about 200 troops, which happens to be the establishment of a strengthened company in the special operations battalion. Before taking action, he delegated command authority to the squad and platoon level, and formed action teams based on squads.

The platoon acts as a unit in local coordination. This command system gives the 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, almost all commanders and fighters at all levels can only

They fight independently based on their own small teams, and cannot convey signals through shouting, musical instruments or flags. Once defeated, it will be very difficult to regroup in the forest. Only the special operations battalion can

A field force that has undergone years of training dares to operate like this.

After walking in the forest for about an hour, Guo Xingning had already felt that the frequency of attacks from the forest was increasing. Now he no longer needed his subordinates to report. As long as he heard the sound of firecrackers shooting from time to time in the forest, he knew that the Haihan people

In which direction another attack was launched. And these Haihan people are indeed very difficult to deal with. They will not show up to attack at all. They will hide in the woods and fire cold shots. After the attack, they will run away without hesitation, often allowing the Ming army to counterattack.

No chance can be found.

Guo Xingning now began to regret his choice of retreating into the mountains, because he found that the boundless mountain forest did not provide a good cover for his troops, but instead became the best bunker for his opponents to hide their whereabouts and launch sneak attacks. Although the opponent's strength was

There were obviously not many. It could be judged from the sporadic gunshots that they did not have many manpower assembled 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 had no effective way to deal with it. He could only urge his troops to march faster in the hope of getting rid of the entanglement of the Haihan people. But this way of dealing with it would obviously not have any significant effect. And because

With the continuous harassment and the inability to implement effective counterattacks, the Ming army's fighting will was gradually on the verge of collapse.

After marching for two hours, the Ming army's physical fitness could no longer support the rapid march, so they had to 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 mountains has been compared with the attack on Haihan.

The casualties during the stronghold period were about the same. If things continued at this rate, it would be difficult for our team to return to Dengzhou City safely.

Guo Xingning has now realized that he can continue to cause trouble for the Ming army along the way. This is not a sporadic reconnaissance team of the Haihan people hidden in the mountains and forests, but the other party has specially deployed in this area in advance, waiting for the Ming army to pass through the mountainous area.

The elite troops who intercepted and killed during the retreat. But the sad thing is that even though he now knows the opponent's means and purpose, he still can't think of an effective way to deal with it. The opponent has no intention of showing up for a head-on confrontation, and the Ming army has only a bunch of people.

A soldier who can fight can only act as a living target in the open.

Obviously this place is the boundary of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the master here, but he is beaten to the point of being unable to find his way by a group of outsiders. This sense of humiliation makes Guo Xingning's anger almost overwhelm his reason. But he knows that he can't just let it go.

If he admits defeat and cannot return to Dengzhou with his troops, it is likely that no one in Dengzhou will 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 time

It was too late to write a letter slowly, so we could only let them convey Guo Xingning's warning message.

Of course, it is impossible to run a horse in this mountainous area, so even if the speed of these riders is faster than that of the infantry, it is not much faster. As for whether they can break out of the encirclement deployed by the Haihan people, that is

We can all settle down to our destiny.

While the Ming army stopped to rest, Haihan also ceased his activities and did not launch another offensive. Guo Xingning knew that this was because his opponent was also seizing the time to rest and replenish his physical fitness. If his troops wanted to get rid of the role of prey, then the next step would be to test their will and physical fitness.

It's time.
Chapter completed!