According to Ding Chenzhen's own plan, the entire Malacca landing operation will be an operation that lasts for more than ten days, or even longer!

It's not that the landing of combat troops takes so long, but the landing, you can't just get off the ship, you have to bring the artillery, the shells, the food.

Therefore, even if the landing of combat troops is completed in the first few days, a large amount of supplies will have to be unloaded later, and all kinds of supplies loaded with dozens of transport ships will be unloaded, which is not something that can be done in a day or two.

Of course, the subsequent unloading of materials, strictly speaking, although it is still part of the landing operation, but it is a later task, according to the general traditional concept, after the combat troops land, it is considered a successful landing.

And the landing time of purely combat units, including the necessary artillery units, will take about three days!

No way, landing on the beach is such a hassle!

After the combat units, including the artillery units, have come ashore, it will take about three to five days to arrive in Malacca and make complete combat preparations.

Just looking at this landing and the time required to prepare, you know that the Army's previous boast of conquering Malacca in five days was bragging!

In five or six days, if the army can transport the siege artillery outside Malacca and start shelling, it will have to burn high incense, and according to the plan drawn up by the Seventh Army, this schedule is actually eight days!

According to the schedule, the first day, that is, today's landing, is mainly the landing of some infantry and engineers, and then the establishment of beachhead fortifications under the cover of naval guns and the construction of small temporary piers.

The first to land was the Fifth Marine Regiment of the Navy, which has now completed all of its landings and is shouldering the initial defense tasks, and then the Seventh Boat Bridge Regiment, which belongs to the military headquarters of the Seventh Army.

Again, it is the units of the 19th Infantry Division, and now most of the 57th Infantry Regiment has also landed successfully, and Ding Chenzhen also landed with the 57th Infantry Regiment and established a military headquarters on the shore.

The 58th Infantry Regiment and the 59th Infantry Regiment of the 19th Infantry Division will be in the follow-up landing, and the landing is expected to be completed in the evening.

The next day, it was part of the artillery units and the baggage troops that landed!

As for the Second Provisional Regiment of the Guards, I'm sorry, they are uncles, and they are not good at playing amphibious landings, they will wait until the day after tomorrow after the temporary dock is erected, and then go ashore directly through the dock, in other words, the landing operation in the early stage basically has nothing to do with the Second Provisional Regiment of the Guards.

It is worth noting, however, that at present, the landing of all units is lightly armed, and the combatants have not carried artillery for the landing except for light weapons and a small number of shotguns.

Because the artillery of all units is still on the ships drifting on the sea, the temporary dock that can bear the heavy weight has not been built, and it is not expected to be able to move the artillery and elixir.

According to the landing plan, the infantry of the landing part was to land first, build beachhead fortifications, and prevent the Portuguese from blocking or sneaking attacks on the beachhead, and then the 7th Boat Bridge Regiment began to erect temporary docks.

On the first day, the 7th Boat Bridge Regiment will do its best to erect two small temporary docks, on the one hand, to allow the personnel to land faster, and more importantly, to move down some of their own heavy and large equipment, so as to prepare for the erection of the third temporary dock, which is also the first large-scale temporary dock.

After the construction of the temporary large dock is completed, the ships loaded with heavy artillery and supplies will be able to unload directly through the large temporary dock.

The entire initial landing operation will last about three days, and during these three days, although the troops will still be mainly landing, the combat units that have already landed will have to be deployed, and at the same time advance inland and at the same time advance to Malacca.

This was mainly to expand the control of the landing force and, more importantly, to free up the landing ground for the follow-up landing force.

Tens of thousands of people plus countless supplies crowded on the small beach, this chaotic situation is enough to make most officers collapse, even if he is from a logistics background, good at planning and arrangement, Ding Chen, who is good at material deployment, is really big when he sees this kind of scene.

If the early landing force still heard it inland and continued to pile up at the landing site, then there was no way to carry out the subsequent landing.

So even if the landing was still going on, in fact, the 5th Marine Regiment had already left their defense area and advanced inland, and behind them was the 57th Infantry Regiment.

The troops of these two regiments advanced about a kilometer inland, don't think that this distance is small, in fact, this distance is already more dangerous, because they are already out of the range of fire support of the naval guns.

Therefore, both units were also cautious, for fear of encountering an attack by the Portuguese, especially an artillery attack in ambush.

What reassured them was that they had not seen the Portuguese go out of the city on a large scale to attack them all day today, and even in the evening, they had encountered a very small number of Portuguese reconnaissance troops.

This relieved the officers and men of the landing force, who were worried.

The Portuguese may not have known it, but they themselves knew that the first day of the landing was the most dangerous, the scene was chaotic, and the landing force had no heavy firepower, and even the fortifications had not yet been built.

If it was ambushed by the Portuguese at this time, it was likely to cause the scene to get out of control.

But the indifference of the Portuguese, and the strategy of huddling inside the city, allowed them to survive the most dangerous day.

By the time the next day, even Ding Chen, who had become sensitive and irritable because of the chaos of the landing, had really become a lot more amiable!

Dressed in a crumpled summer combat uniform of a general with a lot of mud, Ding Chenzhen left the landing ground with a group of equally dirty officers and went deep into the defense line of the 57th Infantry Regiment.

This is a small hill in the northeast of the landing field, not high, at most only tens of meters, but this small hill is placed here is condescending, if the Portuguese deploy heavy artillery troops here, they can effectively shell the landing field.

So yesterday, the 57th Infantry Regiment occupied the hill and the surrounding area, and temporarily built a simple parapet defense line with the sapper shovels and hoes that the army carried.

As for why it's not a trench, because this is the era of line operations, a simple breastwork is actually more effective than a trench.

Because the fire of the musket alone is actually unable to stop the enemy's dense charge in many cases, you hide in the trenches, and people rush to you to be condescending, and a bayonet goes down and an accurate.

But if you hide behind the breastwork, you can also get protection when shooting, and after the enemy rushes up, you can also stab the enemy through the breastwork, and some of the key defense lines, the inner part of the breastwork is still the kind that is high, and the soldiers can step on it to fight, so that the soldiers can gain a condescending advantage.

Of course, more importantly, the Portuguese on the opposite side do not have mature grenades, if they are equipped with a large number of grenades like the Datang Army, then in order to avoid artillery bombardment, the Datang Army must have built a trench defense line without saying a word.

Ding Chenzhen took a large number of generals to the front line to inspect, and after climbing this small hill, he took out a telescope to look at the city of Malacca in front again, in fact, this place is not far from the city of Malacca, and the distance in a straight line is about two kilometers.

At this distance, the enemy can touch it at any time and engage in battle!

But fortunately, the Portuguese on the opposite side did not have any cavalry troops!

On the other hand, there were no cavalry troops under Ding Chenzhen's command, not even many horses!

The sea transportation in those years was very bumpy, and the speed of the voyage was slow, and it was enough to make any cavalry unit daunted by sea transportation for several months.

Because the war horses are very hypocritical, they have been bumpy on the sea for a month or two, and how many people come to die, not to mention the shabby place of Nanyang, it is useless to ask for cavalry, there are tropical jungles everywhere, and the cavalry is running.

The few horses of the landing force, in fact, were transported by a small number of thousand-ton ships, and even battleships, and in these years, only those thousand-ton ships were a little more stable when sailing, but even so, because the Tang army and navy lacked experience in large-scale long-distance sea transportation of war horses, so that the more than 600 Central Asian war horses in good condition of the cavalry regiment of the 19th Division before departure were less than 300, and the total number of other troops was more than 1,400 Northwest horses There were only more than 800 left. The rest all died while shipping at sea.

The mortality rate of horses transported by sea reached more than 50 percent, which made the cavalry, artillery and baggage troops and other troops that needed horses about to curse their mothers, and when they came, because there were not enough large ships, and the supplies consumed by horses were too much, so the horses brought were not much, but I didn't expect that only half of them were left after arriving at the destination.

What's more, after the surviving horses landed on land, they were also in a very bad state, and the commander of the 19th Cavalry Regiment said to Ding Chen with a sad face, his cavalry regiment could at most get together twenty cavalry in good condition to participate in the battle!

It's not that there are no cavalry, the cavalry under his command is full of more than 600 people, but there are only more than 20 war horses left in good condition and able to charge and fight!

When he thought of him, a cavalry regiment that was fully equipped and all of them belonged to Central Asian horses, and that there were only poor twenty horses left without a battle, he wanted to cry without tears!

Throughout the more than 20 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the commander of a cavalry regiment like him has never appeared!