387 Battle of Thonburi (3)
Wang Tao is still a little repulsed by the name of the SEALs, when he was training in the army, seals were his imaginary enemies, but he did not expect feng shui to take turns, and finally became a seal. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć After the Info Cuckoo program, the Navy began to organize its own special forces, and the result was the selection of the elite of the Marine Corps to form the Navy SEALs.
The SEALs are directly under the command of the Navy with the rank of colonel, and today the SEALs have a brigade of combat and support personnel. The brigade has two squadrons, and the squadron has four squads. Each squad consisted of 16 men and usually contained two officers and fourteen non-commissioned officers. In wartime, a squad can be split into four fireteams, each with a different mission.
Wang Tao is now the captain of the first squad of the second squadron of the Navy SEALs, and the rank of captain has also reached the rank of captain. In his original Marine Corps squad, many members passed the selection of the Navy SEALs, and even Yang Youguang, who had always behaved like a drag bottle, passed the extremely difficult tests of the Navy SEALs.
"The command asked us to go out to the outside of Thonburi to reconnoiter the enemy situation and provide support for the defense of the 1st Regiment." Wang Tao explained to his team members.
An important reason for the formation of the Navy SEALs was the need for the Marine Corps to land beach scouts, mark obstacles and enemy defenses, blast underwater and land obstacles, and eventually guide the landing force in. On the other hand, the special forces of the People's Liberation Army also started as scouts. Arguably, the most often assigned task by SEALs is to conduct battlefield reconnaissance.
Luo Teng stretched, as if he didn't find such a task challenging, and asked, "How are we going?" ā
Wang Tao said: "Go by chariot." We do not yet know the dispersal of the enemy. And how far away we really are. It is not possible to rely on the legs and feet. ā
Zhou Junbao said: "But the armored car is easy to be discovered by the enemy." ā
Luo Teng smiled: "Are we still afraid of being discovered by the enemy?" They must have known that we had landed, and it was a natural thing to do reconnaissance, even if they wanted to kill us, would they be able to catch up with us? ā
Yang Youguang said hesitantly: "But the Siamese people have elephants." ā
Zhou Junbao said: "Our infantry vehicles have 30 mm cannons, and elephants will also be beaten into meat sauce. ā
All 2nd Squadron of SEAL units were dispatched in a total of eight Type 77 half-tracked vehicles and left the river and went deep into the city. The reason for choosing a half-track armored vehicle over a barrel car was primarily due to the desire of the command to have adequate protection and firepower for the SEALs. The streets in Thonburi are narrow. Some of the houses were destroyed by last night's shelling and collapsed into rubble. Occasionally, locals can be seen killed or trampled to death on the streets, and the SEALs are no longer newcomers to the battlefield, so it seems to be commonplace.
Yang Youguang stood behind the machine gun shield on the roof of the car, looking around, and he soon realized that the city was not as empty as he imagined.
"Captain, visually there are still a considerable number of residents left in Thonburi." Yang Youguang retracted into the car and said to Wang Tao.
Wang Tao looked serious and said, "This may be a trouble for us. For we cannot be sure whether there are enemies mixed with these inhabitants, and we are not sure of their attitudes. Whether it is cooperative, or potentially hostile. ā
At this moment, I only heard the sound of the wagon, and it seemed that something had hit it. Wang Tao's heart sank, and he hurriedly said: "Be on guard!" ā
At this time, the sergeant driving the chariot said: "It's a child, who threw a stone at us, and has run to the back of the building and can't see it." ā
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhou Junbao said: "It seems that we are indeed persona non grata." ā
Wang Tao said to Yang Youguang: "Hurry up and climb up, this time it's just a bear child throwing stones, what if someone throws Molotov cocktails next time?" Let you be on the top just for the sake of vigilance, and whoever intends to do us badly, shoot him. ā
Yang Youguang muttered in pieces: "Molotov cocktail? How could these Siamese people make such things as Molotov cocktails themselves, I might as well beware of something like head-lowering techniques. ā
said that despite that, Yang Youguang still honestly operated the cannon on the roof of the car. This made him a little nervous, because he knew that some eyes were watching him in the houses on both sides of the road. Maybe it's frightened, but if someone actually attacks him with hatred, it's an unhappy thing. At this time, there was still a big gap between the Type 77 chariot and the infantry fighting vehicles of later generations, and the cannon on the roof was not a turret, but only a cannon shield. But the cannon shield can't prevent the back, if someone shoots Yang Youguang in the back, it will inevitably be injured.
Fortunately, no one did. Eight armored vehicles of the Navy SEALs came out of Thonburi City from different directions, which is the Chao Phraya River Plain, the essence of south-central Siam, not as the average Chinese think, Thailand is full of tropical jungles, at this time dense water networks and rice paddies, even in the 18th century, where there was little development, it was basically suitable for armored vehicles to gallop.
"Captain, there seems to be Siamese armament ahead!" Yang Youguang can see most clearly on the roof of the car.
It's a Siamese troop numbering in the hundreds, but it doesn't look like an elite troop. Because these people don't even have a uniform attire, and all of them have no armor. Most of the soldiers were armed with knives and sticks. The Indochina Peninsula region is not low in civilization, for example, the Burmese and Malays are good at building cold weapons, and the Burmese sword and Malay sword are the weapons of Chu Ming in later generations. The casting level of the Siamese people is not low, so even if Datang tried to export cheap knives produced by Datang to Siam before, Zheng Xin disliked that Tang knives were not exquisite enough and only purchased a small amount.
Yang Youguang asked Wang Tao again: "Captain, there are hundreds of people in total, not even archers, and we still have a car in the west, can we fight?" ā
Of course, Wang Tao understood that he came out to do reconnaissance work, but he didn't think that eating this Siamese army was a matter of surprise. So, Wang Tao decided: "Fight!" ā
In fact, when the Siamese saw the appearance of the armored car, they became very frightened, and when this half-track rushed over, there was no fool who would fight such a big iron guy, and everyone ran away. Before Yang Youguang even entered the firing range, he raised the angle of fire of the machine gun and poured shells at the Siamese army, which had turned into a nest of running ants. (To be continued.) )