The South Vietnamese forces moved much more slowly than the command had anticipated, until 10 a.m., when the South Vietnamese Army, finally ready for battle, opened the camp gates, and groups of soldiers left the camp and marched to the coalition positions to the east. Of course, at the same time that the South Vietnamese Army left the camp, the headquarters had already received a notification from the lookout post on the top of the mountain, and for the allied forces, the South Vietnamese Army's actions were simply no secret.

Tom Wang slowly slipped down from a big tree hugged by three people, and said to Qiao Zhiya who was guarding under the tree: "Our rest time is over, and now it's our turn to move our bodies." ”

Qiao Zhiya stood up and smiled: "Wait any longer, I'm about to get moldy!"

The South Vietnamese Army was able to defeat the North Vietnamese Army one after another, and in addition to the superiority in weapons, the generals in charge of commanding operations also had some skills, and they did not forget to send reconnaissance troops to investigate the opponent's military situation. Before the large force was dispatched, a small number of infantry swooped down on the two ridges on the north and south sides of the coalition position, apparently intending to recondescend on the disposition of the coalition position. But it's a pity that they came one step late, the North American gang was divided into two groups, each with a platoon of Haihan militia, and they had already lurked on these two mountains, waiting for the other party's spies to deliver food. These South Vietnamese spies tried to touch the mountain, but basically they had no return.

This group of troops from the South Vietnamese battalion numbered more than 5,000 people, but according to the observation of the lookouts, only about one-third of them were South Vietnamese regular troops, and the rest were peasant soldiers with relatively low combat effectiveness.

Of course, after watching the offensive and defensive battles of the mountain positions recorded by Feng Annan and Mu Xiabai, no one will take these peasants lightly anymore. These ragged monkey soldiers without even armor are not ambiguous in fighting, and if the opponent breaks through the defensive line, then the few people on the coalition position may not be enough for the other side to slaughter.

However, to the slight disappointment of the command, there was still no trace of musket troops in the South Vietnamese camp this time, and it seemed that the generals of the South Vietnamese Army still had a trace of luck, hoping to use the superiority of troops to break through the seemingly weak defensive line of the coalition position.

In order to ensure the superiority in firepower, Mu Sha Bai asked the remaining two musketeers of the North Vietnamese Alliance to enter the combat positions behind the defensive wall. At this time, the first batch of artillery also pushed the newly assembled guns into the predetermined gun position. However, Yan Chujie believed that since the other party was still using all the cold-weapon infantry as the main offensive force, the blow of the musket array would be enough to destroy their offensive, and there should be no need to use heavy weapons such as artillery for the time being.

The South Vietnamese Army did not linger for long after reaching the offensive position, and immediately launched a wave of thousands of troops against the Allied positions. This time, the South Vietnamese infantry was no longer fighting alone, but with the cooperation of archers. According to the observation from the watchtower behind the position, behind the enemy's infantry formation, there were about three or four hundred archers.

However, the coalition forces are not very nervous about this, not to mention that the effective range of the enemy's bow and arrow is not as good as their own muskets, and the musketeers hiding behind the defensive wall will definitely not suffer a loss, even if the opponent can break into the range of fire and shoot at a long distance, the wooden canopy extending seven or eight meters behind the defensive wall is enough to cover the heads of the musketeers and form an effective protection.

After the experience of the previous operation, the North Vietnamese army was relatively calm in the face of a new round of offensives. The soldiers are already well aware of the power of their weapons, and they also know that the opponent does not have the strength to attack their own front, so they only need to follow the officer's orders, keep raising their guns, shooting, reloading, and repeat this process, and they can crush the opponent's offensive.

After entering a distance of 200 meters, the South Vietnamese Army still took the sword and shield soldiers as the vanguard and launched a charge. It seems that they have not learned the lesson of the previous time, and still intend to use the most primitive and direct combat methods to deal with the enemy's advanced arms.

Yan Chujie put down the binoculars and said to Mu Xiabai, who was watching the battle next to him: "Although South Vietnam also has musket troops, it seems that they have not carefully considered how the cold weapons troops should deal with the musket troops. ”

Mu Shabai said: "It is not uncommon in history for the cold weapon infantry to defeat the musketeers, but in the current environment, I think no matter how fierce the infantry is, it is impossible to break through our defense line lightly." ”

Mushaber refers to the counterinsurgency fought in the Scottish Highlands in the mid-18th century by English lobster soldiers with muskets against Scottish soldiers armed with swords and shields. In 1745, in the northeast of Edinburgh, the British army, which had more than 2,000 musketeers and six guns, suffered nearly half of the casualties, captured more than 1,000 prisoners, and successfully escaped from the battlefield with less than 200 people, while the opponent who used cold weapons only suffered 100 casualties, and the results were very different.

In 1746 southwest of Falkirk, Prince Charles' 5,000-strong Scottish Highland Army again defeated the 7,000-strong British Royal Army under the command of Hawley with cold weaponry. However, in this battle, the Scottish army had cavalry to help, but it was not possible to count all the results on the infantry.

In these two battles in which cold weapons defeated hot weapons, a common feature was that the cold weapons troops adopted the tactics of making a wide range of maneuvers on the battlefield, and then took advantage of the opponent's musket troops to launch a charge after the turn of the array adjustment was not completed, and only then did they achieve the final victory. The battlefield chosen by the coalition forces is located at the corner of two mountain ranges, the terrain is narrow, and the width of the battlefield of only 200 meters is almost completely shrouded in the range of muskets, and it is impossible to make any large-scale maneuvers, so Mushabai will say this.

Soon the South Vietnamese army proved this theory with facts, and in the crackling gunfire, the South Vietnamese soldiers who were constantly charging fell into the dust. Shields and armor became dispensable after entering the effective range of the musketeers, and even if the hearts of these charging soldiers were full of fighting courage, they could not withstand the lethality of a small lead bullet.

"One-sided slaughter!" said Mushabai, who also lowered his binoculars.

Judging from the current course of the battle, the South Vietnamese Army's offensive this time is just another round of send-offs. Although these soldiers were not afraid of death, their charge was very unsatisfactory, and the person who rushed the farthest was still more than ten meters away from the outer obstacles of the defensive position when he fell, and could not threaten the coalition forces behind the defensive wall at all.

As for the offensive launched by the South Vietnamese archers, as the command had predicted, it did not cause much trouble to their own side. A rain of arrows rained down from the sky, almost all nailed to the wooden ceiling, crackling like hail on the roof.

In the midst of this chaotic situation, no one noticed that one or two gunshots rang out from time to time on the hills on the north and south sides, where the troops lurking on the hills were picking up spies sent by the South Vietnamese.

The South Vietnamese army lost at least 400 lives in this wave of charges, perhaps because the commander saw that his own charge could not even reach the opponent's defense line, and finally had to succumb to reality and chose to withdraw his troops. On the other hand, the morale of the coalition forces has been greatly boosted, and all the unrest before the war has now been thrown out of the clouds.

"General Yan, Instructor Mu, this battle is okay, right?" Seeing the enemy retreating, Zheng Ting also happily asked the Haihan officers for good news.

"Good play. Yan Chujie nodded in affirmation of the North Vietnamese Army's appearance, but then changed his words and said, "But isn't this a matter of course? The opponent doesn't even have a chance to fight you head-on, it's just a group of live targets." Don't forget, they have an army just like you!"

Zheng Ting's face was solemn, and he raised his head in response. As a high-ranking officer in the North Vietnamese Army, Truong Dinh also knew very well what the purpose of this landing operation was. Killing and wounding a few hundred South Vietnamese infantry is indeed not an ideal record.

"If we don't pull out this nail, the South Vietnamese army will not rest assured that it will continue to attack the north. So you still have to fight, you have to show Xiàn!" Mu Shabai still chose to give full encouragement to his students.

Seeing that the infantry attack was unsuccessful, the generals who led the troops in South Vietnam obviously did not intend to continue to give away their heads in vain, and temporarily stopped the offensive. And the coalition forces also took advantage of this time to distribute lunch to the front-line combat troops. These soldiers had eaten some dry food before landing in the early morning, and they had been tossing for six or seven hours now, and their spirits had been in a state of high tension, and they had already been hungry, so they sat down on the ground and ate a lot of food. The sappers instructed the men to deal with the arrows nailed to the defensive walls and ceilings, and began to lay a layer of floating earth on the ceiling in case the opponents used rockets to attack.

Taking advantage of this gap in the battle, hundreds of people went out to the outside of the defensive wall again, and seized the time to continue digging trenches and strengthening the defensive positions. Although the coalition forces have a great advantage in weapons, the command still prefers to spend more manpower and make the means of defense as watertight as possible.

Qian Tiandun and Mu Xiabai each brought a platoon of men and horses up the mountain to replace the two teams that had been busy in the forest for half a day. The two mountain ranges in the south and the north are completely primeval dense forests, and this kind of environment is not suitable for large troops to fight, but it is suitable for the combat mode of relying on individual soldiers or small detachments that the Heitugang Special Operations Company is good at.

During the morning's fighting, there were no casualties on the coalition side as feared, with fewer than 10 wounded and no one killed. The opponent's number of dead in battle was at least 500 or more, and more than 30 were captured, and the battle loss ratio was simply far behind.

After the news of the victory reached the North Vietnamese military camp on the mountain defense line through the guò radio, Zheng Bai finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Allied forces in the south have gained a firm foothold, which means that the South Vietnamese Army will not have the energy to continue desperately attacking the mountain line in the north for the time being. The two positions, one in the south and one in the north, echoed each other from afar, and finally stabilized the battle situation for the time being.

To the slight surprise of the command, the South Vietnamese Army remained silent that afternoon and did not launch another attack on the coalition positions. The command suspects that the other side is secretly preparing for battle, and perhaps new offensive methods will be put into the battle, such as the hidden musket unit.

On the one hand, the command took the opportunity to strengthen the defensive facilities of the coalition positions, and on the other hand, it deployed more manpower at the commanding heights in the north and south. If there is any hole in the position of the coalition forces, it is probably these two mountains. The coalition forces did not have the manpower and resources to build two more mountain lines, so they had to rely on elite skirmishers to defend the two mountain ranges simply. The good news, however, is that the opponents apparently do not have enough energy to slowly clear these two ridges, and it has already taken them more than a month to deal with the northern ridge alone, and the top brass of the South Vietnamese Army would rather bet on attacking the middle pass than repeat this painstaking process.

The only catch that afternoon was that the "Discovery" captured a South Vietnamese reconnaissance ship in the waters south of the landing site. The reconnaissance ship was discovered a few nautical miles from the landing site, and as soon as the Discovery approached, the ship fled to the open sea. However, it was obviously unwise to rely on speed to get rid of the pursuit of the "Discovery", and it exposed its own intentions, so the "Discovery" did not hesitate to launch an artillery attack on the ship after approaching at full speed.

However, to the shame of the trainee gunners on board, not a single shell directly hit the boat after three rounds of firing at a distance of two hundred meters. In the end, it was the South Vietnamese soldiers on the ship who were so frightened that they jumped and jumped to signal surrender, and Sun Changmi ordered to stop the useless shelling and sent someone to board the ship to take over the prisoners.

According to the results of the interrogation, the South Vietnamese Army had no more surface forces available from its current combat zone to the southern Contention River. The small "sailor" stationed in Donghai is currently tasked with only maintaining the supply line of the large battalion in front. Even if the South Vietnamese Army were to transfer the ships of that naval division to the front coast to reconnoiter the military situation of the coalition positions, it would be at least a day or two before the news was passed on back and forth.

The command obviously did not intend to give the other side this opportunity, and that night issued an order to Qian Tiandun to start a sabotage battle behind enemy lines from now on, and all the crew members of the "Exploration" cooperated with the special operations company of Heitu Port.

Early the next morning, the "Discovery," loaded with soldiers from the Special Operations Company, sailed south from the seashore. The main task of this unit was to attack and harass the South Vietnamese army's logistical supply lines, and strive to cut off the opponent's water transportation lines on the Zhengjiang River.

In the morning's battle, the South Vietnamese army really sacrificed several shield vehicles made by the new magic weapon. In front of this shield car was a row of thick logs, enough to cover the infantry units in the rear. After seven or eight cars are lined up in parallel, the width of their shelter reaches thirty or forty meters. Moreover, the thickness of these logs was at least five inches or more, and the lead bullets of the musket could not penetrate them at all. The only trouble is that the weight of this shield vehicle is too large, and there is no road between the South Vietnamese camp and the coalition position, and even the soldiers need to constantly cut down all kinds of bushes in front of the front, so the speed of this shield vehicle is extremely slow, but two miles away, it took the South Vietnamese army more than an hour to advance the shield array to the front of the coalition position.

It wasn't until the shield car advanced to a hundred meters that the defensive wall in front of the gun emplacement was opened in a hurry on the coalition position, revealing the black hole of the gun. Of course, in dealing with such a small battle, the command did not intend to fully display its strength, so it only exposed two 6-pounder cannons on the left and one on the right to attack.

At this distance, it is not difficult to aim at a shield car three or four meters wide and more than one person high, and there is no need to calculate the angle of fire, and you can hit the target with a direct flat shot. The first shot that Yan Chujie personally aimed and ignited accurately hit the front of a shield car, and after shooting a hole half a foot in diameter, he ploughed a blood ditch in the middle of the South Vietnamese soldiers pushing the shield car.

The four guns rang out one after the other, causing irrepressible chaos in the South Vietnamese army in an instant. The lethal effect caused by the artillery was secondary, and only twenty or thirty people were killed and wounded when the four doors were fired, but this huge noise made the already anxious South Vietnamese army lose its calm. Some people thought that the protective power of this wooden shield wall was no longer enough to cover themselves, so they simply rushed out.

The outlaws were undoubtedly greeted by a volley of hot, freshly discharged buckshots. Almost no one who broke out of the shield wall could survive more than ten seconds before falling to the ground in a dense rain of bullets. When the South Vietnamese soldiers were driven back to the shield wall and had to choose to push the shield cart on, the second round of shelling began.

Due to the limited width of the shield wall, the density of infantry behind it was considerable, and at this distance, each shell could inflict a large number of casualties in the South Vietnamese military formation. Some of the unlucky ghosts whose hands and feet were cut off by the shells did not lose their breath for a while, and fell to the ground rolling and screaming, which added to the fear in the hearts of the others. The soldiers wanted to push the cart in front of the opposing side as soon as possible, but it was full of low bushes and uneven dirt bags, and they couldn't get up quickly.

During the fourth round of shelling, one of the shield trucks was finally blown apart, revealing the unsheltered South Vietnamese infantry behind them, and without exception, they were given hundreds of free lead bullets by their opponents. At this time, the South Vietnamese army was still at least seventy or eighty meters away from the defensive wall, which meant that they would most likely have to withstand four or five rounds of artillery shelling, provided that the shield wall in front of them had not completely fallen apart by then.

Unfortunately, reality is often crueler than wishes, and at a distance of less than ten meters from the first barbed wire, the last shield car was completely broken under the concentrated attack of four guns, and although the last 200 South Vietnamese infantry still chose to charge, no one could escape under the dense musket fire, and all of them were knocked down in front of the battle.

Compared to yesterday's offensive, the biggest progress made by the South Vietnamese Army today is probably that it has entered the obstacle zone on the outskirts of the coalition positions. About a dozen South Vietnamese soldiers were knocked down by bullets after rushing into the combined barbed wire and deer barrier area, which may give the South Vietnamese generals a glimmer of hope for victory