In this long-fought place, there will definitely be no people's fishing boats on the river, so the target of Xie Chun's discovery is definitely not ordinary people. If the South Vietnamese army discovered their reconnaissance operations, it would inevitably affect the follow-up battle plan, and Qian Tiandun did not even hesitate for half a second, so he immediately issued an order: "Intercept these two ships!"

Qian Tiandun's order would certainly not be carried out by the "Exploration," and it would be difficult for the "Exploration," which was loaded with more than 200 people and a large amount of supplies on board, to have enough speed advantage to complete the task of pursuing and intercepting the ship in a relatively short distance.

The Speed lightly overtook the Discovery from the side and killed the target in front of it. With the average speed of 10 knots of the "Flying Speed", it was not difficult to catch up with the target boat in front.

The two small boats on the river ahead had apparently spotted the "Speedy" speeding upstream, and immediately turned their bows and fled downstream. Although the "Feisu" is only a small boat, it is more than 20 meters long and has a displacement of 70 or 80 tons, which is already a big one compared to the two small boats that are more than ten meters long. In addition, it was followed by a "giant ship" with a displacement of more than 300 tons, and it was indeed a wise move for the other party to seize the road and escape.

But between this chase and escape, it can be immediately seen that there is a difference in speed between the two sides. It took only five minutes for the Speedy to reduce the distance between the two to half the original size.

At this distance, Roger, who was standing on the bow of the "Speedy" and looking ahead with a telescope, could already clearly see the appearance of his opponent, and several black and thin men were panicked, taking out their oars and standing on the side of the boat to paddle desperately, trying to speed up their own speed.

"What a futile struggle!" Roger sighed disdainfully.

Judging from the difference in speed between the two sides, the "Feisu" was very sure that it would be able to catch up with the two small boats before they sailed out of the mouth of the Zhenghe River. Even if the other party rows with the strength to eat, there is no way to change the current situation.

However, there was no such relaxed atmosphere on the "Exploration" in the back, except for Qian Tiandun, most people were so anxious that they scratched their ears and cheeks, eager to grow wings and fly directly to the front to intercept the opponent. Xie Chun was even so anxious to grab the walkie-talkie in Qian Tiandun's hand: "Hurry up and let them shoot, isn't old Morgan a sniper?

Qian Tiandun blocked Xie Chun's outstretched hand, and scolded with a smile: "Are you stupid? This boat is up and down, and you still snipe? It's better to try your luck by splashing water with a machine gun!"

"Okay, okay, then let them use machine guns quickly!" Xie Chun looked afraid that the world would not be chaotic.

"You watch the show well, don't make up your mind, how to act is a matter for the military!" Qian Tiandun shook his head, no longer paying attention to Xie Chun's nonsense.

At this time, the situation in front of the situation has undergone a new change, the two small boats that fled in front may have noticed that the pursuers in the rear are constantly approaching, and in a panic, they also came up with a new trick, and the two boats sailed to the two sides of the Zhengjiang River respectively, apparently planning to abandon the ship and flee by land.

"These monkey soldiers are not stupid!" After Wang Tom noticed this change, he immediately made adjustments: "Inform the 'Discovery' that they are responsible for the one on the left, and we will chase the one on the right." ”

A small South Vietnamese boat with a fast speed approached the south bank of the Zhengjiang River only two or three miles from the mouth of the Zhengjiang River, and at this time, the "Feisu" that was in hot pursuit was 100 meters away from the ship. The other ship was a little slower, and the "Discovery" judged the opponent's sailing route in advance from the rear, and directly took a straight line to the position of the riverbank where the other side was about to dock, which also greatly shortened the gap between the two ships. By the time the ship landed, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to less than a mile.

"Put all the guns on the muffler, fight as quickly as possible, and if you can't catch them all alive, then it's enough to make sure you have one alive. King Tom handed over the task of driving the ship to Morgan, and gave a combat order before docking: "The old rule, Morgan stays behind, and the others go ashore to pursue." ”

Several other people quickly took out the M4-2000 quick-release silencer and installed it on the muzzle of the HK416, and were about to jump directly into the shallow waters of the riverbank, but Wang Tom raised his hand to signal to stop the action: "It seems that we don't need to chase so hard!"

In order to save time, this South Vietnamese boat directly rushed to the beach and ran aground, but what I didn't expect was that the near shore of this section was all knee-deep mudflats, and several people jumped off the boat and immediately fell into the mud, and after struggling for a few minutes, the fastest person only escaped a distance of more than ten meters.

"Tell them to stop, or they will die." King Tom instructed the two guides who were with him.

For this operation, the Executive Committee specially recruited a group of immigrants who were familiar with the geographical environment of the war zone to serve as guides, and after arriving at Vinh An Harbor, the North Vietnamese side had already prepared some guides for them who were familiar with the situation in the south in accordance with the requirements of the advance team. There are many military secrets involved on the "Feisu", and for the sake of secrecy, the guides assigned to it are all reliable naturalized civilians brought from Shengli Port. As for the "Discovery", it was not so troublesome, and almost all the soldiers of the special operations company on board were North Vietnamese immigrants, and many of them were refugees from warring areas, so there was no need for a separate guide.

The two guides shouted in Annan to several people in the quagmire, but the other party apparently did not take this shouting as a warning, but accelerated the speed of escape.

"It looks like you can't be a good person. Tom raised his gun and aimed at the person who had fled farthest, and after a muffled pop, the first shot missed a little, about three inches from his torso, attracting the boos that his friends deliberately suppressed.

"It's a boat shaking!" Tom Wang defended himself in a serious manner, then held his breath and fired the second shot calmly. This time, he didn't disappoint his friends again, and he nailed the man to death on the river beach with one shot.

After killing the four fastest escapees, the remaining four finally stopped their senseless struggle and chose to surrender. Under the command of the guide, several viables dragged the bodies of their companions from the river beach back to the boat with all their might, and then raised their hands to surrender to the "Speed".

Roger and Shi Diwen jumped onto the boat, restrained several of the captives who were covered in mud and couldn't tell their true faces, and then secured the ship's cable to the stern of the Speedy. Seeing that the overall situation here had been decided, Tom Wang picked up the walkie-talkie and called the "Discovery" on the other side of the riverbank, reported the situation and asked for instructions on the next move.

The pursuit of the "Discovery" was far less smooth than that of the "Flying Speed", and the small boats of the South Vietnamese could directly rush to the beach and run aground, but the draft of the "Exploration" was far from being comparable to that of small boats, and they did not dare to make such a difficult action, otherwise it would be a big trouble once they ran aground. This stop is much slower than the other party.

However, before landing on the shore, Qian Tiandun had already deployed the forces of pursuit, with the third platoon on the port side as the pursuit group, the second platoon as the support group, and the first platoon as the covering group, and at the same time ordered not to use muskets as much as possible, so as not to alarm the South Vietnamese defenders on the north bank of the river.

Gao Qiao Nan directly stood up and asked Qian Tiandun to fight, asking to put down his musket and other equipment, and only carry a saber for a lightly armed pursuit. Qian Tiandun thought about it for a while, and then agreed to his request, but it was limited to the formation of three platoons and one squad he led, and the other pursuers still needed to carry muskets.

The company led by Qian Tiandun has a very distinctive training subject, that is, armed marching and training in the field. During the training on Cat Ba Island, it was almost every two or three days, and the frequency was high enough to put the militia in the base camp to shame. At least 3,000 meters each time, at most 10,000 meters, and the time for qualification, this kind of training is very demanding on physical fitness, and it is simply torture for people in this era, and the people who are eliminated by the training are at least two or three times more than those who are left in the end. If it was a positional war or a defensive war, Qian Tiandun's company would certainly not be able to compare with the base camp militia group, which spent a lot of energy on array combat training, but if it was more mobile than field combat, the soldiers of this company would be enough to leave the colleagues of the military police department far behind.

Before Gao Qiao Nan disembarked, Qian Tiandun added another order to him: "You can't let a person go, whether you live or die!"

"Yes! Promise to complete the mission!" Gao Qiaonan raised his hand to salute Qian Tiandun, and then led his men to climb down the rope net from the side of the boat, and then jumped into the knee-deep river and walked ashore.

Takahashi Nan took a dozen or so men and began to pursue directly with sabers, and at the same time consciously controlled the other party's escape route to the west, and the defenders stationed in the supply line of South Vietnam were all located in the inland area of the west, while the adjacent coast was a no-man's land, as long as these people could not escape to the west. As for escaping north along the coastline, Gao Qiao Nan was not afraid of this, he wanted to see if these South Vietnamese monkey soldiers could escape dozens of miles in one go.

"Can Little Japan catch up?" Sun Changmi was still a little uneasy about the pursuit strategy adopted by Qian Tiandun. Just a few people spread their feet and chased north, but the other side also had seven or eight people, and their own large army was hanging behind, if there was a fight in front, it would be difficult for their own side to suffer casualties.

"Sergeant Minami Takahashi's combat effectiveness is not bad, and he trains hard in normal times, so I believe in his ability. Qian Tiandun replied quietly. Due to the temporary appointment of Takahashi Minami as the squad leader of the three platoons and one squad, Qian Tiandun temporarily awarded Takahashi Minami the rank of sergeant, of course, this process of awarding the title has not been completed, and it is still necessary to wait for the Executive Committee to issue a reissue of the award notice at that time to be considered legal. However, Qian Tiandun believes that this is not a problem, there are many promotions in the line of fire during the war, as long as the war situation requires, it is possible to promote them to a higher position.

Although Takahashi Minami is short and short-legged, he runs at a fast pace, which is quite the taste of the later briquette king. A mile from the riverbank, he caught up with his first opponent and slashed him to the ground with a single blow from the back. However, Takahashi did not stop to check on his opponent's injury, but stepped directly over his opponent's body and chased after another target in front of him. As for these things to clean up the battlefield, they are responsible for the others who follow up.

The few people fleeing in front turned around and saw what was happening behind them, and three of them stopped, trying to resist with the weapons in their hands. Takahashi Nan kept chasing after him, blocking the bamboo spear that stabbed him with a knife, and directly a tiger pounced and pounced into the arms of another person. Takahashi's subordinates had already arrived, and a dozen or so people surrounded the two of them and slashed them, and in less than ten seconds, they had already cut down the two stubborn guys to the ground.

After chasing out of Wulidi, there were only two guys left in front of him who were still desperately trying to escape, but under the pursuit of Takahashinan's almost wild run, these two guys finally ran slower and slower, and after running out of two miles, they finally lost their bodies and fell to the ground one after another. Takahashi didn't carry any equipment like plastic straps, but he had a more direct way to control his captives, slicing the tendons above his opponent's heels with a single slash.

A few minutes later, follow-up reinforcements arrived, and then dragged the captives back to the mouth of the Zhengjiang River like a dead dog. There were also eight people who abandoned the boat and fled from the north bank of the Zhengjiang River, five of whom were hacked to death by the pursuing militia on the way to escape, two were seriously injured if their Achilles tendons were cut, and only one of them knelt down and surrendered in time when he saw a bad opportunity on the way to escape, fortunately saving himself. However, in order to pursue these men, the entire reconnaissance fleet had to dock here for a full hour.

Qian Tiandun ordered two South Vietnamese boats to be scuttled into the sea, and the bodies of several unlucky ghosts were naturally sunk into the sea together, and the other seven live ones were to be taken aboard the "Discovery" for further interrogation.

After finishing this mess, the sky gradually darkened. The fleet found a secluded shore nearby to anchor and at anchor, and at the same time sent a platoon of personnel to the shore to take up early warning missions.

This reconnaissance mission was originally scheduled to catch the "tongue", but no one expected that it would be such an unexpected situation. Fortunately, there were no casualties on the side, and no one of the targets escaped, which can be regarded as a very smooth operation.

And the combat effectiveness shown by Takahashi Minami and others in this pursuit also made some people who were previously suspicious of it shut up, this kind of real pursuit and fighting, the requirements for physical and fighting skills are very high, and it is definitely not the level of braggadocio martial arts of "two kitchen knives from Nantianmen all the way to Penglai East Road". Even if you change these physical elements and go up to the crowd better, it is difficult to say that you can still maintain your fighting ability while running for six or seven miles. There were no casualties in the process, and it also proved from the side that Qian Tiandun's training requirements and training level for this company were not comparable to the previous Haihan militia regiments.

Qian Tiandun was also very satisfied with his subordinates, and even allowed Takahashi Minami to sit in on the interrogation of prisoners, in fact, to play the role of a thug when the interrogation was not smooth.

Perhaps shocked by the cruel reality, the entire interrogation process actually did not take much effort, and even how Takahashi Minami came in handy, and the remaining captives confessed everything they knew. The Crossing Crowd was divided into four groups and cross-examined the captives, and the conclusions reached were more credible.

These two ships were indeed the "sailors" subordinate to the Nguyen regime in South Vietnam, and these people were also serious South Vietnamese "officers and soldiers", but in the captured group of live mouths, there was not even a single officer, and the captains of the two ships were directly killed by the pursuers in the process of fleeing. For this reason, the information that the captives could provide was limited.

According to the captive's account, the two ships set off by boat from Donghai, about 60 miles to the south, and prepared to change their defenses in the upper reaches of the Zhengjiang River. But their luck was really bad, and soon after entering the Zhengjiang River, they encountered a turning reconnaissance fleet. At this time, there are more than a dozen small boats similar to this kind in the upper reaches of the Zhengjiang River, responsible for patrolling on the river, in order to ensure the safety of the supply line pass of the Zhengjiang River, of course, in the eyes of the crossing, even if this kind of small boat is several times more, there is no guarantee at all, and a tonnage ship like the "Exploration" does not even need to fire, and with the specially reinforced bow hull can directly crush the opponent.

On the other hand, in the south of Donghai, there is a small naval division with about 500 people, but there are only more than a dozen ships, and the largest ship is only about the same tonnage as the "Feisu", which is not enough to pose a threat to the fleet that crosses the group.

"It's worse than Yazhou Water Village", this is Wang Tom's evaluation of the water division of South Vietnam.

However, the captives said that there was another slightly larger sailor in Hoi An in the south, which aroused everyone's interest, but there was no further information after questioning, and these captives were all the lowest soldiers, and they really knew too little about the situation.

As for the South Vietnamese Army's news, there is very little that can be pulled out of the mouths of these prisoners, because their garrison area is only on the line of the Truong River, and now the main garrison of the South Vietnamese Army has been moved to the combat zone forty miles north of the Trung River, and these South Vietnamese sailors have never been to the front line at all, and they are not even clear about the battle situation on the front line. They also did not know anything about the South Vietnamese firearms units, which were of greatest concern to them, and they did not know the size of the firearms units or the origin of these weapons.

Among the information they provided, the more valuable one was probably the delivery of supplies to the front through the Guò Zhengjiang River. At present, South Vietnam has to send about 30,000 jin to 35,000 jin of food supplies to the front combat zone through this supply line every day, and about 2 to 3,000 South Vietnamese reinforcements cross the Zhengjiang River by boat every day, and even more than 5,000 a day at the peak. Judging from these circumstances, South Vietnam's war mobilization capacity has surpassed that of North Vietnam, and if the Crossing Group does not intervene in this war, then the rout of North Vietnam is really only a matter of time.