Valley Emperor

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

This is not to say that the landing time of the combat troops will take so long, but it is about the landing. You can't get off the ship. You have to bring the artillery, the shells, and the food.

Therefore, even if the landing of the combat troops is completed in the first few days, a large amount of materials have to be unloaded afterwards. It is not something that can be done in one or two days. .

Of course, the subsequent unloading of materials, strictly speaking, is still a part of the landing operation, but it is a later task. According to the general traditional concept, after the combat troops have landed, even if the landing is successful.

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

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

After the combat troops, including the artillery troops, have landed, it will take about three to five days to arrive in Malacca and prepare for complete combat operations.

Just looking at this landing and the time it took to prepare, you can see that the five days the Army had boasted about conquering Malacca was bragging!

In five or six days, if the army can transport heavy siege artillery outside the city of Malacca and launch the shelling, it will burn high incense. According to the plan made by the Seventh Army, the schedule is actually eight days!

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

The first group to land was the 5th Marine Regiment of the Navy. Now this regiment has all landed and shouldered the initial defense task, and then the 7th Boat Bridge Regiment, which belongs to the 7th Army Headquarters, is now full. Landing, they are currently unloading the tools and equipment they used to build the temporary dock.

Coming back, it is the 19th Infantry Division. Now most of the 57th Infantry Regiment has successfully landed. Ding Chenzhen also landed with the 57th Infantry Regiment and established an army 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. It is expected that the landing will be completed in the evening. In the evening, because the risk of landing at night is too great, a large-scale landing will not be carried out. The landing of personnel is mainly the landing of some scattered small-scale troops, and the speed will be much slower.

On the second day, some artillery units and baggage units landed!

As for the second temporary formation 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 when the temporary pier is erected and go ashore directly through the pier. In other words, the early landing operations There is basically nothing about the Second Temporary Formation of the Guards.

However, it is worth noting that the current landings of all troops are all light-loaded landings, and the fighters did not carry artillery guns except for carrying light weapons and a small number of shotguns.

Because the artillery of each unit is still on the boats floating on the sea, and there is no temporary dock that can withstand the heavy weight, so don't expect to be able to move the artillery and medicine pills down.

According to the landing plan, some infantrymen were first landed to establish beachhead fortifications to prevent the Portuguese from conducting beachhead blockades or sneak attacks, and then the Seventh Boat Bridge Regiment began to erect temporary piers.

On the first day, the Seventh Boat and Bridge Regiment will make every effort to set up two small temporary piers. On the one hand, it is to allow personnel to land faster in the future, and more importantly, it is to compare some of their own weight and volume. The large equipment was moved down in preparation for the erection of the third temporary pier, which was also the first large temporary pier.

After the construction of the temporary large-scale dock is completed, those ships that are loaded with a lot of heavy artillery and materials can directly unload through the large-scale temporary dock.

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

This is mainly to expand the control range of the landing troops, and more importantly, it is to free up the landing site for the subsequent landing troops.

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 they are from logistics, good at planning and arrangement, and Ding Chenzhen, who is good at planning and deploying supplies, sees this kind of scene. big head.

If the early landing troops still heard from the inland and continued to pile up on the landing site, then the subsequent landing would not be possible at all.

So even if the landing is still in progress, in fact, the Fifth Marine Regiment of the Navy has already left their defense zone and advanced inland, and behind them is the 57th Infantry Regiment.

The troops of these two regiments advanced inland for a distance of about 1,000 meters. Don't think this distance is too small. In fact, this distance is already relatively dangerous, because they are already out of the fire support range of the naval guns.

Therefore, these two troops are also cautious, afraid of encountering the attack of the Portuguese, especially the artillery attack in ambush.

What reassured them was that they did not see the Portuguese going out of the city on a large scale to attack them all day and even at night. At most, they encountered a very small number of Portuguese reconnaissance forces.

This made the nervous officers and soldiers of the landing force feel relieved.

The Portuguese may not know it, but they themselves know that the first day of the landing is the most dangerous, the scene is chaotic, and the landing troops have no heavy firepower, and even the fortifications have not been built.

If the Portuguese were ambushed at this time, it is very likely to cause the scene to get out of control.

But the Portuguese's indifference and the strategy of huddling in the city made them spend the most dangerous day.

By the second day, even Ding Chenzhen, who had become sensitive and irritable due to the chaos of the landing, became a lot more amicable!

Wearing a wrinkled and muddy summer combat uniform, Ding Chenzhen left the landing site 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 site. It is not high, at most only tens of meters, but this small hill looks condescending here. If the Portuguese deploy heavy artillery units here, they can effectively deal with The landing site was bombarded.

So yesterday, the 57th Infantry Regiment occupied this hill and the surrounding area, and temporarily constructed a simple parapet line of defense with the shovels and hoes they carried with the army.

As for why not trenches, because now is the era of line warfare, a simple parapet is actually more effective than trenches.

Because of the firepower of the musket alone, in fact, many times it is impossible to stop the intensive charge of the enemy. You hide in the trenches, and when someone rushes in front of you, you are condescending, and one bayonet goes down and one is accurate.

But if you hide behind the parapet, you can also get protection when shooting in the opposite direction, and after the enemy rushes up, you can stab the enemy through the parapet. Some key defense lines, the inner part of the parapet is still raised. Soldiers can step on it to fight, giving soldiers a commanding advantage.

Of course, more importantly, the Portuguese on the opposite side did not have mature grenades. If they were equipped with a large number of grenades like the Datang Army, then in order to avoid the shelling, the Datang Army would definitely build a trench line of defense without saying a word.

Ding Chenzhen brought a large number of generals to the front line for inspection. After climbing the hill, he took out the binoculars and looked at the city of Malacca in front of him again. In fact, it was not far from the city of Malacca. About two kilometers.

At this distance, the enemy may touch at any time, and then fight!

Fortunately, the Portuguese on the opposite side had no cavalry units!

In contrast, Ding Chenzhen did not have any cavalry units, not even many horses!

The sea transportation in these years is very bumpy, and the speed is slow, and it is only a few months of sea transportation at every turn, which is enough to make any cavalry troops survive.

Because warhorses are very hypocritical, they are bumpy at sea for a month or two, and they will die if they come, not to mention that it is useless to have cavalry in this poor place in Nanyang. There are tropical jungles everywhere, and the cavalry will run.

The few horses of the landing force were actually transported by a few thousand-ton ships, or even battleships. These days, only those thousand-ton ships sailed a little more smoothly, but even so, because the Tang Dynasty The army and navy lacked the experience of large-scale long-distance sea transportation of war horses, so that the more than 600 Central Asian war horses in good condition of the 19th Division's cavalry regiment before departure were less than 300. Of the more than 1,400 northwest horses in total, only 800 remained, and all the rest died while being transported by sea.

The death rate of horses from sea transportation to the point of sale has reached more than 50%~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This makes cavalry, artillery, and baggage units and other troops that need horses to be scolded. This is because there are not enough large ships. , and the horses consumed too much supplies, so the horses they brought were not too many, but I didn't expect that only half of them would be left after reaching the destination.

More importantly, after the surviving horses landed on land, their condition was also very bad. The commander of the 19th cavalry regiment faced Ding Chenzhen with a sad face. His cavalry regiment was able to gather up to twenty people in good condition. The cavalry joins 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 horses left in good condition and capable of charging for battle!

When he thought that he was a fully loaded cavalry regiment, all of whom belonged to the Central Asian horse cavalry regiment, and there were only a pitiful twenty or so horses left without a battle, he wanted to cry without tears!

Throughout the more than 20 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, such a miserable cavalry regiment leader as him has never appeared!

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