() Liu Xiaofu was not frightened by these gossips, but he also raised his vigilance and immediately issued an order. No one was allowed to leave the camp without permission, and no one was allowed to contact the locals at will. As for local suppliers, all
You are not allowed to enter within 500 meters of the camp. All building materials and daily supplies will be transported into the camp by the Engineer Corps itself. Around the camp, the Engineer Corps will erect two barbed wire fences and
There are 4 wooden watchtowers, equipped with searchlights powered by diesel generators and 2 heavy machine guns. Any attempt to destroy the barbed wire fence and enter the camp will be directly shot without warning. As the engineers came this time
The guard company is mainly responsible for the security of the camp. After entering the night, it will adopt the second-level combat readiness patrol. The barbed wire fence on the outermost side of the camp is the warning fire line.
Liu Xiaofu's arrangement was very reasonable and timely. On the fourth night after the engineer regiment and the guard company of the Taiwan Army's 1st Mountain Brigade arrived on the outskirts of Davao City, the camp was attacked by a group of armed men from the west. About 100 people
The militants tried to use the cover of the terrain and darkness to get close to the barbed wire fence, but they triggered the anti-infantry mines buried outside the barbed wire fence. Three people were killed on the spot and five others were injured. Then, hail-like
Heavy machine gun bullets flew out from the northwest and southwest turrets of the camp. The militants fired randomly while retreating into the woods to the west, dropping more than 40 corpses along the way. Seeing the attackers withdraw,
After entering the woods, the camp of the First Mountain Brigade did not launch a pursuit, and no one went out of the camp to check the attacker's body. They only turned off the two searchlights that were fully turned on, leaving only two, and patrolled back and forth along the barbed wire fence.
Early the next morning, three motorcycles drove out of the camp, armed with light machine guns, and used irregular routes to bypass the minefield. They came to the place where the attackers tried to destroy the barbed wire fence, and killed the three people who were killed and the others.
The three injured people were dragged out of the barbed wire fence.
Not far away, a pit was dug, the bodies were thrown into the pit, the wounded were shot on the spot, and they were also thrown into the pit and buried. The attackers who were killed on the way were slowly gathered together.
When they got together, they dug a big hole and buried them together.
Liu Xiaofu stood on the turret in the northwest corner, holding a telescope and watching the movement at the edge of the forest in the distance. When he saw a few figures disappearing into the forest, he put down the telescope and took a stick of Taiwanese Riyuetan.
Brand cigarettes, he slowly walked down the corner building. In Liu Xiaofu's heart, he really couldn't understand why these guys who came to sneak attack at night
Why did they come to attack their own camp so rashly? Couldn't they see the thick barrel of the heavy machine gun on the turret? Want to break through these two layers of barbed wire with a few broken rifles? Back then, the Japanese Sixth Division
The veterans, even though they used thousands of people, could not break through the firepower network composed of 5 heavy machine guns. Are these Filipinos not afraid of death?
After thinking for a long time, Liu Xiaofu couldn't figure it out. After asking the soldiers who went out to collect the enemy's corpses about the enemy's general situation, Liu Xiaofu simply didn't think about it because the soldiers' answers made him even more confused. The soldiers who went out to collect the corpses told
My own brigade commander, among the dozens of corpses of the enemy, only
There were less than ten old-fashioned rifles, and the rifling of several rifles was polished. These corpses were obviously undernourished and dressed in rags. However, because they were not familiar with the locals and the power of heavy machine gun bullets, it was hard to tell.
age, the only thing that is certain is that they are all men...
After this nighttime killing, no more nighttime sneak attacks occurred in the following days. The camp of the 1st Mountain Brigade became a forbidden area in the eyes of the locals. Even the local businessmen who came to transport building materials were unwilling to do so.
Take one more step and be very conscious about the barbed wire fence 50
0 meters away, put down the building materials and wait for the officers in the military camp to come out to pay. Because the prices given by the Taiwanese army are very fair, and they often give the locals who deliver the goods some sugar, canned food and other small gifts, so they come to deliver the goods.
The number of local businessmen has increased slightly.
To make a long story short, with the cooperation of the Engineering Corps and local businessmen, after nearly a month of construction, the temporary camp finally began to take shape. Within the barbed wire fence with a side length of 500 meters, the square camp was divided into even sections by cross-shaped roads.
Four parts, and the center of the cross-shaped road
Yang meeting point, a 3-story granite building, is the location of Taiwan's headquarters in Mindanao. The building is made of large pieces of granite and cement, in the shape of a pyramid, with a tower-shaped roof on the top.
A small iron tower. Because the local granite is olive-colored, local businessmen call it the "Olive Tower". In addition to the main building of the headquarters
, rows of stone and wood structure barracks have been built on the remaining three open spaces, leaving only one open space for use as a playground. At the four corners of the barbed wire fence, the original wooden watchtowers have been replaced by stone ones.
Each turret is equipped with 3 high-power searchlights and 3 12mm heavy machine guns. Together with the two layers of barbed wire and hundreds of landmines in front, it guards the safety of the military camp.
Although most of the main building has been completed, there is still a lot of piecemeal work to be done, such as the interior decoration of the house, the opening of water supply and drainage, the construction of drainage ditches and drainage facilities, the hardening of the road surface, etc. However, what we saw in the camp today
There were no busy soldiers from the engineering regiment. Except for the two entrances and exits in the north and south and the sentries on the gun towers, the camp seemed empty.
Today is the day when all the follow-up troops of the 1st Mountain Brigade of the 4th Division of the Taiwan Army arrived in Mindanao. After lunch, Brigadier Liu Xiaofu gathered most of the officers and soldiers of the mountain brigade and took off the yellow clothes they usually wear at work.
The green military uniforms were replaced by camouflage combat uniforms with light yellow and green patches, and they were neatly lined up on the pier of the Davao City port to welcome the new and old comrades-in-arms.
The troop transport fleet departing from Taiwan's Keelung Port docked at the dock in Davao City on time just after noon. Groups of Taiwanese Army troops in camouflage uniforms stepped off the cargo ship one after another. Since the dock was not large, it could not accommodate all of them.
More than 4,000 people and their equipment were neatly arranged on the pier according to the order of each company and battalion. After the assembly report was correct, the engineering regiment sent people to lead part of the assembled troops to the camp first.
The work of unloading the ship lasted until the evening. The 4,300 officers and soldiers of the Mountain Division and the supplies and equipment they carried were all successfully loaded onto the dock. The troop transport fleet left the Davao Port directly and returned to Taiwan without any further stop.
The two destroyers that came with the troop transport fleet
The ship and five torpedo boats remained in Davao Port as a maritime support force for the 1st Mountain Brigade stationed in Mindanao. If the seabed here were not covered with coral reefs and shoals, and the water depth of the port was seriously insufficient, the Taiwan Navy would
It is also planned to station a submarine force.
In April 1907, more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of Taiwan's First Mountain Brigade and more than 100 vehicles, tractors, motorcycles, armored vehicles, artillery and other equipment they carried officially landed on Mindanao Island in the Philippines, nominally at the invitation of the Philippine government.
, came to help the Philippine government maintain peace and stability in Mindanao.
On the third day after the 1st Mountain Brigade arrived in Davao City, the anxious commander of the U.S. garrison in Mindanao came to the camp of the 1st Mountain Brigade. Under the guise of welcoming Taiwanese friendly forces, he urged the 1st Mountain Brigade to quickly hand over to the U.S. military.
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Ren Zhimei, the officers and soldiers of the first brigade who had just rested for 2 days were divided into 11 occupation teams according to the company units. Each team was based on the size of the area that needed to be taken over, ranging from 1 company to 5 companies.
Supplies and equipment were provided, with armored vehicles taking the lead, motorcycles with wings, and cars following. Led by the US military, they marched towards the 11 US military bases in Mindanao and began to exchange defenses with the US military.
