Next, Hou Xianglin picked up a long chopstick placed on the table, pointed to a few points on the map and continued:

"In addition, according to the plan we discussed last time, we have dug a total of 1,231 square pits two meters deep, five meters long and three meters wide on this strip of land, with the joint efforts of more than 4,000 laborers and soldiers of the garrison, 80 percent of which are covered with straw mats and camouflaged, filled with stagnant water, with wooden stakes at the bottom of the pits and arranged in a zigzag pattern on the ground.

In other words, even if the enemy finds these pits, they have to walk around or jump over, however, once the opponent jumps directly over them, they will inevitably be stabbed in the heart of the foot by the wooden stake inserted @ on the opposite edge of the puddle! ”

Hearing this, everyone nodded and praised:

"Nice, very creative!"

"Well, it's ruthless enough, and it's cleverly arranged......"

"Great, enough for those barefoot natives to drink!"

So Hou Xianglin continued:

"Now about the key project – the construction of six fortress-like support points on the wooden wall.

As we all know, whether it is the city gate hole or the corner tower, its brick and concrete renovation and reinforcement project has been fully completed 15 days ago, where it has been all brick and stone cement structure, recently, we have heightened and strengthened the entire building structure on the original basis, including the two-meter-high wall with cement and stone, the experiment has proved that its fire prevention effect is very good.

As you know, as a supporting facility, we have extended and renovated the wooden walls on both sides of the corner tower and the city gate hole by 20 meters, and the height of the brick and stone city wall has also been increased to 3.5 meters, so that the city gate hole, the corner tower and the two wings of the city wall are connected as a whole, and the battlements and the breastwork wall have been built, so that the entire support point can accommodate more than 300 soldiers, and we have also placed three to five bronze cannons on the city wall to defend our machine gun positions, we expect that in this case, it is almost impossible for the enemy to attack the city wall of four meters and five meters high. Of course, according to what Ba Lao said just now, the enemy brought a wooden ladder for the siege of the city, and even so, the enemy would have to pay a heavy price if he wanted to approach the city walls. ”

After Hou Xianglin finished speaking, he pointed to the long wooden wall on the map and said, As for these places, we have also reinforced them with wood, but the specific defensive battle plan, and Wei Hong will explain it later, I will only talk about the fortification structure here.

Please note that the wooden wall is a double-layer mezzanine structure, with the inner wall being half a meter higher than the outer wall and having flap doors at intervals.

Therefore, when the soldiers were guarding the wooden wall, they actually had two lines of defense, and the soldiers outside the wall stood in a higher position, not only calmly shooting the enemy, but also making full use of such a structure to inflict devastating damage on the enemy after the outer wall was breached.

Okay, that's all I have to say about the structure of the wooden fortifications, and now let's talk about the city's defenses.

I have to admit that we have to take into account the defense of the city in case the wooden wall is breached, and here we refer to Yue Chu's plan in the eastern city.

At present, we have built more than 20 wooden tripods out of wood, so that we can build a temporary barricade at the north entrance of the Crossstreet with the Bank House and nearby buildings as the center, and we have strengthened the gate of the Governor's Palace, and we plan to use wooden tripods to block the front and rear courtyard gates in wartime, so that the front and back doors of the Governor's Palace will be turned into a fortress as soon as the front and rear doors are closed. ”

Hou Xianglin listened to this, looked at Wei Hong, who was sitting upright, and signaled that it was time for him to speak.

At this time, Wei Hong first discussed two or three sentences in a whisper with the two Su Fang beside him, and then immediately stood up and walked to the map, picked up the long chopsticks and pointed to the location of the wooden wall on the map, without saying any transitional opening remarks, and went straight to the point:

"Ladies and gentlemen, after two combat practices, it is enough to prove that this wooden wall structure invented by Brother Hou is very conducive to our mobile defense.

Under normal circumstances, after the soldiers use firearms to kill and injure a large number of enemies behind the outer wall, they can retreat into the inner wall according to the situation, and then, when the enemy climbs over the outer wall and enters the mezzanine, the soldiers on the inner wall can use the hot and cold @ soldier @ weapon in their hands to inflict a second major damage on the enemy who is not firmly established - if it is supplemented by the 57 grenade @ bomb explosion attack, this mezzanine will be the enemy's Shura hell.

For example, the last time the Dunno tribe attacked the wooden wall in the western section of Xin'an City, this was defeated by our garrison with a small number of grenadiers, we believe that due to the limitations of the terrain, fortifications and equipment conditions of Xin'an City, the enemy will not and cannot learn this lesson, they will still rely on the tactics of the sea of people, and pour into the melancho road, at that time, our 57-style grenades @ shells will play a decisive role and will definitely give the enemy a devastating blow, therefore, the key factor is to determine the enemy's main attack direction, and rationally arrange our forces in the fortresses and wooden walls, as well as the reserves that we put in the city. ”

When Wei Hong said this, he paused slightly, looked back at the map and said:

"The news from the jungle scouts of the Loka tribe indicates that from now on, in three days at the earliest, and within five days at the latest, more than 26,000 warriors from the southern tribe of the mountain will appear on the edge of the jungle outside the wooden walls of Xin'an City—and since a week ago, our garrison has also sent three cavalry reconnaissance teams, and through the efforts of the scouts and the intelligence from the Portuguese in Oecussi, this figure of the enemy has been very accurate, and from the current situation, the total number of the enemy has increased by three to four thousand compared with the previous estimate.

Among them, the combined forces of the Belu and Dunno tribes numbered more than 6,000 people, and the level of equipment of these warriors was comparable to that of the current Loka tribe warriors.

At the same time, the enemy also has 20 bronze cannons with a firing range of more than 500 meters, which the Dutch sold to those tribes at the beginning, and now these bronze cannons have become a threat to Xin'an to a certain extent, so in the early stage of the operation, the fortress machine guns must take advantage of our range advantage to knock out the enemy's artillery positions in advance, fortunately, the enemy does not yet know the range of our machine guns, and it is estimated that the enemy's gun positions will be very high, which is very beneficial to us.

As for the rest of the tribal warriors, they had only iron-tipped wooden spears and teng shields, carried asphalt fires, were barefoot, and had no protection other than a girdle.

However, we cannot underestimate the enemy, because they are numerous and firm in their faith, and they all swear a heavy oath before the mountain gods of the holy mountain, these people are not afraid of life and death, and they hate outsiders very much, so they do not want to die at all.

All in all, in the next two days, Sin'an will soon face a massive siege. ”

When Wei Hong said this, a confident smile suddenly appeared on his face:

"Of course, we have been well prepared for the past two months. Now, I will report to the Supreme Urban Defense Committee on the latest operational plan of the Urban Defense Command.

According to the defense plan jointly discussed and approved by the Supreme Urban Defense Committee 15 days ago, all the garrisons of Xin'an City will be concentrated in Xicheng, because this is the direction of the enemy's main attack, and it is also the only direction in which the enemy can smoothly launch a tactical attack on a scale of tens of thousands of people

As for the east city across the river from the west city, it was handed over to the security team and trade labor volunteers to defend, in addition, the defense plan of the west city has not been adjusted much at present, but about the defense of the east city, Yue Chu has a new proposal. ”