When Leng Tiefeng commanded the first squadron to repair the fortifications, Xu Rui had already called more than 20 cadets of the youth training team to him for a pre-battle teaching. 【】

Practical teaching, the effect is always the best.

In class, no matter how much you talk about it, it is general, and it is good for the students to learn three or four points, but on the battlefield, because of the intuitive feeling, the students are easier to accept.

Xu Rui pointed to the position of the first squadron and explained: "When arranging the defensive position, you must not concentrate all the troops on one line, but should carry out the front and rear echelon arrangement to form a certain defensive depth, if the first line is arranged, there is no depth, as long as the enemy breaks through a little, your defense line will immediately collapse, if there is depth, when the first line of defense collapses, you can also rely on the second line of defense to continue to resist the enemy's attack." ”

"In addition to the echelon distribution of troops and the formation of depth, it is also necessary to pay attention to the protection of the flanks."

"You see, why did the first squadron put a squad on the northwest side of the main position? That is, to protect the flanks, and with flank protection, there is no need to worry about the enemy's roundabout flank attacks. ”

When talking about flank protection, Xu Rui deliberately accentuated his tone.

In this era, from grassroots officers to senior generals, they have basically not been in contact with modern military, even if they are graduates of the Central Military Academy, they have not been exposed to modern military theory in the real sense, they often put their forces out when building a defensive line, neither in-depth protection, but also do not pay attention to flank protection, the Japanese army only needs to break through one point, and the **** defense line will immediately collapse on the whole line.

One of the most typical examples of the battle is the Battle of Xinkou, the Jin Sui Army, the Central Army more than 50 divisions in the front line of Xinkou unfolded, but did not put down even a regiment in the Niangzi Pass in the rear of the side, as a result, the Japanese army only dispatched an infantry brigade to attack the Niangzi Pass, the defense line of Xinkou immediately collapsed, and the 300,000 army collapsed overnight.

Of course, Leng Tiefeng went to the West Point Military Academy and systematically studied modern military theory.

Therefore, Leng Tiefeng did not put all the forces of the first squadron in the front, but only put the first squad in the front, and then placed the second squad two hundred meters behind the first squadron, and then drew a squad from the third squad to protect the flank, and the remaining two squads acted as reserves to launch a counterattack at a critical moment.

With such a defensive deployment as Leng Tiefeng, there is a depth of defense, and there is also flank protection.

After demarcating the defensive area, more than 150 veterans of the 1st Squadron immediately began to build fortifications intensively.

These more than 150 veterans are basically veterans from the provisional 79th Division, and the quality of repairing fortifications is leveraged, and it takes less than half a minute to repair, and the two main trenches and the communication trenches connecting the front and rear trenches have outlines, but it will take time to dig the outlines into solid fortifications.

With the first squadron alone, it will be too late anyway.

Xu Rui was about to take the youth team to help, but suddenly there was a commotion behind him.

Looking back, I saw that Wang Husheng, secretary of the special committee of southern Anhui, had come over with hundreds of fellow villagers.

Good guy, the organizational ability and mobilization ability of ** are strong, and you really can't accept it.

Xu Rui estimates that the local government of Meizhen may not have been formally formed, but they can mobilize so many villagers to come over to help build the fortifications in such a short period of time, this is the best ability!

"Secretary Wang, you can really do it." Xu Rui stepped forward to greet Wang Husheng and said, "It's only a little time to be able to organize fellow villagers to help us repair fortifications." ”

"Where." Wang Husheng didn't dare to be greedy, shook his head and said, "Captain Xu, this is not my credit, the villagers are all here for your face." ”

These hundreds of folks are really coming to Xu Rui.

Because Xu Rui rescued the seventeen innocent people who were supposed to be immersed in the pig cage, and also arrested the three bullies Liu Heiqi, Hong Jiugong and Burning Lamp Daoren, the people in the town all applauded, and heard that the independent brigade was going to fight devils in Shaqiaogang, so they said that they would help fight devils.

As soon as Wang Husheng saw that the people's support was available, he immediately mobilized them to help repair the fortifications.

There are many people to do things, in just two hours, the front and rear two main trenches have been basically dug, and the depth of the trench is more than one meter two, plus the height of the soil is at least one meter five, and the local one meter seven, people can raise their guns to shoot while standing, without having to take a kneeling posture, which can greatly save physical strength.

After the main trench was repaired, there were foxholes and traffic trenches, but before the traffic trenches were repaired, billowing smoke and dust rose on the road ahead, and the devil arrived!

Seeing this scene, Xu Rui immediately threw down the hoe in his hand and asked Wang Husheng to organize the evacuation of the villagers, and then retreated to the defensive position of the second squadron with more than 20 students of the youth training team.

The hundreds of fellows refused to leave, and had to stay and help.

Many of them still came with firewood knives or firearms, and they showed their weapons at the moment, asking to enter the position to help the independent brigade fight against the devils, Xu Rui of course would not agree, but he couldn't bear to refuse their kindness, so he promised them to stay in the position of the second squadron and continue to build fortifications.

(Dividing Line)

"Stop!" Kameda Ichiro raised his right hand violently, and the motorcyclist sitting next to him quickly tightened the brakes, and the side three wheels, who were slowly moving forward, stopped with a creak.

Five other side three-wheelers and two trucks followed.

Behind, about three squadrons of devil infantry were following in the smoke, but there was still some distance between them.

Due to the shortage of transportation means for the Japanese army, trucks, motorcycles, and even animal-powered carts gave priority to supporting the front-line combat troops, so the means of transportation left for the garrisons in the occupied areas were extremely limited, and the Puxian gendarmerie only had two trucks plus six side three-wheelers, so only the artillery squad was qualified to ride, and the rest of the devils could only run to follow up.

Kameda Ichiro got up from the side fight, raised the telescope, and after the telescope was closer, he could clearly see that the road thousands of kilometers ahead had been dug up, and the squadron had spread horizontally along a small river that crossed the road, and had built a complete fortification.

"Baga Yalu, how can this be?"

Seeing this scene, Kameda Ichiro could only scold his mother.

Kameda Ichiro originally thought that even if it was really the regular army of the Nationalist Government that attacked Meizhen, this reinforcement of Meizhen would also be an extremely easy battle, because after the defense of Nanjing, the dozen or so divisions of the most elite **** have been basically wiped out, including the 87th Division, 88th Division, and 36th Division, which have always been known as the Yulin Army, as well as the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps.

After burying the most elite dozen main divisions, no matter how many **** troops remain, they are just a rabble.

However, the scene he saw in front of him changed Kameda Ichiro's opinion, not to mention the combat effectiveness, just from the perspective of the fortifications built by the other party, this is a rigorous army, especially when the other party can build such perfect fortifications in such a short period of time, it is especially not simple.

However, even so, Kameda is still confident of victory.

First of all, he brought a whole three brigades this time, and the squadron on the opposite side is more than 100 people at most, even if there is a hidden squadron in front, the number will not be much more, a basic judgment, since this squadron can carry weapons and baggage over Dameishan, how big can it be?

Kameda Ichiro immediately ordered: "Order, the artillery squad is deployed on the spot." ”

At the sound of the order, the devil artillerymen sitting in the two trucks got out of the trucks one after another, and then unloaded six 82mm mortars from the trucks and lined up on the side of the road.

The devil's artillery squad is generally equipped with 2 92 infantry guns or 4 mortars.

In this sortie, Kameda Ichiro deliberately strengthened the firepower of the artillery squad and increased the number of mortars by 2.

Since there was no observation of hot air balloons, the artillery observers could only take the most primitive thumb ranging method for ranging, and then guide the artillery to test S, and after correcting the trajectory according to the landing point of the test S, the artillery team immediately began to shoot ten rapid S! Suddenly, rows of shells slammed into the front positions with a squeaky screak.

Taking advantage of the short interval between the artillery preparations for artillery fire, about a small group of devil infantry has quietly touched up, and by the end of the shelling, this small group of devil infantry is only less than 100 meters away from the position of the first squadron.

As soon as the shelling stopped, more than 50 devils immediately picked up speed and pounced with bayonets.

Leng Tiefeng was the first to stand up from the trench, although the thick smoke of gunpowder made his eyes can't keep his eyes open, but he still found that the devil was approaching, immediately raised his gun and pulled the trigger, and killed the devil Jun Cao who rushed to the front with only one shot, and then shouted while pulling the bolt and retreating from the shell: "The devil is coming, brothers, hit me!" ”

Hearing Leng Tiefeng's order, the veterans who were hiding from the shelling in the trenches straightened up one after another, and with the pungent smoke of gunpowder, they aimed at the devils who were charging forward and fired fiercely.

Guarding the first line of defense was a small squadron of the 1st squadron.

The more than 50 officers and soldiers of a small squad are all veterans of a hundred battles, and their marksmanship is good, so in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen devils who charged forward fell, and at least half of them were killed, and the remaining 40 or so devils quickly lay down and lay on the ground to fight with the veterans of a small team.

If you think that's all a devil can do, you're wrong.

When the infantry attack was blocked, the fire support group immediately followed, and when it reached 500 meters away, the squadron of the little devil's heavy machine guns began to fire fiercely, and the hot bullets instantly poured like water on the position of the small group, and the two imitation Czech light machine guns of the first group were immediately suppressed.

And that's not all, and then the devil's two grenadier teams also arrived.

After only hearing two toms, two 50mm high-explosive grenades carried a squeaky scream, and after flying 500 meters, they accurately hit the main trench of a small group and exploded with a bang.