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Chapter 1151: Fierce Confrontation (4)

"Pass my order and call Brigade Commander Gong immediately!" Pang Bingxun suddenly raised his head and ordered loudly. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The herald left in response, Wan Fulin looked at the direction where Pang Bingxun's pen was staying, felt a little nervous in his heart, frowned slightly, and asked Pang Bingxun in a low voice:

"Brother Chen, are you worried about the defense of the Western Front?"

Pang Bingxun's expression was grim, he threw down the red and blue pencils, leaned back, nodded and said, "Yes!" The opponent's artillery regiment and three brigades appeared, but the armored regiment, which was said to have fierce fire and extremely strong impact, did not even see a shadow, and I was worried! ”

Chief of Staff Ma Fawu deliberately eased the solemn atmosphere in the air, and said with a smile: "Military seat, the terrain on the western front is undulating, hills are all over, and the narrow carriageway is difficult for nearly ten tons of armored vehicles to pass. According to our information, the armored assault regiment is equipped with the kind of armored vehicles that are wheeled, not tracked, so it is difficult to advance quickly in the rugged area of the road, even if they have the ability, but there is a small river on the western front, although this season is close to the dry period, but the small river flows all year round, and the shallowest Shengang ferry at this time is also more than two meters deep, and they are difficult to cross for a while. Even if the engineer battalion of the independent division is a well-known 'model battalion', they have not been able to build a simple bridge that can walk ten tons without a day and a half of construction time.

"Therefore, his subordinates can judge that Yang Guan, the commander of the independent division, is very likely to transfer his armored regiment to a certain key point in our defensive position on the Eastern Front and break through from the Eastern Front. It's just that the exercise has just begun, and it's night, so we haven't been able to find out for a while. ”

Wan Fulin looked at the map carefully, weighed it in his heart, and nodded slightly: "Brother Ma's judgment is very reasonable, so it seems that the junior brother's mentor has to work hard!" Adjutant Zhao—"

"Here!"

Wan Fulin decisively ordered his adjutant: "Immediately call Deputy Army Commander Huang Xiansheng and order him to speed up, enter the defensive position as quickly as possible, and if time permits, immediately lay a minefield, especially pay attention to the opponent's armored vehicles, and destroy as many passes and small bridges as possible in front of the position!" It's a big deal that we will repair it after the exercise, and we won't be able to delay the travel of people nearby. ”

"Yes!"

After a while, the dusty Miyagi rushed to the Red Joint Operations Command. Pang Bingxun grabbed his right hand to raise his salute and hurriedly pulled it to the map:

"Tell me, Chengzi, if you were to lead an engineer battalion, here, here, and here...... How long can you get the three easiest places to build bridges? ”

Miyagi stared at the three points along the Xiaoyu River on the western front, pondered for a long time, and replied loudly: "If you let your subordinates do it, it will take about ten hours, and the error will definitely not exceed one hour." But...... The independent division was founded by Commander An Yi, and the reason why the 'model battalion' is famous all over the world is that its excellent engineering skills are also an important aspect. As early as when Commander An Yi was at the Whampoa Military Academy, he became famous for his endless engineering technology creation and innovation, and his subordinates followed him back then and benefited a lot!

"Now that nine years have passed in the blink of an eye, the independent division has moved to the north and south, and there is no service or fight, the experience of the engineer unit is richer, and a large number of new products and new equipment have emerged in the military industrial enterprises of the Anjia Army, so it is difficult for the subordinates to make a correct judgment on the current level of the engineer unit of the independent division. If they really want to judge, their subordinates dare to assert that as long as they work on these three points, the time required should not exceed six hours, and it may even be shorter. ”

When the generals heard this, their faces became very heavy, and their feelings became complicated.

It will take no more than six hours, which means that before 10 o'clock tomorrow, the new 16 th Division, which has a good natural barrier, will engage the enemy, and with the strong combat effectiveness of the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Division, plus the impact of 54 armored vehicles, it will definitely be extremely difficult to hold on for three days.

Seeing that Pang Bingxun and other generals were silent, Miyagi was worried, thought about it for a while, and said stubbornly: "Military seat, although the south bank of the Xiaoyu River has natural excellent terrain, it may be the most neglected place in our defense...... If it really doesn't work, can you shrink it appropriately? ”

"Haha! Brigadier Gong also thinks too highly of the independent division, right? I don't think even if the Japanese army were there in person, they would not dare to launch a river crossing operation when we have the superior terrain...... That's right, I admit that in the plains, we can't beat the independent divisions armed to the teeth, and they can't be stronger than their cars, artillery and powerful firepower, but the Western Front is different, our army has been stationed in western Henan for several years, and is extremely familiar with the grass and trees along the Xiaoyu River, and no matter how powerful a brigade and that armored regiment of the independent division are, they can't easily cross this natural barrier without the means to cross the river!

"Brigade Commander Gong, you previously advocated that heavy troops be placed on the first front line to give the other side a dismount, but now you suggest that the Western Front shrink, isn't that throwing the initiative on the battlefield to the opponent in vain? If we retreat without a fight, how will the chairman of the committee and the generals of the various armies who are watching the battle view us? Not advisable, undesirable! ”

Ma Fawu shook his head and laughed, looking extremely disdainful.

The young Miyagi has been in the limelight too much recently, although he is brave and strategic, but he is promoted too quickly, and it will not be long before he threatens several veteran generals in the army, so Ma Fawu thinks that he must be properly beaten, otherwise where will his prestige go?

Miyagi closed his mouth in amusement. He knew that the 40th Army had been self-contained for many years, and he did not have an intuitive understanding of the strength of the independent division, and there was a certain fluke mentality, even if he was in a hurry, it was useless.

Pang Bingxun looked at Miyagi and then at Ma Fawu, he couldn't make up his mind in his heart, took a few steps and turned back again, took a deep breath, and finally made a decision:

"Ordered the new 17th Division, immediately increase the troops at each crossing, and it is the best choice to keep the enemy out! Otherwise, the battle line will be compressed by the enemy's entire front, and we will lose the space to turn around, and our destruction will only be overnight! ”

"Yes!"

Although Miyagi was disappointed in his heart, like everyone in the headquarters, he stood up and saluted and acted according to Pang Byungxun's latest decision.

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At four o'clock in the morning, the western front of the exercise area, Baizhuang.

Gunfire was loud and dense in the direction of the Shengang Ferry at 2.5 kilometers to the west and Xiaopangou 3 kilometers to the east, and the bright light of the flares that rose into the air from time to time illuminated the special service company of the 2nd Brigade and the brothers of the engineer battalion who had sneaked to Baizhuang clearly.

A group of lieutenant officers stood on the 16-meter-wide and four-meter-deep stone embankment, turned on the strong light in their hands, and kept shining on the surface of the river, starting to discuss.

In order to cover the construction of the engineer troops, the officers and men of the two main regiments of the New 2nd Brigade of the Independent Division are launching fierce attacks in the east and west directions on the north bank of the Xiaohe River, and they have successfully transferred a guard company of the New 17th Red Division on the opposite bank, and have also tightly entangled the main forces of the New 17th Division, thus successfully creating the false impression that the main forces of the Black side are attempting to force their way through the Shengang and Xiaopangou ferries.

Several tall men walked briskly past the gentle slope where the engineer brothers were leveling, and came behind a group of captains, and the big man in the middle asked in a low voice:

"Zhou Baoqing, the armored regiment has overcome many difficulties and has already driven to the north three kilometers to stop and wait, you haven't started to build a bridge yet?"

Zhou Baoqing, the commander of the engineer battalion of the new 2nd Brigade on the embankment, hurriedly turned around and came to the colonel Li Yongjia, who was sweating profusely:

"Report to the brigade, the survey has been completed, and the third company, with the assistance of the brothers of the special service company, has swam to the opposite bank and began to process the natural fixed foundation piles, and only need to level this section of the truck road on the north bank to carry out the construction of the bridge."

"Truck lane?"

Li Yongjia, the commander of the New Second Brigade, who was born in the special brigade of the independent division and had just returned from the special class of the Central Military Academy last autumn, was very surprised, stepped to the shore in a few steps, and took a strong light torch to inspect it in detail.

Seeing this, Zhou Baoqing hurriedly followed, shining a flashlight on the river and the opposite bank, explaining them one by one, and finally turned around and pointed to several transport trucks under the gentle slope fifty meters away, and made another statement in Li Yongjia's ear.

Li Yongjia was stunned, and excitedly punched Zhou Baoqing in the chest: "Baoqing, don't say two hours, that is, you build the bridge for Lao Tzu within four hours, and after the exercise, Lao Tzu will personally ask for credit to the division and military seats, and all the brothers in your engineer battalion!"

"Let it go, don't worry about those cars, the commando brigade directly under you has new cars, as long as you do the armored regiment a big favor, the grandson of Peng Wanjun of the armored regiment and their brigade commander Xiaowu, you have to give you a big gift to the engineer battalion, and any losses will be made up!"

Fifteen minutes later, Zhou Baoqing, who was wearing a helmet with his shirt open, stood on a boulder on the shore, raised the torch in his hand, and kept waving.

At the bottom of the gentle slope, a military truck with a load of five tons slowly started, drove up the section of the road that had just been leveled, and immediately roared and accelerated, rushing towards the embankment at high speed.

Under the worried gaze of hundreds of soldiers, the military truck rose into the air, drew an arc and rushed down the river, with a loud "boom", the truck smashed down, stirring up a high column of water and bursts of waves.

The engineer brothers on the other side immediately jumped into the river, swam to the truck, dragged the brave comrades out of the cab, and quickly sent them ashore, waiting for the health workers on the shore to immediately conduct a full body examination of the warriors who were stunned by the shock.

More sappers tied the truck with steel cables in the water, and after a few shouts, the winch on the shore began to "chirp" and turn.

"Good! Again—"

In the midst of the constant fierce exchange of fire, another truck did the same, but at a slower speed than the first, and rushed out of the embankment and plunged headlong into the river, and the hundreds of brothers on the shore and in the water were busy again.

Half an hour later, the two military wagons firmly towed on the riverbed were filled with boulders, and more than 100 sappers carried thick logs to the bridge, and the sound of hammers and chains was continuous.

At this time, the simple bridge with two military trucks as piers had begun to take shape under the desperate efforts of 500 sapper brothers.