Northwest of Baotou, on an unknown hill, it is very remote, far away from the Yellow River, and it is not a traffic artery, there are no villages, few people come, it is a small secluded corner. Hundreds of soldiers of the New Army are nervously building positions, which is proposed by Yang Yuanzhao, a new method of warfare, a combination of barbed wire and trenches.

The trenches are slightly different from the previous ones, they are more wide, the front is wide, the rear is narrow, one layer is connected to the other, as long as the first layer of trenches is in crisis, you can quickly push from the passage to another layer of trenches, and you don't have to worry about someone directly passing the guò attack, after all, with one or two machine guns to protect you, no one will be sent to death like this. What's even more different is that in front of the trench, 50 meters to 250 meters, a large number of wooden sticks are erected, each about the thickness of a small arm, about one meter eight to two meters high, which looks disorderly arranged in front of the trench, making the front of the trench become a sea of wooden sticks.

Doesn't it mean that when you are fighting, you have to clear the shooting boundary, and the general shelter will be removed, and these wooden sticks are not capable of protecting others, but they don't look very comfortable.

"It's all set up, right?" Yang Yuanzhao glanced at Wang Jinming.

Wang Jinming nodded, so that hundreds of people spent a lot of time, this trench was built, earthwork, this has always been the place of the Baotou New Army, the era of hot weapons, with the trench combat method, and the previous way of queuing to shoot, there is a huge difference, more intense, the number of unit bullets to kill the opponent, will be larger and larger, this trench built after Yang Yuanzhao's slight guidance, in Wang Jinming's view, is perfect, the special sapper shovel is easy to dig out of the trench, with defense, He could use one-third of his number to fight the enemy, but the wooden sticks in front of him, he couldn't understand what they were for.

"Let's get started!" Yang Yuanzhao waved his hand, more than a dozen craftsmen, from the car moved down a roll of wire, this is formed in the all-in-one machine, not smooth, is a tactical wire with a lot of barbs and peaks, with the help of special tools, soon, on the wooden strip wound up and down more than a dozen ways, the distance between each wire, will not exceed 20 centimeters, from top to bottom, can not enter at all.

Special tools, one by one wooden sticks were wrapped down, and it took less than an hour for a dozen or so people to build more than a dozen lines of defense and protect the entire position.

Wang Jinming is old in the army, no matter what Yang Yuanzhao said before, he didn't understand why Yang Yuanzhao had so much confidence, just relying on hundreds of elite soldiers, he could withstand the impact of tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands of horse bandits, but after seeing these barbed wire, he somewhat understood, there is such a big killer in feelings, ordinary barbed wire and wooden sticks, after combining with each other, a relatively stable battle line has been formed. It has become a killer weapon to block their advance, and the most important thing is that the barbed wire does not block the guns at all, whether it is a rifle or a Maxim, they can strafe them on the position, as long as they do not break through the barbed wire, these people are targets.

"Where's the empty space!" Yang Yuanzhao saw the workers, about to close the barbed wire, and hurriedly pointed out, this only two meters wide opening, is specially set aside, Wang Jinming didn't understand at first, tilted his head and thought for a while, soon he understood the meaning of doing this, don't look at only two meters, on the battlefield, can accommodate a horse rushing over, but a Makqin, just fall here, can easily resist it, this is not a gap, it is a road with death, especially because the barbed wire fence blocks the road, The horses will automatically come towards this gap, and you can imagine what it will be like once the battle starts, more and more horse bandits will advance through the narrow passage.

"By the way, in your war room, there is an overall sand table in Baotou!"

"Yes!" Wang Jinming nodded and said.

"Then let's go to your war room and let your people study this barbed wire fence to the maximum extent possible to kill and protect!"

"Yes!" Wang Jinming said, immediately issued an order, the new army was established, at present, part of the entire Yellow River patrol battalion, plus 3000 militia groups, will be merged into the new army, in the name of Taiyuan training, to Taiyuan, by the way, will be in this Shanxi and Mongolia, recruit a group of soldiers, since the center so generously approved a mixed association, Yang Yuanzhao is also ready to completely set up this mixed association, not an association and two standards of ordinary troops, is a association of four standards, each standard will be slightly overnumbered, The number of people will be between 3,000 and 3,500 people, so that the entire 54 mixed association can form a large force between 12,000 and 14,000 people, which is not about the same as the town in Beiyang.

In the war room, Wang Jinming found out the sand table in Baotou, the sand table is something that the militia has always paid more attention to, with the sand table visual observation, can help the staff officers to formulate a more detailed battle plan, Baotou is of course the earliest system, but almost every day, Baotou has new buildings built, often built sand table, will also increase or decrease some things, this is already the latest sand table.

Yang Yuanzhao nodded, this sand table is good, it is obvious that Wang Jinming is attentive, and almost all the buildings in Baotou are on the sand table.

"This, this, this!" Yang Yuanzhao pointed to the buildings on the sand table for roll call, all of them are relatively tall buildings, and they are separate, which looks very distinctive.

If it is said that it is not named, I am afraid that Wang Jinming will not understand anything at all, such a little name, he will immediately see what kind of building this is, is it clearly a turret!

It's almost 15 meters high, big at the bottom, small at the top, some like a chimney, he remembers that there was one in the New Army barracks, the gate was locked, and no one entered, and he was still curious about what it was for.

"That's right, it's the turret!" Yang Yuanzhao in advance, in Baotou planning, built a number of turrets, with the gradual expansion of Baotou, the number of turrets is also increasing, counting, at least more than 100, of course, many turrets at this time, has not much effect, after all, the expansion of Baotou is in progress, and even around Baotou, there are turrets can not protect the place to live.

"These turrets are already there, I have calculated, now to the beginning of May, there are still about 20 days, I will let Qian Hu's construction company, lean in this direction, you see, how many turrets need to be arranged, although the cement may not be dry, but the horse bandits do not have anything to attack, the basic protection is on the line, as for the wooden sticks and barbed wire, I will send additional manpower, it is estimated that around Baotou a circle, that is, a day or two of effort, it will be out."

The turret plus barbed wire, how Wang Jinming didn't understand what Yang Yuanzhao meant, is to achieve the ultimate protection, these things, even in the army battle, mutual defense, will play a very big role, not to mention dealing with horse bandits, tens of thousands of horse bandits are just strong mobility, strong impact, but the ability to attack fortifications, a certain amount of Cheng dù above, is not strong at all, some just rely on the carriage to build a barracks, they are more difficult to fight, not to mention the combination of turrets and barbed wire, he believes a little at this time, Yang Yuanzhao had made comprehensive considerations, leaving hundreds of well-trained soldiers and workers among the militia, which could definitely withstand tens of thousands of horse bandits, and then arranged, it would be no problem to severely damage them.

"By the way, someone sent it out, right?" Yang Yuanzhao suddenly thought of something and asked.

"Sent out!" Wang Jinming nodded and said, this is something that was planned before, from the bright side, 54 mixed into the association, after the approval of the center, it will be established in a high-profile manner, and then the 3000 militia and part of the Yellow River patrol battalion will be moved, of course, the protection on the highway still has to be done, before the establishment of the toll station, the needs of the war were considered, they were all reinforced concrete structures, and some barricades could be built a little bit, and the forts that were not used were also used, They may use the appearance of hundreds of people, and the rest will really go to Taiyuan to train, and do an armed parade by the way.

As for this side, someone needs to connect the bandits over, at least let them know that Baotou is extremely empty now, and there is still a lot of property, and there is no wealth to move people's hearts, how can there be horse bandits rushing up one after another?

The candidates are easy to find, whether it is the Baotou militia group, the Yellow River patrol battalion, there are some people who have been converted from the bandits, they are instructed, through the previous channels, to report the current situation in Baotou, I believe that the amount of 50 million funds, will definitely attract a lot of bandits, as long as the large number of bandits are killed, the rest, it is really not to worry.

Of course, these reporters will not let him grasp the current defense situation in Baotou, after all, these bandit-born soldiers, although they have received strict training, but human nature is difficult to grasp, sending them out is also a test, those who stayed in Baotou are all brought from the northeast, with innocent family backgrounds, and even before were soldiers of Baotou people.

There is no fortress that can never be breached, some large cities with super protection, in the era of cold weapons, it is almost impossible to be breached, but they are often breached, among them, negligence and internal ghosts, is the most, the transfer of 3000 new troops, on the one hand, is to attract horse bandits to attack, on the other hand, it is not a defense, Yang Yuanzhao has poured too much effort into Baotou, of course, he will not be casual, let the hard work be in vain, even if it is dangerous, it will be foolproof first. R1152