It was also not an easy task to transport 300,000 troops from Poltava to Kiev, and this railway transport line did not stop, and the trains were transported one after another, and it took four days to complete the delivery.

Zhang Xiaozhun and others began work as soon as they arrived in Kyiv. At present, the front line of the confrontation between the German army and the Russian army is thirty kilometers east of Zhytomyr, if the German 11th Army arrives, then the Russian army will definitely not be able to hold on to Zhytomyr, and the Russian army can only retreat to Kiev, Zhang Xiaozhun decided to deploy a defensive line more than ten kilometers west of Kiev.

Most of the northwest of Kyiv is mountainous, and this area is relatively easy to defend, and only a small number of troops need to be deployed to defend against a large area of defense, while in the southwest of Vesnev, the terrain is flat and flat, and there is basically no danger to defend, so this area is the focus of defense.

Zhang Xiaozhun made this deployment at the military meeting: "I am going to set up three lines of defense for this defensive battle, the first is to establish a defense line in the three places west of Kiev City, Vesneve, Irpin, and Bucha, of which Irpin and Bucha are mountainous, and there are only a few transportation routes from the northwest, and the terrain is very dangerous and much easier to defend, while Vesneve is flat and it is more difficult to deploy defenses. The second line of defense is the city of Kiev west of the Dnieper River and outside the city, first dig a large number of trenches outside the city, build a perimeter defense outside the city, if the outer defense can not withstand it, all the troops will retreat to the city, and if even the city west of the Dnieper River can not be defended, then retreat to the city of Kiev east of the Dnieper River, with this Neper River is the best natural defense line, according to the importance of these three lines of defense and the difficulty of defense, the first line of defense invested 100,000 people. The second and third lines of defense each had 50,000 men, and the other 100,000 were in reserve. In case of a sudden situation or timely reinforcements, gentlemen. Who wants to take over the first line of defense? ”

As soon as Zhang Xiaozhun finished speaking, Wang Zhanyuan stood up and said: "Commander, let my Three Kingdoms Legion come, I am the oldest here, don't rob me, let me be an old man!" ”

Xu Shuzheng said dissatisfied: "Old General Wang, you're wrong, is it interesting to always rely on the old and sell the old?" You're going to grab everything from us, and we'll let you do it once or twice. It's just for the sake of seeing that you are an elder, but you are always like this, and you yourself feel embarrassed? I don't care, I won't let you this time, Commander, this first line of defense will be handed over to my Korean Legion, my Korean Legion has at least forty or fifty thousand people who have been formally trained by the Japanese, and the combat effectiveness of the two legions of General Wang Lao and General Chen is much stronger! ”

This immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of Wang Zhanyuan and Chen Shufan, and the two refuted one after another. This gave Zhang Xiaozhun a headache. He immediately stopped: "Okay, okay, the battle has to be fought, and even if you don't want to go, I will issue a military order here." I have to give you some unwillingness, I think so, the first line of defense is still handed over to General Wang's Three Kingdoms Army. The Nepalese Army and the Bhutanese Army, which are stationed in the mountainous areas of Irpin and Bucha, respectively, are smaller in number. However, they themselves are all born in the mountains, and they are more familiar with mountain warfare. Let the Japanese surrender troops to defend Visneve! The Korean Corps was stationed in the city of Kiev west of the Dnieper, and the Vietnamese Corps was deployed in the city of Kiev east of the Dnieper".

Wang Zhanyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and Xu Shuzheng and Chen Shufan could only sigh when they heard this, and silently accepted Zhang Xiaozhun's arrangement.

Zhang Xiaozhun asked: "General Wang, how many Nepalese are there in your Three Kingdoms Army?" How many Gurkha are there? ”

"There are 15,000 Nepalese in total, and they really can't recruit people, and this is already all the troops in Nepal! In addition, there are 3,000 Gurkhas, all of whom used to be mercenaries for the British, and after the British withdrew from Southeast Asia, according to the agreement between us, these Gurkha soldiers also returned to us."

Zhang Xiaozhun thought for a while and said: "That's it, General Wang, these 3,000 Gurkha people are organized into a separate regiment, called the Gurkha Corps to the outside world, what kind of treatment did they give to the British in the past, we will give them half of the treatment, these Nepalese are not ordinary, they are the best soldiers of the mountain troops, the best soldiers of mercenaries!" ”

Wang Zhanyuan didn't understand why Zhang Xiaozhun did this, but he still agreed: "Okay, Commander of the Legion!" ”

In another time and space, the Gurkha Mercenary Regiment is one of the three most famous mercenary groups in the world, the other two being the Spanish Foreign Legion and the Cossack Mercenaries. To join the Spanish Foreign Legion, a foreigner needs to apply to a Spanish embassy abroad. After joining the army, applicants will undergo very rigorous training, and there are even reports that the regiment uses real guns and ammunition during training, and the Spanish youth are proud to join the regiment. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cossacks living on the Don River, Central Asia and the Far East have once again become a sought-after source of mercenaries in the CIS and throughout the world. 90 Cossack paratroopers and 2,500 rebels fought fiercely for three days in Chechnya. In the end, at the cost of only 6 survivors, 400 enemies were annihilated.

Gurkha mercenaries are completely different, they have a long history. In the early 19th century, when the British invaded Nepal, they found that the Gurkha people were loyal and warlike, and recruited these hill people to form a colonial army. They are not tall, but they are very fierce, and it is said that their dogleg scimitars will see blood when they are unsheathed. They are the best professional mercenaries in the world, and most of them have been soldiers for generations, and in order to keep their jobs, they generally obey and blindly obey. It is said that he will not act without an order, and he will not even eat for several days. They are usually silent, but once they lose their temper, they are like a volcano erupting, desperate for life and death. The Gurkhas, a people of unresponsive and apathetic feelings, made them outstanding soldiers, able to handle themselves with composure and composure in the heat of battle, and the bay knives they carried with them became their signature equipment.

For a week, the Second Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force arranged three directions in Kiev and west of Kiev, and the surrounding terrain, urban buildings, rivers, and lakes were all used by Zhang Xiaozhun and others.

Wang Zhanyuan commanded more than 70,000 Japanese troops to dig a large number of trenches in Visneve, and these Japanese soldiers were very cooperative in order to show themselves in front of the Chinese. According to Zhang Xiaozhun's instructions, Wang Zhanyuan fed and drank them at every meal, and distributed all the equipment and materials transported by Tsarist Russia and the British to them, which made these Japanese soldiers very moved, and they thought that if they did not die, it would not be enough to repay the sincerity of Hua.

In Yirpin and Bucha, the Nepalese Corps and the Bhutanese Corps, under the command of Wang Zhanyuan and other generals, hollowed out many nearby hills for more than ten days, and they combined all the tunnels dug inside these hills to support each other when the Germans attacked, and at the same time they also wanted to pull a large number of artillery up to the top of the hill to build a hidden artillery position. Artillery was dragged out of the tunnel when it was necessary to fire, and into the tunnel if it was not necessary to fire, and there was no way for the enemy artillery and aircraft to bomb it, and these artillery positions could only be eliminated by forcing the infantry up the hill.

In addition, under the command of the Chinese officers, the Nepalese Corps and the Bhutanese Corps cleaned up the fronts of the defensive lines facing the Germans, and cleaned up the bunkers that were easy for the Germans to hide.

Under the command of Xu Shuzheng, North Korean officers and soldiers planned the streets and alleys of the entire western city of Kyiv, using the city's underground drainage system to connect every area, and even connecting many houses, monitoring every street and alley, and deploying defensive fire points at key and dangerous points.

When the Chinese army explained that this was to prepare for street fighting, the commanders of the Tsarist army suddenly realized that they gave a thumbs up to express their appreciation and admiration, and in their opinion they could come up with a method of using various buildings and underground drainage systems in the city to carry out urban defense operations, which in itself was a very great military discovery.

In just ten days, the Second Army of the Chinese Army used the existing terrain, rivers, lakes, mountains, various buildings and facilities in the city, and a large number of military supplies to build the entire Kyiv into a solid defensive fortress, and this fortress is not the kind of fortress that will collapse if it is attacked inside, even if it is attacked inside, since this fortress has a strong defensive capability, it can devour a large number of human lives like a devouring beast.

Zhang Xiaozhun and others have studied how to defend in street fighting, and have long expected the cruelty of street fighting, so he asked the logistics department to equip each tall soldier with a machete, which can be used in white-knuckle combat, so that short-stated soldiers can use bayonets when engaging in white-knuckle combat.

In order to treat everyone equally, Zhang Xiaozhun did not let the two armies and one cavalry division of Tsarist Russia sit idle, he ordered the Tsarist Russian cavalry division to move in the southwest direction, and operated in the area around the edge of the southwestern front, waiting for an opportunity to penetrate behind the approaching German 11th Army, destroy their supply lines, and destroy their supplies. At the same time, Zhang Xiaozhun also ordered the two infantry corps of Tsarist Russia to serve as Wang Zhanyuan's reserve troops, and once Wang Zhanyuan's men and horses could not withstand it, they would replace it with Tsarist Russian troops, in short, do their best to prevent the German 11th Army from entering Kiev. (To be continued......)