In less than an hour and a half, the convoy escorting the American negotiating mission arrived at the core camp of the expeditionary force, which was quite rapid in terms of time, after all, the road conditions were not good.

After arriving at the main camp of the expeditionary force, Pu Anchen no longer continued to chat with the white interpreter to obtain the so-called information, but concentrated on the situation near the camp, which made Pu Anchen secretly frightened.

After the previous seven-day bloody battle, although Li Yongji implemented the policy of continuing to stay, for his own safety, he made a series of corresponding arrangements, in addition to rectifying military discipline, he also greatly strengthened the defensive measures of the camp, which can be said to be painstaking.

At this time, the main camp of the expeditionary force in Smithland, although there were still no permanent fortifications, there was a post at five paces and a sentry at ten paces, and there were trenches and fences and barbed wire everywhere.

The entire base, the defense center is still the small hill and high ground, on the small hill, a ring of brick and wood mixed city walls have been built, and a number of brick and wood mixed three-story watchtowers have been built, forming a veritable pillbox.

With this bunker as the center, there are five circles of criss-cross trench positions from the inside to the outside, not only the area of the trench has been greatly expanded, but between each layer of trench, there are also wooden fences and barbed wire, and pedestrians can only pass through the special passage to quickly pass through guò.

Between the passages, there is a small blockhouse gate of the watchtower type of a mixed brick and wood cross-point, each of which is three stories high, and on which are erected at least two W95 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, four 7.62 mm Type 56 light machine guns, and at least one QLZ87 automatic grenade launcher, plus a large number of 56 submachine guns, are completely a ferocious fire jet point.

In fact, most of these support point fortresses were original facilities, but before the Battle of the Seven Days, the firepower was not so frenzied. There are at most two light machine guns and two Type 69-1 rocket launchers at a support point, mainly relying on the 56 submachine guns of ordinary soldiers, and before they were put into battle, the main role here was not so much a pillbox as a soldier's rest place and canteen.

In the Battle of the Seven Days, these support point fortresses played an important role in covering, so that even if the defense line was breached, these 360-degree pillboxes with shooting holes effectively preserved the life of the defenders, not only the lives of many defenders. They also continued to kill and wound a large number of surrounding enemy troops, providing a reliable guarantee for counterattacks.

Of course, these support point fortresses are not impregnable, the reason why they were not conquered by the US army at the beginning is just that the US military at that time did not want to waste time in these small pillboxes, and rushed violently to the point that if the US troops really made up their minds to fight one by one, these small pillboxes could not survive at all, and this also reflected a problem. That is, the firepower of these small bunkers is not enough.

In order to solve this problem, Li Yongji later not only built additional support point forts, but also strengthened the armament capacity of support point forts, and each pillbox increased the number of 56 light machine guns at the same time. A 12.7 mm heavy machine gun was also added, and the flashy bazooka was removed in favor of a sharper and more reliable QLZ87 35mm automatic grenade launcher.

The reason for the removal of the bazooka is that according to the results of actual combat. Due to the lack of heavy firepower of the U.S. military, it is unable to inflict substantial hard damage on the pillboxes, and generally relies on the crowd mode to attack. Then in this case, what is needed is a more efficient infantry that kills the enemy, and not a bazooka with extremely poor accuracy, insufficient power, and a short firing range.

According to calculations, as long as a bunker has two heavy machine guns, four light machine guns, plus 35mm grenade launchers, and a group of at least thirty soldiers armed with 56 submachine guns, then with sufficient ammunition, it can fully cope with the wave of American troops rushing during the previous Seven Days War.

In other words, even if there is another one-time battle of the seven-day battle, the support point bunker can ensure that under the condition of sufficient ammunition, it can hold on to it, and ensure that the sea of people will not succeed in the tactical capture, even if it is directly bombarded by a solid 12-pounder gun, it is not afraid at all.

Then, from these support point pillboxes as points, criss-crossing trenches and dark forts as lines, plus a large number of barbed wire and wooden fences between the trenches, a three-dimensional defense system like a spider web is formed.

This defense system consists of a total of five circles of trenches, between which are covered with three-storey support bunkers and half-man-high bunkers, and the periphery of the trenches and between the trenches and the trenches are covered with wooden fences and barbed wire, and the core is a large brick and concrete bunker, coupled with the fire support of the task force in the direction of the port berths, Li Yongji believes that even if there is another seven-day battle, even if the number of the other side is doubled, it will not be a problem.

Of course, due to the problem of the number of defenders, this five-layer defense system, in fact, only the core three-layer trench is the real defense center, and it is also the place with the most people, as for the outer two circles of trench positions, there are not many defenders, and there are no pillboxes, more of a lag effect.

In other words, the purpose of the outermost two circles of trench positions is to delay the enemy's attack from a distance, so that your own long-range firepower can play a more effective role.

Based on this concept, there are not many soldiers in the outermost two circles of trench positions, and the number of vertical and horizontal parts of the trench is relatively small, but the ground is swamped, that is to say, between the two trenches and outside the outermost trench, artificial water is drawn in, and two swamps are dug out, which are also covered with fences and barbed wire, and even anti-infantry mines are planted in the swamp in a frenzy, and a large swamp minefield is set up!

Especially on both sides of the port, in view of the experience of previous sneak attacks, not only have they strengthened patrols on the river, but even on both sides of the port, a swamp minefield has been set up, and many watchtowers have been built in the rear, and the shelling points have been marked in front to ensure that they will never be attacked again.

All in all, the main camp of the Smithland Expeditionary Force at this moment has truly become a modern defensive position, full of bunkers, trenches and barbed wire, plus gun-wielding soldiers patrolling back and forth, you can make your eyelids jump at a glance from a distance.

This is the feeling of Pu Anchen now, although it is the first time he has seen this type of position, and he has not seen any large fortress-like fortresses with impact, but just looking at the dense barbed wire and wooden fences, as well as those trenches and small watchtowers, he knows it. It's definitely an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.

Along the way, the convoy stopped and stopped, passing through five checkpoints in a row, each of which was carefully inspected by a large number of heavily armed soldiers.

During the inspection, Pu Anchen keenly discovered that although these Chinese soldiers did not speak much and were not tall, their fierce spirit was overflowing, and their actions were capable and experienced.

After careful observation. Pu discovered that the soldiers were indeed talking to the translator, Jason. Thomson said that almost everyone had a submachine gun that could fire continuously, even the officers.

In addition, when passing by those watchtowers, Pu Anchen also saw many more fierce heavy machine guns, although he didn't know how these heavy machine guns were better than submachine guns, but when he saw the long bullet chain and the thick and long bullets with yellow, orange and orange on it, he knew that these things were absolutely powerful.

However, although secretly frightened. But Pu Anchen is a scheming person after all, so he is still quiet on the surface, as if he doesn't care about any of this, but secretly lets his deputy ask questions frequently. Extract information from the translator named Jason.

I don't know if it's intentional or if I really don't care, the translator named Jason almost always answers questions, has no sense of secrecy at all, and not only explains the names and uses of those weapons in detail. Even the tactics of the expeditionary force were described in detail.

For example, the rate of fire and the power of heavy machine guns, and the power of those grenade launchers, etc., Jason. Thomson answered them all. Even the pistols on those soldiers, as well as their usual tactics, were briefly introduced.

At this introduction, Pu Anchen not only did not feel the slightest joy, but his mood was even more depressed.

Because according to that Jason. Thomson said that although this unit could not have a Type 56 submachine gun that could fire repeatedly, at least eighty percent of the soldiers were equipped with it, and each of them had at least one Type 92 semi-automatic repeating pistol.

As for the combat methods of the expeditionary force, it is easy to say, that is, if it is far away, it will be bombarded with artillery, if it is close, it will be strafed with heavy machine guns, if it is close, it will be strafed with light machine guns, and if it continues to get closer, it will be a submachine gun and a grenade launcher.

If the enemy can still rush in under such strong firepower and is really forced into hand-to-hand combat, then Chinese soldiers will generally use their Type 92 semi-automatic pistols to meet the battle, the caliber of this pistol is 9 mm, and a single load can fire up to 15 rounds in a row, but it is usually loaded with 12 rounds, with these, it is guaranteed that it can be invincible in hand-to-hand combat.

That is to say, according to Jason, the Chinese have long abandoned the method of bayonet hand-to-hand combat, but fully adopted the long, medium and near fire projection tactics, plus sufficient ammunition and hard training, although the soldiers here dare not say that everyone is a sharpshooter, but under the intensive firepower, the lethality is still very strong.

Although they also have bayonet training courses, but more for the sake of exercising courage, there is basically no opportunity to play bayonet charge in actual combat, in fact, under normal circumstances, that is, when the artillery support is complete, the enemy will not be able to fight them hand-to-hand at all, because at most they will rush to about 30 meters, and they will collapse.

Jason not only said this, but he also took out his own small notebook, wrote and drew on it with a ballpoint pen, and explained the basic tactics of the Chinese with a more vivid explanation, so that Pu Anchen and the adjutant Peter Pan could understand.

"Your stepped firepower coverage tactics from far and near look pretty good." Peter Pan quickly looked dismissive, "But with this tactic, how much ammunition do you have to consume in one battle?" Do you have that much ammo to consume? ”

"You don't have to worry about that." Jason. Thomson smiled, "Since the war with you Americans, the expeditionary force has never worried about running out of ammunition in all the battles. If nothing else, let's talk about the previous Seven Days War, the guns of the expeditionary force did not stop, and even many of their gun barrels were damaged by red shots, but they immediately got new barrels or guns. ”

"With such a strong ammunition consumption, can your transportation capacity support it?" Peter Panway.

"I'm not a logistics officer, I don't know much about this." Jason. Thomson shrugged his shoulders, "But I suppose that with the Mississippi River and the Ohio River, plus the course of these two rivers, is there still a problem with the transportation of ammunition?" ”

At this point, the vehicle suddenly stopped, and it turned out that their convoy had gone through layers of inspections, and finally arrived at the core fortress, which was considered to have truly entered the core area.

After that, Pu Anchen and his entourage got out of the car and, led by two senior officers, were ushered into a delicate and beautiful mobile villa.

This mobile villa is where Li Yongji usually lives and lives, and it is also the core headquarters of the entire military base, but at this time, Li Yongji is still inspecting outside, to be precise, he is secretly trading time and space, and transporting wood to Zhang Xinda.

Therefore, Li Yongji was unable to meet with Pu Anchen and his party for the time being because of something, but asked Soho to entertain them temporarily. Thomson continued to act as an accompanying interpreter.

At this time, Soho wore a light yellow modern Chinese-style one-piece floor-length dress, her face was painted with light makeup, and her hair was combed with a classic peony head, giving people a sense of ability and dignity.

Soho's public identity is the secretary general of the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, so he also has the right to be responsible for receiving diplomats such as Pu Anchen, but Pu Anchen still keenly feels that this woman is not simple, I am afraid that it is not just the secretary-general of the commander.

It is not difficult to guess that this place is the commander's living quarters, and a woman can come and go here so casually, and she also shows the attitude of a hostess, and the relationship with the commander is definitely not the same; Second, just look at that Jason's attitude, this Jason. Although Thomson was neither humble nor arrogant to Pu Anchen and others along the way, he actually always had a faint sense of superiority, and it can be seen that this woman, this Jason is immediately a head shorter, and he is obviously very afraid of this woman.

Therefore, Pu Anchen immediately speculated that this woman was the mistress of the commander nine times out of ten, and she was the mistress of great power, and she could even directly affect the commander's decision-making, otherwise, he would not have let this woman receive him.

After understanding this, Pu Anchen woke up and did not dare to have the slightest contempt for this woman named Su.

Because Pu Anchen understands that for a man, the power of the pillow wind is very strong, so although he has not seen the commander-in-chief now, but from the moment he saw this woman, he has actually officially entered the negotiation stage with the Chinese, and the so-called details determine success or failure, and he naturally cannot deal with it carelessly. (To be continued......)