Throughout the afternoon, the soldiers of the three armies, under the command of officers of all ranks, built fortifications on the West Mountain.

The vast majority of the soldiers of the Chinese Revolutionary Army have repaired the earth, and with the sapper shovels, pickaxes and other artifacts produced by the Xie Group, everyone is doing more and more easily, and they can't stop if they want to.

The former farmers, who were accustomed to poor farm tools, were full of praise for the new tools made of stainless steel in their hands, and they all thought about how to grow vegetables.

"This sapper shovel and pickaxe are so good, I've been digging for so long, and I don't even have a gap."

"When you want to go home, you have a plow made of steel, and you don't need oxen, and people can pull it."

Xie Niancheng patrolled various places, and all he heard was about the same conversation, and no one was the slightest worried about the upcoming bloody battle.

This is also normal, these soldiers have not experienced real cruel warfare, how can they think of what awaits them?

Seeing Xie Niancheng beside him, a brave soldier waved a sapper shovel and asked him: "Battalion commander, the revolution has succeeded, can we use such a hoe made of steel when we go home to farm?" ”

His squad leader laughed and scolded: "That's all you need? ”

The squad leader's eyes told Xie Niancheng, and the squad leader also wanted to know the answer to this question.

Xie Niancheng looked at these simple soldiers, and he didn't know how many of them could see the day when the revolution was victorious, no matter what, it is always good for people to have hope.

Xie Niancheng walked on a big rock, "Comrades, your vision is still a little short-sighted, I tell you, the revolution has succeeded, and the land is planted with machines, and when the time comes, there will be tractors to plow the land, seeders to sow seeds, water pipes to water the ground, and airplanes to sprinkle insecticides...... What kind of scythe and hoe do you use? ”

Tractors, seeders, airplanes?

These fresh terms came out of Xie Niancheng's mouth and entered the ears of the soldiers, which was extremely convincing.

Yellowstone raised his pickaxe: "Brothers! For the tractor, for the plane, come on. ”

"Whew-"

Stone and earth were as obedient as plasticine in front of the soldiers' sapper shovels and pickaxes, and the fortifications took shape quickly.

The chief designer of the entire Xishan defensive position was Xu Geng, who had the most research on firepower, and the chief engineer was Wu Yongde, who was evaluated as a "genius engineer" by a German engineer instructor.

In Xu Geng's vision, the core position was on the top of the mountain, consisting of three long trenches, with heavy machine-gun fire points every twenty meters, and the fire points were covered with more than a meter of mud.

The 80 mortar position was set up on the anti-slope plane, and the artillery observation post was in the core position.

In addition to the core position, Xu Geng also designed more than 60 bunkers and more than 30 shelters, which are the same as the firepower points of the core positions, with wood as the top and covered with a meter of soil, each bunker has four shooting holes, ammunition is stacked in the shelter, and ten people can hide, all the bunkers and shelters are connected by traffic ditches, and personnel can move at any time.

If the enemy who comes to attack does not have enough artillery fire, if you want to capture it, you can only rely on human lives to fill it.

Chen Qin's artillery battalion had more than 200 people, and there were only six guns, so his artillery position was the first to be completed.

"Battalion Commander Xie, our fortifications have been repaired, where there is a shortage of people, we will go over and help." Chen Qin found Xie Niancheng.

Xie Niancheng said: "Battalion Commander Chen, whether we can hold Xishan depends on whether you can suppress the opponent's artillery, our mortar range is not as far as the mountain artillery, if your six cannons can destroy the opponent's mountain artillery, it will be great." ”

Chen Qin pointed to the artillery position that was quietly placed in the shelter and only stretched out the barrel outside: "Don't worry, we are condescending and have a complete position, if this can't kill them, is it still artillery?" ”

Xie Niancheng nodded: "In short, after the fight, you can leave their infantry alone, just be responsible for knocking out their artillery." You let the brothers rest first, and after dinner, you can also help carry the ammunition. ”

"What? There is ammunition. ”

Zhang Linfu, who was not far away, came over and asked, "Brother Xie, can you allocate some ammunition to us?" ”

Zhang Linfu naturally knew how cruel the future war would be, so he did not have the slightest politeness.

The second regiment and the first battalion are responsible for night attacks, but their weapons are really not suitable for night attacks, Xie Niancheng has already considered this: "Brother Lin Fu, you risk death to attack at night, you can't just use rifles, I decided to exchange all the flower traps in our battalion for you to use, the supplies at night are coming, if there are still flower traps, they will be given to you, how many bullets you want, how many bullets." ”

"Good, good, good."

Zhang Linfu was overjoyed, the role that the flower machine could play in the night battle was much greater than that of a rifle.

"Brother Lin Fu, you choose a hundred brothers to come out and go to Chief of Staff Huang, first familiarize yourself with the guns."

Zhang Linfu rushed away.

Chen Qin was very emotional when he saw this scene: "Nian Cheng, this time, if I can survive, I must recognize you and Head Zhang as brothers." ”

Xie Niancheng smiled: "If we can stand here together now, aren't we already brothers?" ”

The latest report of the reconnaissance platoon, which kept going back and forth between Xishan and the north, showed that the enemy troops from the direction of Huizhou were about 20,000 miles north and numbered between 20,000 and 30,000.

This information shows that the enemy's attack will not be launched until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.

After receiving this information, Xie Niancheng decided to let the troops rest in shifts.

After dinner, the first group of transport teams consisting of more than 600 people, all livestock, and large and small vehicles set off under the personal leadership of Xie Niancheng.

Zhang Linfu, who was anxious to get more flower organs, also followed.

"Brother Xie, where did you get this supply from?"

Xie Niancheng smiled and pointed to the southeast.

Zhang Linfu suddenly realized, "The soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first, Brother Xie, you are a new soldier, you can compare to us old soldiers." ”

After seven o'clock, before it was completely dark, the troops arrived at the beach, and saw several small steamers parked on the beach from a distance, and a few big characters on the bow of the ship were faintly visible: "Guangzhou anti-smuggling." ”

When the convoy arrived at the beach, they saw a small speedboat coming through the waves, and it was the water ghost and Xana.

"Brother Cheng, you're here, everything is on the boat." The water ghost reported to Xie Niancheng that the three boats were a total of 300 tons of cargo.

Xie Niancheng nodded: "Okay!" The people I brought can transport about 50 tons in one trip, and a group of people will come in the evening, and another 50 tons will be transported, so let's start. ”

"Yes!"

The water ghost took out a red flag and waved it to the side of the boat, and the three small steamers slowly sailed towards the beach, in order to save time, the boat ran aground directly, so that it was easy to unload the grain and ammunition.

This is something that Xie Niancheng had planned before he sent out the troops, he explained to the water ghosts, prepared supplies, and let the boat follow the speed of the troops' advance, all the time in the near sea, so that supplies could be carried out at any time.

The water ghost, Su Wei, and Zhang Linfu began to organize the transportation, and Xia Na pulled Xie Niancheng aside.

Compared with last year, Xana's whole person looks a lot more mature. But what Xie Niancheng didn't understand was that her skin was still so white when she was basking in the sun and blowing the sea breeze every day.

When I went to a place with few people with Xia Na, Xie Niancheng asked, "Xia Na, do you have anything to say?" ”

Xia Na said: "Big brother, I also want to fight, I'll follow you later." ”

Xie Niancheng knows that the red-haired Xia Na is also like fire in her heart, and now everyone in the entire South China Sea who is begging for a living at sea knows the name of "red-haired witch".

"It's not that Big Brother won't let you fight, it's just that this is a battle between regular troops, and it's not suitable for you to go to war."

"Even if it's not suitable, then I'll follow you."

Among all the sisters of the Xie family, Xia Na has the least communication with Xie Niancheng. But her affectionate and righteous temperament does not allow her to be a spectator at such a moment.

Xie Niancheng was a little moved, and Zhang Linfu's voice came from afar: "Director Su, is there a flower organ?" Are there grenades? If you have one, please decorate it a little more, and lend it to my troop envoys. ”

The water ghost replied to Zhang Linfu: "Sir, the grenade tube is enough, and we haven't prepared the flower mechanism, but we have brought some with us, adding up to more than 20 handfuls, so if you want to use them, take them." ”

Su Wei explained to the water ghost, and Zhang Linfu gave whatever he wanted.

Zhang Linfu nodded, with seventy or eighty flower traps and a sufficient number of grenades, the target of his night attack could change from killing and disrupting the enemy to directly knocking out the opponent's headquarters!

After Xie Niancheng heard the conversation over there, he was inspired, the people led by Xia Na can't fight in a regular position, so it's very appropriate to engage in a night attack: "Xia Na, how many people are there under you and the water ghost now?" ”

"There are more than 300 people who can shoot and fight."

More than 300 people? Xie Niancheng thought about it, and it seemed that there was a little less.

Xia Na's next words made Xie Niancheng feel a lot more relieved: "There are many pirates on the sea who are now acting on our orders, and if we order them to participate in the war, we should be able to gather about a thousand people." ”

"Okay, okay, Xana, you leave immediately, gather our own people, and then contact the bandits, but you can't let them come in vain, tell them, you can give money if you want money, you can give weapons if you want them."

"Well, but, big brother, if you want to find someone, and then come to Tamsui, it will take three days at the earliest, is it too late?"

"No problem, three days is almost just right, you go back to Meiling first, ask Lolita to bring the radio and act with you, and keep in touch at any time."

Xia Na didn't say anything more, suddenly stepped forward, kissed Xie Niancheng on the cheek, turned around and ran towards the speedboat.

This made Xie Niancheng, who hadn't been in contact with his sister for a long time, feel a wave in his heart.

A woman's heart is really hard to understand! Xie Niancheng sighed.

With the joint efforts of the soldiers and the crew, thousands of boxes of grain and ammunition were loaded, and Xie Niancheng asked the water ghosts to wait here for the next batch of transport personnel, and led the team back to Xishan.

The second batch of transport teams, led by Zhang Chengyue, safely transported back all the materials at dawn.

The soldiers took turns resting and repairing the fortifications overnight.

At noon the next day, the fortifications were basically formed, and looking at the enemy troops that had already spread out in the vicinity of Tamsui City, everyone was full of fighting spirit.