Lu Xinghua thought for a while and said, "Lin Shuai, please rest assured, I have already figured out the location of the launch position, and I will go back to prepare." ”

Lin Yuan said: "You have to be very careful, the Japanese army will definitely not let go of these heavy artillery easily, so they will harass and attack your artillery positions, you must arrange defensive forces!" ”

Lu Xinghua said: "Lin Shuai, don't worry, I will definitely arrange this matter!" ”

After Lu Xinghua finished speaking, he walked out, so Lin Yuan arranged for all-terrain vehicles to transport artillery parts, which would take a lot of time, so Lin Yuan's troops suspended the attack and began to wait.

In the command room, the commander of the Japanese Second Division, Kishimoto Yunan, said to Chief of Staff Ohara Riojima with a blank face: "What do Lin Yuan's troops want to do?" ”

Ohara Riojima said: "A few days ago, Lin Yuan's troops sent a small force to attack our observation post, but it was discovered by our automatic alarm device, and they were beaten back by our samurai, but two days later, they attacked the observation post again, and more than 100 imperial warriors in the observation post were all killed, and today they launched an attack on our position, is there any connection behind this series of actions?" ”

Kishimoto Yunan sighed and said, "Regardless of whether these military operations are connected or not, we need to think carefully about what will happen in the future, that is: should we withdraw from Hamgyongsan?" ”

Ohara Sajima said, "General Kishimoto, we should have withdrawn from Hamgyongsan a long time ago, but now we have no chance to withdraw!" ”

Kishimoto Yunan slapped the table fiercely and said angrily: "Damn the staff, you have to let us stay here and fight to the death with Lin Yuan's troops, and I don't even know what to do if we are hit by Lin Yuan's radical generals!" ”

Ohara Satoshima said: "General Kishimoto, we really have no choice but to hold on here!" ”

Kishimoto Yunan said helplessly: "But holding on is a dead end, now we just don't have food, and the ammunition is still sufficient, but as the war progresses, our ammunition will also be exhausted, and then we can only use our teeth and fists to resist the bullets of Lin Yuan's troops!" ”

Ohara Sajima said: "General Kishimoto, don't think about this, if we retreat now, we will definitely be flanked by Lin Yuan's troops in front and back!" Because Qingjin outside Hamgyong Mountain, as well as Lin Yuan's first and thirty-first divisions, they are all dead, so it is better to stay here. ”

Yunan Kishimoto said, "That's it. As he spoke, he walked to the phone, picked up the phone and said, "Pick me up the commander of the 301 Highlands, Yamashita Shuizhong!" ”

The phone was quickly connected, and Yunan Kishimoto said, "Is it Yamashita?" ”

Yamashita Mizutadashi was just a squadron leader, and when he heard Yunan Kishimoto call him, he immediately felt flattered, and hurriedly asked, "Your Excellency General, do you have anything to do?" ”

Yunan Kishimoto said: "The people of Shina have launched a fierce attack on your position, and you must hold it, understand? ”

Yamashita Shuizhong hurriedly said, "Yes! The subordinates must not let the people of China take a step forward! ”

Yunan Kishimoto said "yes", then silently put down the phone, sighed, and said, "That's all it takes!" Kishimoto Yunan was full of helplessness, but Yamashita Shuizhong, who received the call, was full of joy, and he couldn't even care about being hungry, so he gathered the people in the tunnel and announced in public: "General Kishimoto personally called and encouraged us, let us hold our position!" I think it's very easy for us to hold our ground! Lin Yuan's troops' offensive yesterday showed that their offensive did not pose any threat at all! ”

The Japanese soldiers were also very excited when they heard about Yunan Kishimoto's phone call, and at this time, a Japanese soldier said to Yamashita Shuizhong: "Captain, the Shina person on the other side is doing a very strange thing. ”

Yamashita Mizutada asked, "What's the strange thing?" ”

The soldier said, "They cut down a tree on a dirt slope and made it so flat that it was like building a stage!" ”

Yamashita Shuizhong asked, "Stage? What stage? ”

The soldier shook his head again and again, and said, "It's a big platform, and we don't know what the Dao is for." ”

When Yamashita Shuizhong heard this, he became interested and said, "Okay, let's go and have a look." As he spoke, he walked outside with the soldier, who pointed his hand into the distance and said, "That's it." ”

Shui Zhong raised the binoculars, and after only one glance, he broke out in a cold sweat, and thought to himself: "Where is that flat land, what kind of stage!" That's clearly an artillery firing position! Are Lin Yuan's troops going to bring artillery? No, I must not tell anyone about it, in case it causes panic among the soldiers, it will be terrible! ”

Yamashita Shuizhong was thinking about it, and the soldier asked on the side, "Captain, what are you going to do?" ”

Yamashita Shuizhong said: "The people of China are building a stage, and their soldiers are going to sing on it to relieve their boredom. ”

The soldier asked with some hesitation, "Build the stage?" Singing to relieve boredom? Now they are in this mood? ”

Shan Xia Shuizhong frowned and said, "Okay, don't think about these things anymore, hurry up and strengthen the fortifications." Yamashita Shuizhong drove the soldiers around him away, then returned to the command room, called his superiors, and said, "Lin Yuan's troops are building a firing position for large-caliber artillery, what should we do?" ”

When the superior heard this, he said, "Do you still need to ask for instructions on this little thing?" Your troops are out and destroy their firing positions! ”

Yamashita Shuizhong said helplessly: "But they are too far away from us, and our troops can't get through?" Is it for our artillery to come out and blow up their firing positions with shells? ”

The superior asked, "How far away is their firing position from you?" ”

Yamashita Shuizhong replied: "I did the math, it's nearly three thousand meters." ”

The superior said: "We only have 75 mm howitzers now, and this kind of artillery can't hit accurately at 3,000 meters, so you better find a way to send troops over." ”

Yamashita Shuizhong reluctantly agreed, but soon the Japanese soldiers on the 301 Heights saw that it was the artillery firing position of Lin Yuan's troops, so panic quietly spread on the high ground, and at 10 o'clock in the morning of March 11, the 155-mm artillery hoe was the first to arrive at the artillery firing position and placed on the position.

At twelve o'clock in the morning, the artillery frame was transported to the position and the installation began, and Yamashita Shuizhong once again called his superiors, but the superiors still refused to send artillery, because the mountain road was too difficult to walk, and the artillery was not easy to transport.

At 11 o'clock in the morning of 12 March, a crane-like thing was also transported into the firing position and placed next to the artillery.

At five o'clock in the evening of 12 March, the soldiers on the Japanese position found that there were a few more snow-bright headlights on the artillery firing position of Lin Yuan's troops, which illuminated the firing position in the snow.