"I think it's a proactive strategy." Brooke chimed in. His attitude is somewhat aimed at Zhou Youfu, rather than being very objective.

"If you think it's feasible, then go to Soushan, I'm a lieutenant and don't say much, but my men have to defend the front according to the established deployment of the regiment, and your artillery, Tao Mingzhang's motorized troops can't move. Didn't you just contain a lot of people and prepare to expand a few reinforced companies, let Captain Lin lead the troops to see if he can really fight. ”

Zhou Youfu seemed to back down, as if he allowed Lin Linqi to bring some newly contained troops to do this.

"Yes, let me take a battalion to search the mountains." Lin said.

"How dare you open your mouth and give you a battalion? We only had 4 companies in the synthetic battalion a while ago, but recently it has only improved a bit. You two deserters came to run with a crooked handle, and you dared to ask for a battalion of troops. Captain Amazing? Who knows if your rank is real, or if it's the clothes off the dead man's body. ”

"I can vouch for that Captain Lin is one of my own." Tao Mingzhang played a round game, Brooke did not want to participate in the discussion of the Chinese, sneered and turned to the side, he did not like Zhou Youfu, but he also did not like Lin Linqi, this captain gave him a very strange feeling, very much like the kind of Oriental conspirator who was very deep in the city.

"The mountains here are so big that we need at least 500 or so troops to effectively block each mountain pass." Lin added.

"You know Shanda, too? The mountains here are hundreds of miles, and you can't defend them with 10,000 people. ”

Zhou Youfu is not unreasonable, he suffered too many losses in the early years of fighting with the Japanese army in various armies, and recently he learned a lot from Chu Tingchang, and finally realized that to deal with the infiltration of the Japanese army, divide the troops for defense, and give full play to mobility. Of course, even if he has such a high understanding, he didn't understand the key point of this mobile defense - how Chu Ting was clever when he was long, and he was always able to block the Japanese army quickly, of course, this is out of the concept of information warfare of the times, and it is indeed too advanced, and Chu Ting's performance of pretending to be a ghost also conceals his hidden information advantage.

The venue was deadlocked for a while, and finally Tao Mingzhang decided to follow Lin's plan, but he also had to make some compromises, so Lin could only lead two companies formed by the newly recruited stragglers, about 300 people, to defend the mountains on both sides. Although the synthetic battalion currently lacks a commander, Zhou Youfu believes that Captain Lin's identity is unclear and reasonable, and it is indeed inappropriate for him to immediately lead the mobile force to a very minor direction. In addition, before Chu Tingchang left, he handed over the final decision-making power to Tao Mingzhang, but he had to consider the worst possible outcome of tearing his face with a ruffian like Zhou Youfu at the first meeting.

Tao Mingzhang took Lin Xiuxuan and Ma Qiang to find the army outside the tunnel, hundreds of people were squatting in the tunnel to gobble up food, looking at the food, they were all hungry for a long time, the military uniforms were torn and dirty, and they were messy, some wore short-sleeved uniforms of the British army, some wore American leather boots and British sandals, and some were straw sandals on their feet in long-sleeved national army uniforms. A large part of them probably belonged to the miscellaneous baggage units below the 6th Army, which were cut off by the Japanese army, and they all fled with flat baskets.

The weapons used by all the people are also miscellaneous. Tao Mingzhang said that this group of people had just come with the refugees in the last day or two, and most of them did not have guns, so they gave them the rotten guns left behind when they had integrated the troops. What Springfield, Lee Enfield, Mo Xing Nagant, 38 Big Cover, Medium Formal, you name it.

The worst-case scenario is that the identification of these people has not yet been carried out, and it is not known whether there are any spies mixed in. Originally, it was only planned to let these Dian troops of the 6th Army dig trenches, but they were not intended to really let them fight. Now that the ducks are on the shelves, I can only let Captain Lin lead such a team of people to try their luck.

Lin paid attention to the expressions of these soldiers, and whenever the Japanese artillery fire exploded on the hill in the tunnel, causing an insignificant sound, most of the lean Dian troops would stop their chopsticks, forget about hiccups, and start looking around in horror. This is obviously a panicked look, and most of the soldiers who have suffered defeat will behave like this, simply put, they are demoralized, and they can only recover quickly if they go to the rear to slowly recuperate, or if there is a timely victory. However, he also noticed that some people were still eating calmly, unmoved by the Japanese artillery fire. Apparently there are also some elites of the 200 and 38 divisions.

Tao Mingzhang led Captain Lin to meet with several temporary platoon commanders, and someone immediately asked if Commander Chu Ting had left. This caught Tao Mingzhang a little off guard, if Zhou Youfu was present, he would definitely deny this matter categorically and dispel his suspicions, but Tao Mingzhang was still a little unfamiliar with lying, and immediately stood up.

This is a very bad situation, Chu Tingchang left for an hour, and there were such rumors, is it that the Japanese spies in the stragglers are fanning the flames? Before Commander Chu left, he hadn't shown up for a long time, which might have made the spies among the mixed soldiers feel that there was an opportunity.

Lin immediately set off with his men, knowing that it would be difficult to replenish the ammunition for this pile of miscellaneous guns, but it was urgent.

Small UAVs have already discovered the movements of the Japanese army relying on infrared detection equipment, and if they do not move quickly, the enemy will be one step faster. He asked Tao for a gridded map of the area, and he could call Brooke's artillery if necessary. Brooke gave him a few Tokarev heavy machine guns, but there were no horses to tow them, and he also gave some mines* and a small number of British* to carry them in baskets and poles, and then put on a kang with shovels, pickaxes, and a radio station, and the party set off in a haphazard manner.

Several platoon commanders had expected to disperse to defend each valley, but on the contrary, Captain Lin seemed to have changed the plan he had mentioned when Tao Mingzhang was present, and he asked everyone to march quickly to the north. No whereabouts were indicated. Soon there were those who could not run, and by midnight a third of them had fallen behind, mainly the troops carrying loads and machine guns. He was very worried that the Dian army, which had not yet picked a heavy pick, would be able to arrive in time.

The team here was loose and crumbling, and from time to time received reports from Xu Chong that the Japanese army was marching fast, and the original ambush in the valley seemed to be too late, and it seemed that the second plan had to be used to block the enemy in the wide area. He immediately ordered his troops to disperse and occupy several commanding heights, ready to defend, and immediately regretted it an hour later, because he found that the command was completely out of order. Of the eight platoon commanders, three fell behind, four couldn't read the map, and all of them had obstacles in distinguishing their direction at night, and none of them went right. The Chinese army, which was dominated by peasants, still had a set of orientation skills that did not require a compass during the day, and sometimes surprised American advisers, but at night they were completely blind.

The order turned out to be a complete disaster, the troops were in disarray, and the communications corps, with the order, could not find the troops, and came back to report that the troops were not in the assigned position. At this time, Xu Chong reported again that the attacking Japanese troops a few kilometers away had already descended the mountain and were also waiting for the people who had fallen behind, and they were very professional, and they were quickly reorganizing the organization that had been disrupted by the mountain march. The enemy was well disciplined, all movements were completely silent, and the use of lights was very restrained, and although the troops were somewhat lacking, it was clearly ready for battle. The Japanese army also left a containment team in the rear, and it is obvious that they will also reorganize the stragglers who have arrived one after another as a supplement to their troops, and it seems that their basic skills in night warfare are solid.

Lin still has to send people to find the unknown people who are running around, it seems that it is not realistic to ambush at night, such a group of people gathered, they can still have some firepower during the day, and disperse at night, even if they are ambushed on all sides, it is in vain to face the well-trained Japanese army. He couldn't report the enemy situation to Tao Mingzhang yet, because the enemy situation didn't appear, but he knew it. Usually Chu Tingchang explains his uncertain prophet by jumping the great god, and he can't repeat it, so as not to arouse the association of people with intentions and make them feel that there is a relationship between them.

"I need time here, I have to delay until dawn." He quietly gave Xu Chong a death order through the radio.

Xu Chong had already made some preparations, and he collected some of the Chu Tuan's minefield markers during the day, which was a wooden sign with a skeleton painted to warn the minefield ahead, and the mine-laying troops pulled it out all the way, and threw it all the way, and he picked up some of them. He immediately planted these signs on the main road, preparing to delay the Japanese army, and of course it was impossible to delay it for too long. At the same time, Lin ordered a ravine to be dug in the front and prepared to bury mines, but the ones that were transported later did not have time to come up, so they could only wait.

The first group of Japanese troops had already begun to move, and they apparently had a strict time to act, perhaps in conjunction with the front, perhaps with the aircraft. They marched in the mountains for a day without sleep, resting for 20 minutes before they were ready to go into action. Soon the Japanese were blocked by minefield signs. The Japanese were apparently taken aback, unlike their latest spy intelligence.

The Japanese troops, who were in a hurry to advance, lay down in formation and began to clear mines with bayonets. This, of course, seriously hampered the speed of its march.

After 30 minutes, the dull Japanese commander Nai realized that there should be no * here, because not a single one was dug up. A lieutenant rushed over, slashed the plank with a single sword, and gave the order to move on.

After a kilometer of progress, I saw again the potholes that had been dug in the ground, as if a group of the most amateur soldiers had buried mines here, because they were not well hidden at all. But he did not dare to be careless and ordered the soldiers to clear mines, but still found nothing. It's not a problem of the density of minefields, it's that there aren't a single mine at all. The lieutenant did not believe that it was a suspicious tactic of the Chinese army, and the suddenness of the operation could rule out such a possibility. But it is likely that the Chinese soldier who was hanging out of the country dug up a piece of ground at random in order to give his superiors an errand, and then withdrew, which he had seen on the battlefields of China.

Lin Xiuxuan hid in the nearby mountains and used the starlight to observe the enemy's movements, the Japanese were well camouflaged, but ignoring the reflection of the bayonets made them easier to expose at night. These pits were dug by his men, and the people who transported * came too late, so they were only hastily buried in the last pit*, and there was no time to cover them up, and the Japanese army arrived.

Now his head is big, the only radio station seems to be broken, Tao Mingzhang can not be contacted at all, hoping that when the explosion sounds, he can hear the direction and turn the armored car over. The Japanese apparently had a strict time limit, and they finally decided to ignore these shallow pits dug haphazardly, and rushed straight through, having seen both the British and Chinese armies, and if the formation was scattered, the lethality against the swarm charging companies was actually limited. Of course, the Commander Assassin judged that there would be no explosion at all.

Waiting for them is not ordinary infantry*. The last 50 or so porters arrived, each carrying 80 kilograms*; These mines* are the only weapons that Tao Mingzhang can supply openly, but it is difficult to transport them without mules and horses.

The Chinese army has always maintained the habit of carrying heavy burdens with flat shoulders, and this peculiar scenery has been strongly criticized by the British and American military as well as wearing straw sandals; As long as there is a pair of picks in the marching army, it looks very beautiful, but in the mountains, this agricultural tradition, but it is so efficient that it can multiply the load of individual soldiers. Lin Xiuxuan also realized not long ago that his biggest advantage was that he suddenly had a ton smaller*. This is done completely without mules, horses and cars, and it is nothing short of miraculous.