In the afternoon of the next day, twenty miles north of the county seat of Meixian, a three-way intersection.

A north-south road that branches off to the east. Jiupai waited for Doctor Zhou here, Sun Cui set up a human meat stall here, and now Jiupai is here again, and has waited for Xu Xiao, who has come back from the county investigation.

The number and approximate configuration of troops in the county Li Youcai had already told Hu Yi that Xu Xiao was sent into the city to reconnoiter on the one hand to corroborate the information provided by Li Youcai, and on the other hand, to grasp the details, especially the details of the area that will become the battlefield, the east gate of Meixian County.

Hu Yi chose the East Gate as the battlefield for two reasons, the first is because the city gate hole of the East Gate is the largest among the four city gates in Meixian County, and the arched door hole from the outside of the city gate to the inside of the city gate has a depth of 15 meters. Conquering the county seat is a fool's dream, entering the city is looking for death, and not entering the city has no effect, so Hu Yi decided to take the east city gate as the base point, extend to the city in a limited way, and build an oblique defense line. Strategically it's an offense, but tactically it's actually a defense, or offensive defense.

Another reason is simpler, Hu Yi came out of the East Gate, and he probably knew the situation inside the East Gate, and he was quite impressed.

Xu Xiao made a detailed report on what he saw, and finally used tree branches to draw the street layout of the houses in the east gate on a flat ground, although he was illiterate, but everyone can still understand the plane painting house, the big house is big square, and the small house is small square. With rote memorization, this kid drew the layout of the streets within a radius of 100 meters in the east gate, and then explained which was the shop, which was the house, and the wooden house or the brick house.

Each of the four walls is defended by a company of security forces, and a company is divided into three shifts every day, which means that under normal circumstances, there is only one platoon of the enemy on the east side of the gate, and one squad in the city gate, one squad from the city gate to the north and south ends of the city wall.

Entering the east gate is facing a wide street to the west, on both sides are a forest of shops, behind are alleys and dwellings; under the root of the city wall is a north-south road, there is a staircase passage up the city wall a few dozen meters south of the inner side of the city gate, and on the top of the city gate is a single-storey broken wooden building, and the platoon leader and sentry on duty are on it. There is a searchlight on the city wall a few dozen meters north of the city gate tower, which is turned on at night and is very bright.

In order to sweep up, to grab food, and to force the Eighth Route to death, the troops were transferred like this, what is the difference between the city wall garrison and the paper paste? Hu Yi really thinks that he is invincible in the world! Hu Yi has strengthened his conviction even more, and if he fights correctly, he will not be so rampant next time, and he will not dare to spare no effort so much, raised by a group of bitches!

Over the years, I have always been playing defense, and this defense is the most different, not to keep my own things, but to stay in the hearts of devils. This made Hu Yi feel a sense of excitement in his heart, since leaving the Great Wall, he thought that he would never have this feeling again, and today it has recovered.

Sitting cross-legged by the layout drawing drawn by Xu Xiao on the ground, he frowned deeply, racked his brains and thought about it, looked and watched, recalled, calculated, judged, weighed, and brewed one battle plan after another, contrasting, kneading, and supplementing. He sat like a stake for half an hour before he raised his head.

During this period, none of the soldiers in the platoon in the woods made a sound, waiting for the answer made them feel a little nervous different from the battle, they did not dare to get closer, and they did not want to be too far away, so they consciously circled more than ten meters away, watching the five squad leaders squatting near the map to accompany the platoon leader in a daze. Now the platoon commander raised his head, indicating that he was going to arrange orders, and the fate of everyone, each squad was about to be arranged, so that the whole audience was tense in an instant, and the fallen leaves in the woods could be heard.

"Xu Xiao. "The first person to be named was him.

"Yes. Xu Xiao was dressed in tatters and stood up straight proudly.

"Now you go back to the city, and until the operation is launched, you will observe the garrison at the east gate. If it doesn't change, it's none of your business, if it changes, find a way to set it on fire, prompting us to cancel. The operation begins shortly after dark, and no later than midnight. ”

Hu Yi wanted to leave plenty of time for the ninth platoon to fight and evacuate, so this night could not be wasted.

"Then after the battle began...... What do I do?"

"You don't have to do anything, just hide it, and then go out of the city tomorrow when it's convenient, and go to the hidden place of the green water shop to find the team. Go ahead. ”

Xu Xiao wanted to participate in the battle, but in the face of the pressure of the platoon commander's gaze, he swallowed his words back, caught the matchbox thrown to him by Ma Liang, reluctantly took two steps back, and turned to leave.

Hu Yi retracted his gaze and pointed the branch he was holding at the gate of the city: "This is the main position, which is defended by me, Luo Fugui, Zhao Jieba, and one team." Shi Cheng, in the early stage, you will take a large part of the group to dig soil outside the city gate on the south side to replenish sandbags, consolidate the gate hole fortifications, and make a reserve team on standby after it is formed, and replace the losses in the door hole at any time. ”

Shi Cheng nodded.

The tip of the branch at the city gate began to move towards the city, and after entering the city gate, it turned diagonally to the south, and drew a circle on the range of several houses on the south side of the street: "Runny nose, you can see clearly, this is the position of your second class. Your task is twofold: first, to block the enemy from the north and south sides of the city wall near the gates, and second, to act as a barrier when the main position cannot effectively suppress the front street. I want to remind you first that the pressure on this position in the second shift will be the greatest, and if it is lost here, the city gate will be lost later, and the battle will end early, understand?"

Liu Jianqiang stared at the position circled by Hu Yi and understood the key point, the second class is the horn that extends diagonally from the city gate hole to the city, not only to guard the root of the city wall to prevent the enemy from throwing grenades around the door hole, but also to jam the south side of the street, if the enemy really rushes from the west side of the street, it is equivalent to passing under the nose of the second class, it can be said that this is a position that wants to be a hard worker, and sooner or later it will become a position that the enemy will focus on.

"I see!

So the branch in Hu Yi's hand continued to draw west along the east-west street, and drew a distance from the position of the second class to the west, stopped, changed to the south, and drew a quarter arc with the position of the second class as the center of the circle: "Take the second class as the base point to the west 100 meters, the second class is west, southwest, and the south is 100 meters away, and this area is in charge of the third class." Ma Liang, your mission is divided into primary and secondary: the main task is to cover the flank of the second squad and block the enemy who is copying the second squad from the south side, and the secondary task is to copy and attack the flank of the frontal enemy at the right time. Plagiarism should be based on the premise of consolidating the position of the second shift, remember?"

When the task was assigned to this point, Liu Jianqiang couldn't help but wipe the sweat on his forehead, so that he had some confidence, this is not a question of whether he is afraid or not, but a question of whether he can hold on or not.

"Brother, can you give us some grenades and grenades for the third shift?" Ma Liang glared at the street guerrilla area pointed out to the third class, and his head was also big.

"Yes, all the grenades and grenades from the first shift will be transferred to your third shift in a while. Hu Yi answered Ma Liang without hesitation, and drew a small circle on a section of the city wall north of the city gate with a tree branch: "Chen Chong, this is the position of your fourth squad, and your tasks are twofold: first, to block the enemy who may come from the north side of the city wall; second, whether the battle ends normally or unexpectedly, the fourth squad covers the retreat of the whole platoon." Put the rope on the outside of the city wall in advance, and you can grasp the position and distance of the fourth squad on the city wall, and you must always observe the battle situation. ”

"Hmm. But...... What should I do on the southern section of the city wall?" At this point, the nine rows have been arranged, and Chen Chong asked a question.

"If there is an enemy on the city wall, it can only be reinforced by the puppet army guarding the south gate and the north gate, and they may not have the courage and courage until the situation is clear. If you block it in the north, it should be okay to give them an excuse in the south. Hu Yi turned his head and called Xiao Hongying: "Girl, you take the fool and Li Xiang, hide outside the South City Gate before the battle starts, and wait for the battle at the East Gate to start, just give Li Xiang's remaining grenades to the South City Gate." ”

The little girl didn't expect that there was really a task for her, although this task Li Xiang was enough to do alone, she was more like an ornament, it was a progress, this was a separate task, and she nodded excitedly.

At this point, all the combat tasks were assigned, and Hu Yi made a final emphasis on the ninth platoon, the combat goal was to hold the East City Gate for an hour, and Ma Liang's signal gun shells were temporarily handed over to Shi Cheng, and when the signal flares flew up outside the East Gate, it was the time for everyone to retreat. It is unknown whether the enemy left artillery in the city, and the whole platoon must be mentally prepared to withstand the shelling. If the battle unexpectedly fails and breaks up, the final assembly point is the river bank near Lushuipu.

After the task arrangement meeting was over, Liu Jianqiang and Ma Liang squatted on the map drawn by Xu Xiao and kept looking, Liu Jianqiang was counting the houses and pondering the distribution locations, Ma Liang was remembering the alleys and calculating the range, and the two of them muttered from time to time.

Chen Chong led the people to sort out the ropes collected yesterday, and some of them were hooked and bundled into bundles to make them easy to carry.

Shi Cheng commanded a squad of soldiers to start working, found a place to start digging sand, packed them with the sacks he got yesterday, sealed them into sandbags, and loaded them into two livestock carts. At least two wagons of sandbags should be prepared before the battle begins, and after the city gate is taken, a simple layer of fortifications can be piled up in the door hole, and the rest of the work will continue to be completed on the spot outside the city gate.

The mood of the soldiers is very complicated, there are both worries and excitement, the ninth platoon is really going to fight the county seat, something that they have never dreamed of. Even if the plan fails, this matter is enough to brag for a lifetime, as long as you can come back alive, you must brag for a lifetime, you have entered the devil's nest!

Seeing that Hu Yi came to the work site, Shi Cheng took the initiative to greet him: "Platoon leader, can I take a squad to fight in the doorway?"

Hu Yi smiled faintly: "What, don't you want to work?"

"No, I'm just ......"

"The city gate hole is only a few meters wide, do you stuff so many people as targets? One less, make up one, if I am less, you will be the platoon commander, take my pocket watch, and the signal flare must fly on time. He patted Shi Cheng on the shoulder: "Okay, let's keep working." ”

The platoon commander left, Shi Cheng took a deep breath, the wind was a little cold, but it was not cold......