Stuck on the Yunnan-Burma Highway hub, Lashio New Town is all busy, the war has not yet been felt here, all kinds of supplies are still being transferred to the country, and the busy Yunnan-Burma Highway convoy is constantly going back and forth.

"You are doing well in Tangkeda, and the telegram to you asking for merit has been sent to Chongqing; In addition to the ammunition supply, the staff team found you a batch of mortar shells and battle defense artillery shells, British. ”

In Lashio, the deputy head of the staff group met with Feng Yi.

"Thank you, sir, what is the mission of our regiment?"

Feng Yi is very direct, the order he got was to go back to defend Lashio, but where is his line of defense? What are the specific tasks? To whom is the command? No one told him these questions.

"Commander Ma and Commander Zhang are still in Yunnan and are on their way here; There are not many alert troops around Lashio, there is only one company of troops, this company is still mainly responsible for the security of the staff group, if the officers of the staff group have a task, they will also accompany them to protect it, the whole Lashio, now your two regiments are formed troops......"

The deputy head of the regiment introduced the situation around Lashio, according to the system, Feng Yi should be under the command of Ma Weiji, but now Ma Weiji has not arrived, and Zhang Zhen is not in Lashio.

As for how to deploy the defense, the staff committee did not tell Feng Ye at all, but only told him to ensure the safety of Lashio New Town; To put it bluntly, the staff committee does not believe that the devils will come to attack Lashio at all.

The camp is still the original camp, and the brothers who went to Tangji to fight entered the familiar camp, and there were many changes, but the only thing that remained unchanged was the familiar site around.

There was no one to train, the brothers were eating, the staff had just given two carts of American canned food, and the brothers who rarely saw meat each holding one, and they were not afraid of it, so they ate it in one bite.

"How do you defend it?"

The regimental headquarters, the six battalion commanders plus Chen Haiquan all sat at the table, staring at the Lashio map; Thanks to the fact that the staff is stationed in Lashio, the situation around Lashio is marked in great detail on the map.

"Regiment commander, there are too many places to defend, even if it is a position, our troops are not enough!"

Zhang Chuan frowned, he didn't even have two companies now, and he was basically a waste.

"Then we will not guard the high ground outside, rely on the road, and deploy defenses around Lashio."

Feng Ye slapped the map, since the troops are not enough, then it is good to defend the new city of Lashio, even if the old city of Lashio is captured by devils, as long as the new city of Lashio is still there and there are materials, the expeditionary force can maintain its combat effectiveness.

"To the north, it is our back road, if the old city of Lashio is lost, not only will our back road be cut off, but we will also face attacks on several sides; Zhang Chuan, your people, in this position, set up bunkers, dig more trenches, use the bunker as a permanent fire point, and start construction now. ”

"The 87th regiment, responsible for the east and south, the devils broke through Laika, Nanlan, Mengba, and Dangyang are their targets; Fifteen kilometers outside the city, the position should be dense, don't be afraid of tiredness, build a few more fortifications, and then you can drag on more time......"

"Wang Ning, your camp is in the west, on the road from Wacheng to Lashio, there are two very important heights, 419 Heights and 287.5 Heights, if these two highlands are lost, then we will really face the siege of the devils, and the reinforcements will definitely not come so quickly, because the devils will snipe on the periphery."

"On the west side, a position is built five kilometers outside the city, which must be strong, and the three positions and no positions must be fortified to resist the bombardment of devils' aerial bombs; The devil's heavy artillery certainly didn't come so quickly, but their planes could. ”

Feng Yi shook his head, the more he looked at this map, the more he felt that this place was not easy to defend, and it did not have the advantage of terrain like Tang Ji.

"I'll go to the second staff group later, get some mines, it's too peaceful here, if there are more tanks of devils, it will be a nightmare for us!"

Feng Yi sighed, when there is no terrain cover, the devil's tank can go on a rampage, and it is too difficult for the battle defense artillery to deal with the moving devil tank.

"Do you have any comments? If there is no opinion, just execute! ”

Feng Yi stared at everyone, he now very much hoped that the officers here would give him some good advice, but unfortunately no one spoke.

"Let you be arrogant for a few days, and when Master Ma arrives, see how arrogant you are!"

Chen Haiquan muttered in his heart and did not raise any objections.

"Sir, I took a look at the terrain around Lashio, we don't have enough troops to defend all the surrounding heights, so I decided to deploy around Lashio New Town, my plan is like this......"

At the chief of staff, Feng Yi reported his defensive ideas to the deputy regiment commander just now.

"Very well, you can arm your own defenses according to your own ideas; Trenches and fortifications might as well be repaired a little more, the Japanese army is coming, and our reinforcements will arrive soon; It's no problem if you want mines, and you will be transferred three more machines to help you repair your position faster, this is an approval slip, just go to the material warehouse to get it! ”

The deputy regiment commander was very satisfied, it seems that Feng Yi was able to hold Tangji not by luck, but because he was really active in completing the task, at least he knew that he had to repair more fortifications before the war.

Why did he give Feng Ye three more machines, the expeditionary force has been coming to Burma for so long, here is the rear of the expeditionary force, the logistics supply of 100,000 expeditionary forces is here, and it is also the gateway to China, there is no systematic fortification in such an important place, and now it is all up to Feng Ng's people to repair it, even if it is a simple digging trench, these are tired enough.

"Thank you, sir!"

Feng Ye shouted, took the approval slip, and his face was full of smiles; He'd seen the machinery the commander was talking about, but it was actually the Americans' road construction machinery, and that thing was used to repair fortifications, and it wasn't too fast.

"Woo woo woo ......"

Around the new city of Lashio, Feng Jie's people began construction, and the sappers carried out the operation with the cooperation of the machinery, and in the roar of the engine, the woods outside the city were sold, and a large number of trees were directly cut down by Feng Jie, bringing back a large amount of wood, and there was no shortage of trucks here.

If conditions permitted, Feng Ye might have built reinforced concrete fortifications, but steel bars were scarce, and concrete did not have a cement factory here, so Feng still had to use wood to strengthen bunkers, trenches and bunkers.

"Speed up, get the edge of the trench in order, and reinforce it with wood......"

On the position, the brothers who had machinery had a rare local tyrant, and they directly dug the land down one meter and a half, which is the depth of the communication trench, and the deeper trench next to the communication trench had to be dug by the brothers themselves with tools.

Bunkers, anti-aircraft artillery, mortar emplacements, headquarters, anti-artillery holes, etc., are gradually showing their rudiments outside the vast new city of Lashio, and soldiers are filling sacks with dug soil and piling them up next to the trenches.