"Look, Team Wang."

Chen Mingli grabbed a sapper shovel and shoveled down a large piece of mud slate from the wall in two clicks.

Ma Yuan took another sapper shovel and knocked it lightly, and the mud slate that fell to the ground shattered.

Wang Ye was also a little dumbfounded when he saw this, this is embarrassing, is the mud slate in the belly of Shiba Mountain and Mishan so brittle? Crispy noodles?

Is it because it has not been compacted by geological movements?

Such hardness obviously cannot repair the fortress.

Because it's useless to build it, a few cannons will collapse it, not to mention the devils, and you can bury your own people alive under the ruins of the collapsed fortress.

If you can't build a fortress, the previous defense concept will be overturned.

Wang Ye asked again, "What about Shuiyao Mountain?" Is it the same way? ”

If the entire Shuiyao Mountain is mud slate of this strength, don't build the wall-hung road.

"Not really." Chen Mingli said, "The mountain of Shuiyao Mountain is not such mud slate, but granite and sedimentary rocks that are much stronger than this. ”

Wang Ye asked again: "Can the wall highway be dug up?" ”

Chen Mingli replied: "The digging is still moving, but the progress is much slower than expected. ”

Wang Ye thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "In this way, there is no need to repair the fortresses of Chai Mountain and Mishan, and all the manpower should be concentrated to repair the hanging wall road, and the hanging wall road has to be repaired one more." ”

"The inner circle of the water kiln mountain must be repaired to hang the wall road."

"To build the wall road into a semi-ring,"

"Cover each other as much as possible."

Ma Yuan frowned and said, "This is a lot of work. ”

Chen Mingli also said: "I'm afraid it's too late in time." ”

"Fix it as much as you can." Wang Ye said, "How much is the amount of repair." ”

"But the wall-hung road leading to Huangyang Cave must be built."

Chen Mingli and Ma Yuan glanced at each other and said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid not." ”

Wang Ye frowned and said, "I'm afraid not?" Is it that difficult to build a wall road? ”

Ma Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "Team Wang, what we say is superfluous, you can just take a look." ”

At that moment, Chen Mingli and Ma Yuan accompanied Wang Ye to the construction site of Hangbi Road not far away, and saw dozens of devil prisoners of war repairing the road under the supervision of the militia.

Wang Ye made a rough estimate,

The wall road that has been built is about 100 meters long.

It's fucking embarrassing, it took more than a month to build a hundred meters?

It's the end of August now, and there's still a month to go until early October, how much distance can be repaired? At this pace, it is simply impossible to catch up with this counter-sweep.

At this moment, Wang Ye finally deeply realized the importance of infrastructure capacity.

Without a strong infrastructure capacity as the foundation, no matter how good the idea is, it is a pipe dream.

What Shibayama and Mishan fortresses, what wall-hung roads, and what triple insurance are all on paper.

The triple defensive measures he had conceived before could not be completed at all, thanks to the fact that the headquarters had already decided to evacuate, otherwise they would really be caught off guard.

However, the wall road must be repaired.

At that moment, Wang Ye took Chen Mingli and the two back to the headquarters.

"Xiao Wang, how is it? Can the fortresses of Shibayama and Yoneyama still be built? The Deputy Chief of the General Staff asked.

The boss was very busy with his work, and went with the division commander to inspect the work of a newly formed brigade, and only the deputy chief of the general staff was at home.

Wang Ye said: "Chief, there is no need to repair the fortresses of Chai Mountain and Mi Mountain, because even if they are built, it is useless, and they can't carry the heavy artillery of the little devil at all." ”

The deputy chief of the general staff said again: "What about the hanging wall? ”

Wang Ye said: "The wall road must be repaired, and the progress must be accelerated. ”

The deputy chief of general staff showed a look of embarrassment on his face, and said: "Xiao Wang, there are some situations that you don't know, but the difficulty of building the wall road is not ordinary. ”

"And it's useless to have a lot of people."

"Because the venue is so big,"

"There are too many people to put it away."

"It's too dangerous to open the skylight,"

"I've already killed several people."

Wang Ye also sighed lightly, and said: "Chief, no matter how dangerous it is, it must be repaired, and the people will tie an extra safety rope when they go down the skylight from the top of the cliff, but the wall road must be repaired." ”

The deputy chief of the general staff said: "Is it still in time?" ”

Wang Ye said: "With the current progress, it will definitely not be able to catch up, so it must be accelerated." ”

"Accelerate?" The deputy chief of the general staff sighed, "The problem is here, there is really no way to speed up." ”

"Chief, there are still ways." Wang Ye said in a deep voice, "Using explosives to carry out multi-point blasting can greatly speed up the progress of hanging on the wall. ”

"Blast with explosives?"

The deputy chief of the general staff said: "How much explosives do you have to consume?" ”

Although the Water Kiln Arsenal can also produce yellow explosives, the production capacity is only so small, and it is not enough to reload bullets and shells.

And it's not a little explosives needed to build a walled road.

Wang Ye said: "Among the materials snatched back this time are several tons of explosives. ”

"These tons of explosives will be used to repair the wall-to-wall road, chief, the wall-to-wall road must be built, if there is no defensive support from Shuiyin Mountain, our anti-sweeping plan must be overturned."

"Moreover, the hundreds of thousands of people in the base area have no time to transfer!"

"Hundreds of thousands of people in the base area?" The deputy chief of general staff looked awkward, "Xiao Wang, you know?" ”

"The brigade commander has already told me." Wang Ye nodded and said, "Tens of thousands of innocent people in a military subdivision of the Jizhong Military Region were brutally bloodbathed by devils, and they were almost slaughtered to the ground!" ”

"Chief, if nothing else, this strategy will become the norm."

"In the future, if the devils launch another sweep, they will definitely adopt a cruel three-light policy against our various base areas, not only the army, but also the common people will be brutally bloodbathed."

"So my opinion is that the people have to be completely transferred."

In fact, Okamura did just that after he arrived in North China.

Preferential treatment was given to the people in the security areas, the people in the guerrilla areas were co-opted and forcibly relocated to the occupied areas, and the people in the base areas were brutally purged.

This policy will undoubtedly be used to sweep the Taihang Military Region.

The fall of the Taihang base area is inevitable, but the hundreds of thousands of people in the base area must not give up, even if they are desperate to cover the transfer of the people in the base area to other base areas.

Otherwise, they would have watched these hundreds of thousands of people being slaughtered.

This kind of thing can be done by the Kuomintang, but the Communist Party cannot do it!

"Xiao Wang, you don't need to say much about this, the boss has already made a decision, and all the people will follow suit."

The deputy chief of the general staff nodded and said: "Then you mean to say that a strong part of our army will stay in Shuiyao Mountain to attract the main force of the Japanese army and win an opportunity for the transfer of the common people?" ”

Wang Ye said: "To be precise, it is to attract the 2nd Guards Division to come and besiege. ”

The deputy chief of the General Staff asked: "You mean that the plan of going south to the Taiyue Military Region is adopted, right?" ”

"Yes." Wang Ye said, "Although the eastward expansion plan is the easiest, this is the result that the devil wants." ”

The deputy chief of general staff shook his head and said: "It is definitely not possible to advance eastward, the Jizhong Military Region is already very difficult, and it will be even more difficult for the tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of people in the Taihang Military Region to go again." ”

Wang Ye said: "The difficulty of the plan to go north is relatively small, but the land further north is even more barren, and it is impossible to support so many troops and civilians, and the final result can only be trapped to death." ”

The deputy chief of the general staff nodded and said, "It will definitely not work if you go north." ”

Wang Ye said: "To the west is Taiyuan, so you don't have to think about it at all." ”

"Indeed." The deputy chief of general staff nodded and said, "At the moment, our Eighth Route Army simply does not have the strength to recover and hold the Jinzhong Plain. ”

Wang Ye said: "Then the only way out is to go south to the Taiyue Military Region, where the Taiyue Military Region is located, Shangdang, is relatively rich, enough to feed the headquarters of my Eighth Route Army and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians." ”

"But how easy is it to cross the Zhengtai Road?"

The deputy chief of the general staff said worriedly: "Yoshio Shinozuka, this old devil, obviously also thought of this, so he deliberately placed the most elite 2nd Guards Division on Zhengtai Road, with the intention of cutting off our way out of the southward transfer, so as to facilitate its sweeping army to trap me in the Taihang base area. ”

Wang Ye said: "Our mobile column has enough confidence to penetrate the Zhengtai Road defense line of the 2nd Guards Division. ”

"But if we want to hold this passage and ensure that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Taihang Military Region cross the Zhengtai Road and enter the Taiyue Military Region, it is impossible to do it, because we can't stop the counterattack of the 2nd Guards Division."

"Therefore, we must lure away the main force of the 2nd Guards Division."

"Then, the fraternal forces from all walks of life will have the opportunity to protect the people as they move south."

The deputy chief of the General Staff nodded and said, "And then how do you mobile columns get rid of it?" ”

Wang Ye said: "With the terrain, it is not difficult for our mobile column to get rid of the pursuers, the problem is that after we get rid of it, the main force of the 2nd Guards Division will definitely turn around and kill the people in the base area on Zhengtai Road." ”

"Oh yes." The deputy chief of the General Staff said awe-inspiringly, "This point really must be considered. ”

Wang Ye said: "So we can't get rid of the pursuit of the 2nd Guards Division immediately, and most of the devil's sweeping troops will also come and form an encirclement of me." ”

"At this time, it is basically impossible for us to lead the devil around the mountains again."

"So there must be a support point, and the devil must be firmly attracted by stubbornly defending! Only in this way can we ensure that the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Taihang Military Region can be calmly transferred. ”

The deputy chief of general staff nodded and said, "The support point you are talking about is the Shuiyao Mountain position?" ”

"Yes." Wang Ye said, "Only by relying on the favorable terrain of Shuiyao Mountain can our mobile column hold on long enough to win time for the transfer of brother troops and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people." ”

"Okay, then I get it." The deputy chief of general staff was persuaded, nodded and said, "The people in various base areas are the foundation of our Eighth Route Army, if there is no support from the common people, our Eighth Route Army will be just a tree without roots and water without a source, and it will not last long at all, just use explosives to build roads according to what Xiao Wang said!" ”

……

From the next day, Wang Ye personally led the construction team.

In addition to the two ports connecting the ground and Huangyang Cave, as well as the two skylights opened in the middle, Wang Ye opened ten more skylights on the cliff wall, preparing to construct from 14 nodes at the same time.

This way, even if there is no need for explosives, the progress will be greatly accelerated.

After the use of explosives, the progress of the wall road will be faster.

In a blink of an eye, the time has come to the beginning of October, and the hanging wall road has finally been basically completed.

The whole wall road built is in the shape of 7, but the horizontal of 7 is particularly long, and it is half a circle around the cliff wall on the inner side of the water kiln mountain, and the slope at the bottom is not so steep.

Wang Ye opened a large number of shooting holes in the crossway that almost stretched across half of the cliff wall of Shuiyao Mountain.

Through these firing holes, it is possible not only to form fire cover against each other, but also to form crossfire in the middle area of the crater.

It will become a slaughterhouse.

At the corner of the figure 7 is the Yellow Sheep Cave.

The Yellow Sheep Cave is more than 100 meters high from the ground.

The Yellow Sheep Cave is connected to the ground by a slope of 7 figures.

However, this slope is not a straight line, but has many steps.

The existence of these steps makes it difficult for direct fire to play its due role.

Therefore, if the devil wants to launch an upward attack from this ramp, it can be described as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Of course, it was equally impossible for the Eighth Route Army to launch a counterattack through the ramp, but the defense was easy.

In short, although there is no protection of Shibayama and Yoneyama fortresses, the entire Shuiyao Mountain position can still be called a strong fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Then there is the hoarding of fresh water and food.

Wang Ye asked the head of the headquarters to hoard enough food and drinking water for 10,000 people to hold on for a month.

It is almost 600,000 catties of grain and 600,000 liters of fresh water, in order to fill the water, Wang Ye specially let people dig an artificial pool of 15×15×3=675 cubic meters in the deepest part of the Huangyang Cave.

Dozens of devil prisoners of war kept carrying water to the artificial pool.

It took half a month to finally fill the pool.

……

Soon after the pool was filled, it was mid-October.

News came from the Taiyuan underground party line that the sweep of the devils was about to begin.

Almost at the same time, a telegram was also sent from the Taiyue Military Region saying that the Japanese troops in Jinnan were massing.

After receiving these two pieces of news, the organs and units of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters immediately took action in accordance with the drawn up plan and prepared to evacuate the Taihang base area in batches.

And the mobile column, which was the pioneer of the way, was the first to assemble.

When Wang Ye returned to Yangshugou, the independent regiment had already completed its assembly.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang are mobilizing the fighters before the war.

"Comrades, this anti-sweep is different from the past, and the devils have gathered more troops than any previous sweep, so the brutality of the battle will be beyond imagination." Zhao Gang said with a solemn expression, "I don't want to deceive everyone, in this anti-sweeping operation, many comrades present will be sacrificed." ”

"Including me, as well as the regimental commander, there is a possibility of sacrifice."

"But what I want to tell you is that no matter how big the sacrifice is, it is the price we have to bear! Because we are soldiers, we shoulder the responsibility and mission of protecting the people and defending the land to resist the war! After a pause, he asked, "If you don't sacrifice us, do you sacrifice the fathers and villagers in the base area?" ”

The soldiers in the line responded violently: "No! ”

Then Li Yunlong said: "Brothers, I have only one sentence to say to you. ”

"The brave wins in the narrow road, and we must play the prestige of the independent regiment in this battle!"

"As the vanguard of the mobile column, our independent regiment must open a bloody road from Zhengtai Road to cover the safe transfer of the fathers and villagers in the base area to the Taiyue Military Region!"

"Listen up, it's all at all costs!"

"Even if there is only one person left in the whole regiment, we must continue to attack."

"The people of our independent regiment, even if they die, they will die on the way to the charge!"

"If anyone is afraid, I can give him a chance, let him take off his military uniform, hand over his weapons, and transfer with the people, I, Li Yunlong, will definitely not be difficult for him."

After a pause, he asked, "Is there any?" ”

The fighters responded with a bang: "No! No! No! ”

"Okay, they're all kind of men!" Li Yunlong said with satisfaction, "I have sharpened the bayonet for Lao Tzu, loaded the bullets, and then fed the war horse to Lao Tzu, and launched an attack on Zhengtai Road after dark!" ”

"Yes!" The more than 2,000 fighters in the formation responded again with a bang.

"Disbanded." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "Go back and prepare." ”

The soldiers in the formation immediately dispersed and went back to the dormitory to pack up.

Wang Ye was stopped by Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang: "Xiao Wang, you are late enough to come back, the troops are going to attack Zhengtai Road, and you will only come back on the dog's day." ”

Wang Ye didn't pick up this stubble, and said with a smile: "Commander, you still have a way, this pioneer, Captain Cheng, Captain Ding and Captain Kong, they can't rob you." ”

"That's it." Li Yunlong said with a smug face.

"Just a few of them dare to rob Lao Tzu? It's the opposite of the dog's day. ”

"However, then again, this battle is not easy to fight, you wolf squadron must not drop the chain for me, especially the four-root tank platoon, you must prepare 4 tanks for Lao Tzu!"

Wang Ye said: "Commander, don't worry, you will never drop the chain." ”

"Alright, let's get ready." Li Yunlong waved his hand.

Wang Ye also hurried back to the dormitory and packed up his weapons and equipment.

In the shortest possible time, I packed my bags and came to the back village again.

Li Sigen's wolf squad picked up the 4 tanks on the drying field in the back village.

In the past month or so, Li Sigen has been starting tanks at night every few days to ensure that the engines and wiring of the four tanks will not fail.

When Wang Ye arrived, the four tanks were once again activated.

As the engine roared, puffs of black smoke erupted from the exhaust holes.

"Captain, you're back." Seeing Wang Ye, Li Sigen immediately stepped forward.

Wang Ye nodded and asked, "Four, there's nothing wrong with the tank, right?" ”

"No problem." Li Sigen said, "The car is in good condition, and it can be put into battle at any time." ”

"Okay." Wang Ye said, "Fill up the fuel tank, and tie a barrel of diesel fuel to the back of the car." ”

The cruising range of the devil tank is only 200 kilometers, and a tank of fuel is not guaranteed to drive back, so it is better to carry a barrel of diesel fuel in the rear of the car, then it will definitely be no problem.

Li Sigen immediately led people to tie up the oil drums.

Four barrels of diesel fuel were quickly fixed at the rear of the car.

Wang Ye jumped on the ninety-seven style one by one.

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