Meng limped to Xia Yuan in annoyance, and the words of gratitude were not spoken, just two 'thank you'.

"You, you're still tsundere." Xia Yuan laughed and scolded Meng Annoying, this guy is always so proud, it is not easy to hear words of thanks from his mouth.

Meng was annoyed and touched his dirty hair, and limped away, the rout soldiers were very happy, Xia Yuan and Long Wenwen's hearts were heavier, the two gathered together, looked at the slopes around them, and were thinking about tonight's vigil.

The dragon article said: "The Japanese devils will not rest on their laurels, the airfield has been lost, and they will definitely attack the airfield again tonight." ”

Xia Yuan compared the little Japanese devil with the Yankees in his heart, both of them are remarkable, the Yankees fought fiercely during World War II, and they couldn't do it when they arrived at the battlefield to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was not a war to defend the country, the definition was wrong, and many soldiers in the US army were students, and their fighting spirit was not high.

The Japanese devils are very ferocious, they have lost their human form, and their tactical coordination is very good, they do not have the heavy firepower of the Yankees, but they can exert more unimaginable combat effectiveness than Xia Yuan by virtue of their powerful infantry and strong individual soldier quality and tactical coordination.

The tactical coordination of the defeated soldiers is not good, even after more than ten days of three-three system training, if they want to achieve the effect of the three-three system like the volunteer army, it is impossible to do without one or two months of strict training.

The Japanese devils want to fight, and with the current combat strength of the defeated soldiers, it is estimated that they will have to pay a lot of casualties to repel the attack of the Japanese army.

"It's really a tough confrontation with the Japanese devils, it is estimated that we will have to pay a lot of casualties, the terrain of the airport is not bad, and we have a lot of people, the Japanese devils will attack tonight with at most three squads, a company of soldiers, we should make good use of the surrounding terrain."

Xia Yuan said to Long Wenwen that the Japanese devils' forces in the rear were empty, and tonight's attack would not be too violent. The routs may seem to be on the passive side, but if they are carefully arranged and turned from passive to active, they can reduce the casualties of the routs.

Offense is the best defense, and there's nothing wrong with that. The casualties of the defense are huge, and the initiative of the offensive is on the own side, and the tactics can be arranged as you like to reduce the casualties caused by the attack of the troops.

"Turn reactive into proactive." Long Wenwen looked at him: "Are we going to leave the airport and fight the Japanese devils in the forest?" ”

"Our army is not good at fighting in the forest, and in positional warfare, our army lacks heavy firepower support, and the Japanese devils are equipped with individual grenadiers, which can effectively hit our army's heavy firepower, so whether it is a battle in the forest or a positional battle, we are all the losers, and our only advantage is our strength and firepower."

The strength of half a battalion, more than 300 people, in the rear of the empty Japanese troops, is already a considerable combat strength, and their regiment has four light and heavy machine guns.

Three Type 92 heavy machine guns, one Makqin heavy machine gun, the basic rifles equipped by the soldiers are Carbine rifles, Stern submachine guns, Thomson submachine guns supported by American allies and British allies, and there are seven or eight light machine guns of all kinds.

If you think about it, they actually have the advantage on their side.

"Fighting in the forest will only limit our advantage in heavy firepower, while the Japanese army's grenadiers and mortars can cover in all directions, whether it is in the forest or in the position, it will not be affected, so on the one hand, the operation in the forest will limit our strengths, which is equivalent to carrying forward the enemy's strengths, relying on the airfield to build firepower points, fortifications, and annihilate the little devils who come to attack."

Xia Yuan had an immature idea in his heart, "They are all veterans, and their combat effectiveness is very considerable, we should give full play to their strengths, the terrain of the airport is not bad, on that dirt slope there, we can build a machine gun position on it, and there are trenches around it as cover, maybe we can make a funnel so that the little Japanese devils can get in and can't get out." ”

Long Wenwen looked at Xia Yuan, his eyes swept over the airport in front of him, and asked, "Tuanzao, you already have a way to deal with it." ”

"Naturally, the heavy machine gun position built on the dirt slope in front is the bait, that position is a very good position, we place the heavy machine gun on the top, hide the rout on the left and right sides, and rush to the bait from the heavy machine gun position, as long as the Japanese devils attack the machine gun position, then the prey will be hooked, and the left and right wings can form a wall, and the machine gun position on the dirt slope forms the shape of a funnel."

Xia Yuan told Long Wenwen the general plan, "As long as you take people and block the only exit of this funnel, that is, the place where they come in, this Japanese army will not be able to escape." ”

Long Wenwen's face showed clarity, "Tuanzao, this plan is simply amazing." However, I don't feel that there is a need for manpower on the left and right wings, and the British are also our allies. ”

Xia Yuan's head was also very bright, knowing what Long Wenwen thought, a smile appeared on his face: "Okay, I know." ”

"The group is wise." Long Wenwen said with a smile.

The old gentleman commander was still in contact with the commander of the expeditionary force to determine the identities of the two, but as everyone knows, he has been targeted by the dirty thing of Long Wen.

Xia Yuan let Death come and go to build a machine gun position with Milong, found a few routers to serve as machine gunners and deputies, and arranged two squads and more than 20 soldiers on this dirt slope as bait.

Xia Yuan commanded them to dig trenches and prevent artillery fire, "The Japanese devils are small-caliber grenadiers, and the firepower points piled up with logs and sandbags can resist this small-caliber shells, but if the caliber is too large, the anti-artillery firepower points will still be blown up, but it is enough, the infantry of the Japanese devils do not have this kind of large-caliber cannons, and they themselves are sneak attacks." ”

The safety of the routs still had to be done, and the routs used logs to lay across the trenches, piled up sandbags with earth on top of them, and then buried them with mud, so that the field fortifications were ready.

Such field fortifications were able to withstand small-caliber mortars and grenadiers, and effectively protect the routed soldiers inside the firing points, but due to the time constraints, only four such firing points were built, each with a heavy machine gun and three deputies, and two squads of fighters were scattered around the dirt slope in a three-three system, and they would serve as decoys.

The British were on their right side, Xia Yuan and Long Wenwen had observed the fortifications built by this group of British, which were quite rudimentary, and the number of anti-artillery fortifications was very small, and it was estimated that they knew that they were going to retreat, so they didn't get too many field fortifications.

Long Wenwen scolded: "This group of British people pinned their hopes on us again, they thought that when the Japanese devils came, we would help them block them, and they would take advantage of the gap between us and the Japanese devils to retreat, this is the usual trick of the British, I don't know how many of us have been pitted, God will kill it." ”

Long Wenwen complained in his heart, but he didn't clean up this group of British, after all, they supported a lot of weapons and equipment of the expeditionary force, and they also contributed a lot of strength in the domestic war of resistance, the so-called strength is to support the Kuomintang weapons and equipment, and in the later period, the weapons and equipment of the Kuomintang gradually kept up.

"They have nothing to do here, they want to use our strength to hold the airport, if they don't use them, I'm really sorry for the soldiers of the expeditionary force who sacrificed."

Xia Yuan closed his eagle eye and said to Long Wen: "Let's go back, the position chosen by the British is really good, easy to defend and difficult to attack, no wonder they want to give us that warehouse, that position is the best location for night raids." ”

I have to say that the British have really good calculations, they have thought of all the plans and routes for their retreat as much as possible, and even arranged them together with their group of routs, giving up the places that are most vulnerable to night attacks to the routs to defend.

Xia Yuan only discovered this after comparing the positions held by the British army and the defeated soldiers, and I have to say that the abacus of this group of British people played very well.

Long Wen scolded the British for being an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, and didn't think about how to deal with the Japanese devils, but only thought about how to pit his teammates.

Xia Yuan is also very helpless about this, the reason why the Japanese devils can be so rampant in Dian-Burma is that the British have a big reason, as early as where the Japanese devils launched a war against Dian-Burma, the Kuomintang government had proposed to Yingjun the idea of reinforcing Dian-Burma, but the British army refused.

The British thought that once the Chinese entered Dian-Burma, they were likely to take away their colonies, so they did not agree to the request of the Kuomintang government to send troops to Dian-Burma, and then the Dian-Burma war was lost, the British army broke all the way, the British asked China for help, and the expeditionary force began to send troops to Korea, and the British did not think about how to cooperate with the expeditionary force to drive away small Japan, but how to use the expeditionary force to delay the Japanese army to complete the retreat.

Therefore, after one battle, the British began to run away at the beginning of the battle, resulting in the flank of the expeditionary force being exposed to the guns of the Japanese devils, and the expeditionary force was defeated.

After observing the terrain, the two returned to the warehouse where the defeated soldiers were stationed, and called the appointed platoon commanders over.

Li Wula, A Yi, and a few platoon commanders who later joined the Sichuan Army, they all had led soldiers and had experience in leading soldiers to fight, Xia Yuan continued to use them, also considering that other defeated soldiers did not have experience in leading troops to fight, Ah Yi was on the battlefield for the first time, but no matter how people said it, they were also trained in the officer training corps, even if they had no actual combat experience, at least the military rank was here, Xia Yuan did not plan to give A Yi soldiers, but let A Yi follow, watch, learn, and learn how to lead troops to fight.

"We have re-attacked the British airfield, the Japanese devils will not give up, tonight we will definitely organize troops to continue to attack the airfield, take this airfield, their own planes and fighters do not need to fly long distances, and can quickly support the front line, so the airfield is the target that the Japanese army will inevitably fight for."

Xia Yuan looked at the platoon commanders in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "It's just that the Dan-Burma War has been lost at this stage, and there is no need to hold the airport anymore, but the British are still here, if we leave, they will call our superiors with a phone call, and our heads will not be protected, so no matter what, this airport must be defended, at least until tonight passes, and then we will continue to set off." ”

Ah Yi said: "English allies, but our allies, if they don't fight their superiors, they will be blamed, this battle must be fought." ”

Li Wula said: "Commander, how you plan to fight, we listen to you." ”

The other platoon commanders spoke up one after another, expressing their approval.

Xia Yuan said: "Since everyone agrees, then let me talk about my plan, judging from the strength of the Japanese devils staying at the airport, the strength of the Japanese devils to attack the airport tonight will not be much higher than the two squads last night, and the large forces of the Japanese devils have been sent to the front line to pursue the defeated expeditionary force and the British army, so we are still lucky." ”

Xia Yuan looked at Long Wenwen, and Long Wenwen put a sketch in front of everyone, "This is the forest, this is the airport, this is the warehouse we guard, this is a dirt slope more than two hundred meters opposite the warehouse, and a machine gun fire position will be stationed here to attract the Japanese army attacking at night, and your task is to be responsible for the flank, that is, the direction of the warehouse." ”

"Torches from the machine gun position to attract the Japanese army, you will attack the Japanese from the left flank, and I will block the retreat route of the Japanese army, form a three-sided encirclement, and eat this Japanese army."

A group of platoon commanders, you look at me, I look at you, with incredulity in their eyes, Long Wenwen actually thought that it was not to repel the Japanese army, but to think about how to eat this Japanese army, they were surprised at the same time, and there was a trace of worry in their hearts, the perennial rout made them have a fear of war in their hearts, and the rampant of the Japanese army was deeply imprinted in their minds, although they didn't say it, but in fact, there was no bottom in their hearts.

Xia Yuan saw their worries and said: "Japanese devils are also people, a bullet can kill them, from the emptiness of the Japanese army's rear troops, it can basically be inferred that the number of Japanese troops attacking the airfield at night tonight will not be too many, two hundred people will be killed, and we have three hundred, and there is also the help of the British army on the flank, surrounded on all sides, this Japanese army cannot escape." ”

After a pause, Xia Yuan said again: "Don't forget, the weapons and equipment we have have reached the level of elite troops, even surpassing the Japanese army, we were able to eat one hundred and fifty people last night, and we will be able to eat two hundred people tonight!" ”

Ah Yi stammered and encouraged them: "Tuanza is right, with the allies of England assisting us, tonight's victory belongs to us, and the victory must belong to us." ”

The platoon commanders expressed their positions one after another, but their attitudes were not very resolute, and they didn't know if they would win, but the appearance of Long Wenwen and Xia Yuan brought them a little hope, which would only disappear with a defeat.

(End of chapter)