Xia Yuan didn't have much time to run in with the new battalion, and after saying goodbye to Zhu Chi and Gao Zhisong, he went to the troops, and then followed the troops to the location where Sun Yuanliang came out to set up defenses.

Sun Yuanliang gave them a lot of material support.

Cement and barbed wire are readily available.

At present, it is not known whether it will be too late to build a concrete bunker.

Xia Yuan also did his best to use all the things he had experienced and learned in the construction of the position, especially in the construction of the cat's ear hole, and even used wood and cement, he thought, instead of consuming a lot of cement and building a hard cement bunker, it is better to set up more cat's ear holes to hide and avoid shells.

The Japanese offensive mode was simple, that is, the use of aircraft and heavy artillery bombardment.

The construction of cat's ear holes is much more important than the construction of cement bunkers.

The installation of barbed wire is also very particular.

The Japanese army preferred to coordinate with the infantry and tanks, so the wire could not be set too far forward, and it was necessary to be close to their forward positions. And within fifty meters in front of the barbed wire, anti-tank trenches were to be dug.

In this way, when the Japanese tanks approached the position, they would get stuck in the anti-tank trenches and could not move.

The Japanese infantry could only break away from the tanks and attack the positions of the national army, so that the barbed wire could face the Japanese infantry.

As for whether the barbed wire fence will be blown up in the Japanese bombing, it is inevitable.

Therefore, Xia Yuan adopted another way, this method was once in "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", he led the rout to hold the Nantianmen, and once arranged a fake position on the Nantianmen to confuse the Japanese planes and artillery, and succeeded.

So, this trick can actually be used in the moment.

He ordered people to go to about six miles in front of Yuhuatai, found a hill with a relatively good view and a relatively good position, dug a criss-crossing trench, said it was a trench, it was better to say that it was a ditch, up to the knee position, and asked people to go to Zhu Chi and Gao Zhisong to borrow some tattered military uniforms, two wooden sticks tied into a cross, casually put on a jacket, and inserted it into the trench.

Xia Yuan has already used this kind of false position structure once, and if he uses it again, it is naturally handy.

The false position was used to confuse the Japanese army.

Xia Yuan not only set up a fake position, but set up two, as the so-called soldiers are not tired of cheating, the role of these two fake positions is to confuse the Japanese army, and the real positions are behind the two fake positions. The Japanese air force and Japanese scouts will be the first to discover the false position, and carry out a round of artillery bombardment on the false position, after which the Japanese infantry will board the false position.

False positions will be exposed.

When the shells were consumed, the time wasted, and the two positions were found to be fake, the Japanese army must have been angry at this time.

Therefore, behind the two fake positions, there is a real position.

The location of Yuhuatai is too eye-catching, and in order to give the defenders a wide field of vision, Commander Tang has cut down and burned many trees on the mountain, and the entire mountain is bare, including the road for the Japanese devils to attack, is also bare.

In this way, the national army will be exposed, and the Japanese army will be exposed.

No matter how the position is hidden, it cannot be hidden.

Xia Yuan didn't plan to hide, the angry Japanese army found the third position, there was a half probability that they would shell the position, and then the infantry attacked, and half the probability was to ignore it, this was their chance.

Of course, regardless of the former, or the latter, this is bound to be an uphill battle.

In addition, Xia Yuan also spent a lot of thought about the structure of his position, considering that once the war started, the Japanese army would inevitably shell the position, and the barbed wire would be blown up if it was close to the position, so he moved the barbed wire forward for a distance, but he did not move too far.

The barbed wire fence was moved too far to be effective.

The function of the barbed wire fence is to block the advance of the Japanese army, the closer the position is set up from the position, the more advantageous it is, the Japanese army wants to break the barbed wire needs time, at this time, the soldiers of the national army can shoot the Japanese sappers who destroy the barbed wire, if the barbed wire is set up too far, many soldiers can not shoot.

Whether it is the local army or the central army, it is still a huge problem in consuming ammunition and conducting target shooting training.

It's not comparable to the Japanese devils.

Xia Yuan also knew in his heart that the distance of the barbed wire fence was actually of little significance, and it was set up farther, but when the Japanese army attacked in the first round, the Japanese artillery and aircraft could not bomb it.

Repelled the Japanese attack, and by the time of the second round of shelling, the Japanese knew the location of the barbed wire. The barbed wire could not be moved, and the Japanese artillery bombardment was just right.

To some extent, it was also possible to consume Japanese artillery shells.

The location of the position is directly in front of Yuhuatai, and it is also the only way for the Japanese army to attack, Xia Yuan did not have time to be too familiar with the troops, so the strength of the three companies was placed on the position in an inverted zigzag, and the three companies were used as reserves and were responsible for support.

Xia Yuan followed the first company, sticking to the front of the road, which must be the center of gravity of the Japanese attack, and the position of the second company was relatively complicated, with villages and a small hill, in the face of the Japanese attack, he could take advantage of the terrain and maneuver with the Japanese army.

It can be said that the pressure of a row is the greatest.

Xia Yuan put more than half of the light machine guns of the whole battalion on the position of the first company, which was destined to be a difficult blocking battle.

The Japanese devil's troops have not yet come, and on the fake position in front, Xia Yuan arranged two squads of troops, which can be used not only for reconnaissance and vigilance, but also for harassing the Japanese army.

Battalion.

Xia Yuan, who was covered in wind and frost, had just returned from the position, and the deputy battalion commander You Xuechang was looking at the map, and when he saw Xia Yuan coming back, he greeted him: "Camp seat." ”

Xia Yuan shook his body, walked to the map, and said: "The cat's ear holes are almost dug, but this machine gun bunker is almost meaningful, the cement is drying too slowly, I am worried that the Japanese devils will come, and the cement has not dried yet." ”

"This cement can't dry, there's no way, it's too cold." You Xuechang closed the door, and the cold wind outside blew freezing, and the faces of the people who were cut were painful.

The sun used to come out, but these days, the weather conditions are not good, and it is gloomy.

There are good and bad, at least when it is cloudy, it will have a certain impact on the planes of the Japanese devils. There is no sun, and it does affect the dry and hard changes of cement, it takes time, Xia Yuan does not have a good way to do this, if it is in modern times, you can add some modern unique things to accelerate the solidification of cement.

In December, it was getting colder and colder day by day, You Xuechang listened to the wind blowing in through the crack in the door, and said: "The Japanese devil is really good at picking time, the weather is so cold, and he has to fight Jinling." ”

He found unwanted clothes, stuffed them in the crack of the door, and ran to the stove sent by the military commander, and poured hot water for Xia Yuan: "It's cold outside, camp, you drink some tea and warm up." ”

"They want to take China down in one go." Xia Yuan thanked him, took the hot water handed over by You Xuechang, took a sip and put it in front of the map, pinched his waist, and said: "When the Japanese devils started the war, they rampantly said that they wanted to destroy China in three months, and some radicals even tried to destroy China in one month, they were wishful thinking. The Battle of Songhu dragged on for three months, and these guys were anxious and wanted to wipe us out in one go. ”

"It's too arrogant, what do you think of our China!" You Xuechang scolded, "We must not let them pass through our position so easily!" ”

"Even if you don't say it, I won't let them pass through our position so easily, and if they want to pass, they will have to pay some price."

Xia Yuan picked up the hot water, drank it all, put down the water glass, and looked cold.

No matter where he is or what his identity is, as long as he is facing an enemy, Xia Yuan will never cheat and cheat, but will do his best.

When the Japanese army had not yet reached the Yuhuatai position, Xia Yuan led the officers and soldiers to seize the time and use the terrain to build trenches, barbed wire, cat's ear holes and reinforced concrete pillboxes that were as dense as spider webs. The rear gave them a lot of resource support, and Xia Yuan could also let it go.

The inside of the cat's ear hole is poured with cement, and the solidity is improved, and the Japanese army's heavy artillery can't tear through the defense of the cat's ear hole, which can effectively preserve the troops.

The so-called cat's ear hole is a kind of most ordinary battlefield shelter fortification, under normal circumstances, built on both sides of the trench or traffic trench, the arched semicircular door, about one meter high, dozens of centimeters wide, the depth and length are different, the small one is only for one person, the large one can accommodate three or five people, its function is mainly used for anti-artillery, hiding, storage ammunition and so on.

Cat ear piercing was also taught to Zhu Chi and Gao Zhisong by Xia Yuan.

37 years, the cat ear hole has not yet been formed, many people do not know the excavation of the cat ear hole, to put it bluntly, it is a small anti-artillery hole, no material is needed, a few pieces of wood can be dug up, the hole is small and narrow, shaped like a cat.

Xia Yuan's excavation of the cat's ear hole was praised by Zhu Chi and Gao Zhisong, in the Yuhuatai position, both of them ordered someone to dig the cat's ear hole, so that there is no need to put the ammunition in the storage room of the pillbox, and the soldiers in the trench can take war materials and ammunition from the cat's ear hole at any time.

In the event of Japanese shelling, you can also hide in the cat's ear hole to avoid the Japanese shelling.

It's just that many soldiers in the army are not optimistic about this so-called cat ear hole, the cat ear hole does not look big, only a small hole in the side wall of the trench can hide from the Japanese heavy artillery? Somewhat whimsical, many people are not optimistic, in fact, Zhu Chi and Gao Zhisong are not good at cat ear piercing, praising that cat ear piercing can store weapons and ammunition, which is convenient for soldiers to take.

As for what Xia Yuan said, the Japanese army bombed the position and threw bombs, and it could hide in the cat's ear hole, which could effectively avoid the Japanese bombing.

They weren't too bullish.

There is no problem in being a general of the national army and commanding a war, and even many generals have their own talents.

Digging a hole in the side wall of the trench once thought, but in the face of heavy artillery and aircraft bombardment, they subconsciously did not think that they could avoid the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese army.

Who would have thought that only a small hole in the side wall of the trench would be needed to hide from the Japanese shelling.

Xia Yuan knew quite well that in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam in later generations, the development of cat ear piercing reached its peak, and even a group of special soldiers appeared because of cat ear piercing-cat ear piercing people.

Cat ear hole refers to a kind of anti-artillery hole and air-raid shelter similar to the shape of cat ear, which is a kind of military protective fortification for individual combat. Stepping into the old mountain, the "two mountains" war zone in Zhiyin, almost the mountains have trenches, trenches have holes, and there are people in the caves. The trench extends vertically and horizontally along the mountain, and the hole is dug into the hinterland of the mountain according to the wall of the trench, the trench is like a longitude and weft, and the hole is like a cat's ear.

This kind of limestone cave is hard and strong, and thousands of tons of shells can not help it. There are thousands of such holes in the mountains, and hundreds and thousands of armed men are hidden in them on both sides. The closest distance is only 4 or 5 meters away, but they can attack and defend each other.

The largest hole could hold a company, the smallest could only allow one person to crouch inside, and it had to be the smallest soldier. The average cat ear piercing can accommodate 3 to 4 people. Many soldiers of our army squatted in this cold and damp hole all year round, sticking to their posts.

These guards, who shoulder heavy responsibilities, call themselves "cat ear piercing people".

Among them, the most famous is Yin Guoliang, who is known as the king of cat ear piercing.

According to his archives, Yin Guoliang, 30 years old, platoon commander. The medical records record that he suffered from gastrointestinal diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, suffered two injuries, and left the sequelae of concussion. From February 1979 to March 1986, he squatted in a cat's ear hole for seven years.

Every hole he squatted in was in the worst condition, the light was dim, the air was humid, and the walls of the cave were seeping with water droplets, filled with a strong musty smell, these things brought Yin Guoliang a series of incurable diseases, collectively known as "cat ear hole disease". ”

Cat ear piercing has played a miraculous role in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. Let the cat ear hole come to the defense of Jinling early, although the current soldiers feel that the cat ear hole effect is average, but really experience the cat ear hole anti-artillery ability, will not feel so.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.

On the afternoon of December 8, the Japanese 110th Division approached Yuhuatai from the direction of Lishui.

The scouts from the front reported that they had discovered the vanguard of the Japanese army, about the strength of a squadron with four tanks, along the dirt road, towards Yuhuatai.

"Inform the officers and men in the false positions in front of them that if the Japanese army uses artillery bombardment, let them retreat immediately, and if the enemy does not shell, but reconnoiters first, let them shoot themselves to attract the Japanese army."

"Yes!"

The scout leaves.

It didn't take long.

There was a deafening roar ahead.

The rumbling sound came from the rolling hills ahead, Xia Yuan stood at the entrance of the battalion department, opened his eagle eye, and saw the Japanese planes hovering in the sky, indiscriminately bombing and low-altitude strafing the two false positions found in front.

"Yingzuo, you are really a god, you just made two fake positions, the Japanese devils are really fooled." You Xuechang looked at it with a telescope and said happily.

Xia Yuan was not happy, things were a little unexpected, he thought that the two fake positions could withstand the bombing of the Japanese two-wheeled aircraft.

Who would have thought that the Japanese planes would be separated and bomb the two false positions separately, so that the Japanese artillery basically did not need to be dispatched.

His original intention was to delay the Japanese attack with two false positions.

Roll up your sleeves and glance at the time.

"There are still four or five hours before it gets dark, and the Japanese devils are bound to launch a tentative attack." Xia Yuan turned his head and said to You Xuechang: "Old You, you go to the second company position to keep an eye on, and I will go to the first company position." ”

Xia Yuan decided to go on it himself.