Yang Village.

Separate regiment war room.

Including political commissar Zhao Gang, regiment commander Li Yunlong, and chief of staff Zhang Dabiao, more than 10 battalion-level members of the all-independent regiment were holding a meeting.

The purpose of this meeting was to assign combat missions.

"Judging from the news of the front-line reconnaissance, after the Yamashima Wing entered the mountain, the march was very cautious."

李云龙 says:

"Everywhere we go, we will first alternately reconnoitre, occupy them one by one, and cover and advance."

"I want to ambush, I don't have any chance."

Ambush warfare is not easy to fight.

The reason why the independent regiment has been able to press the devil's head and beat the ground with a pestle in the past few months, and the ambush battles have added up to more than 1,000 devils, all thanks to the good cooperation of the locust army.

But after suffering so many losses, the devil can be regarded as understanding the situation, no longer arrogant, and has come up with the level and attitude that a modern army should have.

alternate reconnaissance, sequential occupation, cover advance tactics,

Coupled with the size of a wing, with the strength of a separate regiment, there was practically no possibility of an ambush.

However, Li Yunlong does not plan to play ambush this time.

"This time, the artillery of the Devil's Mountain Island Wing is very strong."

"There are six 41-type mountain cannons!"

He continued.

Although it was said that the devil's artillery was powerful, Li Yunlong's voice did not have a trace of nervousness.

Even with a hint of disdain?

"Four-one mountain cannon!"

Zhao Gang also repeated the name of the devil's artillery, there was no nervousness in his tone, and finally smiled.

Quadruple mountain artillery.

The prototype is the Krupp M1908 gun, which was produced by the devil after introducing technology in 1908 and making a few adaptation improvements.

The gun weighed 540 kilograms, had a range of six kilometers, and could be disassembled into six parts.

It is also one of the mountain artillery with the largest number of equipment of all parties in the Republic of China, because the Taiyuan Arsenal, Shenyang Arsenal, and Hanyang Arsenal have been imitated, and the number is very large.

Six artillery pieces, which is equivalent to half a devil artillery brigade!

It can play a major role on the battlefield.

But after all, the 41 mountain cannon is only a cannon more than 30 years ago, and now the technology is very backward, and the preserved fruit planned to replace it with the Bofors mountain cannon, but the funds are not enough and it has not succeeded.

Moreover, the 41 type is still a mountain gun, and although the easily disassembled structure enhances mobility, it also reduces the firing range, firing range and accuracy.

In addition, the manufacturing process of the devil is not good.

In fact, the accuracy range is only five kilometers, and the further it goes, the accuracy of the shells will drop sharply.

Today, the Independent Regiment has 120 82-mm mortars with a range of 3.5 km, and it is almost no difficulty to suppress only six 41-type mountain guns in the complex terrain of the mountainous area.

Not to mention.

The Type 41 mountain grenade is only 5.7 kg.

Sufficiently thick civil fortifications can almost be ignored.

"Third battalion commander."

Li Yunlong looked at the third battalion commander.

"Yes."

The commander of the third battalion immediately saluted.

"The Xiazhuang stronghold is guarded by two companies of your battalion, and your task is to be a nail, nailed to the Xiazhuang stronghold."

Li Yunlong repeated the emphasis.

If you can't ambush, then don't ambush, let's have a head-on attack, but before that, Li Yunlong has to frustrate the devil's sharpness, so that the devil can also feel the difficulty of hitting the stronghold.

"Yes!"

The third battalion commander's voice was loud and full of confidence.

···

Xiazhuang stronghold.

The 1st and 2nd companies of the 3rd Battalion were building positions.

At present, the establishment of one infantry company of the independent regiment is 165 people, and the total strength of the two companies is 330 people, plus the battalion headquarters of the three battalions, the battalion belongs to the artillery platoon, and the total strength of the garrison at the Xiazhuang stronghold is 400 people.

But that's just for the infantry.

There was also an artillery company with a total number of 150 people and ten 82 mortars under the command of the 3rd Battalion to assist in the defense of the Xiazhuang stronghold.

In other words, the total strength of the Xiazhuang stronghold has reached 520 people.

The Xiazhuang stronghold was designed to accommodate only 200 troops, and the defense target was still the Eighth Route Army, which lacked artillery to attack fortified artillery.

But this time it was the devil's infantry wing that attacked Yangcun, with six mountain guns and three infantry guns, and the firepower was sufficient.

Therefore, after receiving the task of defending the Xiazhuang stronghold, the commander of the third battalion first led the team to build a position.

In the middle, it is centered on the main body of the original devil's stronghold, and a multi-level circular fortification group is built, with trenches, pillboxes, tunnels, concealment departments, and ammunition depots.

On the periphery, there are ordinary positions layer by layer, but there are machine gun bunkers, communication trenches, foxholes, and anti-artillery holes.

The three battalions have enough time and enough manpower, so they can naturally build a solid and suitable bunker.

And with a reasonable range of firepower at all levels.

Of course, there is another major reason, and that is that the material is sufficient.

Civil fortifications, three materials are required.

Dirt, sandbags, wood!

Soil, this is Jinzhong, loess is everywhere, how much to have.

Sandbags, in fact, should be said to be dirt bags, after all, sand is commonly found in riverbeds and deserts, and soil is everywhere, most of the time, after the burlap bags are filled with soil, it is what is usually called sandbags.

The burlap bag can be produced by itself based on the base, and the output is very large, and the burlap bag is also the only thing in the system that is given in unlimited quantities, so it can be said that there are as many as you want.

Wood is the most troublesome.

Although Xiazhuang is located in the Taiyue Mountains, the vegetation is not luxuriant, the Taiyue Mountains to the densely vegetated area is in Lingxian County, plus the people have been clearing the land for thousands of years, and using wood to heat and cook, making the vegetation relatively scarce.

This is especially true for thick logs that are suitable for building positions.

As the main supporting and stressing structure of the civil engineering position, the quality and quantity of timber are related to whether the position can withstand the bombardment of the devil's 75 mountain artillery without collapsing.

The wood should be as coarse as possible and the quantity should be large.

Otherwise, the position will collapse without logs, and it will collapse as soon as it comes down, no matter how deep it is, it is just a grave dug for yourself.

In the past, building positions and finding suitable timber was the biggest headache for battalion and company commanders.

But this time...

"Three floors."

"The wooden layers should be densely arranged and fastened with claw nails."

"A layer of wood and a layer of soil, all of them must have three layers, and one layer cannot be missing!"

The commander of the third battalion highlighted an arrogance, emphasizing that timber must not be missing.

Listening to the repeated instructions of the commander of his third battalion, Ma Rongshun shook the crumbs in his hair, and then joined forces with several soldiers to put the thick logs into the position one by one and fix them.

Finally, fill in the soil layer and fix.

Soon, the anti-artillery hole of the three-story civil structure was formed under the construction of Ma Rongshunban.

"This has to be able to protect against the 105 guns, right?"

Looking at the thick logs in front of him and the layers of sandbag soil structures, Ma Rongshun recalled the teaching in the infantry tactics course: the best civil fortifications are able to prevent direct hits from 105 grenades.

At present, the anti-artillery holes and trenches built by his squad were built in strict accordance with the requirements, and dozens of long logs thicker than his head were used, as well as hundreds of wooden beams of other sizes.

According to the knowledge of infantry tactics, even if it is hit by a 105 grenade, the position in front of you can still work.

As for the anti-artillery holes, three layers of densely arranged logs, plus hundreds of bags of sandbags, hiding inside, he was sure that 105 grenades would be fine with two consecutive hits.

It's not that I haven't seen the power of the devil's 105 grenade.

The earth layer also absorbs the shock, preventing the soldiers hiding inside from being shocked to death.

Unless there are more 105 grenades in a row, or a larger caliber of artillery, you can kill and injure the soldiers inside the anti-artillery hole.

However, the bombs of the devil's plane could not be prevented.

That's got reinforced concrete fortifications.

"I wish the little devil would come sooner!"

In Ma Rongshun's class, a soldier rubbed his hands in an expectant tone.

"Damn, if there was this fortification back then, labor and management would not have been captured by devils."

There was a recruit who cursed.

This is a soldier of the Central Army who was rescued by the regiment commander from the Liaoxian prisoner of war camp and captured by the devils in the Battle of Xinkou.

Obviously, the fortifications made with their own hands were full of materials, giving the soldiers a sufficient sense of security, and no one was afraid of the upcoming devil infantry wing with nine guns!

Even, I am looking forward to the next devil's attack!

"Battalion commander, where did you get all this wood?"

"It's all good wood."

Finally, someone finally asked the doubts in the hearts of all the warriors.

Everyone saw that the position built by the third battalion in Xiazhuang estimated that tens of thousands of pieces of wood were used.

Among them, the ones that can be used as the main beams of the house are thicker than the heads of adults, and there are thousands of long logs that have to be sold in the market for several oceans.

Where did so much wood come from?

"I don't know, the regiment commander got it!"

The commander of the third battalion was also confused.

This timber was transported by the regiment's logistics supply department for the militia transport team.

As for where it came from, he doesn't know!

···

"Why wood?"

In the headquarters of the Independent League, Zhao Gang also asked this question.

In June, unsurprisingly, the independent regiment's material list review was excellent, and Boss Lu gave a material to apply for.

Weapons and equipment, there is no longer in the list that can enter Zhao Gang's eyes.

He kind of wanted a heavy machine gun, compared to the light machine gun, the heavy machine gun is more stable due to the tripod, the range and accuracy are higher, the barrel is heavier, the shooting duration is better, and the suppression ability is far greater than that of the light machine gun.

Great for defensive battles.

But whether it is the devil's 92 type or the German MG08, they are too heavy, and the independent regiment emphasizes sports warfare. Even in positional warfare, mortars are much more effective than heavy machine guns.

It is expected that Boss Lu said that in the future, there will be large-caliber heavy machine guns from the United States -- large-caliber heavy machine guns that can fight infantry when they are flattened, can fight planes when they are raised, and can be used to fight tanks when they are lowered.

So Zhao Gang gave up the idea of equipping himself with a heavy machine gun.

But contrary to Zhao Gang's expectations, Li Yunlong chose wood this time.

All kinds of wood!

It can even be preliminarily processed wood.

In fact, in the list of existing materials, although there are no steel bars, there are cement, all kinds of medicines, and canned meat, all of which are urgently needed by the troops.

Not to mention the fact that there are military horses.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Li Yunlong smiled smugly and explained:

"First, we need a lot of wood to build a position and build a warehouse."

"Secondly, the troops of our Taiyue Military Region have been greatly expanded, and a large number of mules have been obtained, and we urgently need to expand the canteen, dormitory, and stables."

"In winter, you can also burn firewood for warmth."

Positions need to be supported by wood, caves and warehouses need to be supported by wood, stables need to be built with wood, houses need wood to make beams, and even walls.

"Indeed."

Zhao Gang nodded.

For a troop, not only weapons and equipment are needed, but also food, clothing, shelter and transportation are indispensable.

The food is enough for the time being, and the improvement of getting canned meat is not much, and in the future, it is enough to wear, winter military uniforms, summer military uniforms can be changed casually. After the construction of the 386th Brigade's logistics supply center, more than 100,000 sets of military uniforms and shoes have been received.

Winter clothing will be discussed in winter.

The march in the base area mainly relies on two legs, even if the independent regiment has two horses per capita, it will take several months for the soldiers of the independent regiment to learn to ride horses.

The rest is to live.

The army really needs to build a large number of dormitories, canteens, and stables, and it is impossible to live in the homes of ordinary people all the time, and it is also troublesome to manage tens of thousands of people, and it is easy to violate discipline.

Although Boss Lu has cement in his list, there is a lack of sand and gravel around Yang Village, and the troops are not skilled in the use of cement, so it is true that wood is better.

With enough wood, the troops can quickly build all kinds of houses without fear of destruction by devils. Anyway, if the timber is rebuilt, as long as there are enough materials and manpower, more than a dozen warehouse buildings can be erected in a day.

There is a shortage of other talent bases, but there is absolutely no shortage of carpenters.

Li Yunlong continued:

"I got the news from the headquarters that the devils began to carry out the so-called three-light policy in the plain base area."

"Three-light policy."

Zhao Gang flashed.

Burn it all, kill it all, grab it all!

Vicious!

"With our current strength, it is impossible to keep the devils out, although before the devils come, we can transfer the people and property, but the houses cannot be taken away."

"The devil will definitely destroy."

"We can't let people go without a house."

Li Yunlong is also murderous:

"With the timber, after driving away the devils, we can immediately repair the houses for the common people."

"Let's see if the devil destroys it quickly, or if we repair it quickly."

"Or, the devil consumed Brother Lu's wood."

"Hahaha..."

Zhao Gang suddenly laughed.

Drain Boss Lu's wood?

···

Meanwhile.

The mountain island wing on the march received a telegram:

"Report."

"The headquarters of the First Army telegraphed, according to aerial reconnaissance, that in the original Xiazhuang stronghold, a large number of Eighth Route Army troops were being constructed."

"Stronghold?"

"Fortifications?"

Hearing this news, Yamashima suddenly sneered:

"Dirt Eight Road wants to block me with a stronghold?"

"What a foolishness!"

This time, the Wing Commander not only strengthened his artillery force, but also allocated four base shells for each mountain gun, that is, each gun had three hundred and twenty shells.

A total of 1,980 rounds of 75-mm grenades.

Those civil fortifications that lacked the main timber structure could easily be flattened!

"Order the engineering unit to find a suitable artillery position first, and after the brigade arrives at the attack position, the artillery brigade will immediately begin to shell the Xiazhuang stronghold."

"I'm going to let Dirt Eight Road know what real artillery is!"

Yamashima gave the order.

(End of chapter)