"Quickly... move another thirty sandbags and build a simple fire point here. This fire point will form a cross fire with the two fire points next to it. Two foxholes will be dug here as auxiliary cover."
"You all remember, this airport is our lifeline. As long as the airport is there, we have hope. Once the airport is gone, we are really doomed."
At the airport, Gao Jiwen pointed at the engineers who were still building fortifications in full swing and gave instructions to the Liushu people.
The Liushu man beat his chest loudly: "Master, please put your heart in your stomach. As long as I, Old Liu, are still breathing, I can't throw them away at the airport, otherwise you will take off my head!"
"You kid, don't do this to me. Your head is worthless to me. I only want the airport!"
Willow Man said loudly: "I understand... we must protect the airport!"
The Gaoji people turned around and looked around. Although it had only been two days, this place, which originally had only one earthen runway and was not even a field airport, already looked like a decent place. The three runways paved with steel plates were like straight arrows.
Point to the distance.
Among the three runways, the leftmost and middle ones are slightly shorter, only more than 500 meters long, while the rightmost runway is the longest, fully 1,300 meters long.
As for why the repairs were carried out so quickly, the reason is very simple, because since yesterday morning, more than ten JU-52 transport planes have been flying back and forth between Donggu and Yangon.
Not only did they bring the Marston perforated steel plates for paving the runway and the weapons, ammunition and medicines that the 200 Division urgently needed, they also took away hundreds of seriously injured people when they returned.
With the Marston perforated steel plate, the construction of the runway has become much simpler.
The engineers only needed to repair the ground a little and lay perforated steel plates, and a runway for propeller aircraft to take off and land was built. The principle was the same as building blocks, so that by the third day, one had three runways.
This is how the runway airport was built.
After possessing the long runway, Gao Hongming did not hesitate at all. Dozens of C47 transport planes that had been prepared immediately took off from Liantai.
When the first batch of C47 transport planes loaded with personnel and supplies landed at the newly built airport, the Gaoji people who had been waiting here were overjoyed. Now he took time out of his busy schedule to come to the airport just to receive the first batch of reinforcements.
Yes, it was reinforcements. When he heard that there were reinforcements, Gao Jiwen, who had been in Tonggu for more than three months and never complained no matter how hard it was, immediately turned red.
What do lone soldiers fear most?
Of course, there is no food inside and no reinforcements outside, but as long as the communication with the outside is kept open, the wounded can be transported out, and reinforcements can come in, the morale of the troops can be maintained.
"Buzz buzz..."
Another aircraft fleet appeared in the sky, and its scale was larger than the aircraft fleets seen in the past two days... The reinforcements that the soldiers of the 200 Division had been waiting for day and night finally arrived.
"Reporting to the commander... Wu Chengfeng, deputy commander of the Liantai Militia and commander of the first battalion, and You Tianliang, commander of the third battalion, have been ordered to report. Please give instructions!"
Looking at the nearly forty-year-old lieutenant colonel and the major on the other side, Gao Jiwen's first words were: "Deputy Commander Wu, how many of you are here this time?"
"Sir, we have two battalions here, totaling 1,526 people!"
"More than 1,500 people?" Gao Jiwen frowned slightly. The number seemed a bit small, and then asked: "What about the next batch? How many people can come?"
"Sir, that's all for now."
Wu Chengfeng shook his head, "The order I received was to lead two battalions to fly overnight from Shanxi on transport planes for reinforcements. Moreover, Chief Gao did not say anything about follow-up reinforcements."
"Only two battalions?"
Gao Jiwen's heart sank. Before he could speak, Liu Shuren on the side couldn't help but said: "Deputy Commander Wu, this is too few, isn't it? Such a few people are not enough to fight for a day!"
"Willow Man, shut up!" Gao Jiwen glared, "How do you talk? Do you talk to the brothers who come for reinforcements like this?"
"No...Master, it's not that I, the old willow dog, bites Lu Dongbin and doesn't recognize good people. It's really that the little devil's offensive is too fierce now. Just this morning we just collected a company of reinforcements to reinforce the 599th Regiment, which lasted less than two days."
It was all gone within an hour.
I just want to ask, how long can the more than a thousand people brought by Deputy Commander Wu last?"
Hearing this, Gao Jiwen, who had scolded Liushuren just now, sighed lightly. As the attrition of the troops became more serious, the position of the 200th Division became smaller and smaller. The company that reinforced the 599th Regiment this morning was still one he had managed to get from the division headquarters.
Logistics was cobbled together.
I originally expected to be able to hold on for a while, but I didn't expect that they were all gone before noon. No wonder Willow Man was so rude. If it didn't work, he would have no choice but to recruit people from the Engineer Corps.
But if the Engineer Corps recruits people, what will happen to the airport? Now the airport is their last resort. Once the construction of the airport stops, if something goes wrong, the 200 Division will be really doomed.
Wu Chengfeng spoke: "Commander Gao, don't worry, Commander Liu. Although our regiment only sent two of our battalions, the airport has been initially completed.
If anything happens, we can still request reinforcements from the headquarters. I believe the commander-in-chief will not ignore us.
Besides, it’s not that I underestimate the little devil, they want to eat our two battalions in one day, but they are afraid that they don’t have such good teeth! Please give the order now!"
Seeing Wu Chengfeng's slightly arrogant expression, Gao Jiwen and Liu Shuren looked at each other.
Liu Shuren wanted to say a few more words, but when he saw Wu Chengfeng's confident look, he swallowed his words back. People came all the way to come for reinforcements. It would be very bad of him to say depressing words to hurt people again.
Gao Jiwen was silent for a moment, "Okay, since Deputy Commander Wu, since you said so, then I won't say anything else... Now I give the order!"
"Snapped!"
Wu Chengfeng stood at attention and looked at Gao Jiwen.
"In view of the fact that both the commander and deputy commander of the 599th Regiment have been killed, I now order to temporarily take over the position of commander of the 599th Regiment. Now you leave a battalion and lead a battalion to reinforce Kunsha Street. You must stay there firmly and do not give any orders.
You are not allowed to retreat, do you understand?"
"yes!"
Wu Chengfeng saluted loudly, ran to the assembled battalion, and shouted loudly. Then, more than 700 people in the battalion, led by a staff officer who acted as a guide, ran towards the Tonggu City, which was under fire.
go.
Looking at the neat formations of the Liantai militia soldiers, who were well built and carrying various weapons, Liu Shuren's eyes showed envy, and he licked his tongue and praised them.
"It is said that the Liantai Militia is a veritable Gao family army. Their treatment and equipment are among the best. I didn't quite believe it before, but now I believe it."
"What's the use of having good equipment? You have to be able to fight." Gao Jiwen said, looking at the traces of Wu Chengfeng and others with a look of expectation in his eyes.