The morning light shone through the gaps between the branches and leaves on Niushou Mountain. A series of cars stopped at the foot of the mountain, and Zhang Sixing jumped out of the car.
"Niushou Mountain, also called Niutou Mountain, was the place where Yue Fei defeated Jin Wushu. Do you know who Yue Fei is?"
The one who jumped down after Zhang Guoxing was Yelena. This woman had a camera in her hand and a video recorder hanging around her neck. She was also wearing combat gear, but without weapons.
"Humph, why don't I know? I studied well in the concession."
While the woman was talking to Zhang Sixing in the soft Shanghainese dialect spoken in the concession, she raised her head and started shooting at Niushou Mountain.
The car behind me stopped, and a large number of empty-handed people in civilian clothes jumped out.
They were escorted up the mountain by soldiers wearing new combat gear and ostrich boots. Those were Lu Feizhou's men, and they were also the fastest-moving troops in Zhang Sixing's hands.
Then came Hansen with more than thirty cavalrymen. There was no way that cowboys just liked riding horses. When they got to Zhang Sixing's side, the guy jumped off his horse. Looking at the huge hilly area, he complained without confidence.
"Sir, with more than three thousand of us, there is no way we can defend such a large area of hills."
Zhang Sixing shrugged and replied,
"Don't worry, this is the outer defense line of Jinling City. We can't be the only ones defending it. Three thousand of us are nothing among the 100,000 defenders."
"Sir, I'm afraid Jinling is not so easy to defend."
Lu Feizhou looked at the Niushou Mountain in front of him, and then thought about the entire battle situation, feeling less confident.
"If you don't want to defend, you have to defend. Strategy is a matter for senior officers. Our mission is to defend here until there is an order to retreat or..."
When they heard that he only said "or", several battalion commanders looked at Zhang Sixing thoughtfully. After thinking about it, Zhang Sixing decided to explain it to his battalion commanders. He said without hesitation,
"This battle must be defeated. The troops here are all tired from long battles and were originally elite..."
When the Jinling Defense War began, although all the elite troops from the central government were used, it was a pity that these troops were disabled on the Songhu battlefield. Especially when the Songhu war started, there were no troops stationed on the homeland defense line, so that the Japanese could attack Songhu.
After the Shanghai battlefield ended, the Battle of Jinling began with only minimal hindrance.
"Think about the Eighty-Eighth Division. If we hadn't replenished their broken troops, how many more people would they have had."
Several battalion commanders fell silent after just one sentence, but after thinking about Zhang Sixing's arrangement, they all quietly calmed down.
At this time, the car at the foot of the mountain began to return. After all, Zhang Sixing's troops were already quite large at this moment. Originally there were more than 3,000 people, and more than 500 old, weak, sick and disabled people were sent away. Laotian sent nearly 500 more people, and another 1,000 people.
A human punishment camp.
"Guys, there are only a few days left. In the past few days, we have to take turns building fortifications day and night. Remember the method I used to dig the troop garrison hole close to you."
"Isn't it just a cunning rabbit with three holes? Damn it, Bazi, the Japanese made me turn into a rabbit. Seeing that I can't take care of them and those little puppies."
While Guan Shijie was cursing, he touched his bare chin out of habit.
There's no way his new outfit comes with face armor, and his beard can't be saved.
"Damn it, look at our swordsman team this time..."
Battalion Commander Xue's men once cleared the box cannon and the sword, but they no longer removed the wooden box of the box cannon. They had already become accustomed to it during the ten days in Jurong.
Not counting the punishment camp at the moment, Zhang Sixing has a pistol battalion that uses box cannons, and Lu Feizhou's quick reaction battalion uses hp90. The remaining three rifle battalions are Zheng Shijie, Cao Zijin, and Li Jixian, as well as the guard company led by Hu Yang, and Zhang Changlin leads
There were about fifty snipers, plus Lao Yandai's logistics camp, which was also the former miscellaneous soldier camp.
It is obviously unrealistic to defend Niushou Mountain with such a small number of troops, so we have to establish the strongest defensive position on the west highland. It will face the bombing of the army, navy's heavy artillery and aircraft.
After observing the terrain, we started to build defensive positions. The three battalions were arranged in a "pin" shape. They could provide fire support to each other. In addition, all the machine guns of Zhang Sihang's subordinate group had been replaced with HPMG42, a powerful weapon against infantry.
The ammunition for the HPMG42 machine gun that fires 6.5mm rifled bullets was basically obtained by profiteers in the concession from the Japanese, and was openly shipped to Jurong under the banner of Japanese plaster.
As for the Vickers machine gun, of course there was no way to return it to the British 6th Brigade. In order to build a good relationship, the British simply shipped several cars of ammunition to Zhang Sixing. These were shipped to Zhang Sixing by Japanese businessmen under the Japanese flag.
When facing profits from capital appreciation, it is difficult for businessmen to guarantee their loyalty to the country and nation.
Facing the rampant evil forces in the concession, cooperation is often the only way out.
With the arrival of the paratrooper school, the appearance of a hilltop in Niushou Mountain quickly changed. Hu Yang, who was carrying a box cannon, was only eighteen years old, but he had been through life and death with Zhang Sixing many times.
Staring at the punishment battalion personnel assigned to his camp, the eighteen-year-old boy had a stern face and walked back and forth on the position to supervise the construction of the position.
"Hurry up and dig in. There is going to be a war here. You should behave like you did when you bullied the people. The punishment camp will also have to take up positions in the future. If the positions are not repaired, they will be bombed to death."
Even though they only stayed in Jurong for about ten days, no matter how well the soldiers were trained, several officers had their minds armed with a lot of knowledge, such as firepower allocation plans and position layout methods.
The trench was narrow and long and only allowed two people to cross each other. The advantage was that it was not easily destroyed by artillery fire.
At the same time, wood is used as a support for the trench walls to ensure the strength of the trench. At the same time, there are quite a lot of shooting positions designed, not only that, each soldier is guaranteed to have two to three shooting positions.
In addition, each position must build a "U"-shaped garrison cave, which is built under a 1.5-meter soil layer and covered with a tunnel system reinforced by logs.
This kind of garrison cave was common in self-defense counterattacks against Vietnam and had good concealment. However, Zhang Sixing expanded its scale and use here.
The important thing is Zhang Sixing's special request that bamboo tubes should be buried in the tunnels to keep in contact with each other. In addition, according to the requirements of tunnel warfare, these tunnels must be anti-drilling, fire-proof, poison-proof, and waterproof. If you can't remember, please review "Tunnels"
war".
Therefore, no matter whether the regular soldiers in the punishment camp or the paratrooper school, they have been digging holes since they arrived at Niushou Mountain. They used explosives to blast the places that could not be dug. In any case, they completed the construction of ground and underground fortifications before the Japanese arrived.
In addition, each battalion also has several gasoline barrel cannons. Basically, there are three gun positions with a distance of more than ten meters. Even with heavy artillery, it is impossible to catch them all at once.
After the surface positions were dug, construction of the tunnels on the ground continued.
"Sir, how long will this digging last? My hands are blistered."
In response to Hansen's complaint, Zhang Sixing, who was wielding a pickaxe, took a breath, wiped his forehead and gave an answer that made the guy grin:
"Do you want to be exhausted or blown to death? If you don't want to do either, then dig quickly."