The Independent Regiment also lacked large-scale excavation equipment. However, in more than a month, the Independent Regiment Ordnance Factory equipped more than 2,000 people with the newly developed military shovels.
Although due to the need to increase production, the material of the later-produced engineer shovels is not as good as the individual engineer shovels allocated to engineers, it is still more than enough for digging frozen soil.
However, Liu Lang's first military order after accepting the position was not to build fortifications, but to ask everyone to cut down all the trees and shrubs on the hillside facing the north of Luo Wenyu's three defensive points.
Not only all the officers and soldiers, but also the villagers living nearby were mobilized to provide young adults with a daily subsidy of 0.5 yuan per person, and two women, elderly and children counted as one young adult.
As soon as this military order was issued, it didn't matter. People from dozens of miles around, armed with pots, pans, axes and saws, and their families, swarmed towards Luo Wenyu, numbering in the thousands.
If the basic number is that a family of 5 people can earn 1.5 yuan a day, not to mention in this remote mountainous area, even in Peiping, this income is considered good. Who says that ordinary people can't settle accounts?
There is strength in numbers, but in just one day, Luo Wenyu's defense line, which was more than ten miles long, turned into a bare mountain on the side of the mountain facing north China. Not to mention the Tibetans, there was just a rabbit hiding on the mountainside, standing on the top of the mountain.
It is also clearly visible above.
In fact, while logging, all living things that could be seen were eaten by people. When people swept away the wood and shrubs, and then lit the weeds on fire, the north-facing hillside was completely dark.
of deathly silence.
Liu Lang had two reasons for cutting down trees. First, he had no reason to leave any cover for the Japanese army, which would only make him uncomfortable; at the same time, more than 2,000 people needed a place to live.
Even though they were fully prepared before arriving, everyone had cotton clothes, cotton trousers, a big dog-skin hat, gloves, a rainproof cloth, and quilts. Even officers above the sergeant level were allotted a sheepskin mattress, but when they arrived in the north, they
Most of the Sichuan recruits, who were wrapped up tightly, were still so cold that their movements seemed to be a little slow. They had never experienced the severe cold of minus ten to twenty degrees below zero.
Before all kinds of tunnels were dug, the simplest wooden houses were a necessity. Otherwise, Liu Lang's soldiers would have lost one-third of their numbers due to the severe cold without waiting for the Japanese army to arrive more than twenty days later.
The matter of building wooden houses was left to the common people. All soldiers and strong men had to do their best to dig the fortifications. They were left with only half a month.
Of course, before digging fortifications, the defensive positions of each unit must be allocated.
There was no regiment headquarters, just an open space. Liu Lang spread his hand-drawn map on the ground. Chi Dakui, Yu Xiancheng and their six infantry company commanders and the death-defying company commander Zhou Shiyu formed a circle.
"Zhou Shiyu, I will give you a mission to prove yourself to death. Do you dare to accept it?" Liu Lang was the first to point to Zhou Shiyu's general.
"Please rest assured, regiment members. Since I am even called a death-defying company and a company that is not even afraid of death, what tasks are there that I dare not take on?" Zhou Shiyu quickly stood up and stood at attention, replying with a different look.
"Okay, have you seen this mountain? I asked the fellow villagers. It's called Gushan. It's 3 miles in front of our main position on Damao Mountain. If the Japanese invaders set up mortars and mountain artillery on this mountain, they will be very harmful to us.
The main position has suffered a devastating blow. The mission of your daredevil company is to defend this mountain. Before the battle is over, you cannot let a Japanese cannon set foot on the mountain. Can you do it?" Liu Lang said decisively.
As Liu Lang slid his finger on the map and pointed to a hilltop in front of the main position, everyone's expressions became grim.
In the past two days, various military officers, under the leadership of Liu Lang, visited the entire Luo Wenyu defense area, and they knew everything in their minds.
That mountain is called Gushan, but it is actually better to be called Gushan. It is different from the continuous and steep mountains on the main position. It is a small mountain with only one hilltop no more than three hundred feet high. It looks very lonely, hanging alone in the entire mountain range.
Outside means that it is isolated from the entire defense system. In addition to the main position, which can provide certain artillery support and the enemy is less likely to choose to attack, there is also a cliff on one side, and the other two sides can be besieged by the attackers.
And it can only rely on the defenders themselves.
The most terrifying thing is not being besieged. The most terrifying thing is that the place is clearly a dead place. If you can't defend it, you will have nowhere to run.
However, that place has to be defended. As the regiment said, if the Japanese invaders put the mountain cannon on the top of the mountain that is almost level with the main position, the distance is only more than a thousand feet. For a mountain cannon with a range of several thousand feet
, don’t shoot too accurately, almost all firepower points can be eliminated by direct-aimed cannons, it’s chilling to think about the consequences.
Almost all the company commanders are thinking about what would happen if they were to defend that dangerous point. But the answers given are that the death rate is as high as 80%, and that's if the entire group wins the final victory.
, if the entire defensive system is breached, other troops will still have the opportunity to retreat, but not even a human hair will be able to escape there.
But Zhou Shiyu didn't even blink his eyelids, as if he didn't see the so-called Jedi at all, and directly raised his hand to salute: "I guarantee that the mission will be completed. If a Japanese shell can fly from the ancient mountain to the main position, there is only one possibility.
I dare to kill all 234 people in the company. I only have one request."
Obviously, Zhou Shiyu needs to use the most difficult task to wash away the shame of being a deserter. If there is no victory, then death will be used to prove it.
"speak"
"From the moment we enter the position, please provide my company with enough ammunition and a month's supply of water and rice. Also, I need grenades, mines and explosive packs. The more the better."
"Okay, very good, enough ammunition for you to support a month of fighting. Food and water will be allocated to you within half a month when the supply company arrives. In addition, I will give you an additional 1,500 grenades, 100 large trigger mines, and infantry
2000 mines, 50 explosive packs, and a radio station. If the situation is urgent, I allow you to seek support from the regiment artillery company at any time." Liu Lang waved his hand with satisfaction and motioned Zhou Shiyu to sit down.
Liu Lang is also looking forward to how Zhou Shiyu's death-defying company, composed of deserters and bandits, will perform in this battle. In terms of training alone, the death-defying company is almost cruel and slightly different from other companies.
The system still showed considerable power. In the three months since the formation of the army, no less than ten bandit recruits were hung up on the flagpole by Zhou Shiyu to serve as bacon in the wind.
The firepower configuration of the death-defying company is not bad, because the number of personnel is larger than that of an ordinary infantry company. The death-defying company has four infantry platoons, and the machine gun platoon also has two more squads than the ordinary infantry company's machine gun platoon, which also means that
There are two more mortars and two MG42 machine guns.
Next, Chi Dakui's first battalion was responsible for the defense of Luo Wenyukou's main position. Chi Dakui was responsible for allocating the reserve team. The two defense points of Qianzhangzi and Shanzhayu on the left wing were handed over to Liu Dazhu's 4th company and Sheng Lei's 5th company.
The sixth company of the second battalion serves as the reserve team and is under the unified command of the regiment chief of staff and battalion commander Yu Xiancheng.
At the same time, the heavy supply company and 500 men who had not yet arrived were also organized into a general reserve team by Liu Lang, with him and Yu Xiancheng as the captains respectively.
After the military order was given, all the officers became very awe-inspiring.
Liu Lang didn't shout any slogans this time, and he didn't do any pre-war mobilization, but judging from the layout, this was completely the rhythm of everyone going into battle.
Not only were all the more than 2,000 men and horses of the independent regiment required to go into battle, but even the division's direct supply battalion, which was only responsible for helping them transport people and goods, was used by Liu Lang. I don't know what method Liu Lang used, but he asked for a military order from the division headquarters
, the baggage battalion that sent the Independent Regiment to the ground before it had time to run became the subordinate unit of the Independent Regiment within half a month and became Liu Lang's transport brigade.
They frantically purchased cement lime and steel plates from surrounding towns, and then continuously transported them to a little-known pass called Luo Wenyu.