Undoubtedly, working in the wild in the winter in the north, with temperatures of more than ten degrees below zero, is a great test of one's will.
However, Liu Lang was well prepared. Before leaving Sichuan, he gave each person a dog-skin hat that could be lowered to protect their ears and thick leather gloves.
At first, many Sichuan soldiers thought that the dog-skin hat was too thick and took up too much space. But when they got on the car and headed north, the sharp cold wind blew on their faces like a knife, and they realized that such a hat could protect them.
How important is the leather hat for the head and most of the face.
When we arrived at the Great Wall, even with such protection, many people still had frostbite on their faces and ears blown by the wind, but this was much better than being frozen.
Fortunately, there is enough wood cut down. No matter day or night, as long as you are doing civil engineering work, each shift must light a bonfire for heating. At the same time, Liu Lang stipulates that every day at noon and evening
The soldiers were provided with enough meat and one ounce of white wine.
Well fed and warmly clothed, the morale of the soldiers was still good. In addition, veterans often showed up to explain to the recruits the power of Japanese aircraft and artillery. If the fortifications were not strong enough, and one platoon could be destroyed by one cannon, what would be the point?
Come on?
No one does not cherish their own lives, and naturally their enthusiasm for work is very high. They were asked to dig a one-meter-deep individual anti-artillery bunker on the side of the trench, and many recruits worked tirelessly to dig it to 2 meters. Like those located at the front-line company headquarters and the user
The bunkers used to treat the wounded and store ammunition were tightly protected by those crazy officers with steel plates and logs. They even lit bonfires and started working all night long, not knowing that they were afraid of being whipped by the fat man.
Or cherish your own life more.
Most of the soldiers turned into engineers and worked hard to build fortifications that could protect their lives on the hard frozen soil. Ji Yanxue, as the head of the communications platoon directly under the regiment, was also busy hitting the back of his head with his heels.
According to Liu Lang's request, the company-level command post of every front-line defense force must be connected by phone. A death-defying company like Zhou Shiyu's that hangs alone outside the main position is simply equipped with the regiment's hard-earned purchase.
The radio stations that came back. At this time, there were only three radio stations in the entire independent regiment. Liu Lang had made great efforts to search for them. Putting aside other troops of the national army, having one radio station would make him a rich man.
In order to prevent the telephone lines from being easily blown up by artillery fire, the telephone lines had to be buried half a meter deep in the soil, which greatly increased the workload of the communication soldiers.
In twenty days, Liu Lang only met Ji Yanxue twice. One of them was because the phone line was not enough, and he asked him to help find the 29th Army for deployment.
After all the calculations, I'm afraid Liu Lang is the only one left in the independent group.
After the recruited villagers completed the simple wooden houses for the soldiers to rest at night, Liu Lang paid them the promised rewards and sent them away. He also informed them that a war would break out along the Great Wall, hoping that they could stay with relatives and friends as far as possible.
a little.
Looking at the figures of the common people walking away with great gratitude, Liu Lang's eyes became firmer. This time, not only would he not retreat, but he would also beat the Japanese invaders so hard that it hurt to their bones. It hurt them so much that every time they attacked China
When the land is full of longing, I will always think of Luo Wenyu.
Liu Lang knew very well that if the Great Wall defense line was broken, the troops could retreat, but the unlucky ones would be these simple people. Even if the Japanese invaders at this time were not as crazy as they were five years later, destroying villages and families, but in this situation
In the cold winter, the people whose homes and livestock were robbed could not survive more than a few days. Death from cold and starvation was their final outcome.
Next, Liu Lang sent out the independent regiment's security platoon to search and alert Luo Wenyu within a thirty-mile radius and persuade the people around him who were unwilling to leave to leave.
But Liu Lang himself took five or six security personnel, left the affairs of the regiment to Chi Dakui and Yu Xiancheng, and went to Chazikou Town, which was more than 20 miles away from Luo Wenyu, to eat and drink.
Chazikou Town is a small town on the edge of Rehe Province. It is called Chazikou because it is a traffic artery facing the passes of the Great Wall. Go to the left and you will reach Gubeikou. Go ahead and you will see Luo Wenyu. Go to the right.
It's Xifengkou.
Merchants traveling from north to south who leave the Great Wall or enter the Great Wall from Rehe often choose to pass through here, which has also developed a small town with a population of only two to three thousand people in its original residence into a gathering place with a population of tens of thousands.
Teahouses, restaurants, inns, carriage shops and even brothels for the flesh trade are all found in this remote northern town.
Liu Lang was wearing the standard military uniform of a colonel of the National Army and was a real sign. In a few days, everyone in the town knew that the Central Army had an independent regiment stationed at Luo Wenyu Pass on the Great Wall defense line. Moreover, the chubby colonel commander was very approachable and had no personality at all.
He has a bit of a bureaucratic air, he always pays for things in a polite manner and he is very concerned about local people's livelihood issues.
He is definitely a fastidious person, and the honest northerners also have a very honest evaluation of Liu Lang, the colonel leader. Many people plan to run towards Peking and Tianjin through Luo Wenyu in two days. I heard that the Japanese have already reached a distance from here.
It's less than 200 miles away.
The Japanese army has always attached great importance to the intelligence system. Since they have already planned to invade Rehe and send troops only to Pingjin and Tianjin, their espionage personnel must have been operating along the Great Wall.
Chazikou Town, which is densely populated and has access to three important passes, would be in trouble if there were no activities of Japanese intelligence agents.
Liu Lang's purpose was not to shut out the Japanese intelligence personnel. On the contrary, he announced the existence of the independent regiment with such great fanfare to tell the other party that the Luo Wenyu area was garrisoned by an independent regiment of the Central Army.
Up to 2000 people.
Of course, these intelligence officers want to know the origins and number of Luo Wenyu's defenders, which Liu Lang can provide, but if they want to get closer and observe the layout of the pass positions, then I'm sorry, Liu Lang will kill as many as he comes, more than fifty trained
Guard platoon soldiers are not vegetarians.
Liu Lang drank tea and listened to operas in Chazikou Town every day, and bought some grain to use as military rations. The purchase of thousands of kilograms of rice grains of various colors every day finally attracted the attention of Japanese spies.
A report detailing the origins of the independent regiment and the data of Luo Wenyu's defenders was placed on the desk of the Japanese Kwantung Army Commander Muto Nobuyoshi.
Muto Nobuyoshi, who had already targeted only the entire Rehe province and defeated hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, had actually regarded the entire Rehe province as his own, and had set his sights on hindering him as early as a month ago.
Along the 800-mile-long ancient Great Wall of China heading towards the Ping-Tianjin area.
Now, the map hanging on the wall of Muto Xinyi's office is no longer a map of Rehe Province, but the long and winding ancient Great Wall on the edge of Rehe Province.
Satisfied, he took his eyes back from the map. If nothing goes wrong, the war in Jehol Province will be completely over in early March in a few days. It is inevitable that the defeated Chinese army will rely on the ancient Great Wall with its lofty mountains to defend itself.
fact.
However, Nobuyoshi Muto, who did not completely annihilate the enemy, did not feel depressed at all. He had 40,000 well-equipped and well-trained Kwantung Army and 30,000 Manchurian servants under his command. He believed that under the attack of his elite troops, the Chinese
Resistance is futile, even if they still have hundreds of miles of ancient Great Wall that has protected their nation for thousands of years.
Looking at the clear black and white photos of the Xifengkou Pass of the Great Wall provided by the intelligence officer on the table, Muto Xinyi, who has always been strict, raised a hint of pride at the corner of his mouth. The Chinese people are too naive, and the broken wall can only stop the nomads.
If it encounters its own aircraft and cannons, it will only become a ruin.
It's a pity that the world will lose another piece of ancient civilization relics. The humble Chinese people are not worthy of enjoying the glory of their ancestors. Muto Nobuyoshi shook his head like a compassionate lover of historical sites and picked up the intelligence personnel's fresh investigation on the various passes of the Great Wall.