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Chapter 24: Building a steel line of defense

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    (Sorry, I don¡¯t know where I saw the 85mm caliber howitzer. Maybe I saw an 8X and made up my own mind. Thank you to book friend 110kongjiang for your correction. It is inconvenient to modify the previous chapters. From this chapter, it will be unified.  Changed to an 82-caliber heavy mortar. I would like to take this opportunity to express the author's gratitude to all friends who support this book and bow deeply to all friends who have contributed. Thank you for your concern, support and help. Thank you all sincerely.  !) The morning bugle woke Ye Hanqing up from his sleep. He opened his eyes in confusion and looked at the roof made of banana leaves. It took him a while to realize where he was.  This is a shack made of wooden sticks. The sides and ceiling are sealed with banana leaves to protect it from wind and rain. There is a bamboo strip door with iron wire as a hinge on the front.  The windows are also made of bamboo strips and are also fastened to the window frames with wires. They are very simple.  The bed he slept on was also made of two earthen mounds for support, with a wide wooden board placed on top.  "It's only half past five!" Teacher Xie struggled to sit up. He was by the window, looking at his watch through the light coming from the gap in the window, and complained in a low voice.  "It's your bed. This is morning exercise for the army. It has nothing to do with us." On the other bed, Teacher Han said sleepily, turned over, and continued to sleep.  He is a bed-loving person. He tossed and turned last night and couldn't fall asleep. He fell asleep in the middle of the night. He didn't want to pay attention to things that had nothing to do with him. He just wanted to sleep a little longer.  Ye Hanqing quickly got up, put on his clothes, got out of bed and folded the quilt.  "Xiaoye, are you up so early?" Teacher Xie asked strangely when she saw him pulling out the washbasin from under the bed, carrying towels, soap, toothpaste, and toothbrush, and planning to go out.  "We're all awake anyway, why not go out and wash your face." Ye Hanqing replied gently, opened the wire buckles and prepared to go out.  "Wait, I'm not going to sleep anymore, let's come together!" Teacher Xie got along well with him and got out of bed, quickly packed his bed, picked up the washbasin and followed him out.  When I got out of the door, I found Ye Hanqing standing in front of the door, looking ahead and muttering to himself: "I went around and around, but I finally entered the mountain!" I came here last night and it was everywhere.  It was dark, and nothing could be seen clearly. Teacher Xie hadn't taken a serious look at the surrounding environment.  At this time, Ye Hanqing reminded him and he began to observe the surrounding situation carefully.  With a quick glance, he confirmed that this was a small basin in the mountains.  Judging from the white fish belly on the horizon, there are towering mountains to the west.  Under the hazy light that is about to jump out of the horizon, the mountain is high and steep, with steep slopes exceeding 60 degrees in many places. The entire mountain looks like a broad and tall city wall.  Looking around, there is no end to the north or south. ? Judging intuitively, the absolute height of this mountain is about five or six hundred meters.  In addition to the high mountains on the front, there are also large mountains on the north and south sides, but they are not as abrupt as the mountain in the west. Instead, they are made up of small hills that are tens or hundreds of meters high, gradually pushing the mountains higher, so the line of sight can  The view is very wide as you can see several kilometers away.  The east side of the small basin is also a big mountain, but it is different here.  The basin extends to the east, and the terrain is naturally raised, forming a ridge two kilometers away.  Looking over the ridge, you can see another ridge some distance away. After this ridge, you can also see another higher peak.  It can be seen that the mountains to the east are in the shape of steps, rising step by step.  There are three mountain passages in the basin.  Close to the peak on the west side, there is a floodplain that runs roughly north-south and slightly northeast-southwest. There is a road built next to the river, which becomes the two north-south passages of the basin.  On the east side of the basin, there is another valley that bypasses the hill directly in front of the sight and extends deeper.  Judging from the memory of last night, they came from the south river beach road last night.  The basin is indeed not big. Divided by large and small hills, the shape of this small basin is irregular. The diagonal line from northeast to southwest is less than three kilometers long.  However, considering that the surrounding hills are not very high, and the highest hill is less than 100 meters, the usable area is very wide.  To put it into perspective, the basin in a broad sense covers an area of ??between five and seven kilometers, which is huge enough.  With such a big basin, it is enough to build a small county town.  However, he saw that on the west side of the river, there were only a few hundred houses in each house. It could only be regarded as a big town at best, and it could hold up to the sky with only one or two thousand people.  The quality of the houses is also very poor. Most of them have earthen walls and banana leaf roofs, and only one or two tiled houses are seen.  Next to the town are fields opened by ordinary people. There are very few paddy fields that can be seen, no more than ten acres, and most of them are dry fields.  It's spring now and you can see the fields growing.?¡¯s crops are mainly corn and sorghum.  Do the people here only eat corn and sorghum?  If you want to find another answer, it is: it is very poor here, very poor!  They can only survive on corn and sorghum!  It¡¯s not cold in the basin.  This place is at the same latitude as Guangdong and belongs to the subtropical zone. It is only a high-altitude mountainous area, so it is warm in winter and cool in summer. At this time, the temperature in the basin is about 17 degrees Celsius, and a single coat is enough.  It is spring and flowers are blooming. The hills are full of flowers and green grass. Even the crooked-neck tree growing on the opposite mountain wall has opened its fluffy crown.  Looking around, the mountains in the distance are boundless virgin forests. The leaves are moving in the wind, accompanied by the sound of water flowing in the river. It is a natural beauty full of vitality.  Teacher Ke Xie felt a little chilly in his heart.  The conditions here are much worse than those in the countryside!  Although the place where he went to the countryside was said to be a rural area, it was at least a mature human settlement with criss-crossing fields and densely populated areas.  There are loudspeakers and tractors in the village, and traces of human civilization are everywhere.  But here, it is a complete wilderness!  ¡­ Guan Fei didn¡¯t know that Teacher Xie, Ye Hanqing and others were annoyed by being cold and chilly at the moment. At this moment, he was doing morning exercises with the soldiers.  To control the troops is not just to capture the commanders leading the troops, but also to go down to the grassroots level and mingle with the soldiers.  Although there are many things waiting for him to do now, he will never forget to do morning exercises and weight-bearing runs with the soldiers every day.  In addition to him, Zhang Shengguo, Sun Yaohua, as well as civilian cadres from the brigade and staff from the subordinate civil affairs office all participated in the daily morning training under his leadership.  Guan Fei believes that for those who will sit in offices for a long time in the future, it is also beneficial to exercise more.  At 7:30, after returning from a ten-kilometer cross-country run, he had breakfast with the soldiers again. The breakfast was the same as everyone else: porridge, steamed buns, and pickles.  He has no complaints about this.  ?Compared with the earlier days where I could only eat two meals a day, each meal was half corn and half rice, boiled in salt water and used as vegetables, which deceived the stomach but not the organs. I was in a state of semi-starvation for half a day. Now it is pretty good.  Many soldiers were probably deeply impressed by their previous hunger, and started eating steamed buns one after another.  They can swallow a big, solid steamed bun in two or three bites, and then immediately run to grab the second one.  Some soldiers with a big appetite can eat seven or eight steamed buns in one meal!  Fortunately, there is enough food and a large amount of vegetables bought from China, so the soldiers can eat freely, otherwise they would not be able to feed these big-bellied men.  Many soldiers joked that they had entered communism in advance.  The soldiers have very low requirements, but Guan Fei cannot be like them. As long as he can take care of himself, he also has to devote himself to the future development of the 291st Brigade.  After dinner, we took a short rest and had morning drills at eight o'clock. The troops began formal training in the morning. He also took Zhang Shengguo to inspect the northern and southern defense lines.  The defense area of ??the 291st Brigade is a long and narrow area running from north to south.  It is fifty kilometers long from north to south, but very thin from east to west, wide at both ends and thin in the middle, like an hourglass.  The northern line is connected to the border crossing, starting from Menggu Town occupied by the Shading Army in the west to reaching the Salween River in the east, with a total length of 17 kilometers.  Then it is squeezed inward by the mountains and the Salween River, and the middle section gradually shrinks inward.  The thinnest section in the middle is only seven kilometers.  Then it expanded to the east and west like a trumpet, until it reached another towering mountain range.  The entire defense area is bordered by the border crossing in the north, the Salween River in the east, a mountain barrier in the west, and mountains in the south. The focus of defense is the north-south passage.  The north and south passages are actually one, they are the north and south mountain exits of the same unnamed river.  This river originates from Menggu and branches from the Boundary River. Because the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, it flows into the mountains in the south.  It twists and turns in the mountains for nearly ten kilometers, turns southeast, and flows into an alpine valley with high mountains and steep rocks.  After another five kilometers, we rushed out of the valley and entered a Sancha river beach.  Here, the terrain quickly became flat and broad, and under the accumulation of sediment brought by running water, a small alluvial flat was formed that was one to two hundred meters wide and more than five hundred meters wide.  As a result, people settled in Sanchaping and became a small town - Kangka.  The river is blocked by mountains and then turns to the southwest. This is the middle section of the river. The terrain becomes more open and the flow slows down. After five kilometers, it flows into a wider small basin, which is Longkang Town where the 291 Brigade Headquarters is located.  The north and south defense centers of the 291 Brigade are Kangka and Longkang towns.    Kangka is easier to defend, as the road runs along the right side of the river and follows the mountain.  Due to the steep mountain walls, it was impossible for the enemy to cross the mountain and could only take the road.  So Guan Fei set up a defense line four kilometers up the river from Kangka before reaching the bend of the river.  The defense line includes trenches built on the slopes at the foot of the mountain, and tunnels built by blasting the walls.  The tunnels were dug into the mountain wall more than 20 meters high, winding and crisscrossing until they reached the rear position one or two hundred meters away.  The slopes and tunnels control the highway from a high position, and their firepower is intertwined, so they can support each other.  At most, only platoon-level troops can be deployed on the highway. The enemy cannot use its numerical advantage to flood the position, and the defensive pressure is greatly reduced.  Because the river turns one kilometer ahead, the enemy's heavy artillery cannot attack the position.  If the opponent wants to turn around heavy artillery and other heavy weapons, it will be exposed to the eyes of the soldiers. Under the cross attack of 82 heavy guns, 60 heavy guns, light and heavy machine guns, and automatic rifles, no one can withstand the pressure of erecting  position.  Without heavy artillery, the troops cannot be deployed. Although only two companies are deployed on the Kangka defense line, as long as the commander is not careless, two or three thousand people will not be able to get in.  Compared with the northern line, the southern line is more difficult to defend.  The main body of the southern line is riverbank hills. Although the terrain is gradually rising, rivers are the main choice for human settlement.  Ten kilometers downstream from Longkang is another town called Maika, where the remnants of the enemy battalion that were repulsed last time are stationed here.  With great difficulty, Guan Fei finally got the country to accept his idea of ??peaceful development. It was impossible for Guan Fei to just go and knock down Micah and lose his credibility just to establish a solid line of defense.  To this end, he had to rely on three higher hills to establish a defense line in the river beach area.  ¡°However, he also worked hard and made careful arrangements for the defense line within his ability.  The first hill is a front-line position, located on the left side of the river beach, opposite the road across the river.  If the enemy wants to attack this position, they must first cross the river, which will inevitably reduce their speed. This is the time to destroy a large number of enemies.  At the same time, the second hill is 70 to 80 meters behind, blocking the direction of the road from the front, forcing the enemy to be unable to take a detour, and can provide fire support to the front-line positions.  If the enemy attacks this line of defense, the firepower from the first hill can attack the enemy's flanks and rear, preventing the enemy from looking at each other from head to tail.  The best thing is that there is a small depression behind the first hill, which can go around to the back of the second hill, and personnel and materials can be transported without hindrance.  Considering that this area is relatively wide, one or two kilometers long, in order to prevent the enemy from flooding the mountains and plains and using human sea tactics, Guan Fei set up two heavy firepower points at the rear of two hills with a height of more than 100 meters to protect the area.  The flanks of the front line of defence.  At the same time, most of the heavy weapons are also placed on the southern front. Relying on the tunnels in several mountains and behind the hills, 122 heavy artillery and 82 mm heavy mortars are placed.  And boldly pushed more than ten 60 troops forward to a small mountain depression behind the first and second line positions. They took advantage of the cover of the mountain to get close to provide fire support.  In terms of military strength, two companies on the southern front are enough, but there are five companies stationed on the northern front at any time.  The remaining five companies are stationed in a small valley not far from Longkang Town in the rear for training.  When the battle is fierce, it only takes ten minutes to reach the place by running.  At critical moments, guard companies, communications companies, and even engineering battalions can be called in to support.  With so many troops, including the more than 2,000 former People's Army soldiers who were decided to recruit yesterday, the total strength is 4,000 to 5,000, and they can definitely hold the position.  Guan Fei tried his best and could only do this.  It¡¯s okay to say that on the northern front, if the enemy mobilizes a division to launch a large-scale attack on the southern front, it will not be difficult to defend it under his command, but there will be a certain price to pay.  If the attacking force exceeds one division, even if he defends, he will suffer heavy casualties and his vitality will be severely damaged.  But this is not a crime of war, but that the overall strength is too weak.  He first brought back a large amount of steel and concrete this time, intending to build a large number of tunnels, bunkers, and permanent fortifications on the southern front to build the front into a steel defense line.  So as to kill as many enemies as possible with limited force.  He will turn every hill and ridge into a nightmare for his enemies!  Let the other side not be able to bear the huge cost of casualties and give up the attempt to conquer the 291st Brigade by force!  He believes that as long as he gets through this weakest period, he will be given a few years to lay a solid foundation and accumulate strength.  At that time, he would create an unbreakable iron defense line.  In a few years, I'm afraid it won't be whether the enemy comes to attack the 291st Brigade, but whether the 291st Brigade takes the initiative to attack!  Time, the most precious thing is time!
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