The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 223 Night Defense Plan
Meng Fan limped to find Xia Yuan, but didn't say any words of gratitude, just two 'thank you'.

"You, why don't you be arrogant." Xia Yuan laughed and scolded Meng Fan, this guy is always so proud, it's not easy to hear words of thanks from him.

Meng Fanran touched his dirty hair, and limped away. The rout soldiers were very happy, but Xia Yuan and Long Wenwen were more heavy-hearted. The two gathered together, looked at the surrounding slopes, and were thinking For tonight's vigil.

Long Wenwen said: "The Japanese devils will not let it go, the airport is lost, and they will definitely attack the airport again tonight."

Xia Yuan compared the little Japanese devils with the Yankees in his heart, both of them have something remarkable, the Yankees fought very fiercely during World War II, but they couldn’t do it when it came to the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea was not a war to defend the country The definition is wrong, and many soldiers in the US military are students, and their fighting spirit is not high.

The Japanese devils are very cruel. They lost their human form, and their tactical coordination is very good. They don't have the heavy firepower of the Yankees, but they rely on their powerful infantry, strong individual quality, and tactical coordination. imagined fighting power.

The tactical coordination of the defeated soldiers is not good. Even after more than ten days of training in the three-three system, if you want to achieve the effect of the three-three system like the volunteer army, you can't do it without one or two months of rigorous training.

If the Japanese devils want to fight over, with the current fighting strength of the defeated soldiers, it is estimated that they will have to pay a lot of casualties if they want to repel the Japanese army's attack one after another.

"If you really confront the Japanese devils head-on, it is estimated that you will have to pay a lot of casualties. The terrain of the airport is not bad, and we have a lot of people. The Japanese devils will attack tonight with at most three teams and a company of soldiers. We should make good use of the four weeks terrain."

Xia Yuan said to Long Wenwen that the Japanese devils' troops in the rear were empty, and the attack tonight would not be too violent.The rout regiments seem to be the passive side, but if they are carefully arranged and turned from passive to active, the casualties of the rout troops can be reduced.

Offense is the best defense, there is nothing wrong with this saying.The casualties of defense are huge, but the initiative of attack is on your own side, and you can arrange tactics as you like to reduce the casualties caused by troops when they attack.

"Turn passive into active." Long Wenwen looked at him: "Are we going to leave the airport and fight the Japanese devils in the forest?"

"Our army is not good at fighting in the forest, and in positional warfare, our army lacks the support of heavy firepower. The Japanese devils are also equipped with individual grenades, which can effectively attack our army's heavy firepower. Therefore, whether it is Whether fighting in the forest or fighting in a position, we are all at a disadvantage, and the only advantage we have is our military strength and firepower."

The strength of half a battalion, more than 300 people, is already a considerable fighting force behind the empty Japanese army, and their regiment has four light and heavy machine guns.

Three [-]-type heavy machine guns and one Maxim heavy machine gun. The basic rifles equipped by the soldiers are carbine rifles, Sten submachine guns, and Thomson submachine guns supported by American allies and British allies. There are seven or eight light machine guns of various types. The firepower configuration, except for the lack of heavy artillery, is no longer inferior to the general elite troops. In addition, these rout soldiers are all veterans of the battlefield. Which one survives has no real ability, and the ability to save life is in the battlefield. All top notch.

Thinking about it carefully, they actually have an advantage here.

"Warring in the forest will only limit our advantage in heavy firepower, and the Japanese grenadiers and mortars can cover all directions, no matter whether it is in the forest or the position, it will not be affected, so fighting in the forest will not be affected on the one hand. Restricting our strengths is equivalent to taking advantage of the enemy's strengths, relying on the airport to build firepower points and fortifications to annihilate the little devils."

Xia Yuan had an immature idea in his mind, "They are all veterans, and their combat effectiveness is very impressive. We should give full play to their strengths. The terrain of the airport is not bad. We can use it on the slope there. Build machine gun positions, surrounded by trenches as bunkers, maybe we can make a funnel so that the little Japanese devils can get in, but can't get out."

Long Wenwen looked at Xia Yuan, glanced at the airport in front of him, and asked, "Tuan Zuo, you already have a way to deal with it."

"Naturally, the heavy machine gun position built on the soil slope in front is the bait. That position is a very good position. We put the heavy machine gun on the top, hide the broken soldiers on the left and right sides, and rush from the heavy machine gun position to the bait. The Japanese devils attacked the machine gun position, and the prey would be hooked, and the left and right wings could form a wall, forming a funnel shape with the machine gun position on the slope.”

Xia Yuan told Long Wenwen the general plan, "As long as you take people and block the only exit of this funnel, which is where they come in, the Japanese army will not be able to escape."

Long Wenwen's face showed understanding, "Tuan Zuo, your plan is absolutely perfect. But I don't think we need to arrange manpower on both the left and right wings. After all, the British are also our allies, aren't they?"

Xia Yuan's brain is also very bright, knowing Long Wenwen's thoughts, a smile appeared on his face: "Okay, I understand."

"The team is wise." Long Wenwen said with a smile.

The old gentleman commander is still in contact with the commander of the expeditionary force to confirm the identities of the two, but he doesn't know that he has been targeted by the dirty thing Long Wenwen.

Xia Yuan asked Si Lai Shi La to take Mi Long to build a machine gun position, found a few broken soldiers to serve as machine gunners and assistants, and arranged two squads on this slope with more than [-] soldiers as bait.

Xia Yuan directed them to dig trenches and defend artillery fire points, "The Japanese devils use small-caliber grenade launchers, and the firepower points piled up with logs and sandbags can withstand such small-caliber shells, but if the caliber is too large, the anti-artillery fire points It will still be blown up, but enough, the Japanese infantry don't have such large-caliber guns, and they are sneak attacks themselves."

The safety of the rout soldiers still needs to be done well. The rout soldiers use logs horizontally above the trenches, pile up sandbags filled with soil on top, cover them with a layer, and then bury them with soil. Such a field fortification is completed.

Such field fortifications can withstand small-caliber mortars and grenades, and effectively protect the routs inside the firepower point. Due to time constraints, only four such firepower points were built, each with a heavy machine gun and three As a deputy, the soldiers of the two squads are scattered around the slope in threes and threes, and they will act as bait.

The British are on the right side of them. Xia Yuan and Long Wenwen went to observe the fortifications built by the British. They are quite simple, and the number of artillery fortifications is very small. It is estimated that they knew that they were going to retreat and did not build too much. field fortifications.

Long Wenwen scolded: "These british guys pinned their hopes on us again. They thought that when the Japanese devils came, we would help them block them, so that they could use the gap between us and the Japanese devils to retreat. This is The usual tricks of the British guys, I don’t know how many people have cheated us, god damn it.”

Long Wenwen had complaints in his heart, but he did not deal with these British guys. After all, they supported a lot of weapons and equipment for the expeditionary force, and they also contributed a lot of strength in the domestic war of resistance. The so-called strength is to support the KMT's weapons and equipment. In the later period, the weapons and equipment of the Kuomintang gradually kept up.

"They have nothing to do here, sit back and enjoy the benefits, and want to use our strength to hold on to the airport. If they are not used, I will really feel sorry for the sacrificed expeditionary soldiers."

Xia Yuan closed his eagle eyes and said to Long Wenwen: "Let's go back, the position chosen by the British is really good, easy to defend and difficult to attack, no wonder they want to give us that warehouse, that position is the best position for night attack. "

I have to say that the British guys have really good abacus. They tried their best to think out all the plans and routes for their retreat, and even arranged for them, a group of rout soldiers, to make the most vulnerable to be attacked by night. The location of the attack was given to the rout corps to stick to it.

Xia Yuan only discovered this after comparing the positions held by the British army and the rout soldiers. I have to say that the calculations of these British guys are very good.

Long Wenwen called the British guy an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf. He didn't think about how to deal with the Japanese devils, but only thought about how to cheat his teammates.

Xia Yuan is also very helpless about this. The reason why the Japanese devils can be so rampant in Burma is that the British have a big reason. As early as when the Japanese devils launched a war against Burma, the KMT government proposed to Yingjun to reinforce Burma. idea, but was rejected by the British Army.

What the British thought was that once the Chinese entered Burma, they would probably take away their colonies, so they did not agree with the Kuomintang government’s request to send troops to Burma. The talents asked China for help, and the expeditionary force began to send troops to North Korea. The British guys were not thinking about how to cooperate with the expeditionary force to drive away Little Japan, but how to use the expeditionary force to delay the Japanese army's time to complete the retreat.

Therefore, in battle after battle, the British began to run away at the beginning of the battle, which caused the flanks of the expeditionary army to be exposed to the guns of the Japanese devils, and the expeditionary army was defeated.

After observing the terrain, the two returned to the warehouse where the rout soldiers were stationed, and called the appointed platoon leaders over.

Li Wula, Ah Yi, and several platoon leaders who joined the Sichuan Army Corps later, all of them have led troops and have experience in leading troops to fight. Xia Yuan continued to use them because the other routs did not have experience in leading troops to fight. , Ah Yi is on the battlefield for the first time, but no matter what people say, he has been trained in the officer training regiment. Even if he has no actual combat experience, at least his rank is here. Xia Yuan does not intend to give Ah Yi a soldier, but let Ah Yi Follow, watch, learn, learn how to lead troops into battle.

"We have brought down the British airport again. The Japanese devils will not let it go. They will definitely organize troops to continue attacking the airport tonight. If they take this airport, their own planes and fighter jets will not need to fly long distances. It can quickly support the front line, so the airport is an inevitable target for the Japanese army.”

Xia Yuan looked at the platoon leaders in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "It's just that the Burma war has been lost at this stage, and there is no need to stick to the airport, but the British guys are still here. If we evacuate, they will call Superior, our heads are not safe, so no matter what, we must stick to this airport, at least until tonight is over before we continue to set off."

A Yi said: "The English ally, but our ally, if you don't fight the superiors, you will be blamed. This battle must be fought."

Li Wula said: "Leader, how do you plan to fight, we will listen to you."

The other platoon leaders spoke one after another, expressing their agreement.

Xia Yuan said: "Since everyone agrees, let me talk about my plan. Judging from the strength of the Japanese devils staying at the airport, the strength of the Japanese devils attacking the airport tonight will not be higher than that of the two squads last night." Many, the Japanese devils' large forces have been sent to the front to pursue the defeated expeditionary force and the British army, so we are lucky."

Xia Yuan looked at Long Wenwen, and Long Wenwen put a sketch in front of everyone, "This is the forest, this is the airport, this is the warehouse we guard, this is a slope more than 200 meters opposite the warehouse, here will be stationed The machine gun fire position is used to attract the Japanese attacking at night, and your task is to be responsible for the flank, that is, to hold on to the direction of the warehouse."

"Light the torches from the machine gun position to attract the Japanese army. You will attack the Japanese army from the left flank. I will block the Japanese army's retreat route, form a three-sided encirclement, and eat up this Japanese army."

A group of platoon leaders look at me and I look at you, with disbelief in their eyes. Long Wenwen actually thought about not repelling the Japanese army, but thinking about how to eat up the Japanese army. Worried, the perennial defeat made them fear war in their hearts, and the arrogance of the Japanese army was deeply imprinted in their minds. Although they didn't say it, they actually didn't know what to do.

Xia Yuan saw their worries, and said: "Japanese devils are also human beings, and a bullet can kill them. From the emptiness of the Japanese army's rear, it can be inferred that the number of Japanese troops attacking the airport tonight will not be large." Too many would kill 200 people, but we had 300 people, and with the help of the British army on the flank, surrounded on all sides, the Japanese army could not escape."

After a pause, Xia Yuan said again: "Don't forget, the weapons and equipment we have have reached the level of elite troops, even surpassing the Japanese army. We were able to eat 150 people last night, and we can eat 200 people tonight. !"

Ah Yi stuttered and encouraged them: "The delegation is right. We have the allies of England to assist us. Tonight's victory belongs to us. The victory must belong to us."

All the platoon leaders expressed their opinions one after another, but their attitudes were not very firm, and they didn't know whether they would win, but the appearance of Long Wenwen and Xia Yuan brought them a little hope, and this hope would only follow a defeat. And the smoke evaporated.

(End of this chapter)