The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 91 Upgraded Fortifications

After He Wei completed the defensive configuration drawings of the entire position, he handed them over to Chen Zhen for review. Chen Zhen didn't even look at them. Now he has regarded He Wei as a confidant, and naturally has unconditional trust in the plans He Wei came up with. However, he now They were really anxious. Several company commanders from the third battalion who came for reinforcements asked to take a look at He Wei's defense plan. In the end, Chen Zhen scolded them all, and then issued an order to immediately order all the defenders of Yanzhuang. Immediately began to build fortifications according to He Wei's plan, and his execution ability was not weak.

But what happened next made He Wei feel that he had greatly underestimated the scar-faced Major's regiment.

The matter was urgent. He Wei first led the newly arrived 57rd Battalion of the [-]th Regiment to the front-line positions to assist in building fortifications. Then, since building bunkers required a large amount of construction materials, in order to avoid insufficient materials, he hurried back to Yan. Zhuang went to Chen Zhen to ask for materials.

As a result, the two of them were separated for only two hours. As soon as he entered Zhuangzi this time, he saw that the Zhuangzi was crowded with soldiers. When he saw Chen Zhen, who was sweating profusely, and asked, he found out that it turned out that while In the short time just now, Chen Zhen went directly to the division headquarters and asked the division commander to come to the division's engineering battalion to help build the fortifications. By the way, he also asked for a wireless communication platoon from the division's communications battalion. Although he was only attached to the regiment, However, the superiors attached great importance to this battle and responded to every request, so Chen Zhen led battalions and platoons of nearly 1000 people back to Yanzhuang.

He Wei was naturally overjoyed. If nothing else, in terms of the speed of building fortifications, He Wei's group of infantrymen who only had shovels and pickaxes could not compare with the engineering troops equipped with professional engineering equipment. The quality of the fortifications they built might be Likewise, even the quality of the fortifications built by the infantry unit will be better, because the infantry builds fortifications to protect their own lives. If they mess up, saving their lives will directly turn into losing their lives.

But when it comes to operating speed, infantry cannot compare with professional engineers. In particular, the engineer battalion of the [-]th Division has recently added a batch of professional engineering equipment produced in Taiyuan. The operating efficiency has doubled. Infantry with shovels and pickaxes is incomparable. operating efficiency.

What's more important is that these professional engineers can lay landmines. Many of He Wei's soldiers have never seen what a landmine looks like. They are good at burying landmines. Digging a hole and throwing it in is also called laying landmines. But how do you detonate the landmines? , they absolutely won’t.

When these engineers arrived at Yanzhuang, they also brought a large number of logs, sandbags, prepared deer villages, and horses, etc., which relieved He Wei's urgent need and greatly reduced the time for combat preparations.

In addition to the engineering battalion, the radio communication platoon brought back by Chen Zhenguai is also very useful in combat. Now Yanzhuang and the 57th Regiment Headquarters at the main Dabaishui position in the rear use wired communication.

Wired communication, as the name suggests, is a communication method with telephone lines. The wires used in wired communication are made of copper wire, and the outside is rubber-wrapped and wrapped around an I-shaped iron frame, forming bundles of wire coils. The middle shaft of the iron frame is hollow and can be used for threading ropes or carrying other substitutes on the bodies of the communication soldiers. When laying out the communication network, these communication soldiers carrying the wires are required to lay out the wires bit by bit, and it is very easy during combat. Destroyed by artillery fire, once the telephone line used for communication is blown out, if you want to restore it, you have to rely on the signal soldiers to check bit by bit, find the location of the disconnection, and then reconnect it to restore communication.

If Yanzhuang is surrounded, and the telephone line to the regiment headquarters is blown up, and communication with the rear is lost, people will not be able to rush out, and the news will not be conveyed. Thousands of people in this village are afraid It means that the sky is not responding, and the earth is not working, but with the radio, it is different. At least at a critical moment, even at the last moment when everyone is about to die for the country, communication with the rear can still be maintained through the radio.

He Wei did not take this into consideration and focused on the field fortifications and positions in front. From this point of view, although Chen Zhen had not attended a military academy, his vision was really vicious and very prophetic.

As a result, the newly arrived engineering battalion became the main force in building front-line fortifications. Most of the officers in the engineering battalion were professional officers who graduated from the Engineering Department of Huangpu Military Academy. The various illustrations drawn by He Wei on the drawings were all based on the engineering The drawing standards come from the standard, and with a little explanation, these officers can quickly understand the key points.

With an engineer battalion as the main force in constructing the fortifications, and more than 1000 brothers from an infantry battalion and a half to assist in the construction, an infantry company-level defensive position soon began to take shape. After an afternoon of emergency construction, before dinner, the perimeter The sixth company's defense system, including the main position, peripheral obstacle fortifications, and minefields in the predetermined area, have all been constructed, repaired, or laid out.

The final effect presented in front of He Wei was even far beyond his expectation. The outermost obstacle area was completely destroyed by Japanese artillery and blasting in the previous battle, and the center was even bombed. A large gap was opened. The engineering battalion was very rough in repairing it. They directly blocked the opening with a large number of Juma and Luzhai they brought, and threw a bunch of earth bags. Now the gap opened by the Japanese army not only It was completely blocked again, and the various obstacles piled up were more than two meters high. The next time the Japanese army wanted to destroy it, it would be far more difficult to open a breakthrough from here than before.

The biggest surprise was the construction of the bunkers. The engineering battalion came to assist in the operation not only brought a large amount of civil engineering materials, but also brought a batch of steel plates and steel beams produced in Taiyuan. When building the bunkers, these steel plates Played a big role.In He Wei's original plan, these bunkers were constructed entirely of civil materials. It was not that he did not want to use steel to build bunkers, but he never thought that steel materials could be obtained. Now that steel materials are available, various Steel plates and steel beams have been added to the bulletproof layer and support structure of the bunker, and the elastic resistance and support performance have been greatly improved.

Previously, according to He Wei's plan, the maximum level of bomb resistance of these bunkers was 150mm howitzers equipped with instant signal tubes, but now with the bonus of steel construction, the Japanese used 150mm howitzers equipped with delayed fuses. He Wei is confident that he can carry it for a few rounds.

In the center of the position, He Wei and Fu Chen looked at the newly repaired heavy machine gun shooting arm and command platform in a bunker with great interest. The bunker where they were located was different from other bunkers. The other bunkers were basically It can only accommodate the strength of one reinforced infantry squad, but this bunker is very spacious. Not only does the bunker have a full set of arm mounts for heavy machine gun shooting, telephones, ammunition storage rooms, it is even equipped with a command platform, and its structure is also more advanced. It is strong, and the entire bunker is made of steel components. It can fully accommodate two standard infantry squads to fight inside. If it is squeezed, it is not impossible to fit a platoon inside.

In He Wei's original plan, this bunker was not designed to be deployed. In fact, this bunker was built by the engineering battalion. After the original bunker was built, it was found that there was still a lot of surplus in the various operating materials brought by it. In the spirit of According to the principle that good people should go to the end and send Buddha to the West, the people from the engineering battalion used the remaining materials to build this extra-large solid fortress.

He Wei was actually very calm, but Fu Chen was very excited. He looked left and right, and shouted that he wanted to use this place as his company command post.

"He Wei, can you tell me what kind of weapons this command post should be equipped with?" Fu Chen put his head at the shooting port and said to He Wei beside him.

He Wei gave a wry smile and shook his head. Although this large bunker was well built, in He Wei's original plan, there was no firepower reserved for this bunker. It was assigned to the Sixth Company's [-]nd and [-]th heavy machine guns and supplementary equipment. All the Jin-made imitation Type [-] heavy machine guns that came in were assigned to the various forts of each infantry platoon. There were no extra machine guns for this temporary large bunker.

Unless the heavy machine gun company of the 57rd Battalion of the [-]th Regiment is transferred out, the problem is that the entire [-]rd Battalion will be deployed as a reserve team in Zhuangzi. Now, if the heavy firepower of the reserve team is taken out, once an unexpected situation occurs , what to fight back with?

"Company Commander, how did I know that there would be such a big bunker? There are still machine guns for this bunker. Besides, if you want to use it as a company command post, there is no need to deploy so much firepower." He Wei said.

Fu Chen seemed to be very keen on equipping this bunker with machine gun firepower, and continued to say to He Wei: "It would be a pity not to equip such a strong bunker with some firepower. Forget about this Type [-] heavy machine gun. How about you use the Shanxi-made Move those heavy machine guns that are imitations of the Japanese over to me?"

He Wei was about to refuse when he suddenly heard Fu Chen talking about the Japanese heavy machine guns. He Wei suddenly seemed to remember that he did have a batch of Japanese machine guns in his hand. After repelling the Japanese attack for the first time, he led his men to rush into the enemy's territory. After leaving the trenches, I brought back a lot of weapons and equipment.

If he remembered correctly, that batch of weapons included a crooked-handled light machine gun used by infantry, two vehicle-mounted crooked-handled light machine guns disassembled from tanks, and the heaviest Type [-] [-]cm large caliber heavy machine gun, the firepower of this thing is much stronger than that of the Type [-] heavy machine gun and the Type [-] heavy machine gun.

After being brought back by He Wei, these equipments had been piled up in the concealment department to gather dust and were not used. Unexpectedly, they were used at this time.

In this way, after being reminded by Fu Chen, these captured weapons that had been forgotten were finally put to use, and these weapons and equipment from the enemy will eventually reflect their true power in the upcoming battle of blood and fire. value.

(End of this chapter)