The thick underground pipeline network extends to the four main roads of Huangsu City, east, west, south, and north, winding towards the four city gates, but the underground pipeline network is definitely more than just the main roads.

The designers and construction workers are really built like the Hei Dahan said, completely based on a century-old project as the template. Every three hundred meters, the underground pipeline design has an entrance and exit, all in the alleys on the back streets and alleys. From the drawings, it is like a tree, with the main road as the main trunk and the back streets and alleys as branches and leaves, and it extends out like this.

Since its completion, Huangsucheng has never experienced any flooding. No matter how heavy it rains, the thick underground pipeline network will discharge water into the moat with Jiafu River, which is definitely an excellent benefit for the people. However, the people at this time do not understand the relationship between this kind of people-friendly project and heavy rain in the sky.

In fact, until the future, heavy rains occur frequently in various places and cities are immersed in terrible flooding, the people will discover the great role of a complete underground pipeline network on the entire city. Everyone regrets their short-sightedness, including those city builders. However, that is a pain that must be experienced in the urbanization process of the principality. You must know that for thousands of years, the kingdom has been a major agricultural country, with 80 to 90% of the residents living in the countryside.

However, what surprised the generals who were exploring the underground pipeline with flashlights was not this advanced people-friendly project, but the role of this pipeline that almost spreads across the city in the upcoming street fighting.

Through the underground pipeline network, the defenders can not only freely mobilize their troops, but they can retreat as much as they want. For the enemy, they originally thought they would catch a rabbit, but they did not expect that the rabbit could instantly turn into a tiger, which was the most painful. They could not predict how many enemies there would be in the building they were about to attack.

The more the generals looked, the better they were. With this underground pipeline and the endless houses on the ground, if the Black Hawk Empire wanted to occupy this city, they would be attacked by bullets at all times unless they killed all the 43rd Army officers and soldiers on the ground and underground.

If the former Army Lieutenant General was preparing to use the strength of the entire army to fight with the Black Hawk Empire Army for three days and nights, then now he is confident that he will fight with the Black Hawk Empire people here for more than a week.

After realizing the huge military role of the underground pipeline network, the Army Lieutenant General was very decisive and immediately notified the heads of the fourth regiment of the 2nd Brigade and the heads of each battalion and company to the underground pipeline network in their respective defense zones to be familiar with the situation of the underground and the ground exits, and then camouflaged the ground according to their respective needs.

The Black Hawk Empire is not a fool, and sooner or later they will discover the secret of underground pipeline networks. Then, protecting the safety of underground pipeline networks and exports is also what all battalions and regiments need to do. As for whether the Black Hawk Empire will also come down into the underground pipeline network, the generals are not afraid at all. The complex underground pipeline system is like a spider web. If the Black Hawk Empire without drawings comes in, it is completely a waste of death.

Just in the thick underground pipeline, a group of officers with joy showed an emergency military meeting to readjust the defense deployment of Huangsucheng. Two-thirds of the defense forces that were originally on the ground would be left underground. In this way, they could not only continuously increase troops to attack the Black Hawk Army, but also prevent them from being bombarded by the Black Hawk Army.

Yes, what brought huge casualties to the Kingdom army in the entire Battle of Haicheng was not the bayonets that the Black Hawk Empire charge without fear of death, nor heavy machine guns, but artillery far exceeds the firepower of the Kingdom Party, from 75mm mountain cannons to 105mm howitzers to larger caliber naval cannons, and plowed over and over again the trenches that were not deep in the southern water town.

When the war was fierce, the casualties of an infantry division were almost caused by artillery fire from the Black Hawk Imperial Army. Leaving the troops in a not-so-solid house, the leaders of each regiment were also motivated. Before the Black Hawk Imperial people entered the city, their troops did not know how much casualties they had to bear. With the underground pipeline network, this hidden danger was gone.

All soldiers can stay underground first, wait for the observation post to notify them, and then arrive at their own battle positions from each exit. Unless the Black Hawk Empire is extremely powerful and bury their soldiers in Huangsu City with artillery fire, you don’t have to worry too much about the artillery problem of the Black Hawk Empire.

The lieutenant general chose from the beginning, and the street fighting between the two sides of the war were intertwined in the city, and I had you and I had you. It was originally the best tactic to restrain the enemy's artillery fire.

The work of familiarizing themselves with the underground pipeline networks of their respective defense zones was handed over to their subordinates, but the Lieutenant General of the Army led two deputy, two brigade commanders, Lin Li and others to continue to investigate along the main road of the pipeline network.

A qualified commander needs to be able to effectively mobilize all the resources at hand to serve the war. The intuition of the Army's lieutenant general told him that this underground pipeline could bring him more surprises.

Zhongshan Road is worthy of being a ten-mile long street. It extends through the moat through the city gate. Both sides of the main road are full of private houses, just like the future urban-rural fringe. Although the houses are a little broken, the size of the entire city has expanded by two-thirds. Under Zhongshan Road, the underground pipeline network that even crosses the moat from the underground extends stubbornly outward until it is four miles away from the city gate.

It was already dawn from the exit of the pipe network terminal to the ground. It was already bright and it had been two hours since we obtained the news that the Black Hawks began to land in Ashui Port at 5 a.m. until now, it has been. However, the two lieutenant generals and three major generals who reached the ground were extremely surprised to find that they seemed to have returned to the city again.

Apart from some houses, it seems that it is surrounded by a circle of city walls.

"Huh! Why is there a city?" The Army Lieutenant General frowned slightly. Could it be that the trunk of the underground pipeline network is a circular shape?

"Hehe, Commander Guo, this is not Huangsu City, but it is also Huangsu City." Big Bear, who has lived here for more than two years, explained with a smile.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! It turns out that although this is not the main city of Huangsu City, it also belongs to part of Huangsu City. To be precise, this small city located in the west of Huangsu City Ancient City is called Shouhuai City.

Because the city walls around it are well preserved and surrounded by water, the branches of the Merchant Group's two states also regard this as a distribution center for their own company's goods, and all the goods sent to the two states and Shanghai are basically sent out from this.

"Is this a city?" Through the alley, he walked to the army lieutenant general under the mottled walls, thinking. "All the walls are well preserved?"

"That's right, my brothers and I are responsible for all the security and protection work of our two state branches. We have measured the walls of Shouhuai City on site. The total length is about 1,000 meters, the height is 6 meters, and the width is 3 meters. The four gates in the east, west, south and north are also well preserved. They are surrounded by water on both sides, which is convenient for transportation and security. There were 233 original indigenous residents in Shouhuai City, and all of them were purchased by our company for a lot of money in Huangsu City. However, many of the houses were left behind during the Qing Dynasty and our company has not demolished them." Speaking of his work, Big Bear is well-known.

"How far is this place from the main urban area?" Lieutenant General of the Army climbed the city wall and looked at the main city of Huangsu City not far away and asked.

"That has not been measured in detail, about 4 miles."

"Very good, then use this city as an important position." The Army Lieutenant General nodded and made up his mind. "We cannot completely hide in the city and wait for the Black Hawk Empire people to come in. This Shouhuai City is a firepower point that extends outward from the main position of my Huangsu City. Relying on Shouhuai City and the residential areas in this area, I want the Black Hawk Empire people to leave all their blood before they enter the city from here."

"The army commander has a good idea. If you don't capture this firepower point, if the Black Hawk Empire wants to enter the city from the west, then you will have to be attacked by our army on both sides. At the same time, you can also leave a retreat for our 43rd Army." Deputy Army Commander Liu Yong agreed.

"Retreat?" The Lieutenant General of the Army glanced at his deputy and shook his head and said, "Retreat is not allowed. If the three-day and night battle is fought, if you are the commander of the Black Hawk Empire Army, can you let us run away? If there are no reinforcements, we will have to die in Huangsu City this time."

Although his tone was very calm, everyone could hear his sternness. This time, he planned to fight the Black Hawk Army in Huangsu City with a carriage and horses.

Of course, the reason mentioned by the Lieutenant General of the Army is very correct. If the street fighting lasted for three days in the city and the 43rd Army suffered heavy casualties, the Black Hawk Empire would never be much better. With the arrogance of the Black Hawk Army, how could it bear this? It must be surrounded by the city and seeking to wipe out the enemy's hatred in order to relieve the hatred in my heart.

"Here, Xie Yunsheng asked him to send an infantry battalion to guard it. He told him that if he felt that the troops were insufficient, I would strengthen another infantry company for him, but I must ensure that I should guard it well. As long as I don't die, I can't lose it here." The Lieutenant General of the Army told his several subordinates to the mission.

Major General of the 58th Brigade, the brigade commander of the 48th Regiment, frowned. According to the previous plan, the four infantry regiments of the 42nd Army were each responsible for the defense of Huangsu City on the east, west, south and north. The military headquarters led the guard battalion, mountain artillery battalion directly under the military headquarters and the special agent battalion to be stationed in the city to allocate troops to all parts of the city according to the combat conditions.

Although Xie Yunsheng of the 48th Regiment was brave and good at fighting, he suddenly had an additional Shouhuai City position and the residential houses outside the city to defend. Even if the military headquarters first assign him an additional infantry company, the strength was still insufficient, unless he had to send them the last reserve team in his brigade headquarters in advance, but in that case, he would not have a reserve team.
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