(Sorry, I don’t know where the 85mm caliber howitzer came from. Maybe I just thought about it when I saw an 8X.

Thank you for your correction by book friend 110kongjiang. The previous chapter is inconvenient to be revised. From this chapter, it has been uniformly changed to an 82-caliber heavy mortar.

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The morning's military call woke Ye Hanqing up from his sleep. He opened his eyes in confusion and looked at the roof made of banana leaves. It took a while before he understood where he was.

This is a shack made of wooden sticks. The four sides and the ceiling are sealed by banana leaves to protect themselves from wind and rain. There is a bamboo door with iron wire as a hinge on the front. The window is also made of bamboo strips and is also buckled on the window frame with iron wire, which is very simple.

He slept so hard that the bed was built with two ends of earth as support, and a wide wooden board was built on it.

"It's only half past five!" Teacher Xie struggled to sit up. He was by the window, looking at the watch through the light from the gap in the window, and complained in a low voice.

"I'm sleeping with you. This is the army's morning exercises, it has nothing to do with us." On the other bed, Teacher Han said sleepyly, turned over and continued to fall asleep. He is a man who recognizes the bed. He tossed and turned last night and couldn't sleep. He fell asleep in a daze in the middle of the night. He didn't want to pay attention to things that had nothing to do with him, and just wanted to sleep for a while.

Ye Hanqing stood up, put on his clothes, got out of bed and folded the quilt.

"Xiao Ye, did you stop sleeping so early?" Teacher Xie said strangely when he saw him pulling out the basin from under the bed, holding a towel, soap, toothpaste, and toothbrush.

"Anyway, I'm awake, so why not go out and wash my face." Ye Hanqing replied gently, opening the wire buckles that were built together and preparing to go out.

"Wait, I won't sleep anymore, let's go together!" Teacher Xie and he got along very well, turned over and got out of bed, quickly packed up his bed, took the basin and followed him out.

When I came out, I found Ye Hanqing standing in front of the door, looking ahead, and saying something to myself: "I went around, but I finally entered the mountain!"

When I came here last night, it was dark and I couldn't see anything clearly. Teacher Xie had not carefully looked at the surrounding environment. At this time, Ye Hanqing reminded me and began to carefully observe the situation around me.

After a quick glance, he confirmed that this was a small mountain basin.

Judging from the direction from the Yutabai in the horizon, there is a towering mountain to the west. Under the hazy light that is about to jump out of the horizon, the mountain is high and steep, and many places are steep slopes of more than 60 degrees. The whole mountain looks like a wide and tall city wall. From the perspective of sight, you can't see the head in both north and south.

Intuitively judging, the absolute height of this mountain is about five or six hundred meters.

Outside this frontal high mountain, there are also mountains on both sides of the north and south, but they do not stand up in front of them like the mountain in the west, but gradually push the mountain up from small hills dozens or hundreds of meters, so you can see that you can see a few kilometers away and the view is very wide.

There is also a big mountain on the east side of the small basin, and it is different here.

The basin extends to the east, and the terrain is in a natural uplifting state, forming a ridge two kilometers away. When you look over the ridge, you can see another ridge. After this ridge, you can see another higher mountain peak. It can be seen that the eastern mountain range is steps-shaped and rises step by step.

There are three mountain passages in the basin.

Close to the peak on the west side, there is a river floodplain that is roughly north-south, slightly north-south-south-side, and a highway built by the river, which has become two north-south channels of the basin.

On the east side of the basin, there is another valley path around the hill directly in front of the sight and extending deeper.

Judging from last night's memory, they came from the south river beach last night.

The basin is indeed not big. Under the division of hills of all sizes, the shape of this small basin is not regular, with a diagonal line from northeast to southwest, less than three kilometers long. However, given that the surrounding hills are not very high, the highest hill is only less than a hundred meters, and the available area is very wide. In fact, the basin coverage in a broad sense is between five and seven kilometers, which is huge enough.

It’s enough to build a small county town in such a large basin.

However, he saw that there were only hundreds of houses by the river on the west side, which was at best a big town, and it would be a big one if there were one or two thousand people.

The quality of the houses is also very poor. Most of them are earthen walls and banana leaves. Only one or two tile houses are seen. Next to the town are fields opened by ordinary people. There are very few paddy fields, no more than ten acres, and most of them are dry fields. It is already spring, and you can see the crops growing in the fields, mainly corn and sorghum.

Do 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 by relying on corn and sorghum!

The basin is not cold.

It is at the same latitude as Guangdong, and belongs to the subtropical zone, but is only a mountainous area with a high altitude. Therefore, it is warm in winter and cool in summer. At this time, it is about 17 degrees Celsius in the basin, and a single piece of clothing is enough.

It was spring when flowers were blooming, with flowers blooming among the hills and green grass. Even the crooked trees growing on the opposite mountain wall also stretched out their fluffy crowns. Looking around, the mountains in the distance were endless primeval forests, with leaves and wind moving, and accompanied by the sound of water flowing between the rivers, making them a natural beauty full of vitality.

But Teacher Xie felt a little chilled.

The conditions here are much worse than those in the countryside!

Although the places he went to the countryside were at least developed and mature human settlements, with fields and people flourishing. There were loudspeakers and tractors in the village, and traces of human civilization were reflected everywhere.

But this is a completely wilderness!

...

Guan Fei didn't know about Teacher Xie, Ye Hanqing and others, and was frustrated with coldness at this moment. At this moment, he was having morning fuck with the soldiers.

To master the troops, it is not enough to just catch the commanders who lead the troops, but also to go to the grassroots and get along with the soldiers. Although there are many things waiting for him to do now, he will never forget this point of keeping the morning exercises and running with the soldiers every day. In addition to him, Zhang Shengguo, Sun Yaohua, as well as civilian cadres of the brigade department and staff from the Civil Affairs Office, under his leadership, all participated in the daily morning training.

Guan Fei believes that for those who will sit in the office for a long time in the future, exercise more is also beneficial.

At 7:30, he came back from the cross-country run of ten kilometers and had breakfast with the soldiers. The breakfast was the same as everyone else: porridge, steamed buns, pickles.

He had no complaints about this.

Compared to the previous one, I could only eat two meals a day, and I had half corn, half rice, and cooked salt water as a dish. I cheated my stomach but couldn't cheat my internal organs. I was half hungry for half a day, which is now quite good.

Many soldiers were probably deeply impressed by their previous hunger. They ate steamed buns one after another. They could swallow them in a few bites, and then immediately ran to catch the second one. Some soldiers with big appetites could eat seven or eight steamed buns in one meal!

Fortunately, there was enough food and a large amount of vegetables bought from China. The soldiers could eat them openly, otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford these big-bellied men.

Many soldiers jokingly claimed that they had entered communism early.

The soldiers' requirements are very low, but Guan Fei cannot be like them. As long as he can eat enough, he still has to work hard for the future development of the 291st Brigade.

After dinner, he took a short rest and had morning exercise classes at 8 o'clock. The troops began formal training in the morning. He also took Zhang Shengguo to inspect the two defense lines of the north and south.

The defense area of ​​the 291st Brigade is a narrow and narrow area facing north and south.

It is fifty kilometers long from north to south, but it is very weak from east to west, with two ends wide and thin in the middle, like an hourglass. The northern line is connected to the transit, from Menggu Town occupied by the Wei Ding Army at the west end, and arrives at the Salwin River at the east end, with a total length of 17 kilometers.

Then the Salwin River was squeezed inward by the mountainous straits, and the middle section gradually shrinks inward.

The thinnest area in the middle is only seven kilometers. Then it expands east and west like a trumpet, reaching another towering mountain range.

The entire defense zone is bounded by the border in the north, the Salwen River in the east, the mountain barrier to the west, and the mountains block the south, and the center of gravity that needs defense is the north-south passage.

The north-south channel is actually one, which is the exit between the north and south of the same nameless river. This river originates from Menggu and comes from the branch of the border river. Due to the terrain, the entire north is high in the north and low in the south, flowing south into the mountains.

After twisting and twisting between the mountains for nearly ten kilometers, turning to the southeast, flowing into a high mountain valley with steep rocks. Five kilometers later, rush out of the valley and enter a Sancha River beach. Here, the terrain quickly becomes flat and wide. Under the accumulation of mud and sand brought by flowing water, a small alluvial flat land of one or two hundred meters wide and more than five hundred meters wide is formed.

As a result, people gathered in Sancha flat land and became a small town - Kangka.

The river was blocked by mountains and turned to the southwest. This is the middle section of the river. The terrain became wider and the flow rate slowed down. Five kilometers later flowed into a wider small basin, which is Longkang Town, where the 291st Brigade brigade is located.

The focus of the north-south defense of the 291st Brigade is Kangka and Longkang Towns.

Kangka is easier to defend, and the road comes from the right side of the river. Because the mountain wall is steep, the enemy cannot cross the mountain and can only walk on the road. Therefore, Guan Fei set up a defense line in Kangka four kilometers along the river, and has not yet reached the turn of the river.

The defense line includes trenches built on the foot of the mountain, and tunnels built by chiseling walls and blasting. The tunnels are dug on the mountain walls more than 20 meters high, winding and interlacing, connecting to the rear position one or two hundred meters away.

The slopes and tunnels are both condescendingly to control the highway, and the firepower intersects, so they can support each other. The highway can only accommodate platoon-level and large-scale troops. The enemy cannot use the advantage of numericality to flood the position, and the defensive pressure is greatly reduced.

Since the river turns one kilometer ahead, the enemy's heavy artillery cannot attack the position. If the opponent wants to turn heavy weapons such as heavy artillery into a detour, it will be exposed to the noses of the soldiers. Under the cross-attack of 82 heavy force, 60 force, and light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles, no one can withstand the pressure to set up a position.

Without heavy artillery, the troops could not be deployed. Although only two companies were released on the Kangka defense line, as long as the commander was not careless, two or three thousand people could not be attacked.

Compared with the northern line, the southern line is more difficult to defend.

The main body of the southern line is river beaches and hills. Although the terrain is gradually rising, the river is the main choice for human settlement. Ten kilometers downstream of Longkang is another town, Maika. The remaining enemy who was defeated last time was stationed here.

After finally allowing the country to accept his idea of ​​peaceful development, Guan Fei could not have run to defeat Mika and lose his credit in order to establish a stable line of defense.

For this reason, he had to rely on three higher hills to establish defense lines in the river beach area.

However, he also tried his best to make 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, opposite the highway. If the enemy wants to attack this position, he must cross the river first, and the speed will inevitably be reduced. This is the time to eliminate the enemy in large quantities.

At the same time, the second hill was dragged seventy or eighty meters behind, blocking the road direction, forcing the enemy to take a detour and providing firepower support to the front line. If the enemy attacks this line of defense, the firepower of the first hill can also attack the enemy's side and back, so that the enemy cannot take care of each other from the head to the tail.

The best thing is that there is a small depression behind the first hill, which can be surrounded by the second hill, and personnel and materials can be transported without obstacles.

Considering that this area is relatively wide, just one or two kilometers, in order to avoid the enemy coming all over the mountains and fields and performing the sea of ​​people, Guan Fei set up two heavy firepower points at two hills that are more than 100 meters high in the rear to protect the flanks of the front defense line.

At the same time, most of the heavy weapons were placed on the southern line. Relying on several tunnels on the mountain, 122 heavy artillery and 82 mm heavy mortars were placed behind the hills. They boldly forced more than ten gates to the back of the first and second line positions, in a small hill, and with the protection of the mountain, approaching to provide fire support.

In terms of troops, two companies on the southern line are enough, but there are five companies stationed on the northern line at any time.

The remaining five companies were stationed in a small valley not far from Longkang Town in the rear. When the battle was fierce, it took only ten minutes to run. At the critical moment, the guard company, the communication company, and even the engineering battalion could all be pulled up to support. So many troops, including the more than 2,000 former People's Army soldiers whom they decided to store yesterday, had a total of four or five thousand troops, and they could completely defend their positions.

Guan Fei had to do his best and could only do this.

It's okay to say on the northern front, but if the enemy mobilizes a division to launch a large-scale attack on the southern front, it will be difficult to defend under his command, but it will cost a certain price. If the attacking force exceeds one division, even if he defends, he will suffer heavy casualties and severely injured his vitality.

But this is not a crime of war, but my overall strength is too weak.

This time, he brought back a large amount of steel and cement, and was preparing to build a large number of tunnels, bunkers, and permanent fortifications on the southern line, and build the front into a steel defense line. Thus, with limited troops, he killed as many enemies as possible.

He wants to turn every hill and every ridge into an enemy's nightmare! He can't bear the huge price of casualties and give up his attempt to conquer the 291st Brigade by force!

He believed that as long as he had spent this weakest period, he would lay a solid foundation and accumulate strength for several years. At that time, he would build an unbreakable steel defense line. In a few years, it would probably not be whether the enemy came to attack the 291st Brigade, but whether the 291st Brigade took the initiative!
Chapter completed!