Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 959 Great construction!
A week after returning from the Martyrs Cemetery.

The whole group of the Four Elements Group is basically working hard.

But instead of fighting, all of them turned into construction workers, each battalion and each company performed their duties, some were responsible for internal construction, and some built fortifications everywhere.

Except for morning exercises to practice military posture and formation, the recruited [-] recruits spend the rest of their time like veterans, using tools such as shovels, hoes, and big saws, either to build wooden houses, dig trenches, or lay fortifications.

According to the calculations of Tang Dao and other four-element regiments, although the Japanese army was beaten in eastern Jin, their eyes were still mainly fixed on the big city where the theater headquarters is currently located. , As long as the main force of the Chinese army in Jin Province is settled, those small fish and shrimp can be extinguished at any time.

In a short time, the Japanese army will not launch a large-scale attack on the Taihang Mountains with heavy troops.

In fact, the Japanese army also chose this way in the past.

However, it is not that the Japanese feel that the Chinese army hidden in the mountainous area is not a threat to them. After all, there are tens of thousands of people who beat, smash, and rob the Japanese army transport team active in the traffic line from time to time. On the other hand, the head is as big as a bucket.

That's because their strategy has been set, they must fully occupy Jin Province, and use it as a springboard to attack Shaanxi Province, which is already considered the hinterland of China.After occupying Shaanxi Province, the Japanese army could use the Guanzhong Plain as a place to station troops, march westward to Hetao, southwestward to threaten Sichuan Province, and southward through Northwest Hubei and East China Front Army to join forces with the two lakes.

The wishful thinking of the Japanese army base camp is not unreasonable. According to their plan, at most one year later, the whole of China can be taken by them.

Tactics must serve strategy. It was under such a general policy that the main force of the Japanese army had been staring at the main force in the second theater, while temporarily ignoring the tens of thousands of troops in the mountainous area.

When the 921 Division developed rapidly, even had its own military factory, and had already stepped out of Taihang and entered the Hebei Plain to launch frequent attacks on the Japanese army, it was too late for the Japanese army to recover.

At that time, if they wanted to enter the Taihang Mountains, not to mention the infantry brigade level, even the infantry brigade level would not be easy to use.

The famous "Battle of Dakouzidong" means that the Japanese army used more than 5000 troops to enter the mountain, and it was still when the main force of the 921 Division was away.

What was the result? More than 5000 Japanese soldiers withdrew only after touching a bag, and one tenth of them died in the battle.

The 2000th Group Army's troops in Dakouzidong at that time had only one defense regiment with no more than [-] troops, and less than [-] people were killed in the battle. It was regarded as a classic mountain defense battle.

Therefore, Tang Dao's requirements for the various fortifications constructed in the early stage are not too high, as long as they can resist the bombardment of heavy machine guns and grenades.

Tang Dao intends to wait until there is a lime factory before rebuilding various fortifications. It is basically a reinforced concrete structure. Not to mention the heavy machine gun grenade, even the 70mm infantry gun and the 75 mountain gun can't break through.

As for the heavy aerial bombs and large-caliber artillery shells, except for a few critical positions, Tang Dao can't turn the entire Dakouzidong area into an iron wall, can it?If they had the ability, the Japanese carried the 2000 howitzer weighing 105 kilograms into the mountain and killed me, and I also recognized it.

Of course, Tang Dao still put forward strict requirements for the air-raid shelter, requiring each infantry company to have its own air-raid shelter.

Because of the unique terrain of Dakouzi Cave, the peaks are almost straight, and there are very few flat lands. Basically, all companies are stationed in the valley.If a valley is hit by a large 500-pound aerial bomb, the power of the air waves forced by the mountains on both sides will be doubled compared with that on the plain.

Only the air-raid shelter is the best place to avoid the air waves.

The only way to deal with air raids is to use air-raid shelters. This is naturally a bad idea, but Tang Dao can only use this method at present.

If you want to defend against air strikes, the best tactic is of course air-to-air. It’s unrealistic to think about it with your heels. Up to now, China has completely lost its air supremacy. Fighters were almost absent.

The medium strategy is to deploy a large number of anti-aircraft guns, but the Four Elements Regiment does not have this capability at present or even for a long time in the future.

At present, Cheng Tieshou's No. 2 artillery company has only two 20mm machine guns, and the rest are all anti-aircraft machine guns. Once the Japanese machine hides at an altitude of 1200 meters and drops bombs, no matter how many anti-aircraft machine guns there are, it is just a decoration.

In the future, after the military factory led by Teacher Xiao He has the equipment, it will be very difficult to manufacture pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and even small-caliber artillery.

Tang Dao is just a special soldier. He is familiar with all kinds of individual equipment, but it doesn't mean that he can still have design drawings of anti-aircraft guns or self-propelled howitzers in his head.

What's more, even if there is, can it be made with the simple machine tools and steel materials of this era?
Everything has to conform to the characteristics of this era.

Of course Tang Dao knew that the best anti-aircraft gun of this era was that kind, but even if he had money, there was nowhere to buy it!That's in the hands of the Germans.

Insufficient air defense force is also the most troublesome point in Tang Dao's entire defense system against Dakouzidong. Therefore, before he has a clue, he simply ordered all company-level troops to use stupid methods to dig deep holes!

If the Japanese plane really came and couldn't hit it, then why can't I hide?

The houses and materials were destroyed by the bombing, and they could be rebuilt, and they could be snatched back from the Japanese infantry, but if people are gone, they are really gone.

Fortunately, the mountain of Dakouzi Cave is really hard enough. The cave dug by blasting with explosives can be used as an air-raid shelter without much preparation. Unless the Japanese army has super incendiary bombs like the future of the United States, otherwise they really use this to hide in the mountains. There is nothing to do with the stone hole under the rock.

Tang Dao had a premonition that the Japanese army might not go to war and use infantry to attack on a large scale for a while, but with the next attack on the Japanese army's communication lines, the Japanese North China Front Army Command, which had been simmering for a long time, would inevitably use bombers to carry out the attack. revenge.

Especially the indoor shroud, who was sitting happily waiting for promotion!The direct battle damage in the battle of Jindong exceeded 4000, and the high-level Japanese army who looked at him disliked him at least doubled.

What's more, there is also the Taierzhuang defensive battle that is in full swing!

Commander Wu also sent a telegram to Tang Dao yesterday, saying that Taierzhuang was fighting too hard at the moment. An infantry division with tens of thousands of people took only three days, and nearly half of them were killed or injured.

The Northwest Army Infantry Commander who put his headquarters in Zhuangzi is so tough, he couldn't help crying and begging his superiors for reinforcements.

In fact, in the past three days, the forward position in Shonai has changed hands five times. The Japanese army occupied it during the day, and at night, a battalion commander-level officer would lead a death squad to retake it, and the defeated Japanese army would quickly cover it with artillery shells.

Those who are not witnesses cannot know the tragedy.

In the past time and space, Tang Dao only knew from the data that after a bloody battle, the corpses in the village were scattered across the field, and the corpses of Chinese and Japanese officers and soldiers were intertwined across the battlefield, and no one collected them for them.

It's not that I don't want to, but that I don't need it!
Because, the next cover bombardment will arrive in the near future.

The corpses were blown into blood, which was sprinkled on the loess walls of this big village in northern Jiangsu, gradually turning yellow to red.

As a Japanese pilot who flew over Taierzhuang described in his diary: From the sky, the battlefield looks like an oil painting composed of two main colors, yellow and black!

Yellow, I know it is loess, most of the houses of Chinese rural people are made of these.But I was very puzzled, what is black?Is it the traces of gunpowder smoke after the gunfire?If that's the case, the Chinese inside should have died long ago, and where is the imperial army aviation needed?
Later, I learned from Mr. Sang Mu that in just three days, the imperial infantry suffered 3000 casualties there, and based on the ratio of the imperial infantry’s damage to the Chinese, the Chinese’s casualties were naturally much more than 3000 .

Nearly ten thousand lives were lost in this manor with an area of ​​only 0.5 square kilometers.

At that moment, knowing the origin of so many black colors, I felt a chill all over my body!
Honestly, that's one of the answers I least want to know in my life!

Commander Wu, who received the Northwest Army's request for help, could no longer hold back and planned to send an infantry regiment for reinforcements.

He knew that the battle at Taierzhuang would inevitably be bloody again, but Tang Dao knew better that the general in the village would definitely defend it.

The Japanese army, which suffered heavy losses, was like a madman at this time. They would not retreat until they completely killed their opponents. It would also stimulate the Chinese defenders in Shonai to burst out with stronger energy.

At this time, the Chinese and Japanese armies on the Taierzhuang battlefield were like two boxers in a boxing ring. Regardless of their own injuries, they just punched their opponents fiercely, just wanting to kill each other first.

At this time, whoever suddenly appears to participate in this battle and changes the bloody and crazy balance of power may cause a certain party on the opposite side to suddenly wake up.

No matter how sober the Chinese infantry division is, it is useless. The rear is the Xuzhou base camp, and there is no way to retreat, so they can only carry it to death.

However, the Japanese generals of the two infantry brigades are very likely to quit. They still have more than 10,000 people. If they want to run, they will be protected by planes and cannons. 63 people may not be able to surround them to death.

They must continue to fight to the death in Taierzhuang, the flesh and blood mill, to wear down their strength to the minimum. Only in this way can they complete the final encirclement of them and eat them before the Japanese reinforcements arrive.

"It's just that, Master Chi and the others are too much." Commander Wu's telegram did not fully express.

But Tang Dao already knew that his old superior finally accepted his suggestion.

cruel?If this group of Japanese troops were allowed to escape, it would be cruel to the soldiers of the Northwest Army who had been guarding Taierzhuang for several days.

In time and space, they disabled these two infantry brigades with a 1:1 battle loss ratio, created the most brilliant record on the Chinese battlefield since the Battle of Songhu, and pushed the Chinese people's anti-Japanese sentiment to the highest point in one fell swoop.

This time, they will definitely go to the next level. As long as they are still as tenacious as before, they only need to last for another five days. Will give them any chance.

The cannons with few shells on the ground can't save them, and the planes in the sky can't save them either. All that awaits them is death.

Two infantry corps and one infantry division swallowed up two infantry brigades with a total strength of 2 in one go. This record will definitely raise the anti-Japanese sentiments of the people across the country, and the surrender faction and the wall-riding faction will all lose their voices!

As one of the commanders of the battle, the man in the indoor shroud should not even think about whether he will be promoted or not. Whether he can secure his current position is another matter.

If the Four Elements Group makes another article on the traffic line at this time, it will undoubtedly hand over a Playboy to the old bachelor who has been single for 30 years, and he will have to scream!
Moreover, based on the information from the 921 Division, the Japanese intelligence personnel are not vegetarians. The senior officials of the Japanese North China Front already know that the Four Elements Regiment has arrived at Taihang Mountain, and even the general area of ​​​​the station is pretty close.

However, during this period of time, no reconnaissance planes flew over the Dakouzidong area!Either, the Japanese North China Front Army Command still didn't pay much attention to an infantry regiment; or, the battle of Xuzhou was in full swing, and its army aviation was really unable to spare manpower.

Tang Tuanzuo, who has always planned ahead, is more inclined to the latter.

In fact, the commander of a certain general who was being speculated by Tang Dao read the information of the Four Elements Regiment on his desk at least twice, and even called a senior staff officer from the staff department to order him to cooperate with the general in the military. In terms of intelligence, focus on the Four Elements Group.

A commander at the theater level paid so much attention to a small infantry regiment on the Chinese side. This news has shocked many officers of the Japanese North China Front Army Command.

Of course, this small infantry regiment that surprised the Japanese North China Front Army Command will break into their field of vision again in the near future.

It's just that at that time, the commander-in-chief, who was already quite far-sighted, had already packed his bedroll and left with honor.

Originally, he marched into a battlefield in North China, where the situation was good, but after only half a year, there were poisonous spots everywhere.

Especially in terms of Army Aviation, the loss of fighter planes is even more than that in the southeast battlefield. The key is that the Chinese are in North China and there is not a single fighter plane.

As the supreme commander of the North China Front Army, if this guy doesn't get out, who will get out?
The so-called capable people live there, and those who are not capable and have connections want to live there. There are many people waiting to sit in this position.

Of course, this is all for later.

At this time, Tang Dao and the Four Elements Group are all focused on construction.

But this time, not only more than 3000 people from the Four Elements Regiment, but also more than 6000 people from Licheng.

The Four Elements Group did not throw more than 6000 people into the mountains and the people in the mountain villages to grab the little land, but resettled them in small towns in the mountains.

Instead of busy building regular houses for everyone, they sent an engineering company to help them build triangular wooden sheds in the way of field camps, which quickly solved the problem of everyone sleeping in shelter from the wind and rain.

As for meals, except for the first two days when building a wooden shed is free, after that, it is announced that work will be exchanged for food or money.

To put it bluntly, it is to let the people work to obtain daily necessities.

Those who have experienced the war especially cherish the hard-won stability, and no one dares to jump out and say that the Four Elements Group squeezed their labor force.

The reason is simple, apart from working for the Four Elements Group, they have no way of surviving in this mountain area, and surviving is their top priority.

What's more, the remuneration given by the Four Elements Group is not low, and it is higher than the remuneration in the county. Each person is provided with food every day, and the daily salary is one catty of grain, which is equivalent to about 0.1 oceans, which is enough for an adult to work part-time two people

Except for children under the age of 12 and elderly people over the age of 60, there are about 5000 people who help the four-line group work.

The relatively generous remuneration of the Four Elements Group also attracted farmers from the surrounding villages to work for a few days to earn some food to supplement their families. At the peak, the total number of people working in various places of the Four Elements Group reached more than [-]. people.

With the hard work of more than [-] people, the originally extremely simple residence gradually took shape in the depths of Taihang Mountains!
Not counting the temporary barracks built, the field trenches dug along the perimeter of the garrison alone have a total mileage of 20000 meters. There are 200 air-raid shelters that can accommodate 23 people, and 35 semi-permanent fortifications located at the throat of the main road. There are more than 2 tunnels with a depth of 40 meters used for transportation between various fortifications!

With these, the Four Elements Regiment has initially possessed the ability to resist the attack of an infantry brigade-level Japanese infantry, and also initially has the ability to "avoid the air". At least it will not face a group of medium-sized bombers composed of more than a dozen aircraft. bombed.

In other words, even if the Japanese North China Front Army wants to attack him and the 921 Division at this time, if they only come to idiots like the 108 Division, they will come to give away their heads.

So far, Tang Dao's heart is completely in his stomach.

His gaze had already turned to Subei.

As long as the big battle is over as he wished, he has to go to the old man in Shanxi to fool around with something!
(End of this chapter)