Chapter 101: Ruili Grand Victory

Ruili in May, which is located on the edge of the western tropics, should have ushered in a long rainy season, but it was sunny for a few days, and it was clear and cloudless, making those who desire the rainy season look straight and worry.
"If only it was raining."
Looking at the clear sky outside the window, Zhuge Sheng, while enjoying the good fragrant tea, said to Tie Sangan who drank a dime a pound of tea, "Boss, look at the tea you drink, one dime Jin, I really want to. So what do you keep in such a high army? "
Unlike Zhuge Sheng, who has a family and a room, Tie Sangan has no children until now, and he is always accompanied by green lanterns. He has spent his time reading and studying. The military officer who came out of the militias was the most illiterate person in his year. He even wrote Zhujiasheng glyphs to write family letters. Now he can not only read and write normally, but he can also understand some professional terms in military writings.
"It's just a few soldiers. If life doesn't bring death, it won't take them. Just leave enough money for the mother and father at home."
Following the old rules inherited from the militias, starting from Zhang Shusheng, no special confessions are allowed regardless of their position. Food, clothing and accommodation, all converted into the salary of the corresponding position, responsible for themselves.
Tiesangan is a different kind. After all, it is a high-level officer of the Southwest Army. The monthly salary of more than 100 yuan is already a high number in the eyes of ordinary people. However, in addition to his own food and drink, the rest were divided into two parts, one for his old parents living in Dongchuan, and one subsidy into the cafeteria of the second division.
In his words, he doesn't worry about eating and drinking, he is always supported, and he saves so much money for what he does. Of course, with him taking the lead, other officers also competed to imitate, and each month somehow a private salary subsidy was entered into the army canteen.
"You are also a big boss, and it's time to start a family." Zhu Gesheng drank the tea in the purple sand pot. He felt the admiration of this old brother who was also a bandit, and he could say that he was watching all the way Zhe Sangan moved from a blind and simple-headed bandit to this position today. "Let's go, rest, and go and see."
"Yu Cheng! How did your position dig? Can both feet be crushed and rotten to block the enemy's artillery? All re-reinforced."
Standing on the line of his company's defense, Dai Anlan frowned, apparently having strengthened the trenches, but he was still not satisfied. The battle of Mutzi Yamaguchi impressed him so much. The British artillery was different from the waste artillery of the Dian Army. It was very accurate and powerful, otherwise it would not kill so many brothers.
In his opinion, the topography of Qiongzhen is really an impediment to the front. The open front is surrounded by intricate terrain on both sides. As long as the British do not retract to Myanmar and re-select a direction to attack Kunming, then this is where they have to win.
The second company, which has been replenished, will be led by itself to join this larger battle against the British.
In order to cope, the second division of the Guardian Division showed great enthusiasm to build the position.
At the forefront is the densely packed barbed wire, the minefield, and the first line of defense that twists and turns afterwards. In the intricate ditch, only one head can be exposed when standing inside, and when necessary, it is rushed up from the stairs on the wall of the ditch to ensure the soldiers' safety to the greatest extent.
The trenches present a complex distribution. From a structural point of view, it is not simply a trench. Except for the frontier positions, which are relatively simple to defend against the enemy at all times, the other trenches are extremely complete.
The curved trenches are mainly tamped, and sandbags are used to make sandbags as individual shooting bunkers. There are often individual bunkers on the trench walls that just accommodate one person. Because there is not enough cement, when digging, the soldiers choose a tricky angle to open a hole, supplemented by thick hard rocks and anti-gun Is enough.
There will be a class gun-proof hole every large section, and the reinforcement effect is better.
In the curved trench system, there are also special observation posts, company-level command bunkers, machine gun bunkers, and mortar bunkers. Dedicated traffic trenches allow support and retreating forces to quickly attack, support, and retreat.
Although the entire defense system is very complicated, for the Southwest Army, which has always used excavation as a special training subject, these are the same contents as daily training.
The division of tasks into clear tasks, each segment is independently structured, and finally combined into a huge war fortification. For the well-trained Southwest Army, it is a process repeated many times.
Zhang Shusheng had a clear understanding of World War II. The trench trenching and position building was definitely an important content of World War II. Before the advent of weapons of mass destruction and precision assault, human sea tactics were still the theme of World War II.
And the scientific trench system, complete war fortifications are the nemesis of human sea tactics.
However, most unfortunately, because the cement is seriously inadequate and the time is not sufficient, the entire division's position, except for the machine fortress and the command shelter, is all civil engineering.
"The structural level of the position still couldn't keep up with several main units, and it was a little worse." After looking around, Zhu Gesheng stood in front of a machine gun fort made of large hard stones and concrete and said with emotion. "Britain's vanguard will arrive at noon, and the two armies will advance against each other, but they will still have a few more days to improve these fortifications."
Tie Sangan nodded. The British are not heaven and earth. They also need to march. They need heavy troops to catch up with the main forces. The second division's defense line has begun to take shape, so the British must find a way to break through it.
This difficult offensive and defensive battle is already unavoidable.
"Boss, when the battle starts, you must pay attention to protect yourself!" Zhu Gesheng has foreseen that the battle starting tomorrow will be a fierce battle. The old problems of Tiesangan used to run to the front line to participate He never stopped him in battle.
"Well, it's enough for Big Brother to command the troops. At the crucial moment ... it's better not to be soft."
The meaning of Tie Sangan's words was that Zhuge Sheng could not hear it. He was admonishing himself that various situations may arise in the war. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the supervision team would be the most direct means.
After all, this is not the former main division, but the reserve division, the Dian Army, the Gui Army, and the three guards combined. No one dares to pat his chest to ensure that no one will escape without authorization. Although this situation did not occur in the previous battle of Muzishan, it was a desperate fight, which caused some surprises for Zhuge Sheng.

It arrived at noon, and the soldiers who had just finished the march meal had their own positions again. The battalion-level commanders had received orders from superiors. The enemy's vanguard would arrive half an hour later and ordered the ministries responsible for the first line of defense to do Ready for the headache.
After being wiped and wiped, the Mark Qin heavy machine gun was once again operated by the soldiers, trying to change the firing angle. The deputy shooter next was checking the belt and preparing the belt because there was no time to change the new CH24 type. For the new machine gun, the cooling water dedicated to the Mark Qin machine gun has been placed next to it.
A mortar was tuned by the gunners and fired. After only one order was issued, the shells would fly to the front position of the position already marked.
The soldiers clenched the steel guns in their hands, inspected the bullets and grenades, adjusted the rulers, and aimed at the front of the line at three and one.
The rear artillery group is a major feature of the second division. As a guard division, because of the need to form artillery to support the firepower, Zhang Shusheng made a big wave and approved the artillery for each division.
Unlike the machine guns, the heavy machine guns were not replaced because the existing Mark Qin heavy machine guns were fully adapted to the needs of the battle, and the original artillery was blank, so it was naturally formed a new brand.
With the financial resources of the three-government coalition government, despite the huge expenditure, it is still possible to set up artillery groups for several divisions. After all, this is not the intensity of consumption during the war. A division's artillery regiment has only more than 30 artillery pieces, and a total of several guard divisions do not need too many two or three hundred artillery pieces. Not to mention the large-caliber heavy artillery in stock, even the new infantry artillery factory can be produced in six months. Today's Southwest China is no longer a poor people's group.
However, before the war, Zhu Gesheng specially issued an order to the artillery regiment, firing at full strength when necessary, and also let the British taste the taste of the crying mother who was bombed by the 105mm wild artillery of the division.
Half an hour later, the British division's vanguard, the Indian Division, finally reached the front of the Qiongzhen defense line, which was slightly different from the second division's estimate. They did not even launch an aggressive attack, but just put on an attacking posture. The Zhuge Sheng who received the news, if it was not known that the next two kilometers would be the fourth main division of the British, it would almost be impossible for the Indian division to attack and give the Indian division an appetizer.
"Oh God, Carmen, is this what you call a timid, ratty Chinese army?"
The commander in chief of the Sino-British War, Major General Knox of the Fourth Division of the British Army, put down his telescope in anger, anxious to kick the coward's on the spot. In order to cover up the failure, he reported his battlefield intelligence like this: A regiment of China The army shamefully ambushed him at the Mutt Mountain Pass, killed a lot of timid Indian idiots, and fled with a large number of casualties.
The actual situation was that at the time, he was at the Mutzi Mountain Pass and did not even see a body, although the fighting was indeed fierce. Believe him for a while.
But when Major General Knox saw a well-constructed position in the distance, he realized that the other party was not running away timidly, but waiting for them here.
From the telescope, you can see the bunkers, and the perfect fortifications that rely on the terrain. Is it really the Chinese who do all this?
Well, although this country has produced many great military men, but it is realized, it is a poor, backward, ignorant and dirty melee coward who cannot even produce a pistol, and there is no poor, backward, and foolish melee cowardly.
Do they even construct such perfect scientific positions?
Knox, who had experienced World War I, was totally unable to figure out why only the defensive positions that had appeared on the European battlefield could even be constructed by the Chinese.
Is it a mean, dirty, dirty German? Are there Germans in the Chinese army opposite?
Yes! This must be the case. The Germans have begun to feel restless again these years. It must be that they colluded with that Zhang Shusheng. They sold him weapons, they sold him machines and technology, and they made themselves here. The place.
Of course, Major General Norsk is very happy to be here, because it means that he will usher in a vigorous victory. He even foresaw that he would become the hero of the whole of Britain. It was him. General Norsk led an expedition, defeated the dirty Chinese warlord Zhang Shusheng, and performed a justice trial for those who died in Britain and the damned Indians. Take back justice.
In World War I, I was born in a bad time. He was just a poor deputy leader with no ambitions but nowhere to work hard. Maybe this time, when I return to Britain with great feats, everything will be a reason for others' envy and jealousy: promotion, title, royal call of Her Majesty George V ...
"Respected General Knox, the Chinese army is very cunning, especially their commander, very talented, except for the violent artillery, he broke all my offensive deployments." Although Major Carmen had Justification for yourself, but also to be honest. In fact, he really was able to think that the opposite side was a regiment, because no matter how he attacked, there would always be a continuous stream of troops blocking himself on the hill.
Maybe they used a regiment to play in a battalion that blocked themselves, and made their battalion an object of training. This is the understanding of Major Carmen. Of course, when explained, it turned out that although the Chinese were cunning, the soldiers were very poor. It took a regiment to block the violent attack of a battalion.
"Carmen, I will give you a regiment of brave Indian soldiers, and you will organize the first offensive." Although I look down on the opposite Chinese, I do not believe that German life can be turned into a strong soldier. But what did the Chinese fight with the Germans on the battlefield?
However, a tentative attack is still needed. In Knox's view, as long as the tentative attack is effective, he will launch a general attack within the next two days, settle Ruili in one fell swoop, and then attack Kunming.
"Damn China, it's really too big. A province, from Ruili to Kunming, is hundreds of kilometers away. It's unimaginable. We must hurry to resolve the battle."
If China was the size of Germany, he would be sure to bring down China in a few days.
Knox temporarily deprived the leader of the guy who made him disliked for a long time, and gave it to Major Carmen, who had "successfully fought against a regiment," temporarily.
The artillery troops that arrived earlier did not have to make extra preparations, and began to roar violently at 4 pm. Dense mountain artillery shells, don't smash money into the Chinese position opposite.
"Bombardment, concealment !!"
The simple and clear passwords were shouted out by the platoon commanders ~ EbookFREE.me ~ for a while, it seemed that the sound of cannons in the distance was covered up. Bending down and hooking themselves, the soldiers quickly hid in the gun-proof hole, leaving only the battlefield observers and the command bunker staring at the movement in front of the position.
The shelling lasted for ten minutes, and the damage to the first line of defense of the Southwest Army was not serious. Dense artillery shells even forcedly blasted many barbed wire. The first line of defense that was bombarded by artillery was everywhere. Cannonball bombed.
"The enemy is attacking, fast, fast !!!"
In the roar of the company platoon leader, the soldiers drilled out of their bunkers. Everyone, except for the slight loss, the result of the shelling was just the scorching and the smoke of smoke that permeated the entire battlefield.
When the Indians, who had been warned by the strict words, howled to launch an attack, they did not know that on the opposite side of the smoke-filled position, soldiers of the Southwest Army had been waiting for a long time.
When the first anti-infantry broadsword mine of the serial minefield was struck by the Indians, Tie Sangan, who was on the front line, immediately picked up the next battlefield phone, and almost roared and gave orders.
"Fire!" (!)