"One-two-three" "One-two-three" The sound of trumpets one after another is like waves near Ekechun, wave after wave.
The soldiers of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, bare-chested and exposed their tendons, carried and carried earth, stones, and steel plates, and filled sandbags and laid steel plates in the endless and criss-crossed trench fortifications.
Occasionally, there was the sound of explosions, which were the soldiers of the engineering company using explosives and blasters to carry out earthwork and renovate the fortifications.
In the south of the ancient city, Ekechun, a small village in the south of the same ancient city, the terrain is high, in the vast southern plain of southern Myanmar, it is a rare village that lives at the commanding heights, can overlook the north of the Biaoguan River, and the firepower covers a large area, which is an important barrier in the same ancient area.
If the Japanese army attacks from the first line of the Biaoguan River, it is bound to break through the first line of Ekechun, which is a battleground for both the offensive and defensive sides of Tonggu, and like the vast majority of Burmese villages and towns, the people in Ekechun village heard that there was going to be a war, and they had already fled.
After investigation and repeated pondering, Zhang Wei decided to set up a defensive position in the south of Tonggu, in Ekechun north of the Biaoguan River, in order to protect Tonggu, in history, the first Japanese army to attack Tonggu was to break through from the front of the Biaoguan River, so Zhang Wei put the preset position here.
Ekechun has high terrain, is the commanding height, has the advantage of geographical advantages, is the best defensive zone, Zhang Wei ordered the whole regiment to build a position here, the original village buildings in Ekechun Village were demolished by the second regiment, the whole village was razed to the ground, and the various building materials that were dismantled immediately became materials for the fortifications of the second regiment.
Zhang Wei also pulled out dozens of wagons of steel plates and steel in the ancient city, all of which were used for the construction of preset positions, and the positions set up in Ekechun were centered on Ekechun Village and occupied the commanding heights nearby, where the whole regiment was deployed, and the infantry built several trenches, and cleared the firing boundaries near the positions, trenches, communication trenches, individual pits and ammunition stations, and the reserve positions were all available.
In addition to these civil fortifications, Zhang Wei also ordered the use of steel plates and steel in the city to strengthen the position, the ammunition station and reserve concealment trenches were reinforced with high-quality steel plates, the use of steel plates and logs in the front-line trenches to strengthen the firing points, and the use of steel plates and logs to build semi-permanent bunkers, machine gun fire points and concealed gun bunkers that could accommodate lower anti-tank guns, as well as pre-dug anti-tank gun firing positions.
All forts and firing points were concealed by shelter.
This is a real semi-permanent fortification made of steel.
Behind the position, Zhang Wei built an artillery position and a solid command post, the regimental artillery company began to measure the firing elements, arranged reference materials, and set up a telephone and radio station in the communication company, and initially established a communication system, and the ammunition pulled from the ancient city was continuously transported to the ammunition reserve in Ekechun.
After Zhang Wei grasped the actual control of Tonggu, he searched for all available war materials in the city, demolished some abandoned houses and workshops to use as fortification materials, rummaged through the buildings of the British and Burmese authorities' government offices, and found two more batches of munitions in the warehouse of the British and Burmese authorities' police department, one with a large number of explosives, mines, Mills grenades and a batch of field telephones, hundreds of Webley revolvers used by the British and Burmese police, and the other batch of shells for a large number of two-pounder and six-pounder guns.
This also confirms Zhang Wei's previous speculation.
Colonel Henry, the supreme commander of the British garrison, kept a hand on him, and did not tell the truth and the situation in the ancient city at all.
However, the materials all fell into the hands of Zhang Wei, and the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment worked together to build Ekechun into a steel fortress.
Zhang Wei is most concerned about the two nodes, one is in front of the Biaoguan River, the other is the Keronggang Airport, these two are the most important nodes in the same ancient times, one bite can not eat a fat man, Zhang Wei believes that it should be down-to-earth, the two can not scruple at the same time, so he first concentrated his troops to rectify the front of the Biaoguan River, with the Ekechun defense line in the south of the ancient city, and the first line of Keronggang Airport was temporarily placed in the second place by Zhang Wei.
On the south bank of the Biaoguan River, Zhang Wei sent an infantry company of the first battalion to build a warning position and guard the Japanese army to the south Everything will start here in the Biaoguan River.
In the command post that had been built, Zhang Wei was sitting on a marching chair left by the British army, on the map table, with a large pot of leftover coffee, and Qiu Wei, the commander of the first battalion, was looking south with a telescope at the observation mouth of the command post.
The officers of the whole regiment did their best to deploy the defense, and this was the only way to have a strong defense line in Ekechun.
"Commander, a telegram to the command of the expeditionary force has been sent.
All the mines and explosives found in the city were collected into the ammunition depot of the British army, the Burmese automobile company brought in 1,000 mines, one-third of the explosives, 20,000 British-made Mills grenades, 20,000 shells for two-pounder guns and 6-pounder guns, and 60,000 rounds of 12.7 mm large-caliber heavy machine gun shells.
"No need, the more ammunition the better, but it can't be transported to the front line of Ekechun, let's transport these for the time being, the rest exist in the library, look at it."
"Yes" Qiu Wei stepped down from the observation port and said.
"Regiment commander, our regiment is concentrated on the front line of Ekechun, and we plan to detain the whole regiment here."
Zhang Wei: "That's not, I won't put my eggs in one basket, here, at most, it's our first main battlefield, the Japanese army is arrogant, I'm going to knock out the two front teeth of the dog here, what we have to do now is to stand firm, wait until the 200th Division comes and then think about something else, I want to make Ekechun, a small village, become a sad place for the Japanese" Zhang Wei had already determined the general policy of garrisoning Tonggu, striving for operations on the periphery as much as possible, meticulously preparing for battles in the urban area, and striving to consume as much of the living force as possible on the periphery before the Japanese army attacked the urban area.
"Regiment commander, you and I are well aware of the Japanese army's usual tactics, Ekechun is a position on the outskirts of Tonggu front, and there is a high probability that the Japanese army will attack, but most of the surrounding areas of Tonggu are plains, and the Japanese army is very likely to resort to the old tricks of outflanking and detouring.
Qiu Wei said.
Zhang Wei smiled and was quite confident: "What you said is very right, but I believe that the preparation is not done in vain, and the Japanese army will definitely attack along the Biaoguan River with a main force."
"Boom" Outside the command post, amid the sound of explosions, a cloud of smoke rose over the huge Ekechun position ：。
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