Obviously, the city defense committee, which has the largest number of people, is only a decision-making body on major matters, not a military command organ, so in order to unify the powers of military command and improve the efficiency of military operational command, a city defense command has been set up under this committee, which is responsible for conducting specific battlefield command under the leadership of the supreme city defense committee.

So under the unanimous recommendation of everyone, Wei Hong was nominated as the commander of the city defense command, this proposal was sent by Lao Ba to the Red House by a telegram, and then Sun Lao called back in the name of the federal approval, officially appointed as the commander of the city defense of Xin'an City, Yue Chu was appointed as the deputy commander as the captain of the security team, and the rest of Xiao, Fang, Su, Zhou, and Han were appointed as staff officers of the city defense headquarters.

Immediately after the formation of the committee, a rough defense plan was adopted:

First of all, a large division of the theater was made - the entire defensive operation was divided into Dongcheng District and Xicheng District, and then the battlefield division of labor of each combat unit was determined: Dongcheng District was in charge of Yuechu's security team and all the trade labor volunteers, and the defense of Xicheng was in charge of all the garrisons plus 1,300 tribal warriors of the Luoka tribe.

In addition, as an auxiliary receiving force, the Xin'an River was supported by the Yi Wuxuan on both sides, and the coastal area outside Xicheng was covered from the flanks by the New Dawn and the New Red Bay sent by Pimont and the Duchess.

Immediately afterward, the Supreme Urban Defense Committee instructed the Urban Defense Command to draw up a specific defensive operation plan, and designated Wei Hong, captain of the garrison unit, Yue Chu, captain of the security team, and Zhou Han of the Soviet side to form a group to formulate a city defense plan, and immediately began to formulate a more specific urban defense plan.

So far, the city defense headquarters has held three briefings to the committee, and at this moment, several important people related to the defensive battle: Hou Xianglin, who is in charge of the construction of the city defense fortifications, Yue Chu, who is in charge of the formulation of the defense plan of the eastern city, and Wei Hong, who is in charge of the defense of the western city, are taking turns to give work reports to everyone.

This is the fourth debriefing, and due to the urgency of the situation, it will also be the last collective discussion, and the meeting will finalize the full battle plan and finalize all the details.

Therefore, this meeting was attended by all the traversers in Sin'an City, including Peng Hu and Peng Hu on the Yi Wu Xuan.

The first to speak was Ba Fengtian, chairman of the Supreme Urban Defense Committee, who announced the meeting with a grim face, and then began to introduce the situation:

According to the news from the jungle scouts and the Portuguese of Oecussi, at about six o'clock in the morning, the leaders of the alliance of the tribes in the south of the mountain held a large-scale pre-battle sacrifice ceremony in the jungle south of Oecussi, and tens of thousands of warriors participated in the sacrifice, they killed three cows, fifteen sheep, twelve adult men and women, and six minor children. Sacrifice to the altar of the sacred mountain god that was temporarily erected with stones.

Then, all the chiefs pierced their tongues with iron tips in public, and the priests smeared their blood on the cheeks of each tribal leader with mystical symbols—a ritual that, according to the Loka tribal scouts, meant that the tribal leaders who participated in the battle would lead their warriors to fight the enemy to the death, without fear of life or death, and fight to the last soldier.

Again, according to the news from the Portuguese in Oecussi, at eight o'clock this morning, the scouts reported that the army of the tribe alliance in the south of the mountain was about 20,000 men who were marching eastward through the jungle south of the city, except for the bronze cannons loaded with ox carts in the columns, in one of the columns, the soldiers also carried many wooden ladders, which were obviously used for siege, for which the Portuguese in Oecussi were very nervous, but so far, until the enemy's three-way column was far away, the city of Oecussi had not been attacked.

Lao Ba said to everyone with a serious face when he said this:

"Obviously, the enemy is trying to concentrate on attacking Sinan.

Also, depending on the speed of the enemy's march, under normal circumstances, the enemy would reach the jungle area west and south of Sinanseong in the morning of three days at the earliest, and we believed that a major battle was coming.

For this reason, the Supreme Committee for Urban Defense decided to immediately declare a state of emergency in Sinseong and immediately transfer personnel and materials unrelated to the city defense operations in accordance with the original plan. ”

Lao Ba said this, and looked around at the audience with the same grim faces, and continued:

"According to the city defense plan, the production equipment of the sugar factory in Xicheng will be transported to the naturalization camp in Dongcheng before noon today, and as for the production equipment of the ammunition factory, after the production of the last shift of 57-style grenades @ bombs is completed this afternoon, it will also be packed and transported to the small wharf, and transferred by the Yiwuxuan to the opposite bank, and transported to the naturalization camp before the sun sets today."

Lao Ba saw that everyone kept nodding, and then continued:

"From tomorrow morning to 8 p.m., the women and children in the eastern and western districts of Sin'an City and those who have nothing to do with the battle will be transferred to the east and west fort barracks in Dili City for temporary resettlement, including the women and children of the Naturalized Village, the students of the Sin'an City Public School, and the female attendants in the Governor's Palace.

In short, by 8 p.m. tomorrow evening, there will be no more women, children, and people unrelated to the battle in Xin'an City, and at that time, the whole city will be under martial law, and all city gates will be closed to prohibit people from entering or leaving.

According to our agreement with the Portuguese Viceroyalty in Dili, Pimont will send a navy to blockade the sea outside the Blue Pier, temporarily detain all large and small ships and sailors still docked at the Blue Pier, and keep these people and ships on standby. ”

Lao Ba said this, breathed a sigh of relief, and said:

"The sole purpose of this is to leave us a possible retreat by sea, just in case. Okay, let's not talk about the superfluous, now please ask Hou Xianglin to report to us on the construction of the city fortifications. ”

After Lao Ba finished speaking, he silently glanced back at the scaled map of Sin'an City hanging on the west wall, and turned back to his seat.

So Hou Xianglin immediately got up and came to the map, and after glancing at the map, his finger crossed the open space on the edge of the wooden wall of Xin'an City, and said solemnly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, after two months of hard work, up to today, we have planted pointed wooden piles all over the wooden walls of the entire West and East Cities, and up to now, 600,000 wooden stakes have been inserted into this strip area of 300 meters wide and 4,000 meters long, and the closer you get to the wooden wall, the denser the arrangement."

When Hou Xianglin said this, he smiled and said to the audience:

"As you know, in the past two months, we have mobilized almost all the women in Sian Ann to complete this project, including the women in the naturalized villages, the female students in the Sian Antong City Public School, the female workers in the ammunition factory, and the waitresses in the Governor's Palace. Belch...... I have to admit that the mobilization of these women, the appeal of our Governor Xiao is definitely the first......"

When everyone heard the change in their serious expressions here, they couldn't help but smile, and Xiao Pingguo, who was sitting in a precarious position, was immediately patted on the shoulder and rubbed his hair by Zhou Rui and Han Letian, who were sitting behind him, and the brothers couldn't help but chuckle, which made the atmosphere of the whole meeting a little lighter.