Undoubtedly, in the north in the winter, the temperature of minus ten degrees Celsius in the wilderness is a great test of people's will.

However, Liu Lang was very well prepared, and long before leaving the river, he gave each person a dogskin hat that could be put down to protect their ears and thick leather gloves.

At first, many soldiers in Sichuan Province still felt that the dogskin hat was too thick and too much to take up space, and it was a bit redundant, and when they got in the car and went all the way north, the fierce cold wind blew on their faces like a knife, and they realized how important it was to have such a fur hat that could protect their heads and most of their faces.

When they arrived at the Great Wall, even with such protection, there were still many people who had frostbite blown out of their faces and ears by the wind, but this was much stronger than freezing off.

Fortunately, there is enough wood cut down, and as long as it is a civil engineering work day or night, a bonfire must be lit for heating in each shift. At the same time, Liu Lang stipulated that the soldiers should be provided with enough meat and one or two white wine at noon and evening every day.

Eat well and dress warmly, the morale of the soldiers is still good, plus the veterans often show up to tell the recruits about the power of the Japanese aircraft artillery, if the fortifications are not strong, and people blow up a platoon after a cannon, then what is it?

No one does not cherish their own lives, and naturally their enthusiasm for work is also very high. Asked to dig a one-meter-deep one-meter-deep one-meter anti-artillery bunker on the side of the trench, many recruits worked tirelessly to dig up to 2 meters. For example, the bunkers located in the first-line company headquarters and used for the treatment of the wounded and ammunition storage were tightly protected by the crazy officers with steel plates and logs, and even did not hesitate to light a bonfire for this purpose and start work overnight, I don't know if they were afraid of being whipped by the fat man or more cherishing their own lives.

Most of the soldiers turned into sappers and desperately built fortifications on the hard frozen ground to protect their lives, and Ji Yanxue, as the head of the communication platoon directly under the regiment, was also busy hitting the back of the head with his heel.

According to Liu Lang's request, the company-level command post of every front-line defense unit must be connected to the telephone, and the death company, which hangs alone outside the main position like Zhou Shiyu, is simply equipped with a radio station that the regiment has only purchased with great difficulty. At this time, there were only 3 radio stations in the entire independent regiment, and Liu Lang made great efforts to search for them.

In order to prevent the telephone lines from being easily blown up by artillery fire, the telephone lines had to be buried in a layer of soil half a meter deep, which greatly increased the workload of the signal troops.

In 20 days, Liu Lang only met Ji Yanxue twice, one of which was because the telephone line was insufficient, and he was asked to help find the 29th Army for deployment.

After all, I am afraid that Liu Lang is the only idler in the independent regiment.

After the recruited villagers had completed the humble wooden huts where the soldiers could rest at night, Liu Lang dismissed them with the promised reward and informed them that war would break out along the Great Wall, hoping that they would join their relatives and friends and go as far as possible.

Looking at the figures of the ordinary people who had gone away with thousands of thanks, Liu Lang's eyes became more and more determined. This time, not only will he not retreat, but he will also beat the Japanese criminals to their bones. It hurts that every time they are full of longing for the land of China, they always think of Luo Wenyu.

Liu Lang knew very well that if the defense line of the Great Wall was broken, the troops could retreat, but it was these simple people who were unlucky, even if the Japanese invaders at this time were not as crazy as five years later to destroy the village and destroy the door, but in such a cold winter, the people whose family rations and livestock were robbed could not live for a few days, and death from freezing and starvation was their final outcome.

Next, Liu Lang sent a platoon of guards of the Independent Regiment to search and guard Luo Wenyu within a radius of 30 miles and persuade the surrounding people who were unwilling to leave.

However, Liu Lang himself took five or six guards, left the affairs of the regiment to Chi Dakui and Yu Xiancheng, and went to Chazikou Town, which was more than 20 miles away from Luo Wenyu, to eat and drink.

Chazikou Town belongs to the small town on the edge of Rehe Province, the reason why it is called Chazikou is because it is a traffic artery facing the passes of the Great Wall, you can go to Gubeikou to the left, Luo Wenyu is in front, and Xifengkou is to the right.

Merchants who came from the south to the north from the Great Wall or from Rehe often chose to pass through here, and a small town with a population of only two or three thousand people developed into a gathering place with a population of tens of thousands.

Tea houses, wine shops, inns, carriage and horse shops, and even brothels dealing in leather and meat are all found in this remote northern town.

Liu Lang wearing a standard colonel uniform of the National Army is completely a living signboard, and within a few days, everyone in the town knows that there is an independent regiment of the Central Army stationed at Luo Wenyu Pass on the Great Wall defense line, and the chubby colonel is very approachable, there is no commander at all, and buying things has always been a regular payment and is very concerned about the local people's livelihood issues.

is definitely a particular person, and the evaluation of Liu Lang, the colonel, by the real northerners is also very real. Many people planned to run towards Beiping Tianjin through Luo Wenyu in two days, and heard that the Japanese had already hit a place less than 200 miles away from here.

The Japanese army has always attached great importance to the intelligence system, and since they already have the intention of invading and occupying Rehe and wielding troops only to Pingjin, their spies must have been operating along the Great Wall.

This densely populated Chazikou Town, which can reach three key passes, would be a hell of a ghost if there were no activities of Japanese intelligence officers.

Liu Lang's purpose was not to keep these intelligence officers of the Japanese army out, on the contrary, he announced the existence of the independent regiment with such fanfare, which was to tell the other party that the Luo Wenyu area was garrisoned by an independent regiment of the Central Army, with a strength of up to 2,000 people.

Of course, these intelligence officers want to know the origin and number of Luo Wenyu's defenders, which Liu Lang can provide, but if you want to get closer to observe the layout of the pass position, then I'm sorry, how many Liu Lang has been killed, and more than 50 trained guard platoon soldiers are not vegetarians.

Liu Lang drank tea and listened to the drama in Chazikou Town every day, and by the way, he purchased some grain as military rations, and the purchase of thousands of catties of various rice grains every day finally succeeded in attracting the attention of the Japanese spies.

A report detailing the origin of the Independent Regiment and the data of Luo Wenyu's defenders was placed on the desk of Muto Nobuyoshi, the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Muto Nobuyoshi, who had already fought only the whole province of Rehe and defeated more than 100,000 Chinese troops, had already regarded the entire territory of Rehe as his possession, and had already set his sights on the 800-mile-long Great Wall of China, which had hindered his march into the Pingjin area, as early as a month ago.

Now, the map hanging on the wall of Muto Nobuyoshi's office is no longer a map of Rehe Province, but a long, winding ancient Great Wall on the edge of Rehe Province.

Glad to look back from the map, if nothing else, the fighting in Rehe Province would be over in early March, a few days later, and it was inevitable that the defeated Chinese army would rely on the ancient Great Wall with its lofty mountains.

However, Muto Nobuyoshi did not show the slightest discouragement when he did not completely annihilate the enemy, he had 40,000 well-equipped and well-trained Kwantung Army and 30,000 Manchurian servants, and he believed that under the attack of his elite troops, the resistance of the Shina people was in vain, even if they still had hundreds of miles of the ancient Great Wall that had guarded their people for thousands of years.

Looking at the clear black and white photos of the Xifengkou Pass of the Great Wall provided by the intelligence officers on the table, the corners of Muto Nobuyoshi's mouth, who has always been rigorous, hooked a trace of pride, the people of China are too naïve, and the broken wall can also block the nomads, if they meet their own aircraft and cannons, they can only become a ruin.

It's a pity, there will be one less ancient civilization in the world, and the lowly people of China do not deserve to enjoy the glory of their ancestors, Muto Nobuyoshi shook his head with a compassionate look of a lover of ancient monuments, and picked up the investigation report on the passes of the Great Wall freshly released by the intelligence officers.