Chapter 137: Faith

"Okay, I'll tell you about my plans, and if you have any questions, feel free to bring them up. ΩΩE .” Liao Fan pointed to the map on the ground and continued, "There is a mountain road leading to our forward post from the west and the north, and after the front post, there is a fork in both directions, as you all know, as for the north, we don't need to make a lot of preparations, our main force should be placed in the west." ”

"Brother Fan, although there are troops of Division Commander Chen of the Eighth Route Army in the north, they will not help us drag down all the troops of the little devil." Huang Changsheng asked.

"Although the little devils in the north don't have many troops, we can't be unguarded." Several people agreed with Huang Changsheng's view.

"I plan to hand over the defense of the north to Li Weimin, and Li Weimin will lead two battalions of soldiers to set traps and minefields within a kilometer before and after the fork in the road, this fork in the road is well used, the strength of the two battalions can completely drag the strength of three or four thousand people of the little devil, and the terrain on the road to our station after the fork in the road is narrow, the little devil cannot use a large force to attack, Li Weimin's two battalions have a thousand people, which is enough."

"Brother Fan, let's guard the first line of defense, I promise that as long as there is one person in our regiment, I guarantee that the little devil will not be able to move forward." Ma Wanzhong knew that the first line of defense was the top priority, and this must be the third regiment that arranged himself and Hu Guoshan, so he struck first.

"This is the fortification repaired by our three regiments, why let you have a regiment to defend, how to say that the soldiers of our three regiments are more familiar with you than your regiment, so the first line of defense should be handed over to our three regiments." Of course, Hu Guoshan couldn't give such an important task to Ma Wanzhong.

"You two don't earn it, listen to what Brother Fan arranges." Li Weimin has a task, and he is happy to watch the two of them fight back and forth.

"How many people are there in your two regiments?" Liao Fan asked.

"Sixteen hundred." The two men replied at the same time, and looked at each other unconvinced.

"I plan to put all the forces of your two regiments in the first line of defense, this section will be defended by Lao Ma's regiment, and this section will be defended by Lao Hu's three regiments."

"Huh? Brother Fan, so many troops are placed in the first line of defense, and the second and third lines of defense have not been busy in vain these days? Hu Guoshan's mind couldn't turn for a while, if he put all his troops into the first line of defense, in case he was broken through by the little devils, the second and third lines of defense would become completely ornamental.

"The first line of defense is far away from the second and third lines of defense, if the first line of defense is broken, your two regiments cover each other and use the communication trenches to retreat to the second line of defense, at this time the remaining artillery battalions will be effective." Liao Fan said.

"Brother Fan, how long are we going to defend the first line of defense?" Ma Wanzhong asked.

"It depends on how long the first line of defense can last, if it can last for an hour, it will be defended for an hour, if it can be supported for a month, it will be defended for a month."

"Brother Fan, there are still two companies of soldiers left in our regiment." The soldiers of Li Weimin's second battalion and two companies were not assigned to the task.

"The remaining two companies of your second battalion are placed in the third line of defense as a reserve, and I will try to equip each squad of these two companies with a heavy machine gun before the battle, and they will be used as the last support firepower." Liao Fan knew that the second line of defense could be regarded as a line of defense, and the third line of defense was completely only a few hills, although the firepower could support each other, once the second line of defense was broken through, the third line of defense would have no support point at all, which was also the last thing Liao Fan wanted to see.

"Tomorrow all the soldiers of your three regiments will go to their positions, and all the ammunition that can be transported will be brought up, and you two regiment commanders must remember that no matter how big or small, each soldier must be arranged in place, or according to our original method, veterans lead new recruits."

"Yes, mission guaranteed!" Three people replied.

"Brother Fan, I have a question? So many of our troops have been deployed to the west to defend, so what if the little devils attack from the direction of Hebei? Now in addition to Changsheng's troops, only Liu Chundao's guard battalion is left with combat power. ”

"There are many roads into the mountains from the direction of Hebei, even if all our troops are pulled up, they can't prevent it, the roads are more complicated after entering the mountains, and there is only one mountain road that can lead directly to our station, I have assigned all the snipers trained by Zhang Cuihua to the guard company, and when the time comes, it will be arranged, and the little devil will not think about taking a step forward for ten days and half a month, as for the specific arrangements, Liu Chundao will arrange for the soldiers to go to the logistics department to get some more mines and grenades from Lao Sun in the logistics department early tomorrow morning, and I will personally arrange it."

"Brother Fan, our mission ......" It's been so long, Liao Fan hasn't arranged the specific tasks of the special combat team, and Huang Changsheng can't wait.

Liao Fan took out a map and a piece of paper from the pocket of his clothes: "All the tasks of your special combat team are marked and written on this map, as for the first map for you, you are looking at it yourself, if you still have the strength to do your best, this map is what you must do." As for the timing of the special operations team's operation, it must be set on the first night of the little devil's operation. ”

Huang Changsheng took the map and paper, he didn't open it immediately, but put it in his pocket.

The little devil would never have thought that when his troops were not fully in place, Liao Fan had already arranged defenses, and these defenses were completely in accordance with the little devil's offensive plan, but the huge gap in strength was destined to be a bloody battle.

Of course, such a large-scale military operation of the little devil has also attracted attention from all sides, especially Chongqing, the battle of Wuhan has just ended, what is the purpose of the little devil's gathering of such a large force, Wang Tianmu has just returned to Zhongtiao Mountain at this time, and he has not had time to return to Chongqing to report the situation to Dai Li.

However, only Liao Fan, the center of this matter, slept well at night, although many soldiers under his command would still walk into his dreams, but Liao Fan slept more peacefully than a few days ago.

The next morning, Liao Fan had already assigned specific tasks to Liu Chundao, and a company under Li Weimin came to Liao Fan's headquarters to report, and Liao Fan arranged them to Liu Chundao.

After everything was arranged, the headquarters became deserted again, and only Liao Fan and Liu Chunjian were left.

Liu Chunjian is still studying the tasks assigned to him by John, Chunjian has learned how to telegraph, but he is still not proficient enough, and he needs to seriously familiarize himself with the knowledge given to him by John.

There are more and more Japanese troops in the surrounding counties, which has obviously become a matter of obvious things on the bald head, and the commander of the little devil does not seem to have any intention of hiding his military intentions, everything is so blatant.

The commander of the little devil believed that so many people could completely move Taihang Mountain, so he didn't care about these troops in the mountain who had not received formal training. No matter how much the little devils suffer, they will never be able to change their arrogant nature, because this is absolute power, no matter how many tricks you have, you will always be vulnerable in the face of absolute power.

"Report to the division commander, political commissar, this is a reply from the division commander Liao." A soldier of the Eighth Route Army handed the letter in his hand to Division Commander Chen.

"This letter is for you." Division Commander Chen looked at the name of Political Commissar Liu written on it, did not open it, and handed it over to Political Commissar Liu. In fact, Liao Fan didn't think so much about whose name to write when he replied.