Tang Cheng had too few troops to command, so it was impossible for him to hold all the perimeters of Ledo, and after carefully surveying the map and the actual terrain, Tang Cheng finally focused his defense on the wooden bridge that entered Ledo and a shoal 200 meters to the left of the wooden bridge. Most of the warehouses left behind by Wallace were British-style lees? Enfield rifles, Tang Cheng, who had adapted to American carbines, really couldn't like this bolt-action rifle, but the range of the rifle was much more than that of the carbine.

To Tang Cheng's regret, there were not many machine guns in Wallace's warehouse that were actually used to suppress fire in battle. Only 6 Brown light machine guns were found, and there were only 2 British Vickers Mark heavy machine guns that looked very similar to the Maxim machine gun, but the 38 kg weight of the Vickers Mark heavy machine gun made the heavy machine gun shooters arranged by Tang Cheng very annoyed, because this thing was too heavy. The machine gunners assigned by Don City were not only dissatisfied with the heavy machine guns, but also with the Brown light machine guns, believing that the rate of fire of this thing was inferior to that of the Czech light machine guns.

But no matter what, weapons are needed to fight a war, and the British weapons that are not valued by Tang Cheng have also been distributed to the defeated soldiers, leaving a heavy machine gun and 2 light machine guns to watch the wooden bridge, and the remaining light and heavy machine guns were all transferred by Tang Cheng to the grass by the shallows. "The Japanese are not stupid, besides, the bridge is still wooden, once we burn the bridge or blow up the wooden bridge with explosives, this is the only place they will attack Ledo." Hou San and the others were very puzzled why Tang Cheng placed the machine gun here, and after listening to Tang Cheng's explanation, everyone was no longer full of doubts.

"Dig carefully, this trench is where you want to stay, whoever wants to die quickly can grind foreign workers, and if you don't want to die, dig the trench deeper for Lao Tzu." Tang Cheng heard a rough shout from afar, and Tang Cheng knew that this was the second lieutenant named Yang Laosan. Yang Laosan did not reveal his real name in front of Tang Cheng, probably because he felt that he was a little embarrassed to be a dignified second lieutenant of the national army and wander the streets of Ledo, but Yang Laosan was an officer from an engineer background, and Tang Cheng took a fancy to this.

"Yang Laosan, come here, the chief has something to ask you." Hou San shouted at Yang Laosan, who was standing on the floating mound in the distance, and the latter immediately ran over with a smoke. Wallace left behind not only rifles and light and heavy machine guns in the warehouse, Zhao Liang and Tan Fei also found a batch of British M36 grenades, and the Japanese army's inertial fuse grenades that need to be hit before they can be thrown after pulling the ring, the British M36 grenade uses a friction delay fuse, so this kind of grenade can be used as a trick mine.

"We found a batch of grenades from the British army, there are too many of them, so I'll ask you if you can use grenades to set up trick mines?" Seeing that Yang Laosan didn't seem to understand what he meant, Tang Cheng explained, "It's just using grenades as mines, I don't expect these grenades to kill many Japanese soldiers, I just expect them to play a warning role at night." "Yang Laosan was born as an engineer, but he didn't have Tang Cheng's experience, and he had no way of knowing what a tricky mine was, so Tang Cheng had to take a grenade from Hou San's waist and teach Yang Laosan how to set up a tricky mine on the spot.

"Okay, you can leave this matter to me, and I'll take care of this kind of deterioration in front of the trenches." Yang Laosan originally thought that the trick was such a difficult thing, but after listening to Tang Cheng tell him this on the spot, he immediately understood the steps, except for the need to strengthen the connecting lead cable on the pull ring of the grenade, the others are basically the same as laying mines. "Concealment, there is shelling, shelling." There was a sudden sound of cannonballs breaking through the air in mid-air, and Tang Cheng pulled Hou San forward and jumped into a trench that had just been dug up.

"Boom" and "boom" two clouds of smoke rose on the river bank with the sound of explosions, Tang Cheng, who had been thrown into the trenches, lay in pain in the trenches, and the Japanese began to shell, although the two shells just now were not very accurate, but the smoke and air waves of the explosion were still very shocking. Tang Cheng arranged for people to dig trenches here with great fanfare, and it would be strange if the Japanese scouts hiding in the woods on the other side of the river could not see it, Tang Cheng guessed that the two shells just now were just a tentative move by the Japanese army.

Yang Laosan took a few defeated soldiers who had just been taken under his command and crawled back from the front of the position with sapper shovels on their shoulders, hiding in the defensive artillery holes and practicing their heads, not daring to stretch out. Tang Cheng had already pulled Hou San out of the trench and ran to the rear, although the soil quality in this area was okay, the people who were mobilized to dig the trench only dug a trench diagonally along the river bank, the trench was so shallow, it was estimated that even Tang Cheng could show half of his head if he squatted down, he didn't want to be blown up in such a trench.

Hiding behind a tree on the bank of the river, Tang Cheng carefully looked at the woods and high ground across the river with binoculars, and saw no movement or trace of the Japanese army. Damn, Tang Cheng scolded secretly, the Japanese army showed no signs of crossing the river, it seems that their shelling just now was really just a test. The Japanese army no longer shelled, and the defeated soldiers who were hiding in the trenches were once again shouted out by the dice that rushed to hear the news, and stood in the trenches with their hands behind their backs and scolded the dice of the defeated soldiers.

If you want the horses to run fast, you have to feed them enough forage, and in the face of the routs who deliberately grind foreign workers, Tang Cheng, who can't cry or laugh, has to ask someone to bring a large number of cans and cigarettes. Let the dice directly reward canned food and cigarettes to those standard guys dug in the trenches, and under the repeated stimulation of Tang Cheng Zhao Zhi, before dark, Tang Cheng finally had a barely qualified trench by the river.

As the sky gradually darkened, after a full day's rest against the Japanese troops from the outer batteries, the artillery attack on Ledo continued. For almost the entire night, the Japanese troops holding the fort seemed to be on display of their destructive power, and the Japanese attacked all the guns of all calibers they had looted from the British. With a large number of artillery shells, the Japanese army did not hesitate to release the big killing weapon, and they also kept using mortars to fire flares, and the flares that emitted this cold light hovered in the air for a long time, shining on the large area on both sides of the river, and it seemed that there were no living people on this side of the river.

All the routed soldiers in the trenches held their guns and curled up in the anti-artillery holes and did not dare to move, for fear that the Japanese would suddenly blow themselves up with shells. Not knowing when the Japanese army would cross the river, Tang Cheng had to take the defeated soldiers to guard in the trenches, guarding against the possibility of the Japanese army crossing the river. The town of Ledo was handed over to George and less than 20 lightly wounded, and Tang Cheng was not worried that the Japanese troops on the outskirts of Ledo would break into Ledo from other places, and George and they only needed to guard against the locals of Ledo who took advantage of the fire to loot.

Towards dawn in the wee hours of the morning, the whistling and explosion of shells was still so dense that almost the entire perimeter of Ledo was covered in artillery fire and smoke. I don't know what the Japanese had in mind, but the artillery fire that had been bombarding Ledo suddenly shifted direction, and shells had already begun to fall near the position of Tangcheng. Tang Cheng, who was hiding in the anti-artillery hole, was very helpless, according to the number of shells hoarded by the British army in those peripheral batteries, it was enough for the Japanese army to fight for half a month, so Tang Cheng, who had no long-range firepower, could only shrink his neck and let the Japanese bombard his battlefield wildly.

According to Tang Cheng's original plan, the two of them who used sniper rifles should not have appeared in the trenches, but the cans were in the trenches, and if they wanted to eat canned food, they could only come here. "Damn, there are enough cannonballs for the little devil in the dog day, and this has been fighting all night, and the ears of Lao Tzu are buzzing and rumbling." The grizzled Hou San got into the anti-artillery hole, snatched the half-eaten can from the dice, and comfortably picked out a large piece with a bayonet and gnawed it.

Hou San's dice that snatched the canned food rolled his eyes, and then he took out another canned meat from a wooden box behind him and threw it to Hou San. Dice have always had the habit of eating alone, which is no secret to Tang Cheng and them, but Hou San followed Tang Cheng when he was with the dice, and in the face of Hou San, the dice had no temper at all. Hou San happily took the canned food and walked away, there were still people under his command who didn't eat, although Hou San was arrogant and unreasonable, but he rarely ate alone.

"Sleep, sleep for a while, the Japanese army can't fight for the time being" Tang Cheng, who was covered in dust, arched into this anti-artillery hole, and with him came in a large amount of dust and gunsmoke. Despite the coughing protests of the dice and the rock dragon, Tang Cheng still slapped the dust on his body vigorously, and did not stop until he received a black kick. "Don't sleep too hard, I guess the little devils won't attack until dawn, and the shelling is to open the way for the infantry." Tang Cheng carefully instructed the dice and the rock dragon, and then grabbed a can and turned around and left the anti-artillery hole.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and although the visibility was not very good, Tang Cheng was still lying in the trench and observing the other side with a telescope. Yang Laosan, with a few of his newly recruited men, spent a full four hours, braving the artillery fire that could be hit at any time, to put the trenches in front of the position to the open space between the river banks, and arranged a lot of tricky mines. Even Yang Laosan himself couldn't remember how many grenades he had buried, because the boxes containing the grenades had already been taken by the dice to light the fire to keep warm.

Tang Cheng didn't know if the Japanese army would attack at dawn, but the Japanese bombardment here in the second half of the night was very suspicious. Tang Cheng in the trenches moved the telescope and his own sight left and right, but the scene that could be seen from the telescope was blurry, in Tang Cheng's blurred vision, the trees on the opposite bank were still silent, but Tang Cheng detected the solemnity and solemnity before the big war from this silence.