Human beings are naturally fond of watching excitement, and if there is a rare event like a fire, it will attract more attention. This is even more obvious on the battlefield. Soldiers are trained to be very vigilant, and any disturbance is very important to them. Danger signal.
A column of smoke rose into the sky, still in a non-combatant area, and it immediately attracted the attention of countless people.
Ma Hui and Ding Si, who were the first to discover the smoke, were running desperately out of the city, but at this moment, a group of people were at the edge of the battlefield. They looked annoyed just now, but now they are excited.
They were the Fuso soldiers who were driven out of the city by Ryoma Sakamoto. These murderers who violated military regulations and carried out a city-killing competition actually found that they were a blessing in disguise.
"Sir! Look to the west! There is smoke rising." A soldier stood up and pointed in the distance. Maori Yiyuan and the others turned around and saw that it was not exactly a smoke.
"Nani! Do we have troops stationed there? I remember not?"
These Fuso warriors looked at each other for only a second, and their faces were covered with an expression of surprise. If a war is fought, it means there is military merit to be gained. They left their hometowns to start a career in this cold land, not just for military merit. .
"Assemble! The entire army gathers and uses the existing trenches to prepare for war. Who can find a few war horses to find out the situation!" Shimazu Asuka rubbed his hands excitedly, and the soldiers behind him forgot about their fatigue and began to prepare for war.
The trenches and fortifications outside Vladivostok run in an east-west direction as a whole, and the enemy is unknown to come from the west. If an enemy really attacks, only part of the existing trenches can be used.
There is also an undefended area of about one thousand meters, running north to south, which requires soldiers to temporarily build simple defensive positions. The armies of Eastern countries have a tradition of being very good at civil engineering work. The volunteers have also been trained in civil engineering work, and it is not difficult for them to build temporary defensive positions.
There were plenty of sandbags in the rear, and the Fuso warriors and the remaining soldiers took action urgently. They picked up the sandbags and began to build circular shooting bunkers in the wild.
It was impossible to build a comprehensive defense position in a short period of time in an area to be defended of more than a thousand meters. They could only build small shooting bunkers in groups of ten to form a huge staggered formation on the battlefield.
The circular shooting positions can defend the surrounding enemies 360 degrees, and the staggered shooting positions can provide fire cover for each other. If you observe this line of defense in the sky, you will be surprised to find that these shooting positions are basically composed of triangles.
Each point of the triangle can provide fire support to the surrounding points, and the distance between each other is exactly the effective range of the Mauser rifle, which is about two to three hundred meters. Theoretically, the all-metal bullet case Mauser can effectively kill enemies within 500 meters, but the most accurate distance is still between 200 and 300 meters.
In this way, only ten such ring fortifications need to be built from south to north, and the firepower output between the soldiers can cover the entire area.
At this moment, there are only more than 3,000 troops capable of fighting in the rear area. Each squad builds a shooting fortification. In this defensive area, the volunteers can build thirty such shooting nets running from north to south.
Of course, this is just a theoretical calculation. In reality, they have to allocate part of their troops to defend the original trenches. So on the battlefield, these defenders can only use limited resources to temporarily build twenty defense lines running from north to south. There are a total of 200 shooting bunkers.
At this moment, all the Fuso warriors and the volunteers who stayed behind were all busy. They were walking across the frozen land carrying sandbags, and their breath almost turned into mist. Some soldiers who were seriously exhausted often carried sandbags. He fell to the ground and couldn't even get up after turning over.
No one was talking about humanity at this time. Officer Fuso, who was cruel to the enemy, was equally cruel to his own men. He whipped his whip fiercely and smashed the butt of his rifle. "Get up! It's a war now! Even if you are tired of vomiting blood, you have to rush up and give me the sandbags." You go find someone to carry the ammunition box! Lazy people, they are all lazy people."
The officer was ruthless, but the soldiers had no complaints. As long as you look up at the three sandbags on Mouri Yigen's shoulders and the bullet box held by Shimazu Asuka's arms, you will know that the officer has done his best.
"Work harder! This is the battle merit given to us by Amaterasu. We must not throw it away! The success depends on now! Cover the flanks of the army and give the prime minister and the general time to organize their troops."
"Everyone, please work hard! As long as we can provide the army with one hour of safe time, we will have completed our mission and the victory or defeat will depend on this. Whether the Kingdom of the Far East can be established depends on today!"
The westernmost side of the Vladivostok battlefield, which is the right wing marked on Xiang Shaolong's military map, has now become a large construction site. Three thousand people are working as hard as ants, and the interlocking defense lines are growing at a glance. .
The ten westernmost ring fortifications have been successfully built. A squad of troops are stationed in each fortification. Mauser rifles are placed on sandbags, and grenades are placed next to them one after another. Behind the soldiers' buttocks are ammunition boxes, which can be pried open. The board was full of yellow bullets.
The dried meat and sugar chocolate brought out from the warehouse are the best foods to replenish energy, and the Fuso soldiers stuffed them into their mouths.
Two hundred meters east of the first line of defense is the second line of defense. Each ring-shaped shooting position is exactly in the middle of the two shooting positions of the first line of defense. In this way, the three ring-shaped positions form a mutually covering circle. triangle.
There is also a third shooting position, which also forms a triangle with the second line of defense. Slowly, the entire land forms a dense defense line four kilometers deep. From a distance, it feels like there is no end in sight.
Three thousand soldiers began to take their positions. After completing a sandbag fort, ten soldiers settled in. From a distance, the rifles looked like curled up hedgehogs.
The exhausted Maori Yiyuan leaned against the inner wall of the sandbag wall and breathed heavily, "Give me a piece of brown sugar. My heart is about to jump out of my chest. What on earth did the two Date brothers do to find out?"
"Bless Amaterasu, bless Amaterasu! Please give us enemies, don't make a false alarm, we want enemies, we want a lot of enemies, the harder the bones, the better!"
The Far Eastern indigenous soldiers in the team looked at Chief Fuso in astonishment. They had only one thought in their minds: "Perverts! These people are really perverted. They not only kill prisoners but also hope for enemies! Are you crazy for wanting credit?"
Note: Time flies so fast. It’s actually the Mid-Autumn Festival. The autumn wind blows and the leaves turn yellow. The year is about to pass. When I was a child, I felt that time passed so slowly, but after middle age, I feel that time flies so fast.
No more emotion, Xinjing is here to wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! There is a big temperature difference between morning and evening. Be careful to add or remove clothes!
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