Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 19 Perfect Design

"Okay! Since you Shangguan Yun and Tang Dao are so determined, then I will thank someone and hand over the position in front of the warehouse to your first company."

The Army Lieutenant Colonel’s Mandarin with a hint of Cantonese accent is slightly feminine, but as solid as stone.

"As you wish, 40 flower traps and 16,000 rounds of ammunition are assigned to your company. Not only that, 50 rounds of illumination bombs, 30 rounds are given to you, and all mines and explosives carried by the battalion headquarters are also handed over to you."

The lieutenant colonel of the army put his hands on the table and said, "If you have any other requests, I and Battalion Commander Yang will definitely satisfy you."

Tang Dao and Shangguan Yun looked at each other and saw their immediate superiors winking at him. They felt a little bitter in their hearts. They knew that since they had contributed a lot to the entire company, they had to fight for some benefits for the hundreds of officers and soldiers in the company. After a slight hesitation, he said:

"There are no other requirements, just the military merit of brothers"

“Military merit will be increased by 20% on the basis of normal enemy kills, and each of the brothers in the other company will receive an additional fifteen yuan as settlement allowance!” The Army Lieutenant Colonel agreed without hesitation.

"This time I came here under the command, and the master gave me the authority to deal with the situation on the spot. Except for the first company, all the other brothers were given ten oceans each as housing expenses."

 “Thank you, sir!” Shangguan Yun’s face turned into a smile.

Fifteen yuan for settling-in expenses plus the military merit earned by killing the Japanese, each person in the company could save an average of thirty yuan without running away.

Don’t underestimate 30 yuan. With today’s prices, in big cities like Songhu and Peking, 30 yuan may only be half a year’s living expenses for an ordinary family. But in rural areas, a family of six can live a more frugal life. , you can live a subsistence life for several years.

And among the soldiers, how many are stupid sons of landlords? Whether they are from the Central Army or other factions, they are basically from mud-legged backgrounds.

　　With these more than one hundred kilograms, he can earn enough food and clothing for his parents, wife and children for several years. As a company commander, he can be considered worthy of his brothers.

Lei Xiong and the other three naturally had nothing to say. They just paid for their lives.

"The second company will guard the west side of the warehouse, and the third company will guard the east side of the warehouse. The machine gun company is responsible for building firepower points on each floor and roof to attack the heavy firepower points of the invading Japanese invaders." The Army Lieutenant Colonel took advantage of the situation to assign positions to each company.

“All personnel in the battalion headquarters, including myself and Battalion Commander Yang, have built a mobile team to provide mobile support to each company at any time according to the battle situation.”

 “Yes!” Everyone stood upright to accept the order.

"Then, now you four company commanders will tell me and Battalion Commander Yang about your respective general troop deployment and firepower planning." The Army Lieutenant Colonel waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down and said.

Since they entered the Sihang Warehouse in the evening, these officers have walked around the inside and outside of the Sihang Warehouse several times. Whether it was east, west or north, they had already had a rough impression in their minds. Each company also followed the Army's instructions. The lieutenant colonel's instructions have been fortified. If he couldn't speak out at this moment, it would be a big loss.

The four captains spoke one by one. Tang Dao listened while looking for the communication soldier guarding the door to get paper and pen and immersed himself in writing and drawing. He did not express an opinion until the four of them finished speaking.

Naturally, the Army Lieutenant Colonel had caught a glimpse of Tang Dao's behavior, and he didn't pay much attention to it at first. He just thought that Tang Dao was humbly recording the speeches of several captains. When the four of them finished speaking, Major Yang Ruifu, the battalion commander, also made a statement. After summing up, he looked at Tang Dao, who was still immersed in writing and drawing.

“Second Lieutenant Tang, you’ve finished listening. Come on, tell us your suggestions. Don’t repeat any of them. If you have any new ideas, please let me know.”

 Obviously, he does not completely agree with the arrangement of the four people to a certain extent. He has certain expectations for the newcomer Tang Dao, but he also has reservations.

 After all, no matter how powerful Tang Dao is, he was only a squad leader of the 26th Division before this and had never had the experience of commanding an infantry company in combat.

There is a fundamental difference between being able to kill a Japanese squadron by one person and leading more than a hundred people to fight against a Japanese infantry squadron. "Sir, this is the firepower planning diagram I just drew based on what several company commanders said and some of my little insights."

 Looking at the two drawings that Tang Dao placed in front of everyone, including the Army Lieutenant Colonel, they couldn't help but be stunned.

 The picture is a bit rough and has no aesthetic feeling, but it is clear enough.

This is a topographic map of the location of Sihang Warehouse. All the blocks nearly a kilometer away from Sihang Warehouse are roughly marked, allowing everyone to clearly know where they are currently.

That's it, maybe Tang Dao has been here before and is quite familiar with this area.

 The second picture is awesome, it is actually the structural diagram of Sihang Warehouse.

From the lobby on the first floor to the top floor, there are a total of five floors of 25 meters high. How many rooms are there, what are the main passages, and what is even more shocking is how to lay out firepower points, what defensive firearms can be set up in that window, and the machine gun on the top floor. How should the mortars and mortars be placed so that they can cover the blind spots of the four-row warehouse like a rectangular box from a high position?

 Even how to evacuate these firepower points into the building, the layout of the traffic trenches, and the opening of the roof passage are all described in detail.

 What little insights there are here and there, it can be said that they are extremely detailed.

For the lieutenant colonel of the army who had simulated the Japanese attack method many times in his mind, he found that this kind of firepower deployment had made the best use of the terrain characteristics of Sihang Warehouse and all the weapons in his hands. It is difficult to make any modifications.

Of course, the lieutenant colonel of the army could not modify it. That was Tang Dao's decision based on all the weapons he could control, the defense plan that he decided and later proved to be extremely successful, and what the military greats added when studying the battle cases in the future. Firepower configuration based on some reasonable suggestions.

 Almost, no weaknesses.

Tang Dao is not a god, so it is naturally impossible for him to make such a detailed structure and firepower arrangement without even looking at the terrain.

It would have been fine if it had been elsewhere, but the battle at Sihang Warehouse was Tang Dao's final course design when he was studying at the Jinling Army Academy. For this reason, he made a special trip to Sihang Warehouse to inspect the terrain.

Of course, the most shocking thing about Tang Dao's firepower layout plan is not that he is extremely familiar with the structure of the entire Sixing Warehouse, or even that it is in line with the wishes of the Army Lieutenant Colonel, but that he exceeded everyone's expectations. Yes, the defense focus of Sihang Warehouse was not placed on the front of the warehouse due north.

Yes, although the front of the warehouse defended by the first company has the highest risk factor and will encounter the strongest attacks, Tang Dao still places the most important firepower point of the entire battalion inside the building to support the front.

 Instead, it was placed on the roof of a building with weak defense.

At the moment when Lei Xiong, the commander of the firepower company, saw this firepower layout plan, he felt that he must have offended Tang Dao. Otherwise, why would he have arranged most of the heavy firepower of the machine gun battery on the roof of the building? Although there are many blind spots on the roof, the Japanese mountain artillery and aircraft are not a vegetarian. After one round of bombardment, the danger of staying there is no less dangerous than staying on the first floor!

But Lei Xiong didn’t know that in the past time and space, the Army Lieutenant Colonel actually made this choice.

In fact, the Army Lieutenant Colonel's judgment was correct. After repeated setbacks, the Japanese army finally gave up frontal breakthroughs and turned to two-wing attacks.

The thick walls on both sides of the Sihang Warehouse blocked the Japanese artillery fire, but it also restricted the view of the Chinese soldiers inside the building, with numerous blind spots, giving them hope that the death squads could reach the building and blast it.

Of course, these are all based on the strength of the first company located in the front. In those three days in time and space, although the first company suffered heavy casualties, it killed and injured nearly 200 Japanese invaders.

That not only achieved the one-for-three battle loss ratio that the Army Lieutenant Colonel hoped for, but it was almost one-for-eight.

 (End of this chapter)