jdhmnovel Chapter 127 Military Fortress
Chapter 127 Military Fortress
Lin Shubing pushed his glasses and spoke slowly.
"The Taihang Mountain base is not suitable for long-term garrisoning due to its special structure, limited space, and no sunlight all day long. Therefore, it is necessary to build two ground military fortresses in Shipo Township and Daxiayu Town."
Wang Meng continued speaking following Lin Shubing's words.
"I can get a lot of steel and cement from abroad, which can fully meet the needs of building two military fortresses. As for manpower, we can hire local people to build the peripheral facilities, and our soldiers will build the interior!"
Li Yunlong nodded.
"Then let's vote by raising our hands!"
As expected, the private participants all agreed.
As the most educated person among them, Lin Shubing naturally took on the task of being the overall commander of the project.
While he was busy drawing sketches in the house, he asked the soldiers to level the foundation first, and then transport the stones dug out from Taihang Mountains to Shipo Township, so that they could be ready to start work at any time.
Three days later, Lin Shubing, whose eyes turned pale, found Li Yunlong and Wang Meng with a sketch.
According to Lin Shubing's plan, the entire base is square in shape, covers an area of 1,400 acres, and is generally divided into an outer defense zone and an internal area.
[Outer defense zone]
The outermost area is a defense zone consisting of trenches, high walls, observation posts, fortress gun positions and anti-aircraft artillery groups, which is divided into two floors above ground and two floors underground.
The second ground floor is an open patrol passage. Every hundred meters there is a squad defense fortification made of reinforced concrete, equipped with two heavy machine guns.
The first floor above ground is the gun position, which provides powerful fire suppression. Although it is the first floor above ground, the foundation is raised by two meters, which is actually more like the second floor compared to the flat ground outside.
According to the plan, the first floor above ground will ensure that there are at least twenty fortress gun positions in the four directions of east, west, south and north that can accommodate large-caliber howitzers in each direction as defensive weapons in that direction.
In addition, each fortress gun position must be able to withstand the Japanese aerial bombs and direct bombardment from 150mm howitzers.
In addition, there is an anti-aircraft artillery company on the inner side of each of the four corners of the square fortress, which is responsible for the outer air defense.
Each gun position on the ground level is connected by a two-lane road, which facilitates the transportation of ammunition and the flexible mobilization of light and heavy artillery.
The underground first floor is a weapons and ammunition depot, which directly provides ammunition replenishment to the first and second floors above ground.
The second underground floor is a shelter, which is connected to the underground of the inner area.
[Internal area]
The inner area is divided into four areas, namely:
The living area can accommodate 5,000 officers and soldiers, and includes a canteen, hospital, bathhouse, etc.
The training ground consists of a light weapons shooting range, a vehicle training ground, a drill ground, and a weapons and ammunition depot.
Vehicle parking lots, build a large number of ground garages to accommodate various vehicles and tanks to prevent enemy bombing or artillery fire.
The office area includes the column headquarters, offices of each regiment, battalion and company, as well as classrooms of the artillery school, tank school and other schools.
The living area, office area, training ground and parking lot were dug five meters underground and poured entirely with reinforced concrete to serve as shelters.
The underground shelter is connected to the second underground level of the outer area through a tunnel, so support can be provided at any time.
In addition, the underground shelter has complete living facilities that can accommodate 5,000 people for at least half a month without any external support.
Li Yunlong was very satisfied with the overall plan. When he was weaving baskets in the Dabie Mountains, he was already satisfied to have a place to sleep sheltered from the wind and rain. Now he can own a fortress of 1,400 acres?
Can't even think about it.
After Li Yunlong agreed, Wang Meng quickly exchanged thirty excavators, thirty bulldozers, and forty road rollers and pile drivers.
Then, the soldiers who had worked in the hydropower troops before and had been enlisted in the special operations team for the second time were asked to teach those smart soldiers how to start the machines and dig the pits. As long as they could start the machines and dig the pits, they would be put to work directly.
I learned while working and worked hard for several days on Baitai Construction Machinery.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Meng exchanged one hundred tons of cement and various types of steel bars.
Wang Meng exchanged for another hundred dump trucks and loaded the excavated materials aside. After the underground layer was poured, he backfilled the soil to raise the overall level.
Another one hundred engineering vehicles also continuously pulled stones from the Taihang Mountains to the base, ready to be used to build ground buildings to ensure that these buildings could withstand direct fire from artillery shells with a caliber of at least 100 mm.
Wang Meng looked down from the Taihang Mountain base and saw the bustling military fortress. He actually felt a bit like a contractor.
"Mengzi, what are you looking at?"
Wang Meng was in a trance. If Li Yunlong hadn't called him, he would have been really fascinated.
"Commander, we have to speed up the work and try to put it into use as soon as possible. In addition, this morning I also mobilized the anti-aircraft artillery companies and anti-aircraft artillery battalions to the surrounding areas of the fortress to prevent the Japanese from causing trouble."
"Well, Lao Zhao and Commander Lin are taking people to the surrounding towns and villages to recruit young and strong laborers to do the work today. They are probably already here."
When Zhao Gang and Lin Shubing just arrived at the area between the base and the Japanese occupation zone, the local people thought that they were coming to conscript men and they all hid themselves.
Later, when he heard that it was an independent column that drove away the Japanese devils, he was willing to come out and listen to Zhao Gang and Lin Shubing's conversation.
"Fellow villagers, we are here to invite you to work in Shipo Township. We will provide you with meals every day and pay you monthly!"
When the hungry and cold people heard that they would be provided with meals and wages, they all rushed to sign up.
Zhao Gang selected skilled common people, such as bricklayers, stonemasons, carpenters, etc.
The trucks of the independent column carried people to the construction site of the military fortress.
More than 2,000 strong laborers, plus 10,000 independent column soldiers, took turns to work on the construction site, ensuring that the number of workers on the site could reach 6,000 to 7,000 people every day.
Lin Shubing's eyes were not worn in vain. In less than a month, he had arranged all the construction projects of the base smoothly.
Subcontract the tasks to the leaders of each regiment, and let them treat building houses and laying foundations as combat missions.
Zhang Dabiao of the First Regiment was responsible for the construction of the outer defense area.
The second and third regiments were responsible for the pouring of underground shelters in two internal areas respectively.
Except for the anti-aircraft artillery company, the other soldiers of the artillery regiment were sent to the mountains to break stones, which were then loaded onto the transport company's vehicles and brought back.
The cavalry company's war horses temporarily became transport mules and horses, responsible for transporting materials to places that trucks could not reach.
The soldiers of the special forces are all people who have received higher education. After intensively learning construction knowledge, they all act as "small contractors" on site.
The reconnaissance battalion was spread out in platoons over dozens of miles to prevent enemy surprise attacks.
The tank battalion was prepared as a combat reserve force, and upon receiving the news of the enemy attack from the reconnaissance battalion, it immediately moved out.
It was only three months until the Chinese New Year, and Li Yunlong was looking forward to living in his new house during the Chinese New Year...