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Chapter 80 Frontline Investigation (1)

"Silly kid, you know that the submachine gun is good to shoot. Do you know what the rifle in your hand is called? Your gun is much more expensive than the submachine gun in our hand."

"Uncle Niu, then tell me."

When Niu Wa heard that the weapon in her hand was better than others, she hurriedly hugged the 98K with a scope in her hand, for fear that others would snatch it away.

"Your gun is called Mauser 98K, a very good sniper rifle. The enemy 800 meters away can basically be knocked down with one shot. If you don't believe it, you'll know when you are training in live ammunition tomorrow."

"Okay!"

"Niuwa, let's change it!"

"Hmph... don't even think about it."

"Didn't you change your mind immediately before? Haha... little brat."

"I'm seventeen, I'm not young!"

"Oh! You're not young anymore. Take off your pants, let everyone see if you have no hair under you..."

"Ah!" Niu Wa screamed and ran away in a mad manner. A happy laugh came from behind him, "Haha...haha."

...

Rommel asked Sher to take charge of the training work, so he took Li Mo, Hans and Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi to the national defense line together. Zhang Zhizhong was a senior commander of the Chinese military and personally commanded the Battle of Shanghai. He was replaced because of the unfavorable situation. With Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi, he should be fine wherever Rommel and the others wanted to go.

The national defense line Rommel is going to today is the full name of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou National Defense Line. The national defense fortification was designed by the Chengshou Group of the General Staff Headquarters in 1933. The main content is: the infantry battalion positions are units (particularly important areas are units of regiment positions, and secondary areas are units of units of company positions). The front-line positions and reserve positions are set up in the position, and equipment such as shooting, observation, communication, transportation, camouflage, bunkers, obstacles, etc. are built, and light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and war defense artillery fortifications are mainly composed of reinforced concrete, and natural obstacles are used as much as possible, supplemented by artificial obstacles to form permanent fortifications.

However, the corrupt officials of the Republic of China put a large amount of money invested by the country into their private pockets, and the national defense line built was a tofu project. Otherwise, the positions in the first two regions would not be lost so quickly, and now only the positions in the Nanjing area remain.

The national defense fortification is divided into three parts:

1. Beijing-Shanghai area positions: The first position is located in Wujiang County to Fushan Town, and the second position is located in Wuxi to Jiangyin Xicheng Line. The intermediate position is set up from Guishan to Meicun between the two positions. The rear position is located in Shizhuang to Changzhou.

2. Shanghai-Hangzhou area positions: The first position is located in Zhapu to Jiashan (Zhajia Line), and the second position is located in Suzhou to Jiaxing (Sujia Line). The coastal area between the two positions also has a flanking position.

3. Nanjing area positions: the main positions are located in the lines of Longtan, Qixia Mountain, Qinglong Mountain, Cangbomen, Dasheng Pass, Shangxinhe, Xiaguan and Yanziji, forming a closed circular position.

Rommel and his friends are going to inspect the outer position in Nanjing today. This position is a temporary field position. It was because after learning that Germany would send 100,000 tons of arms to Nanjing, the bald man asked the troops and migrant workers to build it urgently. It was about 80 kilometers away from Nanjing City and about 40 kilometers away from the national defense line in Nanjing. These field fortifications were built in a hurry, so after entering the position, the Kuomintang army held on while continuing to build it. However, the Japanese artillery fire was too fierce. The field fortifications built in a few days were often destroyed in half a day. The National Army soldiers who were stuck in the field fortifications were also seriously injured and injured.

At this time, the Japanese army had just captured the Shanghai-Hangzhou national defense line. It had not yet reached the national defense line in Nanjing. The Japanese army only launched an attack outside the outer positions of Nanjing, but due to the heroic resistance of the Chinese army, the Japanese army suffered a lot of casualties, so the Japanese army was not able to break through the outer positions of Nanjing. The Japanese ammunition supplies were transported from Japan, and the insufficient ammunition also made the Japanese attack a little weak. In order to wait for the German army's 100,000 tons of arms, the people stood between Nanjing and Suzhou and Hangzhou, about 80 kilometers away from Nanjing, and used more than 100,000 migrant workers to dig many trenches in this generation. The national army and the Japanese army were fighting a tug-of-war here.

Because Japan has the advantage of weapons and air, the Kuomintang army has more than 500,000 troops deployed in this area. After only more than ten days of tug-of-war, the Kuomintang army lost almost 100,000 people. With the deserters, the Kuomintang army is still defending, and the national army will not exceed 400,000. This temporary defense line starts from Zhenjiang City in the east, and then extends to Ma'anshan City in a fan-shaped defensive position. The entire defensive position is about 150 kilometers, with a defensive force of only 25,000 people per kilometer, and the force of each meter is 2.5 people. This is still a single-line defense. If it is set up as several trenches, the defensive force will be further reduced.

The first thing Rommel and his party went to was in the front defensive position Jurong City. Before Rommel and his party arrived at the front line, they heard the strong sound of cannons. Judging from the density of cannons, the battle on the front line was very fierce. Rommel just wanted to go to the front line to see how the Japanese fought and what their characteristics were. Then, it would be better to arrange their own strategies and tactics reasonably.

Soon Li Mo and the others encountered the national army's checkpoint. With Zhang Zhizhong there, everything was unimpeded. The sentry at the level immediately notified their commander Yu Ji. The troops Li Mo and the others came were exactly the defensive position of the 74th Army, the elite troops of the national army.

The more the car went, the more bumpy the road, the more people in the car were sitting on a cradle, but no one complained. This was going to the front line to survey, not on vacation. Li Mo and the other two met Yu Jishi who came riding a horse ten kilometers away from the position. This man was a powerful general and was very capable of fighting. I don’t know how Yu Jishi is fighting now.

"Sir Zhang, why are you here?"

"Yu Jishi, why can't I come? Come on, I will introduce you to three German friends, General Rommel, the eldest son of the Flying Eagle Legion..."

After everyone got to know each other, General Zhang Zhi asked Yu Jishi to take the same car to the front line. A car could just sit down four people. After getting on the car, Zhang Zhizhong began to ask about the situation of the battle:

"Zuomin, when I was commanding the Battle of Shanghai, your 74th Army fought very well, fought tenaciously, and suffered heavy casualties. Since I left the office, you have come here to stick to it and tell us about your current situation!"

"Yes, sir, I will briefly talk about the current situation of our 74th Army. After we retreated from the Songhu battlefield, there were only more than 5,000 people left in the entire army. The chairman personally ordered to add 20,000 local militias to us. We just organized the troops here. Before we had time to train, the little Japanese rushed over. We had to fight with the little Japanese here. The countless trenches dug by the migrant workers helped us a lot. We have been tug-of-war with the little Japanese here for more than ten days. Every time we arrived at the trenches and every post was repeatedly captured countless times.

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