Xu Shijiu said again: "What if the commissioner directly ordered?"

Feng Shengfa was silent. From his personal emotions, he was never willing to believe that Chairman Jiang would issue the order to retreat at a critical moment, but reason told him that Xu Shijiu's concerns were not redundant. Once Chairman Jiang really issued the order to retreat at a critical moment, the consequences would be disastrous for the 58th Division and even the entire 74th Army.

Xu Shijiu wanted to say it again, but Feng Shengfa didn't want to continue on this topic. He said immediately: "Okay, stop talking about these useless things. How are your fortifications in the 19th Brigade?"

Xu Shijiu could only smile bitterly and shook his head, and replied, "It is under emergency repair."

"Let's go, take me and take a look." After that, Feng Shengfa turned around and walked out.

Xu Shijiu took a step forward and then turned his body sideways to give up Feng Shengfa from the gate of Hongjue Temple.

Not long after walking out of the mountain gate, there was a cliff more than ten meters high. When Feng Shengfa looked up, he saw two stonemasons hanging down from the cliff neck with ropes, waving iron hammers. The iron chisel was widening and deepening a natural cave on the cliff wall. The two stonemasons were waving iron hammers and iron chisels, and gravel continued to fall down one after another.

Feng Shengfa felt strange and asked, "Ajiu, what are you doing?"

Xu Shijiu touched his nose and replied, "Master, haven't you noticed that this cliff is facing the only mountain road up the mountain? If I carved a bunker on the cliff and placed a Maxim heavy machine gun inside, no matter how many people came, they would die. Moreover, the heavy artillery of the small Japanese-born cannon cannot reach the mountain, and the machine gun could not do anything to the mountain.

When Feng Shengfa saw the terrain, he really had the intention of being a one-man and being a pass without a thousand men. With this cliff machine gun nest, a platoon on the mountain pass would become an insurmountable iron gate for the Japanese army. If the Japanese army wanted to take down the artillery position on Zutang Mountain, they could only go up from the western foot, because the mountains on the eastern foot were steep and it was very difficult to attack upwards.

Zutangshan is backed by the main peak of Niushou Mountain, so there is no need to worry about the defense in the north. In this way, the 19th Brigade only needs to deal with the attack from the western foothills. A mere heavy machine gun nest actually has this effect, which is actually a bit beyond Feng Shengfa's expectations. He immediately patted Xu Shijiu's shoulder and smiled and said, "You boy, your vision is really vicious.

After saying that, Feng Shengfa sighed again and said with some regret: "How great would it be if the senior staff of the General Staff of the Military Commission could have half your vision?"

Feng Shengfa's words were completely inspired. The national defense fortifications on the peripheral defense lines such as Niushou Mountain, Fangshan, Qinglong Mountain, Qixia Mountain, Wulong Mountain are solid enough to withstand at least 250 kilograms of heavy bombs, but the design and site selection are very unreasonable, and it is probably difficult to play the expected role in actual combat.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about the fortification group in Niushou Mountain has serious problems.

One of the biggest problems is that most of the heavy machine gun nests are regular firepower points, with few side firepower points and none of them. In the first phase of the Battle of Shanghai, the 88th Division suffered enough of the Japanese side firepower and dark firepower points when attacking Japanese strongholds such as Patriot Girls' School, Chizhi University, etc.

It can be said that in the first stage of the Battle of Shanghai, Koji Wumoto gave a defense class to the senior officers of the 87th Division and the 88th Division, which made them realize very deeply that in defensive operations, the killing effect of the dark fire point and the side fire point is far greater than the regular fire point.

In addition to the lack of side firepower points and dark firepower points, the national defense fortifications in Niushou Mountain also have another serious hidden danger, that is, the lack of depth. Most of the permanent fortifications in Niushou Mountain are built at the foot of the mountain, unfolding horizontally rather than vertically. The Japanese army only needs to break through one point and the entire defense line will be completely ineffective.

This is also a lesson learned from the Battle of Shanghai. When the Japanese Marine Corps set up defensive positions, they rarely set up bunkers horizontally. They generally choose to set up bunkers vertically on various traffic roads to form deep positions. In this way, if the national army wants to break through the Japanese position, the difficulties will increase exponentially.

Xu Shijiu smiled and shook his head, and said, "Master's seat, in fact, even if the fortifications on Niushou Mountain are built into side firepower and dark firepower points, and then the horizontal arrangement is changed to the deep arrangement of key passes everywhere, our 19th Brigade still dares not use it. As for the reasons, I believe the Master's seat is also clear."

"What's the reason?" Feng Shengfa really didn't know.

Xu Shijiu smiled and said, "Master, have you never heard of Huang's father and son?"

"Are you talking about Huang Jun, Huang Sheng and his son? Haven't they been arrested by Gu Zhenglun? What is the relationship between the Huang father and his son and you are worried about using the Niu Shoushan fortifications?" Feng Shengfa was still a little confused. Huang Jun was a confidant of Wang Jingwei. Before the accident, he was a confidential secretary of the Executive Yuan. He and his son Huang Sheng betrayed a lot of secrets. Senior generals such as Bai Chongxi, Zhang Zhizhong, Feng Yuxiang and even Chairman Jiang were almost killed by him.

Xu Shijiu held his forehead with his hands, smiled bitterly and refused to speak.

Feng Shengfa came back and said solemnly: "You mean... the Huang father and son have leaked the fortification configuration diagram of the outer defense line of Nanjing to Japanese himself? Is this possible? Huang Jun is just a confidential secretary of the Executive Yuan, while the outer fortifications of Nanjing and several national defense fortifications are highly confidential of the Military Commission."

Huang Jun, Huang Sheng and his son have been caught by Gu Zhenglun's military police corps, and most of their accomplices were arrested, and there were no staff members of the General Staff of the Military Commission. However, Xu Shijiu's intentions were obvious to believe in the investigation conclusions of the Nanjing Military Commission's military police corps, and believed that there were also traitors within the General Staff of the Military Commission.

However, Xu Shijiu did not say it clearly, but said in a different way: "Master, why don't we make a bet? I bet that the little Japanese bank has already obtained the configuration diagram of the fortifications outside Nanjing. Once the Japanese army approaches, their bomber group will be bombed on a large-scale basis on the fortifications outside Nanjing. Continuing to use these fortifications will definitely suffer a great loss.

Feng Shengfa was shocked when he heard this. If the Japanese army really got the configuration diagram of the fortifications on the periphery of Nanjing, he would be really careful. The Japanese aviation army made great progress. When the Battle of Songhu broke out, their bombing accuracy was very poor, but as the war deepened, the bombing accuracy of the Japanese aviation army began to increase rapidly.

Xu Shijiu said: "Teacher seat, you'd better remind all the friendly divisions."

Feng Shengfa nodded and said, "If you cannot use the permanent fortifications, this battle will be difficult to fight."

"That may not be." Xu Shijiu said, "Little Japanese-unborn's aviation army is indeed very powerful, but we are not without solutions." After that, Xu Shijiu waved at Feng Shengfa again and said, "Please follow me in the throne."

Feng Shengfa followed Xu Shijiu to the foot of the southern foot of Zutang Mountain, and found dozens of officers and soldiers and many civilians were entering and exiting an air-raid shelter. The air-raid shelter was obviously newly dug and had not even had time to reinforce it with wooden piles, but the entrance of the hole was on the side of the mountain. It would be difficult for the Japanese army to seal the hole unless they seized the opposite ridge.

Feng Shengfa couldn't help but lit up his eyes. The direction of this air raid shelter was chosen very well!

Due to the obstruction of the mountain, it is difficult for the Japanese to use mountain cannons, field cannons, and flat cannons to play a role. The Japanese air force can threaten the safety of the air raid shelter, but this is not unsolvable. The 19th Brigade only needs to disguise at the entrance of the hole to deceive the Japanese air reconnaissance. After all, air reconnaissance is no better than ground reconnaissance.

More importantly, the entrance of the air-raid shelter is connected to the traffic trench, which is well connected, almost connecting several machine gun fire points and dozens of foxglove pits on the southern foot of Zutang Mountain. Once the Japanese bombing is over, the defenders hiding in the air-raid shelter can quickly enter the defensive position along the well-connected trenches.

Feng Shengfa asked with concern: "Ajiu, is it too late to get up?"

Xu Shijiu's approach now is almost to rebuild the defense system of Zutangshan. It took more than two years to repair these fortifications by the Beijing-Shanghai Security Command, but the 19th National Congress team could not have such sufficient time. The Japanese army had at most one week, so it was time to reach Niushou Mountain.

"Time is a bit tight and there is a lack of materials." Xu Shijiu nodded, then smiled, "However, we don't need to build fortress-level fortifications. As long as the structure of each heavy machine gun nest is reasonable and the mountainous terrain is suitable, it is still impossible for us to do anything, such as the heavy machine gun nest on the cliff just now."

While talking, the two of them came to another heavy machine gun nest, which was also a very distinctive fortification.

This heavy machine gun nest was built under a huge rock as big as half a house. Because there was originally a hole connected to the left and right under the huge rock, about half a person tall. The officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade had already built it with the left exit of the bricks, leaving only a narrow shooting hole on it, which could just block the mountain road in front.

What is particularly rare is that this is still a side fire point.

Xu Shijiu pointed to the heavy machine gun nest hidden under the huge rock and said to Feng Shengfa: "Master, look at this machine gun nest. It will be enough for a small Japanese to drink a pot of money, hehe

Seeing this unique heavy machine gun nest, Feng Shengfa was not only satisfied with Xu Shijiu, but very satisfied. He said to Xu Shijiu again: "Ajiu, I will organize the heads of various battalions and the regiment to come to Zutangshan to observe and study. Don't hide your own private interests for me, and you will show your thoughts to everyone at that time."

Xu Shijiu smiled and said, "I will never dare to hide my personal responsibilities because I am afraid that my colleagues will look down on you."

"Don't be humble anymore." Feng Shengfa smiled and said, "Your Xu Shijiu's name has spread throughout the Seventy-fourth Army, and even the military captains have remembered you." After that, Feng Shengfa patted Xu Shijiu's shoulder again and said, "This time, guarding Zutang Mountain, you can show me your good performance. As long as you are gold, there will always be a day of shining."
Chapter completed!