"Captain Wang, look."

Chen Mingli grabbed a engineer shovel and shoveled a large piece of mud slate from the wall in two strokes.

Ma Yuan took another engineer shovel and tapped it gently, and the mud slate that had fallen into the ground broke.

Wang Ye was also a little stunned when he saw this. He was so embarrassed. With Chaishan, was the mud slate in Mishan's belly so crisp? Why not dough?

Is it because it has not been fixed by geological movement?

Such hardness obviously cannot be repaired.

Because it is useless to build it, it will be destroyed in just a few shots. Not only can the Japanese not stop them, they can also bury their own people alive under the collapsed fortress ruins.

If you cannot become a fortress, your previous defensive ideas will be overturned.

Wang Ye asked again: "Where is Shuiyao Mountain? Is this the same thing?"

If the entire Shuiyao Mountain is filled with mud slate of this strength, the wall-mounted road should not be built.

"That's not." Chen Mingli said, "The mountain in Shuiyao Mountain is not such mud slate, but granite and sedimentary rocks with much higher strength than this."

Wang Ye asked again: "Can the road on the wall be dug up?"

Chen Mingli replied: "It is still possible to dig, but the progress is much slower than expected."

Wang Ye thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "In this way, Chaishan and Mishan Fortresses don't need to be built. All manpower is to rush to repair the wall-mounted road, and there is still one more wall-mounted road."

"A circle inside Shuiyao Mountain needs to be built with wall roads."

"We need to build the Hanbi Road into a semi-ring,"

"Forge fire cover between each other as much as possible."

Ma Yuan frowned and said, "This project is much more expensive."

Chen Mingli also said: "It's probably too late to go in time."

"Try to repair it." Wang Ye said, "How much does it take to repair it."

"But the wall-mounted road leading directly to Huangyang Cave must be built."

Chen Mingli and Ma Yuan looked at each other and smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid not."

Wang Ye frowned and said, "I'm afraid it won't work? Is it that difficult to build a wall road?"

Ma Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "Captain Wang, everything we say is redundant. You can tell if you go and take a look."

At that moment, Chen Mingli and Ma Yuan accompanied Wang Ye to the construction site of the Hanbi Road not far away, and saw dozens of Japanese prisoners of war under the supervision of the militia.

Wang Ye made a rough estimate,

The wall-hanging road that has been built is about one hundred meters long.

This is fucking embarrassing. It only took more than a month to repair a hundred meters?

It is the end of August now, and there is still one month to start in early October. How far can it be repaired? According to this progress, it is impossible to catch up with this anti-sweeping campaign.

At this moment, Wang Ye finally deeply realized the importance of infrastructure capabilities.

Without strong infrastructure capabilities as a foundation, no matter how good the idea is, it is still a fantasy.

What are Chaishan, Mishan Fortress, what are the wall-mounted roads, and what are the triple insurances all talk about on paper.

The three levels of defense he had imagined before were not even completed. Fortunately, the headquarters had decided to evacuate, otherwise he would be caught off guard.

However, the wall-mounted road must be built.

At that moment, Wang Ye took Chen Mingli and the others back to the headquarters.

"Xiao Wang, how about it? Can Chaishan and Mishan Fortress be built?" asked the Deputy Chief of Staff.

The boss was very busy at work, so he went to a new brigade with his division commander to inspect the work, and only the deputy chief of staff was at home.

Wang Ye said: "Chishan and Mishan Fortresses don't need to be built anymore, because even if they are built, it is useless and cannot withstand the Japanese's heavy artillery."

The Deputy Chief of Staff said again: "What about the wall-mounted highway?"

Wang Ye said: "The walled road must be repaired and the progress must be accelerated."

The Deputy Chief of Staff showed a hint of embarrassment on his face and said, "Xiao Wang, you don't know some situations. The construction of a wall-mounted highway is not very difficult."

“And it’s useless to have too many people.”

“Because the venue is that big,”

"There are too many people and you can't even dispose of them."

"It's too dangerous to open the skylight,"

"Several civilians have already fallen to death."

Wang Ye also sighed lightly and said, "Chief, no matter how dangerous it is, it must be repaired. When the civilians tied an extra safety rope when they were under the skylight from the top of the cliff, they must be repaired on the walled road."

The Deputy Chief of Staff said: "Is it still time to hurry?"

Wang Ye said: "The current progress is definitely not enough, so it must be accelerated."

"Accelerate?" sighed, "This is the problem, there is really no way to accelerate."

"Chief, there are actually methods." Wang Ye said in a deep voice, "Using explosives to carry out multi-point blasting can greatly speed up the progress of the wall hanging road."

"Blast with explosives?"

The Deputy Chief of Staff said: "How much explosive will it take?"

Although Shuiyaozi Arsenal can also produce yellow explosives, its production capacity is only that little, and it is not enough to reload bullets and shells. How can there be extra for repairing wall-mounted roads?

Moreover, the explosives required for building wall-mounted roads are not a little bit.

Wang Ye said: "The supplies snatched back this time include several tons of explosives."

"These tons of explosives are used to build the Hanbi Highway. Chief, the Hanbi Highway must be built. If there is no defensive support of Shuyaoshan, our anti-sweeping plan must be pushed back and started again."

"Also, there is no time for hundreds of thousands of people in the base area to transfer!"

"Hundreds of thousands of people in the base?" The deputy chief of staff looked shaking, "Xiao Wang, do you understand?"

"The brigade commander has told me." Wang Ye nodded, "Ten thousand innocent people in a military sub-district of the Hebei Central Military Region were cruelly baptized by the Japanese and were almost slaughtered into white land!"

"Chief, if nothing unexpected happens, this strategy will become the norm."

"In the future, the Japanese will launch a sweep and will definitely adopt a cruel three-light policy against our base areas. Not only the army, but also the people will be brutally slaughtered."

"So my opinion is that the people must be transferred."

In fact, this is what Okamura Yasuji did after he took office as North China.

Give certain preferential treatment to the people in the public security areas, win over the people in the guerrilla areas and force them to move to the occupied areas, and cruel cleaning of the people in the base areas.

This policy will undoubtedly be used to mobilize the Taihang Military Region.

The fall of the Taihang base is inevitable, but hundreds of thousands of people in the base must not give up. Even if they try their best, they will protect the people in the base from moving to other bases.

Otherwise, I would just watch the hundreds of thousands of people being massacred.

Such a thing can be done by slashing the Democratic Party, but the Communist Party cannot do it!

"Xiao Wang, you don't need to say more about this. The boss has made a decision and the people all follow him."

The Deputy Chief of Staff nodded and said, "So what you mean is that with one of our powerful troops staying in Shuiyaoshan, attracting the main force of the Japanese army and winning opportunities for the transfer of the people?"

Wang Ye said: "To be precise, it is to attract the 2nd Guard Division to come and siege."

The Deputy Chief of Staff asked: "You mean to adopt the plan to go south to Taiyue Military Region, right?"

"Yes." Wang Ye said, "Although the eastward plan is the easiest, it is the result that the Japanese want."

The Deputy Chief of Staff shook his head and said, "It is definitely not possible to advance eastward. The Hebei Central Military Region is already very difficult. It will become even more difficult for tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of people in the Taihang Military Region to go there."

Wang Ye said: "The difficulty of going north is relatively small, but the land is even more barren when going north, and it is impossible to support so many military people. The end result is that they can only be trapped to death."

The Deputy Chief of Staff nodded and said, "It is definitely not okay to go north."

Wang Ye said: "It's Taiyuan to the west, so there is no need to consider it."

"Indeed." The Deputy Chief of Staff nodded, "In the present, our Eighth Route Army does not have the strength to restore and defend the Jinzhong Plain at all."

Wang Ye said: "The only way out is to go south to Taiyue Military Region. Shangdang, where the Taiyue Military Region is located, is relatively rich and enough to support our Eighth Route Army headquarters and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians."

"But, how easy is it to cross the Zhengtai Road?"

The deputy chief of staff said worriedly: "Yoshino Shinozuka, the old devil, obviously thought of this, so he specially placed the most elite 2nd Guard Division on the Masahiro Road. The intention was to cut off our way out for the southward movement so that it would facilitate the sweep of the army to trap me in the Taihang base."

Wang Ye said: "Our mobile column is confident enough to break through the Zhengtai Road defense line of the 2nd Guard Division."

"But if we want to defend this passage and ensure that hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the Taihang Military Region cross the Zhengtai Road and enter the Taiyue Military Region, it is impossible to do it because we cannot stop the counterattack of the 2nd Division of the Guards."

"So, we must lead the main force of the 2nd Guard Division."

"Then, brotherly troops from all walks of life have the opportunity to protect the people from going south."

The Deputy Chief of Staff nodded and said, "Then how can you get rid of your mobile column?"

Wang Ye said: "With the terrain, it is not difficult for our mobile column to get rid of the pursuers. The problem is that after we get rid of it, the main force of the 2nd Guard Division will definitely turn around and kill back to Zhengtai Road to intercept the people in the base area."
To be continued...