Chapter 428
At dusk, fierce gunfire sounded again on the west side.
Hu Yi, who jumped off the bicycle, took the telescope handed over by Ma Liang, looked west, and then turned south, carefully observing the cavalry who had fallen into the river but was stuck in the river and could not move forward or retreat.
Finally, I looked at the stone bridge carefully and moved slowly. Suddenly, I found that near the Japanese, a bunch of explosives suddenly appeared in the telescope in a small arch hole next to the big arch. My heart was tightened and my brows were frowning.
"Brother, the troops have been gathered, and the district team has to help lift the wounded." Ma Liang accompanied Hu Yi, facing the south side of the bridge. His eyes looked further away. The somewhat dilapidated county town in the east was half hidden in the sunset, like a turtle.
Hu Yi did not look back, and subtly adjusted the focal length of the telescope and asked casually: "How is Li Xiang's situation?"
"The two shrapnel from the wound on the back were taken out, and the needle was sewn and bandaged. The doctor in the district said that as long as you don't have a fever, you will be fine after two months of rest."
"How far is the Japanese chasing behind?"
"Wuli? Why don't we swim through the river?"
"No need, the division is trying to find a way. We cannot act at will. The enemy buried explosives under the bridge. This is a bit troublesome." Hu Yi began to worry that the Japanese would definitely explode the bridge once they attacked.
Even if the veterans of the Ninth Company were able to swim across the river, many of the new recruits could not water, and the wounded were in trouble. The Japanese rushed behind and suffered huge casualties in the blockade of the district, which was complicated.
"Explosive?" Ma Liang quickly took the telescope from Hu Yi and aimed at the location of the Shiqiao where he found the explosive pack.
"If the Japanese blew up the bridge, we... this armored vehicle cannot cross the river, then it will be useless?" Ma Liang was shocked, and he was really reluctant to let it go.
"So? You can arrange someone immediately and remove the heavy machine gun from the armored vehicle!"
"Can you drive the armored vehicle north, find a place to dig a hole, and bury it?"
"The armored vehicles left the road, nothing is wrong. Besides, now under the Japanese's nose, the armored vehicles suddenly disappeared. They scraped the ground three feet away and would find the armored vehicles..."
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The division commander held up a telescope and looked carefully as the scout pointed and pointed.
Seeing the explosive packs piled up in the bridge hole under the stone bridge, several division commanders who had just arrived next to them pointed in the direction the commander looked at.
The staff officer took his eyes off the map and spoke first: "The enemy's vanguard behind is launching a full-scale attack. We cannot stay for too long. It is even more difficult for the Japanese troops to get rid of it. Now, either attack directly along the stone bridge or retreat north immediately!"
"We have so many wounded people, and it is impossible to get rid of the Japanese with just speed!" The commander put down his telescope, pulled off his military cap and scattered the breeze.
"What should I do? The Japanese obviously want to blow up the bridge, and our Eighth Route Army did not give up the action of the wounded!" The staff officer looked worried.
"At present, it seems that we can only cross the river. Even if the wounded are infected after being infected with the wound, everyone has to pass through the river!" The commander's face looked serious.
"Is this stone bridge really impossible to take down?" The staff officer held a glimmer of hope.
The commander shook his head: "The explosives under the bridge... I guess it will cost at least one or two hundred kilograms. The Japanese are really big. Most of them want to wait until we get on the bridge before blowing up the stone bridge."
The staff officer was helpless: "Then...we don't have to attack now? Order the troops to prepare for crossing the river?"
The commander suddenly seemed to have thought of something: "Wait, it will be dark soon, and immediately let the scouts figure out the situation of the Japanese troops behind. Even if all the troops blocked are all destroyed, you must keep the enemy from approaching the stone bridge for a mile!"
"What does it mean?" the staff officer asked.
The commander seemed to suddenly make up his mind: "All the troops who arrived here in advance immediately turned north along the river. The cavalry regiment took the initiative to find a place to cross the river at all costs. After dark, they rushed back south along the river and defeated the enemy on the other side in one go!"
"What you mean is: Let the enemy on the other side judge that we have crossed the river. In order to facilitate the Japanese troops behind us to cross the river and pursue them, we will not blow up the bridge?"
"Hehe, they not only don't know how to blow up the bridge, but also have to protect them. Let's take down the bridge and wait until the wounded crosses the river and blow up the bridge directly. Even if the Japanese cross the river and chase them, would it be too late?"
"Good solution! What if the Japanese still bomb the bridge?"
"Then swim through the river!"
"But many soldiers don't swim!"
"Let the person who is swimming."
"Can the soldiers be allowed to leave the North Branch?"
"The Japanese scattered soldiers are so open. Even if they temporarily leave the battlefield, can they finally run away from the Japanese cavalry?"
"With our Eighth Route Army's marching ability, it should be no problem to run seventy or eighty miles overnight!"
"There are blockade ditches everywhere in the north, and the strongholds. The two Japanese devils must have strengthened their defense long ago, so it is difficult to escape."
"As sooner or later, the Japanese will dig up a blockade ditch and build a stronghold."
"After the team is gathered, go north immediately, you can arrange it!" The commander did not expect that the puppet army and a dozen Japanese soldiers who thought they were about to collapse would actually attack the bridge, and they couldn't help but feel a little depressed.
The commanders next to them immediately dispersed and returned to the troops to arrange matters to the north.
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On the city gate.
The city tower had long been demolished, leaving behind a small shed for temporary protection from the puppet army.
On the earthen city wall, there were several gaps without arrow bushings, and three layers of sandbags were laid as bunkers.
I was exposed to the sun for a day and the top was still hot, but it was much colder than in the afternoon.
Several people are discussing.
Tang Dagou held up the telescope borrowed from Xiao Hongying, leaned tightly on the sandbag, observing the situation at the stone bridge in the west of the city boredly.
Outside the suspension bridge on the moat, there was a large open area, four hundred meters away, the police of the Japanese puppet army reconnaissance team were mostly lying on both sides of a fan-shaped machine gun position at the east end of the bridge and dug a ditch, and more than a dozen puppet troops were still digging.
In the telescope lens, it happened to be facing the sunset that was about to go down the mountain. The scene was a little blurry and most of the details could not be seen clearly.
The cavalry in Japanese uniforms drove almost two miles away, and there were even more cars and armored vehicles. With his years of experience in the battlefield, he was still a little confused.
The cavalry platoons were in combat formations. Could it be that the cavalry that passed by in the morning have returned?
But the attack direction of the cavalry combat formation was actually the stone bridge. These Japanese really know how to play. Have their own people started fighting?
Could it be that the Japanese knew their details? They were going to kill them back?
The Japanese in the city deliberately ran out because of insufficient troops?
Then let yourself go out of the city and have a massacre?
But building a machine gun fortification by the stone bridge and digging trenches? What does this mean?
The big dog felt that his mind was mixed up, and he finally realized that being an official was not that powerful! He had to do anything, but he had to use his brain?
How could you be a big soldier?
You don’t have to think about anything, just listen to the orders, and reinforce wherever the gunshots are sparse. How good is it!
"Do you see any name?" Xiao Hongying asked by pulling the telescope.
"Damn it, from the perspective of formation... the Japanese are going to have internal strife!" The big dog had to express his opinion.
"Big Dog, your judgment is really new! What you said to me is not even a word except for the three words "fuck"!" Tian Sanqi couldn't help but sarcastic.
"When is it now? You guys talk about this? The troops below have gathered for a long time. If they don't leave the city, the Japanese will doubt us!" Old Zhou next to him frowned.
"Damn it, you're so anxious. When have you ever seen it... a security team that can be gathered in half an hour?" The big dog didn't care.
"There are cavalry opposite the river, and the enemy guarding the bridge is the fight. The west is full of fun. Could it be that our people are coming? They want to set up defenses along the river?" She had a small braid on her head and held a telescope to look at the scenery. How could she know that she was also a scenery that others saw.
"Hey... that...Boss Hu, look? There is a person holding a telescope on the city wall of the county town, who looks like a girl..." Luo Fugui, who was bored and the scratches on his legs, was probably almost healing, was sitting on a stretcher and playing with a telescope.
"Oh, I thought I had a telescope and I really thought I was a clairvoy. I could see it one or two hundred miles away?" The monkey who was searching for something beside Luo Fugui asked casually.
"Your grandma's, I mean the man on the city wall also has a braid on his head that looks like an immoral girl, which is a bit like..." Luo Fugui didn't care about the monkey's search, and he was carrying all the gold bars with him!
Put down the telescope, three miles away, four times Cao Changjing can see clearly in dusk.
Chapter completed!