Chapter 4 Bamboo Nails
Caojing, Wang Zilong's camp.
The war chess performance ended soon, and Wang Zilong stood there dumbly, looking disbelief.
The faces of He Ajiu and several guards from the battalion headquarters were even more exciting, and their expressions were like ghosts.
Only Zhong Yi looked calm and threw the last war chess on the sand table, saying calmly: "Captain Wang, you lost. I have been defending Jinshan Guardian and Haidian Defense for two days!"
Wang Zilong woke up as if he was dreaming and murmured: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible. It must be something wrong, it must be something wrong in the parameter setting!"
"Yes, it must be because the parameter setting is wrong!"
"That's right, half a battalion faces two divisions of the Japanese, and hold on for two days? Stop kidding!"
"Haha, don't say that it's a miracle to be able to hold on for two hours!"
The guards next to them also agreed, and they obviously could not believe the result in front of them.
Zhong Yi said: "Battleman Wang, then tell me, which parameter is set wrong?"
Wang Zilong was immediately stunned. All the parameters of this war chess deduction were set by him!
Looking at the sand table silently, Wang Zilong's eyes slowly lit up. Maybe he really has the chance to guard Kingsoft Guard for two days?
He Ajiu then whispered: "Brother Wang, I forgot to tell you that Captain Zhong is not an ordinary security captain. He is a top student who has returned from studying abroad at West Point Military Academy in the United States! Foreign students!"
"What?" Wang Zilong said sternly, "a top student at West Point Military Academy?"
He Ajiu nodded and said, "Now do you know where you lost?"
Wang Zilong breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhong Yi with a complicated expression: "Well, I agree to hand over the command of the Kingsoft Defense Battle to you! But there is one thing I have to declare in advance!"
Zhong Yi said: "Please tell me, Battalion Commander Wang."
Wang Zilong said in a deep voice: "If you are only good at talking about war on paper and do not have the level shown in the sand table deduction in actual combat, I will withdraw my command at any time!"
Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Yes!"
After changing his tone, Zhong Yi said again: "But, I have a request too!"
Prince Long said: "You said."
Zhong Yi said: "I am wronged that Battalion Commander Wang will act as my adjutant!"
Prince Long pulled his straight military uniform and said in a deep voice: "No problem!"
Zhong Yi was no longer polite and went straight into the role: "Adminton Wang, report to me immediately the details of the personnel and ammunition reserves of our department!"
"Yes!" Wang Zilong said loudly, "Not Captain He's Rangers, our troops have two infantry companies left behind on the Jinshan Guard and Hai Defense Line, one guard and one mountain cannon company. In terms of equipment, there are six Bufus Mountain cannons, one Type 24 heavy machine gun, two Czech light machine guns, three hundred and nineteen rifles made in Hanyang, and twenty-six Mauser pistols."
He paused and said, "In terms of ammunition reserve, there are 600 instant grenades, 20 tracer flares, more than 50,000 machine rifle bullets, more than 2,000 grenades, more than 500 landmines, twenty explosives packed in five kilograms, ten kilograms packed in ten kilograms, and about three thousand kilograms of folk black gunpowder collected."
"I understand." Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Adminton Wang, please go to the village entrance to see if the township security chiefs of each township security have brought the people together."
As soon as he finished speaking, a guard came in and reported, "Captain Zhong, your people are looking for you!"
"Bring in!" With Zhong Yi's permission, the guard immediately brought people in, and it was indeed Liang Feng.
Seeing Zhong Yi, Liang Feng hurried forward to report: "Captain, all the people and the people in each township and the protection of each village are gathered!"
Zhong Yi nodded and asked again: "How many people are there?"
Liang Feng scratched his head and said, "I haven't counted it, there are about 5,000 people."
"It's barely enough." Zhong Yi said, "Madman, you immediately bring three thousand people to Baishawan and transport the bamboo cut by the security team to Haiyue Temple and Snake King Hall."
"Yes!" Liang Feng glanced at Wang Zilong, turned around and hurried away.
Zhong Yi said to Wang Zilong again: "Adminton Wang, I'm sorry, you will take the rest of the Minzhuang to various villages to collect dry firewood, straw and other fire-induced objects to various artillery positions and sea ponds. The more the number, the better!"
"Yes!" Wang Zilong agreed and turned around.
Zhong Yi's eyes fell on He Ajiu's face, and Ajiu immediately said, "Brother, don't worry, our Random Moves firmly obey your command. Tell me, what are you going to let us do?"
"Your Rangers have only one mission!" Zhong Yi said, "Sleep!"
"What? Sleep?" He Ajiu was stunned, "What's this fucking?"
Zhong Yi ignored He Ajiu and left Caojing's battalion directly.
Soon, Zhong Yi returned to Haiyue Temple, then threw the rickshaw and strode onto the seawall.
The so-called seawall is actually a flood control embankment built by the sea. The Qianjiang tide in Hangzhou Bay is very famous. If you dare not build the flood control embankment, you will be flooded in minutes!
The seawall in Haiyue Temple was built during the Ming Dynasty. The middle is rammed earth and the inner and outer surfaces are made of stones. It is very strong. It looks like a city wall. It can be seen that the project is very large! Due to the erosion of time, most of the walls have fallen, but the main body of the embankment is still intact.
Inside the broken stone dam is a large silt field.
Outside the dike is a mudflat, which is at least four or five hundred meters wide!
Although the Japanese plane had just bombed, fishermen still barefoot were still catching fish on the beach.
When the fishermen step on it, the dilute mud immediately goes out of their knees, and it often takes a lot of effort to take a step forward, but even so, these fishermen are unwilling to give up.
An older fisherman happened to pass by the seawall.
Zhong Yi immediately stopped the other party and asked, "Grandpa, has the water level here always been so low?"
"That's definitely not." The old fisherman shook his head, "When the tide rises, the water level will rise to the roots of the sea pond!"
Zhong Yi said again: "When will the tide rise?"
"It's evening." The old fisherman replied, "It's the beginning of the month. The tide starts from the evening to the height of the tide. Tomorrow at two or three o'clock, the water level will rise to the highest point, almost flooding the seawall stems, and then the tide begins to fall from seven or eight o'clock, and by two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the tide will retreat to the low point, which is almost the same as it is now."
Zhong Yi's expression moved slightly when he heard this, because in history, the Japanese began to assemble at 2 a.m. and landed successfully by the time of six a.m.
But here, the Japanese made a fatal mistake!
This mistake is that the Japanese did not start rushing to land at 2 a.m., but waited until six o'clock, and only rushing to the beach after dawn, wasting four hours of precious time!
In history, the Japanese were not punished for this!
But this time, Zhong Yi will teach the Japanese a bloody lesson!
Not long after, Wang Zilong took Minzhuang to transport the first batch of straw to the sea pond.
Not long after, the first batch of bamboos transported by Minzhuang from Baishawan also arrived.
Except for a few people including Wang Zilong and He Ajiu, who knew about Zhong Yi's intention, even Liang Feng from the security team was completely unaware of this.
Minzhuang was even more confused.
However, Minzhuang doesn't need to know too much.
Zhong Yi took the hatchet from a Min Zhuang's hand, cut off a section about thirty centimeters from an old bamboo with a few slashes, then cut it open from it, and divided it into eight pieces.
Tuan Ding and Min Zhuang were puzzled and looked confused.
Zhong Yi took one of the bamboo pieces, sharpened one end slightly, and cut half of the bamboo joints from the other end first, and cut the remaining half into sharp thorns, then knocked it down into the mud with big head.
Min Zhuang suddenly realized, isn’t this the bamboo nail used in the trap?
"I guess everyone has seen it. That's right, it's just the bamboo nails used in the trap!" Zhong Yi clapped his hands and said loudly, "But a trap can only have dozens of bamboo nails at most, but what I want is tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of bamboo nails. I want to make Haiyue Temple, Snake King Hall and the more than ten miles of mudflats from Jinshanzui covered with bamboo nails!"
Liang Feng said: "Captain, are you planning to use bamboo nails to stop the Japanese from logging in? It's not possible. If the Japanese log in, they will definitely choose to be at high tide. At that time, the Japanese landing craft will be able to lean directly on the seawall. No matter how many bamboo nails we buried on the mudflats are, they will be useless. Isn't this in vain?"
Zhong Yi said: "Don't worry about this!"
Seeing that Zhong Yi had no intention of explaining, Liang Feng could only go in a depressed manner.
There is no way, who can make me a top student who came back from West Point Military Academy?
Zhong Yi turned his gaze to Wang Zilong again and said in a deep voice: "Adminton Wang, do you still remember the previous military chess performance?"
"Understand!" Wang Zilong nodded and said, "If the Japanese really landed at Jinshanwei, they would definitely send a condemnation team to grab the beach first in Haiyue Temple, because in comparison, the coasts near Haiyue Temple are the most suitable for grabs the beach! Going east or west, either piles of rocks or salt fields, and are not suitable for large-scale landings!"
"Then." Zhong Yi continued, "You should understand what to do, right?"
"I understand!" Wang Zilong said in a deep voice, "You must win the first battle. Only in this way can you strengthen your confidence!"
After a pause, Wang Zilong said again: "I will lead people to lay mines and explosives in the seawall on the line of Haiyue Temple, and spread straws into the embankment, and then sprinkle gunpowder!"
"Go!" Zhong Yi nodded happily.
Wang Zilong glanced at Zhong Yi deeply and turned around.
To be honest, Wang Zilong appreciates Zhong Yi’s view that he must win the first battle!
Watching Wang Zilong's figure fade away, Zhong Yi turned his head leisurely again and his eyes turned to the sea outside Hangzhou Bay.
If nothing big of an accident, Yanagawa Heikawa's 70,000 Japanese soldiers should have been waiting on the sea dozens of miles away, right?
Looking back, Zhong Yi turned his attention to the location of Nanjing.
But I don’t know what arrangements will Chairman Jiang Gong make?
Chapter completed!