Chapter 913 Heavy losses
"Damn it!" Zhong Yi's fist clenched.
Immediately afterwards, Zhong Yi called He Wenxi over and ordered: "Instructor He, gather all the students."
"Yes!" He Wenxi immediately gathered the students from the nearby training class together without any hesitation.
Zhong Yi turned around and said to An Zhenyuan: "Xiao Anzi, there should be a fire-fighting water dragon in the port yard, right? Hurry up and lead the students from the officer training class to move the water dragon."
An Zhenyuan took some of the students to move the water dragon.
At this time, the roar of the plane engine in the night sky became closer.
Immediately afterwards, two water reconnaissance planes with floating cabins under the wings rushed out of the dark night, and then dived towards the port yard with a harsh roar.
Seeing this, Zhong Yi's heart that was in his throat fell slightly.
It seems that the situation is not too bad. The Japanese actually sent only two water reconnaissance planes!
If the Japanese sent a bomber squadron and were carrying sulfur bombs, then these foods would be difficult to keep.
But now, the Japanese sent only two seaplanes, and the situation was much better.
However, Zhong Yi was still not careless and asked He Wenxi to gather more students.
Zhong Yi knew better than anyone else that here, whether it was the patrol team, the security regiment, or the Xiaogang Town militia brought by Zhao Xingjiu, they were all unreliable. The only thing they could count on was the trainees from He Wenxi's training class!
Zhong Yi's judgment was soon proven by cruel facts.
Although the Japanese only dispatched two water reconnaissance planes, when the two water reconnaissance planes began to dive, the patrols, civilians, government civil servants and guards on the dockyard were blown up and ran around like headless flies, and the scene instantly became extremely chaotic.
For a time, countless carts overturned and countless grain bags fell to the ground.
Countless grain bags were trampled, and golden corn kernels overflowed out, covering the ground!
Immediately afterwards, the two water reconnaissance planes dived to a low altitude. After rushing to an extremely low altitude of nearly 50 meters, the two water reconnaissance planes suddenly pulled up again. At this moment, four 20kg-level sulfur bombs fell from the belly of the machine. In a blink of an eye, the four sulfur bombs had already landed in the dock yard.
"Boom boom boom boom boom!" After the violent explosion, four dazzling balls of fire rose up instantly.
Immediately afterwards, the burning substance in the sulfur bomb body splashed suddenly, and it was attached to the board houses, bamboo sheds and even grain bags on the yard. Then, the board houses, bamboo sheds and grain bags began to burn.
At this time, the patrol team, security team, civil servants, and civil servants who came to rush to transport food were all in chaos. No one thought of going to put out the fire or rescue the food!
It was also at this moment that the extraordinary performance of nearly a thousand students in the officer training class immediately appeared!
Because in the chaos, nearly a thousand students in the officer training class remained unmoved!
Even though the Japanese's two water reconnaissance planes were almost whizzing past their heads, their queues were not in a slight turmoil, and even the expressions on their faces did not change much.
Nothing else, because these students have been instilled by He Wenxi and Zhong Yi in the idea that if they should sacrifice for their country when they become soldiers!
It is true that these nearly a thousand trainee soldiers, both physically and psychologically, have been mentally prepared to sacrifice their lives for the country and for the nation.
The calmness of these nearly a thousand cadets made it possible to put out fires.
Almost as soon as the fire broke out, Zhong Yi issued a fire-fighting order: "College, rescuing food is to fight for the country and sacrifice yourself for the nation. You can all use the water dragon to put out the fire!"
"Roll..." Nearly a thousand students immediately shouted like a tide.
Immediately afterwards, the students raised fire-fighting water dragons in groups, went to the beach to draw water, and quickly returned to the dockyard and sprayed streams of water onto the burning fire balls.
When some officers and soldiers of the patrol team and the guard regiment saw this, they also returned to join the fire.
However, the good times did not last long. After a while, as the Japanese water reconnaissance planes dived again and began to shoot violently at the fire-fighting crowd, the officers and soldiers of the patrol team and the guard group scattered again, but the students from the officer training class remained unmoved and continued to stick to the spot.
"Puff..." Two dazzling tongues of flames ejected from under the wings of the Japanese plane and roared down.
The two students who were operating the water truck were instantly shot several times and fell to the ground screaming, but the other students did not retreat because of this. Soon two more students came forward and continued to pump water!
Another Japanese plane snorted down again, and two more students fell into a pool of blood.
But soon, two more students quickly took over. The water column sprinkled at the fire point did not decrease, but instead became more dense and powerful.
After a while, more than a dozen fire points were extinguished one after another.
After diving for several rounds, the two Japanese planes in the sky also fired all the machine gun bullets and finally climbed and flew away to the high altitude.
Zhong Yi had no time to be glad, so he quickly reorganized the manpower and started rushing for food again.
After about three hours, the two previous water reconnaissance planes returned. They first dropped four sulfur bombs at the warehouse in the dockyard, and then dived and strafed. However, this time, due to previous experience, the commotion that the Japanese aircraft could create was smaller and the threat became smaller.
However, these two waves of bombing by the Japanese still caused heavy losses to the Yinjiang military and civilians.
When it was dawn, the 800,000 tons of corn stored in the port yard were finally transported, of which more than 400,000 tons were transported to the Zhaobaoshan Fortress Warehouse, 100,000 tons were taken back to Jiangbei Railway Station, and the remaining more than 200,000 tons were evacuated to the countryside by militia from Xiaogang, Zhuang City, Luotuo and Yin County.
However, at least 50,000 tons of corn were still burned or damaged.
Looking at the yard burned into coke, and the field stems outside the yard and the corn trampled on the road, Zhong Yi's facial muscles began to twitch.
This is at least 50,000 tons of corn!
The 50,000 tons of corn disappeared like this!
How many refugees can so much corn be supported?
At that moment, Zhong Yi called Cao Ziying and Li Ziren to the front.
"Two things!" Zhong Yi glanced coldly over Cao Ziying and Li Ziren's faces, and then continued, "First thing, the Japanese know the news so quickly and sent a water reconnaissance plane. It must be that there was an insider in the middle who was informing them. Lao Cao, please catch this insider for me! The second thing is, it's time to clean up the food! Ziren immediately took the security regiment to seize the grain stores of the Chen family and the dozen illegal grain merchants, and then arrest people!"
Chapter completed!