The sudden heavy rain put both warring parties into an embarrassing situation.
As the defender, the newly dug trenches of the Japanese army were now filled with stagnant water, and the accumulated rainwater could even allow people to swim.
As the attackers, the Liantai Militia and the 129th Division were also scratching their heads. Originally, their idea was to use artillery to fire incendiary bombs to burn the Japanese positions, and then use the collected boats to transport troops across the river.
But once the heavy rain came, it would be a joke to launch incendiary bombs according to the plan. Just when the three people in the command headquarters were at a loss, Gao Hongming came up with another way.
The heavy rain poured down from the sky like a gaping hole in the Milky Way. The huge raindrops hit the human body extremely painfully. The density was so dense that people could not even see the silhouette of a person ten meters away. From time to time, lightning pierced the air.
The sound of raindrops hitting the earth is everywhere in the sky.
In such weather, dozens of strange-shaped vehicles were gathering on the south bank of the Wei River, and a truck with a long bar on its head was cautiously backing up.
The truck driver put his head out of the window to observe the situation behind him while driving the vehicle in reverse. A soldier holding a small red flag beside him blew his whistle while observing the situation of the vehicle.
"Beep...beep..."
"Beep beep beep..."
Under the command of the whistle, the truck retreated little by little to the river bank. Then with a rapid whistle, the vehicle stopped. Then the carriage began to slowly lift up, and the bar-shaped objects that were originally loaded into the truck began to move one by one.
Sprinkled on the river.
"Come on..."
Following the commander's order, the soldiers of the pontoon company who had been waiting around swarmed forward. They either used hammers or long poles to return the pontoon bridge sections to their respective positions, then connected the respective slots, and then used a
A thick steel nail connects it.
In less than twenty minutes, a section of the pontoon bridge that was 30 meters long and 56 meters wide was connected, and then another pontoon truck drove onto the pontoon bridge and started to repeat the previous operation...
"Baga...this damn heavy rain came at the wrong time."
In a temporarily dug bunker on the high ground on the north bank of the Wei River, Lieutenant Commander Fukuda Huan, captain of the 23rd Regiment of the 6th Division, sat on the shell box with a sad look on his face.
At this moment, near him, there were tents swaying in the wind and rain everywhere. These tents were crowded with soldiers, but there were more soldiers around because they were not assigned to tents and could only wrap themselves in a raincoat.
Shivering in the violent storm.
He couldn't help but not be angry.
This heavy rain soaked all the trenches that the 23rd Regiment spent several days digging in the rain, and even the small amount of ammunition was soaked by most of it. This was what made Fukuda Tamaki most angry.
"Your Excellency, Captain, you haven't eaten for a day, so you'd better drink some porridge to warm your stomach." At this time, the orderly on the side carefully brought an aluminum lunch box, which contained half of the steaming porridge and a little bit of it.
pickle.
Futian Huan took the lunch box and took a few sips. After finishing the hot gruel, Futian Huan's face felt a little better.
He said to the orderly: "Xiaoye, don't go out of your way to cook porridge for me these days. I'll just eat rice balls with the soldiers."
The orderly snorted twice, lowered his head and said: "Your Excellency, the regiment commander, the regiment does not have much food now. Just now, the chief of staff has ordered that all soldiers' daily meals be halved, and has also sent a search team to search nearby areas.
grain."
"Collect food?"
Futian Huan was startled, "Is our regiment's food shortage to this extent already? Why don't you report such an important matter to me?"
"I didn't let them report it." A voice sounded nearby.
Immediately afterwards, a figure wearing a raincoat quickly walked into the bunker. It was Lieutenant Commander Abe Shotaro, the chief of staff of the 23rd Regiment.
Looking at Shotarou Abe, who was almost drowned in water, Fukuda Tamaki swallowed back the curse words he was about to say, and then suppressed his anger and whispered: "Abe-kun, why didn't you report such an important matter to me? You
Do you know how serious the consequences will be if you run out of food?"
"Of course I know."
Facing the captain's anger, Abe Shotaro showed no panic. His rain-covered face looked particularly gloomy in the heavy rain mixed with lightning.
"I just came from the division headquarters and reported from the rear that due to the orderly bombing by Chinese aircraft, our food transport team was destroyed several times. In order to prevent the morale of the army from being shaken, the division commander ordered a blockade of the news. I only received the news from the division this morning.
I haven’t had time to report to you the briefing from the regiment headquarters.”
"idiot……"
Looking at the chief of staff who was reporting to him sternly, Fukuda Tamaki's hand holding the command knife showed blue veins due to exertion.
As the senior chief of staff of the 23rd Wing, according to convention, after the previous wing captain was transferred, he should have taken over the position of wing captain.
But he was intercepted by him, so Abe Shotarou was naturally dissatisfied. In the more than half a year after he took office, he relied on someone behind him to make various small actions overtly or covertly. However, he did it very covertly, and he also had some
The pain is unspeakable.
Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s take myself as an example.
Generally speaking, the military rank of the commander of the regiment is colonel, but after he took over the position of captain of the 23rd regiment, his military rank was not promoted by one level as usual. Instead, he only had the rank of lieutenant colonel like the chief of staff, Masataro Abe. This was undoubtedly true in Fukuda Tamaki's view.
It's a humiliation to oneself.
He took a deep breath: "Abe-kun, I heard that you sent people out early in the morning to collect food. Has there been any result?"
"No."
Shotaro Abe shook his head, "All the people around here have long since fled, and the two squadrons I sent out have gained nothing at all. It seems that we can only let the soldiers go out to pick wild vegetables to temporarily tide over this difficulty."
"you……"
Fukuda was so angry that the standing divisions of the great Japanese Empire were reduced to eating wild vegetables. What a shame.
He sneered, "Abe-kun, just leave the lack of food alone, I will take care of it.
In view of the fact that the Chinese are likely to take advantage of the heavy rain to launch a sneak attack on us, now I want to give you a task. You immediately lead a squadron to guard the north bank of the Weihe River and build corresponding fortifications. The Chinese must not take the opportunity to make a sneak attack.
, can you do it?”
"I……"
When Abe Shotarou heard this, he felt angry in his heart. He had a chief of staff and a squadron to build fortifications on the shore. Isn't this kidding him?
Even if he was beaten to death, he would not believe that in such a storm, the Chinese could still fight back. Isn't this a joke?
But just when he was about to refuse, he saw the flash of murderous intent in Futian Huan's eyes, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He took a deep breath, lowered his head and said something.