Chapter 704: The Importance of Rubber Boats (Page 1/1)

All the officers and men of the 2nd Regiment finally arrived at the so-called area with complicated terrain, and according to the map marking, it was necessary to walk 5 or 6 kilometers, but in fact, the nearly 3,000 men of the whole regiment walked a full 13 kilometers before they reached the predetermined area.

When Zhang Wei arrived at the destination, he was glad that this was not a real battle, if it was a real battle, the entire army would have been killed a long time ago, but Zhang Wei didn't complain, the map in Zheng Yiqun's hand was rummaged through from the headquarters of the supplementary second regiment, and it was estimated that it was assigned to the department by the previous regiment commander during his tenure, and this map didn't know which year and month it was measured.

The direct consequence of the inferior map was that the scheduled arrival time of the entire army was more than two hours later than Zhang Wei imagined, and it was expected to arrive at noon, but it was already afternoon when it arrived, and this lunch became afternoon meal.

In the field, the aroma of food was still left in the air, and the cooking teams of each company had just put out the fire, put away the big iron pot, and finished eating.

Nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Second Regiment of the Supplementary Regiment had just finished their meals, and the dried meat soup, dried vegetable soup, steamed rice and steamed rice were paired with the dry food steamed buns they carried, and the brothers ate a meal on the march and got a rare respite, after the meal, Zhang Wei gave the soldiers time to rest, in the field, a soldier of the Second Supplementary Regiment sat on the ground tiredly, and the soldiers leaned together in groups of three or five, sitting cross-legged, and some were standing with guns, and their behavior was not deliberately restrained, but none of them dared to take a nap.

The equipment on everyone's bodies has been packed, and the troops can be pulled up at any time as long as they give an order. The squad leader and the veterans walked around, helping the recruits solve problems, checking weapons, and in the vast wilderness, there were thousands of soldiers of the national army with steel helmets on their heads and fully armed, and where birds don't, it was rare to come to thousands of people.

The veterans of the temporary shelter team, in squads, patrolled the perimeter to reconnoiter and guard to prevent people from taking advantage of the opportunity to desert. There are those who are vigilant, those who are sentry, and there are all those who should be.

Most of the Oriental horses captured from the Japanese army are now under the supervision of the drivers, unloading the heavy machine guns, mortars and shell bullets on their backs, 24 heavy machine guns, 82 mortars of the 20th year of the People's Republic of China, Liao-made 14 type 37 flat guns, ZB37 heavy machine guns, 79 heavy machine gun shells, 82 artillery shells, flat shells neatly stacked on the ground, horses grazing in the field, and special soldiers, with steel helmets from the river to drink water, feed the horses, The treatment of these horses is not low.

The brethren had a lot of rest, but to be precise, they had to deal with a river, which was not large, but it blocked the river of nearly 3,000 brothers.

Lying in front of the team of the second regiment is a small river, although it is a small river, but for the infantry on foot, it is not small at all, the whole river is about 40 meters wide, the water flow is not urgent, but it is very deep, the people of the engineer company, take the measuring benchmark to test it, it is not the infantry can wade in vain, the spies lined up two soldiers who know how to enter the river, stayed in the river for less than a minute and swam back, bluntly said that there is an undercurrent below, without relying on tools, forcibly crossing the river can not be crossed at all, if you want to pass, you can only carry out bridge work on the spot, erect a pontoon bridge.

In the sound of the slow flow of water, Zhang Wei and the personnel of the regiment headquarters and the officers and soldiers of the engineer company were closely inspecting the river, and the water flow was not urgent, but Zhang Wei and the people around him had serious faces, looking at the river and sighing again and again.

The two platoons of the engineer company under the regiment are now urgently setting up wooden platoons by the river, and the brothers of the other two civil platoons are going to cut down the available trees from a distance, cutting down the trees, cutting off the excess branches and vines, and then transporting the trees from the felling place to the small river, and then drilling the trees, tying and connecting them into wooden rafts that can carry people across the river, and the bridge decks necessary for the construction of pontoon bridges, the whole engineer company has put in the workmanship, saws, nails, ropes, and all the workmanship has been taken out to construct the wooden rafts and the bridge deck.

What kind of hard work is the work of these four drains now, or is it a high-tech work? It's neither, but you just have to do it, if you don't do it, you have to make a detour, Zhang Wei also happens to want the army's ability to cross the river, so he doesn't make a detour if he is killed, and he is on the bar with this river.

"Or the regiment commander thinks a lot, this rubber boat does have to be bought, if you encounter this kind of river during the war in the future, it will be a nest, this river depends on our sappers themselves, there is no way to build a bridge, we can only find a ferry first, really to the battlefield, it can be delayed too much."

He Jinhai, the commander of the combat engineer company, sighed at the river, and praised Zhang Wei's plan to buy rubber boats, indeed, if there are rubber boats, this river is not a matter at all, relying on rubber boats, the infantry can be transported across the river, and the heavy equipment and mules and horses that cannot be carried can also rely on the sappers to use rubber boats to maneuver on the river surface to build pontoon bridges.

"Therefore, this practice is always more important than on paper, there are some things that we don't think of, pull the troops outside, and it will all be exposed, if there is no rubber boat, we will either spend too much time on the construction of materials as we are now, or we will have to make a detour, the time wasted is not short, the key is, if the engineer company is equipped with rubber boats, I can now establish a position on the other side of the river, establish a bridgehead to stabilize the defense line, if it is consumed like now, the enemy army will attack by a sneak attack, we will have to scrap it, the march is unfavorable, and the results of the battle are not good-looking. ”

Zhang Wei sighed with a serious face. Looking at the wooden platoon and bridge deck that had not yet been constructed, Zhang Wei felt that today's entire marching and combat training plan would be extended.

"What Tuanza said is that with ready-made rubber boats, a platoon of soldiers can be pulled over in a few voyages, heavy machine guns and mortars can also pass, and it is really a waste of time to use wooden platoons to cross the river."

Zhang Wei sighed. , I thought that this was good training, and if I encountered a similar situation in Myanmar's water network in the future, I couldn't cry.

"Jin Hai, how long do you sappers have before they can start erecting the bridge?"

He Jinhai looked at the brothers of the engineer company who were busy over there.

"Commander, it is estimated that there will be half an hour."

"Damn, this can't be delayed for too long, Xue Rong! Qiu Wei! ”

"Here!"

"The regiment's special service platoon, as well as a battalion, has also transferred a company to assist the engineer company in crossing the river, and listen to the command of Company Commander He!"

"Yes!"

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