"Here's the thing!" At that moment, Wang Mazi summoned Zhang Chi and other cadres for a meeting, he pointed to the map and said: "The devils are attacking our army's defense line in three directions, and the attack in the other two directions is preliminarily judged to be a feint attack aimed at consuming our army's ammunition, and the direction of the new 22nd Division on the east bank of the Inovady River is the main attack of the Japanese army, and they are facing an infantry wing of the Japanese 18th Division, as well as the onslaught of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, and their ammunition is almost exhausted after a morning of hard fighting......."

"Tuanza!" The commander of the engineer battalion asked eagerly: "Did Shangfeng ask our engineer regiment to reinforce the new 22nd Division?" ”

Many of the engineers were retired from the 200th Division, and the new 22nd Division was also formed by drawing the backbone from the 200th Division, so the Engineer Regiment had special feelings for the new 22nd Division.

Wang Mazi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and said, "No...... The devils blocked the river with planes and blew up many ships, and Shangfeng ordered us to try to build a pontoon bridge to transport ammunition for the new 22nd Division! ”

"What?" Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but be stunned.

Seeing that the officers didn't speak, Wang Mazi said angrily: "Why are you stunned?" Aren't we an engineer regiment? That's what we're going to do, isn't it? ”

Wang Mazi is right, building a pontoon bridge to transport ammunition is exactly the job of the engineer regiment. It's just the soldiers of the engineer regiment after a lot of fierce battles...... They no longer think of themselves as sappers, so they were all a little surprised when they received this sapper mission.

After a long time, the tank battalion commander asked, "Tuanzao, is that ...... Our tanks and armored vehicles are going to be handed in? ”

The tank battalion commander is also right in what he asked, if Shangfeng still thinks that the engineer regiment is an engineer regiment, that is, if the engineer regiment still does work such as building pontoon bridges, then tanks and armored vehicles will naturally not be used, so they will naturally be handed over to the main force for use.

Wang Mazi replied sullenly: "How do I know? You ask to go to the peak! ”

In fact, this is the engineering regiment is too careful, you must know that the first engineer regiment is a veteran who has fought a lot of fierce battles at this time, not to mention that the first engineer regiment has saved the expeditionary force. With regard to the combat effectiveness of the engineer regiment, which has been tested in actual combat, Du Yuming is not willing to turn the first engineer regiment into an engineer unit. At this time, this task will be handed over to the engineering regiment, but there is nothing to be done.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that the officers were silent, Wang Mazi shouted: "I don't even look down on the work of transporting ammunition on a pontoon bridge, right?" The brothers of the new 22nd Division are still waiting there, if the ammunition is not transported in time, there may be a big problem, you know? ”

"Tuanza!" The commander of the engineer battalion replied: "We are originally an engineer regiment, how can we look down on the work of engineers?" Of course, I also know that it is important to transport ammunition on a pontoon bridge, but ......"

"Don't be it......" Wang Mazi said: "The military situation is urgent, take back your heart, and think about where to build a pontoon bridge to transport ammunition!" ”

The commander of the wooden battalion is good at this. He hesitated and no one else spoke, so he opened his mouth and said: "I have seen the terrain, there is a bend two kilometers upstream, although the river is relatively wide nearby, the current is not rapid or deep, and it is just right to take a pontoon bridge." ”

"Hmm!" Wang Mazi nodded.

"But ......" the engineer battalion commander asked: "It's daytime, and the devils are bent on cutting off the connection between Myitkyina and the new 22nd Division, and we will blow up with a dive of the devil's plane, how much ammunition can we transport?!" ”

"It's a little bit to be able to get through!" Wang Mazi responded: "If it's blown up, I'll take it again." In short, it is necessary to transport the ammunition over!; ”

As soon as Wang Mazi said this, the soldiers were silent, in fact, the engineering regiment had done this before, but now they prefer to face to face with the devil on the battlefield than to die under the bombing of the devil's plane.

After thinking about it, Zhang Chi said, "Tuanza...... In fact, we don't need to build a pontoon bridge to transport ammunition over! ”

"What do you say?" Wang Mazi snorted from his nostrils: "Can you still throw the ammunition over?" ”

Wang Mazi is obviously also in a bad mood because of this task.

"It's not possible to throw it away. But you can slide through! Zhang Chi said.

"Slip through?" The officers couldn't help but look at Zhang Chi suspiciously.

"That's right! Just slide through! Zhang Chi nodded.

This can really be glided over, choose a narrow section of the river, pull a steel cable on the river, and fix one end on a higher position. The end of the side was fixed in a lower position, and then the ammunition box with the pulley was hung on the steel cable...... and it slid from one end of the river to the other with a "chirp".

The advantages of this are too many compared to building pontoons: pontoons are laborious to build and sacrifice the lives of many soldiers. It also had to work hard to transport ammunition, and in the process of transporting ammunition, it was necessary to withstand the bombing and strafing of enemy aircraft, and the pontoon bridge was in danger of being blown up...... And the wire only needs to open a small boat to bring it to the other side, although the devil's plane is flying around in the sky, but no matter what, it can't find a steel cable on the river, even if the devil finds it, there is nothing to do, such a thin steel cable is still suspended in the air, and it is constantly blown up if you want to.

So boxes of ammunition "chirped" on the steel cable and slid to the other side, and sometimes even used a basket to slide a messenger over, looking at the soldiers so happy that they couldn't even close their mouths, and a few even wanted to sit on it and play with their children's hearts, but because the returning steel cable had not yet been built, it was temporarily stopped.

"it!" The demon sighed at Zhang Chi and said: "I don't know what you have in your head, it is a great difficulty in the eyes of others, you can solve it in three clicks or two, and I don't know how many brothers have been saved this time!" ”

But Wang Mazi was not happy at all.

Zhang Chi saw that Wang Mazi's face was different, so he asked: "Tuanzuo, ...... are you?"

"It's these munitions!" Wang Mazi raised his head towards the ammunition box and said heavily: "These are Soviet-style ammunition, I'm afraid that there is not much Soviet-style ammunition in the hands of the Fifth Army!" As soon as Lashio is lost, the supply of our troops will be cut off, and the remaining Soviet-style ammunition will ...... I'm afraid it won't be enough for the new 22nd Division! ”

Zhang Chi knew what Wang Mazi was worried about, and he was worried that even if these ammunition were transported, it would not be enough for the new 22nd Division to block the Japanese attack.

But Zhang Chi wasn't too worried, he was waiting, waiting for two things and one person...... Zhang Chi believed that as long as these two things and one person were waited for by him, or that the expeditionary force persisted until that moment, then the expeditionary force could be said to have successfully blocked the Japanese attack. (To be continued.) )