Thunder Sword continued to give orders; He ordered Luo Jinchuan to lead the main force of the Independent Regiment not to stay for a moment, and before dawn, he must rush to the plain Qingsha tent west of Fenghuang Town in front, rest on the spot, and act again at night, and must rush to Peacock Valley within two days.

Li Gang, the commander of the cavalry battalion, received the order from Lei Jian, and immediately organized the cavalry soldiers to find their own war horses and safely escort the consignment of weapons, ammunition, and military supplies to the west bank of the Yellow River.

Zheng Tie, the commander of the first battalion, ordered the soldiers to lift the empty carriage and several people to the upper steel cable of the pontoon bridge, and in the front and back push and pull of the soldiers, on the roaring water of the Yellow River, like a cable car hanging above, it was quickly sent to the west bank.

When the soldiers saw the carriage coming, they lifted off the carriage and shouted happily one by one: "Our Commander Lei is so capable, he can come up with such a good method, it is really unacceptable." ”

At this time, Niu Dali, who stayed on the east bank of the Yellow River, ordered the commander of the second battalion, Cao Shangui: "You lead the soldiers of the second battalion to expand the scope of the Japanese positions and camps on the east bank of the Yellow River, carefully inspect them, and find that all the weapons, ammunition and articles that can be used by the troops are collected and brought to the west bank." ”

Niu Dali ordered Qi Benfeng, the commander of the third battalion, again: "Order the soldiers of your third battalion to immediately build positions and fortifications, and prepare to block the attack of the reinforced devil army." ”

As soon as everything was arranged, Niu Dali looked up at the rising sun in the east, a round of morning sun erupted, and thousands of rays of light were sprinkled on the battlefield where the flames of war had not been extinguished, and the position was still smoking, lying on the corpse of the enemy, those sacrificed soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, in the fierce battle with the enemy, showed a variety of tragic postures, some bit the neck of the devil and did not let go, some held the gun with both hands, inserted the bayonet into the enemy's heart, but the upper body was against the butt of the gun and did not fall, and some soldiers and the enemy were tightly torn together, I can't pull it away.

Niu Dali saw this tragic scene, tears welled up in his eyes, he couldn't just look at his soldiers, and after the sacrifice, he was still dead in the tidal flats of the Yellow River, which was disrespectful to the sacrificed soldiers and disrespectful to the living soldiers.

He ordered the third battalion to draw out a company, bury the bones of the sacrificed soldiers, and then find a wooden plank, write the names of the soldiers, and insert them in front of the tomb.

The soldiers buried the sacrificed comrades with tears, they knew that as long as there were little devils, counterattacking and eliminating the little devils, there would be sacrifices, they didn't have too many extravagant hopes, they just wanted to be able to be helped into the ground by their comrades who were still alive after they died, and they had their names in front of the grave, which was enough, and there was nothing else to ask for.

In the entire position on the east bank of the Yellow River, the soldiers of the three battalions were immersed in grief, one by one in grief, carrying the sacrificed soldiers, placing them in a big pit dug down, and placing them neatly one by one, the soldiers sorted out the military uniforms and appearances of the sacrificed soldiers, there were no coffins, no white cloths, and there was not even a mat, so the sacrificed soldiers were buried.

At this time, Lei Jian, who stood on the beachhead on the west bank of the Yellow River, arranged for the large army to advance quickly to the west, he took a few people to step on the pontoon bridge, walked to the east bank of the Yellow River, and saw that the sacrificed soldiers had been buried in the ground, he stood in front of the big grave, stood upright and solemnly saluted a military salute, and then took off his hat to salute the sacrificed comrades.

All the soldiers present stood solemnly and bid farewell to their fallen comrades.

Lei Jian really couldn't suppress the grief in his heart, snatched the gun in the hand of a soldier, and hit the air five times in a row, and the five bullets flew into the air with a sharp whistling sound.

The soldiers spontaneously pulled the trigger and opened fire to see off their fallen comrades.

Lei Jian turned to look in the direction of the east of the Yellow River, and vaguely found that from the place where the sun rose in the east, there was a wolf smoke that could not be seen clearly, and he keenly analyzed: "The Japanese army has quickly reinforced to the east bank of the Yellow River, and the villages passing by have been bloodied by devils, and the rolling fireworks in the villages can be faintly seen here. The Japanese army brigade would not be more than five miles away from the east bank of the Yellow River, and in less than half an hour, it would pounce on the east bank of the Yellow River. ”

He ordered Niu Dali: "It's too late to remove the wooden planks of the pontoon bridge, order to leave a squad of fighters, wait for the main force of the third battalion to withdraw from the east bank, pour the coal gasoline captured by the devils on the wooden planks of the pontoon bridge, and all the troops of the independent regiment will withdraw to the west bank of the Yellow River, and then set fire to destroy the pontoon bridge." ”

Niu Dali asked puzzledly: "Commander Lei, let's cut the pontoon bridge cable from the beachhead on the west bank of the Yellow River, how happy is this?" ”

"The devil is not as stupid as you, you see this iron cable four or five centimeters thick, we don't have tools, how can we cut it from the beachhead on the west bank? Besides, if the steel cable of the pontoon bridge is cut off on the west bank, it will not be solved on the east bank, and the little devil will reuse the pontoon bridge.

Let's burn the bridge first, that is, the Japanese army can reconnect the pontoon bridge in time, and we will not be able to find so many bridge-laying planks for a while, and when the devils build the bridge here and find the planks to pave, our independent regiment will take this rare opportunity to get rid of the Japanese 372nd Wing that is tracking and pursuing, and the large army will arrive at the designated assembly place more safely. ”

Niu Dali shouted in admiration: "Captain Lei, you are not very old, where did you come up with so many ideas?" It's so convincing to you. ”

Lei Jian listened too much to such boastful words, and he didn't take Niu Dali's heartfelt admiration to heart, he ordered: "The Japanese army has not given us much time to reinforce the army, so immediately follow the order I issued." ”

After he finished speaking, he took the people around him to quickly cross the pontoon bridge, and came to the rivet part of the beachhead on the west bank of the Yellow River to fix the rivets that separated the upper and lower parts of the pontoon bridge.

Lei Jian squatted down and looked at it for a while and said, "Qu Jiaming, it is impossible for you to blow up the four steel cables that fix the pontoon bridge by relying on the explosive power of your grenade." ”

Qu Jiaming stood up, wiped the sweat on his head, looked at Lei Jian and asked, "Captain Lei, I just came up with such a solution, you say no, then what should I do?" ”

Lei Jian took a Japanese sapper shovel from a soldier, and began to dig down around a fixed pontoon cable, until he dug deep into the ground, and when he saw that the iron cable was fixed to a large rock, he continued to dig down.

He dug a hole under the boulder, sent a dozen grenades into the pit dug under the boulder, and then carefully pulled out the grenade cables and put them together.

Lei Jian shouted to Qu Jiaming, "Quickly find a thin rope for me." Lei Jian tied the string handed to him on the grenade string, handed it to Qu Jiaming above, and sternly instructed: "You kid should be careful to grasp this little rope, once pulled, the grenade below will explode, and I will be blown up into the sky, do you hear?" ”

Lei Jian jumped to the ground from the pit he had dug and said to the soldiers beside him: "The other positions that fix the three pontoon steel cables, according to my method, lay the grenades, and wait for my order to detonate them." ”

Everything is ready, just wait for the three battalions led by Niu Dali on the east bank of the Yellow River to quickly retreat to the west bank, and Lei Jian will immediately give the order to completely destroy the pontoon bridge erected by the Japanese army on the Yellow River.

Lei Jian speculated that the large army reinforced by the Japanese army would reach the east bank of the Yellow River in about half an hour, but he did not expect that in less than twenty minutes, the devil's rapid mobile troops and horse teams would have approached the tidal flats on the east bank.

Niu Dali saw the vanguard of the devil rushing from the east, and he shouted to Qi Benfeng, the commander of the third battalion: "You lead the third battalion to quickly pass the pontoon bridge and ignite the pontoon bridge, and you don't care about the task of igniting the pontoon bridge." ”

"Deputy Commander Niu, I am the commander of the third battalion, and the task of commanding the soldiers of the third battalion to finally evacuate the east bank and burn the wooden planks of the pontoon bridge should be completed by me, the commander of the third battalion, you quickly lead the troops to retreat."

"Bastard, I'm the deputy commander, leave me five fighters, you quickly lead the troops to evacuate and carry out the order."

Niu Dali led five soldiers, sprinkled the coal gasoline in his hand on the bridge board, and quickly retreated to the west bank.

The vanguard of the devils who rushed to the east bank of the Yellow River saw that the third battalion of the Eighth Route Army had withdrawn to the middle of the pontoon bridge, and the Japanese captain who was originally stationed on the east bank of the Yellow River pontoon bridge and was beaten by the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army fled in embarrassment. ”

He jumped in front of the artillery squad leader and ordered fiercely: "Open the artillery, open the cannon to blow up the pontoon bridge, and drop the fleeing Tubalu artillery into the Yellow River, and all of them will die." ”

At this time, the captain of the 372nd Wing, who came up, grabbed the captain and shouted angrily: "Bastard, you blow up the pontoon bridge, how can my large army cross the Yellow River?" Once the speed of the march to reinforce the German battlefield is delayed, the military law will be dealt with. ”

(End of chapter)