The commander of the 372nd Wing of the Japanese army ordered the reinforcements who had caught up: "Machine guns, light and heavy machine guns are quickly erected in the tidal flat position, fire cover, and a squadron of Imperial soldiers is ordered to force through the pontoon bridge and track the fleeing Tuba Road." ”

The light and heavy machine guns of the devils were erected on the tidal flat positions on the east bank of the pontoon bridge, and with maximum firepower, they shot and killed Niu Dali and several people who were spraying coal and gasoline on the pontoon bridge.

Niu vigorously held a machine gun, pulled the trigger on the devil who was about to step on the pontoon, and the machine gun burst out with tongues of fire and swept towards the little devil.

The devil who just stepped on the pontoon bridge was blocked by fire, the one in front was shot and fell on the pontoon, and the devil behind took the devil's body as a cover and lay on the bridge deck to carry out fire counterattack.

Lei Jian, who was standing on the other side of the river, saw the reinforcements of the Japanese army, pounced on the pontoon bridge at any cost, and quickly retreated on the pontoon bridge with the greatest firepower, and wanted to block the enemy's Niu Dali, he shouted orders to the three mortars around him.

Lei Jian looked at Niu Dali and several people on the pontoon bridge, it was very dangerous to be suppressed by the Japanese firepower, and he roared and ordered: "Open artillery and shell the positions seized by the devils on the east bank of the Yellow River, and cover the deputy head of Niu and their withdrawal to the west bank of the Yellow River." ”

'Boom, boom', three shells in a row, landed on the tidal flat position of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Yellow River, the shells exploded in the dense Japanese army position, the explosion lifted off the corpse of the devil and the severed arm, accompanied by mud, stones and shrapnel, flew up and fell again, and the devil who did not die was cried wolf.

The wing commander did not expect that there would be mortars on the Tuba Road on the west bank of the Yellow River, and he shouted and ordered in a frenzy: "Mortars, line up all the mortars that can be gathered on the bank and fire at the Tuba Road position on the west bank of the Yellow River——。 ”

The little devils placed mortars one by one on the east bank of the Yellow River at a certain distance, and waited until the gunners and shells were all ready, and then fired the guns after receiving orders from the commander.

The orders issued by the Japanese troops were very rigid, the battlefield requirements were very strict, and if there were no orders, even if they seized the best combat opportunity, they would give up and wait for the order to go to the top.

This provided an opportunity for the Eighth Route Army, which was tactically mobile and flexible, to destroy in a timely manner the Japanese combat units that had not yet been fully armed, and second, to take advantage of the fact that the enemy was stepping up its deployment and quickly adjusting its operational deployment, whether to fight or withdraw, and not to give the devils who were deployed in place a chance to react immediately.

Lei Jian held a telescope, focusing on all the actions of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Yellow River, when he saw the devil setting up mortars on the bank, he ordered the soldiers around him: "Quickly retreat into the woods behind you, the commander of the third battalion, Qi Benfeng, lead the three battalions to keep up with the large army, and the cavalry battalion stays in the woods to wait for my orders." ”

He also shouted vigorously to the ox, who was approaching the west bank of the Yellow River and was engaged with enemy fire on the pontoon bridge: "Hurry up and light the fire and withdraw to the west bank immediately." ”

Lei Jian saw that Niu Dali and the others were about to retreat to the tidal flat position on the west bank, and he ordered the three mortar operators: "Aim at the east end of the pontoon bridge and shell, each cannon must drop shells on the bridge deck, lead the wooden planks of the pontoon, and burn the little devils who pounced on the pontoon bridge." ”

"Boom, boom" three cannons, except for one cannonball hit the roaring Yellow River, two shells hit the bridge deck, has been sprinkled with coal and gasoline pontoon planks, led by artillery fire, the whole pontoon suddenly burst into flames, just like a fire dragon dancing on the surface of the Yellow River, quickly devouring the little devils who rushed to the pontoon.

The little devil was burned by the fire on the pontoon, and the group of bastards who burned it cried wolf, and one by one they became fire men and danced on the pontoon, which directly aggravated the burning of the pontoon. Some of the little devils were burned and rolled on the pontoon bridge, and some jumped into the roaring Yellow River regardless of life or death.

One by one, the fire man jumped into the Yellow River with flames, and when he fell into the river, the moment the fire was annihilated, only the remnants of the devil were burned by the fire, and he was swept away by the raging Yellow River without even a shadow.

As soon as Niu Dali and the others saw that the shells had landed on the pontoon bridge, causing a strong flame, he turned around and shouted: "Rush to the west bank as fast as you can, bastard, run, a little later, the fire will burn us to black coals." ”

Just as Niu vigorously ran towards the west bank, a soldier in front of him tripped over the pontoon rope, and Niu Dali could not dodge, stepped on the soldier, and fell backwards with his feet.

He quickly got up, and saw the fire of the pontoon bridge behind him, like a fire dragon opening its mouth and pounced, and the ox vigorously threw away the machine gun in his hand, and lowered his head to grab the soldier who was still lying on the ground, like a mad cow, and he was about to jump to the west bank without heeding anything.

The fire on the pontoon bridge behind it bit Niu Dali tightly, and 'whew' covered Niu Dali, who was splashed with coal and gasoline on his body, and Niu Dali screamed and fell to the ground, rolling hard, trying to extinguish the flames on his body.

Lei Jian saw that Niu Dali and the warrior had become fire people, and he didn't have time to find the water source to extinguish his body, so he shouted to several soldiers around him: "Quickly, quickly, press the soil on the two of them, and quickly extinguish the fire." ”

At this time, the commander of the 372nd Wing, who was standing on the east bank of the Yellow River, was just about to give an order to shell the position of the Eighth Route Army on the west bank of the Yellow River, when suddenly the pontoon bridge was shelled by the Eighth Route Army, and the explosion of the cannonball caused a fire on the pontoon bridge.

He roared angrily: "Extinguish the fire, quickly extinguish the fire on the pontoon, once the pontoon bridge is destroyed by the fire, my wing will not be able to cross the river, and it will delay the reinforcement of the Texas fighters, mine, my ......." ”

The captain of the devil suddenly found that on the west bank of the Yellow River, two burning men were rolling on the ground, and there were several dirt roads around, and he was trying his best to extinguish the flames on the two burning people, he seemed to have obtained a psychological balance, but the vicious eyes were staring at several earth eight roads on the west bank of the river, and suddenly waved the command knife and shouted: "Open the cannon, open the artillery, and kill all the earth and eight roads on the west bank of the Yellow River." ”

Lei Jian and the others extinguished the fire on Niu Dali and the soldier, and he immediately ordered: "Qu Jiaming pulled the grenade placed under the steel cable of the fixed pontoon, and immediately retreated to the woods to the west, and quickly pulled it——。 ”

This is the retreat order that Lei Jian can only shout out at the most critical moment, and the veteran soldiers of the independent regiment know that once their Lei regiment commander shouts '', it means that the soldiers of the unit are in a very dangerous situation and must evacuate as quickly as possible.

Qu Jiaming just joined the Eighth Route Army when he heard the meaning of Lei Jian's 'pulling', he didn't wait for the tail of 'pulling' to disperse, he suddenly pulled up the rope in his hand, turned around and ran to the woods in the west, and before he ran out a few steps, there was a continuous explosion behind him, Qu Jiaming had never heard such a loud explosion, but he looked back nervously, this look scared him to the west.

He shouted as he ran, "Oh my god, is this the sound of a grenade exploding?" It turned out to be a little devil's mortar, and one shell after another shell fell on the place just now, if this special person ran one step too late, the whole person would be blown into meat by the shell. ”

Just as Qu Jiaming pulled out the grenades under the four riveted pontoon steel cables, dozens of Japanese mortars on the east bank of the Yellow River scrambled to open fire continuously, and the sound of the grenade explosion had long been covered by the explosion of the shells on the ground.

The grenade exploded under the boulder that fixed the steel cable of the pontoon, and the power of a dozen grenades, the steel cable was blown up, and the boulder that anchored the steel cable could be exploded, it should still be no problem.

At the moment of the grenade explosion, the boulder anchoring the steel cable was blown into pieces, and the steel cable had not completely detached from the boulder, and it seemed that it was going to fall short, but it was so coincidental that the mortar shells of the Japanese army on the east bank of the Yellow River fell on these several riveted pontoon steel cables in succession, and the stones that had not been blown apart became broken pieces.

The four steel cables of the pontoon bridge were tightened, and the first steel cable was pulled out, and the strong resilience bounced the steel cable into the sky, like a black snake, flying and falling slowly.

The other three steel cables, which were already short of this strength, will break away, with the help of a few shells, and the pull brought by the first steel cable breaking away from the tripping locks flying in the air, the three tripping locks are like a bison that has taken off the reins, and the pontoon bridge on the west bank of the Yellow River suddenly soared into the air.

At this time, the pontoon bridge is really like an angry dragon king jumping out of the water of the Yellow River, jumping out of the water with raging fire, raging and trying to wreak havoc on everything.

The little devil who rushed to the pontoon bridge was burned by the fire and was worse than dead, and at this time he was thrown into the Yellow River by the suddenly vacated pontoon bridge, and the fire blended with the water of the Yellow River, the fire was extinguished, the people were gone, and I don't know if they were swept into the river embankment or washed downstream.

When gravity loses balance, the pontoon bridge is like a dragon entering the water, the front suddenly turns down, forming a dragon into the water type drilling, suddenly submerged into the water, the whole pontoon bridge 'snap, pop ......', knocking on the water surface fiercely, slowly with the roaring turbulent river, sinking into the river, and when it is found again, the pontoon bridge has been roaring river, impacting on the tidal flat on the east bank of the Yellow River.

(End of chapter)