Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 160 Destroying the River Crossing Site
The Kangyongtu regiment rushed to Feixiang County to be stationed and will not participate in the ensuing battle.

However, because Zhou Weihan met him in person and showed great sincerity, Kang Yongtu also reciprocated. During the conversation between the two, he revealed the secret location where the [-]th Army was going to cross the river.

If Shi You San's Department wants to join Gao Shuxun's Department of the New Eighth Army, it must cross the Wei River.

For the past two days, Zhou Weihan asked He Wensheng's enemy engineering department to look for the river crossing point of Shiyou's third department, but they couldn't find it.

Weihe River happens to be the dividing line between southern Hebei and northwest Shandong. Guantao County and Daming County on the east side of Qiu County are next to Weihe River.

According to the information reported by He Wensheng, there are two wharves in Guantao County alone. He Wensheng asked the local comrades to help check the situation, but the strange thing is that there are no large numbers of ships gathered near the wharf.

This is extremely abnormal. Shiyou Sanbu has to leave a good way for himself. According to the local villagers, the Weihe River is three to four hundred meters wide, and the deepest part of the river must be seven or eight meters deep. The Weihe River is suitable for crossing the river. There are a lot of beaches, and the river is full of reeds, so it is easy to hide some boats.

Zhou Weihan had no choice but to ask He Wensheng to continue searching.

But as the old saying goes, if you run away from a monk, you can't run away from a temple.

Shiyou Sanbu plus Sun Liangcheng had less than [-] troops. Even if the main force was wiped out, there would have to be thousands of people fleeing to the south.

Such a big target definitely couldn't be hidden. Even when they got to the crossing point, they didn't cross the river once. This gave Zhou Weihan's independent detachment a chance to encircle and annihilate the enemy.

However, Kang Yongtu brought a turning point to this matter. The Kang Yongtu regiment was originally responsible for this matter. Who would have thought that Kang Yongtu would revolt on the battlefield.

According to Kang Yongtu's words, the place to cross the river was not chosen at the pier, but at a beach in the wild, and the boats were all hidden in the reeds.

Zhou Weihan thought about the strength of his troops. The three regiments had already been deployed on the ground, and the guard company followed Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo. Currently, the mobile troops on hand were only Jing Dagang's regiment, the reconnaissance company, and the cavalry company.

"Monk, let the telegrapher send a message to Jing Dagang's group!" Zhou Weihan said.

Dahe Village, Guantao County.

According to Zhou Weihan's plan, Jing Dagang's regiment was deployed along the Weihe River in Guantao County as a reserve team.

"Regiment leader, the detachment leader sent an urgent telegram!" a group of telegraph operators reported.

Jing Dagang took the telegram, glanced at it quickly, with the corners of his mouth raised and a smile on his face.

"Leader, why are you so happy?" Li Ziwen, the political commissar of the first regiment, asked.

"I didn't expect our regiment to be the reserve team, and it was our regiment who made the first move. What a surprise!" Jing Dagang said happily.

"The detachment leader gave us a combat mission, let us destroy the river crossing point of Shiyou Sanbu and destroy its river crossing boats!"

Jing Dagang spread the map on the table, frowned and said: "The detachment leader mentioned three places in the telegram, all of which are the places where Shi Yousan hid the ship, but there is none on this map!"

"We are new here and we are not familiar with the place. We have to find He Wensheng for this matter. He has been in charge of contacting the local comrades in southern Hebei and asking him to send someone to help us!" Li Ziwen said.

"The battle in the north has been going on for a day, and I guess Shi Yousan's troops won't last long, so we have to hurry up!" Jing Dagang said.

That night, Jing Dagang sent someone to contact He Wensheng.

Early the next morning, He Wensheng rushed to Jing Dagang's regiment with comrades who were familiar with the situation along the Weihe River.

"These three comrades were all living on the Weihe River before, so they are familiar with the situation!" He Wensheng said.

"Great, these three places are not on the map at all. I asked the villagers in the village, and they didn't know where they were. Without you, we wouldn't even be able to find the place!" Jing Dagang said.

"Commander Jing, these three places are all old ferries. They were abandoned in my father's generation. Now they have changed their names. Most people really don't know it!"

"Laoyakou is the closest, just walk east along the Dahe Village where we are. Changfengdu is in the north of Guantao County, and the rest of Xiaojingwan is in Daming County."

Jing Dagang immediately ordered the battalions of the first regiment to divide into three routes and go straight to the three ferry crossings.

Laoyakou is located at the bend of the Wei River, a small bay where the boats are safe. Jing Dagang personally brought the first battalion here.

"Captain Jing, Lao Yakou is ahead!"

Jing Dagang saw the endless reeds in front of him: "How did you find a boat to cross the river?"

"Just follow the curved river and look for it!"

"Xin Tiebing, find some good water warriors to investigate in the reed marsh!" Jing Dagang ordered.

Six soldiers from the first battalion waded into the reed marsh with short knives, and disappeared in an instant.

The six fighters were divided into two groups and searched all the way south and north.

"The reeds are too dense, and we can't see things clearly after seven or eight meters. The three of us lined up and searched south." A soldier said that the river water had reached the chests of the three of them.

"Actually, it's easy to search. The reeds are so dense that ordinary boats can't go there. There must be a waterway in the middle. We just need to find the waterway and follow along!" Another soldier said.

The three of them floated on the water, cutting down the reeds blocking the way from time to time with the short knives in their hands.

"Found the waterway!" a warrior whispered.

The three of them swam along the waterway for a while, and there was a large gap in the reed marsh in front of them, thirteen small steamers, and more than thirty wooden boats.

The small steamer was surrounded by wooden planks, and a group of stubborn soldiers were chatting on board, not aware of the danger coming.

"Make a mark." One soldier said as he took off his clothes, and the other two supported him to hang the clothes on the top of the reeds.

In order to avoid finding the way back, the three cut a path along the way.

"You said the boat was only thirty or forty meters away from the beach by the river?" Jing Dagang asked.

"When I came back, I made a rough estimate in my mind. The straight-line distance is indeed only more than [-] meters away! We have already marked it, and you can see my clothes hanging on the shore. The number of stubborn soldiers guarding about half a company .”

"The boats hidden in the reed marshes, the small steamer can transport 30 people, and the wooden boat can also transport the number of people in one class, adding up to more than 700 people at one time!"

On the shore, the bombardiers selected from the first battalion stood quietly on the shore in two rows.

The reconnaissance fighters corrected the aspect: "Extend [-] meters along the north-south direction of the clothes, and extend [-] meters eastward."

According to the reconnaissance situation, the ship is within the range of [-] meters to [-] meters from the shore. Considering the inconvenience of fighting on the water, Jing Dagang decided to let the soldiers throw grenades and blow up the ship in a large area, and then dispatched small troops go up.

"Boom, boom, boom," the first wave of more than a hundred grenades fell from the sky, and the recalcitrant soldiers who were chatting just now were sometimes overturned with their ships.

"Damn it, run!" Some people got into the cabin, trying to steer the small steamer to escape, but all the ships were crowded together.

The clever ones plunged directly into the water and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

After the six waves of grenades were blown up, Jing Dagang waved his hand, and the selected small troops rushed into the reed marsh with short guns or submachine guns.

Soon, a burst of gunfire rang out.

"Commander, all the ships were intercepted! But only 25 corpses were found, and some of them escaped!" Warrior Report reported.

"Flee, just run away, as long as the ship is in our hands!"

"Xin Tiebing, lead someone to transfer the intact ships to me immediately, and hide them in another place, especially those small steamers, which may come in handy at any time!" Jing Dagang said.

(End of this chapter)