Beiyang 1917

() "Lieutenant Fujita, why are you talking so much nonsense? If you don't know how to swim, your squadron usually doesn't have strict training. Is there anyone who can't learn to swim as a soldier these days? Our Chinese army is digging mud from the recruit brigade on both sides of the Yongding River. At the beginning of embankment construction, the first thing every soldier learns is not to shoot a gun but to swim. Now you say you can’t go into the water? It doesn’t matter, how about my troops teach them now? One person kicks down the river, and I see him float I can't float up!"

The Chinese captain Xue Dubi cast an angry look at Fujita Uchinosuke, who was sweaty and muddy all over his face, and said to himself that your boss is a pig-headed person, sending you to an infantry squadron who can't swim and carry 45 big caps is not only for taking credit Feelings can't help at all. When Xue Dubi brought his reconnaissance company along this route before, it only took about [-] minutes. ,

When I brought the 1nd company of the 2st Armored Battalion and this Japanese infantry squadron of Fujita to touch it, it took a full 50 minutes to procrastinate along the way. This guy is really angry. Seeing Fujita and his men now The soldiers of Fengqiao looked at the Kharkov River with a little fear, and Xue Juru became even more angry!

"Hey, Xue Sang, you can't be kidding. Fully armed soldiers can't fall into the river. They can't float. The dozens of kilograms of weapons, ammunition and equipment on their bodies can sink them into the river. If you want me to say, we don't have to cross the river at all, just here, in your Chinese language, now Colonel Lu and the others have already started fighting in the west, the enemy will focus on the west for a while, as long as we don't make a big fuss here If there is any movement, the enemy will not notice it, and when the time is right, we will attack directly from the left bank of the Kharkov River, flanking the main force and destroying the opponent, wouldn't that be better!"

Fujita tried to persuade the bold Chinese captain in front of him to give up the dangerous idea of ​​swimming across the river to collect other people's cannons. Of course, the cannons can be captured, which is better than being destroyed by air strikes, but the premise is that you can't take such a big risk?The Kharkov River in front of me is wider and deeper than the Toyokawa and Umeda Rivers in Toyohashi, Fujita's hometown. It's just the Toyohashi Infantry Squadron, which is not even ranked in the third division of Japan!

"Squadron Captain Fujita, the task of swimming across the river to seize the enemy's artillery position is something I just asked the commander for instructions on the radio and got approval. Did you see that the sound of the plane's engine coming from the sky is heading south now? Yes, that is to deal with the bridge erected behind the position of the 2nd Ukrainian Infantry Division, and to distract the attention of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division here, in order to create conditions for Lao Tzu's troops to cross the river quietly Go, copy the other party's back, you can't bear the blame for delaying my important event by gossip?"

Xue Dubi, like other infantrymen of the Chinese armored company around him, took off his military boots, linked them together with shoelaces, and hung them around his neck, while blowing on his military raincoat with his mouth. Assistant and the Japanese infantrymen behind him were stunned. Almost all of the more than 100 Chinese infantrymen took off their raincoats at this moment, and began to blow in a small rubber tube protruding from the collar. Soon, air cushions like big pillows like camouflage patterns were blown up one after another.

It turns out that the tactical rain cape equipped by every soldier in the Chinese war army is double-layer rubber attached to the rain cloth. It must be inflatable as auxiliary equipment for swimming, but most of them are used to carry weapons and ammunition. In theory, a person who cannot swim , holding such an inflatable poncho like a life-saving pad, it is completely easy to cross the river, but every soldier in the Chinese army must learn to swim. It is a compulsory course for them after enlisting in the army. When training armed swimming in normal times, any soldier in the participating army would be ashamed to lie on the air cushion and swim in a lazy way.

Seeing that Captain Fujita Uchinosuke and a group of Japanese infantrymen behind him were all wide-eyed and speechless, Xue Juru stood up and handed his poncho to the orderly who had already blown up the poncho air cushion beside him, wrinkling Frowning, he looked Fujita and his soldiers up and down, shook his head and said, "It will be no problem to take your squadron across the river, but you landlubbers will choke on a few sips of water and startle the Ukrainians by shouting and screaming." It was self-defeating, otherwise the river bank would be full of trees, and a dozen of them would be cut down and connected together to build a single-plank bridge.”

Xue Juru said bluntly, "Lieutenant Fujita, as the supreme commander of the ranger, I am in charge of directing the entire operation. Now I order you and your infantry squadron to stay hidden on the left bank of the Kharkov River and wait for the main force to kill you." After you come here, you can attack from behind. I suggest that you choose the headquarters of the opponent's division or regiment as the target of the attack. As for the enemy's artillery position on the right bank of Kharkov, leave it to the Chinese company to complete. You understand. No? Repeat the order!"

Captain Fujita Uchinosuke stood at attention instinctively, "Hay, our department is waiting in hiding here. After the main force attacks, launch an attack from the rear. The target is the Ukrainian division command post or regiment command post. Uchinosuke obeys the order! "

After the lieutenant squadron leader Fujita accepted the order like this, he felt a little aggrieved in his heart, thinking that you are just a captain and company commander, and you are even more prestigious than Captain Aoki in front of me, but Fujita knows how to advance and retreat Lord, now that Xue Juru is no longer forcing this guy's squadron to swim across with arms, this guy and the group of Japanese infantry behind him are relieved, and many people start to raise their thumbs up and praise the Chinese army for being tough and awesome, The poncho can also be used as a life raft, which is amazing!Many children of Toyohashi in Japan are even more ashamed, hating why they didn't learn to swim in the river in their hometown when they were young?Otherwise, at this moment, he wouldn't be so aggrieved and unable to appear on the stage, so that the middle school students would be underestimated!

At this time, Xue Juru's ranger took a hidden position about 1 meters upstream of the pontoon bridge built by the 800st Ukrainian Infantry Division. Xue Juru chose this location because the Kharkov River ran all the way from northeast to southwest. When Benteng arrived here, he made a small turn and turned to the south. This made the pontoon bridge built by the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division in the south unable to see the left bank of the Kharkov River in the northeast. This is a blind spot for sight. When swimming in arms, it will not be easily spotted by Ukrainians near the downstream pontoon bridge.

The 1 soldiers of the 2nd Company of the 126st Armored Battalion led by Xue Juru, under the watchful eyes of Captain Fujita Uchinosuke and his 225 Japanese infantry, who were lying in the grass on the bank, first a group of soldiers with the best water quality went into the water swam over.