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Thinking of this, Ou Zhenhai immediately contacted Lin Yuan and said, "Shuai Lin, we have discovered a new situation here."

Lin Yuan asked: "What happened?"

Ou Zhenhai said: "The Qing army arranged a large number of steel thorns at the bottom of the river. Even if we found the boat, we would be seriously injured by the steel thorns, so we wanted to blow up these steel thorns by underwater blasting."

Lin Yuan said without even thinking about it: "Do you have to blast underwater? Letting your army's mortars and howitzers fire shells into the river, can't the underwater steel spikes be broken?"

Ou Zhenhai said: "The enemy's steel spikes are all made of steel. We were worried that the explosive power of the shells would not be enough, so we thought of the underwater blasting method."

Lin Yuan said: "It's good to be prepared for everything. You can try it with shells first. If the steel thorns continue to explode, I will call in underwater blasting experts."

Ou Zhenhai smiled and said: "Speaking of underwater blasting, I remember I used it once when we were fighting the Japanese. At that time, we were going to blow up the enemy's bridge. Deng Hong of the Marine Corps led a dozen soldiers to go. I haven't seen Lao Deng for a long time, I wonder how he is doing now?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Some of the marines on the Beijing ship are like you. They have become army commanders, and some have become instructors of special operations. Deng Hong is like this. He is now leading people to train special forces in the military academy. Fighting talents."

Ou Zhenhai smiled and said: "So that's how it is, then I'll go and prepare." After Ou Zhenhai finished speaking, he turned off the radio and ordered the artillery unit to fire shells into the river. Cannons of various calibers fired together, and countless water columns rose on the river. After that, Ou Zhenhai ordered the shelling to stop, and the reconnaissance battalion was launched to investigate the damage of the steel thorns.

The reconnaissance battalion commander came back soon, and the news brought back made Ou Zhenhai very disappointed. The underwater steel thorns were intact. It seemed that the explosion power of the shells was not enough to blow up the steel thorns. Ou Zhenhai immediately reported to Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan said: "I've already contacted Deng Hong. He's preparing. You guys will do some reconnaissance later and send me the number and size of the steel thorns. Deng Hong and the others need to determine the amount of explosives needed for the explosion based on those data."

Ou Zhenhai agreed, and the reconnaissance battalion began to reconnaissance, and sent back all the needed things to Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan also mobilized ships from the Yellow River area. Two days later, on November [-], Deng Hong led the underwater blasting team to Fancheng. , the barracks of the third division, and the first batch of boats crossing the river were also brought over.

Ou Zhenhai and Deng Hong exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Deng Hong said: "I saw that the boat has already arrived, time is running out, so let's not talk about other things, I will immediately take people into the water to see how to blow up the steel spikes. "

The people found a small boat from the boats they brought in, pushed it into the river with great effort, and rowed carefully to the other side of the river. It was estimated that the steel thorns were almost underwater, and they threw stones into the water. Letting the boat stay on the water, Deng Hong dived into the water himself, looking for the steel thorns.

The river water was very turbid, and he could only see clearly what was tens of centimeters in front of him. Deng Hong fumbled to swim in the direction of the steel thorn, and after a while he swam to the edge of a steel thorn.

Deng Hong installed the underwater bomb on the steel thorn, and then took out an orange-red silk ribbon from his waist pocket, wrapped it around the root of the steel thorn, and the long orange-red ribbon was underwater Floating, even in the turbid and dark bottom, it is still very eye-catching. When the explosion is over, Deng Hong will find the steel thorn according to this ribbon. Since the ribbon is very soft, the shock wave of the underwater bomb will not damage it. .

Deng Hong calculated the speed of the water flow and the time it would take him to swim out of the explosion range, and set the detonation time of the bomb to 15 minutes later. Then he swam back to the side of the boat, and everyone pulled him into the boat. One thing is to look at your watch and say: "Everyone, watch out, the bomb will explode in 5 minutes."

Everyone looked down at their watches and waited quietly for the 5 minutes to come. When the 5 minutes came, they heard a muffled sound from the water, and then saw a large stream of bubbles rising from the water, rising higher and higher. The bigger it is, the faster it rises, and it rushes out of the water with a "crash" sound, splashing a large column of water.

But no one knows whether the steel thorns were blown off or not. Although Deng Hong calculated the mass of explosives needed to blow up the steel thorns according to the theory, and left a certain margin, there is a gap between theory and practice after all. Deng Hong said: "I'll go down and have a look." He said turning over and entering the water.

The explosion stirred up the soil at the bottom of the water, making the water even more turbid. Deng Hong stared wide-eyed in the darkness, looking for the orange-red ribbon, and soon saw a clear orange-red strip in the water. Deng Hong Swimming towards the long strip, he grabbed it, pulled it hard, and found that the ribbon was stretched straight, thinking: "Very good, it was not broken. If the ribbon was blown off, I'm afraid I'll never find it again." A steel thorn."

Deng Hong pulled the ribbon and swam to the edge of the steel thorn, and found that the steel thorn that was standing in the water just now had been broken into two pieces, and half of the steel thorn fell into the water. Take back the broken steel thorns.

Deng Hong took out a long rope, tied it to the steel thorns, and dragged the steel thorns back to the boat. They salvaged the steel thorns from the water, carefully checked the situation of the fracture, discussed and concluded that: the explosion of the current underwater bomb The power is more than enough to blow up the steel thorns of the Qing army.

So Deng Hong discussed with Ou Zhenhai to mobilize the manpower of the amphibious reconnaissance battalion to install bombs underwater. Ou Zhenhai readily agreed and began to install bombs. The next day, there were explosions on the river one after another.

Lin Yuan's troops made such a big commotion that Xiangyang City on the opposite side couldn't have been unaware. A general rushed to see Zhang Zhidong and said, "My lord, Lin Ni bandits are blowing up steel spikes under the water."

At this time, Zhang Zhidong was holding a Langhao pen, brushing something on the snow-white rice paper. Hearing the general's words, he didn't even put down the pen. By the river, blow up their people into the river."

The arsenal Zhang Zhidong went out to pass orders that the arsenal founded by Zhang Zhidong had the ability to imitate cannons. All Zhang Zhidong had an artillery battalion equipped with 75 field cannons. The re-entry machine makes the rate of fire of these field guns very fast.

Zhang Zhidong's artillery drove the horses pulling sports cars to the river. Due to the backward sighting equipment, Zhang Zhidong's artillery did not have the ability to aim and shoot indirectly. They could only go to the river and watch Lin Yuan's troops. Shooting, as soon as they walked to the river, they heard a sharp sound from the sky. As artillerymen, they were all too familiar with that sound. It was the sound of shells falling from the sky!

The artillerymen fled in fright and dropped their cannons one after another. Soon the sound of explosions rang out in the ranks of the Qing army. The horses were killed and the artillery carriages were blown up. The entire army was wiped out in less than 10 minutes.

It turned out that the scouts of Lin Yuan's troops had been watching the situation on the other side of the river on the high slope. As soon as they saw the artillery of the Qing army dispatched, they immediately notified the self-propelled artillery troops behind, and the scouts corrected the shooting for the artillery. A rain of bullets wiped them out, and some shells fell into the river, but the scouts discovered a very strange phenomenon in the distance!