Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Wang Meng searched the command center everywhere but couldn't find any trace of Li Yunlong.

"It's bad! Did he sneak away again?"

Just when Wang Meng was feeling annoyed that Li Yunlong had overtaken him again, a gruff voice came from outside the door.

"Hahaha, Mengzi, what do you think of my flowers?"

Wang Meng patted his chest, still feeling frightened.

"Old Li, you really went to plant flowers. I thought you sneaked off to the battlefield again?"

"You look down on me, don't you? Even if we want to run, we should wait until the battle starts, right? Why are we going there now? We'll be left starving! Right, Mengzi, why didn't you ask them to build fortifications?"

"Defense? The best defense is offense!"

Li Yunlong placed the flowers on the conference table.

"Okay, stop pretending. What are you thinking?"

"Hehe, I finally pretended but you found out. Old Li, this is what I thought. Although the Japanese chose to cross the Yellow River to the south to fight, the place where they cross the Yellow River is definitely not in our defense zone. After all, they can't beat us head-on, so how dare they face us from the side?

So, where can we build fortifications? We can't build them at the doorsteps of Boai, Xinxiang, and Jiaozuo, right? "

Li Yunlong nodded in agreement. The Japanese had suffered losses in Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, so they must have been hurt. If they were hurt, would they dare to come again?

The Japanese are not stupid either, they will pick on the weak.

"Okay, then should we wait for them to cross the Yellow River and then launch an air strike to blow these damn Japanese into the river to feed the fish?"

"Hehe, that's exactly what I was planning! But we're not some prostitutes, how can we go after him? He'll have to use a sedan chair to beg us!"

"Well, the Japanese started repairing the Yellow River Bridge three months ago, and it has been completely completed! Their crossing point should be right there!"

The Yellow River Iron Bridge was built during the Qing Dynasty and stood on the Yellow River for more than 30 years until the full-scale Anti-Japanese War broke out...

In the winter of 8, the newly formed th Division was ordered to go to Xinxiang for guard duty. Less than half a month later, it was transferred to garrison Zhandian on the north bank of the Yellow River and Guxing Town in Nan'an.

After the newly formed 8th Division arrived in Zhandian and Guxing Town, the commander-in-chief of the First War Zone issued a specific task order, which was to hold the position to the death and not let the Japanese cross the Yellow River, nor let the friendly forces retreat from here.

In short, they looked like they were determined to defend the Yellow River. After all, if the Yellow River was lost, Zheng County would be in danger. If Zheng County was lost, Chongqing and Xi'an would be defenseless.

But soon, some signs showed that the central government had decided to abandon the area north of the Yellow River and would destroy the Yellow River Bridge. When Song Zheyuan's troops moved west of Xinxiang, the newly formed 8th Division was ordered to check and release the last train and then block the Yellow River Bridge.

The day before the newly formed 8th Division was ordered to block the Yellow River Bridge, the theater commander-in-chief ordered the division commander Jiang Zaizhen to go and accept the mission.

Jiang Zaizhen came back and said: "The superiors have decided to blow up the Yellow River Bridge and have designated our division to make preparations first. They will then send Luo Qi, the commander of the 95th Division, to come and unify the command to carry out the blasting mission."

At that time, when Jiang Zaizhen came back, he also brought with him a professional blasting engineering company, a carriage of explosives and some blasting equipment.

Then, Jiang Zaizhen convened a meeting with the three regiment commanders, the company commanders of his direct battalion, and the commander of the engineering company who came with him, and demanded that the Yellow River Bridge be blown up immediately.

Although this iron bridge brought many benefits to the local people, the Japanese invaders were so aggressive that they could only temporarily blow up the bridge to slow down the Japanese invaders' offensive.

There are 100 holes in the Yellow River Iron Bridge, and the first explosion only blew up 3 holes.

And a piece of iron plate was blown out, on which was written:

"The Beijing-Hankou Railway was built by the Qing National Railway Company with assistance from the Belgian Company. On the day of completion, the imperial court sent Sheng Xuanhuai, the former Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, and Tang Shaoyi, the first-rank official who served as the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, to hold a ceremony to announce the completion of the project. I hereby engrave this date, which was October 16, the 31st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty."

The officers and soldiers who blew up the bridge all beat their chests and stamped their feet, as if they had become sinners of the nation. However, they had orders from their superiors and could do nothing but keep transporting explosives and blow up the bridge again and again, causing the cement to peel off layer by layer.

The bombing lasted for three days and three nights. By the evening of the 19th, the bridge deck had been severely damaged.

After Jiang Zaizhen's assessment, even if the Japanese took it, it would take three to five years to repair it, so he evacuated from the Yellow River Bridge.

In order to attack the south bank of the Yellow River, the Japanese tried many times to build a new bridge across the river, but were repelled by artillery shells by the Central Army's defenders.

It was not until four months ago that the Japanese transported a large bridge-building machine from the main island and began to repair the Yellow River Iron Bridge.

The Japanese bridge-laying machine was protected by steel plates of astonishing thickness. The 75mm cannons fired by the Central Army defenders on the south bank could not cause any substantial damage.

Moreover, in order to ensure that the bridge would not be destroyed by the Central Army’s defenders, the Japanese also mobilized a 150mm howitzer battalion and a 100mm cannon squadron to suppress the Central Army’s defenders with artillery fire, making it impossible for the Central Army to show its head.

Therefore, the Japanese advanced slowly every day, and finally built the Yellow River Bridge on the basis of the bridge piers that were not completely destroyed not long ago, and established solid fortifications on the bridgehead, completely opening up the north-south passage of the Yellow River.

"Hey, Mengzi, since the Japanese are repairing the Yellow River Bridge, why didn't those idiots in the Central Army inform us? They don't have heavy artillery, but we do!"

"Who knows? Maybe they think the Japs just want to repair the Yellow River Bridge!"

"Damn, what a bunch of idiots! Just want to repair the bridge? The Japanese crossed the river not to kill people, but to celebrate birthdays?"

"After the Japanese opened up the north-south passage, they did not immediately send troops to cross the Yellow River, but only stationed troops at the bridgehead, so they may have been paralyzed!"

Li Yunlong was so angry that he still had illusions about the Japanese!

"Alas, there are some people in the Central Army who think that if we don't provoke the Japanese, they won't attack us! Stupid!"

Li Yunlong was furious, but although Wang Meng was young, he had read too many historical documents and was accustomed to this kind of situation!

"Calm down, Lao Li. Words often teach people more profoundly than things. Just wait, there will be a time when they beg us for help!"

"Never mind, let's figure out our own business first!"

"Well, the Third Army and the Fourth Army are already in place. We can gradually advance forward. When the time comes, if the Japanese make any unusual movements, we will just kill them! Kill them all without leaving a single piece of armor."