Xiao Siming's telegram, after arriving at the division headquarters and headquarters, was immediately forwarded to the headquarters of the commander of the First Theater.

Cheng Qian, Yan Xunfu, and Zhang Xuxing read Xiao Siming's telegram several times over and over again, and finally, Cheng Qian sighed: "Hey, I'm getting old, I'm being compared to a young man!" This telegram, hey, it makes people embarrassed after reading it, our minds are not as good as this baby commander of the Eighth Route Army! ”

Yan Xunfu is a staff officer with strategic thinking in the world, and he is very high in peacetime, and it is rare for the military generals to be admired. Now that I have read Xiao Siming's telegram, I am also surprised, saying that I can't imagine that there are people in the Eighth Route Army who understand and know that the overall situation is the most important.

Cheng Qian didn't like to hear this, so he directly criticized: "What does it mean that there are people in the Eighth Route Army who understand? There are many intellectuals and capable people in the University! They also want to save the country and save the people, but in a different way than ours! ”

Cheng Qian is an old man in Xinhai, who served as the Minister of Military Affairs of Mr. Sun Yat-sen's Generalissimo Office, and he is relatively peaceful, so it is indeed fair to say this.

Yan Xunfu doesn't have such a mind as Cheng Qian, but at this time it was the time of the Great War, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party hated the same enemy, as long as they could defeat the little devils and fight against the Japanese soldiers, it was nothing to throw their heads and spill blood, not to mention that what Xiao Siming did was to cooperate with the frontal battlefield?

Yan Xunfu didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked Cheng Qian how to call back the Eighteenth Group Army?

Cheng Qian pondered for a moment and instructed: "Call back to the two chiefs Zhu and Peng: Tomorrow at 5 times, send fighter planes to search and reconnoiter in the direction of Kaifeng, Anyang, and Handan airports!" ”

Zhang Xuxing reminded: "Chief Cheng, the Air Force fighters equipped with Luoyang Airport have lost all their losses in the early stage, and there are few planes that can fly. If it is dispatched, I am afraid that it will have to be reported to Wuhan! ”

It's a problem, you can't report it, and if you do, it doesn't necessarily work! Putting aside other reasons, the Chinese Air Force did suffer too heavy losses and sacrifices in the early stage of the operation, and it could no longer afford to lose them. Even a few planes hidden at Luoyang Airport will have to be transferred to the Wuhan battlefield when they turn around.

Cheng Qian pondered for a moment and replied: "Report to the Military Commission, according to the report of the 18th Group Army, the Provisional Aviation Regiment of the Japanese North China Front Army has been transferred to the command of the Central China Dispatch Army, and the main forces of the Japanese air force at all airports in North China have been transferred to the Yangtze River. In order to find out the situation, at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning, Luoyang Airport fighters will be dispatched to Kaifeng, Anyang, and Handan airports to carry out reconnaissance and search! ”

After dictating, Cheng Qian explained to Chief of Staff Yan Xunfu and Deputy Chief of Staff Zhang Xuxing: "Report to the Military Commission according to this meaning!" We've got to find out what the enemy is doing! ”

Yan Xunfu and Zhang Xuxing coincidentally had a thought in their minds: "Old fox! ”

It is obviously unfair to say that Cheng Qian is an old fox, but Cheng Qian is indeed more thoughtful. Since Xiao Siming's telegram only wanted to send planes to reconnoiter and attack the three airfields of Kaifeng, Anyang, and Handan to attract the attention of the Japanese planes, Cheng Qian would not let the few planes he had to fight to the death with the Japanese fighters, so as to achieve the purpose of attacking and harassing the Japanese planes and diverting the attention of the Japanese planes, even if it met the requirements of the Eighth Route Army. In doing so, reporting to the Military Commission will also be approved quickly!

After receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the commander of the First Theater of Operations, Xiao Siming breathed a sigh of relief, and then called Wang Lushui to go to the ferry to check the progress of building the pontoon bridge.

Wang Lushui told Xiao Siming that the political commissar Wu and the captain of the Peng detachment of the Sulu-Yu detachment called back, promising to delay the Japanese troops from Heze and the Japanese troops coming from Kaifeng for a day and two nights, and demanded that the eastward advance detachment must move quickly and be transported within the agreed time!

Needless to say, Xiao Siming knows it in his heart!

Although the Sulu-Yu detachment is the old foundation of the 685 regiment and has also reached 7ooo people, its equipment is not good, and it is an absolute light infantry. In the face of a mechanized heavy equipment unit like the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army, there is no way to do anything except sabotage traffic and harass the sluggish devils. If the blocking time is long, the losses of the troops will be very large, and it will be too uneconomical!

If the backbone of the Red Army of the Sulu-Yu detachment is asked to fight with the tanks and armored vehicles of the little devils in order to transport these weapons and ammunition, it will be brain water! Don't say that Xiao Siming doesn't do it, no one will do it, that's a big mistake!

With the Sulu-Yu detachment going all out to block the delayed Japanese army, and the first theater dispatched Luoyang Airport planes to attack and harass the Japanese planes, Xiao Siming suddenly felt a lot more relaxed!

Sun Zhicheng, commander of the engineer battalion of the eastward advance detachment, Tong Ming, instructor, and Meng Decai, deputy battalion commander, are all temperamental, and they seem to be wilting and silent, but they are all masters with Taoism in their stomachs.

This kind of person is naturally suitable for being a sapper!

When Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui rode to the ferry, Huo Cheng led Sun Zhicheng, Tong Ming, and Meng Decai to command the engineer battalion to build a pontoon bridge.

Huang Hua had already crossed the Yellow River by ferry with the three battalions and nine companies drawn from the first regiment, and made peace with the new regiment that arrived urgently!

Speaking of which, the little devil at this time is like a black blind man breaking corn, breaking one and throwing another. Dongkou is such an important ferry, after the 14th Division smuggled the Yellow River from here, it did not send troops to garrison it, but patted its ass and left. As a result, after the new regiment arrived at Dongkou Town, it easily took control of Dongkou Town and the ferry port on the other side.

When the new regiment went south from Dezhou, it also crossed the Yellow River to the southwest and western areas of Luxi, and accompanied by the baggage battalion loaded most of the weapons, ammunition, and oil transferred from the Jilu border. It's just that they had plenty of time at that time, and they were met by the Sulu-Henan detachment, and they used ferries to transport people, pack horses, rubber carts, and baggage across the Yellow River, without building pontoon bridges. Now Xiao Siming wants to cross the river from here to transfer materials, and it is too slow to use the ferry, and it is too late to have time, so he can only build a pontoon bridge and pass quickly.

At this time, Huang Hua was leading the new regiment to mobilize the masses in Dongkou Town, collecting equipment for crossing the river, and standing on the west bank of the Yellow River, you can see that there are teams rushing to the Yellow River with torches.

Xiao Siming observed it and saw that the Yellow River had formed a "several" shaped bend here, and the small fishbone village where the ferry port was located was at the heel of the "several" shaped bend. The surface of the Yellow River here is not wide, only about 2oo meters, the wind and waves are calm, the water surface in the night is smooth as a mirror, and even the sound of flowing water can not be heard, it seems that the Yellow River is still and quiet!

It's a great harbor to cross!

Kenji Dohihara is worthy of being a leading old spy in the Japanese army, a real China expert. I don't know how this old devil did it, and he chose such a suitable ferry port on the Yellow River in such a remote area!

If there is only Xiao Siming and one horse, there is no need to spend any effort, just grab the horse's tail and swim across the Yellow River!

After watching it for a while, Xiao Siming knew what to expect, so he went to the river with Wang Lushui to watch the work of the engineer battalion.

Building a pontoon bridge on the Yellow River, for Sun Zhicheng and them, it was the first time that the eldest girl got on the sedan chair, and no one had any experience, and they couldn't get the point of tossing and turning. Otherwise, the order Xiao Siming gave last night should at least be built up by now. As a result, the engineer battalion is still preparing on the wharf on the west bank of the Yellow River, but it can't be done!

There is no way, the engineer battalion of the eastward advance detachment is, strictly speaking, a combat unit with the name of an engineer battalion, and there are no technical personnel who really know how to build bridges.

Xiao Siming saw that Sun Zhicheng's method was to build a suspended pontoon bridge, plant a few wooden stakes on the river bank, pull iron cables and wire ropes, and then lay wooden planks on them to form a pontoon bridge.

Where does this work?

According to the current method, a pontoon bridge will not be built by tomorrow night. And a pontoon bridge simply won't suffice!

Even if it is built, such a pontoon bridge will sway on it, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the Yellow River, how can you transport rubber trucks, pack horses, and ammunition across the Yellow River?

Xiao Siming beckoned Huo Cheng, Sun Zhicheng, Tong Ming, and Meng Decai, and told them that the river here is not wide, the wind and waves are calm, and it is most suitable for building a pontoon bridge. At least three pontoons must be built tonight!

If you can't build one pontoon bridge, what about building three pontoon bridges, is it possible?

Wang Lushui, Huo Cheng, Sun Zhicheng, Tong Ming, and Meng Decai all looked at Xiao Siming, especially Sun Zhicheng, who was wilting, but he felt that he couldn't complete the task, he didn't have the face to see the commander, and his face was red!

Xiao Siming is not the kind of leader who only gives orders to death, he is good at giving ideas and finding ways for cadres.

No, Xiao Siming went on to say that the correct way to build a pontoon bridge is to place the boats on the Yellow River, connect the boats with wooden rafters, and then lay wooden planks on them. For safety, both sides of the pontoon bridge should be blocked with ropes, so that people can pull the ropes to cross the river, so that nothing goes wrong!

Sun Zhicheng suddenly realized that the pontoon bridge was built like this!

Once you think about it, things will be easy to do!

Sun Zhicheng immediately said that in this case, due to the limited length of wooden rafters, there must be a wooden boat every 5 meters. There are only nine ships in existence, and it is not enough to build a pontoon bridge!

Xiao Siming looked up and looked at it again, and said: "At such a ferry, there must be at least four or five ferries, and there will be no shortage of fishing boats. This is a mess, and the fellows must have hidden their ships! In this way, Lao Huo, Tong Ming, Meng Decai, the three of you don't have to worry about building a pontoon bridge, you will take people to the nearby villages to mobilize the masses, and let the villagers take out the boats, let's buy them at a high price! The political commissar gave Lao Huang a newspaper and asked them to concentrate their efforts on finding ships in the Dongkou area on the east coast. If it really doesn't work, just use the carpenter and use the wood to make a wooden row, and that will also work! Sun Zhicheng and I are here to direct the construction of the pontoon bridge! ”

A few people went their separate ways and got busy.