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The wooden stakes are as thick as one person, one end is sharpened into a sharp point, about one meter and a half high, and there is a groove about four or five centimeters deep at a position of about one meter. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The two soldiers worked together to straighten it, and the other two soldiers were armed with huge hammers, their arms were protruding, and beads of sweat were falling from time to time on their foreheads.

The dull sound of impact, the hammer and the stake collided again and again, and as time passed, the top of the stake was gradually smashed out of some traces, and only about half of the original one-and-a-half-meter-high stake remained on the ground.

Soon, a soldier took out a two-finger-thick rope, tied one end into the groove of the stake, and finally tied a dead knot to confirm that the rope would not fall off.

At the other end, it is tied to an iron box with a length of about one meter by two meters by one meter, and this iron box is lying quietly on top of a modified carriage.

The horses that carried it were standing quietly resting at this time, and several soldiers temporarily took the place of pack horses.

The stakes are ready, the iron boxes are ready, the ropes are connected.

With the commander's order, several soldiers began to move their steps, faster and faster, and when they almost reached the river, several people violently pulled up the camel cart, and the iron box on the camel cart slipped directly into the water.

At this time, the river is not turbulent, but it is not still either.

As soon as the iron box was submerged in the water, it quickly surfaced, and then, the force of the current rushed directly out of the way, stopping the rope tied to the stake, and then stopped there.

Several soldiers, who had already prepared, quickly gathered the rope and brought the iron box to the shore.

Immediately afterwards, the second box was submerged in the water, because the ropes were all the same length, so the position of the stake was the position where the iron boxes were separated from each other in the water.

After the rope was closed, the two iron boxes were about one meter wide, and the soldiers next to them tried their best to control the two boxes, and the soldiers who had already prepared on the shore quickly raised three arm-thick wooden sticks, and put the three wooden sticks in the middle of the two iron boxes in the card slot, unless they could ensure that the distance between the two iron boxes would not change, otherwise, the three wooden sticks would disappear into the water in an instant.

After doing this, several soldiers immediately lifted a steel plate, about one meter three wide, and placed it on two iron boxes, each with more than ten centimeters on each side that could be placed on top.

At each end, there were two iron semi-circles in shape, the size of which coincided with the holes reserved in the steel plate, and in the blink of an eye, the steel plate was placed on top of the two iron boxes, followed by two soldiers, one of whom held an iron rod about two meters long, similar to the shape of an iron nail, except that the other end was not sharp, but threaded.

The soldier with the backpack quickly jumped onto the steel plate, and at the same time, the soldier with the iron rod had already inserted the stick into the first hole, and the soldier quickly pointed the iron rod into the second hole, and then took out a special screw from the backpack and quickly tightened it with a tool.

In less than a minute, the pontoon bridge, which is about three meters long and two meters wide, was built.

But this time, they didn't want to build a simple pontoon bridge that was three meters long and two meters wide.

After finishing this work, they did not sit idle, but quickly moved to the side and continued to build the pontoon bridge that had just been launched.

This time the task was more arduous, a platoon needed to build a 100-meter pontoon bridge, and once such a job, it was possible to build a width of three meters, two times it was five meters, and three times it was seven meters, that is, to complete the task of 100 meters, they needed to repeat the same action forty-nine times to be able to complete it.

And this, for a class, is an extremely heavy task, each iron box weighs hundreds of catties, even the steel plate, also weighs nearly 100 catties.

If it's in the daytime, it's slightly better, and it's not easy, but it's not too difficult to complete.

But now it's night, and there is no need to light a fire, so you can only build a pontoon bridge with the help of a faint light.

Although the soldiers were wearing life jackets, they would not drown even if they fell into the water, and since they had all learned to swim, it was not difficult to get back to shore.

But no one wants to go down for a swim at night.

On average, each class needs to be divided twelve times, and even if you are tired, you can exhaust people to death.

But it can't be helped, who made them do this? No matter how tired they are, they must complete the task within the specified time, otherwise, it will affect the plan of the entire campaign.

It took a platoon about an hour to reluctantly build a pontoon bridge about 100 meters long, and then, the exhausted soldiers, dragging heavy steps and carrying the improvised railings prepared in advance, inserted them into the holes on both sides of the iron box one by one, in order to prevent the infantry from falling into the river due to the excessive tide when crossing the river.

In fact, the principle is very simple and not troublesome. Just cut a steel pipe into a finger-long round pipe, and then weld it to both sides of the iron box, and then insert it directly with a simple railing made in advance, and weld it into a cross shape thirty or forty centimeters below the railing, as long as there is no artillery fire, such a railing is enough to protect the safety of the soldiers crossing the river.

After doing all this, a squad of engineers and two squads of infantry walked up to the pontoon bridge and ascended to the other end, while the other soldiers who were prepared on the shore pushed the pontoon bridge forward with bamboo poles about four or five meters long in their hands.

When the pontoon bridge is detached from the length of the bamboo pole, it goes to the tail to recycle the same movement, and with the help of manpower and the power of the current, the pontoon bridge is slowly moving towards the opposite bank.

In about ten minutes, the pontoon left on the west bank formed a 90-degree right angle to the shore, which means that the pontoon has reached the opposite bank.

Immediately afterwards, two more squads of soldiers quickly stepped onto the pontoon bridge and ran towards the opposite bank, while the soldiers who remained here quickly sorted out the entrance to the pontoon bridge and connected it with steel plates to keep it as stable as possible.

More and more troops stepped onto the pontoon bridge and arrived at the other side smoothly, and Bao Daxi, commander of the 1st Engineer Battalion, who was in charge of commanding the mission, finally had a smile on his face.

The 1st Engineer Battalion is one of only four engineer battalions in the whole army and the only engineer battalion of the First Army.

Similarly, it is also the first engineering unit in the history of the Imperial Chinese Army to go on the battlefield to carry out tasks.

Although their mission is not to kill enemies, their mission also has its own risks, such as the harsh environment, which will be their natural enemy.

Or when building a pontoon bridge, they encounter enemy artillery attack, at this time, they can only rely on the rear artillery to suppress it, but once there is no artillery in the rear, they can only endure the artillery fire to build the pontoon bridge.

In the future, we can only rely on human life to fill this loophole.

In any case, the first battle of the engineer corps was finally completed smoothly, although the whole process was terrifying, but the result was still good.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the 1st Engineer Battalion, to complete the task of building pontoon bridges, a total of four pontoon bridges, which took an hour and a half. The construction process went smoothly and there were no casualties in the whole battalion. Bao Daxi returned to the former enemy headquarters, which was only less than a kilometer away from the river, and reported to Wang Shuqi, commander of the First Group Army, who was waiting for news here.

"Well done! This time, I will give you a collective third-class merit for the whole battalion. Wang Shuqi was also a little excited.

Although he knew that there was a battalion of engineers under him, and this battalion of engineers only had the right to use, but not the right to belong.

In addition, there is only one battalion of troops, and it is also a logistics unit, so Wang Shuqi didn't care about it at the beginning.

It was not until the recent plan to counterattack North Korea that his staff officers mentioned that the first battalion of the engineer could solve the problem of the army crossing the river, and Wang Shuqi was still a little unconvinced at that time, and finally sent his deputy to personally observe the training of this battalion, and finally decided to let them solve the problem of the pontoon bridge.

It's just that I didn't expect that the answer that the deputy brought to me at the beginning was that four pontoon bridges could be built in two hours, and now, it only took them one and a half hours to build four pontoon bridges.

What does it mean that the time is half an hour shorter? It means that they can use this half an hour to throw a brigade of troops to the opposite bank, which means that they will have more options in terms of tactical choices.

After this battle, it is necessary to apply to the First Army to form its own engineering troops, and at least one battalion of engineers must be required for each division.

"Commander-in-Chief Xie!" Bao Daxi is not hypocritical, there is nothing to be hypocritical, there is a specialization in the art industry, what they practice is pontoon bridge construction, they shorten the time by half an hour, and provide the troops with valuable time to seize the beach, because of this, they can afford the third-class merit.

In fact, Wang Shu knew that the pontoon bridge had been built for a long time, and he also knew that there was now a regiment of troops that had arrived on the opposite bank and was currently setting up a beachhead.

This battle, Wang Shuqi has the certainty of victory, but this battle, Wang Shuqi does not have the qualifications to personally command, this battle, will be led by the commander of the Eighth Army Cao Kun, the commander-in-chief of the Korean Army Kim Yo-cheol assisted, the two sides formed a joint command to jointly command.

Wang Shuqi also needs to sit in Mukden in case the Russians in the north suddenly attack.

On the other hand, Cao Kun's performance in the past few years has also been good, and he has long been regarded as a confidant by Wang Sirui, and Cao Kun is also loyal to Wang Sirui, so he wants to take this opportunity to train Cao Kun, after all, there are still too few senior generals available in the Royal Army.

"Cao Kun, I'll leave it to you here, remember, the results of this battle must be expanded, the losses must be minimized, you decide for yourself how to operate, a week later, the Sixteenth Army will set off, you must hold on for at least a month." Wang Shuqi instructed Cao Kun beside him.

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