"Poof, goosh."

Xu Shijiu stepped into the muddy muddy water, and when he pulled out the soles of his feet, there was only one upper left of the rubber-soled cloth shoes on his feet, and the five toes that had been soaked in muddy water and turned white were all exposed, and he leaned over to take off the upper of the cloth shoes hanging on his ankles and throw them away, Xu Shijiu couldn't help but sigh again.

Xu 19 and more than 100 remnants of the 19th Brigade have been trekking in the muddy water for more than a week, and the cloth shoes he threw away just now are already a shoe of the entire brigade, and from now on, the officers and soldiers of the entire 19th Brigade, including the two female soldiers of the health team, all have to walk barefoot in the aisle.

As far as the eye can see, the yellow water is boundless, and there are small dirt bags floating in the middle, like isolated islands.

After the Yellow River embankment at the mouth of the garden was blown up, the surging river water was flooded down, and the entire eastern Henan was annihilated overnight, and most of Xue Yue's eastern Henan corps had withdrawn before the embankment broke, but there were still a small number of troops responsible for the rear of the palace who could not be withdrawn, and they were trapped by the flood, and the 19th Brigade was also affected by the flood because it was responsible for the task of the entire 58th division.

Gao Shenxing, who was walking in the front, suddenly turned back and made continuous gestures to Xu Shijiu.

Xu Jiu pulled out the box cannon at once, turned his head and shouted: "All hidden, ready to fight"

More than 100 remnants of the soldiers suddenly dispersed, and then they all fell down in the muddy water, Zhang Youquan crawled to Xu Shijiu's side with a body of muddy water, and asked, "Captain, what's the situation?" ”

Xu Shijiu narrowed his eyes and stared at Gao Shenxing, who was nearly a few hundred meters away, and said while reading the gestures: "I found Little Japan in front, there is a squad of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, as well as a crooked handle and two grenadiers. Before he finished speaking, Xu Shijiu had already thought about how to fight this battle, and immediately called Zhang Youquan and Shu Tongwen to him and ordered, "Lao Zhang, you take the second company to outflank from the left, Awen, you take the third company to outflank from the right, and the first company, the guard platoon, and the engineer platoon follow me in the middle." ”

Zhang Youquan and Shu Tongwen respectively took the second and third companies to outflank the left and right flanks in the muddy water, and when Xu Shijiu was about to set off with the first company and the guard platoon, the artillery company commander Hu Jie rushed up and shouted loudly: "Captain, let's let the artillery company go up this time, we can't always stay in the back and watch the excitement, right?" ”

In the first battle of Dangshan, the 19th Brigade was completely disabled, except for the artillery company.

Hu Jie's artillery company originally had more than 100 people, although Xu 19 had taken away nearly half of the recruits, but the foundation of the artillery company was still there, especially the four 92 infantry guns, seven mm caliber mortars were still there, and there were still more than 200 shells.

Xu 19 was in Songhu, Nanjing battlefield suffered a small Japanese artillery losses, so cherish the artillery, this week, the 19th brigade has encountered a small group of Japanese troops many times, Xu 19 has always been reluctant to take Hu Jie's artillery company as an infantry envoy, so that many veterans of the infantry company are in private to say strange things, saying that the artillery company is the captain's baby pimple, pimple is the northern dialect, meaning the youngest son, ridiculed as a baby pimple, how can Hu Jie stand this?

"No, the artillery can't be on." Xu Shijiu still flatly refused.

As a first-class troop commander, Xu 19 is well aware of the huge role of artillery in the war, sometimes even if it is just a UUmm caliber mortar, it may change the outcome of a battle, there is a way to use good steel on the blade, Xu 19 is never willing to take the artillery company, these dozens of artillery already have a certain amount of experience in artillery as infantry envoys.

After that, Xu 19 took the guard platoon and a company of more than 30 veterans to wade through the muddy water, Hu Jie muttered a few words in a low voice, but he could only give up, the calf and a few big-headed soldiers were eager to fight, and came up and asked: "Company commander, what's the matter?" Hu Jie was not happy in his heart, and said at the moment, "Go and go, stay where it is cool." ”

Xu Shijiu quickly joined Gao Shenxing and Li Mu, who acted as spearheads, and then climbed to the top of the mound along the back of a small mound, the height of this small mound would never exceed ten meters, but it was already considered a high ground in the East Henan Plain of the Yima Plain, and even so, half of it was immersed in water, and the surrounding area of the mound began to collapse.

Artemisia grass grew on the mound, Xu Shijiu poked his head out of the artemisia grass and looked ahead, there was a small village about a thousand meters away, but now the whole village has been soaked in water, more than a dozen thatched houses or tiled houses only have roofs still exposed above the water, and the dozen or so Japanese soldiers are trapped on these roofs.

Through the binoculars, you can clearly see the appearance of these Japanese soldiers, most of them look tired, dull eyes, at this time it is noon, the sun is extremely hot, several Japanese soldiers are really thirsty, and they don't care how turbid the flooding Yellow River is, and they don't care whether they will get sick after drinking, they have leaned down from the eaves to drink muddy water.

Realistically speaking, the Yellow River embankment did cause obstacles to the Japanese army on the battlefield in the Central Plains, because the intelligence was not in place, the little Japan did not know in advance that the Nationalist Government would be frenzied to dig the Yellow River embankment, so when Xue Yue's Yudong Corps retreated, the 14th Division of Kenji Dohihara immediately bit up like maggots attached to the bones, and as a result, it was flooded by the Yellow River flooding downstream. I don't know how they survived these six or seven days

Xu Jiujiu put down the binoculars, frowned and said: "This village should be in a depression, judging from the waterline where the house was flooded, the depth of the water is at least more than two meters, otherwise these dozen little Japan will not be trapped here, such a deep water, and there are no boats or rafts, it is difficult to attack directly." ”

"Captain, why don't you forget it?" Li Zihan whispered.

"No, these dozen little Japan's guns have hit us, so there is absolutely no reason to let them go." Xu Shijiu flatly refused, and then turned around and instructed the black blind man, "Heizi, you go and call Hu Jie over." "The Japanese army in front is thousands of meters away, and there is no need to worry about the Japanese machine guns at such a long distance, and Hu Jie's artillery can rest assured that the artillery will bombard.

Hu Jie's artillery company soon came up, seeing such an excellent target, Hu Jie's eyes lit up in an instant, and more than a dozen artillerymen who already had a certain amount of experience in operating artillery were even more excited, and the calf even took out a shell from the crate, wiped and wiped it with the wet sleeves, and then stepped forward to stuff the barrel of Hu Jie's haode mortar just erected.

"Wait." At this juncture, Xu Shijiu suddenly stopped Hu Jie and the calf.

Gao Shenxing's hearing and vision are extremely keen, and he immediately turned his head to look at the sky in the northeast and said, "There is a day machine."

Before the words were finished, the faint roar was already clearly audible, and everyone looked back in a hurry, only to see a Japanese bomber had come out of the clouds in the northeast direction, and the plaster pattern applied under the wings was clearly visible, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers trapped in front also saw the Japanese plane, and one by one they suddenly got up, waving their hands excitedly and shouting.

The Japanese planes soon found the trapped Japanese soldiers, first lowered the height and then circled around the flooded village twice, Zuihou found the right angle to drop six boxes of military supplies, the little Japanese pilots are really terrible now, five of the six boxes of military supplies actually fell on the roof accurately, and only one box fell into the water at an angle.

These dozen Japanese soldiers have obviously been trapped for many days, one by one is already hungry, at this time there is no comradeship, one by one like a hungry tiger pounced, competing to eat the five boxes of military supplies, two Japanese soldiers were trapped alone on the roof of a spear grass house, in a hurry, they threw water into the soaked supply box, only to enter the water suddenly remembered that they could not swim, but after two flutters, they fell into the turbulent water.

Seeing Little Japan eating canned beef thousands of meters away, Xu Shijiu suddenly felt unbearable hunger in his belly, the black blind man, the calf and a few tall and strong big-headed soldiers were like thunder in their stomachs, and the rest of the officers and soldiers also swallowed their saliva violently, and their eyes were straight one by one, and they basically hadn't eaten a full meal this week.

Obviously, there are still many Japanese soldiers trapped in the flood like this, and the air force of little Japan will not be able to rescue them at all, and the only thing the air force can do is to drop supplies and prevent these trapped Japanese soldiers from starving to death before the motorboat and rubber boat units urgently allocated by the North China Front arrive.

The calf rubbed his hungry stomach and said angrily: "Captain, let's fight, let them eat"

"What's the fight?" Xu Shijiu didn't have a good breath, "As soon as the shells passed, Little Japan was finished, but those boxes of canned beef and cakes were also finished, this is Little Japan's filial piety to us, how can it be wasted?" ”

As soon as Xu Shijiu said this, the eyes of the dozens of officers and soldiers behind the mound lit up in an instant, and they originally looked sluggish, but in the blink of an eye, they became energetic, as if the six or seven boxes of canned beef and cakes had already been placed in front of them, waiting for him to feast.

However, little Japan will not hand over the supplies by themselves, if they want to snatch their supplies, they have to be killed, but these dozen Japanese soldiers are trapped in a village that seems to be an isolated island, it is not easy to get rid of them, Xu Shijiu pondered for a moment, the terrain here is unfavorable, and there is no other way to think of it except to attack.

At that moment, Xu Shijiu selected more than a dozen of the remnants of the first company, the guard platoon and the engineer platoon from dozens of remnants who knew water, and then directly waded through the water to the small village thousands of kilometers away, and almost at the same time, Zhang Youquan and Shu Tongwen also appeared on the left and right flanks of the small village with more than a dozen remnants of the water.

An officer pulled out a bright saber and yelled at this side, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers quickly put down the canned food and cakes in their hands, and one by one raised the big eight big covers and squatted on the roof to release their guns here, but the distance was too far to be accurate at all.

The gunfire of the crooked handle machine gun also rang out at the same time, but the trajectory of the crooked handle was more unstable than that of the 38 big cover, and the distance of 1,000 meters was basically a waste of bullets.