It was almost dark, and the devils who were sweeping outside were in a hurry to return to the town, and the people who had fled the fighting were in a hurry to return to the village to see if their homes were still there, and as for the brothers in the battalion, they were hurrying at full speed at this time.

"Huhuhuhu"

The shock just now still echoed in the hearts of the recruits, they followed the squad platoon leader mechanically on the way, no one shouted tired, no one dared to disrupt the queue, for them, this was like a sacred ritual, they were struggling to support.

"Rest in place for fifteen minutes."

In the dark night, a piece of white practice appeared in front of them, and the sound of the rushing water meant that they had arrived at the river, Feng Yi explained to the officers, and walked slowly to the river.

"Battalion commander, there is an effect; I've been able to increase my speed just now, and these recruits are still able to keep the team from falling apart. ”

Gao Yurong whispered in Feng Yi's ear.

"I hope they understand what I just meant."

Feng Yi looked at the small river in front of him, the riverbed was very shallow, and the wet river sand was trampled under his feet, making a creaking sound.

"Battalion commander, it's only about ten meters wide, there's no problem walking over."

The two veterans came over again from the river, their shoes and trouser legs soaking wet, and the river flowed down their shoes to the sand, and then slowly returned to the river.

"Got it, let's take a break"

Feng Ye nodded, sat on the ground, and kept looking at his watch, if it was not expected to be bad, the moonlight would soon be sprinkled on the earth.

"Ready to go, the two of them helped each other and quickly crossed the river."

Zhang Chuan shouted, and he and a veteran first stepped into the river, standing in the middle, letting the thigh-high water keep washing.

"Whoa, whoa"

One brother after another stepped into the water, quickly passing through the middle of the river and heading toward the opposite bank.

After crossing the narrow river, only two kilometers to their destination, Wang Lun led the way in front, and the team marched all the way, and they finally arrived.

"Company Commander Yang, it's time for your engineer company to work, now is a good time to train the earthwork industry."

Feng Yi beckoned to the commander of the engineer company, who only had a platoon of veterans, and asked him to build field fortifications on the spot, and when the recruits were tired, it was the time when their training results were most tested, not to mention that this was only earthwork.

"Battalion commander, we're going to do it here tomorrow with the devils"

The engineer company commander asked puzzled.

"Build qualified field fortifications, and in addition, pay attention to the concealment of the fortifications, so that the devils can't be discovered from afar."

Feng Ye didn't answer, and the cold order made the engineer company commander discourage the urge to continue asking.

"Wang Ning, Zhang Chuan, take the veterans around to investigate."

In Feng Yi's words, the veterans who had just sat down and were about to rest were dumbfounded, they originally thought that it was time for them to rest, but wasn't it the recruits who should be tossing at this time

"Each person takes a group of people, builds a circular trench, the soil cannot be lifted randomly, it is stacked uniformly, and it starts"

At the order of the engineer company commander, the recruits unloaded their equipment and began to work.

"Zla"

Feng Ye sat on a rock, lit a cigarette, and looked at Xinhang, which was only three kilometers away from them; The campfires and lights in the town are constantly shining, and the devils must be partying, they have not been harassed here recently, and they have grabbed a lot of supplies.

"Tomorrow is another good day"

Feng Yi looked at the sky, the shining stars were getting more and more moonlight in the moonlight, and there was no sign of rain.

When Feng Yi looked up at the sky, the devils were attacking Zhengzhou, which was only thirty kilometers away from Feng, and once Zhongmu was lost, Zhengzhou could be lost at any time.

The devil's attack on Zhongmu is fierce regardless of casualties, the devil's officers don't care about casualties at all, desperately urge the devil to attack forward, the same goes for the squadron defending the city, they can't retreat a step now, the city wall has been collapsed by the devil's artillery fire, they are fighting the devil in the ruins and houses, using their own flesh and blood to block the devil's progress.

Similarly, at the entrance of the garden, not far from Zhongmu, a bunch of soldiers were sweating profusely, carrying out the order of the Military Commission to "replace soldiers with water".

On June 9, 1938, it was doomed to be a disaster for the Chinese people in the Yellow River Valley, they not only had to face the burning and looting of the Japanese army, but the most important thing was that the Yellow River above their heads broke its embankment, and it was blown up by the government, and the turbid Yellow River water quickly poured down the Jialu River, and the flood part of the enemy pounced on the people and the Japanese army.

And on this day, when the sky was white, after a whole night of busy work, the engineer company finally completed the preliminary excavation of the trenches, and all the earth dug up was transported to the col, where it was covered with branches, shrubs, and weeds, and it was impossible to see without paying attention.

"Huhuhuhu"

Inside the trenches lay tired recruits and veterans, tired and forgetting to eat, snoring one by one, just wanting to get a good night's sleep.

"Beware of the devils in Xinhang."

Feng Yi slept all night, and now he was in good spirits, biting into the cold pancakes, and pouring the kettle in his hand into his mouth from time to time.

"There are more than a dozen brothers on guard in front, and news will be transmitted back immediately."

Gao Yurong nodded, Zhang Chuan and Wang Ning were also busy all night, and throughout the day, only he and Min Fei were on duty, fortunately, there was no combat mission today, as long as the devil didn't come to the door by himself.

Throughout the day, the devils near Zhengzhou retreated like crazy, although they captured Zhongmu, but the overwhelming flood arrived, and in the face of the power of nature, the arrogant devils had to retreat in embarrassment.

However, Feng Yi was very quiet here, although the vigilant brothers sent signals from time to time that the devils were out of the city, but the devils did not approach Cimushroom Mountain, perhaps they thought that this place had been searched several times by themselves and had been ignored.

"Uh-huh"

The brothers who woke up pulled out the pancakes or multigrain cakes from their pockets and devoured them one by one, choking and pouring water into their mouths as if they had been hungry for years.

"Ugh"

In a long belch, a veteran finally felt alive and grabbed a couple of kettles to find some water.

"Don't act alone, go with a few people, there will be a mountain spring over there."

Wang Ning pointed to his left and reminded the veteran.

"Tell them that when they are full, they should seize the time to rest, and continue construction at night, and the position is not qualified."

Feng Yi frowned and walked in the trench, explaining to the engineer company commander, his cold eyes were full of doubts about the ability of the engineer company commander.

"Battalion commander, we must finish tonight; You can rest assured. ”

The engineer company commander's dirty face actually flushed a little red, and he also knew that the position he repaired this time was not qualified, but the key was that these recruits were not strong, and they were still working under extreme fatigue.

"You guys, don't eat, go fetch water"

Wang Ning stopped dozens of veterans and asked them to collect empty water bottles to fetch water, compared to the recruits, their reconnaissance and vigilance tasks last night were not so hard, and now it was natural for them to contribute.

"You guys, pour the kettle."

The veterans who had been in an uproar put uneaten dry rations in their pockets, bent over, and collected water bottles in the trenches.

"Sir, let's go by ourselves, you rest"

The recruits obviously can't adapt to their new identities, and the ones who twist and pinch dare to let the veterans fetch water for themselves

"Remember, since we have entered the direct battalion, then we are all a family, we are not commanders, we are brothers who can fight devils back to back, and we will be called brothers in the future."

The veterans comforted the recruits, collected the kettles one by one, and then bent down to fetch water en masse.