On June 10, 1938, a torrential rain fell in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the water volume of the Yellow River increased sharply, and the Huayuankou breach was washed away, and at the same time, the silted Zhaokou was also washed away. After the confluence of the two streams of Zhaokou and Huayuankou, the Jialu River began to overflow, and the overflowing river water broke the Longhai Railway and flowed towards the southeast of Henan.

After the Japanese army was blocked by Huangshui, they abandoned their plan to attack Wuhan from the Pinghan Line. After retreating to Xuzhou, they went south to Bengbu, crossed the Huai River, and then joined up with other Japanese troops in Hefei, and began to attack Wuhan from the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The torrential rain in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River seems to have affected the Yangtze River basin, and on the night of the 10th, the moonlight finally did not appear, and the dark clouds in the sky pressed very low, as if pressing on the heart.

"Let the brethren gather their equipment, eat a little more, and rest in the trenches without leaving their guns."

Feng Yi looked at the dark clouds overhead, he suspected that it would rain tonight, and it was a good thing to take advantage of the rainy night to raid Xinhang.

"Yes"

Min Gezi and Gao Yurong nodded, and informed the brothers separately.

After two nights of hard work, the trench was perfect, it was a suitable place for fighting, but Feng felt that he didn't need it anymore, and he was considering whether to destroy the trenches and fortifications here.

"I'll talk about it when I get back."

Feng Yi looked at the bonfire and lights in the distance, and decided to keep it for now; Xinhang's devil strength is too clear now, two squads, with two heavy machine guns, six crooked handles, and an unknown number of grenadiers and traitors, and they can only rely on more than a hundred veterans.

"Inform all squad leaders that the meeting will be held in two hours."

Feng Ye didn't dare to put the treasure on the recruits, and before the battle, he had to communicate further with the veterans.

"Woo woo"

The rain came later, but the wind blew first.

"Will this rain be blown away by the wind?"

Feng Ye squatted next to a few recruits, feeling the fierce wind, and asked the recruits next to him.

"No, don't look at the wind blowing so hard, this rain will definitely fall."

The humidity in the air became very high, and as locals, they were very sure that this rain would definitely fall, but they didn't know if it would be tonight or tomorrow when dawn.

"Battalion commander, they're all here"

The two hours were very fast, and just as Feng Ye was leaning on the edge of the trench to recuperate, Wang Ning whispered to Feng Ye who was close his eyes next to Feng Ng.

"Hmm"

Feng Ye slowly opened his eyes, looked around, the veterans were basically here, and now there are too many recruits, he is a veteran, and he is a squad leader.

"I've been here for two days, I've been waiting for the weather tonight, as soon as it starts to rain, it's the beginning of our attack on the Xinhang devils; From the beginning of the attack until they are all destroyed, there is no way back unless they are all killed, do you have anything to say?"

Feng Ye glanced at everyone, opened his mouth in the howling wind, and the deep voice accurately reached the ears of each squad leader.

"Battalion commander, you give the order directly, how to fight"

Looking at the brothers shaking their heads in unison, Wang Lun first understood, he had already known that Feng Yi had made the idea here.

"Company Commander Wang, you first inform you of the investigation we conducted a few days ago."

Feng Yi nodded and motioned for Wang Lun to come first.

"More than ten days ago, the battalion commander and I came here to reconnoiter for a few days, the devils in the town are about two squads, the number of traitors is unknown, but there are at least one hundred and fifty people, they are equipped with two heavy machine guns, we found two crooked machine guns, no grenadiers were found; During the day, the devils will go down to the village with the traitors to sweep the village, and all the looted materials are piled up here, of course, including the hard-working people here, who were also taken from the village by them, all of them are strong men, and there are no old people and children."

Wang Lun said about the situation five days ago, the old soldiers around him frowned more and more, the devil took all the young and strong over, those old people and children may have been killed by them, this is the usual trick of the devil, and the situation of those young women, they can think of it with their toes.

"Gao Yurong, tell me about the situation in the past two days."

After Feng Yi waited for Wang Ning to finish speaking, he asked Gao Yurong to continue.

"There has been no major change in the strength of the devils, and the reconnaissance found that there were two more crooked machine guns of the devils, but still no grenadiers were found; The number of puppet troops should be more than two hundred"

Gao Yurong added the situation here, and after finishing speaking, he closed his mouth and signaled that he didn't say anything.

"The devils have hoarded so many supplies here, and they have captured so many strong men, but they have no intention of building permanent fortifications; These hundreds of devils and puppet soldiers can't eat all this food for a year, they must want to transport it away; After returning to the base, I wondered after calculating, the devils don't repair fortifications or transport food, what are they going to do until I chatted with those recruits, the devils are waiting for this heavy rain, they have to take the waterway, the rain stops, the water level is up, they can directly transport supplies to Guangde and Langxi through the river. ”

While Feng Yi spoke, everyone was listening, and no one dared to disturb.

"Maybe many of you will ask, why don't the devils go overland, by trucks and livestock; There is only one trail leading to Zhao Village in the west, and Changxing and Yixing in the east, which are blocked by those mountains, and their trucks can't drive; And if they had used animal power, they probably wouldn't have been able to spare so many animals now. ”

Feng continued to recount the situation, and he hoped that the brothers would understand that he had not come here to trouble the devils without the slightest preparation, but had come prepared.

"According to the investigation in the past two days, the devil has gone out early and returned late in the past two days, and he has not gained much, it should be that the nearby village has been almost troubled by the devil; And the rainstorm will definitely come down, I don't want to say anything else, the purpose of our visit this time is to slaughter these dogs, rescue those fellows, and by the way, get rid of the materials hoarded by the devils. ”

Feng Ye finally said his plan, all the squad and platoon leaders looked at Feng Yi, their eyes kept flashing, they knew that as long as the battalion commander was prepared, then their success rate was very high.

"Before I came, I had already reported to the brigade commander that we could freely distribute the combat captures this time; Tell the recruits that their settling-in allowance is back in the supplies this time, and I will take them to their families and let them go home by the way, which is my promise to them. ”

Feng Yi said this, stopped, he was waiting for the appearance of different opinions, maybe these veterans will also ask for a little benefit, after all, there are a lot of materials hoarded by devils in Xinhang Town, and maybe there are a lot of gold, silver and jewelry.

But no one spoke, and all the brothers knew that if they wanted to get something, they had to wait until the battle was over to get it, because only those who were alive could make a request.