Why blow up the road He Jinhai sorted out his thoughts in anxiety, for the second batch of reinforcements of the Japanese army, he already knew their existence and configuration, and moving forward was equivalent to facing the Japanese army, and the past did not have any effect in essence.
Fastest updates The purpose of the engineer platoon to go out to reconnoiter is to give early warning and reconnaissance and reduce the losses of the defenders of the second-line position in future battles, but neither the advance nor the retreat can play a fundamental role.
It is impossible to kill and injure, to hold back the Japanese troops, to advance and retreat.
If you rashly open fire on the highway to attack the Japanese army, this engineer platoon will have dozens of guns and a fierce melee firepower for the second batch of Japanese reinforcements, but it will not even tickle the infantry and artillery of the first two batches of Japanese reinforcements.
The only way, an effective means that could delay the Japanese brigade, was finally distributed by He Jinhai on the blasting canister and explosives.
The second batch of reinforcements of the Japanese army was numerous, with heavy equipment such as cars, artillery, mules and horses, and the road was the only way for trucks to maneuver.
Trucks don't even think about it, the war defense artillery dragged by mules and horses, and the artillery also have to rely on people to push the horses to cross the field.
He Jinhai planned to attack the highway and blow up the road, using this method to delay the march of the second batch of Japanese reinforcements, anyway, the slower the march of the second batch of Japanese reinforcements, the better it would be for the defenders of the second-line position.
He Jinhai was purely forced to do nothing, and finally returned to the old job of an engineer to find a way, and then he came up with the idea of blowing up the road.
As soon as the idea of bombing the road was conveyed, the squad leader of the engineer platoon and the platoon attached members all agreed unanimously.
Compared with moving forward and backward, the idea of blowing up the road on the spot seems more modest, but the safety and practical effect are better than moving forward and retreating.
Whether it was the platoon who advocated retreat with a conservative attitude, or the squad leaders who were full of momentum and hoped to move forward, they all agreed with He Jinhai's idea.
He Jinhai, this is forced out by an emergency and has a way to take into account different ideas.
He Jinhai, who graduated from the engineering department, finally had the opportunity to put what he had learned into play, and the soldiers of the engineer platoon began to unload their equipment under the highway and prepare to start work.
"The blasting canisters of each squad and the explosives are unloaded and gathered together" The soldiers of the engineer platoon carrying the blasting canisters and explosives all the way had the opportunity to unload their loads, so they took off their backs one after another, and gathered the blasting canisters and explosives together.
"Hurry, hurry" In the sound of urging, the soldiers of the engineer platoon separated the long and short blasting canisters and placed them on the ground neatly, as well as the explosives, and counted them uniformly.
"Report platoon commander, the number is out, a total of eighty-eight blasting canisters, sixty long blasting canisters, twenty-eight short blasting canisters, and five boxes of explosives" Platoon reported.
The long blasting canisters made by the teaching brigade themselves, with a charge of three kilograms and a short one of two kilograms, and a box of explosives was about 20 catties, and if it was converted into catties, the explosives in the hands of the engineer platoon totaled nearly 600 catties of explosives.
Thanks to the good physique of the engineer platoon, the 88 rounds of blasters and five boxes of explosives were moved here.
He Jinhai remembered his decision to bring explosives before leaving, and he was extremely happy, if he didn't bring anything, the sappers ruled out retreating, but there was really nothing to do.
"Okay, open the blaster and explosives, and prepare for blasting" He Jinhai asked the platoon to continue to process the blasting equipment, while he himself went on the highway and planned how to blast it.
The blasting of the sapper is a science, involving the calculation of the amount of earthwork of the blasting, as well as the setting of the blasting position, measurement, etc., the blasting of the Nanbin Highway is actually not too difficult, the main body of the road is the tamped soil and stone, just now the bottom of the road hidden by the engineer platoon is also dominated by soil and stone, and the surface is tamped soil.
Although the road surface is very smooth by the traffic coming and going, but you can still see many cracks, the structure is not particularly strong, if you really want to meet the real materials, that kind of serious road, He Jinhai, a small engineer platoon, don't even think about it, even if it is a battalion of engineers, it is very troublesome.
Moreover, relatively speaking, the combat engineer platoon of the teaching brigade was not "very professional" in the job of the engineer. ” The engineer platoon of the teaching brigade under He Jinhai's jurisdiction is not so much an engineer platoon as an elite combat infantry that has mastered certain engineering skills.
It was Zhang Wei's idea at that time to build an elite combat engineer platoon as an assault knife force, and in the actual combat training, the engineer platoon was also mainly engaged in infantry combat training, supplemented by engineer operation training.
The so-called engineering training is the basic construction of civil fortifications, the simple construction of fortresses, plus the use of explosives, and the use of explosives has many overlaps with the combat training of infantry.
Judging from the personnel situation, He Jinhai, the engineer platoon commander, learned the knowledge of engineers at the military academy, and there was no problem with his specialization, and there were not many soldiers under his command who were born as engineers, and the training in peacetime was also a lot of infantry combat practice, which was not considered a specialty.
In the actual training and application of the five words of the combat engineer platoon and the combat engineer platoon of the brigade, the color of the battle exceeds the color of the word "engineer".
Asking a soldier who is used to charging to do professional blasting is bound to be inefficient, and He Jinhai doesn't have the time to do everything himself.
He didn't have so much time to command, what to choose the position, what to measure, he didn't care, in a word, he immediately fucking started "Go to the highway, dig for me here, dig along the cracks, dig the road first, and then use explosives" He Jinhai stepped on the highway and shouted.
The road surface of the highway is not extremely strong, with a sapper shovel and a pickaxe, you can always cut some of it, and use these planed road surfaces to blast it, you can always blow the road open, and a person, with a pickaxe, can even smash open stones and caves, not to mention a road that is not hard.
He Jinhai took a pickaxe and smashed it on the road first.
"Up" Seeing that the platoon commander personally got started, the soldiers of the engineer platoon put down their light machine guns and superfluous things, carried sapper shovels and pickaxes, rushed onto the road, and smashed down.
The frequency of everyone's hand movements was much faster than usual, this was a rush for time, and the invisible second batch of Japanese reinforcements were rushing for time.
On the highway, the engineer platoon of the teaching brigade was desperately dealing with the road surface, and a platoon, except for the three guard sentries who were far away, the rest of the people were all working.
This is not only a contest between workmanship efficiency and Japanese reinforcements, but also a contest between explosives, manpower, wheels, and heavy equipment
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