Zhai Daping listened to Zhao Lijin complaining, he knew Lao Zhao's temper, although he scolded fiercely, but after scolding, he was never ambiguous in carrying out the order.
Sure enough, Zhao Lijin scolded for about ten minutes, and then stopped scolding: "Battalion commander, it's not early now, we have to go quickly, if we wait for dawn, as soon as the Japanese planes are dispatched, it will be too late to say anything." ” Zhai Daping smiled: "Why don't you scold?"
"Scolding and scolding the little devil who can't die, scolding and scolding can't get back those information, there's no way, my old Zhao is a hard life."
Zhao Lijin muttered while beckoning his subordinates to get ready, and immediately go to the fort to help transfer the cannon.
Soon, all the tools needed to move the cannon were almost ready.
In fact, the tools they can get here are only a few crowbars and a few ropes, and they are not engineers, so naturally they do not have professional lifting equipment.
Everything was ready, and Zhai Daping ordered everyone in the special service battalion to go to the fort to help, except for a few necessary sentry posts.
By the time Zhai Daping hurried to the fort, there were already some Nationalist troops helping to transfer the artillery.
Fortunately, the garrison regiment had professional lifting tools, and although these cannons were very bulky, as long as there were many people, it should not be a big problem.
After a whole night of hard work, they finally moved all the artillery positions before dawn, and also camouflaged the original gun position to avoid being detected by the Japanese reconnaissance planes.
Zhai Daping reminded the commander of the garrison to move the shells as well.
If the devil blows up the warehouse where the shells are stored, the consequences are just as serious.
The shells had to be scattered across the fortifications in order to ensure that they were not blown up.
The commander of the garrison was already too tired, but when he thought about Zhai Daping's words, it was too unsafe for all the shells to be piled up in the warehouse, if he was hit by the devil's plane or naval guns, a series of martyrdom would be enough to destroy a lot of things.
However, he did not think that it was necessary to move all the way to the fortifications, and when designing the battery, the problem of artillery shell storage was taken into account.
In fact, under the casemate, there was a large basement made of reinforced concrete, which was specially used to store shells.
The little devil's bomb can't penetrate such a thick layer of cement to act on the basement, while the people above can lift the shells by manpower or simple lifting equipment so that they can be used at any time.
"Then you should hurry up and ask someone to move, now that the sky is almost dawn, is it possible that you are still waiting for the little devil's plane to blow up."
After listening to Zhai Daping's sarcasm, the commander of the garrison hurriedly beckoned his men to go to the warehouse to carry the shells, including the brothers of the special service battalion, and they did it again out of breath.
Finally, all the shells were carried to the basement before dawn.
While wiping the sweat from his head, the head of the garrison said to Zhai Daping in a loud voice: "Thank you, if it weren't for you today, I'm afraid I would have a catastrophe."
If you need artillery support in the future, as long as you say a word, I will definitely support you. ” Zhai Daping was also tired enough, and the others were even more exhausted.
For a whole night, they first desperately pursued the devils, fought a small battle, and now they were desperately helping people transfer cannons and shells, and the physical exertion was very huge, and some people were even so tired that they lay down.
Zhai Daping looked at it, this is not good, in case the enemy's plane suddenly comes to bomb, isn't it looking for death to lie here and rest, he hurriedly asked Zhao Lijin to drag the brother lying on the ground up, and withdraw from here before the devil attacked.
Everyone retreated in a hurry, and by the time Zhai Daping led the special battalion back to his fortifications, the sky was already bright.
The sun showed the horizon, and the wide surface of the Yangtze River appeared bright golden yellow rays.
Zhai Daping looked at the beautiful scenery in front of him, and his mood was not a little comfortable, but worried.
Before, the devil's plane did not come to bomb, not because of bad weather, but because they did not have information on Jiangyin's defense fortifications.
And now, they have got what they want, and with such good weather, it would be hell if the little devil's plane didn't come.
Thinking of this, Zhai Daping immediately radioed Zhou Wu and simply recounted what happened last night to Zhou Wu.
After listening, Zhou Wu said: "Lao Zhai, we have withdrawn to Zhangjiagang, and we are still half the way from Jiangyin.
I think the devil's plane will definitely bomb the Jiangyin Fort today. ” "That's it, I'll inform Lao Ding later, it is estimated that they should not be far from Jiangyin, I will ask them to work harder and strive to get to you at noon."
Zhai Daping said: "Great, if Chief of Staff Ding and Regiment Commander Gao are here, then our strength in Jiangyin will quickly increase several times." ” "In addition, Lao Zhang's howitzer battalion is also a strange soldier, I don't have a problem with shells here, there are all kinds of calibers, and as long as it starts, the military supplies in the rear will be transported immediately."
"The most important thing is that the health company of our brigade headquarters is also here, this is really timely rain.
For most of the past half a month, the brothers have generally endured minor illnesses and resisted major illnesses, and they really couldn't stand it, so they could only cheekily go to the friendly army to ask for medicine.
Well, now, the brothers' medical care is finally guaranteed. ” Zhou Wu said: "I have wronged you these days, and I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of all the personnel of the Independent Brigade.
By the way, the team you sent out to be responsible for answering should have met Lao Ding. ” "As for me and Lao Ge, we have to arrive in Jiangyin tonight at the earliest, I originally planned to rest in Zhangjiagang, but now it seems that it will not work, even if it will be discovered by the devil's reconnaissance plane, we have to choose to continue the rapid march during the day."
"Because once the battle in Jiangyin starts, the devils will definitely carry out a large-scale landing here, and the more of us we have, the more guarantees and fewer accidents."
After ending the call with Zhou Wu, Zhai Daping just wanted to sit down and rest, when a small soldier hurriedly ran in.
"Report to the battalion commander, we have already connected with Chief of Staff Ding, and the captain specially sent me to report to you.
Now the chief of staff and the others have marched less than 20 miles from the Jiangyin Bridge, and it is estimated that they will all arrive in Jiangyin in three or four hours to meet us. ” Hearing this, Zhai Daping didn't mention how happy he was, he immediately asked this brother who was out of breath to rest, and he couldn't wait to report the good news to Zhou Wu.
Zhou Wu didn't look the slightest surprised when he heard this, these were all expected by him.
At the same time, Zhou Wu told Zhai Daping on the radio that they had quickened their march and tried to reach Jiangyin at two or three o'clock this afternoon. t1706231537: