Just as the battle to ambush the Japanese at Shentou Ridge was going on fiercely, a small-scale blocking battle also started by the Baishui River Bridge.
Sanbao led the soldiers in the squad and followed the whole company to the Baishui River. He was extremely eager for the upcoming battle. This was Sanbao's first battle since he became the squad leader. Sanbao wanted to win for the squad through a battle.
Soldiers replenish some ammunition.
At this time, Sanbao's machine gun has been handed over to the company's machine gun squad. He is holding a 38 rifle with about twenty rounds of bullets. This is already the best in the company, and among the soldiers in Sanbao's squad
For example, except for the deputy squad leader's gun, which was the same as his own, the others were all made in Hanyang, and one even held a spear. These were new warriors, and they only had five bullets in their hands. For this reason, Sanbao ordered them:
"When the battle starts, follow me and rush to the front. Not only do you want to kill the Japanese, but you also want to seize their weapons and ammunition."
For this reason, Sanbao approached the company commander Chen Zhenhai and asked to bring his squad to the forefront. Ordinarily, such a task would never fall on the recruit squad led by Sanbao, and they were soldiers who had not experienced combat.
Even Sanbao didn't expect that Chen Zhenhai actually agreed without waiting for much time to ask. The order Chen Zhenhai received was to blow up the Baishui Bridge so that the Japs who came in a hurry would not be able to cross the river. He remembered that Sanbao had played with explosives.
and mines, so this task was handed over to the Sambo Class.
For this reason, Sanbao received an explosive bag and a dozen grenades, and he led the soldiers in his squad to prepare to plant the explosives on the bridge.
This was a wooden bridge. After Sanbao looked at it carefully, he was moved. He led his soldiers into the water to saw off the two wooden piles erected in the river horizontally, and placed explosives under the bridge deck on the adjacent wooden piles.
Sanbao arranged it himself, but he only placed the explosive package in the main part under the bridge. In order to detonate it, he placed several bundled grenades next to the explosive package and drew out the pull cord and set up tens of meters of pull rope.
Sanbao made a final inspection from behind, and then came to a place dozens of meters away from the bridge to ambush.
"Monitor, isn't this bad?" the deputy monitor said carefully.
"What?" Sanbao asked.
"Our grenade has not been used. Is the explosion powerful enough?" the deputy squad leader asked.
"Don't believe me?" Sanbao replied: "Don't worry, this bridge will fly into the sky!"
"What about our remaining grenades?" the deputy squad leader asked.
"Give one to each warrior." Sanbao said immediately.
"Is this okay?" the deputy monitor asked.
"After this battle, we will have something in our hands." Sanbao said nonchalantly: "I will return it to the company then."
At this time, Chen Zhenhai came to the front. He had already deployed blocking positions behind him just in case. "Sambo, how are the arrangements going?" Chen Zhenhai asked.
"Did you see that?" Sanbao waved the pull rope in his hand, "As long as you pull it, the bridge will be finished."
"Okay." Chen Zhenhai said and ordered: "When the main force's ambush campaign begins, you will blow up the bridge immediately!"
Sanbao couldn't help but feel suffocated after hearing this, and he immediately asked in anticipation: "What if the Japanese from our side come first?
"No!" Chen Zhenhai replied: "The Japs in our direction are far away, so you can just blow up the bridge when the time comes."
"Blow up the bridge," Sanbao muttered in his mind: "How can I seize weapons and ammunition in that case?"