Jiro Wakita, who was still sitting in the wing headquarters, finally received news that made him a little happy.
According to measurements, the Engineer Regiment has dug to a position 25 meters away from the warehouse in a straight line, basically achieving the intended target.
Although this location is still far away from the warehouse, it is not the most ideal location for blasting, but no matter how close it is, the sound of digging underground may be heard on the ground. To avoid these two problems, it has cost a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and even hundreds of empires
An accident occurred in the tunnel where the Army's life was exchanged. The captain of the 3rd Division Engineer Regiment who personally came to supervise the work decided to call it a day.
When the engineer commander inspected the completion site and left, he obviously didn't notice that more and more water droplets were dripping on the walls of the tunnel, densely packed, and eventually merged into a trickle and flowed down the earth wall. If not
If the drainage was good enough, he would have had to swim out of the tunnel long ago.
Although they are both colonels, the combat corps colonel obviously has a higher status than the engineer colonel who only does menial tasks such as building bridges and roads. The engineer colonel came to the 36th Infantry Regiment Headquarters in person to inform them of the good news.
Wakitajiro didn't think long before he agreed to the engineer commander's suggestion, not because he wanted to give him face, but because he urgently needed to kill his opponent.
The wording of the call from the division headquarters could no longer be described as intense. It is said that the battle report that he had edited with great care was no longer on the desk of the division commander, but was torn into pieces by the furious division commander and thrown into the trash can.
Without some progress, he was afraid that he would not be able to retire safely and take care of himself.
Naturally, in the face of the ardent hope of Colonel Wakiitajiro, the Engineer Colonel also patted his chest and promised not to look too far away, but with scientific planning and a large enough amount of explosives, the big monster of Sihang Warehouse would definitely be unable to eat and move around.
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Watching the teams of engineers carrying explosives into the tunnel, the two Japanese commanders were happily thinking about the future.
Naturally, they couldn't see the end of the tunnel. Large pieces of soil were already falling. At this time, water droplets no longer appeared on the earth wall, but water as thin as a finger flowed out from everywhere.
The Japanese engineers who were still in the tunnel were completely frightened. They didn't understand what happened. They dug more than 400 meters without this happening. Why did a water leakage accident happen when they arrived at the warehouse? This place is still seven meters away from the Suzhou River.
Eighty meters away!
However, the Japanese engineers were quite experienced. After a short period of confusion, they turned around and ran back and forth. They knew too well how terrible a water leakage accident was, and once it happened, it was irreversible.
However, they are still too late.
Although the water flow is still increasing, the drainage in the tunnel can no longer keep up with the speed of water inflow. But the sad thing is that the tunnel is not only long, but also thin to keep up with the progress of the project. It can only be run by two or three people, but it can be done by dozens of people.
As soon as Sayazi ran away, she ran into the engineers carrying the heavy explosive boxes, and it was really a mess.
If they were combat soldiers, they would have strict military discipline and could maintain order under orders, but the engineers...
Obviously, they do not have this ability for the time being. In the panic, even the engineer captain in charge was squeezed down. Then, the panicked engineers stepped into the calf-deep water, becoming the first unlucky person to drown in the water.
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What makes the engineers even more miserable is that everyone here wants to run out, but the two colonels outside are constantly increasing the amount of explosives in order to take down the behemoth Sihang Warehouse at once. 2,000 kilograms of explosives are used in one tunnel, vowing to blow up the warehouse.
Earth aircraft.
It took two people to carry 50 kilograms, and 80 people to carry 2,000 kilograms. The huge team lined up in the tunnel for more than 200 meters. By the time the engineer at the end knew what was happening in front of him, it had already been five or six minutes.
That’s what happens after that.
However, it was not just that the Japanese engineers who were already in a hurry felt that their companions were even more stupid, but that when the engineers carrying the explosives retreated, they were so stubborn that they did not let go of the explosive boxes...
At the end of the empty tunnel, the water flowing on the wall was no longer water, but water columns.
Thumb-thick water columns sprayed out from all parts of the wall. As the water washed away, larger pieces of mud peeled off, making the water columns even thicker.
Finally, when a water column as thick as the mouth of a bowl appeared, the earth wall collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After a muffled sound of 'Boom!', the water channel in the warehouse that was already level with the ground suddenly dropped, and then a large amount of water from the Suzhou River poured in again.
Visible to the naked eye, the water flow in the two channels suddenly became extremely fast. Everyone knew that the Japanese tunnel had collapsed.
The tunnels became waterways.
Perhaps the biggest benefit for the Japanese army from now on is that they can drink Suzhou River water from their own positions without much effort.
That is, the taste of corpse soaking water is definitely not too wonderful.
The happy mood of the two Japanese colonels ended when a large amount of water began to flow out of the tunnel. They watched dumbfoundedly as the stream turned into a river, and soon it turned into turbulent waves.
The sudden rush of water almost knocked the two stunned captains off their feet, had it not been for the quick hands and eyes of the guard on guard who had quickly pulled them up to a slightly higher position.
Is this a river dug?
The moment he saw the steady stream of water carrying the shit-yellow figure rushing out of the tunnel, Jiro Wakibata had only this thought in his mind, and the tears that instantly burst out of his eyes were no better than the water rushing from the tunnel's river.
How much less.
Wakiitajiro's sadness was that he had planned a huge explosion for two days and then went bankrupt. For the other captain who screamed to save people, the engineers who rushed out in the waves were the ones who hurt him.
Heartfelt.
The Engineer Regiment may not be considered a regiment-level establishment, but as a special unit, it only has more than 700 personnel. There are nearly 200 personnel in the two tunnels, which is basically the establishment of an engineer squadron.
The sappers who rushed out with the water flow in front had stomachs as bulging as frogs. They were obviously full of water. However, due to the short time, they rescued several people in succession and still had some energy. However, when we got to the back, not only were there fewer people rushing out, but basically
They were all out of breath, and even trying to do artificial respiration was useless.
And those who didn't come out, let alone, as long as they couldn't transform into swords and break through the five-meter-thick soil, they would have no choice but to become water ghosts, with no other way out.
An engineer squadron is worthless!
The tears of this Japanese commander were much more intense than those of Wakiitajiro. After all, he dug the tunnel, and those who died were all his people.
In fact, not only were the two colonels sad, but the Japanese infantry were also depressed as two water outlets suddenly appeared on the position.
The terrain of Zhabei District is inherently higher as you go south. Otherwise, the Suzhou River would not flow turbulently through the tunnels toward the Japanese military positions.
And if it flows to the position, and because many trenches and communication trenches have been dug due to the large-scale construction work in the past two days, shouldn't the water just flow along?
The ground is already damp, but the sun has finally dried it out a little in the past two days. It's great now, but it's wet again.
The Japanese infantrymen who hurriedly jumped out of the trenches saw the water flowing continuously and wreaking havoc on the position, and almost thanked the eight generations of ancestors of the silly engineers.
Under the late autumn moonlight, a bonfire is lit by the river, everyone eats meat, drinks sake and sings songs. This is a very pleasant time in life.
But if this scene were replaced with a scene on a battlefield or in a swamp, where it was so cold that you didn't dare to fire the cannon to prevent the shells from being fired, and now even the bottom of your buttocks was wet, what would that feel like?
Isn't it terrible?
Even if you dig a hole for yourself, you have to fill it with tears, right?
Wakitajiro, who woke up from his sadness, saw that his position was about to be turned into a swamp by the gushing water, and then looked at the engineer commander over there with dull eyes. He was already dumbfounded. The engineers who were still inside would definitely not be saved anyway.
I simply didn't discuss it with him and just called the squadron directly under the wing headquarters.
Block the water outlet.
Under the moonlight, groups of Japanese soldiers carried sandbags and threw them toward the water outlet.
That scene was really spectacular!
The reporter who accompanied the Japanese army was blinded.
