Kang Yong's regiment rushed to Feixiang County to station and would not participate in the next war.
However, because Zhou Weihan met with him in person and showed great sincerity, Kang Yongtu reciprocated the favor and revealed the secret location where the 69th Army was preparing to cross the river during their conversation.
If the Three Shiyou Divisions want to join up with Gao Shuxun's Division of the New Eighth Army, they must cross the Wei River.
In the past two days, Zhou Weihan had been asking He Wensheng's enemy engineering department to search for the crossing point of the Three Friends Group, but they never found it.
The Wei River happens to be the dividing line between southern Hebei and northwest Shandong. Guantao County and Daming County to the east of Qiu County are close to the Wei River.
According to the information reported by He Wensheng, there were two docks in Guantao County alone. He Wensheng found local comrades to help check the situation, but strangely, no large number of ships were found near the docks.
This seems extremely abnormal. The Three Friends of Friends had to leave a way out for themselves. According to local people, the Wei River is three to four hundred meters wide, and the deepest part of the river must be seven or eight meters deep. The Wei River is suitable for crossing the river.
There are many beaches and reeds along the river, making it easy to hide some boats.
After hearing this, Zhou Weihan had no good solution and could only ask He Wensheng to continue searching.
But as the old saying goes, if you can escape the monk, you cannot escape the temple.
The three Shiyou troops plus Sun Liangcheng's troops were less than 20,000. Even if the main force was wiped out, there would still be thousands of people fleeing to the south.
Such a big target cannot be hidden. Even when they arrived at the crossing point, they did not cross the river at once. This gave Zhou Weihan's independent detachment the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the enemy.
However, Kang Yongtu brought a turn to the matter. Kang Yongtu's regiment was specifically responsible for this matter. Who would have thought that Kang Yongtu would revolt on the battlefield.
According to Kang Yongtu, the crossing point was not at the pier, but at a beach in the wild, with all the boats hidden in the reeds.
Zhou Weihan thought about the troops at hand. Three regiments have been deployed on the position. The guard company is following Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo. Currently, the only mobile troops on hand are Jing Dagang's regiment, reconnaissance company, and cavalry company.
"Monk, ask the telegraph operator to send a message to Jing Dagang's group!" Zhou Weihan said.
Dahe Village, Guantao County.
According to Zhou Weihan's plan, Jing Dagang's regiment was deployed along the Wei River in Guantao County as a reserve team.
"Regiment commander, the commander sent an urgent message!" the telegraph operator of the first regiment reported.
Jing Dagang took the telegram, glanced at it quickly, raised the corners of his mouth with a smile on his face.
"Commander, why are you so happy about this good thing?" Li Ziwen, the political commissar of the first regiment asked.
"I didn't expect that our group, as the reserve team, would be the first to take action. What a surprise!" Jing Dagang said happily.
"The commander has given us a combat mission, asking us to destroy the crossing point of the Three Friends Group and destroy their river-crossing boats!"
Jing Dagang spread the map on the table, frowned and said: "The commander mentioned three locations in the telegram, which are all locations where Shi Yousan hid the ship, but there are none on this map!"
"We are new here and are not familiar with the place. We have to ask He Wensheng for this matter. He has been responsible for contacting local comrades in southern Hebei and asking him to send someone to help us!" Li Ziwen said.
"The battle in the north has been going on for a day. I guess Shi Yousan's troops won't be able to hold on for long. We have to hurry up!" Jing Dagang said.
That night, Jing Dagang sent someone to contact He Wensheng.
Early the next morning, He Wensheng rushed to Jing Dagang's group with comrades who were familiar with the situation along the Weihe River.
"These three comrades used to make a living on the Wei River and are familiar with the situation!" He Wensheng said.
"Great, these three locations are not on the map at all. I asked the fellow villagers and they didn't know where they are. Without you, we wouldn't even be able to find the place!" Jing Dagang said.
"Captain Jing, these three places are all old ferries. They were abandoned during my father's generation. Now their names have been changed. Most people really don't know about them!"
"Laoyakou is the closest. Just walk eastward along Dahe Village where we are. Changfeng Ferry is in the north of Guantao County, and the remaining Xiaoxiaowan is in Daming County."
Jing Dagang immediately ordered the soldiers of each battalion of the regiment to divide into three groups and go straight to the three ferries.
Laoyakou is located at the bend of Wei River. It is a small inlet where boats can be safely parked. Jing Dagang personally came here with a battalion.
"Captain Jing, Lao Yakou is just ahead!"
Jing Dagang saw the endless reeds in front of him: "How can we find a boat to cross the river?"
"Just follow the bend of the river and look for it!"
"Xin Tiebing, find a few warriors with good water resistance to investigate in the reed swamps!" Jing Dagang ordered.
Six soldiers from the first battalion waded into the reed swamp with short knives, and in an instant they disappeared.
The six soldiers were divided into two groups and searched all the way south and north.
"This reed swamp is so dense that you can't see clearly from a distance of seven or eight meters. The three of us lined up in a row and searched south." A soldier said. At this time, the river water had reached the chests of the three of them.
"Actually, it's easy to search. The reed marsh is so dense that ordinary ships can't go through it. There must be a waterway in the middle. As long as we find the waterway, we can find it by following it!" said another soldier.
The three of them floated on the water, and the short knives in their hands chopped down the reeds blocking the road from time to time.
"We found the water channel!" a soldier whispered.
The three of them swam along the waterway for a while, and there was a large gap in the reed marsh in front of them, with thirteen small steamers and more than thirty wooden boats.
The small steamers were surrounded by wooden planks in the middle, and a group of stubborn soldiers were chatting on the boat, unaware of the approaching danger.
"Make a mark." One soldier said as he took off his clothes, and the other two supported him and hung the clothes on the top of the reed marsh.
In order to avoid finding their way back, the three of them cut a path along the way.
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"You said the boat is only thirty or forty meters away from the beach by the river?" Jing Dagang asked.
"When I came back, I made a rough estimate in my mind. The straight-line distance is indeed only more than thirty meters! We have marked it, and you can see my hanging clothes on the shore. There are about half a company of stubborn soldiers guarding it.
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"The boats hidden in the reeds, the small steamer can transport about 30 people, and the wooden boat can also transport a class of people. In total, it can transport more than 700 people at a time!"
On the shore, bombardiers selected from a battalion were divided into two rows and stood quietly on the shore.
The reconnaissance soldier made a correction: "It extends forty meters north and south along the clothes and thirty meters east."
According to the reconnaissance situation, the ship was within a range of thirty to sixty meters from the shore. Considering the inconvenience of water operations, Jing Dagang decided to directly let the soldiers throw grenades to blow up the ship in a large area, and then dispatched a small force.
Go up.
"Boom, boom, boom," the first wave of more than a hundred grenades fell from the sky, and the stubborn soldiers who were chatting just now were sometimes overturned along with the ship.
"Damn it, run!" Some people got into the cabin and tried to control the small steamer to escape, but all the ships were crowded together.
The clever ones plunged directly into the water and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
After the six waves of grenades exploded, Jing Dagang waved his hand, and the small selected troops, armed with short guns or submachine guns, immediately rushed into the reed swamp.
Soon, a burst of gunfire rang out.
"Captain, all ships have been intercepted! But only 25 bodies were found, and some people escaped!" Soldiers reported.
"Just run away, as long as the ship is in our hands!"
"Xin Tiebing, take the people and move the intact ships to me immediately, and hide them in another place, especially those small steamers, they may come in handy at some point!" Jing Dagang said.