Chapter 129 Huitong Bridge Defenders
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After the spy company arrived in Mengga Village, the two wounded people needed surgery, so Zeng Zifan and Daolanxiang took a squad of soldiers, carrying Lai Li and Monkey, first back to the side of the road where the parking was parked, and the rest stayed to bury the villagers.--Piao Tianwen-()
After dark, the murdered men, women, young and old people in the village were buried collectively on the grass at the entrance of the village.
Before leaving, Dong Limao held a torch in his hand and stood alone beside the wooden sign "Tomb of the Brothers and Villagers of Mengga Village" carved with a knife, swearing to all the dead:
"In the next two years, Dong Jiacheng, I, will swear! I will avenge my fellow villagers with cruel means than the Japanese! I will avenge my shame for the defeat of the Expeditionary Army in northern Myanmar!" The name he casually said was not himself, but his great-grandfather's name.
It seemed that God heard Dong Limao's oath. Several thunders rumbled from the sky and flew quickly above Dong Limao's head, gathering into a huge explosion, as if to tear a hole open in the dark night. A beam of lightning flashed out from the torn hole, and the dark sky suddenly fell dense raindrops.
This was a heavy rain, which came hard and went quickly. When Dong Limao and his friends arrived at the parking road, the rain suddenly stopped, and there were still stars in the sky.
With the assistance of Daolanxiang and several soldiers, Zeng Zifan completed Lai's abdominal surgery on the roadside truck, basically out of danger. When Dong Limao and the others arrived, he happened to help the monkey remove the warhead from the injured leg.
The convoy of the spy company was slowly crawling towards the top of the mountain on the winding mountain roads of Songshan, and they continued to encounter trucks transporting supplies to the border along the way.
This Yunnan-Burma Road is not the asphalt road that Dong Limao walked before crossing, but a dirt road mixed with gravel. After heavy rain, it is muddy and difficult to walk. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, it takes more than 20 kilometers. The convoy stops and stops until the east is white, and reaches the top of the mountain. On the top of the mountain, you can see the steep mountains opposite the mountain.
Dong Limao asked the convoy to stop at the top of the mountain for half an hour. He wanted to see what the big explosion pit where the great-grandfather bravely died was like before it was blown up.
I saw that there was a pile of rocky hills towering high. It was not the way he saw it sinking before he crossed. This pile of rocky hills was the center of an important stronghold on Songshan in the next two years. The Japanese army will use this pile of rocky hills as the axis and build a strong underground fortress that stretches for more than ten miles along the mountains on the north and south sides of it.
"Company Commander, it's time for us to go down the mountain to Huitong Bridge. This is a key area for Japanese aircraft bombing during the day." Zhao Yong walked to Dong Limao and said.
"If there is a regiment of troops here, the corpses of more than 8,000 soldiers in two years will not be the soldiers of the **, but the soul of the Japanese devils!" Dong Limao said, pointing to the surrounding mountains.
"What happened two years later has nothing to do with us. Now our spy company is to carry out the order to guard the Huitong Bridge." Zhao Yong looked at the surging Nujiang at the foot of the mountain and sighed and said, "I hope the Japanese will stop sending any advance team to blow up the bridge!" He also thought that the Japanese army sent the advance team to blow up the Huitong Bridge on the Nujiang River.
"They are not here to blow up the bridge, they are trying to occupy the bridge." Dong Limao said with a frown: "And, in a few days, there will be a small Japanese army troops who disguise themselves as civilians or come to seize control of the bridge. We must be fully prepared for combat and cannot be careless."
"They want to grab the bridge?" Zhao Yong asked: "Are they crazy? To prevent the rear materials from being transported to the front line, the best and only way is to blow up the bridge. How can we use a small group of troops to seize the bridge? Isn't that equivalent to dying?"
"In a few days, no, it should be tonight. You will understand that what I said is true." Dong Limao didn't want to explain too much. Don't say that Zhao Yong didn't believe it, even Commander-in-Chief Jiang wouldn't believe it.
Commander-in-Chief Jiang personally inspected the front line of the China-Myanmar War Zone and returned to Chongqing. When the Myanmar Expeditionary Force was still in the joy of winning one victory after another, the situation turned straight. At noon on April 28, Commander-in-Chief Jiang received an urgent telegram from the Expeditionary Force headquarters at his official residence in Chongqing. The Japanese army appeared in the rear of the Expeditionary Force like a magic weapon descending from the sky, cutting off the retreat route of the large expeditionary force, which was still deep in Myanmar. The Yunnan-Burma Highway, known as the Life Transportation Line, was completely cut off by the Japanese army.
Almost when Commander-in-Chief Jiang received the telegram, the spy company led by Dong Limao rushed to the west bank of Huitong Bridge.
This is a cable highway bridge. The bridge is made of wood as sleepers. Thick wooden boards are laid on the sleepers. They can only pass trucks and tanks with a load capacity of less than seven tons. Of course, there were few trucks and tanks of that era, so this bridge is the only highway bridge connecting the east and west banks of the Nujiang River. The importance of its strategy can be imagined.
It is such a strategic road bridge. It is guarded by only one platoon of troops, and there is almost no solid stronghold. It is just that two temporary bunkers were built with sandbags on both sides of the west bank of the bridge, and a machine gun was installed in each bunker.
On the east bank, several tiled houses were built as the residences of the officers and soldiers guarding the bridge.
There are not many trucks passing by here during the day. Only at night will there be trucks carrying supplies passing west from the east bank, so the officers and soldiers guarding the bridge sleep during the day and on duty at night.
When Dong Limao and his friends arrived at Huitong Bridge, there were only four soldiers standing on the bridgehead smoking and had no sense of prevention at all. If Nagato Panasonic's advance team arrived here, it would take less than ten minutes to control the east and west sides of the bridge.
"Which part are you?" The four soldiers guarding the bridge saw Dong Limao and their convoy, and one of the top corps stopped him and asked.
Dong Limao jumped out of the jeep and stood at the empty bridge deck for a while. He clearly remembered that the photo of his great-grandfather was taken from this location. The wooden boards on the bridge deck and the bunkers made of sandbags on both sides of the bridge were the same as those in the photo. The ropes hanging from the air were like several hemp ropes in the photo, but what he saw was a rope as thick as an arm.
Dong Limao turned his head and glanced at the soldier, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Go and call your superiors!"
When the four soldiers guarding the bridge saw Dong Limao and the others covered in dirty bodies, they thought they were deserters because small groups of deserters often drove back from the front line.
"If you don't fight the Japanese on the front line, you dare to be a waste! We have the command of the headquarters. We are here to intercept you cowards!" The top soldier threw the cigarette butts on the ground, walked back and forth in front of Dong Limao twice, glared at Dong Limao, pointed at Dong Limao's nose and said loudly.
"Is that true?" Dong Limao asked with a smile: "Then what do you want to do to us?"
The soldier's eyes rolled around twice, waved to let Dong Limao get closer.
Dong Limao obediently put his head close, and the soldier attached his mouth to Dong Limao's ear and whispered: "As long as you are willing to take out some ocean to drink for your brothers, I will let you go."
"Dayang?" Dong Limao was stunned for a moment, and then asked in a low voice: "I don't have Dayang, can anything else be OK?"
The soldier was overjoyed and thought that the trip could not be escaped, so he nodded with a smile and said, "Of course..."
Before the word "Yi" was said, a pistol was already pressed against his forehead.
Dong Limao pulled out his pistol, pressed against the private's forehead and said, "This is the good thing I want to give you! Believe it or not, I will shoot you now!"
"Sir... I have something to say... I'm easy to say... I'm careful... I'll go... I'll get out of the fire..." The soldier was so scared that he stuttered his words and said it was unsuccessful.
The other three soldiers wanted to rush up, but were stopped by Wang Jiagui and others with guns: "Don't move! Otherwise, you will be killed!"
Dong Limao put away his pistol and shouted sternly: "Save your life first! Listen to my order now! Go and call your superiors to me!"
The top senators dared not act arrogantly. They immediately turned around and ran towards the east bank of the bridge. They looked back while running, afraid that Dong Limao would shoot him in the back.
Dong Limao asked Hu San to blew the assembly trumpet. Except for the two wounded people who stayed in the car, all the soldiers of the spy company stood in front of Dong Limao in less than a minute.
"Brothers! We have received an order from the military headquarters to hold on here! Now, I order you to hurry up and take a shower by the river, have a good meal, and then have a sleep! Maybe tonight, it will be very crowded! We want to check all the refugees and soldiers who have arrived here, and no suspicious people are allowed to leave the bridge!"
The brothers of the spy company had just experienced a bloody battle, covered in blood and exhausted. After they were disbanded, they almost laughed and ran down the river to take a shower on a path by the bridge.
After a while, a lieutenant platoon leader guarding the bridge ran over from the east of the bridge. He was wearing only a pair of shorts, barefoot, panting and panting to Dong Limao. Seeing Dong Limao as a captain, he stood attentively saluted: "Report to the commander, Luo Yongshan, the leader of the third squadron of the Expeditionary Army Gendarmerie Brigade 3, came..."
"Come on! Come on!" Dong Limao waved his hand and said, "We are the Spy Company of the Five Army. We are ordered to come to guard the bridge, and we will take over here. You are responsible for arranging the place where my brothers live, and there are two wounded and a female nurse. Let's arrange rooms for them to stay."
"Sir, but I didn't receive any orders, so I'm afraid..." Luo Yongshan said with a pair of triangular eyes flashing.
"Do you want to disobey?" Dong Limao glared and shouted: "Why don't you go to the room to arrange accommodation quickly. In addition, let your people cook in the fire, we are all hungry!"
"Yes..." Luo Yongshan replied weakly, shouting at the three soldiers who were still standing there: "Why don't you arrange for the spy brothers to go to the other end of the bridge!"
Dong Limao waved to Zeng Zifan: "Doctor Zeng, send Lai Li and Monkey to the other side of the bridge."
Zeng Zifan told Dong Limao: "The two wounded people must be sent to the field hospital located in Baoshan, the General Command."
As soon as he finished speaking, many neatly formed enemy planes suddenly appeared in the sky.
(Note: Huitong Bridge was built by Singaporean overseas Chinese Mr. Liang Jinshan in 1936. At that time, it was considered a relatively new type of flexible steel cable suspension bridge. The suspension bridge was 205 meters long and spanned 190 meters. It was made of seventeen giant German steel cables, with a maximum load of seven tons.)
Chapter completed!