Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 116: Drink enough water to satisfy your hatred

 Night is falling!

Wakitajiro, 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 goal.

Although this location is still far away from the warehouse, it is not the most ideal location for blasting. However, if it is closer, 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 drops of water were dripping on the walls of the tunnel. They dripped out densely, 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 work 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.

Jiro Wakiba did not 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 was no longer intense. It is said that the battle report he had carefully edited 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. .

 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 chunks of soil were already falling. At this time, water droplets no longer appeared on the soil 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 the water leakage accident happen when they got to the edge of the warehouse? This place is still seventy or eighty meters away from Suzhou River!

However, the Japanese engineers and soldiers were quite experienced. After a short period of confusion, they turned around and ran back and forth. They knew too well the horror of water leakage accidents, and once they happened, they could not be saved.

 But, 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. Two or three people can run around, but dozens of people can do this. As soon as Sayazi ran away, she bumped head-on with the engineers carrying the heavy explosive boxes. It was really a mess.

If you were a combat soldier, you would have strict military discipline and you could still maintain order under an order, but the engineers and soldiers

Obviously, they do not have this ability for the time being. In the panic, even the engineer captain in charge was squeezed down, and then the panicked engineers stepped into the calf-deep water, becoming the first unlucky person to drown in the water. .

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 happened after that.

However, it was not the already anxious Japanese engineers who thought their companions were even more stupid, but the fact that the engineers carrying the explosives actually did not let go of the explosive boxes when they were retreating.

At the end of the empty tunnel, the water flowing on the wall is no longer water, but a water column.

 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 soil wall collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

 ‘Boom! ’ After a muffled sound, 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 tunnel became a waterway. Perhaps the biggest benefit for the Japanese army from now on is that they can drink water from the Suzhou River on their own positions without much effort.

 That is, the taste of corpse soaking water is definitely not too wonderful.

The good 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.

Wakitajiro's sorrow was that he had planned a huge explosion for two days and then went bankrupt. For the other commander who screamed to save people, it was the engineers who rushed out in the waves that caused him pain. Heartfelt.

The Engineer Regiment may not be considered a regiment-level establishment, but as a special unit, it only has more than 700 personnel. The two tunnels have a total of nearly 200 personnel, which is basically the establishment of an engineer squadron.

The engineers who rushed out with the water flow in front had belly as big as frogs. They were obviously full of water. However, due to the short time, they rescued several people in succession and they were still a little bit angry. But 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 layer, they would have no choice but to become water ghosts, with no other way out.

 There is not even one out of ten engineering squadrons left!

This Japanese commander's tears were much more turbulent than those of Wakiitajiro. After all, he dug the tunnel, and those who died were all his people.

 Actually, not only were the two colonels sad, but the Japanese infantry were also depressed because there were suddenly two more water outlets 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 positions.

It flows to the position, and because of the extensive construction work in the past two days, many trenches and communication trenches have been dug, so why shouldn’t the water flow along the way?

 The ground is already damp, but the sun has finally dried it out a little in the past two days. This is great, because it got wet again.

The Japanese infantrymen who jumped out of the trenches in a hurry saw the water flowing continuously and wreaking havoc on the position. They almost thanked the eight generations of ancestors of the silly engineers.

 Under the moonlight of late autumn, 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 is replaced with a scene on a battlefield or in a swamp, it's so cold that you don't dare to fire the cannon to prevent the shells from being fired, and now even the bottom of your buttocks is wet, what would it feel like?

 Isn’t it terrible?

 The hole you dug has to be filled with tears, right?

Wakitajiro woke up from his sadness and saw that his position was about to be turned into a swamp by the gushing water. Then he looked at the engineer commander over there, his eyes were dull and he was already dumbfounded. The engineers who were still inside would definitely not be saved anyway. He simply didn't discuss it with this person and directly 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 is really spectacular!

　　The reporter who was accompanying the Japanese army was blinded.

This is the time to come to China to fight floods!

 (End of this chapter)