Chapter 86 Li Yunlong's plan! (Please read on) In the evening, Li Yunlong walked into the communications room of the command center. "From now on, all radio stations are shut down. No one is allowed to turn on the radio without my order!" "Also, keep the telephone lines connected to the front line and cut off all other telephone lines, including the independent battalion's telephone lines." After receiving Li Yunlong's order, the communicator was puzzled as to why Li Yunlong gave such an order, but he still carried it out. After Li Yunlong gave the order, he led the guard platoon towards Qinghe County. Qin Yangming, who got the news, hurriedly led a team of soldiers to chase after them. Soon, Qin Yangming and Li Yunlong arrived at a high mountain on the edge of Qinghe County. Standing on the top of the mountain, Qin Yangming looked at Qinghe County, whose outline could be seen in the distance, and the thawing Yellow River in the north. "It seems that he guessed my plan." Li Yunlong glanced at Qin Yangming, then turned his gaze to the Zhengchuan River in the south of Qinghe County.
Qin Yangming was about to say something when Li Yunlong raised his hand to stop him: "Okay, go back, there is nothing for you to do here. I don't need your protection, I know that." Qin Yangming smiled and said, "Captain, I've come here, so why should I go back?" "Besides, as long as we successfully capture Qinghe County and seize the Junggar Horse Farm, then we will have done nothing wrong." "At most I'll get scolded." "Hahaha, kid, okay, let's go over there." Li Yunlong's plan was very simple, which was to dig up the embankment of Zhengchuan River and force the Zhengchuan River to change its course and flow into the Yellow River from the north of Qinghe County! Although there is not much water in the Zhengchuan River, it is enough to cover the entire flat area of Qinghe County. Even though the soil in Qinghe County is loess, and although it is hard due to the dryness, it will quickly turn into mud once soaked in water. By then, the flat area where the cavalry can exert their greatest combat effectiveness will become a muddy land! On this kind of ground, it is difficult for a warhorse to even walk, let alone run, let alone carry a person on its back. If the speed of war horses cannot be increased, the cavalry will become sitting ducks! By then, both the Mongolian cavalry and the Japanese cavalry will have to become infantry! "Tsk tsk tsk, Xiao Qin, look at this terrain. The south is high and the north is low. As long as the Zhengchuan River bursts its banks, the river water will cover the area below in one night." "I checked it last time and asked my fellow villagers. The Zhengchuan River used to be in the north of Qinghe County, but there was a shortage of water here, so the Zhengchuan River was diverted. It will only take two days at most for the Zhengchuan River to flow back into the Yellow River from its old course.” "The water level of the Zhengchuan River is not enough to cause a flood. The greatest damage it would cause would be destroying all the crops that the people here have planted during the spring ploughing. But the spring ploughing has just ended, so as long as we are quick enough, we can still replant, but the harvest will be less.” Qin Yangming listened to Li Yunlong's explanation and smiled: "Captain, it's a good thing you didn't mention this idea to the brigade commander. Otherwise, the brigade commander would never agree. If the water of Zhengchuan River does not return to the old river course, but runs wild in Qinghe County, if the river water rushes into Qinghe County, the county town will basically be destroyed. " Li Yunlong nodded: "Yes, that's right. If the water of Zhengchuan River doesn't return to the old riverbed, Qinghe County might become uninhabitable in a short period of time, and the people will suffer great losses.
But even so, it is not a big problem as long as we take Qinghe County and turn it into a military city. It would be enough for the common people to move to the border areas to live. There are at most 30,000 people in Qinghe County, and there is enough land in the border areas to feed so many people. Even if we don’t have enough land, at worst I, Old Li, can lead the troops to take our land back from the Japanese invaders.” "As for the flood problem later, we will have plenty of time and manpower to deal with it after we drive the Japanese out of China." "To take a step back, if we had not taken Qinghe County and the Zhengchuan River had not returned to its original course, or if it had returned to its original course, it would not be a bad thing for us. If the Zhengchuan River returns to its old course, Qinghe County will become a county surrounded by rivers on three sides, and the remaining side will still be our base. By then, Qinghe County will become the meat in the bowl, and we can eat it whenever we want. If the Zhengchuan River does not return to the old river channel, it will definitely create a new river channel in Qinghe County. Before the new river channel was formed, the flat land where Qinghe County was located was not suitable for building defensive fortifications such as watchtowers. Even the city walls may collapse due to being soaked in the river for a long time. Without those fortifications, what can Qinghe County use to resist our troops? " Li Yunlong didn't finish his words, but he knew that some things were not suitable to be said to others, even if the other party knew what you wanted to say. For example, Qin Yangming now also understood another meaning contained in Li Yunlong's words. …… With the help of Li Erhu, the soldiers they brought quickly found a suitable blasting point. As Li Yunlong gave the order, Li Erhu detonated the buried explosives. The solid river embankment was instantly blown open by the explosives. The surging river water rushed madly from the hole in the river bank towards the plain in the north. As the river water washed away the river, the hole in the embankment became bigger and bigger. More river water also rushed to the north through the opening, while the river water that originally flowed to the south began to slow down slowly. Li Yunlong did not stop, but asked Li Erhu to continue blasting the river embankment in order to speed up the injection of river water. Accompanied by explosions, the direction of the Zhengchuan River was forcibly changed again, and a large amount of river water rushed to the north. The river water rushed down from the mountains, carrying with it the mud and sand from the Loess Plateau, destroying anything that tried to block it like a mighty army. The puppet troops who knew that the people were evacuating and who were occupying the artillery towers and ready for battle did not wait for the attack of the Eighth Route Army, but were greeted by the river. The puppet army strongholds and artillery towers closest to the Zhengchuan River could not withstand the river water that had just rushed down from Shanxia. The earth-built artillery tower was directly washed away by the river water that had turned into a flood. In less than one night, the water of Zhengchuan River covered the flat area of Qinghe County. After seeing the flood, Ding Wei and others who were preparing to launch a battle also understood what Li Yunlong meant by the solution to the cavalry. Kong Jie stood on the hill and watched the flood water begin to recede, exclaiming: "Oh my God, Li Yunlong is such a courageous guy! Since he couldn't poke a hole in the sky, he just poked a hole in the ground!"
"I was wondering why Li Yunlong couldn't tell us. So this is what happened." Ding Wei looked at the flood and now understood why Li Yunlong did not tell them the plan. The reason is simple: to protect them. If one doesn't handle this kind of thing like blasting the river bank and attacking the city properly, it will cause heavy losses to the civilians. Not everyone can bear this kind of responsibility. If Li Yunlong doesn't say anything, then they will all be unaware of the situation. If anything goes wrong, it will be Li Yunlong's fault alone and has nothing to do with them. At this moment, Zhao Gang was very angry. "Li Yunlong, this bastard, didn't even discuss such a big thing as blowing up the river bank with me, the political commissar. What does he want to do!" Zhao Gang was filled with fear as he watched the receding flood. Zhao Gang found the communicator and was about to ask him to report the matter to the brigade headquarters. But after thinking about it, he shut his mouth. "Li Yunlong, just wait for me. After this battle is over, I will report to the brigade commander what you did!" …… As the first rays of sunlight in the early morning shone on the earth, the water of the Zhengchuan River, which had been raging on the flat land in the middle of Qinghe County all night, also sank completely into the earth. The Zhengchuan River also returned to its original course and merged into the Yellow River again from the north of Qinghe County. "Order all troops to attack!" Li Yunlong returned to the command center, looked at the rising sun, and quickly issued the order to attack. (End of this chapter)