Jiang Hailong learned the general situation from Hu Qiang and Li Zheng. There were coal mines, cement plants, small power plants and an abandoned military factory in the Nanshan mining area. The Japanese had two brigades stationed there and drove prisoners of war and laborers to the construction site during the day.
, and then take them back to sleep in the work shed within the wall of the barracks at night. The wall is equipped with an electric grid, and the searchlights in the bunker shine inside the wall all night long, and Japanese soldiers leading wolf dogs patrol the yard regularly.
Jiang Hailong summoned Li Ming for advice. After listening to his brief introduction, Li Ming's eyes lit up and said: "More than a thousand prisoners of war and laborers can supplement our military resources, and the mining area can also provide us with coal and fortifications."
We need a lot of cement, so how can we miss this opportunity? We now have two regiments of men and horses, and sufficient ammunition. The two brigades of Japanese soldiers are nothing, let’s do it!”
Jiang Hailong sent an urgent telegram to Zhou Jun, asking him to send military personnel to the Nanshan mining area to collect as much information as possible. Zhou Jun knew that he was going to make another big move, so he readily agreed.
Three days later, the Tigers received information from Zhou Jun. After all, it was done by professionals. Not only did they take clear photos, but they also included architectural and topographic maps drawn strictly to scale.
A regiment of the Anti-Japanese Tigers, plus a special agent company and a guard platoon, were already ready to go. They were divided into more than 30 large trucks, two jeeps, more than 100 horses, and ten mountain cannons, and rushed to the Nanshan mining area. Li
Ming handed over the management of his regiment to deputy regiment leader Li Tiezhu and insisted on following Jiang Hailong.
The simple road in the mountainous area was rugged and winding, and the vehicle speed was not fast. It was already late at night when we approached the Nanshan mining area. The night concealed the team's whereabouts. The team turned off the lights and turned off the engine in advance, and the large group rested in place. Hu Qiang and Li Zheng led the way, and Wang Dali led the special agent company.
Sneak into the mining site in the dark.
The mining site is more than a kilometer away from the Japanese military camp and the work shed compound where prisoners of war and laborers are detained. The construction site is full of machines that cannot be moved and several tons of raw coal and cement that are of little use even if stolen by the Japanese.
Again, the defense was lax at night. The soldiers of the special agent company in black night uniforms successfully killed more than twenty sentries and sleeping Japanese with bayonets, daggers, and crossbows without much effort.
Wang Dali used a strong flashlight to send out a signal, and the troops quietly came in, placed the mountain artillery they had dragged over, and the artillerymen set the coordinates of the attack target.
Deputy commander Liu Heizi followed the captain's instructions and arranged to ambush a sniper platoon and machine gun company on a hillside five hundred meters away from the Japanese camp.
Hu Qiang and Li Zhengshu, who were familiar with each other, reached outside the wall of the power plant, climbed up the ladder set up by the soldiers of the special agent company, and quickly cut the power grid with insulating pliers when the searchlight was shining elsewhere, and climbed into the wall. They had just hid.
Entering the dark place, I found four Japanese patrolmen leading two wolfdogs walking slowly towards the power plant.
Li Zheng picked up a stone and pushed it towards the wall in the distance. When the stone fell to the ground, the wolf dog heard the sound and seemed to smell the scent of a stranger outside the wall, dragging the patrolman and running towards the sound.
There was an electric grid on the wall, there were patrols with dogs in the courtyard, and there were searchlights on the sentry tower. The two Japanese soldiers on guard at the gate of the power plant never dreamed that anyone could break in.
Qiang, Li Zheng wiped his neck. Unexpectedly, a Japanese electrician on duty in the power plant went out to urinate and saw this scene. He yelled, picked up his pants and ran into the power plant. Li Zheng knew that there were telephones and alarms inside.
He fired a gun and knocked the electrician down. At this time, Hu Qiang rushed to the back room and shot to death another Japanese electrician on duty who was caught off guard. The huge roar of the diesel generator covered up the screams of the Japanese and the faint sound of pistols.
Hu Qiang pulled the main switch, and the searchlights and all lights were immediately extinguished. Several soldiers holding explosives immediately rushed to the gate and a wall in the dark, quickly lit the fuse and retreated. Eleven seconds later,
With two loud noises of "boom, boom", the iron gate was blown down, a large gap was blown down in the wall, and the Japanese and wolf dogs patrolling the wall were blown away.
Hu Qiang and Li Zheng took advantage of the chaos to find the work shed where the regiment commander and the prisoners of war lived. Hu Qiang said to the window: "Captain Li, we are Hu Qiang and Li Zheng under your command. We have brought reinforcements for our brothers. You
Tell everyone to stay where you are and don’t run out and become a target of the enemy’s shooting or be accidentally injured by your own people!”
Li Zheng used the iron bar he found in the power plant to pry open the door lock, turned on the flashlight covered with cloth, and handed the iron bar and the guns and ammunition of the two Japanese sentries in the power plant to several comrades. Together with Hu Qiang, he and the three regiment leaders
They hugged each other, burst into tears, and sighed with emotion for a while.
The two soldiers who took the gun guarded the regiment leader on the left and right. The soldier who took the iron rod did not dare to delay. He called a few brothers to pry open the lock of the work shed that blocked other comrades and laborers. According to Hu Qiang's instructions,
I told everyone not to run around.
The Japanese panicked and reacted quickly. They lit kerosene lamps in the barracks and bunkers, and the Japanese soldiers' light and heavy machine guns that could not see the target opened fire at the same time. The dense bullets poured towards the gate like water. Liu Heizi, deputy commander of the Tigers, saw it clearly.
I was sweating coldly, but fortunately I listened to the captain's explanation and didn't ask the soldiers to charge immediately after blowing up the gate, otherwise the losses would have been huge.
The prisoners of war strictly obeyed the orders and stayed in place. The workers were just a mob after all. A group of people rushed out of the work shed regardless, and were instantly mowed down by dozens of Japanese machine guns. The rest were so frightened that they lay motionless on the ground.
The mountain artillery hidden in the mining site roared, and the shells screamed and accurately fell into the Japanese barracks and bunkers, setting off a burst of flames. Soldiers from the Tigers' machine gun company and sniper platoon ambushing on the hillside swayed toward the lighted windows of the Japanese barracks.
The figure and the fire-breathing muzzle of the bunker fired rapidly, blocking the enemy's firepower.
The sentry tower was blown down, and a corner of the barracks building was blown down. Dozens of Japanese soldiers who were killed and injured were buried in broken bricks and tiles. However, only one layer of the Japanese bunkers built with reinforced concrete was shaved off by artillery fire.
Skin.
The Tigers stopped shelling, and the Japanese commander judged based on common sense that the enemy would launch a charge. As expected, as soon as the gunfire stopped, the roar of a charge rang out all around. He immediately ordered a large number of soldiers to rush out of the barracks and organize resistance. Unexpectedly,
As soon as the machine guns, mortars, and grenade launchers were set up, the Tigers' cannon suddenly fired again. The shells fell into the crowd like hailstones, causing broken limbs of the Japanese soldiers to fly everywhere. The machine guns and grenade launchers were blown to pieces.
In addition to the fierce fire from light and heavy machine guns on the hillside, most of the Japs in the two squadrons were wiped out. They hurriedly fled back to the barracks and even the wounded and disabled Japs were less than two squads. The Japs commander was furious and cursed: "That insidious man."