Hundreds of lighted kerosene lamps were used as lighting at the transportation site. Soldiers who were not picky about food often had brown rice and animal offal in their rice bowls, and they did not expect night blindness to cause trouble.
However, the people of Shahe Town lived under the guns of the Sun Army and had to live hand to mouth. This kind of life of "working at sunrise and resting at sundown" is largely due to night blindness caused by insufficient nutrition.
The fear of darkness and the curfew policy of the invaders and occupying forces have made it rare for people in Shahe Town to go out at night.
Several clerks from the Political Affairs Office of the Brigade Headquarters, under the protection of armed guards, used flashlights to inspect the wooden boxes placed on the field south of the railway one by one.
Type 38 infantry gun, 6.5mm Tomisaka bomb, Type 89 grenade, Type 91 grenade, Type 97 grenade, Taisho 11 type direct-firing infantry gun, 70mm artillery shell, Type 38 engineer spade, Taisho 11
Type light machine gun, etc., and the paperwork used chalk or charcoal strips to write down the names commonly used in the military on the wooden box. 1
When they walked to more than a dozen wooden boxes with solid wind cup logos printed on them, the three clerks looked through the weapon identification books in their hands and wrote "Chemical shells, handle with care" on the wooden boxes; on the field
In addition to the wooden boxes with chemical weapons logos, there are also five boxes with patterns of four interlocking rings and three outer rings with gaps.
After seeing this, a sharp-eyed clerk couldn't help but tremble with his fingers pointing forward, and his teeth were chattering, but he couldn't say a word. When the guards around him saw this strange behavior, they quickly pulled the clerk back. p>
After the other two clerks learned about the matter, they came to check and were also frightened. These five boxes were wooden boxes with biological weapons logos printed on them, but they didn't know what kind of bacterial or viral weapons they contained.
A guard plucked up the courage to step forward with a flashlight and take a closer look. He found that there was no damage or cracking on the outside of the wooden box. He walked back to report the situation and comforted the frightened comrades.
The head of the brigade who received the news of the discovery of the special bombs specially approved thirty cans of gasoline for the destruction of more than ten boxes of chemical weapons and biological weapons.
The soldiers who received the order speed up the transportation and transfer. The soldiers who stayed to perform the destruction task set a five-meter safety distance around these special bombs and cleared the area together with their comrades who were transferring supplies.
Wang Chengzhu and others were on their way back to the temporary base of the brigade headquarters at this time. They were relatively expensive. For the sake of long-term operations in the future, the brigade chief of staff specially approved these 60 or 70 artillery soldiers to take weapons and ammunition and evacuate to a safe area.
March 12, 1940, the fourth day of February.
The rising sun shines into the Hutuo River Valley. The Shahe Town Railway Station and the steam train parked in front of the broken rails seven kilometers east of the station are as quiet as if the earth has not yet woken up.
The fields to the north and south of the railway were trampled so hard that it was difficult for grass to grow in the spring and summer of 1940. The low shrubs and trees near the railway were cut down by the road protection squadron, just to reduce the number of guerrillas committing crimes along the way.
Unexpectedly, this behavior brought great convenience to the transportation of goods and materials after the train was forced to stop and ambushed. In places with thick trees, it is convenient for a single person to rob and hide; in places where trees are cut down and burned to a white ground, only rickshaws or
Animal-drawn carts make walking more convenient.
The three prisoners were escorted away by people from the brigade headquarters. One hundred and fourteen people were killed in the two convoy teams. Together with the escorts, a total of nine wounded were placed on the railway track bed. The two convoys' nationals
The driver and the boilerman were tied up, stuffed with rags in their mouths, and locked up in the boiler room where the flames were turned off.
The station squadron who resisted stubbornly killed the citizens of the Shengyang Kingdom who were working at the station, and then detonated the ammunition and oil depot. The Japanese Japanese who committed suicide in despair headed to Jiudanban, with 200 people traveling with them on the road.
Soldiers from a certain section of the Youth Anti-Japanese War Column who laid siege to the station and the attached warehouse were wounded and killed more than 40 people due to the fearless charge and enemy self-destruction.
The three main regiments and the troops directly under the 38th Army Brigade participated in the battle, with approximately 5,200 to 5,500 troops. The battle results and battle losses reported by each regiment were collected at the brigade headquarters, and the battle loss ratio was as high as 1.42.
A total of 295 soldiers of the Shengyang Army were killed, 21 were wounded, and three were captured. The enemy's casualties were 381 armed civilians; our army killed a total of 361 people, with minor and serious injuries.
Ninety-two people, 16 civilian casualties.
This campaign harvested 700,000 jins of finished grain, 60,000 jins of oil, 120,000 jins of fuel, 100,000 jins of cloth and 20,000 jins of cotton, totaling 880,000 jins or 440 tons of civilian supplies; the harvest was 400,000 jins
Boxes of rifles, one thousand boxes of bullets and other military supplies are 160,000 kilograms or eighty tons.2
The destroyed special ammunition was also included in the seized materials. More than 20 boxes of artillery shells with yellow markings were carried and stacked together by the guard soldiers. After the comrades and people carrying materials around cleared the area, they were poured with gasoline and torches were thrown.
From a safe distance of tens of meters, I watched the pile of wooden boxes burning in the flames, with muffled explosions heard from time to time.
After a box of shells exploded, it not only extinguished the nearby flames, but also released a yellow-green gas. This poisonous gas slowly rose into the sky under the heating effect of the surrounding gasoline flames that rekindled.
The head of the brigade commanding the campaign gave instructions to allocate some living supplies to the working people. After the participating troops replenished the weapons within their establishment, they handed them over to the brigade-division-level munitions department and the general logistics department of the group army headquarters in proportion.
About a quarter of the four thousand rifles were taken away by the three families. After receiving the order, the battalion cadres happily directed the troops and sent the trophies to the brigade headquarters. After the battle was over, the participating troops dispersed and retreated to their respective stations.
Wang Chengzhu didn't find a chance to release the 50,000 pieces of meat in his backpack, just because the supplies transported this time were too much and too heavy.
It was already evening when we returned to the new regiment's station. We set out with great vigor yesterday and returned today full of honors and captures. If you don't look at the dust and blood on the uniforms and the lack of 10% of the soldiers, this battle was indeed well directed.
, a warrior who works hard and achieves fruitful results.
But a life-and-death battle cannot be treated like this. The next sentence of "loving soldiers like sons" is to use soldiers like clay. Only with reasonable layout and not afraid of sacrifice can you get the rewards of success and benevolence.
Wang Chengzhu lay on the bunk in the barracks after two days and one night, and fell asleep tiredly.
In this battle, his plan to save the lives of his comrades was not fully realized. It was not because Wang Chengzhu used the automatic medication function as a trick, but because the platoon leader of the first battalion was hit by a grenade on the position, and the shrapnel ripped open his jacket.
Then he stopped breathing.
Resurrection coins can save people from life and death, and Remidios' assistance can heal pain. However, there is no way to deal with foreign bodies and internal bleeding in the body. The sacrificed platoon leader explained to the soldiers around him a few minutes after he was rescued.
His last words will always lie at the place where he fought.
Wang Chengzhu was a little upset. The comrades who had been joking together the day before were now completely separated from each other again. If he was not afraid of the risk of systematic exposure, he might be able to sacrifice fewer comrades.
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Note 1: Type 38 infantry gun (38 large cover), 6.5 mm Tomosaka bomb (original 38 bomb), Type 89 grenade (50 small artillery), Type 91 hand grenade (small artillery shell), 9