Early in the morning, Tongpu Railway, about thirty kilometers north of Taiyuan.
A group of Japanese soldiers wearing helmets and holding swords and guns were patrolling along the railway.
This is a standard Japanese squad, with a total of 13 people, including a squad leader, 4 machine gunners and 8 riflemen, equipped with 8 38 rifles and 1 Type 96 light machine gun.
"Stop advancing." Squad leader Naoto Tsuchiya waved his hand, "Take a rest!"
The dozen or so Japanese soldiers behind him immediately stopped advancing.
Two Japanese soldiers stood on the commanding heights with rifles in hand, and the remaining soldiers sat together to enjoy supper.
Some ate rice balls and chewed them carefully, while others took out cans of beef from their satchels, then took off the Type 30 bayonet from the front of their rifles, preparing to pry open the cans.
Although the Japanese army's rations included canned meat, each soldier did not receive much.
This week, the Tsuchiya detachment is responsible for railway patrol, so each soldier is provided with an extra can of canned beef, and the rest is seaweed rice balls.
The taste of seaweed rice balls is just that, but at least it tastes better than steamed rice balls.
"There's a situation!"
An alert soldier shouted, and all the Japanese soldiers gathered together dispersed.
After a while, without any sign of disturbance, the Japanese came out of the bunker.
The soldier who just made the noise put his rifle on his shoulder, walked down from the commanding heights, laughed and said, "Look at you, you are scared to death by Tubal Road."
"Baga!" Naoto Tsuchiya scolded, "Okada, what are you doing, you idiot?"
"Simi Masai." Okada Jiro sat down with a smile, "I just tested your vigilance, it was not intentional."
"Don't do such stupid things next time." Naoto Tsuchiya snorted coldly and said no more.
Jiro Okada is a jerk. If his brother Ichiro Okada hadn't been the squadron leader, he would have died countless times.
A gust of wind blew by, and Jiro Okada, who had a keen sense of smell, seemed to smell the smell of blood. He turned to look at the other sentry. The high point where the sentry originally stood had disappeared.
The next second, the hairs all over Okada Jiro's body suddenly stood up, and he shouted at the top of his lungs: "There is love..."
Before he could finish shouting, a high-speed rotating bullet was shot from his open mouth and out of the back of his head, shooting out a bloody arrow.
This group of Japanese soldiers were well-educated. The moment the gunshots were fired, they almost reacted simultaneously, but it was already too late.
The crisp sound of submachine gun shooting rang out. Although the gunfire was sparse and sporadic, a Japanese soldier fell down with a muffled groan after every gunshot.
Within a few seconds, the railway fell silent, and all thirteen Japanese soldiers died on the spot.
After a moment, a dozen neat, ghostly figures sprang out of the darkness and came to groping in front of the Japanese corpse.
"Captain, all the bullets hit the Japanese in the face, and none of them escaped the net." Wang Gensheng reported to Lu Yingjun.
"The Japanese reinforcements will be here as soon as you say it." Lu Yingjun said, "The battlefield will be cleared within half a minute."
"Yes!" Everyone shouted and began to take off the clothes of the Japanese.
The moonlight was very good tonight, and the visibility was good. There was an imperceptible rustling sound, and the sword squad quickly disappeared into the night.
In less than 5 minutes, the Japanese support troops arrived, but all the Japanese soldiers were shattered.
The Japanese team leader in charge of support wrote in a report to his superiors: At 2:10 in the morning, near the Xiaotang stronghold, the Tsuchwu team was attacked by Tubal Road while performing railway patrol missions. All of them were broken into pieces, except for the crotch pants.
In addition, weapons and clothes were taken away.
At the end, the Japs squad leader cleverly added that pirates are not too ordinary.
After receiving the mission, the Lijian detachment rode military horses for more than 100 kilometers, crossed Zhengtai Road, and arrived at the Tongpu Railway without stopping.
The seemingly well-defended Zhengtai Railway and Tongpu Railway are full of weak points in the eyes of the Sharp Sword Detachment.
The more important railway bridges were usually closely guarded by the Japanese. It was difficult for the sharp sword detachment to get close, so they attacked a group of Japanese patrols.
Prepare to put on the Japanese military uniform and take the camera.
The team members were all very good at shooting. They hit the Japs in the face with their guns, and there wasn't much blood splattered on their clothes. But it was at night, so they weren't afraid of being discovered by the Japs.
Two hours later, the Lijian detachment had arrived on horseback at Jinggou Bridge, 20 kilometers north of Xiaotang's stronghold.
The second combat team dressed up as a Japs patrol and successfully killed the Japs guarding the Jinggou Bridge without firing a single shot.
Immediately, explosives and detonating devices were installed on the Jinggou Bridge. The wires were pulled 100 meters away. After letting go of a passenger train, a truck came crunching.
When the truck arrived on the bridge, Wang Gensheng grabbed the handle of the detonator, turned it, and then pressed it.
Immediately afterwards, the entire 200-meter-long bridge, together with the train running on it.
At least four or five positions are like bamboo shoots arching out of the ground. They are arched up at once, and then burst open.
Along with the cracking of the bridge, there were several "boom, boom, boom" sounds that shook the mountains.
Immediately afterwards, the arched bridge deck and the train carriage suddenly fell downwards, falling into an invisible mountain stream.
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Early the next morning.
Li Yunlong led a new regiment to finally reach Zhengtai Road after a long-distance attack all night long.
In the woods on the mountain south of Wanjia Town.
The soldiers were having breakfast and preparing to rest.
We ate the dry food we brought, including bread and horse meat jerky.
After capturing the county seat of Liao County and annihilating the Heidao Cavalry Regiment, a large amount of grain and horse meat were seized, and the food for the soldiers was greatly improved.
Most of the food they usually eat is fine grains and horse meat, and the food is rich in oil and water. Even the dry food for marching and fighting consists of flour cakes and horse meat jerky.
Horse meat jerky is marinated with salt and chili peppers and then dried in the sun. It not only tastes good, but is also rich in protein and salt, which can help soldiers recover from the physical exertion of long-distance raids.
Li Yunlong ate three flour cakes and half a kilogram of horse meat jerky, took the water bottle from his waist and drank some water. The fatigue caused by the hasty march all night suddenly disappeared.
"Everyone has rested in place after eating the dry food. We will sleep during the day and march at night." Li Yunlong said to the soldiers.
This is an enemy-occupied area, and a whole regiment of troops marching in broad daylight has absolutely no chance of hiding from the enemy.
Once traces are discovered, the Japanese will immediately attack from all directions and tear the entire new group into pieces.
When Zhang Dabiao was ordered to come to Wanjia Town to engage in side business, he hid in this small forest and was very familiar with the terrain here.
Li Yunlong picked up the binoculars and looked towards Wanjia Town. Wanjia Town had become a mixed garrison of Japanese and puppet troops, and a gun tower was built at the entrance of the east and west villages.
Through the field of vision of the telescope, Li Yunlong noticed that there seemed to be two figures coming up from the bottom of the mountain.
I turned up the magnification of the telescope and took another closer look. It was Xu Yonghai, commander of the assault company, who had returned from conducting reconnaissance.
About 10 minutes later, Xu Yonghai, dressed as a Japanese plainclothes soldier, came to Li Yunlong and gave him a military salute.
"Xiao Xu." Li Yunlong asked with an expression on his face, "How is the situation?"
Political commissar Zhao Gang and several battalion commanders gathered around when they saw this.
"Reporting to the leader, the Japanese are very strict on the Zhengtai Railway." Xu Yonghai took a sip of water and said, "The defense is much stricter than when we came a few months ago."
"The Japanese have not only built many more strongholds beside the railway."
"We also dug three-meter-deep trenches on both sides of the railway and put up barbed wire fences."
"I followed the secret mark left by Captain Lu and others and found the barbed wire fence that they had cut and restored to its original shape. The Japs have not discovered it yet."
Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes, the prison the little devil made is quite powerful.
"It's easy for a small force to pass by at night." Li Yunlong frowned, "Our large force of two thousand people can pass by, and there is also a battalion of cavalry. It will be difficult not to be discovered."
Second Battalion Commander Zheng Yu took a deep breath and said:
"Split the troops!"
"We can disperse our troops, take the company as a unit, cut the barbed wire fence and cross the railway from different locations, and then join together after crossing the railway."
"However, if we are divided into more than a dozen companies and pass through more than a dozen places, problems will easily arise and it will also increase the probability of being discovered. Once we are discovered by the Japanese, the Japanese will definitely send troops to pursue us, and the subsequent battle plan will not be good.
Performed."
Zheng Yu looked at the mules on the other side and the machine guns and ammunition next to the army horses.
He added: "It would be much easier to cross the railway without these mules and horses."
"We must not give up the mules and horses." Zhang Dabiao said, "If it doesn't work, we will wait until dark and fight directly."
"With the firepower our new regiment now has, the Japs on the Zhengtai Railway will never be able to stop us."
"No!" Li Yunlong flatly refused, "It's very easy to attack them forcefully, but this will expose our firepower and we will be pursued by the Japanese."
At first, Li Yunlong did not expect that the Japanese would block the Zhengtai Railway so tightly.
In the past, people in a regiment could cross the railway whenever they wanted, and they could cross wherever they wanted.
Once the Japanese discovered that a regiment had passed through the Zhengtai Railway, it would have a great impact on the subsequent combat plan.
Everyone suddenly fell into silence.
"I have an idea."
"Why not combine the methods of the first battalion commander and the second battalion commander?"
Zhao Gang stared at the Zhengtai Railway for a while, then carefully analyzed the words of Zheng Yu and Zhang Dabiao, and came up with a solution:
"The defense of the Jizizhengtai Railway is very tight. In addition to a stronghold every three or four miles, there are patrols day and night."
"Let's send a force to pretend to attack one of the strongholds. It's best to make a loud noise. The Japanese will definitely swarm us."
"Once all the Japanese soldiers go to support this stronghold, there will be defense holes everywhere in the rest of the railway."
"At this time, we cut the barbed wire fence in company units and quickly passed the railway."
"After the unit attacking the stronghold completes its mission, it does not need to go north and will return to the base on its own."
Li Yunlong's eyes lit up: "Haha, this is a good idea."
Thinking along Zhao Gang's train of thought, Li Yunlong said:
"This force attacking the stronghold must buy at least half an hour for the larger force."
"Retreat as soon as half an hour is up. The Japanese reinforcements have basically arrived by this time, so it is best to use cavalry to escape in time."
"In this half hour, our large force had already passed the railway. When the Japanese turned around and found that the barbed wire fence had been cut, they would not be able to judge whether we were real or not."
After laughing, Li Yunlong said: "Old Zhao, you are really a fucking genius."
Zhao Gang's face suddenly turned dark when he heard Li Yunlong's last words.
Are you so stupid, are you praising me, or are you scolding labor and management?