On the twenty-seventh day of the first lunar month, it was the third day after Zhou Weihan had a phone call with Si Neiyong.
Handan was an important town for the Japanese troops along the Ping-Han route, and there were many Japanese troops passing by every day.
Teruchi Yong specially selected a military train that departed from the Shimen Jingxing mining area and headed to the south to transport the bullet production line.
When the Eighth Route Army hijacked Japanese military columns, it naturally avoided the strongholds and stations along the Japanese railway lines and carried out operations in remote and uninhabited places.
But these two guys, Zhou Weihan and Terauchi Isamu, chose to go off the beaten path and did not take the ordinary path.
At this time, the Japanese military train was stopping at the train station outside Handan City to add water. Terauchi Isamu ordered Watanabe to send additional manpower to load the disassembled bullet production line in the station into the last few vacant carriages of the military train.
"Quick, quick, quick!" Watanabe shouted to the workers in charge of transportation at the station.
These days, Western countries already have cranes for carrying heavy goods, and there are also cranes in Japan, but Handan does not have such machinery.
The weight of the dismantled machine was not light either. The workers in the station could only work in groups of a few, shouting slogans, their faces all red from suppressing it and steam coming from their heads, and they slowly lifted it into the carriage with poles.
Dong Jiang frowned at the scene in front of him, but he didn't say anything. The workers relied on their own strength to make a living. With this job, they could support their families in Hukou.
Next, a strange scene occurred inside the station.
An officer on the left in military police uniform had a smile on his face, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it for another Japanese second lieutenant in a flattering manner.
"Dong Jun, please don't worry, we won't waste time!" Watanabe saw Dong Jiang frowning and explained quickly.
Dong Jiang glanced at his watch and then said: "Watanabe-kun, have you figured out the entourage of this military column?"
"We figured it out, it's those guys from the Manchurian Railway. In addition to the fifteen-person crew, the escorts only have a fifty-person expatriate escort team. Their combat effectiveness is far inferior to the soldiers of the imperial army!" Du
Bian said disdainfully.
Japan's richest institution in China is none other than Manchuria Railway. Manchuria Railway's full name is: South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd.
The Northeast China Railway is exclusively owned by "Manchuria Railway". In addition to its main railway operations, it also operates shipbuilding and shipbuilding industries, coal mines, iron mines, other metal mines, oil production, ironmaking, postal and telecommunications industries, and other enterprises, as well as hotels and restaurants.
, bathhouses and other service industries.
In addition to economic institutions, there are administrative institutions, military, police, cultural institutions, schools, etc. inside.
After the July 7th Incident, its North China Affairs Bureau was renamed North China Communications Co., Ltd., and its Xingzhong Company became North China Development Co., Ltd., becoming the main organization for Japan to plunder North China's resources.
Therefore, the coal resources mined in the Jingxing Mining Area have always been under its control and are responsible for transporting them to various areas occupied by the Japanese army through railways.
Mantetsu was rich, so this military train was more luxurious than the average Japanese military train. Behind the front locomotive, there were three special carriages for escorts, as well as a dining carriage, and the carriage at the back was for loading coal.
While Dong Jiang and Watanabe were talking, a Japanese man in black uniform came down from the military column and trotted over from a long distance away.
"Watanabe-kun, long time no see!"
"Yes, Mr. Nissen, I haven't seen you for a while!"
"I went back to China some time ago and just came back a week ago!"
"Youxi, your treatment at Manchuria is very good, and you can even take a family leave from time to time, but you are not like us serving officers and soldiers!" Watanabe said enviously.
"Watanabe-kun, thank you for your hard work!" Ryota Nisimori bowed respectfully.
When it comes to ordinary Japanese soldiers, Nishimori Ryota, an insider of the Manchurian Railway, would look down upon him. However, Watanabe was the captain of the military police in Handan and held great power, so he had no choice but to fawn over him.
"Nishimori-kun, let me introduce you. This is Arai-kun, who is in charge of escorting the equipment. I will trouble you this time!" Watanabe introduced Dong Jiang to Ryota Nishimori.
"Hey, this is what we should do!" Nishimori Ryota finished speaking and looked at Dong Jiang: "Arai-kun has a majestic figure, which is really rare among imperial soldiers!"
Then he turned to the reconnaissance company in formation, and a trace of doubt flashed in Ryota Nishimori's eyes: "What are they doing?"
"Nishimori-kun, don't make a fuss. Shinjin-kun and the others are all drawn from Ryukyu. Naturally, they are different from local soldiers, but they are all warriors of the empire!"
After Nishimori Ryota listened, there was an undisguised look of disdain on his face.
After a long time, the packed equipment in the station was loaded.
Dong Jiang waved his hand, and more than a hundred soldiers from the reconnaissance company disguised as Japanese soldiers were divided into two groups. One group entered the closed carriage and was responsible for escorting them, while the other group advanced in formation and entered the third carriage in turn.
Watanabe immediately reported to Isamu Terauchi using the phone in the station.
"Brigade commander, they have boarded the bus, everything is normal!"
Isamu Terauchi on the other end of the phone could obviously hear the whistle of the train, and couldn't help but laugh: "Yusai!" Isamu Terauchi then dialed the number to Yamanoyama.
On the Yama Mountain.
Zhao Gang stayed alone in Zhou Weihan's office, staring intently at the red phone on the table.
Suddenly the phone rang, Zhao Gang picked up the phone: "Hello!"
"Everything is normal, the train has departed!" Then there was a blind voice.
"Xiao Li, immediately tell the telegraph operator to send a report to the 94th Division Headquarters radio station that the train has departed from Handan!"
At this time, Zhou Weihan was near Shuiye Town at the junction of Linbei and Anyang, and with him was the supplementary regiment of the Tainan Second Division stationed in Linbei.
Lin Nan's Yang Han 280th Regiment was also mobilized by Zhou Weihan in the name of winter military training. This part was divided into two directions. One part reached due east, at the junction of Lin County and Tangyin, and the other part was deployed in the southeast of Lin County.
Direction of Qi County.
At the same time, the 1st and 4th regiments of the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region, led by Tan Lin, had also set off, trying to launch an attack in the east of Anyang.
After successive relays from many parties, the news quickly reached Zhou Weihan.
"Great, give me the order to replenish the regiments. The 280th, 1st, and 4th regiments will launch an attack immediately. The bigger the momentum, the better!" Zhou Weihan immediately ordered.
According to the agreement between Zhou Weihan and Teruchi Isamu, the hijacking of the military column could not occur within the territory of Handan. However, the military column was less than 20 miles away from its destination, Anyang, at the Zhanghe Bridge that separated the Japanese armies between the two places.
Therefore, in order to ensure that he could get the bullet production line, Zhou Weihan went to war. Even though Zhou Weihan made such a big move, it was a sheep attack and he used deception tactics on the battlefield.
The real killer moves are still in the reconnaissance company and the special operations team. At the same time, there are two regiments and one Cixian basic regiment to assist them in combat.
On the military train, Dong Jiang watched the train slowly enter Ci County, calculating the time bit by bit based on the speed of the train.