Farewell! Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice", passed away. The backbone of the country will be immortal!
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Wang Xuexin knelt down, pointed at a point on the map spread out on the ground and said: "Commander, this military station is not far from our place, just a few miles to the north!"
Li Yunlong squatted and looked at the position by the firelight, and said with disdain: "I thought it was some kind of fat! Isn't it just a military station? How many things can I have? I can at most pay you some food!"
This is true. The main function of the military station next to the train line is to provide food to the Japanese soldiers who take the train to the front line.
The trains of this era, especially the military trains, did not have dining cars. The trains carried groups of soldiers, so of course they could not go hungry when meal time came.
The solution is to set up several military depots on the meal section. When the train stops at the military depot, buckets of food will be delivered to the carriages for the Japanese to grab.
Therefore, the military depot may have food, but the guns, ammunition or equipment that Li Yunlong wants may not be much.
Wang Xuexin doesn’t think so.
He pointed at the map and said: "Captain, it seems that the Hundred Battle Group is next to us and is in charge of this area, right?"
"Yes!" Li Yunlong nodded: "But the Hundred Battle Group is a little behind, and was blocked by the Japanese on the road. Why do you ask?"
"Captain, please take a closer look." Wang Xuexin pointed to the map and said: "This railway line goes from the north all the way to the south and goes straight to the Japanese front line. Military supplies and other things are transported forward one by one...
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"Think about this wonderful thing!" Li Yunlong said: "We didn't see the train either. Then wouldn't the Japanese train turn around and go back to the city?"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin said, "Where do you think this train will go to turn around?"
This time Li Yunlong understood. He jumped up as if he had been pricked by a needle: "Army station? Where does the train have to turn around?"
"Isn't it?" Wang Xuexin said: "Once the road is cut off at our end, the puppet troops will definitely notify the military station if they run back. The Hundred Battle Group was blocked by the Japanese and did not have time to come up. That is to say, as long as there are people on this section of the railway track,
The train is probably at the military depot! Let’s try our luck. If we catch one, we’ll make a fortune!”
Now Li Yunlong became more energetic. He waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers: "Everyone gather together and throw away all the junk in your hands. Let's go and eat the big ones!"
So a group of more than a thousand people rushed north along the railway line under Li Yunlong's order.
On the way, Li Yunlong also urgently convened a short meeting with the battalion commanders to formulate a combat plan.
"The target is Ningyuan Military Station!" Li Yunlong said: "Let's cast a net and try our luck. Only when we catch it will we know whether it is a small fish or a big fish. The first battalion forced a march to the north of the military station and immediately destroyed the railway to prevent it from being allowed to pass.
Even if any reinforcements come in, don’t let any Japanese go out!”
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao responded.
"Second Battalion, Third Battalion!" Li Yunlong then ordered: "Submarine the military station in two groups, the left and right. If you encounter the enemy, you will kill it. If there is a train, you have to take it easy. It might be ammunition! Do you understand?"
"Understood!" Several battalion commanders responded.
Li Yunlong waved his hand and ordered: "Let's go!"
Each battalion commander led his troops and moved forward as planned.
The third battalion was outflanked along the right side of the railway.
During this period, the commander of the third battalion, Guan Dashan, came to see Wang Xuexin once. He asked Wang Xuexin in a low voice: "I heard that you gave the regimental commander the idea of attacking the military station?"
Wang Xuexin nodded and replied: "Don't the leader want to eat something big? I will..."
"Have you ever thought about it?" Guan Dashan said: "If we want to catch the train, maybe it's not the equipment or ammunition? If it's a train of Japs, wouldn't we just kick it onto the iron plate?"
Wang Xuexin laughed: "Battal Commander, how can we do that? If there is a train of Japanese soldiers at the military station, they will probably surround us now! How can those puppet soldiers escape?"
Guan Dashan said "Oh" and was speechless.
He originally thought that Xiao Dongbei didn't think of this, but he didn't expect that Xiao Dongbei not only thought of it, but also thought much further than himself.
This little Northeastern town really has its own tricks.
The soldiers were stationed seven miles away. They encountered several puppet troops on the road and dispersed them without much effort.
More than half an hour later, the troops arrived near the military depot. Li Yunlong stepped forward and raised his binoculars to take a look. He was delighted. The brightly lit military depot was where several trains were crowded and making an emergency U-turn.
Li Yunlong said to himself: "Look at this, it's not a problem to stop one or two columns, and you'll get rich now!"
Asano Aihara led his research team on one of the freight cars.
The reason why they were in the freight car instead of going to the front line with other soldiers was because Asano Aihara's team was conducting a secret research...
After the Battle of Nomenhan, the Japs found that their tanks were far behind the enemy's tanks. Especially from the information received from their allies, they knew that the enemy had updated their own tanks while the Japs' tanks had always stood still.
This is the Japanese helplessness. There are only so many resources. A large amount of manpower, material and financial resources have been used to build the navy. Of course, the army has neither the funds nor the financial resources to update tanks.
After much thought, the Army believed that designing a cheap individual anti-tank equipment was more in line with their current situation, so they could only restart the research and development of the "spray-injection bomb" that had been shelved for many years.
The so-called "spray bomb" is actually a rocket bomb.
The Japanese have actually been developing rocket weapons since 1931. However, due to the long-term disagreement between the army and the navy, although the two militaries are developing rockets, they have been unwilling to share technology and jointly develop them. Therefore, there are two different R&D systems, and even two different R&D systems.
The names are all different: the Army calls it "spray-in bomb" and the Navy calls it "spray-in gun." This is one of the reasons why the Japanese have been unable to make great progress in this regard.
"Nagasawa-kun!" Asano Aihara anxiously walked out of the car door and shouted to the team leader Nagasawa Ichiro who was outside the car with guns and ammunition ready for battle: "Is there any problem?"
Nagasawa Ichiro frowned. What an annoying guy. He has asked this question for the fifth time.
If his superiors hadn't ordered him to protect these researchers at all costs, he would have gone up and slapped these cowards.
"No problem!" Ichiro Nagasawa replied impatiently: "They are just guerrillas. Besides, as long as the two trains in front adjust their heads, we can return to Taiyuan safely!"
After receiving the affirmative answer, Asano Aihara breathed a sigh of relief, then returned to the carriage and said to his subordinates: "Everything is under control, don't worry! You can go back soon!"
The subordinates breathed a sigh of relief, and some sighed:
"It's really thrilling. Listening to the gunshots... it's like being right in front of you!"
"It should not be far from us, but the gunfire is not fierce, and it doesn't sound like there are many enemies!"
"Even if it comes, our people can handle it!"
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At this moment, several explosions suddenly came from outside, followed by fierce gunfire.