Li Yunlong was just stunned for a moment, and then he immediately understood the meaning of Wang Xuexin's words: "You mean... the monk's reconnaissance company?"
Wang Xuexin nodded, pointed to the railway track and said: "The railway track just extends to the southwest of the Japanese position, which means that the train will occupy the upper hand as soon as it stops. If this surprise force suddenly comes from the Japanese flank and the Japanese cannot use gas bombs,
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Li Yunlong looked at the map thoughtfully, and then asked a question: "But will there be a problem with the machinery on the train? If the locomotive is damaged..."
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin said: "Even if the locomotive is damaged and the road here is flat, we have to push this train over. As long as we can push the train into the mine before dawn, there will be no problem. Everything else will be fine."
According to the original plan!”
Zhao Gang added a question: "Will the train be discovered by the Japanese? I'm afraid they themselves will need reinforcements by then!"
"Political commissar!" Wang Xuexin said: "If the train can reach this position, it means they have not been discovered. If they were discovered, the Japanese would not be able to reach here!"
Zhao Gang thought about it carefully and felt that there was no problem with this.
If the Japanese found that there was something wrong with the train, that is, the train was already controlled by the Eighth Route Army, they would have stopped it halfway. They could just put up some obstacles or even blow up the tracks, and the train would not be able to reach Yuncheng at all.
If the train reaches Yuncheng, then the Japanese must have not noticed it, and they will regard the train as "one of their own" and not take precautions.
After Wang Xuexin’s explanation, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang put aside their doubts and nodded in unison:
"Just do it!"
"We must catch all these little devils this time!"
After speaking, Li Yunlong immediately contacted the reconnaissance company using the radio.
The reconnaissance company was originally not equipped with a radio station. Although the reconnaissance company usually has a radio station, the conditions of the Eighth Route Army cannot allow the radio station to go down to the company level, and there is no radio station even at the battalion level. Therefore, there is an Eighth Route Army battalion-level unit.
There is a saying that if you put something out and fight it, you can't take it back... Without a radio station, you can't make contact, so you can only send correspondents out to search all over the mountains and fields. When they find the battle, the battle is almost done.
But there is a radio on the train, which is used to communicate between the train and the terminal for dispatching.
The monk immediately asked the communications troops to use the radio to contact the regiment headquarters.
The monk arranged the distribution of troops like this:
There was a squad of soldiers left at the transfer station plus a dozen puppet prisoners.
This is to continue to manage the transfer station to conceal the truth.
Because the monk considered one thing: if the manpower at the transfer station is exhausted, and the Japanese call the transfer station and find that no one answers, they will immediately know that there is a problem at the transfer station. Then there is a problem at the transfer station, and the Japanese will become suspicious again
Starting from the train that passed through the transfer station not long ago, everything was lost.
In order to continue to "deceive" the Japanese, the normal operation of the transfer station must be maintained.
The other soldiers took the remaining prisoners, including the Japanese, on a train all the way to Yuncheng.
The reason why the monk kept these prisoners and let them get on the bus together was simple. He had benefited from the previous benefits and was still using the Japanese and puppet soldiers as amulets.
Not to mention, using prisoners as amulets is really effective, especially for a puppet platoon leader named Li Changguo. It is said that he has been working near the railway line for five or six years... He was originally a soldier of the Jinsui Army, and the railway line was still
He was here when he was in the hands of the Jinsui Army, and later surrendered to the Japanese. The Japanese allowed him to stay in his post because he was familiar with this route.
Therefore, all the people who went down the road were his acquaintances. Whenever they encountered a checkpoint, they would ask this guy to say hello twice and show their faces to a few Japs, and they would be released immediately.
The process can be said to be thrilling.
The monk was heartless and fearless, but Shi Sha and the soldiers were all so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats.
Shi Sha said to the monk with lingering fear: "Company commander, you didn't see the machine guns on the platform. Our train has only a layer of iron sheet, which can't stop bullets. If there is a fight, it will become a hornet's nest!"
This is the truth. The iron sheet of a train has never been able to stop bullets. If it is used in combat, sandbags should be added to both sides.
But the monk was unwilling to do so. He said to Shi Sha: "I just want to ask, if the Japanese train is running on Japanese land, can we add sandbags?"
Shi Sha thought it made sense when he heard it, so he stopped adding it.
The implementation of sanding was not unexpected, but without adding sandbags, I felt unsure and felt that there was no safety guarantee at all.
The monk replied nonchalantly: "If the Japs discover this, we are a company and surrounded by Japs. Do you think adding sandbags will be useful?"
Then he patted Shi Sha on the shoulder and added: "Learn more, fighting sometimes requires not only brains, but also courage! The less afraid you are, the less suspicious the enemy will be!"
This is really a bit of psychological warfare, because even the enemy did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would be so bold and open-mindedly drive a train with machines and troops on the railway they control... So this kind of thing is almost impossible to happen.
On the contrary, it will not make people suspicious.
On the other hand, the whole journey time of the train on the railway is only more than two hours.
More than two hours is neither long nor short.
But the train running on the railway is a test of the entire system of the Japanese... For example, the Japanese at the first level will take it for granted: "The armored train has just passed by. If there was something wrong with this train, it would have been stopped by the armored train long ago."
After getting off, will you still drive here?"
The devil at the second level thought again: "This train has arrived here. I have checked it two or three times along the way. Is there still any problem?"
So I went down one step at a time. For each level, more than two hours was actually a moment of consideration and relaxation.
However, even though he understood the truth, the only one who could remain calm and composed throughout the whole process was the monk, while the others all secretly sweated in their palms.
Just when Shi Sha and others were rejoicing, the correspondent received a telegram and sent it to the monk: "Company commander, the regiment headquarters ordered that the Japs in Yuncheng used poison gas bombs, and our army's attack was frustrated. The regiment commander ordered us to arrive in Yuncheng
Then cooperate with the main force to attack the Japanese position No. 9."
"Gas bomb?" The monk gritted his teeth, and then said to the soldiers who were looking at him in the carriage: "Did you all hear that? Then don't give me a damn, no one will be left alive, do you understand?
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"Understood!" the soldiers responded in unison.
Poison gas bombs are not unfamiliar to the Eighth Route Army, because the Japanese have used them on civilians before... It is said that they were used to verify the power of poison gas bombs. It can be said to be terrible. Even if there are a few survivors, they will end up in extremely painful
To die under such circumstances is not an exaggeration to say that life is worse than death.
Therefore, when they heard that the Japs had used poison gas bombs on the battlefield again, all the soldiers were filled with indignation and wished they could rush to Yuncheng to kill the Japs with their own hands.