Chapter 215: Thorn Pulling (1)
The officers of the 36th Division, although they were angry with His Excellency the division commander, asked Tsuruta Numan to immediately let Rakuai Kanshiro get out. For more up-to-date chapters, visit: ШЩЩ.(7)(9)XS.сОМ. But it's just the 'hairy' scales and phoenix horns in the real insider, and the real insider is unknown to ordinary officers.
Unable to obtain definite information, Li Ziyuan took a great risk to enter Changzhi City and personally conduct reconnaissance. However, after Li Ziyuan raided the Japanese airfield in Jingjiazhuang last year, the Japanese puppet army's vigilance against the entire Changzhi City increased a lot. Inside and outside Changzhi City, which was the headquarters of the 36th Division of the Japanese Army, was now densely packed with military and police gendarmes.
Li Ziyuan tried to bring a gun into the city several times, and then looked for an opportunity to deal with Kamishiro Rakuai at the station on the spot. They all gave up because the Japanese puppet army was too vigilant to bring weapons into the city. Not only was he unable to carry weapons into the city, but even the team he brought with him caused some trouble because of the fact that they were all 'colored' young men.
In desperation, Li Ziyuan left his troops outside Changzhi City, and waited in a forest along the Baijin Railway. And he was worried that his Sichuan accent would be 'exposed', so he put on a mute and went into the city with He Huizhang to look for opportunities. After entering the city, Li Ziyuan didn't go anywhere, so he dressed up as a begger for food and squatted at the Changzhi Meridian 'Gate' station to observe.
Three full days passed, but Li Ziyuan did not notice that the guy Luo Hekanshiro appeared at the station. For three days, no movement was found. Li Ziyuan somewhat suspected that Liu Yanlai's information was the air released by Tsuruta Nuan, which was specially used to "confuse" and "confuse" himself.
But the situation in Changzhi City made Li Ziyuan feel a little different. If Tsuruta Numa's special 'door' is to fish for himself on the bait, release these air. Then the security in Changzhi City should definitely not be as noisy as it is now. With Tsuruta Numan Nan's person, the inner tightness and outer looseness are more like his style.
However, although Li Ziyuan did not think that this information was a test air consciously released by the Japanese puppet side. But he didn't find it for three whole days, which made Li Ziyuan somewhat unsinkable. After all, even when he was consumed on the way here, he had already left the base for five days now.
Tsuruta Numan delayed, but he couldn't afford to delay. If the main commander of the unit has not been in office for such a long time, once it encounters an enemy attack, the consequences will also be serious. Moreover, if the military sub-district knew that it had been out for such a long time, it would have to give itself a punishment when it went back.
During the war, especially on this day, the puppet army is likely to concentrate its forces and carry out large-scale retaliation against the eastern mountainous areas of Hubei, and be attacked by a sneak attack on Chinese New Year's Eve, resulting in heavy losses. The absence of a military commander from his post for a long time and his detachment from his command position is undoubtedly unacceptable to any higher-level organ.
Knowing that at this time, leaving the army will be severely criticized by his superiors. This is also the main reason why Li Ziyuan did not contact the Changzhi County Party Committee according to the address given to him by Liu Yanlai after entering Changzhi City. Although he also knew that if he contacted the Changzhi County Party Committee, it would be more beneficial for him to 'feel' the situation as soon as possible.
But Li Ziyuan hesitated several times, and finally decided to act alone. He didn't want to make a storm in the city on this matter. Besides, this Rakuai Kanshiro either left by train or by road. Other than that, there was no other way for him to leave.
Compared to unsafe highways, this guy is more likely to leave by train. If you are stuck in the station, you can look for opportunities, so why do you have to ask others? Waiting for the rabbit is often a benzene solution, but at the moment it is not an effective solution.
It's just that in the battle of Basongling, Li Ziyuan, who has firmly remembered the face of Luo Hekanshiro, has not waited for the person he wants to find. That Luo Hekanshiro not only did not 'appear' at the station, but also never even 'appeared' in Changzhi City, and disappeared completely.
On the third day after Li Ziyuan entered Changzhi City, almost all of his patience was about to consume the embers. However, it was found that the Japanese army had attached a passenger car to a material train with an armed escort. Moreover, there was no puppet army around this train, and the Japanese army was on alert. The one who led the team on guard was still a Japanese soldier Cao Chang.
On this train of trucks, there are also officers of the rank of Japanese captain constantly inspecting. It is clear that there are either important people or important supplies on board. After making this discovery, although Li Ziyuan said that he could not conclude that this passenger car was prepared for Luo Hekanshiro. But in the additional passenger car, the passengers will definitely not be simple.
After making this discovery, Li Ziyuan rushed to leave Changzhi City immediately when the train was loading supplies and had not yet departed. Rendezvous with troops outside the city. He led his troops to the north of Changzhi City, and searched all the way north along the Baijin Railway Line, and did not stop until a big turn.
The arc of the turn here is quite large, based on Li Ziyuan's understanding of the operation of the train. No matter how fast the train is, it will have to slow down as it passes by. Li Ziyuan believes that on this train, except for the additional passenger car, it is not a special 'door' passenger train.
No matter what station you are in, it is almost impossible to get on the train. Even if there is a cover of the underground party, it is impossible for him to carry weapons on the bus, let alone 'blend' into the carriage of the Japanese army. The Japanese train was so heavily guarded at the departure station that it might not even stop at the station on the way.
In this case, there is almost no chance that you can 'mix' on this train. So Li Ziyuan thought that what he could do was to pick up the train and get on the train and directly take the means of assault to knock out the passenger car. As for what the hell was loaded in the wagons of this train, we will know when the time comes.
However, with the Tongpu Railway running through the entire north and south, as well as the Zhengtai and Pingsui Railways that are connected with the outside world, Shanxi can also be regarded as a major railway province in China at present. However, the southeast of Shanxi, a strategic place, did not have a railway before the construction of the Baijin Railway.
In other words, almost no one in his own army has ever lived on the edge of the railway line, and there is no one who can pick up the skill of picking up trains. Even many people have never seen what the railway is like before the Japanese army used the king of Shanxi to plan and build a certain amount of infrastructure and build the Baijin Railway.
The terrain of Shanxi is complex, and although the people say that commerce is prosperous, it has also been popular to go to the west entrance, but that is for businessmen. For ordinary people, especially for the wealthy people in the southeast of Shanxi, it is still closed. Although the king of Shanxi built the Tongpu line that runs through the north and south of Shanxi, for the Changzhi area, which has not had a railway before, there are many people who have not seen a train.
Therefore, when Li Ziyuan made up his mind to take a strong attack, he chose the bend where the train had to slow down when it was on the way. Although in such a road situation, if the Japanese army has an armed escort. The alert troops sent by the Japanese army will raise the alert level, but there is almost no second option for Li Ziyuan.
If you choose to be somewhere else, there is no way for the class you are carrying to get close to this train. Not to mention, climb on the train. The fighters of their own troops are not those railway guerrillas who grew up around Zhengtai Road and Pinghan Line since childhood, and the movement of picking up trains is still too unfamiliar to them.
It's just that on the first day after arriving at the ambush site, the train did not appear as Li Ziyuan estimated. The next day, the train still didn't show up. It wasn't until Li Ziyuan waited here for the fourth day that the freight train dragging a passenger car slowly drove into Li Ziyuan's sight in the second half of the night.
After receiving the report from the soldier in charge of observation, he looked at the train that drove into his telescope at night, and the passenger car with lights on at the back. Li Ziyuan and his troops immediately left the hill where they were hidden, quickly entered the side of the railway, and issued preparations for battle.
It's just that although the number of wagons pulled by this train is not large, Japanese sentries are deployed on the top of each wagon, and there is a small armored car in front of Li Ziyuan who does not know the road. Looking at the train that was not moving into his sight quickly, and the strange-looking armored car in front of him, Li Ziyuan frowned.
Of course, if Li Ziyuan had seen more well-informed, he would have recognized that the small armored car in front of him was a Type 95 railway and highway dual-purpose armored vehicle specially developed by the Japanese army in order to ensure the safety of the railway line. This thing can be driven on the railway by removing the track outside the wheel, and it can run on the road with the track attached.
Moreover, for this armored car, the transition time between the railway state and the road state is only three minutes. Although the armor is weaker, there are no special weapons on the car. However, this weapon is a rather serious threat to the anti-Japanese forces operating on both sides of the railway line behind enemy lines and lacking armor-piercing weapons.
Such armoured vehicles, which have already driven down the railway line in the plains, pose a particular threat to the operation of the railway to break the railway. But despite this strange appearance, Li Ziyuan is the first time he has seen it, and he is not very familiar with it. But he also knew that this kind of armored vehicle was a great threat to his actions.
Although he did not know what exactly this train was transporting, it made the Japanese army so cautious. However, there is one thing that Li Ziyuan understands, it will definitely not be because of the guy Luo Hekanshiro. Not to mention that this guy has been dismissed, even if he is still in his position, he is not a young lieutenant and it is not the turn of the Japanese army to pay so much attention.
Unless the commander of the 36th Division took this train, it was possible for the Japanese army to attach so much importance to it. In other words, there must be some important target on this train. Otherwise, the Israeli army would not have paid so much attention to it. With this thought, Li Ziyuan was moved in his heart.
He felt that no matter whether Kawashiro Rakuai was on this train or not, he would not regret this train by himself. Although this place is not far from the surrounding Japanese puppet army strongholds, Li Ziyuan still made up his mind to get him. Of course, Li Ziyuan didn't think that there was the commander of the 36th Division in this train.
If that old man went to Taiyuan or other places, he would have a more comfortable, safer, and faster plane with his dignified lieutenant general. Naturally, it will not be since the opening of the railway, because it has become the main target of destruction of the Eighth Route Army, and the speed of the railway line has not been able to go up.
However, although Li Ziyuan had a headache about the strict vigilance of the Japanese army, this did not mean that he decided to let go. Right now, the only good thing for Li Ziyuan is that it's nighttime. It is at least half a distance away from the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army on both wings, which means that he still has half an hour to go.