Chapter 217: Tsuruta Numan in a cold sweat
Hearing the report of a new enemy situation on the two wings of He Huizhang, Li Ziyuan didn't care to check the contents of the truck. For more up-to-date chapters, visit: ШЩЩ.(7)(9)XS.сОМ. Tell the fighters to drop a grenade directly in each compartment and immediately retreat. No matter what weirdness he has inside, a grenade will be settled. After a simple cleanup of the battlefield, Li Ziyuan immediately retreated with the soldiers of this squad.
This year's career of fighting independently made Li Ziyuan understand that at a critical moment, he must learn to give up. When it's time to fight, be merciless. When it is time to retreat, we must resolutely retreat, and we must not drag mud and water. If you don't retreat, you will only have one squad of soldiers by your side, and you will be surrounded on this railway line.
However, when passing by the Japanese armored road car, I looked at the small armored car that flew directly to a few dozen meters away by the huge impact force of the locomotive. and a few devils on the railroad tracks who were crushed by the train, although he knew that he planned it himself, Li Ziyuan almost didn't vomit.
It is also considered to be a battle-hardened corpse that was blown up by shells on the battlefield, which is not uncommon. It stands to reason that Li Ziyuan should not have such a big reaction to these corpses. But the death of these guys is too disgusting. Even Li Ziyuan, who has a strong psychological quality, obviously overreacted.
But when I saw the two drivers and stokers who had been trembling since jumping out of the car. Li Ziyuan planned to give the two of them a little compensation and let them leave here immediately. It's just that these two also know that the Japanese can't spare themselves in this accident. Although he was scared half to death, he begged Li Ziyuan to take him away.
Li Ziyuan, who knew that he didn't have much time left, didn't have too much ink on the pleas of these two guys. Although he was a little unwilling, he could only take these two unlucky eggs with him. Otherwise, could it be that these two people were picked by a bayonet from the Japanese army?
However, when Li Ziyuan was evacuated, there were some small accidents. According to Li Ziyuan's request, a grenade was thrown into each carriage. As a result, one of the wagons exploded violently after the grenade was thrown into it. Li Ziyuan, who was evacuating with his troops, almost didn't eat it.
This train should be loaded with a batch of shells, and the caliber is definitely not small. As a result, a grenade thrown by him directly detonated and triggered a chain reaction. As a result, a large number of shells exploded in the entire wagon, and the wagon, along with the previous wagons, was blown into the sky.
On the contrary, it was the passenger car in the back that was less affected because of the angle. It's just that the original overturned carriage was overturned by the whole thing. The violent explosion sound can be heard clearly in Changzhi County, dozens of kilometers away, let alone Li Ziyuan's department at the scene?
In this closely guarded Japanese army truck, some weapons and ammunition may be transported, and Li Ziyuan has a certain psychological preparation for this. Therefore, when throwing grenades, not only did they use the Japanese army's Type 97 grenades captured at the scene, but also the Northeast fire-building grenades they carried to form a cluster grenade.
It was also taken to tie the pull fire rope with a rope and detonate it as far away as possible. As a result, Li Ziyuan did not expect that his own detonation would produce such a violent chain reaction. When the shock 'wave' generated by the violent explosion staggered him and the soldiers of this squad around him. Li Ziyuan judged that the carriage was loaded with heavy artillery shells.
When a 'door' was detonated by a shell, the barrel of a large-caliber gun that was lifted out of the carriage flew into the sky, and after a period of circling, it fell on a hill near Li Ziyuan. Li Ziyuan found out what was being loaded in the wagons of this train.
Fortunately, with the speed of reaction, Li Ziyuan took his subordinates who were shocked by the explosion of the cannonball, and hid directly in a small col before the more violent explosion occurred. Li Ziyuan, who didn't dare to stay here for too long, was able to give up the original retreat route under the violent explosion, and retreated directly to the east on the spot.
The Japanese puppet army in Changzhi City moved quite fast, less than twenty minutes after Li Ziyuan evacuated. The surrounding Japanese puppet army has already rushed over in the direction of the attack on this train. It's just that the violent explosion on the train made it difficult for the Japanese puppet army who wanted to check the train and whether there were survivors to get close for a while.
Fortunately, there are not many bullets and 'medicines' carried in this train. When the Japanese puppet army brigade that came out from Changzhi to reinforce arrived, the explosive 'medicine' had basically exploded. It's just that the smoke from the violent explosion hasn't cleared for a while. At this time, the Japanese puppet army carefully searched the scene to see if there were any survivors.
Looking at the messy scene in front of him, after receiving the report of the attack on the train, he personally brought the face of Tsuruta Nunan, who rushed over, and at the same time, cold sweat broke out in an instant. Li Ziyuan didn't know what materials and people were being transported in this train, but he knew it very well.
The identities of the two big Zuo in this, Tsuruta Numan is even clearer. There are two big Zuo in this carriage, one is just promoted to deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, and this time he leads the front army headquarters.
The other is the North China Front Army who came to the southeast of Jin to supervise the recruitment of labor, and the head of the fourth section, Nishimura Otoji Osa. These two army commanders are not simple characters. Especially the third deputy chief of staff of the last 'fine', although he is only a big assistant at the moment. But in the entire Japanese Army, he is also a well-known figure with hands and eyes.
Among the remaining lieutenants, junior lieutenants, and lieutenants, there were not only operational and intelligence staff officers of the North China Front Headquarters, but also operational and intelligence staff officers of the First Army. Among them, there were also several operational staff officers of the divisions and regiments involved in this meeting, as well as some operational staff officers of the artillery and aviation units of the North China Front.
Of course, these high-ranking officers gathered in the southeast of Jin, not for Li Ziyuan. He is a battalion-level troop with eight roads, even if he can toss out 'flowers'. But it is also impossible to overpower the deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, and China has sent senior staff officers to study how to deal with him. The first army came with an operational staff officer, and it was already very face-saving for him.
These high-ranking officers of the Japanese army in North China, especially the operational staff officers, concentrated on Changzhi for inspection this time, and the target was naturally not Li Ziyuan. Rather, it is related to a major move that the Japanese army is about to launch in the near future. These senior staff officers of the Japanese North China Front Army walked almost a large circle along Jinnan from Taiyuan, Yuncheng, Fenyang, and Changzhi, and their actual purpose was to conduct this combat operation.
At the same time, in addition to the current operation that the North China Front is preparing for, it is also studying a three-year plan for the rectification of public order in North China. To put it bluntly, the North China Front has now made up its mind after the implementation of the operational plan it is drawing up. The focus of the next operation will be the increasingly large base areas behind enemy lines on the battlefield in North China.
The southeast of Shanxi Province is the area where the headquarters of the 18th Group Army is active, and it is also the area where the North China Front will focus on sweeping up the 'sweep' during the period from the second half of this year to next year. Therefore, although the operation began in Taiyuan, the final place of completion was in Changzhi. However, at present, these senior staff officers of the North China Front Army have ended not only their trips, but also their own lives in Changzhi.
Originally, Tsuruta Numan arranged for Kamishiro to follow these senior officers in order to be safer on the road. As a result, I didn't expect that I still couldn't escape. The most important thing is that such a group of senior staff officers, the consequences of an accident in their own jurisdiction, Tsuruta Numan almost dare not imagine.
Compared with Tsuruta Nunan, who was a little frightened, he rushed to the scene at the same time as him, and only after accompanying these high-ranking officers from Beiping to hold an operational meeting, he returned from Taiyuan to Imamura Shintaro Osa, the commander of the 36th Division. With such a large group of senior staff officers of the North China Front Army in their own jurisdiction, what would be the consequences of the outrage of this base camp, Imamura Shintaro didn't even dare to imagine.
Especially the three major assistants who are about to be promoted to major general. The wide network of contacts between the base camp and the military headquarters is definitely not comparable to that of the chief of staff of a division or regiment. Now that this old man is in the western sky in his own jurisdiction, Imamura Shintaro Osa can feel the 'gloomy' cold and piercing gaze of His Excellency the division commander.
Barely calming down the anger in his heart, Imamura Shintaro Osa looked at Tsuruta Numan beside him and said, "Tsuruta-kun, you are the head of the division's intelligence, what is your judgment of the attacker?" Is it the Tuba Road in the southeast of Shanxi, or the military commander of Chongqing? ”
Among the possible attackers pointed out by this Imamura Shintaro Osa, he directly eliminated the World War II zone of the king of Shanxi. Because he knows very well that the commander of the Second World War Zone, who has lost the arsenal and most of the territory, plus his Jin Sui army has not recovered, can only be in a situation of self-preservation at the moment. I didn't have the courage to poke the hornet's nest of the Japanese Army at this time.
In addition to the Tuba Road in the southeast of Jin, the attacker this time is very likely to be the Chongqing military commander who is very active on the side of Zhongtiao Mountain. Despite the ongoing deployment of this battle, the North China Front has engaged in a great deal of strategic deception. However, Imamura Shintaro did not think that the Chongqing side would know anything about the deployment of this battle.
It is highly likely that they were responsible for the attack on the train carrying a large number of senior staff officers. The real goal is likely to be to find the North China Front, regarding the deployment of this battle. Imamura's judgment was made by the disappearance of all the maps and documents in the carriage.
But for Imamura Shintaro's judgment, Tsuruta Numan did not agree. Who the attacker was this time, he judged from the first time he saw the body of Kanshiro Rakuga. If they had changed to the ordinary dirt eight roads, they might have 'shot' the soldiers in the carriage, but these dirt eight roads with strict discipline would not kill a former officer wearing civilian clothes.
In contrast to other officers, they are basically killed by 'shooting', or killed by grenade fragments. Kamishiro was the only one in the entire carriage to die from a knife wound, and he was stabbed in the neck from the side. This person is very experienced, and he avoided the carotid artery with this knife, but cut the trachea of Kamishiro Rakuai.
This knife made his old classmate suffer a certain amount of torture before he died. Without ordinary deep hatred, ordinary people can't get this hand. If Chongqing was armed with a military commander who was good at assassination, it would be solved with one shot at most, and it would not be so dragging its feet.
It was not without weapons in his hands, and when he was leaving, he gave him a Browning pistol, which he used for self-defense on the road. If he had fought back, he should have been killed in the 'indiscriminate' gun. Instead of taking this approach with a knife, to solve the problem.