Chapter 240: Fear
At this time, Li Ziyuan discovered that among the materials transported by this convoy, in addition to a batch of ammunition and supplies. There were three trucks loaded with gas shells and gas canisters, as well as a large number of chemical protective suits and gas masks. The vehicles loaded with gas canisters and gas shells were escorted by two Japanese chemical soldiers in protective suits.
Of course, these chemical soldiers have been killed a long time ago, and now they are dead and can't die anymore. However, after seeing the situation in the car, Li Ziyuan couldn't help but gasp. With so many munitions and chemical warfare weapons, if you are not careful, it will not be you who is unlucky.
Now Li Ziyuan finally understood why the materials transported by the Japanese army this time seemed to be far from the need for more than a dozen trucks, but why so many trucks were dispatched at one time. Even the Japanese army itself, who was the initiator, probably did not dare to load too many poison gas bombs on a truck.
However, although there was a white sweat behind his back, Li Ziyuan did not have the slightest politeness, and immediately arranged for someone to unload the ammunition in the car, which he could use and take away. As for the mountain artillery, infantry artillery, and the 70-millimeter mortar shells of the 11-year-old used by the Japanese army, Li Ziyuan did not carry any of them.
There was not a single mountain artillery or infantry artillery of its own, and the 70-millimeter mortar of the 11-year-old type, which was used as a mortar for the reinforcement of artillery by the infantry brigade when the Japanese army was sweeping the mountainous areas, did not have it either. Not to mention the trouble of carrying so many unused shells, even if you transport them back, it is useless.
Although he also wanted to bring back all these shells, at least he could change them into high-powered mines. Or disassemble the propellant and charge inside and send it to the arsenal to exchange for some bullets or grenades. But the problem is that in his current situation, with the strength of a company around him, he can't take these shells away if he wants to.
The light weapons and ammunition that could be taken away were immediately rushed to the south. For the rest of the shells and poison gas bombs, Li Ziyuan only distributed a Japanese smoke canister to each soldier. Of course, these poisonous gas smoke canisters were all known to him during the battle during the Spring Festival. As for those who don't know or haven't seen it, Li Ziyuan doesn't dare to move easily.
After taking a general look at the materials loaded on this convoy, he immediately made up his mind that none of these gas shells or poison cartridges could be allowed to enter the mountains. Some of the shells from the trucks carrying the shells were transferred to several vehicles carrying chemical weapons.
The rolling thunder, which was crushed by a Japanese car because of pulling the fire rope and failed to be pulled in the end, plus the two remaining ones, were buried under three cars filled with poison gas shells. At the same time, a grenade was strapped to the rolling mines, and the fuse was carefully attached to one of the front tires of the car.
These cars are either driven away or towed. These Mines will directly blow up these cars loaded with gas shells and gas canisters into the sky. Of course, those poison gas shells in the car, Li Ziyuan asked He Huizhang to install the shell fuse. Although He Huizhang was born as a mortar gunner, he is no stranger to installing fuses for mountain artillery shells.
Li Ziyuan did not want to install all the shells with fuses. In that case, He Huizhang will work alone until midnight today, and I'm afraid he won't be able to finish it if he is tired. A few rounds of gas shells are enough for each truck, and it doesn't take too many at once.
The fuses of several of the poison gas bombs were installed in Hehuizhang, and in order to increase the power of the explosion, all the chemical weapons were blown up at once. Li Ziyuan also asked He Huizhang to carefully place the captured shells on an ammunition truck after installing a fuse.
At this time, the alert troops arranged by Li Ziyuan in front had already launched a fierce exchange of fire with the Japanese puppet army that had attacked and reinforced from Pingchuan. Moreover, Liu Lianming, who commanded and blocked a platoon, faced the desperate charge of an entire formed squadron of the Japanese army, and the pressure was quite great.
But at this time, Li Ziyuan showed superhuman composure, and he ignored Zeng Sheng's urging. He personally placed a grenade on the fuel tank of all trucks and inside the front wheel, and tied it to a Japanese 70-millimeter mortar shell. In order to destroy these gas bombs, Li Ziyuan also worked hard.
He knew what the Japanese army was going to do when it was going to deliver these chemical warfare weapons to the mountainous areas in eastern Hubei at this time, and he knew even more about the consequences of letting these poison gas bombs into the mountains. Therefore, even if he is surrounded by the Japanese puppet army now, he must not let one of these poison gas bombs enter the mountainous area in the eastern part of Hubei.
But since he has already done the first year of junior high school, Li Ziyuan doesn't care about doing fifteen. It's not just the trucks full of gas canisters and gas shells, but the rest of the trucks are all equipped with tricks. Unless the Japanese throw away these trucks and transfer these chemical weapons to new trucks.
Otherwise, whether the Japanese army wanted to drive these trucks back or tow them back, they would trigger a terror of mortar shells or even mountain shells. And Li Ziyuan tried it himself, and several trucks transporting poison gas bombs, although they were riddled with holes, the engines were not damaged, and there was definitely no problem in driving away.
If you change to someone who is not familiar with these trucks, I am afraid that these arrangements will not be possible. But for Li Ziyuan, knowing how to let the Japanese army pull these tricks by themselves is already familiar with the road. He is no stranger to the structure of trucks, and he knows where to place mines, which can be blown up along with the car.
After doing all this, Li Ziyuan quickly retreated with the loot. Of course, even if the amount of ammunition transported is not large, it is not that all of these troops led by Li Ziyuan can be transported back to the eastern mountains. After evacuating the ambush site, Li Ziyuan buried the rest of the ammunition in a col of Fuhu Temple in the mountains, except for the replenishment of ammunition.
This time, the supply convoy of the Japanese army was hit, and the ammunition captured by Li Ziyuan's department, especially the Northeast-made grenades equipped by the Japanese army for the puppet army, as well as the Japanese army's own Type 97 grenades, were enough for everyone to share five or six and there were still leftovers. He Huizhang used up several grenadiers for standard ammunition, and this time he also refilled the ammunition at one time.
In order to take away as many of these ammunition as possible from the Japanese army's standard Type 89 grenades, He Huizhang not only carried four of them on his back in his own firepower platoon. I didn't know how to make sense of Zeng Sheng, so I asked the first platoon to help him bring two boxes of grenades. The grenadiers of his firepower platoon now have enough ammunition for two ambushes.
However, He Huizhang expressed great dissatisfaction with Li Ziyuan's practice of not bringing back any of the Japanese mortar shells. He believes that although the troops do not have such mortars at present, a mortar squadron of the Japanese army that can enter the mountains is equipped with such light mortars.
Although this mortar has a range and the power of shells, it is far inferior to the Chinese-made 82 mortar, and it is not as good as other mortars equipped by the Japanese army itself. But it is very suitable for the current situation that there are no pack horses in their own troops, and all weapons and ammunition can only rely on human resistance. If one or two of him were captured, wouldn't it be much more powerful than a grenadier?
Besides, although Hubei does not produce horses, there are still a lot of donkeys. Although the power and range of this thing are authentic old guys, they are cannons anyway. There are no pack horses, and the troops can't afford to raise pack horses, but this kind of cannon is very light and the weight of the donkey can also be packed.
Listening to He Huizhang's muttering complaints, Li Ziyuan, who was fiddling with a captured Japanese army's new machine gun, glared at this guy fiercely, and directly made He Huizhang honestly shut up. When to give up something, isn't it clear to him, a veteran?
The problem now is that their troops now need to be light and agile, rather than running around with a lot of ammunition and heavy weapons. What is the current situation of the troops, and he He Huizhang still doesn't know? This is also brought and that is also brought, how the troops still fight and march.
He thinks he is a devil, with pack horses and trucks, and when he needs it, he catches Chinese everywhere, uses them as coolies, and carries supplies and ammunition for them? There are some things that should be discarded, and they must be thrown away immediately, so as not to drag down the troops.
If he has a cannon, let him carry some of it. But their own troops now only have grenadiers, and this mortar does not even have a single part. Isn't there nothing that will be seized later? Besides, when operating in enemy-occupied areas, the weapons carried should be lightweight, and he, a veteran, should be clear.
Under Li Ziyuan's glare, He Huizhang honestly closed his mouth. And just after He Huizhang shut up, in the direction of the road behind the troops, a violent explosion sounded that everyone in the team involuntarily accelerated their pace and marched along the side of the mountain to the south of Pingchuan.
The post-war poison gas thing during the Spring Festival, everyone now knows what happened. The devil knows that when these gases explode, they will blow in that direction. If you go slower, and the poisonous gas over there is blown by the wind, then it will not only be the Japanese army who is unlucky, but I am afraid that I will also suffer.
Since everyone doesn't want to touch this thing, there is no need for Li Ziyuan to urge, everyone knows that the farther away from here, the better. These things made by the Japanese should be left to the Japanese for their own use. I can't do it myself, and I feel the feeling of struggling in the poisonous gas. The battle of the Spring Festival made too deep an impression on these soldiers.
The troops quickened their pace, but Li Ziyuan kept turning his head as he walked. The continuous explosions on the other side of the highway indicated that the mines they had laid had been blown up by the Japanese army. The ammunition in this batch of materials may not be an important thing for the Japanese army.
But that batch of poison gas bombs was definitely an important material for the Japanese army. The reason why the Japanese troops in Pingchuan came up was to attack like crazy, and the real target should still be this batch of chemical warfare equipment. This is also the reason why Li Ziyuan dared to leave with as much captured ammunition as possible after discovering that the truck was transporting poison gas bombs.
Because the Japanese army will definitely check whether these chemical warfare weapons have been lost at the first time, and rush these chemical warfare weapons back to Pingchuan. During the Spring Festival this year, he used the poison gas bomb seized from his horse to teach the Japanese a lesson. I'm afraid that the 36th Division is already a soldier in this regard.
Since the Japanese army bit at the first time, they transferred these chemical warfare weapons back. Then it is strange that the Japanese army did not use those trucks that were not damaged. After all, these gas shells and gas cartridges can be carried less than once. This thing is a typical double-edged sword, which can kill and injure Chinese, but it is also a big threat to the Japanese themselves.