Chapter 687 Chinese New Year's Eve (continued)

The explosion at the Xuzhou railway station was indeed the work of the Eighth Route Army. To be precise, Zhao Yonggang, the leader of the Second Squadron of the Special Operations Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, led the soldiers to do it.

After Zhao Yonggang attacked and occupied Fuliji, he took control of Fuliji Station. It just so happened that not long after a train came, which was transporting supplies from Central China to Xuzhou.

The Japanese army had gathered so many troops in Xuzhou, and all divisions and regiments were in urgent need of replenishing the battle losses, and the northern section of Jiaoji Road and Jinpu Road could not be opened to traffic for the time being, and road transportation alone was far from meeting the needs, and all kinds of materials, including equipment, were shipped to Xuzhou through the southern section of Jinpu Road and Lianyungang. In particular, the Eighth Route Army carried out a large-scale campaign to clear the wilderness, forcing the Japanese army to continuously transfer grain from the north, northeast, and central China. From the northeast to the south, it can be transported to Luokou by train, and transported to Jinan through a pontoon bridge in Luokou. Not to mention the delay of time in coming and going, it is easy to provide the Eighth Route Army with an opportunity to sneak attack, and the best way is naturally to transport it by railway through the southern section of Jinpu Road and the eastern section of Longhai Road.

The military train intercepted by Zhao Yonggang was mainly transporting grain, a dozen or so columns of rice. The car full of white cloth rice bags shook Zhao Yonggang's eyes dizzy. Fortunately, the instructor won more battles and more good things were captured, and Zhao Yonggang was only dizzy for a while, and began to look for ammunition all over the car. As a result, he searched and searched, but except for the weapons and ammunition of the devil squad escorting the train on the train, he did not find the shells and bullets of the whole car that he wanted. The armored patrol car escorting the military column was killed by him with a rocket, and there was no weapons and ammunition left in the car.

Zhao Yonggang is a master of special warfare, his brain is calm, and after thinking for a while, he understands that at present, the southern section of Jinpu Road is the lifeline of Xuzhou devils' heavy supplies, and it should be trains one after another, otherwise so many devils in Xuzhou drink the northwest wind? Therefore, Zhao Yonggang interrogated the devil stationmaster again, and tried his best to finally learn that there was still a military column passing an hour later.

This person came to the world, in a variety of ways, and some people are born bold. Like Zhao Yonggang, ordinary people only seem to think that this person is stocky, sven and literate, and he can't find it when he doesn't show mountains and waters, and he can't find it when he throws it into the pile.

Zhao Yonggang can drive cars, motorcycles, tanks, and armored cars, but he can't drive trains. But it doesn't matter, he can learn. After the Jiaoji Road Campaign, the special operations brigade selected a few fighters from the railway detachment of the Eighth Route Army in Boshan, Luzhong, and the second squadron was divided into two.

An hour later, the second column of the devils arrived. The signal light on the platform sent out a fault repair signal, and no matter how good the military train was, it was impossible for the military train to leave the tracks, and the second military train had to stop and wait for the first military train to repair the fault.

This column of troops was full of shells and bullets, and the happy Zhao Yonggang had sparks in his eyes. However, there are also many devils in the escort car, and there are enough devils in the front and rear carriages to have a squadron.

The station commander kept bending down to apologize to the leader of the devil squadron, and kept saying, "I've caused you trouble, please take care of me", and then he politely beckoned the imperial soldiers to get out of the car and drink hot soup, take a rest, and soon be fine.

The leader of the devil's squadron looked at the workers who were hammering on the wheels under the front of the car with tools, then at the neat rice bags stomping on the first military vehicle, and then at the sentries with loaded guns on the platform, and then ordered the soldiers to get off the car and rest.

As soon as the devil squadron leader spoke, the little devils who escorted the car scrambled to jump out of the car, and a chatter of Japanese sounded on the platform.

At this time, the stationmaster, who was extremely attentive just now, changed his face, the sentry standing guard on the platform changed his face, and the soldiers who were boiling water and scooping soup for the devil soldiers in the box office also changed their faces. People know that it was the special pistol with a silencer unique to the Eighth Route Army that was collecting the lives of the little devils.

After cleaning up the little devils, the Eighth Route Army began to unload the car.

The cavalry brigade had just been ambushed by the little devils in Su County, and after receiving the report that Zhao Yonggang had intercepted two military columns, Hu Laohu asked the 1st Cavalry Regiment to take the artillery regiment to occupy Su County, and he took the 2nd Cavalry Regiment and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment to the Fuliji Railway Station at a gallop to carry arms and food.

The distance was not far, and the cavalry was fast, and Hu Laohu and they arrived quickly.

Looking at the truckload of rice and munitions, Hu Laohu hugged Zhao Yonggang and praised him silently: "Well done, well done."

It may be that he has been working as a special soldier for a long time, Zhao Yonggang will always be that kind of cold appearance, he bluntly told Hu Laohu that the unloading speed should be fast, he still has a task, he has to give gifts to the little devils in Xuzhou, and the defense of Fu Liji has also been handed over to the cavalry brigade.

Hu Laohu had no objection to accepting Fuliji's defense, but he had objections to Zhao Yonggang's intention to pull a cart of shells and bullets to bomb the Xuzhou Railway Station. His reason is that there are not many devils at the Xuzhou Railway Station, and there is no need to waste so many shells and bullets. If these shells are handed over to the artillery regiment of the 1st Brigade and the Artillery Regiment of the Cavalry Brigade, they will be able to fight several big battles, and they will not be able to engage in such a business that is loud and kills few enemies

Zhao Yonggang also knew the importance of artillery shells for a unit that focused on firepower superiority, but he had to go to Xuzhou, which was a task assigned by Liu Yimin, with the purpose of destroying the transportation hub of Xuzhou Railway Station.

The result of the discussion between the two was that Zhao Yonggang compromised. In the end, only 20 shells were put in each wagon of the two military trains, and there was a soldier who was responsible for loading the fuse of the shells when he was about to arrive in Xuzhou, and connecting them with the fuse of the explosive package, and the soldiers lit the fuse before jumping out of the car, and when the train entered the station, he would give a good gift to the little devil at the Xuzhou Railway Station.

After the deployment, Zhao Yonggang let two soldiers who could drive the train get on the train as drivers, and let two soldiers be stokers, and he led more than 20 soldiers to put on devil uniforms and get on the train.

With a whistle, two empty military columns sped towards Xuzhou Railway Station.

From Fuliji to Xuzhou, the railway distance is 50 kilometers. The two military columns were one after the other, and they did not stop and galloped towards Xuzhou. Shocked, the devils at several small stations along the way didn't know why the military train was so fast.

A little more than an hour, Zhao Yonggang saw Xuzhou in the snowy night.

Thinking about the last time he went to Xuzhou to attack two airports, Zhao Yonggang couldn't help but have a playful smile on the corner of his mouth. That guy, it's too prickly. I'm afraid the little devils don't know until now, it was the old men who snatched up their planes.

It's a pity that this time is in a hurry, and you have to evacuate before the shells on the train explode, otherwise you can go to Xuzhou to have a good time with the little devils and have a good time.

Zhao Yonggang glanced at the lights of Xuzhou City with a little regret, carefully checked his explosives bag again, and decisively issued a signal to jump out of the car.

After the signal was issued, Zhao Yonggang took out a match, struck it, lit the fuse, and then followed the direction of the train, jumped off the train, rolled on the ground a few times, stood up and looked at the soldiers who were jumping out of the train one after another, and issued a gathering signal.

It didn't take long for an earth-shattering continuous explosion to be heard in the direction of Xuzhou Station.

Hearing the explosion, Zhao Yonggang's footsteps only stopped slightly, and then continued to move towards the night. He had to find a little devil's stronghold and get a car. It would be difficult not to let you return to Su County in a snowy night with just two tuǐ.

By the time Tang Xiuer arrived at the Xuzhou Railway Station, the Japanese army had already imposed martial law on the railway station.

Standing on the platform, Tang Xiuer couldn't help but feel a heartbeat, this was too terrifying, the first train rushed onto the platform, rushed into the box office and waiting hall, and collapsed the entire box office and waiting hall. The second train collided with the first train, and the wagons were one east and one west, and they fell like dead dogs on the tracks and platforms. The corpses of Imperial soldiers were scattered on the platforms on both sides of the tracks.

Tang Xiuer didn't care about the damage at the station, she was looking for the culprit who caused the explosion and the train collision.

To Tang Xiuer's great disappointment, the captain of the gendarmerie in charge of the search reported to her that the train was empty and no murderer was found.

Tang Xiuer didn't believe it, if there was no murderer, how could two trains collide? How could the first train derail and crash into the box office and waiting room?

The commander of the gendarmerie brigade reported that the preliminary investigation was due to the fact that the military train entered the station at high speed, and the explosion sounded immediately, which caused the station staff to be confused, and in the panic of pulling the switch, the train derailed and rushed to the platform, and then rushed into the box office and waiting room. As for the collision of the two trains, the captain of the gendarmerie brigade said that he had asked the stationmaster, and it was very easy to control, as long as the first train stopped adding coal earlier, the speed would naturally be slow, and the first train would stop adding coal a little later, and the speed would be faster, and it would be able to catch up with the first train. It's just that this kind of thing must be calculated accurately, and only very experienced train drivers can do it and cooperate well, and ordinary novices can't do it.

Tang Xiuer watched the scene for a long time, but found nothing except picking up some shell fragments. However, she was smart and thoughtful, and she understood the crux of the problem, and immediately ordered the special combat team that came with her to search along the railway.

It's a pity that it was snowing at this time, and it was difficult to search for the traces of the Eighth Route Army's jumping car. Tang Xiu'er led a squadron of special combat teams to search along Jinpu Road, and finally found the traces of Zhao Yonggang and their jumping car. After all, you must know that jumping out of the train is affected by the habit of moving forward, and it will inevitably roll on the ground after jumping, reducing the damage of the impact force to the body, and leaving a little more traces.

But only the traces of jumping out of the car were found, but Tang Xiu'er couldn't find the footprints of Zhao Yonggang in which direction they retreated, and the falling snow covered everything. But this didn't bother her, needless to say, the small troops of the Eighth Route Army were heading south. Because they occupied Suxian, this small army would definitely return to Suxian to join the large forces of the Eighth Route Army.

As for whether the Eighth Route Army will go north, Tang Xiuer firmly believes that it will not. Because at this time, the defense line of Longhai Road has been formed, and it is too difficult to pass through the blockade line. Besides, the Eighth Route Army that bombed the station was obviously the elite team of the Eighth Route Army, maybe it was the small army he encountered in Culai Village, and they would not leave Liu Yimin's side.

In fact, this is Tang Xiuer's arbitrariness, although the Japanese army's Longhai line has a tight defense line, but if the special combat team wants to pass, there are thousands of ways, how can the little devil prevent it? Not to mention the special combat team, even Wu Huawen's pistol brigade was able to pass through the Japanese blockade line to Lunan, which shows that the blockade line of the little devils is not so evil. After all, this is China, the area is beyond the imagination of the little devils, they can't stand a soldier every three or five meters, so the loophole is big

Tang Xiu'er was a little annoyed, if she had figured out this joint earlier, she wouldn't have wasted time at the train station, and would have driven directly to the south, maybe she could block this bold and reckless dirt road halfway.

Thinking about it, I can't help but scold the garrison in Xuzhou and the pig brains of the 114th Division, let them defend Xuzhou, rely on the railway to establish a defense line, these peasants and fishermen's sons do not know how to deploy along the Longhai line, don't you need to be tightly armed? A herd of pigs

Tang Xiu'er no longer hesitated, and ordered the special combat team to return to the station, take a car along the highway to the south, and go straight to Su County.

At this time, she had already figured out that the direction in which the elite team of the Eighth Route Army would go was the direction where Liu Yimin was. The Dangshan side may be Liu Yimin's main force, but Liu Yimin's headquarters must be near Su County. His team is so huge, who knows whether he wants to fight Yudong or Xuzhou?

After Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao commanded the troops to cut off the Longhai Road, they began to attack eastward along the Longhai Road, preparing to widen the gap, preferably near Dangshan County, and force the Japanese army in Xuzhou to quickly reinforce.

Liu Jianli felt that something was wrong with this onslaught, because the Japanese army was too tenacious and would not retreat, and a small team and a squadron faced such a large-scale attack dared to defend the defensive line to the death, and all of them had to die on the position. Originally, this matter was also very easy to handle, and it was enough to concentrate artillery fire. However, Liu Jianli did not dare to do this, because although the artillery regiments of the Second and Sixth Brigades were given priority to replenish after the Battle of Taixi and had sufficient artillery shells, now that the Japanese army had occupied Jinpu Road, if they wanted to get a large-scale replenishment, they had to wait until they captured Cangxian County and seized the Japanese munitions. I don't know how many battles I have to fight, but I have to save shells.

Units have reported casualties, increased casualties, and relatively large casualties.

Liu Jianli once served as the chief of staff of the 18th Regiment and the Central Guard Division, and was a Confucian general. This is also a major reason why Liu Yimin trusts him. Because Liu Yimin advocates fighting with his brains, he is most opposed to taking the lives of soldiers for their lives and fighting to the death. Therefore, finding that the situation was not right, Liu Jianli decisively ordered the attack to be stopped, changed the attack of the large army to a small force attack, and the main force used the cover of the night to deploy an ambush circle, ready to let the little devil drink a good pot.

In fact, if you attack with a small force, the casualties will be small. Mainly because there is night cover, plus the second brigade and the sixth brigade are elite, and the fighters have a high level of individual tactics. In particular, the 2nd Teaching Brigade, which is the three main brigades on a par with the 1st and 3rd Teaching Brigades, has strict training, has gone through major battles, and has a very high level of individual tactics and infantry squad tactics, far surpassing the 38th Division of the Japanese Army.

In this way, not to mention the speed of the assault, the small troops that attacked could attack calmly, and competed with the Japanese army for tactical literacy, although the density of firepower on the battlefield was smaller, but the hit rate was high, and as long as the little devil dared to lù head, he could be killed by the sharpshooters of the Eighth Route Army. The positions of the little devils still exist, but the casualties have skyrocketed.

Liu Jianjian sent a battalion of the fourth regiment, this is the tip of Liu Jianjian's knife, at this time, there is no need to wait for when?

Teng Xinxing, commander of the first battalion and third company of the Fourth Regiment, has been reborn and made many military exploits since he joined the Red Army in the west. Tianshui fought against the Ma Jiajun, stood out, and was selected to study in the teaching team of the Red Seventh Army. At the end of the study, he was received by the corps commander Liu Yimin and was transferred to the Red 12th Regiment of the Red 34th Division. After going north to resist the Japanese, the name of fighting devils became more and more famous, and when the 21st Division of the Japanese Army was eliminated, the body of Washizu Matsudaira was found by him.

It stands to reason that Teng Xinxing should have been promoted a long time ago. Several times the unit was expanded, he had to be transferred to the new unit as a battalion commander, but Teng Xinxing did not go, and he had to continue to be a company commander in the Fourth Regiment. He was so angry that Zhang Minsheng, the commander of the Fourth Regiment, and He Ke, the political commissar of the Fourth Regiment, both scolded him for being a pig's brain, not enlightened, being a company commander who could only manage one or two hundred people, and being a battalion commander who could manage seven or eight hundred people, how could he not be counted.

Teng Xinxing countered and said that the battalion commander with 7 or 800 men was only the main brigade, and there was no battalion of 7 or 800 men in any other unit of the Eighth Route Army. Some units say that it is a regiment or a detachment, but in fact there are only 7 or 800 men and 5 or 600 guns, and going there to be a battalion commander is not as good as the current company commander. Besides, being the Eighth Road is to kill devils, not to be an official. Staying in the Fourth Regiment, there are endless battles. When you change to a new unit, you can only watch many big battles, and you can't participate in them, so it's a shame to think about it.

In this way, Teng Xinxing continued to be his third company commander.

After Liu Jianli changed his tactics, Teng Xinxing led three companies to take the lead in attacking, targeting a ring fortification of the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army did not have so much reinforced concrete, and their fortifications were all trenches and shelters, and the shelters were also made of wood to build sheds.

It should be a squadron of Japanese troops guarding the ring fortifications, and after artillery fire, the remaining little devils judging from the density of firepower, there are almost fifty or sixty people.

Teng Xinxing is already a hero of a hundred battles, and he is very fine. He suggested to the battalion commander that he first concentrate his firepower to knock out the searchlights and torches on the little devils' positions, and then use heavy machine guns to suppress the devils to cover the movement of the troops, and when the troops moved to 50 meters of the devils' position, they would concentrate on dropping bombs, and then immediately launch a charge to completely eliminate the devils.

The battalion commander adopted Teng Xinxing's suggestion, concentrated the mortars, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns of the whole battalion, and knocked out all the little devil lighting equipment in the ring fortifications.

Taking advantage of this, Teng Xinxing led the three companies to do low-profile movements on the snow and headed towards the little devil's position.

Seeing a distance of fifty meters, Teng Xinxing gave an order, and the soldiers' grenades were hurried towards the little devil's fortifications, and the dust mist from the explosion enveloped the fortifications.

Teng Xinxing jumped up and shouted "rush", and took the lead in rushing towards the devil's position. Behind him, the soldiers of the third company held Bayi automatic rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns, forming a wall of fire composed of bullets, and pushed towards the little devils in the fortifications.

When Teng Xinxing rushed to the Japanese position, he found that the little devil was basically not alive. Teng Xinxing hurriedly shouted: "Stop shooting, save bullets, quickly clean up the battlefield, and consolidate the position"

As soon as Teng Xinxing finished shouting, he felt a chill in his abdomen, and when he looked down, a ghost wounded soldier was smiling and stabbing a bayonet into his abdomen.

Teng Xinxing scolded "dog", and the shell gun in his hand was shot out, beating the devil's wounded soldier to the brain.

Teng Xinxing's body shook and fell to the ground.

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