Chapter 67: Attack on Wuhan (8)

Wang De, who was confused, didn't have the heart to waste time with this wordy special combat member, glared at him fiercely, waved his hand, and rushed into the station with his troops.

Through the window of the waiting room, you can see the situation in the station, and the station is very quiet, so quiet that it does not look like a battlefield between the two armies against each other. The sight inside the station is also strange! There were more than two dozen stuffy tank cars parked alone on platform 2, there was no head, and the platform around it was empty of no vehicles, all of which were parked far away. And all the searchlights on the station shone on the stuffy tank cars on platform 2, which was as bright as day, while the rest of the place was dark.

The doors of the stuffy tanker cars parked on platform 2 were all open, and there were black holes inside, and there were a few sacks full of grain piled up at the door, and even on the ground in front of the door, there were fallen grain packets, which were obviously piled up in a panic, and many of the grain packets piled up on the door were broken by bullets, and rice was scattered all over the ground. Moreover, on the ground in front of the door of each stuffy tanker, there were some corpses of Gui Jun lying horizontally.

Wang De, who was observing the situation, suddenly found that three Gui soldiers suddenly jumped out of a stuffy tanker truck in the middle, and before Wang De ordered his soldiers to shoot, with the sound of three gunshots unique to three or eight guns, the bodies of the two Gui soldiers who jumped out were still in the air, as if they had been hit hard on the head, their heads suddenly fell back, and they fell to the ground on their backs, motionless, obviously dead. The Gui Jun who jumped out first was an officer with a short gun in his hand, and as soon as his foot touched the ground, he lunged forward, followed by a series of neat rolls, and the shot that hit him obviously missed the point. Seeing that Gui Jun was about to climb off the platform, he could hide under the platform when he got to the platform, where there was a dead end for shooting. The corpse of a Gui soldier who fell to the ground on the edge of the platform made his neat movements have a small pause, and it was this small pause that killed him, and several gunshots rang out almost at the same time, and half of the Gui officer's head flew out suddenly, and the person suddenly tilted on the corpse that made him have a fatal pause.

Then there was silence on the platform again, and under the miserable white light, the 20 or so stuffy tankers with large open doors parked on platform 2 and corpses all over the ground filled the platform with a strange atmosphere, which made Wang De, a Hebei man who had killed at least a dozen enemies on the battlefield, couldn't help but feel a little numb in his scalp.

At this time, a captain officer of the special brigade of the Security Army with a white lightning bolt on his left arm and a black background painted on it, led by the soldiers of the first battalion to meet Wang De. The rank of the officer of the special brigade is one level higher than that of the officers of the same level in other units of the security army, and Wang De knows that this captain should be the captain of this reinforced squad. After the two saluted, they informed each other of the numbers, and after a few brief greetings, the team leader introduced the situation of the station to Wang De.

It turned out that Ye Changgui and his special brigade came to Wuhan at 10 o'clock last night, and they disguised themselves as Yang Tenghui's troops and sneaked into Hankou and Hanyang. Wuchang in the south of the Yangtze River had to give up because it was not easy to support because it needed to cross the river by ferry. Although the special brigade has more than 2,000 people, 18 squadrons and a brigade directly under the brigade, after all, Hankou and Hanyang are too big, there are too many targets to take care of, and there are not many people assigned to various places, but fortunately, their task is only to cooperate with the follow-up troops. Their task as a squad is to take control of the train station in time when a large force attacks.

Due to the lack of troops of the Gui army in Wuhan, the troops defending the Hankou railway station were only half a company, and they were easily subdued by a special operations team of more than 70 people, and controlled the station dispatch building, the waiting room, the passage in and out of the station, and several trigger rooms in the station. It's just that a train carrying munitions parked on platform 2 is not easy to handle, and there is a company of escort troops on this car, which is always on the train. By asking the stationmaster on duty at the station, he learned that they were originally going to leave in the first half of the night, but because a section of the road in front of them was damaged by planes of the Central Army during the day and was being repaired, they had been on standby to set off, and the escort troops on the car did not get off the train.

In order to control the Gui army on the blockade of this train, the special combat team commanded the stationmaster on duty to gradually transfer other vehicles parked around him, and drove away his locomotive on the pretext of adding water. At the same time, it controlled various commanding heights in the station, and each stuffy tanker car had two submachine guns responsible for blocking the doors. As soon as Gui Jun found out, he blocked the car door and blocked Gui Jun in the car. At every vantage point in the station, there are special shooters with three or eight guns, and they can support everywhere from a high position.

It wasn't until 3 o'clock in the morning that the company commander of the Gui Army, who was escorting, realized that something was wrong, because it was too quiet in the station. Although because of the war, all passenger and freight cars, including the Pinghan line, have been suspended, and only occasionally military vehicles will pass, but there will always be patrols and guards on duty at the station and personnel at the station walking back and forth, but now there is no one on the platform, except for the lights in the room in the station dispatch building, and the surrounding area is dark, but their platform is as bright as day. Then I saw that the trains parked on the left and right platforms had all left, and only their train without a head was parked here alone. The more he looked at it, the more uneasy he became, the more he felt uneasy, and immediately sent someone to the dispatch building to inquire about the situation.

Originally, the special combat team also had to arrange people to pretend to be Gui Jun patrolling and standing guard, but their manpower was too small, and there were almost no extra people in each location. Two soldiers in a row sent to the dispatch building to inquire about the situation neither came back nor made any movement, and the company commander of the Gui army knew that something was wrong, and immediately blew the whistle and asked the soldiers to get out of the car. As soon as his whistle sounded, he was killed by bullets fired from several directions. As soon as the gunshots rang out, the Gui soldiers who were dozing in the car grabbed their guns in a daze and jumped down from the car. Every time the characteristic "snap" sound of the three guns sounded, almost one person fell, and those who jumped down first were quickly killed under the car, and the people behind did not dare to jump down again, so they all hid in the car and shot out. As long as they didn't come out, the submachine guns stopped firing, and the Gui soldiers in the car took the opportunity to even set up bunkers with sacks of rice in the doors of several cars, and set up machine guns to shoot out. It's okay not to shoot, as soon as you shoot, the person who shoots is immediately shot by the rifle outside. The Gui Jun in the car soon discovered this phenomenon, and slowly no one dared to shoot anymore, so the current situation was formed.

After listening to the introduction of the leader of the special combat team, Wang De couldn't help laughing: "Your special combat team is just not ordinary, and you can still fight like this." Wang De saw that the two companies he brought had already surrounded Platform 2, and said to the staff officer of Yang Tenghui's department who came with him: "Please let them surrender, please tell them that the large army of our Fourth Route Army has occupied Wuhan, and if you don't surrender, I will throw a grenade, and even the arms will be blown up." ”

As soon as the staff officer heard Wang De's words, he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately leaned on the window and shouted loudly. first reported to his home, and then told the people in the car that Wuhan had been occupied, and quickly got out of the car and surrendered, etc. The people in the car were in chaos for a while, listening to the gunfire in the city and gradually stopped, and they couldn't help but believe it, first the people in the car threw out the guns, followed by the other cars also threw out guns, and the people in the car slowly got out of the car one after another. The soldiers of the first battalion brought by Wang De immediately surrounded it, and then searched in the cars one by one. The commander of a company ran to report: "Deputy battalion commander, except for the back 5 sections of the car, which are loaded with food, the rest are loaded with shells and bullets. Wang Deyi was amused: "Okay, I heard that the second division wasted a lot of shells in Xiaogan, so I just replenished it." The leader of the special operations team said: "Deputy Battalion Commander Wang, there are still several large warehouses over there, I have seen that they are full of grain, and I see that it is enough for tens of thousands of us to eat for several months." Wang De smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "This is your credit, I will send someone to report to the division commander." ”

Sun Li, the commander of the third regiment, took his regiment and a regiment of cavalry, and marched all the way to Zhujiahe at six o'clock in the morning, when the sky was already bright. Zhujiahe is a small village with only a few dozen households, just on the side of the main road along the river, just stuck on the main road from Huanggang back to Hankou. It's all plains, and there is only a hill tens of meters high more than 100 meters behind the village, which is not a good place to block attacks. Sun Li, who had no choice but to order the artillery battalion to be placed behind the hill, the first battalion to defend the village and the hill, the second battalion to dig trenches on the main road and both sides behind the village, and the baggage battalion and guard company as reserves. The third and fourth battalions were already deployed on several roads from Jintan Lake to Zhujiahe, and in addition to the three battalions of the third regiment, there was also a cavalry regiment. As soon as Sun Li discussed with Commander Wang of the First Cavalry Regiment, Commander Wang pulled his regiment to a mile behind the Zhujia River and lined up from the riverside to the north in a company unit, mainly because he was afraid that the retreating Gui troops would scatter in small units to bypass the Zhujia River when they could not walk on the main road, and the cavalry still had a great advantage in dealing with the small forces in the scattered march.

Sun Li's headquarters was set up in Zhujiahe Village, and the people in the village had already arranged for people to move out of the village.

At this time, the radio station had already been set up, and before Sun Li could send a report to Zhang Yafei and Xiao Guodong, he received a report on the enemy situation from the division headquarters, because of Yang Tenghui's power supply last night, there was already a defensive gap in the north of Wuhan, so before Li Zongren arrived in Wuhan, Liu Dayong, chief of staff of the Wuhan Garrison Command of the Gui Department, who was in charge of the temporary command, transferred Li Mingrui's division back to defend Wuhan, and Li Mingrui's division suddenly pulled to the direction of Xiaogan, and immediately turned on the power to pour Gui, immediately and completely breaking the dream of the Gui Department to defend Wuhan. Liu Dayong, who was in Hankou, immediately crossed the river to Wuchang overnight with Xia Wei, the commander of the Seventh Army, who was ill and hospitalized, and prepared to arrange for the army to return to Guangxi. Hu Zongduo and Tao Jun on the front line of Huanggang took advantage of the fact that Liu Zhi's troops had not yet arrived, and returned to Hankou overnight, preparing to cross the river in Hankou.

(To be continued)