Chapter 627 The Night Attack on Dagong Yarn Factory (2)

On the old target road, there are still a lot of patrols, but they are all Ah San and the foreigner inspector, and the Chinese patrols are no longer here.

The reason for not allowing the Chinese to stand guard on the old target road is very high-sounding. Recently, due to the war between China and Japan, the order of the concession is chaotic, compared with Ah San, the Chinese patrol is more suitable for maintaining the order of the concession, so all the Chinese have changed to be on duty in the concession during the day, and the duty on the old target road is mainly responsible for Ah San.

The convoy was cautiously stopped by several Indian Ah San on the old target road, and Lu Xiaowang did not get out of the car, but poked his head out of the rolled open window. said to Ah Sanmen very casually: "This is Chang Ye's car." ”

A few Ah San turned around and asked the British inspector who was standing far away for a few words, and the Englishman waved his hand in disgust, signaling for permission. The three hurriedly got out of the way.

As soon as the convoy crossed the old target road, it entered the Hongkou territory.

At the various intersections leading from Hongkou to Laojizi Road, there are also Japanese marines and ronins guarding them. Since the last bombing of the Marine Corps headquarters, the Japanese army has intensified its defensive inspections from the concession to Hongkou. However, because of the tense war, the army did not have so many manpower, and the defense of the Hongkou area was mainly responsible for the Japanese marines and ronin.

The convoy was stopped by a Japanese Marine Corps captain sitting behind a table, two soldiers he led, and five Japanese ronins with katanas at their waists.

This time, after Lu Xiaowang whispered a few words to Du Wende, he hurriedly led Du Wende to jump out of the car, and the personnel of the team behind him also got out of the car.

It's just that the position where the convoy behind stopped was very messy, not parked in a line, but staggered, blocking the back tightly, and the three people on the old target road couldn't see the situation here at all.

According to the rules of these days, after entering Hongkou, you must first be inspected by this sentry before you can be released.

Recently, several convoys loaded with vegetables and rice passed through every night, and no problems were found, and the Japanese inspection posts were lax. Only the two marines who followed behind the Japanese commander held the 38 big cover in their hands on their waists, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed forward, and the Japanese army commander and several ronins were nonchalantly clasped their hands in the wide sleeves of their kimonos, and they gathered together with their necks in the cold wind, looking at Lu Xiaowang with blank eyes.

Lu Xiaowang politely came to the Japanese army commander, took out a pass and handed it to the Japanese army commander, the Japanese army commander looked at the pass very casually, and returned it to Lu Xiaowang.

It's just that what makes Du Wende feel strange is that after reading the pass, the Japanese army commander did not immediately let him go, nor did he conduct a routine inspection, but looked at Lu Xiaowang with a tense face and without saying a word.

Du Wende used the corner of his eye to see that his people had inadvertently and slowly approached the Japanese army, and he himself only had to take a step forward to come to the Japanese army commander, and the short knife hidden in his sleeve could cut through the throat of the Japanese army commander in an instant, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Xiaowang came to his senses at this time and secretly scolded himself for being too nervous, so that he forgot the most important thing.

Lu Xiaowang hurriedly turned around and ran into the car, took out a cardboard box, moved it to the Japanese army commander, and then opened the carton with a smile on his face, and took out five bottles of liquor and ten roast chickens, as well as a few boxes of paper cigarettes.

"Brothers of the Imperial Army, hard work, a little meaning, you Miximisi."

Only then did the commander of the Japanese army smile, reached out and grabbed a roast chicken, put it to his nose and smelled the tempting fragrance, and said, "Mixi!" ”

As soon as Du Wende made a look, several team members immediately picked up the roast chicken paper cigarettes and distributed them to the two Japanese soldiers and a few ronin. With a smile on their faces, two Japanese marines slung their rifles over their shoulders and reached for what was handed in front of them. …,

Du Wende coughed lightly and gave a signal to make a move, he stepped in front of the table with an arrow step, stretched out his right hand, and there was already a bright short knife in his originally empty right hand. Before the surprised Japanese army commander could put down the roast chicken in his hand, he felt a cold throat, and he could no longer breathe, and wanted to scream, but he couldn't make a sound.

At the same time as Du Wende made a move, the special combat team members who surrounded the two Japanese soldiers and several ronins also started to do it at the same time. Almost three or five people dealt with one Japanese at the same time, and as soon as two Japanese soldiers and a few ronins felt that something was wrong, they were neatly twisted their necks.

The special operators did not stop, but quickly dragged the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and ronins into the alley behind, and then two special combat team members put on the costumes of the ronins and inserted their sabers.

According to the rules of these days, at the first sentry, the convoy is first inspected, and then two ronins follow the first and last cars of the convoy until they are taken to the warehouse next to the Dagong Yarn Mill. The aim is to prevent these people who are transporting supplies from having access to weapons on the road.

After the convoy restarted, the Assan, who had been looking at the old target road, were surprised to find that the Japanese troops and the always vicious ronin were gone. However, they immediately took it for granted that there would be no more convoys passing by here tonight, and the three were not only secretly happy.

These Qinggang disciples have never had a good face for them, and to ordinary Chinese, they can still feel a little bit of the dignity of the superior, but in front of this group of Qinggang disciples who are not afraid of heaven and earth, they all have to clamp their tails, otherwise most of them will be beaten in vain.

On the way to the Dagong Yarn Factory, Du Wende's convoy encountered three sentry posts and several patrols of the Marine Corps in succession, although they all knew that this was a military supply for the Japanese army, and there were also ronin escorts, but they still had to be inspected, and they became more and more strict. Fortunately, after Lu Xiaowang's introduction, Du Wende was already prepared, except for the very safe more than a dozen shell guns and Du Wende's short knife, he did not carry any weapons, so he did not show any flaws, and arrived at Dagong Yarn Factory smoothly.

Because the journey was so smooth, they arrived at the Dagong Yarn Factory a little early, and now there were more than two hours before the scheduled bombing time.

The Dagong Yarn Mill and the Japanese Navy stationed in Shanghai had already premeditated, and at the beginning of the construction of the factory, they reserved a large area of vacant land, and only said that they would expand it, but in the past few years since its completion, the vacant land has only been leveled and compacted, and no new factory has been built. This time, the Japanese army increased its troops in Shanghai on a large scale, and the true purpose of this open space was revealed. The Japanese army was simply organized, and it was immediately turned into a military airfield that could accommodate hundreds of aircraft.

The planes of the Japanese Army Air Force and the aircraft carrier Kaga of the Japanese Navy were transferred to this airfield after the arrival of the 9th Division in Shanghai. Guarding the Grand Duke's mill was a squadron of marines. There was also an anti-aircraft artillery squadron of the 9th Division.

The Japanese army's oil depot and munitions depot were located in the warehouse of Fuji & Co. on the north side of the Dagong Yarn Mill. Since it is only separated from the Dagong Yarn Mill by a wall, the guard of the warehouse is also in charge of this squadron, and a squad is stationed here.

Because this is the hinterland of Hongkou and not far from the port, the Japanese army never thought that anyone would dare to attack here, not only the guards of the Japanese military quartermaster warehouse were very lax, but also the lights were bright in the Dagong Yarn Factory, and from the gate you could even see rows of Japanese planes parked neatly in the wide yard.

In front of the gate of the warehouse, there were only four Japanese marines standing guard, and there were more than a dozen Japanese soldiers and two quartermasters and an interpreter in the courtyard, waiting to supervise the unloading and inventory of the materials.

Although the guards at the warehouse were lax, the inspection of the convoy attachés was the strictest, and everyone was searched, including the two Japanese ronin. …,

The purpose of the search was not that they were afraid that these people would be armed, but that they would bring lighters and matches into the warehouse, where thousands of barrels of oil were stored, and if a fire broke out, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In the courtyard, Lu Xiaowang nodded and negotiated with the two Japanese quartermasters through the translator, and at the same time took out more than a dozen yen from his arms and stuffed them to the Japanese quartermaster, and then instructed people to take down cooked foods such as liquor, roast chicken, and duck from the car and give them to the Japanese marines who supervised.

After Lu Xiaowang was busy for a while, the Japanese in the courtyard were all smiling.

The quartermaster led by the Japanese army gave Lu Xiaowang a thumbs up and said, "Lu, you are a good person, please quickly organize the unloading of the truck." ”

Lu Xiaowang nodded again and again and said with a smile: "The imperial army is hard, a little meaning, comfort the imperial army, it should be, it should be." ”

Then he shouted to Duwende: "Brothers, unload quickly." ”

Grains and vegetables, which are afraid of rain and snow, must be sent to the warehouse. The fuel mixed in the car was stored in the open air in the yard, covered with canvas, and hundreds of barrels of gasoline had been placed in the yard of thousands of square meters.

At Du Wende's signal, the special combat team members quickly began to unload the truck, and the bundles of vegetables and rice sesame bales were quickly unloaded and sent to the warehouse, and the exposed oil drums were unloaded, and then the small carts prepared by the Japanese army were pushed one at a time to the oil drum storage area under the supervision of three Japanese soldiers with rifles.

Du Wende, who had just unloaded a barrel of gasoline from one of the trucks, was carrying a bag of rice, and shook his arm that seemed to be a little sore, and gave a secret signal.

"Yaga!"

The Japanese ronin who came by escort did not know what nerves were, and kicked a special combat team member who was carrying a large bundle of vegetables and preparing to enter the warehouse at the door of the warehouse.

The noise here immediately alarmed the quartermaster and a dozen Japanese soldiers who were supervising the unloading of the truck in the yard, and they did not know what was going on here? They all ran over with guns in hand.

At this moment, several special combat team members who were unloading the truck, covering with their bodies, quickly unloaded an oil drum from the car, and after pushing it to the oil drum area to unload, they were covered by three special combat team members carrying three oil drums on their shoulders. Two of the team members took advantage of the cover of the oil drum, one of them moved the oil drum that was unloaded first, so that the bottom of one side of the oil drum was off the ground, and one squatted on the ground to find a fuse from the bottom of the oil drum.

It turned out that the bottom of the oil drum had been affixed with a layer of plastic explosives. This explosive is the latest research result of Zhou Liqun's research institute, which is not only powerful, but can also be made into any shape at will, which is most suitable for the needs of special combat teams to carry out special tasks.

The special combat team members who were squatting on the ground quickly put their hands into their clothes, tore off the tape stuck under their armpits, took out a small bulging oily paper bag, and tightly wrapped the paper bag around the fuse. Then, according to the marks already made on the paper bag, he carefully tore off the corner of the paper bag, and saw that oil began to drip slowly from the inside, and then used the two lettuce shoots he took from the car to pad both sides of the fuse, and then signaled to put down the oil drum. The two of them quickly withdrew, moved the oil drums, and covered the oil drums that they had just finished doing.

The bombing of the Dagong mill was scheduled to take place after 2 a.m., and they could not guarantee that they would be in the warehouse until that time, so they had to use timed explosive devices.

This made Du Wende scratch his head for a while. At this time, the timing devices are all mechanical and will make sounds, especially in the quiet of the night, the sound will be more obvious, and it will be easy to be detected by the Japanese army. In the end, it was Lu Xiaowang who solved this problem.

Lu Xiaowang's method is very simple, that is, put yellow phosphorus in the oiled paper bag filled with gasoline, let the gasoline in the oiled paper bag leak slowly, and after the gasoline leaks and volatilizes, the yellow phosphorus will come into contact with the air and spontaneously combust. This trick was used in the opponent's warehouse when Chang Yuqing was fighting for territory with his opponent. …,

Du Wende experimented and found that the effect was excellent. Although the ignition point of yellow phosphorus is generally about 40 degrees, when it is slowly oxidized, the local temperature will quickly rise in a small oiled paper bag and spontaneously combust.

At this time, Lu Xiaowang had already run to the two ronins who were beating people, bowed again and again, and took out a few yen and stuffed them into the hands of the two ronins, and the two ronins cursed in Japanese and left. Seeing that there were no major problems, the Japanese quartermaster and the Japanese soldiers who arrived turned around and went back.

These 50-odd special combat team members were all strong and sturdy guys, and at Du Wende's signal, they all stepped up to unload their trucks after knowing that the explosive devices had been installed. An hour later, in addition to a few barrels of gasoline left on six trucks, twenty trucks of oil, vegetables, and rice were unloaded and put into storage.

Lu Xiaowang told the Japanese quartermaster that several barrels of gasoline from the six trucks were to be handed over to Tanaka Longji for use by the Japanese consulate in Hongkou.

The materials here are mainly for the use of the Japanese army, and the consulate needs special approval from Shirakawa, and the consulate privately makes some gasoline by itself, which is completely normal, and Lu Xiaowang's explanation is completely reasonable. The Japanese quartermaster didn't care, but just opened a leather bag containing gold bars that had been prepared for Lu Xiaowang to inspect, and then handed the leather bag to Lu Xiaowang.

Tanaka Longji and Sanyuqing made an appointment, and the two sides settled in gold. The advantage of this is that it is not often in the way of carrying large sums of money, and it is easy to attract attention. Moreover, at the insistence of Chang Yuqing, every time the goods were received by the Japanese army, they had to be settled on the spot.

Under Lu Xiaowang's loud shouting, Du Wende led the special combat team to quickly get into the car and drive out of the warehouse.

The convoy did not return along the way, but drove south along the long fence on the west side of the Dagong Yarn Mill, but outside the wall of more than 300 meters, at an interval of about 100 meters, two trucks stopped in succession, and the people on the two trucks quickly got into other cars and drove away.

However, the convoy did not drive to the Japanese Consulate, but turned east at the corner of the Dagong Yarn Mill, leaving two trucks on the south wall of the Dagong Yarn Mill, and then leaving two trucks on the east wall of the Dagong Yarn Mill before turning east and heading straight for the concession.

The six trucks left behind also had plastic explosives attached to the inside of the fuel tank, and the ignition method was the same as in the warehouse, except that the timing of these six trucks was shorter.

When the convoy was still more than 1,000 meters away from the concession, Hongkou suddenly remembered the shrill air defense siren, and the lights in the Hongkou area, including the roads, were quickly extinguished as the sirens sounded. This makes the convoy driving with the headlights on very eye-catching.

A group of patrolling Japanese soldiers ran over with guns in their hands and shouted at the convoy, signaling the convoy to stop and turn off the lights immediately.

Lu Xiaowang, who was driving the car, asked Du Wende a little nervously.

"Chief Du, what should I do? Parking? ”

Du Wende stretched out his hand and pressed the switch, causing the headlights to flash three times in a row, and said to Lu Xiaowang: "Ignore him and rush over." ”

As he spoke, Du Wende pulled out the shell gun that had been taken out of the concealment, rubbed it on his leg, and turned on the bolt.

Lu Xiaowang knew that Du Wende was going to break through, gritted his teeth, stepped on the accelerator, and the truck roared at full speed and crashed into the Japanese army.

The Japanese officer who was running at the front didn't expect the convoy to refuse to stop, and it was knocked out at once, and the two Japanese soldiers behind him didn't have time to dodge and were stuck under the wheels. The Japanese patrol, which had just taken refuge on the side of the road in a panic, was either killed or wounded by more than a dozen shell guns, and there was no time to return fire. It was not until the convoy rushed over that the sound of 38 rifle fire sounded from behind.

When the convoy rushed to the old target road, several Ah San had to block it, Du Wende stretched out the shell gun out of the window and fired three shots into the air in succession, which frightened Ah San to turn around and run.

The convoy that rushed into the concession stopped in front of two trucks parked on the side of the road with canvas covers, and Du Wende took the lead in jumping out of the car, and people, including Lu Xiaowang, quickly boarded the two trucks and drove straight to Zhabei.

At this time, the roar of the planes over the Hongkou area was already very clear, because the target could not be found, and the 36 strong two planes of the Fourth Route Army Air Force Corps had already circled in the air several times.

Suddenly, a small burst of fire burst out on the dark ground, and then the fire expanded into a large ball, and the bright red fire was very conspicuous in the air. Just when this large group of firelight was angry, on the south side of the firelight, six smaller fires broke out almost at the same time, and from the air, these seven flames just circled a complete area.

Wang Fuheng, deputy wing commander of the Strike Aircraft Wing, who personally led the team, excitedly ordered loudly into the microphone: "Young men, the target has appeared, in the order of the squadron, attack ......."