Chapter 42: Running for the Railroad Line

"Hmm." Xu Yuer blushed and broke free from Qiao Youhua's arms and turned to leave.

When it was over, Xu Youcai was already drunk on the kang, Xu Yuer covered the futon for her grandfather, and said to Qiao Youhua: "Brother Qiao, I'll send you." ”

At this time, the sky was already dark, the night sky was full of stars, a round of crescent moon sprinkled a soft faint light, just out of the courtyard, a cool night breeze blew, and Qiao Youhua, who was a little drunk, was a little sober.

Looking back at Xu Yu'er, a jade hand was arranging the slightly messy forehead hair that the cool breeze had just blown, and when she saw Qiao Youhua looking at her, she couldn't help blushing.

Seeing her delicate and cute, beautiful and delicious appearance, Qiao Youhua's heart couldn't help but move, and stepped forward to hold up her round chin, Xu Yuer's pretty face was flushed and said shyly: "Brother Qiao, don't ......" After the day's pleasure, when she woke up, she felt unbearable pain in her lower body, and it was still hot and painful, so she really couldn't ask for it anymore.

Qiao Youhua kissed her lightly on the lips and said, "Rest early, it's not too early, I'll go back to the barracks first." ”

Xu Yu'er breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and hummed, if Qiao Youhua really wanted it, he really couldn't refuse him.

"Let's go back." Qiao Youhua smiled and gestured.

Xu Yuer nodded, turned around and walked into the courtyard, and closed the courtyard door.

Qiao Youhua went to the military camp at the training ground located in the southwest of the village on his own, and was speechless all night.

Early the next morning, Qiao Youhua got up early, Xu Yuer brought breakfast intimately, and after washing up, he just picked up a cornmeal steamed bun and took a bite, Wu Ming, who was in charge of the communication station, suddenly ran in and said to him with a solemn expression: "Head, you can come here." ”

"What's wrong?" Qiao Youhua immediately put down the steamed buns and stood up, Wu Ming said: "I just received a clear statement on the radio, the Battle of Songhu broke out as early as a month ago, the Nationalist Government announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing, and the Battle of Xinkou also broke out, do we have to do something?" ”

As they spoke, the two of them had already left the barracks and arrived in the tent where the radio station was placed.

Qiao Youhua said: "It is now the end of September, whether it is the Battle of Xinkou or the Battle of Songhu, it should be the most intense and critical moment, indeed, we should do something, not to support the frontal battlefield operations, but also for ourselves."

Because you and I both know that once the **** battle of Xinkou is defeated, Taiyuan will be lost, Taiyuan will be lost, there will be no barrier in North China from now on, and there will be no war north of the Yellow River, and then the Japanese army may turn back and mobilize heavy troops to encircle and annihilate us, so this is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us.

We should seize this rare opportunity to strengthen ourselves, so that we can have a better chance of victory in the future when dealing with the large-scale retaliatory encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army. ”

Since the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident and the realization of Pingjin, the Japanese troops invading China in North China were divided into three routes, one along the Pinghan Railway (Beiping to Wuhan Hankou) to the south to watch Henan and sweep the central part of Hebei along the way, one along the Jinpu Railway (Tianjin to Nanjing Pukou) Railway to invade Shandong, and the other along the Pingsui Railway to invade the three provinces of Jin, Chacha and Sui.

The strategic focus of this is Shanxi, Shanxi is located in the eastern part of the Loess Plateau, surrounded by Taihang, Luliang, Hengshan, Zhongtiao four mountains, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, known as the lock of North China, is the natural barrier of North China, if the Chinese defenders can control the important places in Shanxi.

It occupies an excellent geographical position that can be attacked, retreated, and defended, and can pose a serious threat to the flank of the Japanese army invading the North China Plain. In order to ensure the occupation of the Pingjin area and relieve the worries of the flank, the Japanese army further invaded southward, and also tried to control the western part of the country.

Therefore, Shanxi is regarded as a key offensive target, as long as Shanxi is taken, the invading Japanese army can take advantage of the situation, sweep through East China, and enter the Central Plains.

Therefore, at this juncture, most of the main forces of the Japanese army in North China were sent to the front-line battlefield, and the logistics supply line was also the busiest time.

At this stage, it is the best time for Qiao Youhua and their anti-Japanese forces based in the rear of the Japanese army.

"It's time to do something, these days we have not been training at all stages plus a few times to suppress bandits, the ammunition consumption is very strong, and we also need to replenish it, although the bandits have captured a lot of ammunition, but it does not match our Japanese weapons." Wu Ming said.

Qiao Youhua walked to a combat map captured from the Japanese army hanging on the side of the tent, stared at the map and muttered: "Now our strength is still very weak, and the distance is too far, it can be said that the whip is beyond the reach of the two frontal battlefields, so we can only take the initiative to attack as much as possible.

The attack on the Japanese army's logistics and transportation lines was to supplement and strengthen ourselves, and secondly, we hoped to more or less relieve some pressure on the resistance forces on the frontal battlefield. ”

After speaking, Qiao Youhua's eyes stayed on a railway communication line, and he patted his hand and said: "This is it, pass on my order, and all platoons will immediately assemble and prepare to attack!" ”“

"Zhengtai Railway?" An excited look appeared in Wu Ming's eyes, can he finally kill devils again? Then he turned and took the command.

After Wu Ming left, Qiao Youhua moved his eyes down again, and put it on the Yangtze River generation, the **** failure of the Battle of Songhu was doomed, and the Battle of Nanjing was bound to fail, but as a traverser and a traverser who was familiar with history, Qiao Youhua couldn't bear to sit back and watch the tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre unfold.

But how can I prevent this tragedy of the Chinese nation from happening? Qiao Youhua fell into deep thought.

"Wu Ming, you take three platoons and a machine gun platoon to stay in the base area, and the other platoons set off with me." A few minutes later, on the training ground, Qiao Youhua announced to his heavily armed subordinates.

Wu Ming's face changed, like a wronged big girl, and said, "Why did you let me stay behind again." ”

Qiao Youhua said intently: "There is so much nonsense, the base is the foundation of our foothold, and the tunnel is almost completed, staying behind is much more important than going out." ”

Jiang Haidong teased on the side: "Four eyes, you just take care of the house honestly, the Dragon King and I will bring you a lot of delicious food, such as Japanese canned food and the like, maybe we can even bring you back a Japanese girl, haha!" ”

"Fuck off!" Wu Ming looked like he was careful about his liver injury, and kicked Jiang Haidong, but he dodged it.

"Let's go!" Qiao Youhua waved his hand, turned over on his horse, and took the lead.

There were a total of four platoons on the expedition with the army this time, namely two main infantry platoons, Liu Yidao's reconnaissance platoon, and Zhang Yunshan's guard platoon, with a strength of nearly 200 people.

Zhengtai Railway is the earliest railway built in Shanxi, the most important transportation artery in Shanxi and Hebei, and the Japanese army in North China attacked Shanxi along this railway to force Jingcheng Pass and Yangquan area.

Now that the battle has reached Shanxi, the Zhengtai Railway has become the most important logistics transportation and supply line for the Japanese army fighting in Shanxi.

Now that the training of the troops has begun to bear fruit, Qiao Youhua immediately took this traffic artery as the first target, and personally led more than 200 heavily armed subordinates to the railway line.