With two sets of military uniforms and boots stripped from the Japanese officers, the members of the military command team temporarily returned to the No. 1 courtyard of Yangliu Lane.

Wang Suihua looked at the Longines watch on her wrist, it was not yet nine o'clock, and there were still more than two hours before the Central Army attacked the Tongpu Railway. However, the operation of the military commander to infiltrate the south freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station must start preparing now!

According to the observations of the two soldiers of the special service company who had been lurking in the freight yard of the railway station for several days, the Japanese military trains coming from the direction of Taiyuan often entered the south freight yard of the railway station day and night to unload all kinds of baggage supplies; The soldiers of the special service company disguised as stevedores could not get a specific list of train rows (and according to the analysis of the female major of the military commander, these Japanese military columns may not have any operation rules at all), so it was impossible to determine whether there would be a military column pit tonight.

Fortunately, although the gate of the South Freight Yard, that is, the Japanese military station, was heavily guarded, the Japanese personnel entering and leaving were not checked, but only focused on the Chinese entering and exiting it. In the South Cargo Yard, the busy work of the officers and men of the Japanese Army's Baggage Wing loading, unloading, sorting, and transporting all kinds of munitions and supplies often lasted until midnight. This undoubtedly facilitated the entry into the South Yard and the presence of its hands inside.

The commander of the spy company, Zhao Mutou, and one of his subordinates changed into Japanese military uniforms, and Li Yan, the male lieutenant of the military commander, stood opposite the two and took a closer look, feeling that if the camouflage of the two of them was basically invisible under the night light of the freight yard.

"The key is to go in in a big way, and don't pay attention to the sentry standing guard at the gate with your eyes," Li Yan, who had received training as a military commander, told Zhao Mutou and the others in a serious tone: "If you don't go to see them, they won't pay attention to you." ”

The commander of the spy company nodded frequently, and it was not the first time for him to break through in disguise like this. When he followed the 391st Regiment to camp in the Great Elm Mountain, Zhao Mutou led his subordinates to disguise themselves as beef sellers and repeatedly infiltrate the Japanese guarded Fengdian County.

However, tonight's mission is still a little different, firstly, the disguised identity has become a Japanese officer, and secondly, the Japanese army's vigilance of the military station must be greater than that of ordinary city gates.

Wang Suihua personally arrived to observe the guard at the gate of the South Freight Yard, and also knew that there were thousands of people in the entire Sena Division's Baggage Wing, and at least a 1,000-strong baggage brigade was currently on duty in the brigade and regimental station in the South Freight Yard, so she had no worries about Zhao Mutou and the two successfully mixing in; What really worries her is whether she can quickly find the flammable and explosive arms and ammunition storage point after entering the cargo yard is the most important thing.

Of course, the commander of a special service company from a military background understands what kind of things are most likely to detonate in a large area in a baggage station: gasoline is the first choice, followed by artillery shells, *, and finally bullets. As for military uniforms, bedding, tents, etc., they are only suitable for arson,* and have little effect on them; Weapons and equipment such as guns and food, on the other hand, are the most undesirable targets.

However, in order to find a suitable reserve point for placement*, it is necessary to survey one by one, and the female major of the military commander is worried that in this process, the actions of Zhao Mutou and the others will arouse the suspicion of the Japanese troops in the freight yard. And once they are interrogated, the officers and men of the two spy companies who do not understand Japanese will be revealed in an instant.

"It's up to people to make things happen, and it's up to heaven to make things happen," Zhao Mutou comforted the female major of the military commander with nonchalantness: "If you really want to expose your identity, Lao Tzu will see the red with the little Japanese bayonet on the spot, and fight together to the end!" When the time comes, I ask Major Wang to inform my regiment and ask him to avenge me and my brothers. ”

These words were generous and awe-inspiring, and Wang Suihua couldn't help but stare at the young captain of the Central Army for a long time without saying a word, and only after a long time did she nod solemnly, turned around and went back to her room to fetch the * that had been made.

* It is very exquisitely made, this technique learned from the Qingpu class of the military commander, Wang Suihua is not the first time to use it, it can be regarded as handy. The whole * device is fixed and hidden in a Japanese military lunch box, which is commonly equipped for Japanese officers and soldiers, and is not easy to arouse suspicion because of its common use. The timer is a Swiss watch, and the movement system of the watch is powerful and stable; *Also high-explosive*.

In front of Zhao Mutou and another soldier of the special service company who was about to infiltrate the freight yard, Wang Suihua demonstrated the key points of opening and closing the lunch box and adjusting the time. It is important to stress that the timer switch should only be turned on after it has been properly placed*, and that once the hands of the watch are activated, they must be evacuated within forty minutes.

"You hold the lunch box in your hands and walk into the freight yard, so that the sentry guarding the door will think that you are carrying supper to your companions," the female major of the military commander also prepared another real lunch box to confuse the sight, Zhao Mutou and his subordinates had one: "Don't worry, as long as you don't connect the timing device, even if you shake the lunch box, * it will not accidentally detonate." ”

Approaching 11 o'clock in the evening, Wencheng Railway Station has completely lost the hustle and bustle of the day, and there is no bustling flow of people, and there is a sense of desertion everywhere inside and outside the station. There was little to no sign on the platform inside the station, and the box office was huddled with homeless homeless people and a few passengers waiting for the bus; In the small square outside the station, except for the occasional passer-by, there are only a few itinerant vendors: those who sell cigarettes, roasted sweet potatoes, and one who sells hot wontons with their burdens, all unwilling to hope for a business on this still cold spring night.

A peddler with a cigarette box around his neck roamed the square aimlessly, but under the brim of his felt hat that covered his ears and eyebrows, a pair of eyes watched vigilantly around the square. This cigarette vendor deliberately approached the south freight yard of the railway station, because his mission tonight was to prepare for the top-secret operation that was about to be carried out there.

This is one of the two members of the enemy engineering team of the second battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army lurking in the freight yard of the railway station. Tonight, however, he wandered around with a clear purpose: to pick up the members of the enemy engineering team who had infiltrated the South Freight Yard to steal Japanese munitions and equipment on the periphery.

At the same time, the two enemy engineering teams led by Xiao Junping and Chen Xuanzhu were already preparing to enter their respective target positions.

Previously, the captain of the enemy engineer changed his mind at the last moment, and decided not to wait for the battle of the Tongpu Railway in the direction of Lingshi County to start, so he led people to sneak into the south freight yard of Wencheng Railway Station in advance. This is also Xiao Junping's final determination after repeated consideration; Previously, Wu Zijian, deputy commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade, gave him instructions to take advantage of the great battle on the Nantongpu Railway and the panic caused by the shock of the Japanese army in Wencheng. On the surface, this instruction was reasonable, but Xiao Junping, a former intelligence staff officer of the Nationalist Army, who knew a lot about the Japanese army, knew very well that the standing divisions of the Japanese army, such as the Sena Division, often had extremely strong adaptability, and unless they were attacked by force, it was unlikely that they would panic because of a war on a railway line dozens of miles away. As for the Japanese Army's baggage station (South Freight Yard of the Railway Station), which is located in the railway station, it is heavily guarded in peacetime, and if there is a war nearby, it will undoubtedly be more strictly guarded. Therefore, in this sense, it should be more appropriate to set the time to infiltrate the Japanese military station before the battle of the Nantongpu Railway began.

Xiao Junping's impromptu decision did not arouse doubts or opposition from members of the enemy labor team such as vice captain Chen Xuanzhu. Everyone felt that as long as they could steal the needed arms and firearms from the south freight yard of the railway station, it would be the biggest victory, and as for the time to do it, it didn't matter - since the enemy engineer team of the second battalion of the Xu Brigade infiltrated Wencheng to establish an underground intelligence station, Dayang had spent a lot of money, but there had been no decent results so far, which made the veterans of the enemy engineer team from the 5th company of the second battalion of the Xu brigade feel particularly uneasy and even ashamed. Now that there is a sudden opportunity to build meritorious deeds, of course, everyone will not be too entangled in the so-called timing of the move.

However, Xiao Junping still miscalculated, and a Japanese military train from the direction of Taiyuan, loaded with grain and other provisions, suddenly drove into the Wencheng Railway Station and began to unload on the platform; This made the area between the station platform and the south freight yard suddenly busy, and to make matters worse, the number of Japanese sentries guarding the station also increased!

Chen Lianzhu led a member of the enemy labor team—another enemy worker who was disguised as working in the north freight yard of the railway station—and had intended to approach the row of bungalows outside the South Freight Yard, one of which had an electric switch installed to control the entire South Freight Yard. The task of the two of them is to enter the bungalow and completely destroy the electric switch, plunging the entire South Yard into darkness. However, the military columns that suddenly entered the station and the temporary increase in Japanese sentry posts and patrols invisibly built a defensive line and completely blocked Chen Xuanzhu and the others from the outside. In this case, it would be impossible for the two enemy workers, dressed in civilian uniforms, to enter the bungalow with the electric gate unless they broke through by force. Of course, in the face of dozens of Japanese soldiers with live nuclear guns, as well as soldiers of the baggage wing who did not carry weapons but were numerous, Chen Lianzhu and the others did not have the conditions to break through by force.

To make matters worse, if they did not quickly enter the bungalow and destroy the electric switch, the two enemy workers in the outfit of the porters of the freight yard would not be able to stay in the area for long, because that would probably attract the suspicion of the Japanese pseudo-plainclothes agents who wandered around the railway station. Both of them carried short guns and short knives, and if they were searched by the Japanese puppet agents, they would have to fight for their lives.

In desperation, Chen Xuanzhu, the deputy captain of the enemy engineering team, chose to leave temporarily and went to find Xiao Junping's group.

Xiao Junping was leading four enemy workers at the moment, lying in ambush behind a small barren hill west of the South Freight Yard. More than ten meters in front of them is the upward and downward rails of the Nantongpu railway line, and the south freight yard of the railway station is across the rails from this small barren hill.

The small barren hill is made of a mixture of loess and discarded coal, and in the past, there should have been a train wagon here that temporarily unloaded coal; Now it's dark and desolate.

Lying on this small barren hill, the captain of the enemy engineer of the second battalion of the Xu Brigade has been observing the South Freight Yard on the opposite side of the railway line with a telescope, and it seems to be very noisy in the freight yard under the not very bright light. Obviously, the Japanese military train that had just entered the pit station kept them busy.

Xiao Junping realized that something was wrong, and he didn't break the electric gate for a long time, which had already proved that Deputy Captain Chen and the others couldn't get close to the bungalow. In this way, it is either to die here and wait for the Japanese to complete the loading and unloading of the military columns, but that will almost inevitably drag the time after eleven o'clock! Or take the plunge now and get into the South Yard!

Xiao Junping's hand holding the telescope broke out in a cold sweat, and his heart beat violently.