Limited Express Train(6)
"Your comrade major was arrested, and now you are the commander of the air defense forces!" Liu Hai said to the captain of the People's Army in front of him, "Your main task now is to cooperate with me and complete this artillery transportation mission!" "Yes!" The captain of the KPA said immediately. "From here to the Eastern Line there are a total of three stations to be avoided, take advantage of the night, divide all the anti-aircraft guns into two batches and arrange them in the middle of the three stations, your task is not to shoot down and damage how many enemy planes, but to open fire, to let the Americans know that the entire railway line to the Eastern Front is covered by anti-aircraft artillery!" Bangs said as he pointed to the railway line to the Eastern Line on the map. "Got it!" The captain said.
"Stationmaster, after rushing through the railway, you have to stack all the scrapped wagons evenly between the three stations of the eastern line, and rush through it at half past three, and feel that it must be completed before dawn!" Liu Hai called the station master over and said, "How many scrapped wagons do you have now?" "We now have more than 200 wagons scrapped! Each of the two areas between the three stations should be able to arrange more than 100 wagons, have you seen enough? The stationmaster said. To be set up for normal driving, understand? Bangs said. Understood, I'll do what you ask! The stationmaster said. I'm not done yet! Bang Hai said: "You need to put some * and gasoline in these scrap car wagons, understand?" "Understood!" The stationmaster said.
In the darkness of the night, the captain of the People's Army transferred more than 50 of his anti-aircraft guns along the railway to the eastern line, and arranged the anti-aircraft guns according to the requirements of Liu Hai to choose a position between the two areas of the three stations, and with the help of thousands of Korean people, the engineering troops at the station hurriedly rushed through a railway line leading to the eastern line at half past three, and the station master ordered someone to drag out the scrapped wagons, and then used a locomotive to push the wagons backwards and arranged them between the two areas of the three stations, and waited until dawn. The reconnaissance planes of the US military discovered numerous trains on the Eastern Railway!
"How many trains are there?" The director of the U.S. Air Force Intelligence Office asked excitedly. "The Chinese are wagons on the entire eastern railway, as if they started large-scale transportation last night!" The pilot of the reconnaissance aircraft reported: "This is the best time to destroy the enemy!" "Great, immediately mobilize planes and concentrate on bombing the enemy's railway line on the eastern front!" The Chief of Intelligence said happily. At the request of the chief of intelligence, the Americans mobilized hundreds of bombers to bomb the railway line on the eastern front, and in the process of bombing, the anti-aircraft guns of the People's Army desperately opened fire to cover them, causing certain difficulties and losses to the US planes. Under the bombardment of *, there was a huge explosion and fire on the train wagons with * and gasoline pre-placed, which made the US pilots excited, and they reported that they had achieved great bombing results. A large number of wagons and a large number of anti-aircraft guns on the railway successfully attracted the attention of the American army!
"Commander, we found a large number of wagons on the railway line in the triangle today, and the enemy's anti-aircraft fire was concentrated on the railway of the Eastern Front in large numbers, these signs fully show that the enemy's hundreds of thousands of shells are indeed going to be transported to the Eastern Front, that is to say, the Chinese are indeed going to launch a counteroffensive on the Eastern Front!" The staff officer reported the situation on the Eastern Front to Van Vliet. "Is there any other information about the Eastern Front?" Van Vliet asked. "Yes! The movement of the Chinese on the Eastern Front has become more frequent, and now all signs point to a counteroffensive by the Chinese on the Eastern Front! The staff officer said. Well... Van Vliet looked at the map and thought about it, slapped the table and said, "Deploy troops to reinforce the Eastern Front and intensify the bombardment of the Eastern Railway!" ”
"Division Commander Liu, now that the enemy has stepped up its bombing efforts, the Americans' planes have not stopped for a day today, and those scrap wagons have been disposed of for us!" The stationmaster said with some pleasure. "That's good, are all the shells on the train?" Bangs asked. "All the shells have been loaded onto the train, ready to fire and depart!" The stationmaster said. "After a day's bombing today, the railway lines on the eastern front must have been blown up, and tonight you must mobilize as many North Korean masses as possible to rush to repair the railway, and you must be brightly lit so that the US military's night reconnaissance planes can find out, understand?" Bangs said. "But in that case, it will definitely attract the attack of the enemy's night bomber fleet, and the casualties will be staggering!" The stationmaster said. "In order for these hundreds of thousands of shells to arrive smoothly, it is necessary to make some sacrifices!" Bangs said. "But..." The stationmaster wanted to say something, but was interrupted by bangs! "That's it!" Liu Hai said: "The cannonball train departs at zero o'clock!" ”
In accordance with Liu Hai's order, the stationmaster found the local People's Army representative and asked him to do his best to mobilize the masses to participate in the night rush repair operation, and the People's Army representative immediately summoned all the local cadres of the Workers' Party and mobilized all the manpower that could be moved in the triangle area, about 4,000 people, and when it was dark, they rushed to the eastern railway with tools and torches to start the emergency repair! Such a number of emergency repair teams were naturally discovered by the night reconnaissance planes of the Americans! After receiving this information, the Americans mobilized almost all the night bombers to rush to the Eastern Front like a swarm, bombing the masses who were rushing to repair them indiscriminately!
"Division Commander Liu, the emergency repair over there has begun, but the enemy has blown up very badly, and the casualties among the masses are also very large!" The stationmaster came over and reported, "Shall we stop?" "We can't stop, we must rush to repair it to the end tonight, and we must rush through it tomorrow morning!" Bangs said. "However, the casualties of the North Korean masses... The stationmaster said. "It's almost midnight, are we ready for the departure of the shell train?" Liu Hai didn't pay attention to the stationmaster's words, but asked. "I've arranged all of this, and all the road stations and stations on the West Line have been notified!" The stationmaster said. "Okay, thirty trains, all of them will depart in half an hour!" Bangs said. "Yes!"
Thirty trains, under the command of the road warden, rumbled out of the station and rushed out towards the railway line of the western line. The thirty locomotives, with a distance of five hundred meters between their heads and tails, all roared south in the darkness along the railroad of the Western Route. The stops along the road are ready, all the turnouts have been moved into place, and all the guides have taken their flashlights to the side of the railway to guide the roaring train! Liu Hai followed the first train and rushed to the front, looking nervously at the dark sky along the way, for fear that a US military plane would swoop down, as long as one * was thrown down, all the shells of the thirty trains would fly into the sky. It stands to reason that such a large number of shells should not be so risky, such a concentrated transportation, but the time is too tight, after midnight, it is already the last day, if it cannot be transported on time, it will definitely delay the preparation for the counteroffensive, in this case, Liu Hai had to risk transporting thirty trains in place overnight, after all, after arriving at the station, there will be time to distribute to the combat troops!
Just when Liu Hai was nervously sitting in the train and looking at the sky, on the railway line of the Eastern Front, anti-aircraft guns, with the cooperation of searchlight troops, were engaged in a fierce battle with the US night bombers in the sky. Although there are not many night bombers of the US military, there are hundreds of them, and the entire eastern railway is under the non-stop bombing of the US military almost all night, the anti-aircraft guns are desperately counterattacking, the US military is bombing with all their might, and the Korean masses on the railway line are suffering the casualties of the bombing, but no matter how the US forces bomb, none of the Korean masses retreat, after a night of anti-aircraft shooting, the US planes dropped thousands of *, 17 anti-aircraft guns were blown up, and the US planes lost seven planes, The casualties of the North Korean masses were as high as more than 1,600 people, and the most amazing thing is that even so, the entire eastern railway was robbed at dawn!
It is a total of 70 kilometers from the station in the triangle to the field depot on the Western Front, which takes an hour and a half, and with the length of 30 trains, it takes a total of two hours to reach the field depot on the Western Front. For these two hours, Bangs barely blinked, staring at the dark sky. Two hours later, the shells of the thirty trains finally arrived at the field warehouse on the Western Front, and when he saw all thirty trains enter the cave station of the station, Liu Hai almost fainted, anyway, it was finally here!
Liu Hai transported 400,000 rounds of shells to the field warehouse, where they were quickly reported to the logistics office of the Volunteer Army headquarters. In fact, Hong Xuezhi didn't really expect much to report the matter of arranging 400,000 rounds of shells to be transported to the battlefield warehouse in six days, if it could be transported within ten days, Hong Xuezhi would be thankful, but when the news of the arrival of 400,000 rounds of shells arrived, Hong Xuezhi couldn't believe his ears, and asked his staff officer to send another report to confirm, when the confirmed news came, Hong Xuezhi was ecstatic, and immediately told the news to the staff of Zhisi!
"Great, this bangs are really not simple, and they really arrived on time!" Hong Xuezhi said. "The next thing is to distribute shells to each unit, and you have to notify the field logistics department to accurately distribute all the shells to the troops in the shortest possible time!" said the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army. "Don't worry, I've already arranged it, and it will definitely be distributed within three days!" Hong Xuezhi said. "Then the next task is to continue to do the feint of counteroffensive on the Eastern Front, and the main task of the Western Front is to prepare for the pre-war reconnaissance, this counterattack is very important, and the pre-war reconnaissance must be done in detail and in place!" said the commander-in-chief of the Volunteer Army. "Yes!"