Three days later.

Just when Li Yunlong was in full swing preparing for the bombardment of Taiyuan Airport.

Duan Peng had already led two combat teams to the vicinity of Baoding.

According to intelligence, Miyano Michiichi will take a heavy armored train to Baoding tomorrow morning.

"The front is Baoding."

In a dense forest, Duan Peng looked at the map, and then looked at the city wall 5 kilometers away with a telescope and said.

Wang Gensheng said: "This Baoding is still an important military town, and there are so few pillboxes and turrets outside the city? ”

Wang Xikui also said: "Not only are there few turrets and pillboxes, but even patrols are not seen much. ”

Duan Peng nodded: "The vigilance here is indeed relatively lax. ”

Baoding, Duan Peng once came, he and Li Changshun took a few team members to carry out the task of blowing up the army column of devils transporting war materials.

At that time, two trains loaded with 2,000 tons of war materials stopped in Baoding Railway Station, and the defense around Baoding was also very sparse at that time.

The headquarters personally gave an order, and several nearby guerrillas got together, under the leadership of Duan Peng and several people, according to the information provided by Boss Chen, avoiding the devil's patrol and sentry post, the guerrillas quietly touched the vicinity of the Baoding Railway Station.

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the guerrillas successfully blew up 2,000 tons of war materials at the cost of more than 200 casualties, thus fulfilling the task assigned by their superiors.

More than half a year has passed, and the vigilance of the devils here is still so lax, and the corners of Duan Peng's mouth show a touch of disdain.

In fact, since 2,000 tons of war materials were blown up at Baoding Station, the devils have indeed strengthened their vigilance for a period of time.

However, this is an important military town, and there are very few main activities of the Eighth Route Army nearby, at most some guerrillas, which pose no threat to Baoding.

Over time, the devil's vigilance and defense were relaxed again.

In addition, Okamura Ningji has recently organized a sweep of the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong base area, and a lot of troops have been withdrawn, so there are relatively few Japanese troops in Baoding and its vicinity at present.

Duan Peng took out the map, narrowed his eyes, pointed to the map and said: "According to the information provided by Boss Chen, Miyano, this old devil, will take an armored train from Beiping to Baoding Station tomorrow morning, let's do it on the railway, and immediately ride a military horse to Langya Mountain in the northwest direction after we succeed." ”

As for the retreat route, Duan Peng carefully studied it.

If you want to get out smoothly after finishing your work, there are two ways to choose, one is to hide in the tunnel, and wait for the limelight to pass before drilling out and returning to the northwest of Shanxi.

The second option is to run deep into the mountains.

The last time Duan Peng was here, he took over with an underground party and knew that there was a tunnel in the nearby Baizhuang Village that could accommodate dozens of people.

But.

Duan Peng chose the second way to get out, as long as they entered the mountain smoothly, the little devil had no way to take them.

Moreover, Langya Mountain is the territory of the Eighth Route Army and belongs to the Jinchaji base area.

Duan Peng continued: "Now, I will assign the task, Wang Gensheng, your team will start making bombs. ”

"Wang Xikui, your team will work with me to reconnoiter the railway, find out the rules of the devil's railway patrol, and find the best blasting point."

"Yes!" Wang Xikui and Wang Gensheng shouted in a low voice at the same time.

Then, Duan Peng took Wang Xikui's team and touched in the direction of the rails.

Wang Gensheng led the team to unload the explosives from the military horses and began to make detonators and bombs.

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There are also pillboxes and turrets on both sides of the railway.

However, it is far less dense than the Zhengtai Railway and the Tongpu Railway.

The original Zhengtai Railway and Tongpu Railway set up a stronghold every two or three miles.

But on the railroad here, there is only one stronghold every seven or eight miles.

About an hour later, the rest of the team members were ready to answer at any time, and Duan Peng and Wang Xikui touched a distance of about 200 meters from the railway to reconnoitre.

There is no barbed wire on either side of the railway, and no trenches are dug, but the roadbed is higher than the ground.

Since it was night, Duan Peng and Wang Xikui were lying in the grass, and it was impossible for them to be seen by the passing devil patrol.

Wang Xikui said in a low voice: "Captain, there is flat land around here, and it seems that it is almost the same as planting bombs anywhere." ”

Duan Peng's expression was solemn: "The terrain will not affect the old devil who blew up Miyano Michiichi for us, but the surrounding area is flat, and it is difficult to get out of it if you start to detonate the bomb." ”

Since it is a wire detonation, then the position of the detonator will not be too far from the rails.

If the detonation is done with a string, the distance is even closer.

The Type 94 armored train has a total of 8 carriages, and the command carriage is in the 4th carriage, and this mission only needs to blow up the warning carriage.

But there were 7 more carriages, each of which was equipped with 7.7-mm machine guns, and even the mortar carriages were armed with 105-mm howitzers.

Add to this the fact that the foundations of the railway are higher than the horizon, and the devils in the armored train have a better view.

If the person who pressed the detonating device got up from a hidden position, he would definitely be exposed to the range of the devil's machine gun and howitzer fire.

The Devil Heavy can shoot it with just one shuttle.

Wang Xikui quickly thought of this layer and said: "Captain, I applied to execute the detonation device, it's a big deal to exchange one with the old devil, I am a team leader, and I will change him for the lieutenant general of the dog day, this deal is worth it!" ”

"It's not your turn yet, your team is responsible for covering and responding." Duan Peng said categorically, if there is a task to send him to death, it must be him first, not Wang Xikui.

He thought for a moment, and then said: "Use smoke grenades to obscure the view of the devil machine gunners and gunners, and the person in charge of the detonation will take this opportunity to retreat immediately." ”

Wang Xikui's eyes lit up slightly, this method is very good.

Each squad of the Sword Squadron was armed with 1 60mm mortar, and this time 2 60mm mortars and some smoke grenades were also brought.

"The devil's patrol is here!"

Duan Peng's expression suddenly moved, and he whispered, and Wang Xikui hurriedly lowered his body when he heard this.

"Wow!"

Faintly, there was a dog barking, and after a while a group of devils appeared in the distance.

Duan Peng and Wang Xikui immediately raised their binoculars to look, only to see more than a dozen devil soldiers with rifles on their backs appearing in the field of vision of the telescope.

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Judging by the number of people, this should be a detachment of devils, each with a flashlight in his hand.

The devil at the front was also leading a military dog.

Duan Peng's face sank slightly, the devil actually had a military dog, and this was a big trouble.

If the explosives are buried under the railroad tracks, then they will definitely be sniffed out by the patrolling devil dogs.

When the time comes, not only will the mission not be completed, but the people who are preparing to detonate in the vicinity of the ambush will also look dangerous.

After the patrol passed, Wang Xikui and Duan Peng continued to lie in place, and it was not until three hours had passed that the two quietly left from their hidden positions and then disappeared into the darkness.

The good news is that the devil's patrol passes by once every half hour.

Half an hour was enough time for them to plant explosives on the rails and pull the wires to connect the detonating devices.

The bad news is that the Devil Patrol has military dogs, and although not every patrol has military dogs, the fact that Devils have military dogs means that they cannot plant explosives under the railroad tracks.

By the time Duan Peng returned to the woods with Wang Xikui's combat team, more than 4 hours had passed.

They had to plant the bomb before dawn, otherwise waiting until dawn to plant the bomb would increase the risk of exposure.

"Gensheng, have you got the explosives?"

As soon as he entered the woods, Duan Peng asked when he saw Wang Gensheng.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Wang Gensheng pointed to a large explosive bag beside him and said: "30 catties of TNT high explosives, I also added some ingredients to it, fragments, warheads and iron nails, enough for the old devil in Miyano to drink a pot." ”

The explosive pack is a very powerful weapon, which was used by our army to blow up pillboxes during the Red Army period.

By the time of the Eighth Route Army, explosives packs were used for practical tactical purposes, such as blowing up roads, bridges, artillery towers, trains, etc.

Even during the Liberation War, the Eighth Route Army used it as a shell for flying thunder artillery.

However, our army's explosives packages are mainly black powder, which is not very powerful, but it cannot withstand the large amount of explosives packaged.

The power is not enough, the number is to make up.

And this time, the TNT explosives brought by Duan Peng and them are much more powerful than black powder!

Duan Peng looked at the explosives bag that was tied up like a quilt, and his smile was awe-inspiring: "This thing, bring energy!" ”

On the way back to the grove, one of the team members came up with a way to deal with the devil army dogs.

Put the horse jerky on the railroad and put some pepper noodles around it, and the devil army dogs will inhale the pepper noodles when they come to eat meat.

Although it won't make the devil army dog abolish, it can make the beast lose its sense of smell for three to five days.

Duan Peng and the others didn't carry pepper noodles with them, and the team member had already gone to a nearby village to get pepper noodles.

It wasn't long before the team member returned to the woods with pepper noodles.

Then, Duan Peng immediately took Wang Gensheng's team to the predetermined railway site to plant bombs.

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The next day.

10 o'clock in the morning.

Pit puff puff puff...

The railway of the heavy armored car made a pit puff sound on the tracks, and Michiichi Miyano sat on the leather sofa of the command car with his legs crossed, with a leisurely expression.

This Jizhong sweep, although in the process of sweeping and attacking, was broken out by a part of the Eighth Road.

However, there is still a part of the Eighth Route surrounded by the Japanese army, and the highlight of Okamura Ninji, the Iron Roll Sweep, is about to begin.

Michiichi Miyano went to the central Hebei region this time to observe, not to compliment Okamura Ninji, but to be really interested in the iron rolling sweep.

As the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, one of the biggest headaches was the security situation in Northeast Manchuria.

The anti-Japanese armed forces in Manchuria have never given up their resistance, and even these anti-Japanese armed forces have a tendency to grow stronger and stronger.

From time to time, there have been incidents where the railroad has been attacked and the rails have been stripped naked.

The Kwantung Army organized troops to carry out sweeps many times, but with little success, if this iron-rolled sweep could deal with the Eighth Route Army, then it would definitely be able to deal with the Manchurian anti-Japanese forces.

Thinking of Okamura Ninji's introduction to the iron roller tactics, Michiichi Miyano looked forward to this battlefield observation more and more.

Miyano Michichi looked at the combat staff officer beside him and asked, "Where are you?" ”

With the ticking sound of the telegram, the combat staff officer bowed his head and said, "General Hui, it's almost time to Baoding!" ”

"Yo Xi!"

Miyano nodded, but his eyes narrowed slightly.

After the armored train arrives in Baoding to fill up the coal water, it will immediately go to the battlefield, and then with 16 times the artillery mirror, you can observe the power of the iron rolling tactics at close range.