The water accumulated on the flat ground is more than a foot deep.
There was water everywhere on the ground, and it was inconvenient to go anywhere except along the railway above the water.
Some of the people who came with the railway sabotage team to carry the explosives were Division Four soldiers.
In a brief exchange of fire with the Japanese, eleven people were killed and three were seriously injured.
A sabotage team member who knew the structure of the bridge was seriously injured.
Zhu Qihui looked at the stormy sky.
The traffic destruction team has other tasks. If they carry away the seriously injured, they may die on the road.
Only people can stay.
Looking at Battalion Commander Hu who was carrying the heavy machine gun and preparing to leave, I felt a little surprised. There didn't seem to be even one injured person in this team.
"Um, Battalion Commander Hu, do you think you can help me?"
Hu Yi looked at the seriously injured man whose lungs had been punched through and blood was pouring out of his mouth. In his opinion, there was no way he could be saved.
Madman Yang, who was standing behind Zhu Qihui, blinked at Hu Yi.
Hu Yi nodded: "OK"
The wind and rain were too strong, and without the help of the masses, it was necessary to dismantle all the railway tracks, and the Ninth Battalion did not have the ability.
One is a belt, and three are also belts.
The Japanese and puppet troops from the north can't get through, but it's hard to say whether the Japanese and puppet troops attacking Xu Tieying will send people over.
It was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so the sacrificed soldiers were carried to the mounds emerging from the water and hurriedly buried.
The sleepers on the railway were removed, and the door panels of the enemy's barracks were laid on top to serve as boats. After the wounded were placed, the team hurried southward.
The remaining team directly pushed down the barracks south of the bridge.
Soon, the team disappeared southward into the wind and rain.
When Gong Shaofeng heard from Zhu Qihui that the Minghe Railway Bridge had been successfully blasted, he immediately lost interest in demolishing the rails.
This thing is too heavy. The rails are over 30 feet and 9 meters long according to the British standard. One rail weighs more than 1,000 pounds. It would be difficult for twenty people to lift it.
There are too many civilians coming, and it is not necessarily safe to bury them in the ground.
Just give up
After receiving the news that the Minghe Railway Bridge had been blown up, the Japanese Railway Guards immediately launched an emergency plan and assigned armored trains parked at Shahe Station north of Minghe to reorganize and march southward for reinforcements.
Railway engineering vehicles at HD Station then began to mobilize supplies for emergency repairs.
The Japanese engineers who received the order estimated that it would take ten days and a half to repair the bridge and restore railway traffic no matter how quickly it was done.
Drive north of town.
Old Wei Village, the station of the Lunan Guerrilla Detachment.
The violent storm outside the ancestral hall has subsided a lot.
There were more than a hundred people sitting in the ancestral hall.
A middle-aged man in his mid-thirties was whispering to Xiao Hongying at the door: "We applied to our superiors to train the soldiers, but we haven't seen them yet. We finally hope that the division will arrange people to go to the second regiment. By the way, you can also help us train our soldiers and militiamen. I didn’t expect that guy Shi Jianye to rebel against the enemy."
Xiao Hongying looked at the wind and rain outside the gate that had become much weaker: "I always feel that you are not telling the truth."
"Comrade, please don't talk nonsense." Commander Pei had already heard about the name of the Ninth Battalion from the division and was trying to figure out his temper.
"More than 20 commanders from the division are here now. Why are you looking for us?"
"Hehe, let me tell you the truth. I am very familiar with the people in the division. It's not like I don't know their level."
"I'm very busy now"
"Comrade Chang, you really don't have to worry about Huilong Town. Besides, Commander Cheng is over there in the First Division now."
"I can't bear the feeling that the nest I stayed in for only two days is gone like this."
The middle-aged man lowered his voice: "I told you that the commando team is ours, why didn't you listen?"
"Why should I trust you?"
"Just because I am the commander of the Lunan detachment, is that enough?"
"You are the commander? Are you bragging? How many people do you have under your command?"
The middle-aged man's face turned red: "Oh, you little girl, have you forgotten who sent the explosive pack you took from the Deji Grain Company in Wei County?"
Xiao Hongying raised her eyebrows: "Did you give it to me?"
"That's right. Otherwise, do you think that with just your looks, you can really come and go freely in the heavily guarded autonomous army headquarters?"
Xiao Hongying pouted: "Then why don't you kill Wang Qinglin yourself?"
"Hey, don't say you don't know what our combat effectiveness is. You have to stay for a few days, or three days, or three days, right?"
"I gotta go to HD"
"Oh, listen to me, Battalion Commander Hu and the others received the order to attack the railway. Even if you go now, you won't be able to find them."
"How do you know so much?"
"I am the captain of the armed task force!"
"Aren't you the commander?"
“Can’t the commander be the captain of the armed work force?”
"That seems to make sense."
"Agreed?" The middle-aged man was overjoyed.
Xiao Hongying glanced at the guerrillas in the ancestral hall: "I can consider it if you lend me a platoon of soldiers from your Broadsword Team."
"One class at most. How can I fight the Japanese if there are more?"
"Deal." Xiao Hongying turned to the room and shouted: "Li Laosi, hurry up and pick someone."
When the middle-aged man heard this, something was wrong: "Wait, that's not right. If you borrow someone, I have to make the arrangements. How can you choose?"
Xiao Hongying looked at the middle-aged man opposite: "Commander Pei, your position is higher than mine, right?"
Commander Pei shook his head: "If you don't think so, you won't listen to me at all."
Xiao Hongying held back the glare and said in a sincere tone: "Think about it, if they follow us now and learn our skills, won't they be able to bring out a large number of people when they come back in the future?"
"Come back? What you said seems to make sense." Commander Pei shook his head: "But my heart is always so cold that I don't know what to do with it. Don't lie to me."
"Oh, we are the Eighth Route Army. Do you think I look like that kind of person?" Xiao Hongying looked serious: "How about you ask the students in the division, this instructor will tell you the truth."
Commander Pei then asked: "When will the training start?"
"Right now!" Xiao Hongying turned to look at Liu Yuanqing: "Give them a short training for three days."
"Training guerrillas?" Liu Yuanqing said with a dark face, "You want to train these people who can't even read a few Chinese characters?"
The guerrilla next to him was not happy: "I gave you three points of color and opened a dyeing room. Do you really think everyone wants to learn your useless moves?"
Commander Pei turned around: "Pei Guangyi"
"Arrived!" The guerrilla soldier who had just muttered stood up.
"Go out and run around the village three times."
"What? Such heavy rain"
Commander Pei stared at Pei Guangyi without saying anything.
Seeing this person, I was heartbroken: "Yes!"
Commander Pei then waved his hand: "Everyone gather and accept the training from the red instructor assigned by the superiors."
There was chaos in the ancestral hall immediately.
Following that, a team of more than a hundred people gathered. They had both long and short spears, and the majority were red-tasseled spears and broadswords.
"I won't say more. We only have three days. The students from the division will temporarily serve as squad leaders. You can follow them and get familiar with the guns first." When Xiao Hongying said this, she waved her hand: "Group first."
After saying that, he asked Liu Yuanqing to go about his work, then turned to look at Commander Pei and continued: "Now, let's talk about the Japanese sharpshooter."
Commander Pei's expression was grim: "There is a squadron of Japs stationed at the Autonomous Army headquarters. One Japs named Suzuki has outstanding marksmanship. He can hit humanoid targets within 400 meters without fail. Only at least thirty soldiers died in his hands."
Xiao Hongying was stunned for a moment: "Four hundred meters? Just try your luck!"
Commander Pei explained: "This guy's gun is different from ordinary people's guns. I heard from our comrades who broke into the puppet army that what is that sniper rifle? It can hit humanoid targets at a maximum distance of 600 meters."
"So powerful?" Xiao Hongying began to think about it. She also had one with a scope. Liu Yuanqing said it was called a sniper rifle.
Unfortunately, the scope seat was broken, and Li Xiangpo's craftsmanship to repair it was not reliable at all.
Shooting from 300 meters away, the error can be as far as one meter
Besides, the Ninth Battalion now has a large number of people, and almost all of them fight guerrilla or partial position warfare in companies and platoons, and rarely consider small-scale long-distance killing methods.
However, if it can hit the target at a distance of 600 meters, that gun must be extraordinary.
Thinking of this: "Hey, you said the Japs have returned to Wei County? Can you provoke him out?"
Seeing Xiao Hongying's interest, Commander Pei quickly added fuel to the fire: "This guy often goes out with his assistants disguised as ordinary people. Every now and then he will find someone to test the gun, and he kills many villagers."
Xiao Hongying thought for a while: "If you leave us here, your real intention is to let us kill this guy?"
Commander Pei couldn't help but admire: "You are so powerful, little comrade. I can't hide anything from you. Let me tell you the truth. In our place, young people have a tradition of practicing martial arts since they were young, but when it comes to fighting against the little devils, using Small tricks are fine, but this time we encounter a tough situation, you have to help us no matter what."
A militiaman wearing a raincoat ran into the ancestral hall: "Report to the captain, the water in the Zhang River has almost overflowed the river bank."
Commander Pei turned to look at the brighter sky outside the ancestral hall: "Don't worry, people from Division 1 have been sent to tell you what kind of tropical storm this is. The wind and rain will stop by this evening at most."
(End of chapter)
