Chapter 442: 12 along the railway

The Japanese Railway Guard, which specializes in guarding the railway, does not think so when experts give the conclusion that the destroyer or the railway sabotage team commits an explosion.

The guards believed that the explosion site was very close to the Eighth Route Army's defense zone, and their stronghold was attacked that night. They were suppressed by unknown troops using intensive firepower, so they could only defend the stronghold and could not come out to rescue. Taking the initiative to attack the defense team, this was obviously different from the usual practices of the National Army's Railway Destruction Team, and the tactics were very similar to the tactics of the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, they believed that this time was definitely an explosion carried out by the Eighth Route Army alone.

Sasaki's secret service also obtained "definite" news through various channels. The news said that the Eighth Route Army in Hu's shack was dispatched that night. They mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources to transport all the materials on the train overnight.

Liang Xixian also did some work in this regard. He sent back some information through the Japanese and puppet agents Liu Feng'an and Liu Yunsheng, who were already under his control. The news was very sure that the railway sabotage team had been staying at the station that night and they did not take any action.

Based on the above situation, Sasaki came to the conclusion that the explosion that night was carried out by the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, some people inside the enemy also proposed that the mines and explosions were buried similar to those of the railway destruction team. This time it was very likely that the Eighth Route Army and the Ninth Detachment jointly operated, but Sasaki quickly came up with his own reasons to deny this statement.

Sasaki believes that the predecessor of the railway destruction team was an anti-Japanese organization organized by railway workers. This force was first led by the Communist Party, but later the team was forcibly seized from command by the Military Commission. Therefore, it is not uncommon for specialized personnel in railway explosions in the Eighth Route Army. Sasaki also put forward a more convincing reason, that is, although the Eighth Route Army and the National Army are friendly forces, the two armies are absolutely impossible to fight together, and cooperate so much that the same team is fighting, which is impossible.

Finally, the Japanese and puppet parties finally concluded that the Eighth Route Army also began to independently implement an explosion of the railway. This conclusion was definitely not good news for the Japanese, because now there was an additional railway destruction team out of thin air, and the security situation of the Pinghan Railway would be even more critical.

At this time, Liang Xixian and Liu Zhenghong were very happy in Qinghe. They drank and talked happily and congratulated each other. This time the two armies fought side by side, and both sides got what they wanted. Liang Xixian and Liu Zhenghong were both satisfied. On that day, the two drank a lot of wine and said a lot of sincere words of cooperation.

Both sides of this railway explosion had their own gains, so they naturally made detailed reports to their superiors. After receiving the report, the First War Zone sent congratulatory telegrams to both sides.

This time, a large amount of supplies were seized. Liu Zhenghong and others not only solved their wintering problem, but also sent a large amount of bedding and food to the rear party. The Eighth Route Army gave the advance camp commendation. However, Liang Xixian did not receive the award from his superiors, and even received the verbal praise. What he received was a harsh reprimand.

The First War Zone sent a congratulatory telegram to the Ninth Detachment on the surface, but then another secret telegram was sent by the Political Training Department of the War Zone.

In this secret telegram, the chief of the war zone cooperated with Liang Xixian with the Eighth Route Army and handed over the food and clothing. The telegram said that the Eighth Route Army had obtained these materials was equivalent to Liang Xixian indirectly supporting the Communist Party and strengthening their strength. The consequence was that the Communist Party would easily survive the severe winter. According to the Communist Party's ability to unite the people to create a situation, they will expand rapidly after the spring, which will be a huge threat to the national army.

Liang Xixian was stunned after receiving the telegram. He really didn't expect that such a result would be achieved in the end. The telegram was stern, so he almost pointed at his nose and scolded him for selling the interests of the national army and sponsoring the alien party.

Liang Xixian felt extremely aggrieved about this telegram. He held the telegram in his hand and asked people to complain everywhere, trying his best to prove that it was a meeting at that time, and everyone agreed to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army. He just acted as a scapegoat for everyone.

At that time, Liu Changda and others agreed and supported Liang Xixian, but the stern-worded telegram of the War Zone had already clearly announced that the operation of cooperation with the Eighth Route Army was wrong. Now the War Zone was very dissatisfied, and of course others would not take the initiative to throw dirty water on themselves, so everyone hid from Liang Xixian for a while, which made Liang Xixian extremely depressed.

As the highest commander of this army, Li Qinglin could not escape this matter, but when he reported his meritorious service to the war zone, Liang Xixian wanted to take the meritorious service. In the telegram to report the meritorious service, he only said that he had commanded the operation himself, so Li Qinglin actually avoided criticism from his superiors.

The successful modification of the detonator that delayed fire greatly encouraged the sabotage team members active on the railway line of the occupied areas. When the country and nation were in danger, these sabotage team members put their lives and death aside, and risked their lives to go deep into the enemy's backbone to carry out multiple explosions. There will be explosions on the railways in the occupied areas from time to time.

The explosion of the railway destruction team was elusive, and they severely hit the Japanese and puppet economic and military. The explosions of these destruction team members in the enemy-occupied areas are not only of great military significance, but also of excellent political publicity. They used their practical actions to tell the people that it is precisely because of this group of unwilling forces that do not surrender, that China will not die.

In order to ensure the smooth flow of its military and economic arteries and to combat the anti-Japanese forces, the Japanese and puppets had to mobilize heavy troops to defend along the railway. In some important areas, the Japanese and puppets forced the people to build large quantities of bunker strongholds. In some areas where they were repeatedly attacked, the Japanese and puppets forced the people to cut down all the trees on both sides of the railway tracks and dug deep trenches on both sides of the roadbed.

In some particularly important areas, the Japanese will hang horse lanterns along the way at night and order local people to patrol day and night. If the railway in this area explodes again, these people who patrol that night will be implicated.

In order to crack the mines of the railway destruction team, the Japanese explosion experts and railway experts were not idle either. As long as there was an explosion, they rushed to the scene to conduct investigations as soon as possible.

There will be mistakes when success, and railway sabotage teams in various places will not be successful every time. Since the Japanese strengthened their defense against the railway, some personnel who performed the mission were captured and obtained the physical objects of the detonator and combined with their confessions, the Japanese explosion experts finally figured out the principle of delayed detonation of landmines.

For such delayed detonation mines, the Japanese railway experts immediately gave a solution, that is, to use an armored patrol vehicle or a separate locomotive to run in front of the train to open the lane for the train behind. If a mine is buried under the rails, the armored vehicle or locomotive will first detonate the delayed landmines. In this way, the mines can only destroy some railway tracks and roadbeds, and the vehicles leading the road in front and the trains running behind will not suffer any losses.

The two explosions in the northern section of the Pinghan Line were basically successful. The big guys thought they had a delayed detonator in their hands and were relieved, but the next two times were different. Although the mines they carefully buried exploded, they only destroyed the railway tracks and did not cause substantial damage to the enemy's train, which made everyone very depressed.

Since they cooperated with the railway destruction team to obtain a large amount of supplies, Liu Zhenghong began to pay attention to finding solutions on the railway. After a period of preparation, they gathered some yellow explosives and carried out an explosion. This time, because of the experience of transporting supplies last time, the Eighth Route Army once again obtained a large amount of urgently needed supplies, including their extremely scarce guns and ammunition.

There is no electric fire detonator on the Eighth Route Army. Their detonating explosives were artificially detonated, but they hit it with one blow and succeeded. The big man had an advanced detonation device, but the explosion was not completely successful. This was obviously a problem. The big man decided that he had to figure out the whole story.

In fact, the reason is not difficult to find out. Yan Boling and his friends casually asked inside the enemy, and the personnel working on the railway revealed the whole story. In addition, the people along the way also confirmed that in recent times, there have always been armored patrol vehicles or separate locomotives leading the way in front of the train.

After receiving this news, the big guys and the others immediately knew that the landmine was detonated in advance by the enemy's lane car, which means that their newly invented delayed detonator was cracked by the enemy.

Things were developing too fast. The big guys thought that the enemy would have some time to crack this delayed mine, but they didn't expect the enemy to react so quickly. Now the railway destruction team was forced back to the starting point, which was to use artificial detonation on the scene.

In order to blow up the locomotive, the loading of the buried mine box is quite large, so the power of the explosion is amazing. Currently, the railway destruction team adopts two methods of artificial detonation, one is electric detonation and the other is fuse detonation. Both methods must be arranged for personnel on site.

In order to ensure that you are not accidentally injured by your own landmines, the personnel who detonate on the scene must be outside the explosion range, and it is best to hide behind hidden objects. In this way, the selected explosion location is subject to many restrictions; manual detonation is not as accurate as the electric fire of the detonator, and it must also be able to accurately judge the time when the train arrives at the explosion point, so experienced veterans must operate it.

At present, there are railway destruction teams everywhere in the occupied areas, but many are killed or captured by accident. When the big man proposed to use artificial detonation, Li Qinglin firmly denied this approach.

Li Qinglin believes that although it is important to destroy the railway, the lives of the soldiers are more important. Especially these blasting team members who participated in the blasting team to carry out multiple operations are treasures for the Ninth Detachment. Li Qinglin cannot use the treasures to do these dangerous things.

"Then what else can our blasting team do? Are they all idle at home?" the big man said depressedly.

"You can't use your brain too much? Wasn't the delayed detonator last time invented after someone used his brain?" Li Qinglin said.

Seeing that the big man wanted to say something, Li Qinglin stood up and walked out. He walked and said, "I won't say anything extra. The blasting team's actions are suspended. Let me tell you when you come up with a good solution."

The big man returned to the team and conveyed Li Qinglin's words to the team members. Since then, these team members have gathered together all day to come up with ideas and find ways. Everyone has made it difficult to make the meal feel good, and in the end, even the time for dinner is a bit unpretentious.

On this day, Li Shicang had lunch and wandered around. Suddenly, he saw a blasting team member eating steamed buns. The team member was arguing with others, pointing hands with one hand and holding chopsticks in the other hand, and several steamed buns were worn together on the chopsticks.

Seeing the team member wearing steamed buns, Li Shicang had a flash of inspiration. He picked up the team member and shouted loudly: "I thought of a solution, I thought of a solution."

After shouting, Li Shicang left the inexplicable player and went to find a team member with good skills to tinker with the explosive device.

There was no action for a while, and the team members were all suffocated. Li Shicang and the others quickly transformed several detonators, and they began to act along the railway again.

Li Shicang and his team's transformation was very successful this time. An enemy army happened to pass that night. They broke an enemy train that night, but the armored vehicle leading the way in front of the train was unscathed.

Li Qinglin was very interested in Li Shicang and the others' transformation. He asked him privately what method he used. Li Shicang smiled proudly and said, "Actually, I thought of it after being inspired by the team members to insert steamed buns with chopsticks. We still use electric detonators, but I changed the 't' type iron rod to a mobile one. We did not install iron rods after burying the thunder and detonators. We only installed the iron rods temporarily before the enemy's train really came. In this way, the enemy's lane car will not explode even if it runs a hundred times, and it will explode only when the train comes."

Li Qinglin gave a thumbs up and praised: "Party Leader Li, you have made great contributions this time. We will send a report to the war zone and ask you for merit."

Li Shicang's face was flushed with excitement, and was about to say a few humility. At this moment, Liu Changda came in. Liu Changda said suddenly: "Commander, we have reliable information. The Japanese are not well fed this year. They are preparing to plunder food in the countryside during the autumn harvest."

When Li Shicang saw the Chief of Staff come, he knew they had something to talk about. He saluted the two chiefs and went out. Li Qinglin continued Liu Changda's words and said: "The devils will only make plans for the Chinese people by fighting. But we don't have to worry about them. He has his plan to Zhang Liang, and I have my ladder to cross the wall, so we will have a way to deal with them."

Speaking of this, Li Qinglin shouted to Ding Goudan outside the house: "Goudan, please send someone to inform them immediately. Tomorrow, we will hold a meeting for officers above the captain and above. Let's study how to ensure autumn harvest."...
Chapter completed!