In order to prevent the national troops on the east bank from crossing the river, the Japanese army set up several defensive artillery positions on the west bank of the Nujiang River. They were all located at the ferry. There were cliffs on both sides of the river. There were few places suitable for large-scale troops to cross the river. One of them was a relatively large ferry. , near the bombed Huitong Bridge, when there were no bridges on both sides of the strait, passing merchants basically used this ferry to go to and from the river. The river water at this ferry was not very fast. The Japanese artillery position at the ferry was located at The forest behind a ridge on the bank of the river seems relatively sheltered and cannot be seen from the other side of the river. Piaotian Literature Network ()
Dong Limao didn¡¯t know where to drive the truck, and he regretted not asking Bao Zhengxiong for clarification.
"Company commander, we are about to reach the riverside, but why don't we see the cannon?" Zeng Zifan said, looking out the car window at the dark night.
Because they were worried about the enemy's artillery fire, the Japanese and puppet defense positions on the riverside did not have any lights, and the artillery positions naturally did not light up.
Dong Limao stopped the car, but did not turn off the engine or turn off the lights.
Suddenly, a group of Japanese troops appeared in front of the car lights.
"Mr. Zeng, it's up to you. Do you want to know where to send the empty ammunition in the car?" Dong Limao whispered and put on his mask.
Zeng Zifan jumped out of the car and waved and shouted at the Japanese army coming from the opposite side.
"Baga! The lights are out here! Turn off the car lights!" A Japanese soldier rushed to the front of the mountain and shouted at Zeng Zifan.
Zeng Zifan then gestured to Dong Limao and shouted in Japanese: "Turn out the car lights!"
Dong Limao guessed from Zeng Zifan's gesture that it meant turning off the car lights, so he turned off the car lights. Later, Qin Haoran also turned off the car lights. This was agreed in advance. As long as Dong Limao did what he did, he would do the same. .
At this time, there are still more than two hours before dawn, which is the darkest time of the night.
Zeng Zifan explained to the other party the weapons loaded in the car and asked the patrolling soldier where to send them.
The soldier didn't know which artillery position to drive the truck towards. He waved back and asked a soldier carrying a radio to come forward and use the radio to call the Jiang'an garrison headquarters. Soon, the soldier asked for the specific location and then called him. Zeng Zifan said that there is a newly built road ahead on the left, and the truck can drive straight in, about one kilometer away, and it can be reached.
The patrolling Japanese troops did not check the vehicles or personnel. It seemed that they were only responsible for patrolling the surrounding areas. The inspection of vehicles had nothing to do with them, or they thought that military vehicles coming from the direction of Longling had been strictly interrogated on the way. , there won¡¯t be any problems.
This time, Dong Limao did not turn on the lights and drove blindly. The car slid ahead slowly. After driving for about ten minutes, Dong Limao vaguely saw a dirt road on the left that could pass a truck. He turned the car. On this road, the sound of the car's engine seemed to alert the officers and soldiers in the barracks at the Japanese artillery position. The light of several flashlights swayed not far in front of the car.
"It should be right here." Dong Limao whispered.
"Stop the car!" A resident official from the opposite side shouted loudly.
"He said to stop the car." Zeng Zifan said to Dong Limao.
Dong Limao stopped the car steadily. Zeng Zifan jumped out of the car and ran over. Dong Limao sat in the car and watched Zeng Zifan talking to the officer as the flashlight shook in front of him. He quietly held the gun. For some reason, he felt I have an ominous feeling and my eyelids keep twitching.
After a while, Zeng Zifan trotted back to the car, climbed into the passenger seat, stuck his head in, and whispered to Dong Limao, "Our people can't go in. They have to carry the shells in."
"What about the twenty cannonballs?" Dong Limao asked.
"The officer didn't say anything." Zeng Zifan replied.
"No, you go and tell the officer that our people must carry the shells in. This is a high-risk material. Others cannot mess with it. We can only leave if An'an delivers the shells to the officer and gets the receipt signed." ." Dong Limao said to Zeng Zifan.
While someone was talking in a low voice, a dozen soldiers in chemical protective suits walked out of the woods inside, as if they were coming to carry artillery shells.
Dong Limao put on his mask, got out of the car, walked to the back of the car, opened the door, and then waved for Qin Haoran and the others to get out of the car.
After Qin Haoran got out of the car, he walked quickly to Dong Limao and whispered: "We'd better go in and take a look at the artillery layout here."
"Take your people and stop those who come to carry the shells. Don't let them get close." Dong Limao whispered.
Qin Haoran waved his hand back, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance team who jumped out of the car immediately ran forward, standing separately on the left and right, and stopped a dozen soldiers in chemical protective suits who were about to carry the shells.
everZifan loudly said to the officer: "No one is allowed to touch these secret service weapons until the weapons are handed over to your superiors!" He looked businesslike.
The officer had no choice but to move the weapons in with my people and yours. "
Zeng Zifan then turned around and waved his hand: "Unload the boxes from the car."
Dong Limao whispered to Qin Haoran: "Now go up and take the box out of the car."
The two of them got into the car one after another. Soldiers came under the car and carried the iron boxes down one by one. The dozen or so people brought by the Japanese officer also mixed into the ranks of the reconnaissance team, which made Dong Limao complain. No, it would be troublesome if there was a fight.
Qin Haoran also felt that something was wrong, but he had no other choice but to carry the last box with Dong Limao and follow the people in front of him through the woods.
It was so dark that except for a few flashlights used as lighting, it was almost difficult to see clearly what was ten meters away.
After walking for a few minutes, we arrived outside a military tent. There were soldiers guarding the tent, stopping all those carrying boxes and not letting anyone in.
Dong Limao estimated that this was probably an ammunition depot. If there was an artillery position nearby, then this tent was probably filled with artillery shells and the like.
Qin Haoran looked around and didn't see a cannon, but he saw several military tents. Under the shaking of the flashlight, there were signs outside the tents that prohibited fireworks.
"This is their ammunition depot." Qin Haoran whispered to Dong Limao.
"It seems that we are in some trouble. As a last resort, we have to take action here." Dong Limao said softly. He saw Zeng Zifan quarreling with the two soldiers guarding the tent outside the tent in front.
Dong Limao looked anxiously at Zeng Zifan, who was arguing with the guards. He saw an officer with a higher rank, accompanied by two guards, walking quickly from the right. After talking to Zeng Zifan for a few words, he slapped the guard. The two soldiers outside the tent slapped each other twice, as if they were very angry. Then, the two guards stood at both ends. Zeng Zifan waved back and asked the person in front to carry the box and go inside.
Dong Limao and Qin Haoran were the last two to enter the tent, but there were a lot of shell boxes stacked inside. Twenty boxes that were exactly the same as the iron boxes that had just been brought in were placed on the left hand side of the tent. Dong Limao and Qin Haoran He placed the boxes he brought in on the right side, and was about to walk to the left to pick up the twenty boxes containing real plague bombs when a whistle suddenly sounded outside.
Dong Limao and Qin Haoran glanced at each other, and then saw the two soldiers standing outside the tent rushing in with guns in hand, screaming strangely, and stabbing Zeng Zifan and the man in chemical protective clothing next to him with bayonets in their hands. people.
Dong Limao wanted to rush forward to save him, but it was too late. Fortunately, Khan was beside Zeng Zifan, and the person one of them stabbed with a bayonet was Khan.
"Brothers! Take action!" Dong Limao shouted and pulled out a pistol from his body.
Almost at the same time as Dong Limao shouted, Khan sideways dodged the bayonet stabbed at him, flew up with a kick, and kicked the guard who stabbed Zeng Zifan out of the tent door, and then hit Zhan Kong with his right elbow. The guard's face knocked down two guards in a matter of seconds.
When the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon heard Dong Limao's roar, they all pulled out their submachine guns in their chemical protective suits and fired outside the tent.
"But the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who were mixed with the reconnaissance team, although they did not have guns on them, struggled with the soldiers of the reconnaissance team who fired.
The outside of the tent was almost surrounded by the Japanese who came, but strangely, no one shot inside.
Dong Limao didn't hear the Japanese outside shooting at the people in the tent. Knowing that the Japanese were afraid of the ammunition inside, especially the plague bombs, he immediately told Qin Haoran: "Captain Qin, we must attack in one direction. After rushing out, Explode here!¡±
"But in which direction should we attack?" Qin Haoran knew that he was surrounded, so he glanced outside and asked.
Dong Limao pulled out the dagger and said, "Follow me!" He turned around and ran towards the back.
Why did the Japanese suddenly attack Dong Limao and the others?
It turned out that the Japanese troops in Tengchong City, who were the first to dispatch a squadron of Japanese troops, were wiped out on the road by the special task company led by Liu Yudong. At first, the Japanese troops in the city thought that the faint gunshots and explosions were from the Japanese troops in pursuit. The fleeing guerrillas didn't pay much attention to it, but when the gunfire stopped, the Japanese troops in Tengchong City called Heshun Township and the Japanese troops who sent reinforcements many times, but there was no response, so they sent another team out of the city to Heshun. Township, when they arrived at the base in Heshun Township, they discovered that all the Japanese and puppet troops there had been killed.
However, the people in Tengchong CityThe army did not know that Dong Limao wanted to exchange blank ammunition for real ammunition, nor did they know that someone pretending to be from the experimental base called the headquarters, because they only received a call from Taibao reporting that a small group of guerrillas had been harassed. The team is eliminated.
This delay gave Dong Limao and the others time to allow the reconnaissance team to successfully reach their destination.
When the Japanese army in Tengchong City reported the true situation of the devastating attack on the Heshun Township base to the Japanese Army Headquarters in Western Yunnan, the officer on duty at the Japanese Army Headquarters at that time was woken up from his sleep by the orderly, and did not think that there was anything going on. The detachment was going to the riverside under Matsuyama to exchange for plague bombs. It was not until Sakaguchi arrived at the headquarters in person and checked the phone calls and reporting records before and after the night that he realized that he immediately called the commander of the riverside garrison, Colonel Nakata Takeo.
Nakata Takeo, as mentioned before, almost died from Dong Limao's grenades. He is now the riverside garrison commander and one of Sakaguchi's most trusted subordinates.