Before the team set off, Liang Xixian repeatedly told the big man that they should stay at the scene temporarily after laying the mines, mainly to see how the Eighth Route Army could transport so much supplies.
Now hearing that Yuan Dashu asked them to choose whether to leave or stay, the big man Zhao Shoushan said: "We'd better wait for a while. What we planted this time is a newly invented delayed-fire landmine. This delayed-fire mine is also our first." Once used in actual combat, we have to see whether it can be successful and what its effect is."
Yuan Bearded said: "You can stay, but the enemy's rescue team may come for reinforcements. Our people will try to stop the enemy at that time, and you will have to protect yourselves."
The big man chuckled and said: "Captain Yuan, don't worry. We all carry guns. Most of us are veterans who have fought with the Japs on the bayonet. It's not a problem to protect ourselves now."
Yuan Bearded said: "Since you are so confident, then stay and watch the excitement."
The big man asked a little worriedly: "We were digging holes and laying mines on the railway just now, but we didn't see or hear your people in action. Do you have enough troops to stop the enemy?"
Yuan Bearded smiled and said: "Our people have already been ambushing at the door of their stronghold. I guarantee that we can suppress them and prevent them from leaving the stronghold."
The big man then asked: "If we succeed in the explosion, the supplies for this entire train will not be a small amount, and the manpower required will not be a small amount either. Do you have enough people to transport the materials?"
Yuan Bearded laughed and said: "You don't have to worry about it. Our people responsible for transportation have already arrived, and we definitely have enough manpower."
The big man looked around and listened. He saw silence all around, so he wondered: "Why do I feel that there is no one else in this area except us? What are your people hiding?" Are you there?"
Yuan Bearded smiled mysteriously and said: "Anyway, the train will arrive soon. After the train is blown over, you will see our people."
While talking, everyone had already walked to a safe distance. The big man took out his pocket watch and looked at it with a flashlight. He saw that there were still fifteen minutes left before the train arrived. So everyone sat on the ground in the field, waiting quietly for the train to arrive. The thrilling moment of the explosion.
The Pinghan-Hankou Railway is now managed by the Japanese. Unless there are some special circumstances, the trains running on this line are quite punctual. At the scheduled time, the train transporting food and clothing finally rumbled over.
The most nervous person at this time is Li Shicang of the railway sabotage team, because within a few minutes they will be able to see whether their own invention can work.
The headlights of the car were very bright. According to the position of the headlights, Li Shicang and the others saw the train rumble past the mine site. At this moment, Li Shicang clenched his fists, and the palms of his hands were full of sweat because of nervousness and anticipation.
There were still two flat cars loaded with stones in front of the train. The flat cars passed the mine site. When the train arrived at the mine site, everyone suddenly saw a violent flash. After a while, there was a huge explosion. The mine laid by the sabotage team exploded
The explosion of the mine proved that the delayed detonation detonator was successfully modified, and the railway sabotage team had a new weapon to kill the enemy. Li Shicang and the others jumped up with excitement. They shouted: "Success, success"
Yuan Dabeard, who was next to Li Shicang, also jumped up. He ordered loudly: "Each team, seize the time and take action immediately."
After saying that, Yuan Bearded took the lead and ran towards the explosion site, while the guards and messengers around him quickly ran away in other directions.
The big man and the others also followed Yuan Dabeard and ran to the explosion site because they wanted to see the explosion site as soon as possible. Li Shicang and the others were running in the dark. Only then did everyone hear the voices of people everywhere in the night, the rumble of mules, horses and carts, and the collision of various tools. Li Shicang and the others knew about the transportation on the Eighth Route. The personnel have arrived.
When Li Shicang and others arrived at the scene of the explosion, they saw that a big crater had been created at the place where the mine had been laid. Some of the rails were twisted into twists. The locomotive behind the flatbed truck was blown down outside the rails, and the carriage dragged by the locomotive It either derailed or stopped on the tracks. The Eighth Route Army arrived at the scene earlier than them. The escorts on the train were either killed or captured. The Eighth Route Army commanders were lighting torches and clearing the battlefield.
The big man's men were much more interested in the explosion site than in the supplies on the train. Some of them lit torches, some held flashlights for lighting, some team members took out tape measures to measure and draw records, and some went to Check the damaged front and compartment of the car.In order to evaluate the detonation time of the buried mines, the amount of mines loaded, etc.
The big guys were busy around the locomotive. There were people driving mules and horses with torches in the night. They came in groups to the carriages transporting supplies. Torches gathered together, and the surroundings of the train carriage were illuminated like daylight. These groups of people did not seem to come from the same direction, but each team had a leader, and their goals were accurate. Someone opened the doors of each carriage and entered. Inside, and then began to unload the materials from the carriage.
?The materials moved out of the wagons were constantly being carried by people waiting outside or loaded onto mules and horses for transportation. All of this was as natural and smooth as an assembly line. Yuan Dabeard is now the on-site commander. He is constantly issuing orders to all parties. The transportation site is a busy scene, but it is complicated but not complicated, busy but not chaotic. It can be seen from the clothes of the people unloading and transporting trucks that these people are farmers, but they are all well organized.
While everyone was busy loading supplies, continuous explosions suddenly came from the direction of the enemy's stronghold in the distance, followed immediately by gunshots like exploding beans.
The big man asked Yuan Dabeard: "Your people are blocking the enemy? The combat effectiveness of the Japanese cannot be underestimated. Do you have enough troops to block the enemy?"
Yuan Bearded listened attentively and said with a smile: "It's okay, the enemy is trapped in the stronghold and can't get out."
The big man also listened attentively and asked: "How many machine guns are needed when the gunfire is so dense? Battalion Commander Yuan, when did you have so many machine guns?"
Yuan Bearded smiled and whispered in the big man's ear: "We have as many machine guns as you want. Our soldiers set off firecrackers in big iron barrels to scare them with the sound of machine guns."
The big man laughed and said, "You guys have a lot of weird ideas. The ping-pong-pong sound really sounds like the sound of machine gunfire."
The crackling fight was lively over there, and the sex was full of excitement over here. The intelligence obtained in the early stage was very accurate. Half of the train was filled with food and half was filled with clothing. This explosion was also very successful, and the carriages behind them basically suffered no damage. Therefore, after the materials were unloaded, they piled up like mountains, which was very spectacular.
Seeing so much supplies, the big man was a little worried and said: "Battle Commander Yuan, can you move such a large amount of supplies in one night?"
Yuan Bearded said with confidence: "Captain Zhao, don't worry, it's just a little material, we can definitely eat it."
While talking, the demolition team members had already completed surveying the explosion site, and Li Shicang and the others came to ask the big man for instructions to retreat. The big man then shook hands with Yuan Dabeard and said goodbye. He led all the team members back to the ninth detachment overnight.
The big man and his team succeeded in using delayed-fire landmines for the first time, which made Li Qinglin very happy. He immediately ordered Liu Changda to report to the war zone, and rewarded those who participated in the operation based on their merits. And Liang Xixian, who was engaged in political work, was not idle either. He had been paying attention to the activities on the Eighth Route, and from time to time sent people out to find out how the Eighth Route digested the large amount of piles of supplies in such a short period of time.
A few days later, Liu Zhenghong came to visit Liang Xixian with some of the seized materials. Through Liu Zhenghong's brief introduction, Liang Xixian knew how the Eighth Route Army transported these materials away.
That night, the Eighth Route Army mobilized almost all its forces to the scene of the explosion.
For the materials on the train, the Eighth Route Army adopted two transportation methods. Grain is of course the most important, and it is heavy and prone to mold. The Eighth Route Army required that it must be transported overnight, so all the carts transported the grain, and the migrant workers that night also used this batch of grain as payment; because most of the food was In winter, it doesn't matter even if it is left for a few days, so they will be transported out of the scene that night and quietly hidden in a large cave not far away. After surviving the frenzied search by the Japanese and puppets on the second day, they concentrated their efforts on organizing a nighttime assault transport, and finally transported back the quilts hidden in the mountains.
After the mine was cracked by Japanese experts, the railway sabotage team suspended its operations, and the northern section of the Ping-Han Line has been relatively calm for some time. After the explosion on the Luocun Railway this time, the Japanese and puppets were shocked again. They immediately thought that this was the railway sabotage team starting to act again.
In order to find out what new method the other party used, the Japanese side urgently called in experts to conduct a careful investigation of the site the next day.
Japanese experts judged from the bomb craters and explosion traces that the opponent still used yellow explosives this time. The amount of explosives and the assembly method of the mines were almost the same as before. This proved to be the method of the railway sabotage team, so they concluded that it was the National Army. Explosion of implementation.
Experts also found that the flat car loading stones from the front of the train was intact.Judging from the severe damage to the locomotive, the railway sabotage team must have carried out artificial detonation this time. However, after experts carefully inspected the explosion site several times, they still could not find out how the railway sabotage team used artificial detonation, which puzzled them. .