Chapter 130: Attack The Military Train
386 Brigade Brigade Headquarters
The Brigade Commander had just finished the meeting with Li Yunlong and the others when an intelligence officer hurriedly came to report: “Report to the Brigade Commander, Fujita Ichi has thrown out bait again—those key parts extracted from the bullet production equipment.”
The Brigade Commander hadn’t even responded yet when Li Yunlong on the side shouted: “Is the intelligence accurate? Could Fujita Ichi make the same mistake twice?”
Anyone with normal intelligence should understand that they absolutely cannot let the enemy obtain complete equipment.
Previously, Fujita Ichi had removed the key parts. Even if the equipment was gone, without those key parts, they could still halt the enemy’s arsenal bullet production.
But Fujita Ichi went ahead and, with the equipment gone, took out the key parts again.
Are you, Fujita Ichi, afraid that our arsenal lacks the ability to produce bullets?
No wonder the Brigade Commander had repeatedly reminded him—whatever he did, he must not kill off this idiot Fujita Ichi too soon.
Now it seemed there was some truth to that.
If they swallowed these parts, what would this idiot Fujita Ichi use as bait next time? It was truly something to look forward to.
“The intelligence is correct!” The intelligence officer affirmed confidently.
“Brigade Commander, then we…” Li Yunlong immediately turned to the Brigade Commander and said, “As soon as we attack the Jingtai Line, he, Fujita Ichi…”
The Brigade Commander sternly interrupted Li Yunlong: “Ignore Fujita Ichi’s fishing operation for now. The most important thing is to focus on the tasks at hand.”
Cheng Xiazi from the 772nd Regiment immediately chimed in: “Li Yunlong, don’t mix up priorities. Is the Japanese invaders’ locomotive more important, or are these parts more important!”
Unable to get the main attack mission and watching Li Yunlong and Ding Wei’s garrison regiment steal the show, Cheng Xiazi, the main regiment commander of the 772nd, felt truly frustrated inside.
This was him seizing the chance to verbally jab at Li Yunlong.
“Go away, go away.” Li Yunlong waved at Cheng Xiazi. “Do I look like the type to drop a watermelon for a sesame seed!”
Then, Li Yunlong smiled at the Brigade Commander and said: “What I mean is, after snatching the locomotive, if there’s still time, we can conveniently grab these parts too. He’s already delivered them right to our mouths—we can’t be polite about it.”
“Without my orders, stay put.” The Brigade Commander threw a sentence at Li Yunlong. “Right now, you and Ding Wei should be thinking about how to take the target at the fastest speed. Don’t distract yourself with anything else.”
“It’s just attacking the Jingtai Line to stop the Japanese invaders’ military train, right? Don’t worry, Brigade Commander, it’ll be a sure thing.” Li Yunlong patted his chest in guarantee.
“Get going, hurry up and move your troops over.” The Brigade Commander waved his hand.
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei immediately sprang into action.
The 772nd Regiment and 771st Regiment, these two main regiments, left some men to guard home base, while the rest followed the Brigade Commander to Zhangjia Village on the Jingtai Line.
Halfway there, Zhang Wanhe led the transportation team to rendezvous with the Brigade Commander.
“Old Zhang, you’re personally leading the transportation team? I thought you wouldn’t come.” The Brigade Commander greeted Zhang Wanhe.
Zhang Wanhe was the head of logistics and should logically stay in the rear.
Bullets on the battlefield don’t have eyes.
“Nonsense, this concerns the power for the arsenal—how could I not come personally?” Zhang Wanhe said with a serious expression.
“True enough. Whenever there’s major profit, how could you, Old Zhang, be absent?” The Brigade Commander glanced around Zhang Wanhe a few times, didn’t see Li Muzhi, and asked: “Xiao Li didn’t come along?”
“Look at what you’re saying—that’s our military industry treasure. How could he casually come to the frontline?” Zhang Wanhe said solemnly.
“It’s right that he didn’t come to the frontline. If I saw you bringing him, I’d force him back.” The Brigade Commander nodded.
What a joke!
Even if the entire brigade had problems, not a single hair on Xiao Li’s head could be harmed!
“Brigade Commander Chen, for this Japanese invaders’ military train you snatched, did you figure out in advance what it was carrying?” Zhang Wanhe suddenly remembered.
“We did. Mostly grain, white flour, white rice, canned food.” The Brigade Commander replied.
Hearing this, Zhang Wanhe couldn’t help but complain: “Old Chen, how could you snatch a grain transport vehicle? You should have gone for something more valuable, like the Japanese invaders’ military train transporting military industrial supplies.”
He had thought the 386th Brigade hadn’t gotten intel on the Japanese invaders’ military train, but unexpectedly they had.
Yet their vision was a bit narrow.
Snatching a grain transport vehicle was nowhere near as profitable as snatching one with military industrial supplies.
“Old Zhang, aren’t you always complaining to me that Kong Jie’s New Second Regiment eats too much and you can’t afford to feed them?” The Brigade Commander gave Zhang Wanhe a glance. “Me snatching the grain transport vehicle solves your logistics grain shortage perfectly!”
“Logistics grain does need solving, but military industrial supplies are even more important.” Zhang Wanhe said seriously. “Every time you come to me for cannonballs, don’t you all want as many as possible? Without sufficient military industrial supplies, what do we use to produce cannonballs for you?”
“Old Zhang, no choice—the Japanese invaders aren’t playing fair.” The Brigade Commander explained. “According to intelligence, the Japanese invaders’ recent military train shipments have all been conventional supplies, no military industrial supplies. I can’t just delay until their large-scale sweep, can I?”
If they really waited until the Japanese invaders’ large-scale sweep to snatch their train, that would be too dangerous.
“So that’s how it is.” Old Zhang couldn’t help but jump up and curse immediately upon hearing this: “These damn Japanese invaders, how can they be so unreasonable? Too unreasonable! Once the arsenal produces more cannonballs, we’ll definitely give them a good lesson!”
“Hahaha!” The Brigade Commander laughed heartily and said, “Old Zhang, to teach the Japanese invaders a lesson, we need more cannonballs. When the time comes, you hand them over to me, and I’ll vent for you.”
“Brigade Commander Chen, you’re calculating slyly.” Zhang Wanhe immediately cursed. “If you want cannonballs from me, unless it’s an emergency, everything goes through procedure.”
“Look at you, Old Zhang, so stingy. You want someone else to avenge you but won’t fork over cannonballs—what else is that but a black-hearted miser!” The Brigade Commander cursed.
“Curse all you want.” Old Zhang shrugged. He’d been called stingy as head of logistics more than once or twice—he was used to it.
……
The sun slowly slanted westward, the clouds on the horizon like burning fire—the most beautiful sight was the red glow of sunset!
Li Yunlong and Ding Wei arrived at the designated location right on schedule.
The Japanese invaders had built defenses along the railway line.
There were bunkers and gun towers.
These targets needed to be taken out in advance to have a chance to approach the railway.
“Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, you two begin.”
The Brigade Commander glanced at his watch—time was about right—and issued the order to Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.
This attack time couldn’t be too early or too late.
Too early, and the Japanese invaders’ military train would stop ahead of time.
Too late, and the Japanese invaders’ military train would rush past.
They had to time it perfectly so that whether the Japanese invaders’ military train stopped or sped up, it would land right in their hands.
“Yes, Brigade Commander!”
“Yes, Brigade Commander.”
Ding Wei and Li Yunlong acknowledged the order, each maneuvering their Hell Cannons to aim at the targets, then lit the fuses!
Boom!
Boom!
The two Hell Cannons roared to life; two bunkers were directly obliterated, and the two nearby ones collapsed from the shock!
Two cannonballs, each hitting two targets—one shot, two kills—destroying four targets!
With four targets destroyed, the other bunkers and gun towers were alerted:
“Baka, this is a heavy cannon attack!”
“Baka, could it be the Eighth Route Army attacking the railway line again?”
“Baka, open fire.”
“Baka, request reinforcements quickly, request reinforcements.”
……
The machine guns from the bunkers and gun towers immediately began firing.
Rat-tat-tat!
Rat-tat-tat!
Rat-tat-tat!
……
But as the Hell Cannons continued roaring, these machine gun fires quickly fell silent.
Those cursing Japanese invaders stopped making noise, quietly departing one by one.
“Charge!”
“Go!”
All the bunkers and gun towers on this stretch of Zhangjia Village railway defense line were completely destroyed. Li Yunlong and Ding Wei’s troops surged forward like a tide.
The resistance along the way was directly swallowed by the tide, without even a splash.
The troops smoothly reached the railway.
Woo-woo-woo!
The Japanese invaders’ military train approached from not far away. Seeing the railway under attack, it sounded its whistle in warning, but its speed didn’t decrease—instead, it accelerated.
Clearly, the Japanese invaders’ military train wanted to rush through.
“Stay right there.” Li Yunlong fired a Hell Cannon.
A huge crater was blasted on the railway; the tracks twisted out of shape like noodles, torn apart and flung a long stretch along the roadside.
Hiss!
Seeing the railway ahead destroyed, the Japanese invaders’ military train was forced to emergency brake.
The wheels screeched against the tracks in emergency braking, sparks flying everywhere.
It looked like the entire train was riding in on a meteor shower—exceptionally beautiful and dazzling!
“Baka, baka, baka, damn it…”
The Japanese invaders’ train driver in the cab puffed up like a bloated toad in rage, stopping this steel behemoth just dozens of meters from the destroyed tracks.
Bang!
Bang!
Rat-tat-tat!
Rat-tat-tat!
……
With the train stopped, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei’s troops swarmed it like ants overwhelming an earthworm.
The escorting Japanese soldiers were quickly taken out by box guns and light machine guns; the Japanese train driver despairingly swallowed his gun and committed suicide.
Control of the train soon fell completely into Li Yunlong and Ding Wei’s hands.
Before, without assault weapons, getting close to the Japanese invaders’ railway line to touch their trains was extremely difficult.
Now with assault weapons, it became commonplace, as simple as eating or drinking.
Seeing the military train taken by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, Zhang Wanhe laughed heartily: “Hahaha, we’re rich, we’re rich! Everyone, follow me over.”
Old Zhang Comrade charged ahead like an old kid.
His transportation team followed in a massive wave, eyes burning with excitement and high spirits:
“The leader told me the transportation team was for robbing Japanese invaders’ trains—I didn’t believe it then. Now seeing it, I still can’t quite believe we’re robbing a train.”
“Yeah, this is a Japanese invaders’ train. They say not only do we haul back the supplies on it, but we dismantle the train itself. It’s so big—how do we dismantle it?”
“Dismantle the train? Can this thing even be taken apart?”
“Didn’t you see the arsenal brought a ton of disassembly tools?”
“If the Japanese invaders’ reinforcements come later and find the train gone, I wonder what their faces will look like.”
“Yeah, hahaha, a huge train vanished—who wouldn’t panic?”
“Everyone, put your backs into it—not a single hair left for the Japanese invaders.”
“Rip up the railway too—the tracks and sleepers are all good stuff.”
……
Approaching the train.
Thousands strong, like locusts in autumn.
Old Qi led the technicians to hurriedly disassemble the locomotive with tools, while loaders rushed to unload—the grain was transferred bag by bag to wheelbarrows, carts, livestock trucks, and so on.
Of course, some hurriedly ripped up the tracks too, taking the sleepers along.
The scene was bustling with activity!
The atmosphere hot and fervent!
Smiles as brilliant as sunlight, illuminating the night.
