Section 8
The place where the station is located is called Liu Town. It was originally a slightly flat land, and later a railway was built here, and slowly people began to live nearby. Later, more and more people came, and it became a small town. Later, a small train station was built here because there were many coal mines in this area. Then the devils came, and there were fewer people here, but there were many beggars.
Li Tie led a team member, disguised as beggars into the town.
Li Tie didn't like this outfit at all. Originally, he hadn't thought about what role he would play in the beggar's sect, but he disliked these clothes. The top was dirty and tattered, but it was tolerable. However, the pants were unbearable. They were a pair of legendary loose-fitting pants with an extremely wide waistband, almost as wide as his hips. There wasn't even a belt, just a rope tied around his waist. If he wasn't careful, his pants would fall down. He had only seen his grandfather wear such pants when he was young, secured with a piece of torn cloth around the waist. The most annoying thing was that there weren't even any pockets, so he couldn't hide his weapons anywhere. Don't be fooled by those heroes on TV who stick their guns into their waistbands and nobody can see them - that's just the director being stupid. Try sticking something in your waistband and see if it doesn't bulge out. And to make matters worse, all he was wearing was this pair of loose-fitting pants, without even a pair of underwear. What, you think you're too poor to wear underwear? Even beggars can afford underwear! Do you think you're the leader of the Beggar's Sect or something? Even if he wore underwear, it would still be secured with a rope around his waist - where was the elastic band supposed to go? It was really ridiculous.
Li Tie and another team member entered the town with a broken bowl and a dog-beating stick.
There aren't many people in the town. One or two beggars, or catching lice under a wall corner, or sleeping under a tree shade, with a broken mouth bag as their entire family property.
Li Tie and another person slowly turned around while observing the movements of the devils.
The devils didn't make any special moves, at the exit of the station there was a simple fort made of sacks, two devils inside looking at a light machine gun, further in were two devils holding Type 38 rifles standing on both sides of the station entrance. Next to it on the left was a Japanese foreign goods store, with some daily necessities like soy sauce inside, two Japanese people were chatting behind the counter, not a single customer inside.
Going further to the left, it's the devils' barracks. Similarly, there are two devils standing guard at the gate. Through the gate, I see two of the devils' three-wheeled motorcycles in the courtyard, with the devils' flag on top. From time to time, devils can be seen walking back and forth with guns on their backs.
The devils didn't come to ask questions or drive them away, they let Li Tie and the others look their fill, without making any moves, or rather, not even giving them a proper glance. Probably because they thought these two beggars were there to see the two new motorcycles, after all, this was something fresh and exciting for the local residents. In the past, people here had only seen trains, apart from that, the only vehicles with wheels they had ever seen were ox carts and donkey carts, not even horse-drawn carriages, let alone cars or motorcycles. It's said that they called these motorcycles "electric donkeys", how rustic, how unsophisticated.
In a place far away from the train station, there was an ironwork shop. The owner of the ironwork shop, Zhao Tiejiang, was the eyes and ears of the guerrilla team in town.
Through special hand gestures, Li Tie and his team successfully connected their heads.
Through Zhao Tiejiang's introduction, Li Tie gained a more detailed understanding of the station's situation. At the same time, he also learned about the basic rules of the devils on the station.
The devils usually start checking the road about an hour before the train arrives, two armored trains travel in both directions for a while, about half an hour, and then come back. After a short while, the train will arrive on time, sometimes stopping briefly to add or remove several cars.
Normally, there are about two round trips a day through here, occasionally three, but never more than three. Most of the vehicles going into the mountains are empty, while those coming out are always fully loaded.
The bus this morning has already returned, but the one this afternoon hasn't arrived yet.
Li Tie decided to start by getting his hands dirty on the railroad.
Li Tie briefly introduced the situation to the team members and explained the task in detail.
The task is simple but also important: after the enemy's armored train patrol returns, move the rails a bit to cause the enemy train to derail. If possible, take care of the devils on the train. This will cause the enemy to misjudge the direction and think that the Eighth Route Army is in the base area nearby.
Li Tie led the fox team hiding in the grass at the side of the railway far away from the station.
The armored vehicle of the devils roared past. The fox squad in the bushes was not discovered.
The armored vehicle of the devils went back with a rumble. The fox squad in the bushes was also not discovered.
The armored vehicle of the devils disappeared, and the fox team members jumped up, directly rushing onto the railway, quickly unloading several rail spikes, and a dozen people worked together to shift the rails by more than ten centimeters.
The rumbling sound of the train had already come from afar.
This is already within the jurisdiction of Liu Town Railway Station.
The train roared past and then rushed out of the track, with almost all carriages overturned on one side of the railway, only a few carriages still on the track.
The fox team rushed up.
The whole group of devils who were pushing the coal-water truck in front fell onto the railway embankment, their heads cracked and bleeding profusely, with little chance of survival, barely breathing, taking shallow breaths and exhaling deeply, basically dead.
Submachine gun bullets flew quickly towards the remaining devils. The devils in the carriage didn't understand what was happening before they were knocked to the ground. There were a total of 16 carriages, excluding 14 freight cars, only two passenger cars, and four guards per car, with some left over. There weren't many devils in the carriages, so it was quickly taken care of. After all, the firepower of four submachine guns wasn't something ordinary people could withstand.
Most of the freight cars were empty, except for one car that was full. It contained supplies for some unknown destination: rice, canned meat, flour, bullets and hand grenades, military uniforms, artillery shells, and two boxes of medicine.
The devils have weapons and ammunition with them, let alone ten or so people can't carry it all, not to mention this whole car full of things.
Fortunately, it was on the edge of the mountainous area, so there were ditches everywhere, although they were not very deep, but many.
A dozen or so people quickly packed up the goods in a car and brought them to a small ditch not far from the railway, along with the devils' weapons, without even leaving a single shell casing behind.
At this time, a gunshot sounded from the direction of Liuzhen in front, which was fired by the alert team members, mixed with several "bang" sounds of the 38 rifle.
Li Tie ordered two members of the Fox Team to take submachine guns and go support the sentry, while he took the remaining team members to quickly camouflage the supplies.
When Li Tie finished disguising the supplies, the gunfire on the other side had already stopped. Li Tie led his team to rush over and met some returning team members halfway, who were carrying several Type 38 rifles.
"It's really easy, just one shot and all the enemies were eliminated." A team member said to Li Tie, while showing him his spoils of war.
The devils at the original station had made preparations to receive the train after the armored vehicle returned. But one didn't come, and two didn't come either. According to the usual time, the train should have arrived by now, but there was no movement or noise.
The devils at the station made a phone call to ask the previous station, but the previous station said that the train had departed on time. After saying this, the devils didn't dare to drive the armored vehicle for patrol anymore, and instead sent five devils to walk along the railway to see if the train had an accident. At this time, the devils still hadn't thought of whether they were ambushed or not, after all, such a thing had never happened on this road before.
Five devils swaggered along the railway tracks, walking for over ten miles without seeing any sign of a train. Suddenly, two men in colorful clothing emerged from a clump of grass on a slightly higher mound by the side of the road, each holding a submachine gun and firing at them. Three devils were killed instantly, their bodies riddled with bullet holes, their clothes soaked in blood. The other two devils hastily raised their guns to fire back, but just as they had fired one shot each, two more men appeared from the other side of the road, dressed identically, armed identically, and firing at them identically. The poor devil soldiers didn't even have time to fall before being struck down.
A long time passed again, and not only did the train not arrive, but even the devils who went out to take a look did not return.
The devils have confirmed that the train has had an accident.
The devils got on two armored vehicles and patrolled along the railway. After a while, they first saw the devil's corpse with bullet holes all over his body. Further ahead, not far away, the train had already fallen beside the railway. Inside the carriage, the devils' bodies were also riddled with dense bullet holes. All this told the devils that this group of Eighth Route Army had very strong firepower and a strong killing ability, and the devils suffered heavy casualties.
The devils at the station immediately reported to Watanabe, the county town's middle commander, that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was found near Liu Town. The train was ambushed, and judging from the situation, it would have taken at least four or five machine guns to cause the damage to the devils' bodies and the train cars.
At that time, a battalion of the Eighth Route Army had one machine gun, so this battalion would become the main force of a regiment. And four or five machine guns, that's absolutely the strength of one to two regiments. Moreover, things in the carriage were also emptied, even the wires inside the carriage were all taken away, typical of the Eighth Route Army's "three empties" style.
Watanabe heard the report of the train, combined with the feedback from the reconnaissance troops dispatched recently. Everywhere else said there was no situation, but in this mountainous area, a scout had gone missing. He must have run into the Eighth Route Army and been captured or killed.
Taking all these factors into account, there can be only one conclusion: the main force of the Eighth Route Army is hiding somewhere nearby.
It is necessary to thoroughly sweep this mountainous area, find out the main force of the Eighth Route Army and eliminate it.
Where did Li Tie take the Fox Team?
They were just nearby, when the devils' armored cars arrived at the ambush site of the train, they saw it, but considering that their dozen or so men might not be able to take down these two iron beasts, they didn't make a move, instead quietly observing from the side, trying to find the weaknesses of these two iron beasts.
After the devils finished cleaning up the scene and collecting their dead, they left the place and found comrades from the underground party nearby. Through them, they mobilized the masses and moved the supplies hidden in the mountain valley to a safe place that night.
Of course, the participating crowd is not helping for nothing. After transferring the goods, each person was given a bag of flour as compensation.
