Chapter 60

  Use explosives? No way, that's what rough people do, it's not civilized. We're cultured people, just make a small move, don't make a big show of it so everyone knows, be low-key, just slightly misplace the rail track and that's enough.

  Look at the watch (now even the squad leaders have a few, the devils gave several watches and pocket watches, he left some of them, each of the other squad leaders had one, and each member of the battalion headquarters had one, the rest were all embezzled by him, or said to be intercepted, and equipped with a few for his own troops), it's already 9:30, I estimate that the devils' patrol team won't come again——the whole night only an armored vehicle passed by twice (going and coming back), and there was no foot patrol at all.

  The train should be arriving soon.

  Li Tie waved his hand, and twenty or so people rushed up to the roadbed together - those who rushed from the south had already melted all the snow on the south side. Fortunately, the rails of this era were lighter, if they were modern rails, twenty or so people would be exhausted before they could move them. After exerting themselves to the limit, they managed to shift the rails by nearly ten centimeters, carrying the sleepers and rails on their shoulders!

  Then immediately returned to the roadside and lay in wait, the train had almost arrived, and the vibration of the rails could already be felt.

  A moment later, a snow-white light shone over, and a faint "creaking" sound was heard.

  Everyone gripped their steel guns tightly, their eyes following the train as it drew closer and closer.

  People can already be seen on the train's coal and water cars.

  The train roared in and then suddenly dipped its head, as if drunk, and jumped out of the dance.

  Hehehe...... Hmph mph...... Squeak squeak squeak......

  A screeching sound was heard, sparks flew out in strings, the train passed through a disco-like dance of flowers and branches, then rushed out of the tracks and towards the mountain slope. Not far from where it started, most of the carriages overturned on the slope.

  Watching the train rush out of the track, Li Tie directed everyone to charge up.

  "One bullet per person, no matter dead or alive, fill up the train car with one shot each! Speed is key! No survivors left!"

  The fox team members, at Li Tie's command, all rushed up, each with a section of the car, wherever there might be people hiding, they would sweep through with a burst of gunfire, without considering the issue of conserving ammunition - for this operation, each person had brought two hundred rounds of ammunition, as well as some other special products from the arsenal.

  The devils in the carriage were already dizzy and disoriented when the train was jumping on the rails, and before they could come to their senses, the train suddenly overturned, with some of them being knocked unconscious. The few remaining devils who had not yet regained their composure were immediately rushed by the Fox Team members, who didn't care about anything else and started firing indiscriminately.

  So, these still-breathing devils all went to see their god of heaven, they didn't understand until death that wasn't it said last night that the Eighth Route Army was completely annihilated? How did another batch come out today? Is today a soul-returning night? Being shot dead by machine guns, they died with their eyes open, and tonight they collectively came to take revenge?

  Li Tie doesn't care what these devils think, anyway, leaving the living to be watched by someone, now that manpower is in short supply, who has spare people to watch these beasts? It's more convenient to get rid of them.

  From the moment the train overturned to the end of the battle, it took no more than five minutes! This speed is unprecedented. After checking the battlefield and confirming that not a single enemy soldier was left alive, two red signal flares were immediately fired into the sky, informing the guerrilla troops waiting in the rear to quickly organize the masses to transport grain.

  To avoid mistakenly harming the masses, Li Tie had the guerrilla team bring the recruited crowd, along with handcarts and donkey carts, to wait behind a mountain slope. If things went smoothly on this end, they would fire two red signal flares. If no signal was fired, no one was allowed to show their face, in order to avoid exposing the target. After the grain had been transported away, they would then fire two green signal flares into the sky, telling Li Tie that the grain was OK and it was time to escape. On the other hand, if during the process of transporting the grain, Li Tie fired two red signal flares into the air, it meant that the devils were coming and Li Tie couldn't hold on, so the guerrilla team would lead the crowd in escaping. As for the big carts and small carts, they could be abandoned if necessary - escaping with their lives was the priority! First, they had to preserve their lives before considering the problem of the carts.

  As soon as the signal flare shot up into the sky, the other side immediately erupted, with people shouting and vehicles roaring. Hundreds of people divided into several columns, rushing towards the train from the other side of the mountain slope.

  When the guerrilla members were organizing everyone to transport food, Li Tie had already divided the Fox Team members into two teams, each with about ten people, and they ran in both directions along the railway to prevent the enemy's reinforcements from coming up.

  While this side is busy loading grain onto large and small vehicles, let's talk about Li Tie leading a team of Flying Tiger members to move towards the direction of the incoming train for about four or five miles, where they buried a large landmine with added explosives on the railroad tracks. Then each person found a good ambush spot and waited for the arrival of the devils.

  Finally, after about an hour or so, the enemy's armored vehicle came out again. Probably because they estimated that the supply truck had already been sent away and there was nothing to worry about, so they came out relatively carefree just to go through the motions. There were no infantry troops following behind, just a single armored vehicle with a cover on top, and not even the shadow of a machine gun could be seen in the shooting holes on the side. It's likely that the devils inside were closing the shooting ports to keep warm.

  The armored vehicle soon arrived at the place where the landmine was buried.

  With a loud crash, the iron turtle that was just showing off its might suddenly did a front flip and landed upside down under the railroad tracks. It seems that the bottom of the Japanese armored vehicle is quite sturdy, as it didn't explode or catch fire, but only slightly deformed, and lay there silently, stirring up a cloud of dust.

  The dust settled, and all the fox team members stared with wide eyes: The iron turtle that was on the rails just now is now under the railway. Except for not moving anymore, it's basically unchanged. The turret was originally facing forward, but now it's facing backward, as if it had simply turned its head.

  Originally, Li Tie had already aimed the rocket launcher produced by the arsenal at the Iron Turtle to prevent the devils from not being killed, and used machine guns to sweep outwards inside. However, it seems that it is no longer needed now, and there is no movement or noise in the Iron Turtle.

  Li Tie cautiously approached the armored vehicle, but there was still no movement or sound inside.

  Gently pushing the hatch, it was locked from the inside and couldn't be opened. Pushing again on the side of what seemed to be a door, it was also locked. Li Tie climbed onto the armored vehicle, lifted the cover, and surprisingly, it opened. Without hesitation, he fired a burst into the interior, only hearing the sound of bullets hitting metal, occasionally accompanied by a "poof" representing a bullet entering flesh. Aside from that, there wasn't even a scream from the devils. Shining his flashlight inside, several devils were found with blood flowing from their seven orifices, dead in the vehicle. Good job! They had all been shaken to death - no, they should have been stunned to death. Upon closer inspection, aside from one devil driver and a gunner, the rest of the devils were holding machine guns. If we had collided head-on with them, it's likely that no one would have come out unscathed.

  Li Tie went in and pulled out the bodies of the devils, counted them, a total of seven devils, one driver, one gunner, one ammunition handler, two machine guns with two deputy hands.

  After checking the weapons on the devils' armored vehicle, they were all intact. Li Tie was overjoyed and had several soldiers come in, one acting as an ammunition handler, himself as a gunner, and the rest as machine gunners. When the devils found their armored vehicle missing and came out to search for it, they would give them a good show.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, about two hours later, the devils at the station estimated that the armored vehicle had not returned on time and were afraid that something had happened, so they sent a team of devils to patrol and search for the armored vehicle.

  The armored train was supposed to patrol for an hour, but after the devils found that the armored train hadn't returned, they contacted the next station. When the next station reported that they hadn't seen the armored train, the devils sent out a patrol team again. Since the patrol team was on foot, it moved slowly, patrolling along the railroad while searching for the armored train. By the time they slowly arrived at the ambush site, two hours had passed.

  This is a patrol team consisting entirely of devils, with more than 20 people, which is actually half a small team of devils. They also brought a light machine gun and two grenade launchers. With such weapons and equipment, ordinary guerrilla troops would only have to run away when they see them.

  But they were met with the Fox Team members, and now the Fox Team members have not only submachine guns but also machine guns and cannons! And there's an iron fortress that can't be penetrated by the enemy's bullets. Of course, there are some secret weapons that ordinary people won't see.

  Tonight's moon is brighter, with a visibility of several hundred meters. Indeed, the patrol team saw something familiar on the side of the railway from afar, which looked like their own armored vehicle. After walking a few more steps, they found that it was indeed their own armored vehicle. At this time, the leading Japanese sergeant realized that his armored vehicle was not on the railway but under it, and he was convinced that his armored vehicle had encountered an accident.

  Immediately ordered everyone to be on guard, and seeing that there was no movement on the armored vehicle, they slowly approached the armored vehicle.

  At a distance of several tens of meters from the armored vehicle, the armored vehicle was still quiet, but it could be seen that the armored vehicle had been attacked. After all, the wounds on it were quite obvious, especially when Li Tie dragged the corpse out, the enemy's blood stained the entire armored vehicle.

  The devils formed a skirmish line and crept towards the armored car, only ten or so meters away from it.

  Hit!

  At the sound of the order, two machine guns immediately spat out flames, and several devils were hit, rolling over and falling to the ground. The rest of the devils immediately lay down on the ground, slowly retreating backwards while firing back, but how could the bullets from the 38 rifles penetrate the steel plate of the armored vehicle? As a result, they only futilely set off strings of sparks on the armored vehicle, adding a bit of color to this long and dark night.