Chapter 39

  At 2:08 in the afternoon, the Japanese army began to bombard Tian Tai Zhuang. The eleven 75mm field guns on the ground, four 75mm mountain guns and one 150mm heavy gun on the armored train poured down a hail of bullets into Tian Tai Zhuang.

  "Day by day, shell after shell fell to the ground with a deafening whine, and house after house collapsed in an instant, crumbling into ruins amidst flames and explosions, turning into rubble."

  The entire Tiantai Village was shrouded in a thick smoke, and the Japanese artillery fire continued to pound. After half an hour of bombardment, a Japanese infantry captain drew his command sword and shouted: "Charge!"

  Hordes of devils swarmed into the already ruined Tiantai Village, only to find that there was not a single person inside, nor even a corpse of the Northeastern Army. The Japanese artillery captain was so heartbroken that he jumped up and down, scolding those pilots for not scouting carefully enough. Originally, Japan's resources were scarce, yet they had wasted hundreds of shells in vain, without killing a single Chinese person.

  It's not just the artillery captain who is scolding loudly, those Japanese infantrymen who have just finished repairing the railway as "coolies" are also scolding. The TianTaiZhuang Railway Station was blown to smithereens, with rubble and debris collapsing onto the tracks. In order for the powerful armored train to pass through, these Japanese people had to repair the road themselves.

  Originally, the Japanese also wanted to go around and capture some Chinese villagers to repair the road. However, Lieutenant General Honjō Shigeru's orders were urgent, requiring them to launch an attack on the Goubangzi defense line by dawn on the 24th, in order to ensure that both routes of the Japanese army could converge at Goubangzi and then launch an attack on Jinzhou. The surrounding villages had long been devoid of even a single human shadow.

  Under all sorts of helpless circumstances, these "brave Imperial Army warriors" had no choice but to bend their waists once again and start doing "coolie labor".

  In a small grove of trees outside the Tiantai Town railway station, a patch of snow on the ground moved slightly, revealing Li Bin wrapped in white cloth, holding binoculars to observe every move inside the station.

  It turned out that after Li Bin had just rescued Sun Yutian's Northeast Army and his own sharpshooter team, he let the driver drive the truck back to Gou Bangzi to avoid the possible bombing of the Japanese army, while he himself stayed behind again, preparing to personally deploy the action of blowing up the devils' armored train. This armored train posed a huge threat to the defending troops, its thick skin made it impossible for the Northeast Army to penetrate with any weapon, and the four small cannons and one heavy cannon on the armored train were a deadly threat to the defenders in Gou Bangzi.

  The Northeastern Army that was just spotted by the devils and entered Tiantai Village was only passing through, they left Tiantai Village soon to join forces with the 655th Regiment near Gou Bangzi. On their way, when Japanese planes came, they temporarily hid in the woods to avoid aerial reconnaissance, after the planes left, they continued on their journey. Sun Yutian and his men were already safe, those who stayed behind included Li Bin and his special forces unit, as well as thirty snipers.

  More than ten miles away from the railway line, a team of warriors riding horses galloped on the snowy plain, led by Xiao Bo and his wife Liu Linhua. They had long accepted Li Bin's arrangement to find an opportunity to sabotage the Japanese military railway line.

  The sun slowly sets, the red fireball staining the crystal white snow into a water-red color like rouge. The sunset is as beautiful as a painting, but Li Bin and his special forces have no time to appreciate this beauty, they are waiting for the sun to set quickly so that they can take action.

  The sun soon disappeared below the horizon, and the earth was veiled in a bashful mist. However, under the reflection of the snow light, those wearing yellow uniforms, the "yellow army" standing inside the station were as conspicuous as large turds on snowy ground. These Japanese people who had been busy all day finally finished cleaning up the station so that the military train arriving early the next morning could stop at the station and unload more "yellow army".

  Li Bin glanced at his luminous watch and estimated that Wu Congyu and others should also be in action.

  Just then, several crisp gunshots suddenly broke the tranquility of the snowy night, and a few "yellow army" standing upright in the snow fell to the ground with a loud thud.

  After firing the retaliatory bullets, Wu Congyu led a small team of snipers to quickly leave the sniper location with force, rapidly withdrawing towards the direction of Gou Bangzi. By the time the devils in Tiantai Village rushed out, they couldn't even find the shadow of a single Chinese sniper.

  As the saying goes, "Disaster never comes singly and good fortune never comes in pairs." This is exactly what these Japanese people are experiencing right now. They failed to hunt down the sniper, but then they heard a loud explosion coming from behind them.

  That was Xiao Bo leading another team of assault troops, blowing up a section of the railway that the Japanese had crossed over during the day.

  Upon hearing the explosion, Li Bin glanced at his watch and Jun Tian gave the order: "We'll make our move in twenty minutes!"

  The railway was bombed, and the devils in Tiantai Village rushed out of the small town that had become a ruin. They hurried to the bombing site at high speed. The leading Sakata lieutenant shouted anxiously: "All of you hurry up! Hurry up and repair the railway!"

  Captain Sakata was well aware that if the rail line were destroyed, it would jeopardize tomorrow morning's "Operation K" attack plan and he would be court-martialed.

  The armored train slowly started, heading towards the location where the railway was destroyed. To prevent the "Chinese bandits" from sabotaging, cavalry, artillery and most of the infantry rushed to the explosion site to repair the railway. At Tiantai Village Railway Station, only a small team of devils were left on guard, lest the "Chinese army" come again to sabotage the station.

  The iron-clad train let out a long whistle and left the TianTaiZhuang railway station. When the steel giant spewing smoke gradually disappeared from Li Bin's line of sight, he was the first to jump up from the snowy ground and waved his hand.

  Fang Jun Tian led all the warriors to jump out of the snowy ground one by one, and under Li Bin's leadership, they crept quietly towards Tiantai Town Railway Station with their waists bent.

  Outside the train station, a Japanese sentry was standing guard. Suddenly, a ghostly white shadow flashed out from behind him in the snowy field. Before the Japanese soldier could even react, Fang Jiantian's powerful hand had covered his mouth and twisted it with force. The Japanese soldier only heard the sound of his own spine breaking before he went limp like a sack of flour on the snowy ground.

  Another warrior followed Li Bin, quietly approaching a devil standing on a large stone. When there were still six meters away, the devil suddenly turned his head around. Just as the enemy was about to discover himself, the warrior suddenly raised his hand and shot out a short sword, accurately piercing the devil's throat.

  Li Bin took a swift step forward and stretched out his hand to support the Japanese devil who was slowly falling off the stone, so that the corpse would not fall to the ground and make a sound.

  Inside the bombed-out platform, those frozen devils were huddled around a bonfire to warm themselves up, completely unaware that death was slowly approaching them step by step.

  Fang Jun Tian was originally a triad leader, not only was his martial arts skills high, but he was also very skilled at sneaking up behind people and knocking them out. It wasn't difficult for him to take down those Japanese sentries. Soon, Fang Jun Tian single-handedly took down five Japanese sentries in a row.

  The warriors slowly approached the platform, two warriors touched past, touched a crooked handle machine gun in front, one person twisted one of the devils, one knife and one solved those two Japanese soldiers.

  Very soon, the special soldiers were less than ten meters away from the devils. They quietly surrounded them from all sides. At this moment, one of the soldiers accidentally made a noise, and a devil turned his head to shout: "Chinese! Ah!" Before he finished speaking, a sharp knife had already pierced his heart.

  "Devils! The Chinese have come!" All the devils were startled, they jumped up one after another, preparing to grab their guns. At this time, more than a hundred warriors rushed down like fierce tigers, charging at those devils.

  A Japanese machine gunner was about to grab the twisted machine gun, but Fang Juntian threw a flying axe that split the ghost's head in two on the spot.

  "Kill!" The warriors holding steel knives, axes and short swords rushed towards the devils. The distance was so close that those devils didn't even have time to open fire before the warriors rushed in front of them.

  The devils retreated with their bullets, raised their bayonets and charged at the soldiers. These "loyal and brave" warriors of the Great Japanese Empire wanted to rely on their exquisite bayonet skills to repel the special forces' attack. But how could they be a match for these martial arts masters? Soon, one by one, the devils were knocked to the ground.

  The young lieutenant drew his commando knife and cut down two soldiers who were rushing up. He then swung the bloody samurai sword at a soldier who was bare-handed but had killed several devils.

  But this devil lieutenant was very unlucky, he ran into Fang Juntian!

  The samurai's sword fell heavily on Fang Jun Tian's head, but was dodged. Taking advantage of the ghost's slow withdrawal of his military knife, Fang Jun Tian struck an iron sand palm on the face of the ghost lieutenant, and immediately hit him with a burst of brain.

  In less than three minutes, a small team of devils was killed, leaving only thirteen people. The remaining devils saw that the situation was not good, they formed a "hedgehog array" with three or four people in a group, back to back.

  A fearless warrior rushed forward, just beheaded a ghost with one knife, but was stabbed into the chest by two bayonets at the same time. On the other side, another warrior who couldn't hold his feet rushed to the front of the "hedgehog array" and chopped a ghost in half with an axe, while being stabbed into his body by three bayonets.

  Adding the two soldiers killed by the devil officer, they had already lost four special forces, which made Li Bin's heart ache and curse. Although these people were originally a group of scum, now they are also anti-Japanese warriors, to be honest, it was not easy to train them either.

  Li Bin was so angry that he wished to throw several hand grenades over and send all these devils to the "Tensho Daijin", but he couldn't do so, because firing guns or throwing hand grenades would alarm other devils nearby.

  Just as Li Bin was feeling a headache, Fang Juntian and several warriors skilled in "flying axes" and flying knives came up and immediately solved the remaining devils. These devils were still cursing in their hearts at that time: "Despicable Chinese! How dare you shoot arrows in close combat!"

  After solving the devils at Tiantai Village, Li Bin ordered to bury a large amount of explosives on the rails. Then he and Fang Juntian, along with some soldiers, put on the devils' clothes and stood near the platform, preparing to detonate the explosives as soon as the devils' armored train entered the platform.

  If I don't get on the platform, in case the devils find out that there's no one on the platform, they might get suspicious. But if I stay on the platform for a while, how can I escape?