Chapter 173 Railroad Tracks
As the saying goes, if a thousand days of raising troops is used, Li Yunlong ordered the soldiers inside and outside Yuncheng to go on a busy schedule.
The first thing to do is to pave the railway and build a fake train.
The foundation is not difficult, because the railway does not require long-term use, and it is enough to only require the train to pass through once without problems, so the quality requirements are not that high.
Difficulties arise on the rails.
As soon as Zhao Gang calculated, from the Japanese defense line to the mine cave, this real railway was five miles away. In addition, a fake railway was paved, and even if it was done, it would take at least one mile away. The total was six miles.
If the time is long, the six-mile railway tracks will be driven out even if the steel mill works overtime for about a month.
But the leader asked to take action within a few days, which was almost an impossible task.
Unexpectedly, Li Yunlong said confidently: "No problem, this task is for me!"
Zhao Gang asked in confusion: "Do you have a way?"
"That's all right!" Li Yunlong patted his chest.
Zhao Gang was worried that Li Yunlong would do anything randomly, so he asked again: "How do you solve it?"
Li Yunlong said "ah": "That's not easy. Do we need to produce these railway tracks by ourselves? Isn't it just like going to the Japanese to slap them? Maybe the guerrillas can't slap them so much. If we slap them in our independent group, it's different!"
Zhao Gang frowned and said, "That won't be possible. Our train will have to pass through the railway tracks in a few days! If you cut off the railway tracks, will the railway be broken?"
Li Yunlong tilted his head and raised his chin at Zhao Gang: "I said Lao Zhao, are you stupid or confused? Let's take off the Japanese railway tracks, can the Japanese not fill it up? You still have to worry about this!"
When Zhao Gang heard this, he felt it was right.
Railways are the main mode of transportation for the Japanese. At this time, the Yellow River South Line was hot again, and all kinds of strategic materials were transported to the south. The Eighth Route Army stripped the railway tracks today, and the Japanese had to fill it up tomorrow. Otherwise, the transportation line would be suspended for a few days, and the battle situation in Henan would still be developed!
However, when Zhao Gang thought about it again, he said with some concern: "I said Lao Li, will we make the Japanese suspect when we do this?"
Li Yunlong said "ah": "Old Zhao, you are that... caring for you will be confused. Isn't it normal for us to break the railway? We want to support the stubborn army in Henan, of course we have to destroy the Japanese railway line in a planned manner!"
Zhao Gang said "Oh" and felt that what Li Yunlong was thinking was really reasonable.
What's more, the Eighth Route Army has often slashed the Japanese railways, and the Japanese have become accustomed to it. This time, of course, I wouldn't think that the Eighth Route Army was building a railway.
Li Yunlong's move was equivalent to borrowing the Japanese to build the railway tracks, and it was a high-quality railway.
Thinking of this, Zhao Gang agreed.
However, because this matter was a planned action, I asked the headquarters for instructions.
I didn't expect the details of the railway tracks in the headquarters plan. When I heard that the plan was quite good... Li Yunlong sometimes came up with some good ideas unexpectedly, so he immediately approved it and reminded that the faster the better.
The reason why "the faster the better" is because of worrying that the Japanese don't have time to fill up the rails, or that the trains and materials are too crowded, resulting in traffic congestion, which will affect the implementation of the Eighth Route Army plan in three days.
Therefore, Li Yunlong led his troops to take action that night.
The Independent Regiment's move is really different... but it is still related to the expansion of the Independent Regiment during this period.
At this time, the independent regiment had the economic strength supported by ten textile machines in Xiaobeiling, and backed by Yuncheng, a treasure land for consumption and military sources, and its troops increased again and again to more than 5,000 people, with an average of more than 1,000 people per battalion.
With sufficient troops, and Kong Jie's new second regiment was in charge in Yuncheng, Li Yunlong pulled out the independent regiment in one breath... That is, the first to fourth battalions, and the fifth battalion were Wang Xuexin's troops, but most of the troops were veterans and elites, as well as tank troops, so it was definitely not suitable to use them to seize the railway.
Li Yunlong had another intention to do this. In his words, it was: "In a few days, we will have to fight the Japanese face to face. Many soldiers in the army have never been on the battlefield and have never seen blood. I don't know how much they will lose when fighting! Taking advantage of the opportunity to practice in advance, can we let it go easily?"
So, although it was just a small action, Li Yunlong pulled out more than 4,000 people from the four battalions in one breath.
The formation of the railway was so big. When the Eighth Route Army used to fight guerrillas, its troops were often scattered. There were thousands of people launching attacks together, but not many, and it was usually at the division level... In the past, a regiment often had more than one thousand people, and many regiments had only a few hundred people.
Now Li Yunlong can easily pull out 4,000 people in an independent regiment, and the equipment is basically complete and 50 bullets per capita, which makes Li Yunlong feel extremely fulfilled and a bit energetic.
However, Li Yunlong did not dare to be careless. He divided the troops into four parts: the first to third battalions attacked the enemy's three positions. The fourth battalion acted as a reserve team and required that each of the three battalions used for the attack should complete the task of scattering two-mile railway tracks.
In the second half of the night, after a red signal flare rose into the sky, gunfire and explosions sounded at the same time in three directions.
This will bring disaster to the Japanese and puppet troops.
The way the Japanese used to defend railway lines was still the same as usual, using artillery towers to defend.
As mentioned before, the artillery tower is good to defend against poorly equipped guerrillas, but it is only possible to defend against regular troops, especially independent regiments with rocket launchers.
The combat mode is almost the same:
First use a rifle to knock off the searchlight at the top of the cannon tower.
This step is still a bit difficult for the previous independent regiments. Most of the rifles equipped by the independent regiment were made by the old nations. The 38th covers collected from the Japanese were considered good guns, and those who fired original bullets could be considered sharpshooters.
In this case, the sharpshooter must be assigned to fire the search light. If you fire a few more shots without knocking out the bullets, it will not be enough.
Even now it’s nothing. Everyone is carrying the Springfield rifles. Ordinary soldiers use pointed bullets. They can call out a few of them to aim at the searchlights. After a few gunshots, a ball of white smoke came out of the searchlights and disappeared.
If the Japanese use the backup searchlight, they will be a result after turning on for a few seconds.
If the searchlight is knocked out, then how can the Eighth Route Army play with... The artillery tower is towering high above the eldest one, but the Japanese cannot see the Eighth Route Army outside.
So, the enemy is in the dark situation.
What the soldiers had to do was to carry the rocket launcher and then "boom"...
Chapter completed!