The Travelers of the Heavens

When Wang Qiang and others approached again,"Yours! Who is this!" the Japanese soldiers in the caboose shouted loudly.

"I am the gendarmerie stationed in Teng County, and I have been ordered to check whether there are anti-Japanese saboteurs hidden on the rail gun." Wang Qiang responded in fluent Japanese.

"We are guarding this place, please leave quickly! Otherwise, I will report to the superiors." The Japanese in the caboose drove Wang Qiang away.

Wang Qiang had no choice but to leave again.

Suddenly, the rail gun train parked in the station slowly started to move. It turned out that the order was sent from the headquarters of the 12th Japanese Corps stationed in Shandong. , in order to prevent long nights and long dreams, the rail gun must immediately leave the Tengxian station and go to the firing position, where it will rest. The

114th Division of the Twelfth Army, which participated in the encirclement and suppression of the main force of the Eighth Route Army of the Lunan Military Region, is already in place, and is only waiting for the rail gun to enter the position. The operation began.

On April 10, 1938, the rail gun drove into the firing position.

The 114th Division learned the news and began to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army troops in each division of the Lunan Military Region.

The sixth division was among all the troops in the Lunan Military Region. The weakest one, mainly because the Sixth Division has just been established. The army currently only has one regiment of 1,000 people and lacks weapons and ammunition. Commander Chen Dalei is not so much the division commander as he is the regiment leader.

Chen Dalei When leading the troops to transfer, earth-shaking explosions sounded.

Chen Dalei, who had participated in the Long March, had experienced hundreds of battles, but he had never heard such a loud explosion before. Some soldiers of the Eighth Route Army did not fight because they had been in the army for a short time. Experience, some of them were so frightened that their legs were weak.

The female soldiers in the army (mainly health workers) were so frightened that they started crying when they heard this movement.

The army gradually fell into chaos.

But suddenly, just a few hundred meters away, There was another explosion outside, and then an irresistible air wave mixed with rubble hit Chen Dalei's Sixth Division soldiers. In an instant, hundreds of Eighth Route Army soldiers were killed in this sweeping air wave. Swept away without a trace, most of them died heroically, and a small number of survivors were later captured and killed by the Japanese Japanese invaders.

Just two shells killed half of the 1,000 soldiers in the Sixth Division. The power of the rail gun can be seen A spot.

On the other side, Commander Kuang Rennong of the Lunan Military Region, who was leading the main force of the first division and the military region headquarters to retreat, heard the huge noise and decisively judged that it was most likely a rail gun shelling. From this, Commander Kuang believed The mission of the Tengxian County Brigade and the Lunan Railway Team failed.

Commander Kuang led the troops to move deeper into the mountains, but before they went very far, a 240mm mountain-drilling artillery shell landed about 100 meters behind the right rear of the troops. It penetrated into the hard rock and then exploded.

The shock wave carried countless large and small rocks into the sky and then fell heavily.

Many soldiers of the first division and headquarters personnel were taken away by the shock wave and the large and small rocks that fell and died heroically. Kuang The commander's left leg was broken by a boulder and he was seriously injured.

"Commander! How are you?" A guard battalion soldier saw Commander Kuang lying on the ground and hurriedly came to help him.

"Leave me alone, tell your comrades to evacuate quickly, it’s too dangerous here," Commander Kuang said.

"Yes, come quickly, two people, help the commander!"The soldier shouted.

But at this time the team was in chaos.

"What are you waiting for! Go quickly!"Commander Kuang urged the soldiers.

At this time, a groom happened to be running by with his horse. The guard battalion soldier immediately intercepted him and helped Commander Kuang onto the horse before leaving.

They had not gone far before they left. A 240 The 240mm shell landed on the spot where Commander Kuang had just fallen.

However, the 240mm shell was too powerful and the damage range was very wide. The strong air wave blew away Commander Kuang and his party, including the men and horses. Finally, Commander Kuang Although the officer escaped by chance, his injuries were very serious.

Back in Teng County, Hong Zhenhai and others met up with Wang Qiang who had left the train station.

The railgun left early, which surprised everyone. Liu Hong suggested that everyone rush to the front line of the Japanese raids. Continue to carry out the mission. Hong Zhenhai agreed to Liu Hong's suggestion, but not long after they left, they were discovered by a group of puppet troops. Wang Qiang deceived the puppet troops with the"jail skin" on his body.

They hurriedly and slowly arrived at the front line.Although they were still far away from the launch site, they still saw the spectacular scene of the rail gun firing. The comrades all hated it, because every time it fired, it meant that a mountain top was flattened, which meant that many roads were destroyed. Good comrades and good soldiers of the army died.

But if the comrades of the Lunan Railway Team attack the launch position, they are just asking for death. The Japs in the two regiments around the position are regular, not to mention the railway team and the county brigade and district squad. Even if one or two brigades of the Eight Route Army came, they might not be able to capture it, and even if they captured it, they would suffer heavy casualties.

Wang Qiang looked at the"jail skin" on his body and decided to sneak into the launching position, and then find a way to detonate the ammunition carriage. But he was Hong Zhenhai refused. He decided to lead his troops to launch a feint attack to attract the attention of the Japs, and then Wang Qiang took advantage of the chaos to get in and blow up the rail gun.

The troops were divided into two groups. Hong Zhenhai led more than a hundred soldiers from the railway team and the county brigade to attack the Japs..

Sure enough, the Japs' attention was attracted. Wang Qiang and several soldiers took the opportunity to sneak into the firing position and finally found the ammunition compartment. Without waiting for time, Wang Qiang and others threw all the grenades into the ammunition compartment.

But a scene that shocked them happened. The grenade successfully exploded in the ammunition compartment, but it failed to detonate the shell. The explosion also attracted the attention of the Japanese, and a large number of Japanese surrounded them.

"Run!"Wang Qiang was shocked and shouted to his comrades to leave quickly.

But the Japs had already shot at them.

Several soldiers fell under the Japs' guns. Wang Qiang was shot in the arm and managed to escape.

On the other side, Hong Zhenhai led The soldiers were quickly repelled by the Japanese, and their casualties were high.

The last operation to blow up the railgun also failed.

Why did throwing grenades into the ammunition compartment fail to cause explosions, because all the shells were stored in explosion-proof boxes When using it, you must first take out the shell from the box, install the fuze, then put it on the bracket and finally push the shell into the chamber for firing.

This kind of explosion-proof box isolates the damage caused by the explosion and can also be waterproof and ignited. It protects the shell from being exploded. artifact.

It can be seen that the Kyushu Army has made sufficient preparations to protect the rail gun.

As the bombardment stopped, the Japanese infantry began to sweep. They saw a lot of gravel and rubble along the way, and the places where there were hills all turned into ravines or flat ground. The rail gun bombing changed the mountain topography, leaving the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army with nowhere to hide and forced them to engage in frontal combat with the Japanese infantry. The result was naturally very bad. The

Lunan Military Region, which was already at a numerical disadvantage, passed by the rail gun After the bombing, the number of nearly 10,000 people was reduced by half, and many of those who survived were injured or even seriously injured.

Three commanders of the six divisions under the military region died in the bombardment, while two others were seriously injured and one was slightly injured.

Only two rail guns caused heavy casualties in the Lunan Military Region, which was also due to the huge destructive power of the mountain-drilling shells.

After the sweep, the number of surviving personnel in the Lunan Military Region was less than 1,000, and the entire army was basically wiped out. News When the news reached the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, it shocked the head of the headquarters. This also meant that most of the regular armed forces of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong had been wiped out. It was not easy to rebuild the Lunan Military Region.

The main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Lunan Military Region suffered The news that the heavy damage was basically eliminated also spread to the Hutou Mountain area of ​​Qingdao. There is also an Eighth Route Army unit here. This is the Eighth Route Army Independent Battalion led by Zhou Weiguo. It has more than 600 capable Eighth Route Army soldiers, but they It is not currently part of the battle sequence of the Lunan Military Region.

The commander of the independent battalion, Zhou Weiguo, studied in the Kuomintang's military academy. Before the war, he went to Germany to learn special tactics, and then returned to the country to participate in the Anti-Japanese War. After the

Songhu Battle, Zhou Weiguo led more than a hundred Kuomintang soldiers to break away. The Kuomintang voted for the Eighth Route Army and was ordered to form an armed force and establish a base in Hutoushan.

The Japanese Lieutenant Colonel Takeshita Jun was Zhou Weiguo's classmate when he was studying in Germany. Currently, Takeshita Jun is also serving in the 12th Army Corps stationed in Shandong. He is a Japanese special force. Captain.

Before the military operation against the Eighth Route Army in southern Lunan began, Jun Takeshita once proposed to lead the special forces to carry out a"decapitation operation" and assassinate all the commander of Lunan Military Region Kuang Rennong and senior commanders of the military region, thereby disrupting the Eighth Route Army. The command system of the Route Army.

However, Jun Takeshita's suggestion was rejected. Only then did the 12th Corps Headquarters contact the North China Expeditionary Army and request the North China side to coordinate with the Kyushu Army to secondment rail guns to assist in the war.