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Chapter 543 Chapter 542, it exploded, it overturned, go ahead!
That little bomb was a classic railway bomb used by the Eighth Route Army that Li Yuexuan had searched through the information and spent a lot of effort with the fitters to "restore". It was controlled by steel balls and could accurately unlock and detonate the bomb through vibration when a train came. According to the information, some bombs could control the number of trains passing by. If one train passed by, it would be fine, but the second train would explode...

Of course, Li Yuexuan doesn’t have that technology now, so the bomb can only explode when the first train passes, which is quite regrettable!

The engineers had buried the explosive points, so they naturally couldn't wait there, so they naturally returned from where they came from. The barbed wire that had been cut was also carefully restored by the comrades, at least from a distance, it looked the same as if it had not been damaged.

While some soldiers of the engineering company were burying explosives, other comrades were not idle either. They hid in the back mountain, and under the cover of the mountain, they kept hammering the wooden stakes they brought, and finally made some simple wooden bridges to facilitate the comrades to cross the river later.

It is worth mentioning that their current location is south of Shangpanshi, more than 600 meters away from the railway, and they have to cross the Tao River, which is not a good place for an ambush. However, from here to the south, there is a winding mountain road that leads directly to the east of Baijing Town, and then to Liangjia Village.

By attacking the train from here and getting the spoils, we will have an additional transportation route, which will allow us to send the goods back in a more dispersed manner. This is the result of the hard work of the Cavalry Reconnaissance Company and the Special Forces these days.

Time passed quickly as the engineers were assembling the wooden bridge. Finally, at 9 o'clock in the morning, everyone heard the whistle of the train as it turned.

"The Japanese were quite punctual today. They arrived on time!" On the ridge, Tianchuan looked at his watch and praised the Japanese for arriving on time.

"There's something wrong with today's train. There are three more sealed carriages. I wonder what's inside. There's also one less square carriage in the front than usual!" said Hu Lanzhou.

"No matter what the reason is, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot! So, be careful and alert! The snipers are ready!" said Tianchuan.

While the two were talking, the Japanese train turned from the northern bend and headed from north to south. However, this slightly straight railway track was less than 1 kilometer long, and the train had to turn west, so the train was not going very fast. There was no way around it, the train itself was not going very fast, and it had to turn around, which made it even slower!

If Li Yuexuan were here, he would probably think more divergently and imagine the situation of the comrades of the Railway Guerrillas fighting here.

Well, the special forces comrades can also jump onto the train, but there is no need now, because they are all holding their weapons and staring at the bend in the railway track...

Wuuwuwu... huff and puff... the steam locomotive blew out a large cloud of white gas, and a stream of black smoke floated out of the chimney, and it arrived at the turning point. The most nervous people at this time were not the others, but the comrades in charge of burying the bombs! Although there was a backup plan at the Yanhui Station in the west, and the comrades of the heavy company were ready to bomb at any time, but that was their remedial measure after failure!

This is the first battle since the establishment of the engineering company. If they fail here, the reputation of the engineering company will be ruined. How shameful!
Fortunately, the soldiers' skills were good enough, and the key was that the quality of the bomb was reliable enough. Just as the locomotive rolled over the rails and the rattling carriages reached the explosion point, the steel ball of the bomb was finally dislodged from its safe position due to the vibration, and the firing pin popped out and hit the detonator, causing the detonator to detonate successfully.

Boom... The detonator exploded, blowing up the surrounding TNT explosives, and also detonated the ammonium nitrate explosives in the explosive pack... The huge shock wave brought up dust and smoke, and also blew the front of the train, which had just passed the explosion point, up ten centimeters. Then, the front of the train fell down under the action of gravity, but the rails were gone, causing the wheels to derail and drive south.

Bombing the railway, not the train, is to blow up the tracks, causing the train to derail and overturn, so they choose to do it at a bend. As for the final effect, it depends on luck...

Clang clang clang... The locomotive broke away from the control of the rails. Even if the driver tried hard to control it back on track, it was useless! Instead, due to the strong kinetic energy accumulated before the explosion, the entire train rushed south out of the restraint of the rails. Then, driven by the locomotive and under the action of gravity, the entire train tilted to the left and finally overturned in the field south of the railway.

The train has overturned, what are we waiting for? Hurry up and get on! So Chen Changsheng stood up and shouted loudly: "Team Three, act according to the original plan, get on!"

After he finished shouting, Chen Changsheng had nothing to do! The battle plan he and the company commander and platoon leaders had already formulated was now being implemented thoroughly, so he just gave an order.

Looking at the team of the third team, all the heavy machine gun groups carried heavy machine guns to the ridge, set up the heavy machine guns on the spot, and aimed at the overturned train. Because the kinetic energy of the train was not small, it derailed and rushed out a distance of dozens of meters, so the heavy machine guns deployed at this time were only more than 500 meters away from the train.

At this distance, if there is any accident, we can suppress it at any time!
Then, the mortar groups of the three companies also set up their mortars not far from the heavy machine gun positions, and the numerous grenade launcher groups also moved forward 200 meters and built grenade launcher positions at the bottom of the slope. At the same time, the light machine gun group set up positions more than 50 meters in front of the grenade launcher group, ready to suppress the train at any time.

In this way, step by step, the team arrived at the Tao River during the dry season. No one knew whether the ice on the river could support their bodies, but everyone knew that falling into it would definitely be very cool. So the soldiers also chose places with exposed stones, stepped on the river ice to cross the river, and quickly crossed the river.

Fortunately, hundreds of people crossed the river without any ice being broken, and the soldiers all crossed the river safely.

The train was right in front of them. The soldiers crossing the river rushed forward fearlessly and finally reached the side of the overturned train.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers who were stunned by the overturned train finally recovered! When the Japanese soldiers formed a human ladder and stuck their heads out of the door of the sealed train, they were shocked to find that they were surrounded by Eighth Route Army soldiers, showing them the happiest smiles.

I changed some data in the previous chapter, and used less explosives to make it less powerful and look more reasonable.

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