Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 25 Dayun Mountain

"Lao Zeng, tell the comrades in the engineering company to stop helping the baggage train. Take your men and remove the train axles for me immediately!"

Chen Chengxing pointed to the large axle under the train carriage and said.

"Ah? Captain, we have so much supplies in our vehicle that we can't transport them all, why are we doing this?" Zeng Cheng asked puzzled.

He could understand the previous construction of the railway tracks. After all, the tracks had already been dug and could be used sooner or later after being transported back. But now there were more than a dozen railway cars full of supplies. Should they transport the axles instead of the supplies?

"Just do it if I ask you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"

These axles play a very important role. Whether the new Second Regiment can achieve firepower freedom in the future depends entirely on them.

"Yes!" Faced with the regiment commander's strong request, Zeng Cheng had no choice but to ask the engineering company to stop what they were doing and start dismantling the axle instead.

However, the chassis of the train is easy to dismantle, but it is troublesome to remove the axle alone. Zeng Cheng tried many times but failed.

"Don't try it. Just move the wheels and axles away together and let them roll on the ground." Zeng Cheng said directly.

If we continue to try, I'm afraid we won't be able to remove the wheels even when the Japanese arrive.

Under Zeng Cheng's command, the engineering company found a few horses and put ropes on them to drag the axles and wheels together.

It’s true that this method saves time and effort, but the rope wears out a bit. Even if they put some oil on the rope, the rope usually won’t last long before it breaks.

But it doesn't matter. They just need to find a place to hide temporarily, and then they can transfer them slowly when they have time.

Just as everyone was busy moving supplies, a red flare suddenly rose into the air in the distance, followed by another one.

"Quick! Everyone retreat immediately!" Chen Chengxing ordered hurriedly.

This was the signal agreed upon by Chen Chengxing and the investigator. As long as they saw a train coming, they would fire two flares.

"Captain, there's still a lot of food that hasn't been transported away!" Luo Yongan, director of the logistics department, said anxiously.

According to Chen Chengxing's order, the troops were transported in the order of weapons, bedding, and food. Now that the weapons and bedding had just been transported, there was still time to transport the food.

Most of these 16 carriages were carrying food. After all, in addition to ammunition, food and fodder were also of paramount importance in war.

"No more! Burn them!" Chen Chengxing ordered.

Relying on the transport capacity of the train, the speed of the Japanese reinforcements was too fast, and there was no time left for the New Second Regiment.

"This" Luo Yongan still felt a little reluctant.

"Set fire!" Chen Chengxing ordered sternly.

The New Second Regiment could not take these grains away anyway. Rather than leaving them here and then being dragged to the front line by the Japanese, it would be better to burn them directly.

"Yes!"

One minute later, Chen Chengxing saw the fire gradually spreading.

"withdraw!"

Chen Chengxing waved his hand and led his troops to retreat quickly southward into the mountains.

After the Japanese arrived at the battlefield, they had no time to search or pursue. Everyone immediately devoted themselves to putting out the fire, but they were obviously a step too late.

The Japs, without any tools, could not stop the spread of the fire. Moreover, because the food was loaded in the carriages, they could not cross the flames on the outside to rescue the food that had not yet caught fire.

In the end, the Japanese could only watch the food burn to ashes.

The Zhongyun Mountains are a mountain range that spans more than 100 kilometers from north to south. Chen Chengxing's tentative destination is in the Dayun Mountain area at the southern end of the mountain range.

It’s not that Zhongshan at the northern end of the mountain range is not good, it’s just that this place is too close to the Tongpu Railway.

The Tongpu Railway was attacked twice in succession. Once the Japanese have time, they will definitely clear out this area.

At that time, Guangshan on the north side of the railway and Zhongshan on the south side will definitely be the enemy's key targets.

The entire Tongpu Railway, that is, the section from Fu'an to Pinggang, is sandwiched between various hills, which is the most vulnerable place to sneak attacks. Moreover, with the defeat of the Guo army, after the Japanese completed the re-tracking of the Shanxi Railway, the Tongpu Railway was no longer accessible to large troops, at least not to the New Second Regiment for a few years.

Even if they want to cause trouble, they can only infiltrate with a small force to cause damage.

Therefore, if there are no other instructions, Chen Chengxing will use Dayun Mountain as the base and gradually spread the New Second Regiment to the entire Zhongyun Mountain Range.

After leaving the Tongpu Line, Chen Chengxing led the New Second Regiment south to Dayun Mountain.

After he was safe, Chen Chengxing had time to open the panel and check the rewards.

[The battle is over, battle evaluation: great victory!]

【Obtained 230 honor points. 】

【The mission has been completed! 】

【Rewards are waiting to be claimed! 】

[Rewards are being distributed]

[Skill points gained: 1]

Chen Chengxing was already very clear about the system process. This time, because the Japanese were completely wiped out, it was rated as a great victory and the honor points were multiplied by 4.

As usual, Chen Chengxing put his skill points into command.

[Tactical Command: LV4 (slightly accomplished).]

After clicking on the skill, Chen Chengxing immediately realized that this matter could actually be done better.

If the troops were deployed, all the food on the Japanese train could be transported away.

However, Chen Chengxing could accept the current result. At least the scarce supplies such as weapons, bedding, and medicines were all recovered.

As for food, there will be a way once we arrive at Dayun Mountain. Everyone will be able to eat their fill even if they only eat steamed corn bread.

On the other hand, after breaking through the Xinkou position, the Japanese formed a two-pronged attack on Taiyuan.

Faced with this situation, Yan Xishan also knew that he had made a big mistake.

If Taiyuan had listened to the Eighth Route Army earlier and deployed heavy troops at Niangzi Pass, it would not have faced such a situation.

But it was too late to say anything now. The situation was hopeless and Yan Xishan knew very well that he was powerless to turn the tide.

Moreover, because Niangzi Pass was defeated so quickly, a large amount of supplies in Taiyuan were not withdrawn.

Especially the arsenal. Even before the Battle of Xinkou, Yan Xishan was organizing the transportation of equipment. However, facing the arsenal that had been in operation for more than 20 years, the limited railway capacity was simply a drop in the bucket.

Even though they worked day and night, they were able to move only the small equipment and precision machine tools of the Taiyuan Arsenal. The slightly larger equipment remained in the factory.

As Yan Xishan decided to abandon Taiyuan and withdraw the main force of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army to southern Shanxi, the workers in the arsenal were also dismissed. The remaining Shanxi-Suiyuan Army did not have enough manpower even if they wanted to destroy the equipment.

Or maybe no one wants to destroy it, so wouldn't it be better to use that time to escape?
Finally, after leaving Fu Yi as the garrison commander of Taiyuan, the rest of the Guo army troops quickly evacuated Taiyuan.

However, there were less than two brigades left in Taiyuan. Faced with the repeated bombings from Japanese planes and artillery, they could not withstand the attack of nearly 2 Japanese soldiers. In just one day, the Japanese vanguard troops broke into Taiyuan.

With nothing he could do, Fu Yi gathered all the remaining troops and forced a breakout.

However, although they only held out for one day, they also effectively covered the retreat of other Guo army troops.

After occupying Taiyuan, the Japanese continued to advance southward along the Tongpu Railway. In less than a week, they reached the north bank of the Yellow River.

However, this also exhausted the last bit of the Japanese's strength, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Taiyuan.

From then on, in North China, the frontal war came to an end and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines began to take the dominant position.

　Thanks for the reward from Gao Shan Lu Yuan who said nothing

　　
　
(End of this chapter)