Bright Sword: From Border Region Manufacturing to Major National Heavy Industry

Chapter 130 Attack on the Military Train
386th Brigade Headquarters

The brigade commander had just finished the meeting with Li Yunlong and the others when an intelligence officer rushed in to report: "Reporting to the brigade commander, Fujita Ichiji has laid bait again, it's those key parts that were extracted from the bullet manufacturing equipment."

Before the brigade commander could even react, Li Yunlong shouted, "The news must be right! Fujita Ichiji can make the same mistake twice?"

Anyone with a normal IQ should understand that we must never allow the enemy to obtain the complete equipment.

Fujita Ichiji had previously extracted the key components, so even if the equipment was gone, without the key components, he could still disrupt the enemy's ammunition production at their arsenal.

Fujita Ichiji is something else; he lost the equipment, but he managed to get the key components out.

Are you, Fujita Ichiji, afraid that our arsenal won't have the capacity to produce bullets?

No wonder the brigade commander repeatedly reminded himself not to kill that idiot Fujita Ichiji prematurely.

Now it seems that there is some truth to it.

If we swallow this part, I wonder what that idiot Fujita Ichiji will use as bait next time. It's really something to look forward to.

"The information is correct!" the intelligence officer said with certainty.

“Brigade Commander, then we…” Li Yunlong immediately turned to the brigade commander and said, “As soon as we attack the Zhengtai front, Fujita Ichiji…”

The brigade commander interrupted Li Yunlong sternly: "We don't need to pay attention to Fujita Ichiji's fishing operation for now. It's most important to do our job well."

Cheng the Blind Man from the 772nd Regiment immediately chimed in, "Li Yunlong, don't be so confused about priorities. Is the Japanese locomotive more important, or these spare parts?"

Unable to secure the main attack mission and watching Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's core regiments steal the spotlight, the main force regiment commander, Cheng the Blind, felt truly frustrated.

This was an opportunity to verbally retort to Li Yunlong.

"Go away, go away." Li Yunlong waved his hand at Blind Cheng. "Do I look like the kind of person who would lose the big picture for a small one!"

Then, Li Yunlong said to the brigade commander with a smile, "What I mean is, after we seize the locomotive, if we still have enough time, let's take the spare parts. Those Japanese devils have practically offered it to us, so we can't be polite."

"Without my orders, you better behave yourself." The brigade commander threw a sentence at Li Yunlong, "Right now, you and Ding Wei are thinking about how to take the target for me as quickly as possible. Don't get distracted by anything else."

"It's just attacking the Zhengtai Railway to stop the Japanese trains, right? Don't worry, Brigade Commander, I guarantee it'll be a success," Li Yunlong assured, patting his chest.

"Get out of here, hurry up and bring your troops over there." The brigade commander waved his hand.

Li Yunlong and Ding Wei immediately took action.

The two main regiments, the 772nd and 771st, left some men to guard the home base, while the rest followed the brigade commander to Zhangjia Village on the Zhengtai Railway.

Halfway there, Zhang Wanhe led the transport team to meet up with the brigade commander.

"Old Zhang, you actually led the transport team yourself. I thought you wouldn't come," the brigade commander greeted Zhang Wanhe.

Zhang Wanhe is the logistics minister, so he should logically be at the back.

Bullets don't have eyes on the battlefield.

“Nonsense, this concerns the power source of the arsenal, how could I not come personally?” Zhang Wanhe said with a serious expression.

"That's true. Whenever there's a big opportunity, how could you, Old Zhang, be absent?" The brigade commander looked around Zhang Wanhe several times, not seeing Li Muzhi, and asked, "Little Li didn't come along?"

“Look at what you’re saying. That’s our precious military asset. How can you just send him to the front lines like that?” Zhang Wanhe said solemnly.

"It's right that he didn't come to the front lines. If I saw you bringing people here, I would have forcibly sent them back." The brigade commander nodded.

joke!

Even if something happens to our entire brigade, not a single hair on Xiao Li's head can be lost!
"Brigadier General Chen, didn't you find out what was being transported on that Japanese military train you seized beforehand?" Zhang Wanhe remembered this incident.

"I've figured it out. Most of it is grain, white flour, white rice, and canned goods," the brigade commander replied.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Wanhe paused, saying, "Old Chen, how could you rob a grain transport wagon? You should have robbed something more valuable, like a Japanese military train transporting military supplies."

I originally thought the 386th Brigade hadn't figured out the intelligence on the Japanese military trains, but it turns out they had.

However, the scope is a bit narrow.

Where can you find a truck that's cheaper to transport grain than one that's used to transport military supplies?

"Old Zhang, haven't you always been complaining to me that Kong Jie's New Second Regiment eats too much and you can't afford to feed them?" The brigade commander glanced at Zhang Wanhe. "My seizure of the grain transport wagons is just a good way to solve your logistical food shortage problem!"

"Logistics and supplies are a problem, but military supplies are even more important," Zhang Wanhe said seriously. "Every time you come here for artillery shells, don't you want to take more? Without enough military supplies, how can we produce artillery shells for you?"

"Old Zhang, there's nothing I can do. The Japanese are just being unreasonable," the brigade commander explained. "According to intelligence, the Japanese military trains have been transporting regular supplies recently, not military supplies. I can't keep delaying until the Japanese launch their big mopping-up operation."

It would be too dangerous to wait until the Japanese launched a major sweep and then seize their train.

"Oh, I see." Upon hearing this, Comrade Zhang couldn't help but jump up and start cursing, "Those damned Japanese devils! How can they be so ignorant? They're so ignorant! Once the arsenal produces more shells, we'll definitely teach them a lesson!"

"Hahaha!" The brigade commander laughed and said, "Old Zhang, to teach the Japanese a lesson, we need more shells. When the time comes, you, Old Zhang, give me the shells, and I'll go and get revenge for you."

“Brigadier General Chen, you’ve got a very clever plan,” Zhang Wanhe immediately retorted. “If you want to get shells from me, unless it’s an emergency, you have to go through the proper procedures.”

"Look at you, Old Zhang, so stingy! You want someone to avenge you, but you don't want to provide the shells. Aren't you just a greedy old man?" the brigade commander cursed.

"Say whatever you want." Old Zhang shrugged. This isn't the first or second time that our logistics manager has been called stingy; we're used to it.

……

The sun slowly sets in the west, and the clouds on the horizon are like burning fire. Nothing is more beautiful than the red sunset!

Li Yunlong and Ding Wei arrived at the designated location on time.

The Japanese built defenses along the railway line.

There are bunkers and watchtowers.

These targets need to be destroyed in advance in order to have a chance to get close to the railway.

"Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, you two can begin."

The brigade commander glanced at his watch; it was almost time. He then gave orders to Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.

The attack time cannot be too early or too late.

If it's too early, the Japanese military trains will stop prematurely. If it's too late, the Japanese military trains will have already passed by.

We have to time it perfectly, so that whether the Japanese military train stops or speeds up, it has to be delivered right to us.

"Yes, Brigadier!"

"Yes, Brigadier."

Ding Wei and Li Yunlong accepted the order, each controlling their Hell Cannons to aim at the target, and then lit the fuse!

boom!
boom!
The two hell cannons roared, blasting two bunkers to smithereens, and collapsing two more bunkers next to them!

Two shells, two kills with one shot, destroyed four targets!
Four targets were destroyed, and the other bunkers and pillboxes were alerted:
"Baka! This is a heavy artillery attack!"

"Baka! Could it be that the Eighth Route Army is attacking the railway line again?"

"Baga, fire!"

"Baka! Call for help immediately! Call for help right now!"

……

The machine guns in the bunkers and pillboxes immediately began firing.

Da da da!
Da da da!
Da da da!
……

But as the hell cannons continued to roar, the machine gun fire quickly fell silent.

The cursing Japanese soldiers fell silent and quietly left.

"rush!"

"on!"

All the bunkers and pillboxes along the railway defense line in Zhangjia Village were destroyed, and Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's troops surged forward like a tide.

The resistance along the way was completely swallowed up by the tide, without even a splash.

The troops made it to the railway without any problems.

Oh oh oh!
The Japanese military train approached from a distance. Seeing that the railway was under attack, the Japanese military train sounded its horn as a warning, but instead of slowing down, it accelerated.

Clearly, the Japanese military train wanted to rush through.

"Stay here." Li Yunlong fired a Hellfire cannon.

A huge crater was blown into the railway, and the rails were distorted and torn apart like noodles, with a long section lying on the roadside.

Chi Chi!

Upon seeing that the railway ahead had been bombed, the Japanese military train was forced to brake suddenly.

The wheels braked suddenly, screeching as they rubbed against the rails, sending sparks flying all the way.

It looked like an entire military train arriving on shooting stars, exceptionally beautiful and dazzling!
"Baka, baka, baka, damn it..."

The Japanese soldier driving the train was so angry in the cab that he stopped the steel behemoth a dozen meters away from the damaged tracks.

boom!
boom!
Da da da!
Da da da!
……

The train stopped, and Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's troops quickly swarmed around it like ants attacking an earthworm.

The Japanese soldiers escorting the train were quickly wiped out by Mauser pistols and light machine guns, and the Japanese train driver committed suicide in despair.

Control of the train quickly and completely fell into the hands of Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.

Previously, without offensive weapons, it was extremely difficult to get close to the Japanese railway lines and seize the trains.

Now that we have weapons for attacking fortified positions, this has become commonplace, as simple as eating and drinking.

Seeing that the military train had been captured by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, Zhang Wanhe laughed loudly: "Hahaha, we're rich! We're rich! Everyone, follow me!"

Comrade Zhang, like a playful old man, took the lead.

The transport convoy followed behind him in a grand procession, their eyes gleaming with excitement.
"The leader told me that the purpose of organizing the transport team was to rob Japanese trains, and I still don't believe it. Now that I see it, it's really about robbing trains, and I still can't believe it."

"Yes, this is a Japanese train. I heard that we not only have to transport the supplies on the train back, but also dismantle the train itself. This train is so big, how are we going to dismantle it?"

"Dismantle a train? Can this thing be taken apart and put back together?"

"Didn't you see that the arsenal brought a lot of dismantling tools?"

"I wonder what kind of expression the Japanese soldiers will have when they arrive as reinforcements and find the train gone."

"Yeah, hahaha, a huge train has disappeared, who wouldn't be anxious?"

"Give it your all, don't leave the Japanese with a single hair."

"We should also tear down the railway; the rails and sleepers are valuable."

……

We're getting closer to the train.

A massive horde of several thousand people, like locusts in autumn.

Old Qi led the technicians to quickly dismantle the wagon head with tools, and the unloading workers rushed to unload the grain, transferring it bag by bag to wheelbarrows, flatbed carts, and livestock wagons.

Of course, some people also rushed to dig up the rails and take the sleepers with them.

The scene was incredibly lively!

The atmosphere was incredibly hot and exciting!

Her smile was as radiant as the sun, illuminating the darkness.

(End of this chapter)