Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Changjin Lake, a Hundred Battles, a Hundred Victories

Chapter 28 The Secret Weapon Shows Its Power!
Hearing what the other person said, Chen Ming was quite moved.

They're all such lovely people!

It is precisely because of such an army that China has been able to truly stand up and become strong.

Just as Chen Ming was about to say something, Da Fei suddenly ran up to Chen Ming and reported.

"Reporting to the commander, there's a situation."

"According to our scouts, the Japanese have an armored train escorting a train, which is heading this way."

Upon hearing Dafei's report, Chen Ming's consciousness entered the three-dimensional combat map in his mind, and sure enough, he found that the map was covered with dense red dots.

There were over four hundred Japanese soldiers, plus an armored train escorting a train carrying something unknown.

These days, the Japanese trains are generally not escorted by armored trains, at most by armored trains, plus a small squad of Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese have mobilized so many people this time, including patrolling armored trains, so they must be escorting some very important supplies.

"You're finally here, Dafei!"

"To!"

"Take note of this. I am now making the following deployment: the 3rd Company of the 3rd Battalion is ordered to block the Japanese reinforcements from the Shimen direction (now Shijiazhuang). The 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion, plus a machine gun squad from the 1st Battalion, is ordered to block the Japanese reinforcements from the Shouyang direction."

"The First Battalion will cooperate with the guerrilla fighters and me to ambush the Japanese train. The Second Company of the Third Battalion will remain in reserve."

"Did you hear that clearly?"

"Understood!" Dafei saluted.

"Yes, tell the soldiers holding the line to hold their ground. No matter what, even if we wipe them all out, we must hold the enemy off for five hours," Chen Ming said.

"Yes."

"Alright, let's prepare for battle." Chen Ming looked at the Japanese train slowly approaching in his mind, his expression solemn.

If the Japanese trains were ambushed on a large scale, they would send out a battalion or even a regiment to encircle them from three directions, and they would also deploy air power.

Even if the railway is blown up, preventing the Japanese from quickly reinforcing their troops via the railway line, they can still arrive within two to four hours.

The soldiers responsible for the blocking mission had a very difficult task. In the worst case, they had to hold off a Japanese force of more than a thousand men for three hours with a company of soldiers!
This will buy time for Chen Ming's side of the battlefield.

Twenty minutes later, an armored train of the Japanese army led the way, escorting a train loaded with weapons and ammunition as it slowly approached.

Seeing the armored train equipped with heavy machine guns and 75mm cannons, Chen Ming's heart jumped into his throat.

After the other party drove to the explosives planting site, Chen Ming held his breath and detonated the explosives.

"Boom!"

A deafening explosion rang out, and the Japanese armored train was blown into the air, derailed, and came to rest beside the railway.

The locomotive of the transport train was blown into the air.

Chen Ming was startled by the huge explosion. His head buzzed and he couldn't hear clearly for a moment. Meanwhile, the soldier who was leaning out to observe the effects of the explosion was blown into the air by the shockwave and flew into the sky like a falling leaf.

"Dafei! How much explosives did you plant, you son of a bitch!" Chen Ming roared.

"Reporting to the commander, I was worried that the explosive power wouldn't be enough, so I buried two hundred kilograms of our secret-made explosives," Dafei reported.

He hadn't expected that the secret weapon they brought would be so much more powerful than gunpowder, directly blowing the Japanese armored train away. "Damn you, you spendthrift, why did you bury so much?" Chen Ming cursed.

The secret weapon they brought this time was ammonium nitrate explosive.

In North China, the Japanese invaders exploited the people to meet their own needs, forcing them to buy their fertilizer (fertilizer powder).

The main ingredient in this fertilizer is ammonium sulfate, which, as anyone with a chemistry background knows, is a high-quality raw material for explosives.

When Chen Ming discovered that the Japanese fertilizer powder was actually ammonium sulfate, which could be used to make explosives, he immediately ordered his soldiers to buy and seize the fertilizer from the local people and traitors.

After being collected and processed through a series of steps, they were made into ammonium nitrate explosives.

(I won't go into the specific steps, it won't pass the review, and brothers, don't try it. Nowadays, fertilizers all have inert agents added, so they're useless and it's easy to get a stable job.)
For this ambush, Chen Ming brought a full 500 kilograms of ammonium nitrate explosives, but unexpectedly, Da Fei, that simpleton, used 200 kilograms at once!
If they hadn't been far from the detonation point, the soldiers at the front would probably have all perished.

"I'll deal with you when we get back. Order the troops to launch an immediate attack on the Japanese train."

Even from this distance, Chen Ming could feel the powerful explosion; the Japanese soldiers on the train, so close to the blast, must have been in even worse shape.

According to the information on the map, of the more than 400 Japanese soldiers, half were wiped out, and the rest were not faring much better. Apart from the Japanese soldiers on the last train, the rest had little fighting power left.

"Yes!" Dafei roared.

There was no other way but to shout, since he also had tinnitus and couldn't hear clearly, so he had to yell.

He also knew that he had made a mistake this time, which had harmed many soldiers, and many of the soldiers at the front lines could no longer hear clearly.

Upon receiving the order, the soldiers who had been lying in ambush on both sides of the railway rushed toward the Japanese train that had been blown up.

Meanwhile, at the rear of the train, where the explosion point was relatively far away, several dozen Japanese soldiers began to launch a counterattack from the train!

The Japanese firepower was fierce, and they even used trains to launch counterattacks. The soldiers couldn't get through, and a platoon of soldiers was killed in one fell swoop.

"We can't fight like this, communications soldier. Tell Dafei to use the destroyed train as cover to blow up the rear of the enemy train. The snipers are aiming at the Japanese firing positions. If any Japanese dare to show their faces, take them out one by one," Chen Ming shouted to the communications soldier.

"Yes."

The communications soldier quickly ran to the front line, found Battalion Commander Dafei, and informed him of Chen Ming's orders.

"Soldiers of the first platoon and first company, come with me! Take your explosives and let's blow up the Japanese train carriages!" Dafei shouted.

"Battalion Commander, let me take the soldiers there. You stay on the position to command the battle," the company commander shouted.

"Shut the hell up! I'm a convict now, following orders!" Dafei roared.

"Soldiers, follow me, I'll take you to blow up the Japanese."

Dafei led a line of thirty-five soldiers and began to use the destroyed Japanese trains as cover to sneak towards the remaining Japanese trains that were still in service.

The Japanese soldiers also discovered this squad, but they didn't have much of a way to deal with them.

Anyone who dares to expose their carriage to intercept this enemy will be attacked by unidentified enemy marksmen and will be killed the moment they show their face.

But we can't just leave them alone, otherwise if the enemy gets close to the carriage and detonates the explosives, they'll all be doomed.

Finally, after more than a dozen soldiers had sacrificed their lives and more than twenty Japanese soldiers had been killed, Dafei finally led his men to the side of the trains.

After placing the explosive charge and lighting it, Dafei led the soldiers to run for their lives. They had just witnessed the power of the explosive, and they had no choice but to run fast!
The Japanese soldiers hiding in the carriage could only watch in despair as the fuse slowly burned, their lives consumed in their despair!
(End of this chapter)