The deputy chief of staff understood the meaning of the brigade commander, but did not agree. He frowned and raised his thoughts: "General, the Zhengtai Railway does have a branch here, but this branch leads to Jingxing Coal Mine, and there is no railway station in the middle."

"According to what you meant just now, this train must have been driven from Jingxing Coal Mine, but how is this possible?"

"The Jingxing coal mine was captured by the Eighth Route Army in the morning. If this train was really driven from the Jingxing coal mine, it was inferred from the time that they set out from the Jingxing coal mine at about 2 pm. At that time, there was no longer an imperial army on the coal mine. Could it be that this train was driven by the Eighth Route Army? They wouldn't worry that we would destroy the train after we found it?"

The Deputy Chief of Staff’s rebuttal is reasonable and Major General Honda cannot find a reason to prove his judgment.

But the bad premonition in his mind was getting stronger and stronger. He vaguely felt that this matter was not as simple as he saw on the surface. There must be conspiracy that everyone didn't know. If you want to find out the truth, the breakthrough was on this train.

Stop the train and figure out who is driving the train, all problems will be solved.

Major General Honda was not talking nonsense and immediately ordered: "Contact all the artillery towers, strongholds, and garrisons along the railway immediately, find this train, intercept it, and find out who is controlling this train!"

"Send a telegram to the Shijiazhuang Garage Command to ask them if there was a train stopping there when the Jingxing coal mine was attacked, and if the train is still in the coal mine."

"If there were trains in Jingxing coal mines before the war and now they are gone, then this train must have come from Jingxing. As for who was driving this train, I feel that it is the National Salvation Army, but I can't find a factual basis to prove this judgment."

The deputy chief of staff hurried back less than ten minutes after leaving: "General, something happened! We could not contact the artillery towers and strongholds along the railway, and all the telephone lines connecting them were cut off from the command headquarters."

"Send a messenger to ride a horse to give orders!" Major General Honda became nervous when he heard this, and was more confident in his judgment on the train, and was very anxious to order.

Then he turned his eyes to the sand table, stared at the flat section of the Zhengtai Railway, and finally fixed his eyes at Chengjia Railway Station.

"Ordinary artillery towers and strongholds are only equipped with telephones and no radio stations. Chengjia Railway Station must have a radio station. Judging from the time, the train should not have passed here. Immediately ordered the garrison of the railway station to temporarily cut off the railway, and no matter what, the train cannot pass here."

"Hayi!" The deputy chief of staff quickly took the order.

The atmosphere in the war room became tense again due to this accident.

Major General Honda was not in the mood to continue to rest.

If my guess just now was true, the train galloping on the railway was controlled by the National Rescue Army, then the troops attacking the Jingxing coal mine would not only be the Eighth Route Army, but also the National Rescue Army would also be involved.

As for why they took the risk of driving a train to go back to their defense zone by the Zhengtai Railway, which was heavily defended by the Imperial Army, Major General Honda has not figured it out yet.

When Chengjia Railway Station received the order from the brigade command, the train had arrived five kilometers away.

The garrison could vaguely hear the roar of the train running on the railway.

As soon as the garrison leader received the order, he arranged for the troops to pile sandbags on the railway, and at the same time, he drew two infantry squadrons to arrange pocket arrays on both sides of the railway. After the train was forced to stop by sandbags on the railway, the ambush troops rushed up again and wiped out all the enemies on the train.

One kilometer away, Tang Yufeng, who was lurking on the edge of the blockade line, also heard the sound of the train. He knew that the regiment commander was coming, and immediately ordered the troops to start attacking the blockade line.

"Boom...Boom..."

Mortars and mountain cannons desperately fired shells at the Japanese and puppet troops' blockade line. The dense rain of shells instantly blocked the Japanese on the blockade line, and hugged in the trenches and didn't dare to move.

The artillery fire was not over for a minute, and an armored vehicle rushed out from the end of the official road hundreds of meters away and rushed towards the defense line quickly.

More than a hundred soldiers of the National Savior Army followed behind. In order to keep up with the armored vehicles, each soldier ran very fast.

"The enemy has armored vehicles, and all the horses and heavy machine guns are fired to block it!" The surviving captain was stunned by the fear, and waving his command knife while giving orders.

"The artillery detachment fired immediately, aimed at the armored vehicle, and destroyed it..."

The artillery position that was highly anticipated by the squad leader was found by Tang Yufeng long before the attack.

Just as the artillery fire was over in one minute, four mortars began to adjust their shooting angles and prepare to continue shelling the Japanese artillery positions.

The Japanese gunner who received the order to fire the gun quickly adjusted the shooting members, and the gunners on both sides put the shells into the barrel almost at the same time.

"Boom..."

The shells exploded because the armored vehicles were moving all the time, and the speed was very fast, making it difficult to aim. The two shells fired by the Japanese army hit behind the armored vehicles, blowing over five or six soldiers of the National Savior Army.

The Japanese artillery positions are fixed targets, and the National Salvation Army has four mortars. Even if the gunner's skills are not qualified and only has a hit rate of 30%, then one shell will hit the target.

During the violent explosion, the Japanese mortars were still on the ground and looked intact, but the artillery squatting next to them were not so lucky.

At least three Japanese were blown up, and the other Japanese were frightened and all lay on the ground.

Just as I was about to get up from the ground and fight back, the second round of four shells had arrived one after another...

The Japanese on the position were the worst. They were killed by artillery fire in one minute by the National Rescue Army. When the living Japanese were desperately shooting at the armored vehicles, the grenade launchers brought by Tang Yufeng happened to join the battle.

In order to quickly break through the Japanese and puppet troops' blockade line, they rushed to Chengjia Railway Station as soon as possible to meet with the regiment commander, and attacked the Japanese inside and outside to kill the Japanese inside and outside, Tang Yufeng brought all the nearly twenty grenade launchers equipped by the left-behind troops, and prepared to use the number to make up for the uneven training level of the grenade launchers.

With just two rounds of volleys, the Japanese and puppet troops were left in the blockade line and were blown up, with heavy casualties.

The armored vehicle assaulted along the official road and rushed to the front of the blockade line in less than half a minute.

The heavy machine gun on the roof of the vehicle joined the battle in time, and shot down from a high point of view on the remaining Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade...

"Comrades... rush..." A series of people took the opportunity to cross the armored vehicles and quickly rushed towards the blockade line...

When Tang Yufeng assaulted the blockade line, the squadron leader of the Japanese garrison in the station was setting up a pocket array. As soon as the cannon sounded, he climbed up to the roof of the platform to observe the battle situation. His expression became very heavy at a glance.

"No, if there is a National Salvation Army, we will break through the blockade line. Their target must be us!"

"Although the blockade line has been in name only, there are official roads there that need to be intercepted, so a level was built, but there are only dozens of soldiers there, and half of them are the Imperial Army, so they will definitely not be able to stop it!"

"The first team immediately reinforces the battlefield, and the National Salvation Army must not allow the National Salvation Army to break through the blockade line."

"Otherwise we will be attacked from both sides, facing both the enemy on the train and the National Savior Army on the offensive blockade line!"

The first team was all the mobile troops that the squadron leader could take. He arranged the remaining two teams to arrange pocket formations on both sides of the railway, preparing to ambush the approaching train for a while.

Under his eyes, more than fifty soldiers rushed out of the railway station and formed a battle formation and rushed towards the battlefield.

At this time, the scene that the squadron leader least wanted to see appeared.

More than a hundred soldiers of the National Salvation Army, like autumn wind swept away fallen leaves, easily breaking through the blockade line and entering the occupied area of ​​the Imperial Army.

An encounter is inevitable.

But the squadron leader was confident in his first squad. When it comes to bayonets, none of the three soldiers of the National Salvation Army were the opponents of the Imperial Army.

When the enemy and us collided together, they began to fight for bayonets, and the first team would definitely be able to block the attack of the National Savior Army.

But the battle on the battlefield surprised him again.

The National Salvation Army that rushed forward was not sure when they all became submachine gunners and machine gunners.

Nearly ten light machine guns and more than twenty submachine guns were held in the arms of the other party, and they shot wildly against the first team.

More than fifty subordinates were like ripe wheat, one row after another, swept to the ground...

In the end, only a dozen people survived a full-scale infantry team, and they collided with the National Rescue Army with bayonets!

It is difficult to get the fourth hand when two fists are hard, and no matter how powerful the subordinates fight bayonets, they cannot resist the number of people on the other side.

Four or five bayonets were stabbed from different directions, and their subordinates avoided this and could not avoid that. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen subordinates were submerged in the crowd of attacking troops of the National Salvation Army, and even a wave did not splash.

The squadron leader was stunned. Facing the National Savior Army that continued to rush towards the train station, he forgot to give orders and did not react until his subordinates reminded him.

"Sir, the National Rescue Army is coming to the railway station. We should return to the position immediately and use the castle and fortifications to block them!"

"Boom..." The sound of the train galloping also reached the squadron leader's ears. The white smoke from the front of the car kept approaching the train station, which meant that the train that the superior asked him to intercept was almost here.

The squadron leader had to face a dilemma.

If the troops are concentrated to intercept the train, the National Rescue Army will definitely take the opportunity to enter the railway station. No one knows whether the garrison can defend the railway station and drive the National Rescue Army out.

It is not okay to concentrate troops to defend the train station. If there are enemies on the train, the garrison will face the danger of being attacked from both sides.

It is even more impossible to divide the troops. There are not many troops in your hands. If you use them separately, the overall combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced. It is likely that you cannot stop the national rescue army attacking outside, and you cannot stop the train...

"Sir, the National Rescue Army is coming soon, and the train is coming soon. You must make a decision immediately!" The captain of the second team reminded him in a hurry.

"Two combat squads stay here to intercept the train, and the others followed me to defend the train station! No one knew whether there were enemies on the train, but the National Salvation Army that attacked our country was able to see. Kill the enemy we could see first..." The squadron leader gritted his teeth and ordered.

This is a very pertinent order and the only reasonable order.

But after encountering Zhou Cheng who is uneasy and rational, no matter how reasonable the order is, it will lose its meaning.
Chapter completed!