As soon as I ran to the door, I saw the staff on duty rushing towards me.

The commander was very worried, and before he could stand firm, he asked anxiously: "Is the arsenal being attacked? I ordered the city defense troops to be martial law throughout the city. We must find the sneak attacker to reduce the losses of the arsenal."

The staff on duty reported while gasping for breath: "The explosion was heard from the military factory. We are contacting the arsenal, and there is no specific news yet!"

"It's just that we are starting martial law across the city now. Wouldn't it be a bit too much? If the explosion just now was just an accident, not an arsenal was attacked, rashly ruthlessly ruling martial law across the city would definitely bring us a lot of disadvantages."

While talking, the two of them had already entered the busy war room.

The phone number connecting to the arsenal has been connected, and a communications consultant is inquiring about the situation.

The commander waited less than two minutes before putting down the microphone: "Report to the commander, the explosion just now started from the gunpowder production workshop of the arsenal. Because the explosion was too powerful, the fire spread to the gun repair workshop and gun repair workshop next to it, detonating the ammunition in our workshop, which caused the second round of explosion. At present, the arsenal has controlled the fire and is trying to extinguish the fire and reduce the losses of the arsenal!"

The commander didn't want to listen to these nonsense and said bluntly, "Why did the gunpowder production workshop suddenly explode? Did someone sneak attack our arsenal?"

The staff officer who answered the phone just now shook his head: "The garrison reported just now that the arsenal was not attacked. It should be that something unexpected happened in the production workshop caused the gunpowder to explode!"

The commander's first reaction was that he did not believe it: "It has been more than half a year since we rebuilt the arsenal. There has never happened before. Why did an accident happen today? I immediately sent someone to find out whether the explosion just now was an accident or a man. If it was a man, we must find out the culprit."

As soon as the staff officer left, the deputy chief of staff on duty asked: "Sir, do you still need to implement the martial law order you just now?"

"The martial law order is temporarily cancelled!" the commander thought for a while and replied.

"I ordered the city defense force to double its personnel today to inspect the Chinese people entering and leaving Taiyuan City and detain all the suspicious people. I will decide whether to release those suspicious people after the arsenal is clear about what happened to the explosion just now!"

In the arsenal, with the joint efforts of three or four hundred Japanese devils and more than five hundred workers, the fire in the factory was finally put out.

The biggest loss was the gunpowder production workshop. The entire roof was blown away, leaving only four ruins that were burned to the darkness by the fire.

In the workshop, except for some metal equipment, other equipment and raw materials were burned to ashes, which looked messy. There was no sign of anyone entering the workshop before the explosion, nor was there any small things in the workshop.

The loss is slightly smaller in the two repair workshops.

The repair equipment and the firearms stored in the workshop were all blown into scrap iron and parts, and were everywhere.

The roof was also blown up a lot, and the bricks and stones and parts were mixed together, so it was also impossible to tell if there was anything missing in the workshop.

The captain of the guard team stood outside the messy workshop, his face full of anger, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and his mind was running rapidly, thinking about how to give him an explanation.

It is his duty to protect the arsenal. Now that the arsenal has been bombed, as the captain, he is unlucky for his crime.

The only way to break the situation is to shirk responsibility and reduce the punishment the army commander has on himself.

"Report to the captain, the military headquarters has orders for you!" The messenger hurried over to report.

"Say!" The captain realized that the commander was coming to hold him accountable and was very unhappy with the order.

"The Military Department asked you to find out as soon as possible whether the explosion just now was accidental or man-made. If it was man-made, you must find the culprit, otherwise the military law will be engaged in military law!" The messenger was very careful to report. When he said the last few words, the voice was as low as a mosquito, for fear of angering the captain and asking for trouble.

As a result, as he expected, the commander had just repeated the commander's order, and the captain's eyes became redder and redder like fire...

Fortunately, the deputy captain came over at this time: "Captain, I just walked around several workshops and found some of my eyebrows!"

Seeing the expression on the deputy captain's face was particularly serious, the captain realized that the news brought by the deputy might be very unfavorable to him.

After raising his hand, he signaled him to suspend the report and ordered the guards beside him: "The guard forces increase the alert range, and there will be no one within 30 meters of my deputy captain and I!"

After confirming that all the guards were dispersed, the captain ordered the deputy: "Now we can say, what did you find in the workshop just now?"

The deputy captain quickly reported: "The gunpowder production workshop was blown too hard and nothing could be found."

"Although the two repair workshops were also bombed, Beizhi discovered a problem: the artillery repair workshop had a lot of shells in stock and the fire spread too fast, and the shells exploded and the workshop was blown up. This is reasonable and there is no problem."

"But the explosion in the gun repair workshop is too strange. There is no explosive or shell in the workshop. Even if the fire in the gunpowder workshop spreads, there will be no such big explosion in the workshop, almost blowing up all the equipment and weapons in the workshop!"

"Weizhi thinks there is something wrong with this. The explosion just now is likely to be man-made. But weizhi doesn't know how these sneak attackers escaped the eyes of the guards and entered the arsenal, and then escaped unscathed!"

The captain did not answer the conversation immediately after hearing this. He frowned and thought for a while before suddenly speaking: "No, no outsiders entered the arsenal last night, and the explosion just now was purely an accident."

"The workers in the gunpowder production workshop did not store gunpowder according to the rules, resulting in an explosion in the workshop!"

"The explosion is too powerful, and the closest gun repair workshop and artillery repair workshop are all affected, especially the artillery repair workshop, where the shells inside exploded, causing the second round of explosion in the arsenal!"

"After rigorous investigation and interrogation, we have caught the workers who caused the explosion and shot them in public according to the production discipline of the arsenal..."

The deputy captain was confused when he heard this, and looked at the captain with discomfort and asked, "Sir, do you not believe the results I just found?"

The captain shook his head and stared at his deputy and asked, "I believe it, but what do you think the commander would do if we told the commander that someone had attacked the arsenal last night?"

"Immediately implement martial law on the whole city and catch the culprit!" The deputy captain blurted out, obviously knowing the style of the commander's behavior very well.

The captain continued to ask: "Then do you think we can catch the culprit of the sneak attack on the arsenal?"

The deputy captain was in a dilemma.

The sneak attacker can avoid the arsenal guards and enter the arsenal without knowing it. After the bombing, he mysteriously disappears, which shows that the sneak attacker is very powerful.

Faced with such a mysterious and powerful opponent, no one knows whether martial law in the whole city will be useful to them.

The captain expected the deputy to react like this and continued to ask: "If we can catch the culprit of the sneak attack on the arsenal, we only need to bear some joint and several liability for the unfavorable protection of the arsenal."

"If the culprit is not caught, the commander's anger will definitely be vented on us."

"As the direct responsible persons, we were both suspicious and were sent to the military court by the military headquarters."

"We still don't even know what the identity of the sneak attacker is, how many people are, and how they enter the arsenal. To catch them in such a large Taiyuan City is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack. The possibility of success is very low."

"If we report to the military headquarters according to the real situation you just found, we will definitely not have a good ending."

"But if we describe the explosion just now as an accident, the main responsibility is not on the guards, and we will bear some joint and several liability at most."

The deputy captain agreed with the captain's analysis, but was still worried: "Sir, what if this matter is found by the military headquarters."

"At that time, not only will you bear all the responsibility for the bombing of the arsenal, but you will also add an additional charge of lying about military information. The final punishment will definitely be even heavier."

The captain glared at the deputy and asked with an idiot expression, "If you don't say it, I won't say it, where will the commander know?"

Seeing the deputy captain showing a thoughtful expression, the captain continued to analyze: "I just thought about this issue specifically and reported that the army commander's explosion just now was an accident and more convincing than artificial."

"It's almost the time when an arsenal explodes. If you were the head of a sneak attack on the arsenal, would you choose to launch an attack at this time?"

The deputy captain shook his head: "If I were the enemy commander, I would definitely choose to launch an attack in the middle of the night. At that time, the guards were the worst vigilance, and there was still a chance to retreat after the attack."

"If you launch an attack when it is almost dawn, and the attack will be dawn the day after completion, it will definitely be difficult to escape!"

"That's right!" The captain agreed with the answer!

"After reporting that the explosion in the military headquarters was an accident, if anyone questioned it, we will refute him with the reason just now."

"Even if someone comes to check, we are not afraid. The blown-up workshop has been cleaned up by us, so we can ensure that they can't find anything."

"For the honor of the guards and for the future of the two of us, this is what's decided."

"You immediately arrange for workers to enter the factory to clean up the blown workshop so that our report will not have any consequences!"

The Japanese Army Headquarters in Taiyuan, under the anxious waiting of the commander, the phone number from the indirect arsenal finally rang.

The combat staff guarding aside quickly grabbed the microphone, hung up the phone five minutes later, and walked quickly to the commander, with a very complicated expression.

"Sir, the reason for the bombing of the arsenal has been found out!"

"The guards have inspected the three workshops that were bombed and found no signs of human damage. The first one to explode was the gunpowder production workshop. Some workers did not sort out the finished products and raw materials of gunpowder yesterday, causing the gunpowder to explode after it heats up."

"The gun repair workshop and the gun repair workshop are next to the gunpowder production workshop. Because there is too much gunpowder stored in the workshop and the explosion is too powerful, it detonated the shells stored in the artillery production workshop, causing a second explosion in the two workshops."

"The guard has found workers who did not classify gunpowder as required, and shot them in front of all the workers, killing the chicken to scare the monkey."

"The guards also apologized to the military headquarters. Although the explosion just now was caused by an accident, they still have the responsibility to fail to observe!"

Hearing this, the commander's inner suspicion had completely disappeared.

During the waiting period, he was also thinking about how the explosion just now was caused, and the final conclusion he came to was similar to what the captain of the guard team thought.

If the explosion is really man-made, I would definitely not choose to launch an attack when dawn is approaching.

Since then, the commander felt that the explosion was an accident, and the report of the security team further confirmed his judgment and made him believe in his analysis.

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