Devil's Army

While Major Zuochuan was worrying about whether his military career was coming to an end, people in Tieling County were happily transporting arms.

Red Wolf left behind five 100mm howitzers, two small mountain cannons, a batch of light and heavy machine guns and enough bullets and artillery shells, and all other weapons and ammunition were brought to the tribe.

The old county magistrate's simple bridge has been reinforced and can now easily accommodate trucks.

The area north of Xiaoliang River has never been so busy as it is today. Trucks are heading north of Xiaoliang River one after another, and then heading to the tribe one after another.

Red Wolf was busy commanding his troops, while Jackal was leading his special forces team and preparing to sneak into Kaiyuan City.

The ultimate goal of their trip was to paralyze the enemy's transportation line, not to hijack a truck of ammunition.

Since Jackal and his men were wearing Japanese military uniforms, it would definitely be inappropriate to enter Kaiyuan City from the direction of Tieling County.

Jackal had to take the special forces members around in a big circle and enter Kaiyuan City from the direction of Changtu County.

After checking Jackal's ID, the guard at Kaiyuan City's north gate asked, "Excuse me, Captain, what business does your squadron have in Kaiyuan City?"

"We are the advance team of Changtu County. There are more troops coming to help defend Kaiyuan City. Your troops in Kaiyuan are too weak. Even the arms train was hijacked by the devil troops!"

It was a big deal that the arms train was hijacked by the devil's troops. The second lieutenant checking at the door must have heard it. This was a shame for their Kaiyuan troops.

The lieutenant blushed and could not utter a word. He could only watch as the Jackal led this well-equipped squadron into the north gate of Kaiyuan City with a proud look on his face.

After Jackal and his men arrived in Kaiyuan and joined up with the supporting garrison troops, Jackal discussed with several team leaders how to paralyze the enemy's transportation lines.

Everyone agreed that blowing up a culvert on the Changtu County railway to Kaiyuan City could effectively paralyze the Japanese's railway transportation line.

In order to paralyze the enemy's railway transportation line for a longer period of time, the Jackal decided to carry out the paralysis operation in two steps. The first step was to blow up the cross-river railway bridge in Tongjiangkou Town, which was the border between Changtu County and Kaiyuan County; the second step was to blow up a culvert more than 30 miles away from Changtu County.

Jackal also had a bold idea. Although there were more than 10,000 devils in Kaiyuan City, they did not have sufficient weapons and ammunition. Moreover, the newly arrived 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers had not yet been well integrated with the original garrison in Kaiyuan City. The First Army took this opportunity to send one or two main brigades to attack Kaiyuan City.

First, one or two regiments of soldiers will enter Kaiyuan City, and Feilong will be responsible for transporting weapons. Then, they will cooperate with each other inside and outside to capture Kaiyuan City. Then, they will confront the devils in Changtu with the culvert as the boundary.

In this way, the strategic depth of Tieling County is much deeper, and it is much more difficult for the Japanese to disrupt the economic construction of Tieling County.

The plan was passed from Gray Wolf to Leng Feng's desk, and Leng Feng was also very interested.

The reason why he sent Honglang to garrison north of Xiaoliang River was because he knew that Xinjing had been sending reinforcements and strategic materials to Kaiyuan. Since the strategic depth between Tieling County and Kaiyuan City was too short, if Kaiyuan City's heavy troops suddenly crossed Xiaoliang River, Tieling County, which had already recovered economically, would immediately suffer and its economy would regress.

But Leng Feng was not ready for a big battle with Kaiyuan City, so he ordered Jackal to paralyze the enemy's railway transportation line first.

After receiving Leng Feng's order, Jackal decided to take the first step and blow up the railway bridge across the Xiaoliang River in Tongjiangkou Town.

Jackal led the team to the railway bridge across the river in Tongjiangkou Town. They encountered a patrol of the Japanese, but Jackal fooled them.

Through the telescope, Jackal discovered that there was a small group of Japanese soldiers guarding each end of the railway bridge. Since there had been no fighting in this area, the Japanese soldiers' defense was not very tight and their vigilance was not very high.

Jackal thought that it would not be difficult to blow up the Japanese railway bridge across the river, but the difficulty lay in how to retreat? Where to retreat?

The Japanese railway bridge was blown up, and they will definitely launch a full-scale search.

Jackal and his men are not familiar with this area, and if they rush around outside, they will definitely be encountered by the Japanese.

Therefore, the first thing that must be solved in order to paralyze the Japanese railway line is the retreat problem.

Jackal sent a telegram to the commander of the Seventh Brigade for help. The political commissar of his brigade was just sent by Secretary Li from Harbin, asking if there were any underground organizations or guerrillas here.

The 7th Brigade Political Commissar Yang immediately contacted Secretary Li and learned that there was a guerrilla force active in the forest near the railway culvert, and the captain was Li Hongmei. The Jackal could seek help from them, and told the Jackal the contact code.

Jackal was overjoyed, as he was intending to use the culvert as a boundary to confront the Japanese from Changtu.

And having a troop familiar with the terrain to assist in the mountains and forests near the culvert is of course the icing on the cake.

The jackal immediately reported his idea in detail to the gray wolf.

Gray Wolf thought the Jackal's plan was feasible and immediately reported it to Leng Feng.

Leng Feng quickly agreed to the Jackal's plan and asked the 1st and 4th Brigades to quickly receive ammunition and supplies to prepare for war and support the Jackal's plan at any time.