Chapter 304: Station Turmoil
After a long journey of seven or eight days, the troops finally arrived in Zhengzhou, and there was nothing else except for two air raids on the road.
Zhang Wei made arrangements in advance, so the casualties in the air raid were not large, only about two dozen people, and the Japanese planes did not show enough interest in the marching column of the preparatory battalion.
The vast majority of the planes were bombarding the troops of the First Army, and Zhang Wei was purely unlucky to collide with these Japanese planes.
Zhengzhou Railway Station was built in 1904, has a history of more than 30 years, the scale is not small, Zhang Wei with the troops rushed to the platform, the whole station is a chaotic scene.
People get on the train in an orderly manner, scramble, and the carriages are crowded with people, or even climb directly onto the train carriages, or stand at the junction of the two carriages.
In order to prevent the troops from being dispersed, Zhang Wei asked the reserve battalion to arrange a blockade line with live ammunition and leave a place for the troops on the platform.
"Qiu Wei, you are watching here, I'll go find the person in charge of the station!"
Now in the entire station, there is only Zhang Wei's troops, there is no guard force in the station, only outside the station, and about one company of troops is on the periphery of the guard station.
It doesn't look like the train station is under military control at all!
Zhang Wei was very angry, he hurried to the station, and waited for chaos, where should this be a transportation hub during the war?
Zhang Wei took the herald and found the station's dispatch room in the center of the platform, and the door of the two-story platform dispatch room was closed.
"Open the door!"
The herald went to knock on the door, but no one opened it after knocking for a long time, and Zhang Wei and the others were impatient, so they let the herald kick it open.
Zhang Wei walked into the dispatch room impatiently, and was about to get angry, but the scene inside forced back what he wanted to scold.
The dispatch room is a small two-story building, and when Zhang Wei entered the dispatch room, the tables and stools inside were lying around, and all kinds of official papers and broken office utensils were scattered on the ground.
More than a dozen station attendants in shabby blue uniforms sat on the ground, many with wounds.
"I'm an officer in the assault column of the 200th Division of the Army, where is your leader?" Zhang Wei asked with a calm face.
"Sir, I'm the platform shift leader."
A weak voice came, speaking from a middle-aged man, his blue uniform ripped to shreds, and there were many wounds on his face.
"We were ordered to come to your station to take the train south, what about the train?"
The shift leader sighed: "Your commander is surnamed Qiu, right?"
"That's right, it's Chief Qiu."
The shift leader picked up a few pieces of paper from the ground, which were the army dispatch documents printed with the blue sky and the red sky, but they had been torn apart.
Zhang Wei looked at the chaos in this dispatch room as if he had been robbed, as well as these injured train attendants and shredded orders.
"What's going on, who dares to tear up the army's order, and where is the train going?" Zhang Wei asked.
Without waiting for the shift leader to speak, a conductor next to him said indignantly.
"Sir, it's no wonder that we want a train, how dare we slack off, but you can also see it, this train pulling people should have left a long time ago, but this group of people outside had to get on the train, and a lot of them were fare evaders."
"These crazy people don't want to die, they squeeze into the carriage, climb on top of the carriage, they can't stop it, and they smash the duty room."
The conductor was talking and crying, which shows how much he was wronged just now.
Zhang Wei now understands why there is no car, this kind of thing happened, no wonder these conductors, the situation outside is about to catch up with hand-to-hand combat, and they can't deal with it at all.
"Is it possible that when this car is gone, our car will be able to drive over?"
The shift leader looked at Zhang Wei and nodded stunned.
"Alright, we'll take care of that!" Zhang Wei didn't talk much nonsense, and led people out of the dispatching room in a hurry, leaving a room of train attendants.
"Shift leader, what is this military master going to do?"
"I can't see it, the group of people who have suffered a thousand knives outside are going to be unlucky."
The shift leader turned his head: "Don't talk nonsense, someone will give us a head, go and call the military column!"
The situation on the platform remained the same, and the infantry of the reserve battalion protected the anti-aircraft artillery battalion and the anti-aircraft machine gun platoon, marking a safe zone.
The rest of the people are still the same, squeezing to death.
Zhang Wei can actually understand their behavior, if there is a war, the little people definitely don't want to die, and they don't want to get involved, it's normal to run away.
But forcibly boarding the train, or even besieging the train dispatcher, this thing is overdone, what is the difference between this behavior and the thug?
"Qiu Wei!"
"Yes!"
Zhang Wei returned to the team, looking at the farce in front of him, if he didn't get rid of these people, his team wouldn't be able to leave for another day.
"Pick me up from the car all the people who climbed into the car and disturbed the order, and whoever dares to disobey will be shot!"
Qiu Wei was stunned for a moment, these were ordinary people in front of him, he would always hesitate, and when he saw Zhang Wei's angry face, he no longer hesitated and immediately executed Zhang Wei's order.
"One row and two rows, follow me and arrest people!" Qiu Wei personally rushed to the platform boundary with two platoons, and many people were trying to climb onto the train.
Through the window, you can see the passengers next to the window who are looking in pain due to overcrowding.
There were more than seventy people in two platoons in a company, and since Zhang Wei gave the order, this group of soldiers was not polite.
Pick up the butt of the rifle and open the road, and when he sees someone, he smashes it, pulling down many people who are climbing the car, and there are bursts of screams in the crowd.
"Go back, don't get in the car!"
Qiu Weiwei shouted
Qiu Wei's shouting could not completely stop these crazy people, many of them ignored the soldiers next to them, lost their luggage, and continued to climb towards the car.
"Qiu Wei, do it!"
Zhang Wei saw that the situation was uncontrollable, and he couldn't scare this group of people if he didn't see a little blood.
"Bang Bang Bang"
Three gunshots rang out, and two men who had struggled to climb onto the carriage were hit by a series of bullets, and their bodies lost their balance and tumbled off the train, red blood spilling all over the station.
A company of light machine gunners fired a few more shots into the sky, and the people died, and when they saw blood, the people who climbed the car became honest.
"Let's be honest, go over there and stay!" Qiu Wei pointed at the cement clearing on the platform with a shell gun and told these people to go to the cement clearing.
These people are very shrewd, and they can play scoundrels against the conductor, and now they are all shrugged at the soldiers who shoot and kill.
Finally, under the escort of a company of soldiers, all of them were driven to the cement clearing and sat down.
"Set up the machine gun, Mu Chao, Zheng Yiqun, inform the friendly troops, when this train is gone, everyone is ready to board!"
To scare the gang, Zhang Wei sent people to urge the dispatcher and arrange for the train to start, while ordering the troops to prepare to board the train.
After the "rioters" were centrally controlled, the platform was much cleaner at once, and without the threat of the "rioters", the normal traffic order of the station was finally restored.
The dispatchers walked out of the dispatch room and began to arrange for the train to start, and the efficiency was also good, and it took about five minutes for the train in front of Zhang Wei to start slowly.