Chapter 24: Reinforcements
When the Japanese troops on the Madian side received the information that the railway station had been attacked, it was already dawn, and the Japanese commander stationed in Madian, Komotoro, had just finished playing with his knife and was humming a small tune in the bathtub, when the adjutant guarding the door walked in, followed by a soldier who was staggering and smelling of sweat. "Your Excellency Nakasa, the train station was attacked last night, the enemy was outnumbered and the firepower was very strong, our people and those Imperial Cooperative troops were gone, so only a dozen people fled back"
"I know, you guys go out first" Komotoro, who was soaked in the water, still had his eyes closed, and there was no anger at all as the adjutant imagined, and the military Cao who thought he would be punished was also secretly relieved. The two of them bowed to Komoto in the bathtub before turning around and leaving the room, but none of them saw that Komoto's hand on the tub had been clenched into a fist. Madian is just a small place, if it weren't for the deployment of the base camp to lay the railway and build the railway station here, I'm afraid that he wouldn't even have the qualifications to be marked on the map, Xiao Benlang naturally knew that the most important thing in Madian was the railway station that served as the transit and diversion of materials.
The Madian Japanese puppet army commanded by Komoto Lang is mainly to provide defense for Madian, and the situation of transferring materials at the railway station is not under his control, and even what materials are hoarded in the railway station, Komoto Lang does not know, his only mission is to take the Japanese puppet army stationed in Madian to protect the railway station. Komoto Lang is an old soldier, although there are not many Japanese puppet troops he stationed in the train station, but they are also the strongest soldiers in his hands, and the enemy army who can take the train station overnight will not be an ordinary person, Komoto Lang does not dare to rush over with the troops.
The water in the bathtub was already cold, but Komoto didn't have the slightest intention of wanting to come out, and he was still repeatedly deducing in his mind the possible battle that might have taken place at the train station last night. The arrangement in the railway station was arranged by Komoto Lang himself, and the machine gun nests arranged on the platform alone could suppress most of the area in the railway station, and it was difficult for the enemy to capture the railway station without strong fire support, and Komoto was very satisfied with his troop deployment.
Komoto himself simulated that he would lead people to attack the train station, and finally came to the conclusion that it would be difficult to take the train station without twice the number of troops defending it, and even if they did take the train station, they would pay a lot of casualties. Komoto suddenly opened his eyes and stood up from the bathtub, the train station is too important, as a commander, he can't tolerate the train station falling into the hands of others, so he must lead the troops to snatch the train station back.
"Assemble the troops, rush to the train station immediately" Komoto Lang, who had been dressed, walked out of the house with his command knife, his adjutant had already called out the officers of the Japanese army and the Imperial Allied Army, and after hearing Komotoro's order, they rushed out in a swarm, and each went to gather his own troops. Xiao Benlang ate breakfast slowly under the service of the adjutant, and then got on the horse with the command knife, and casually rushed to the railway station more than ten miles away with the assembled troops.
Komotoro's adjutant asked with some puzzlement, "Your Excellency Nakasa, why do you order the troops to go slowly, let's rush to the train station at such a speed, those enemies may have run away a long time ago, maybe even the train station will be destroyed" Komotoro's adjutant has been following him for a long time, and the relationship between them is not only the relationship between superiors and subordinates, but his adjutant has also saved Komotoro's life on the battlefield, so the adjutant's obviously questioning words did not make Komotoro feel annoyed.
"Yamamoto-kun, don't you know our arrangement in the train station?" Komoto, who was riding on horseback, turned his head to look at the adjutant with a puzzled face, and smiled meaningfully, "Yamamoto-kun, if you are asked to attack the train station at night with your troops, then how many troops do you think you need to take the train station?" Komoto's words made Yamamoto, who was an adjutant, stunned for a moment, he really hadn't thought about this problem, and after thinking about it carefully, with the kind of defensive firepower in the train station, it was really impossible for him to take the train station in such a short time.
"Do you mean that the attack on the railway station last night was not an ordinary army, it may be the regular troops of the national army or the Jin Sui army, and there are many troops?" Yamamoto looked back at the artillery team that followed the team, when Komoto set off, he brought all the heavy weapons and mortars, and with Komoto's words just now, Yamamoto understood the reason why Komoto had to bring the artillery team and all the heavy weapons.
The march after slowing down is obviously very much to the appetite of the Imperial Allied Army, and the Imperial Allied Army with rifles on their backs is considered good this year, at least not too much has been left behind by the Japanese army for the time being, and in the scolding of several Imperial Allied Army officers, they are finally firmly behind the Japanese army. Not long after leaving the barracks, Komoto sent out sharp soldiers to explore the way, and it was a cavalry that came and went as fast as the wind. Although the speed of the march was full, Komotoro's heart was much more stable, at least he would not encounter an ambush attacking him halfway.
Not far from the barracks, Komoto and the others arrived at the side of the railway, and there were his vigilant soldiers on the high ground on both sides of the railway, as long as the situation was discovered, those soldiers walking on the high ground would fire warning shots to buy time for Komoto and them to react. After arranging so many arrangements, Komotoro's heart was still a little uncomfortable, but he didn't know why his heart was so irritable, if he knew that there were more than a dozen machine guns waiting for them not far ahead, maybe Komotoro's heart would be steady.
"Stop advancing" The guard sentry on the high ground on the left side of Komoro suddenly raised the flag on his rifle and shook it back and forth a few times, which was the signal that Komoto had discussed when he sent out the guard post, which meant that the guard post on the high ground on the left had discovered the situation. "Your Excellency, smoke is rising from the train station, and the spearhead squad has passed, what should we do?" The guard post that slipped down the dirt slope panted and ran in front of Komotoro, and they did indeed notice the smoke rising in front of them, so they waved the flag.
"Stand by and wait for the news from the spearhead" Komoto just waved his hand, turned over and got off the horse. As he got closer to the train station, the feeling of apprehension in Komoto's heart became stronger and stronger, so he had to wait for the message from the soldiers before he could make a decision.