Chapter 12: Chance Encounters
Lu Yuan got out of the basin, reached out and wiped the water on his face, gasped twice, wrung out a burlap and wrapped it around his hand, and used it as a bath towel to rub the oil mud on his body. I didn't take a bath for several days in the summer, and my body was dirty, and the burlap rubbed on my body immediately became strips of oil sludge. This is all blamed on the Japanese puppet army in Ding'an City, which only lost dozens of people, and actually mobilized hundreds of people to encircle and intercept Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan originally just wanted to attack the Japanese puppet army out of the city sporadically, but it turned out that Lu Yuan was wrong, so he was chased by hundreds of puppet troops for three days. As for the result of the pursuit, it can be imagined that although the Japanese puppet army that went out of the city to pursue Lu Yuan, although they have always occupied the initiative, their casualties are not small. If you count the wounded, the casualties of the Japanese puppet army in Ding'an City have definitely exceeded forty percent, and the reason why they did not break up is mainly due to the strong restraint of the Japanese officers.
Lu Yuan used the two captured three-wheeled motorcycles to set a trap that day, and successfully ambushed the mobile team of the Japanese puppet army in Ding'an City, but he didn't know that in this mobile team, there was the younger brother of Hasegawa, the commander of the Japanese army in Ding'an City. Knowing that his younger brother was attacked outside the city, where could Hasegawa still sit in the city, he immediately mobilized heavy troops to go out of the city to rescue. Seeing the charred and blackened body of his younger brother Hasegawa, Hasegawa immediately lost his mind, and despite the persuasion of his subordinates, he pursued Lu Yuan, who deliberately exposed his figure.
Lu Yuan deliberately exposed his figure, his original intention was only to provoke the Japanese army, which was originally just Lu Yuan's unintentional move, but it didn't come to fruition, but it was like stabbing a hornet's nest, and a large swarm of Japanese puppet army locusts swarmed. The Japanese troops who went out of the city to rescue not only carried three light machine guns, but also no less than four grenadiers and two light mortars, and every time Lu Yuan stopped and turned around to snipe, they would immediately attract Japanese artillery bombardment, so that Lu Yuan could not fully exert the power of the sniper rifle.
If you can't fight, then you only have to escape, as the old saying goes, a hero doesn't suffer immediate losses, seeing the strong long-range firepower of the Japanese army, Lu Yuan had to flee quickly. But he didn't know that the younger brother of the Japanese commander died in his own hands, so he couldn't understand why this group of Japanese puppet soldiers kept chasing him. For three whole days, Lu Yuan was exhausted from being chased, but he never dared to take it lightly, even if he was sleepy, he only took a nap a little and left immediately.
In three days, Lu Yuan relied on the help of the all-view map, and led the Japanese puppet army that pursued him to go around in a big circle outside Ding'an City, and after seeing the terrain he was familiar with, Lu Yuan relied on the terrain advantage to teach the equally exhausted pursuers a profound lesson. When he left Ding'an City, Hasegawa had more than 100 Japanese soldiers and 150 Imperial Allies, and when he returned to Ding'an City, there were less than 100 Japanese puppet soldiers under Hasegawa who still had combat effectiveness, and the others were either dead or wounded.
The Japanese puppet army pursued fruitlessly, and had to retreat to the city because of heavy casualties, and Lu Yuan also got a short respite, Lu Yuan found a random family in Anzhuang, and exchanged three pieces of ocean for a pot of hot water and some news from the city. After the Anzhuang fort was knocked out by Lu Yuan, the Japanese troops in Ding'an City did not immediately rebuild the turret, so Lu Yuan was not afraid of appearing in Anzhuang. After taking a hot bath comfortably, riding a donkey bought with 30 yuan, Lu Yuan, who had recovered a little, chose to leave immediately.
Lu Yuan didn't plan to stay in one place for a long time, the guerrillas around Ding'an City didn't seize the opportunity, and Lu Yuan wouldn't continue to stay here for them, compared to Ding'an City, Lu Yuan felt that Baoding was more suitable for him. It was not the first time Lu Yuan had gone to Baoding, he still remembered the contact points of the Baoding underground party in the city, lacking intelligence support, and Lu Yuan always felt that something was missing when he was acting.
Heading north from Ding'an City, Lu Yuan, who came out day and night, didn't feel how hard he was, but fortunately, there were only two light rains on the way, which didn't have much impact on Lu Yuan. There are still more than 100 miles away from Baoding, so Lu Yuan exchanged the donkey he bought from Anzhuang for a bag of food and news with the villages he passed. It may be the first time to meet such a generous person as Lu Yuan, and the farmer who exchanged donkeys with Lu Yuan was very generous and prepared a lot of flatbread and pickles for Lu Yuan.
Lu Yuan did not rush into the city, but according to the guidance of the male owner of the family, he followed a small road all the way to the east, and only walked out of more than 30 miles, and saw the railway between Baoding and Zhengding. After the Japanese army controlled Zhengding and marched to Shanxi, Baoding gradually became important in the eyes of the Japanese army, especially the large number of minerals plundered by the Japanese army from Shanxi needed to be transported through the Zhengtai Railway.
The Zhengtai Railway has become a golden line in the eyes of the Japanese army in North China, but the Eighth Route Army from the northwest of the mountain has also set its sights on this railway, although the Japanese army has carried out many sweeps of the resistance forces around the Zhengtai Line, but there are still guerrillas affiliated with the Eighth Route Army who survive. The guerrillas had fewer personnel and were poorly armed, but the guerrillas also had their advantage, that is, they fought if they could, and evacuated immediately if they could not. Although the losses caused to the Japanese puppet army every time were not very large, but after a long time and many times, the Japanese puppet army that surrounded and suppressed them was not lightly.
Lu Yuan went north to Baoding, and the soldiers did not enter the city immediately, but went straight to the railway. According to what he told Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan already knew that all the trains coming from the direction of Zhengding were generally loaded with ore, and most of the trucks from the direction of Baoding to Zhengding were loaded with military supplies of the Japanese army, mainly munitions and clothing.
Whether it is this era, or the later generations where Lu Yuan has lived for many years, the reality of fighting a war is logistics, if the Japanese army that followed Shijiazhuang south lacked supplies and munitions, and the troops of the National Army and the Eighth Route Army who confronted them might be much easier. After searching the surroundings with a full-view map, Lu Yuan quickly rushed down the dirt slope, and then put on a camouflage net and moved towards the railway that was not far away from him. After the railway embankment was destroyed several times by the guerrillas, the Baoding Japanese puppet army recruited a large number of people, not only dug blockade ditches on both sides of the railway line, but also built a lot of stronghold turrets along the way.
Lu Yuan, who was wearing a camouflage net, quickly moved forward, and when he moved to the edge of the blockade ditch, Lu Yuan took out a ball of cotton thread wrapped around a stone from the storage space. Slowly shaking off the cotton thread, Lu Yuan threw the stone tied to the cotton thread to the opposite side of the blockade ditch, and after the stone landed, Lu Yuan pulled the cotton thread back to measure the width of the blockade ditch. Continuously measuring the blockade ditch at different locations, Lu Yuan already had a rough understanding of the blockade ditch on the side of the railway, and then, Lu Yuan measured the depth of the blockade ditch, and then quietly left.
All afternoon, Lu Yuan hid in a small forest to recuperate, and when it was completely dark, Lu Yuan came out of the woods. It was still in the position where Lu Yuan had come during the day, Lu Yuan took out the wooden raft that had been bundled in the afternoon from the storage space, the wooden raft looked simple, but it was enough for Lu Yuan to step on it and cross the blockade ditch on the side of the railway. A few minutes later, Lu Yuan stepped on the wooden raft and crossed the blockade ditch, turned around and retracted the wooden raft, and Lu Yuan moved forward like a raccoon cat, and soon appeared next to the tracks.
After the Japanese army took control of the Zhengtai Railway, it took a whole year to carry out technical transformation of the Zhengtai Railway, changing the narrow track used by the Zhengtai Railway to the standard track and renaming it the Shitai Railway. It's just that no matter if the Japanese rebuild this railway, the railway is also composed of three parts: rails, sleepers and railway embankment, and Lu Yuan wants to destroy the railway, so he doesn't have to use brute force to dig the roadbed or dismantle the railroad tracks like the guerrillas, he only needs to use his own storage space.
According to the man of the household, the Japanese used to transport ore to Baoding at night, and there was no one else on the train except the train driver. Lu Yuan sabotaged the railway, on the one hand, to rob the military supplies transported by the Japanese army to Zhengding, and on the other hand, to lure the Japanese troops in Baoding City to come and send them to death. Intercepting the train transporting the ore obviously could not make Lu Yuan achieve his goal, so after getting close to the railway, Lu Yuan returned to the woods hidden in the afternoon.
After taking a hot bath during the day, this will comfortably burrow into the sheepskin sleeping bag, Lu Yuan, who has yawned several times, just wants to sleep beautifully. Lu Yuan's hidden woods are more than 2 miles away from the railway, but he was still awakened by passing trains several times at night, and the Zhuang man was right, the trains passing by at night were all from Zhengding to Baoding. When Lu Yuan, who was sleeping in a daze, opened his eyes again, he found that the sky was already bright, and after a simple wash with the water in the kettle, Lu Yuan, who was chewing dried meat in his mouth, began to plan today's action steps.
Suddenly, Lu Yuan, who was squatting on the edge of the woodland, opened his body and lay on the ground as a whole, and from the direction of his left, there was a faint sound of talking. Lu Yuan, who was lying on the ground, was secretly glad that he was in a downwind position, if it weren't for this, he wouldn't have heard the sound of talking from the upwind position at all. Slowly moving backwards against the ground, Lu Yuan, who used both hands and feet, quickly retreated into the woods, and with the cover of trees and weeds, Lu Yuan's movement speed was much faster.
After Lu Yuan moved in a straight line to the depths of the woods, he suddenly found that he had not opened the full-view map, and he was secretly annoyed that he immediately opened the full-view map, only to find that the red dots scanned by the full-view map were not the small red dots that represented the enemy. Could it be the local partisans? Lu Yuan, who had already confirmed the number of the other party, couldn't help but muttered to himself, and after a while, Lu Yuan began to move towards the edge of the woodland, he wanted to confirm the identity and purpose of these people.