"What? Have you discovered a secret, hidden and excellent railway branch?" Although Yang Zhen's brows frowned deeply, there was a hint of excitement in his expression when he heard Dong Ping's report.

In later generations, Yang Zhen knew that during the fourteen years of the invasion of the Northeast, in order to firmly control their so-called lifeline and to prepare for the Soviet Union, a large number of secret warehouses and fortifications were built in various parts of the Northeast. Especially in the North Manchuria, which was the main battlefield of the Soviet Union, a large number of extremely hidden fortifications and warehouses were built.

How many fortifications are there in these warehouses and where is the specific location? Because all the workers were killed after the project was completed, and the files were destroyed when they were defeated. Except for a few fortresses that were large in scale and even fought with the Soviet army, especially the secret warehouses, even decades later, they were not found out.

When the world-shocking fire occurred in the Daxinganling Mountains later, many people speculated that the fire was caused by the explosion of a secret arsenal built by the Kwantung Army in the Daxinganling Mountains.

Yang Zhen didn't know whether the fire in Daxinganling was caused by the explosion of the Kwantung Army warehouse, but he knew that even in the 21st century he had traveled through, there was still a secret warehouse built by the Kwantung Army in the Northeast that year that he had not been discovered. He was sure of this.

When Yang Zhen heard that Dong Ping discovered a secret, which was not marked on the map and was hidden, the excellent railway branch line was hidden, and the first thing he felt was that the end of this small railway branch line that looked like it was specially used to transport wood was probably a secret fortification of the Japanese army. As for whether it was a Soviet combat fortification or a warehouse, he needed to conduct follow-up reconnaissance by himself.

Dong Ping nodded firmly and said, "I'm sure it's a secret railway line. No local people know where this railway line leads. They only know that when the railway is built, none of the workers who came into the mountains came out alive."

"I once led a reconnaissance team to find out where the railway leads. Unfortunately, before we could enter the mountain, we encountered the Japanese patrol and a large number of barbed wire. We also found a minefield. In addition, after entering the mountain, we found a large number of bones in the mountains on both sides of the railway branch."

"Because we were afraid of exposing our target, we did not dare to go deeper, so we rushed back to report. But one thing, I can be sure that this railway branch line did not indicate any indication on the Japanese army we seized. And it was hidden and there were no people along the line."

Yang Zhen thought for a moment, turned to Xiaohuzi beside him and said, "Go and find Li Mingrui, and the political commissar, chief of staff, and several regiment commanders. We are going to have a meeting."

Hearing Yang Zhen's order, Xiaohuzi didn't dare to delay, so he quickly found the few people Yang Zhen was looking for.

Seeing Li Yanping and others coming, Yang Zhen pointed to the map and recounted Dong Ping's report just now and said: "According to Dong Ping's discovery, the end of this railway branch line is likely to be a secret warehouse of the Japanese army."

"In order to make the so-called preparations to fight against the Soviet Union, the Japanese not only built a large number of fortifications and fortresses on the border, but also built a large number of secret warehouses near the rear traffic line, storing a large number of weapons, ammunition and various materials."

"You see, this is the Qinghei Mountain line where we are now. This is the Qunce Mountain area where Dong Ping discovered the secret railway branch. The straight line is not far away. I want to take Li Mingrui's reconnaissance team and Guangyu's group to attack. See what the hell is there."

Because the killing of prisoners in Jingpo Lake has not given Yang Zhen a good face, the commander-in-chief took the lead in opposing: "You want to touch what the situation is there, I agree. But you have to lead the team in person, I object."

"You are now a senior commander of the army, and you have to be responsible for the entire army. I suggest that Guangyu should be responsible for this attack. You can stay and continue to reorganize the troops."

Regarding the opposition from the commander-in-chief, Yang Zhen smiled bitterly: "The commander-in-chief's attack this time is not a regular operation. We can only act like a sneak attack on the Jingpo Lake Hydropower Construction Site. There is a railway connected to the outside world. Once our combat attempts are exposed, the Japanese army will quickly mobilize heavy troops from Jiamusi to reinforce."

"We should try not to shoot in this battle as much as possible. So I don't go, others don't have the ability. Although Li Mingrui and the others performed well in Jingpo Lake, that battle also revealed a lot of problems. The main reason is that they still lack experience."

"In the battle of Jingpo Lake Hydropower Station, even if our actions are exposed, we can use strong attacks to solve the problem. But it is different there. We can only take raids and infiltrate as much as possible. What we want is the supplies inside, not to simply destroy the enemy."

"And no one knows how many Japanese troops there, what equipment, and what terrain is like. If we attack rashly, the losses will be huge."

"If it was really a Japanese army warehouse there, and if this battle was fought well, we could not only solve the problem of lack of equipment, but also solve the problem of single military uniforms. To be cautious, I must go there in person."

Yang Zhen insisted on his opinion, but when several people saw that the commander-in-chief could not persuade him, they did not open their mouths. However, although Guo Bingxun did not object to Yang Zhen leading the team to attack, he insisted that Yang Zhen personally enter the base that the Japanese did not know what it was for reconnaissance.

Although he knew that everyone in the army was added together, only Yang Zhen had the ability to touch it without disturbing the Japanese army.

During the battle of Jingpo Lake, the reason why the troops paid only a slight and almost negligible casualties was solved by the Japanese police squadron and a regiment of the Puppet Manchukuo Army serving as the guards was that Yang Zhen led Li Mingrui's reconnaissance team to first touch the Japanese and puppet military barracks, confiscated all their weapons, and first controlled the Japanese army with relatively strong combat effectiveness, so that they could seize the heavily guarded Jingpo Lake Hydropower Station construction site without bloodshed. Not only did they seize a large number of weapons and equipment, but they also obtained a large number of supplies, solving the urgent needs of the troops.

But this time was different from the battle at Jingpo Lake. The Japanese army had no intelligence in this secret base, and its troops and equipment. Especially when the commander-in-chief said that Tang Yuan was the main activity area of ​​the Third Route Army of the Anti-Japanese United Army, the North Manchurian Provincial Committee had been hiding in Tang Yuan for a long time.

The commander-in-chief has never heard from the people of the Third Route Army that there is a secret base of the Japanese army. From this point of view, we can see that this place is unusual. So although Guo Bingxun agreed to Yang Zhen to lead the team to attack, he firmly opposed Yang Zhen personally taking on the risk of reconnaissance like the battle in Jingpo Lake. He repeatedly reminded Wang Guangyu and Li Mingrui who led the team to participate in the battle to watch him.

After making up his mind, Yang Zhen led the team to set off without any delay that night. Under Dong Ping's leadership, after a night of marching, he came to where he discovered the secret railway in the morning the next day.

After arriving at the location, Yang Zhen left Wang Guangyu to command the main force, ready for the response and combat preparations. He personally led Li Mingrui, Dong Ping and three reconnaissance teams to touch the mountain along the railway line.

Wang Guangyu, who was repeatedly reminded by the commander-in-chief and Guo Bingxun before leaving, disagreed at first, disagreed with Yang Zhen, who had not had much time to nag him. However, Yang Zhen, who had not had much time to persuade him.

Sure enough, before waiting for Yang Zhen to walk into the mountain, about twenty miles away, he encountered the barbed wire and minefield described by Dong Ping. There was a minefield here, which showed that the Japanese army that advocated the offensive attached great importance to this place. As for what exactly it was, Yang Zhen was not sure yet.

After confirming that this place would be an extremely important place, Yang Zhen did not rush to touch it, but instead found a secret place outside the barbed wire mesh and raised his telescope to observe it carefully. He tried to find clues that could reveal the real situation here.

Because the mountain blocked vision was blocked, Yang Zhen observed the bushes less than 20 meters away from the barbed wire for a day without moving. Except for determining the patrol interval between the Japanese patrol team and the number of people stationed outside, he did not find any valuable clues.

After a day of observation, Yang Zhen decided to take advantage of the night to touch it. He looked closely and carefully. Yang Zhen, who made up his mind, did not bring too many people, but Li Mingrui quickly opened up a passage in the minefield and touched it.

Seeing Yang Zhen relaxed and almost effortlessly, he used an iron wire to open a passage in the minefield. Li Mingrui, who had seen his mine-building methods, gave a thumbs up in his heart: "Only his commander-in-chief not only has many mine-burning methods, but also his mine-clearing methods are scary enough. In just half an hour, he created a passage in the 20-meter-wide mine-burning field."

Yang Zhen didn't know what Li Mingrui was thinking. After estimating the arrival of the Japanese patrol team, Yang Zhen took out a pair of small pliers and gently cut a gap enough to accommodate a person's crawling in a not-so-obvious part of the barbed wire.

After the two passed through the barbed wire, Yang Zhen carefully restored the barbed wire to its original state, and he and Li Mingrui quickly passed the Japanese patrol path and entered this heavily guarded Japanese base.

After entering the Japanese base, Yang Zhen did not rush to act. Instead, after determining his position, he quietly found a secret place to hide. The night was too dark, and Yang Zhen was afraid that the observation level would be affected and he missed something, so he decided to wait here for a day. He waited until dawn and observed it carefully.

After seeing the real situation here after dawn, even Yang Zhen, who had always been calm, couldn't help but take a breath.

This should be a large-scale secret warehouse of the Japanese army. Just from the clues revealed on the surface, you can tell that the mountain under you may have been hollowed out. A vent hole with excellent camouflage is less than thirty meters away from Yang Zhen.

When Yang Zhen carefully climbed to the front of the vent hole, opened the weeds used for concealment and looked down, he found that there was a tunnel with two trucks in parallel and covered with rails under the vent hole. As for where the tunnel leads, Yang Zhen could not know due to the limited visual distance.

As for why it is inferred that this is a warehouse, not a fortification, etc., it is very simple. Although Tang Yuan is not far from the Sino-Soviet border, it is still a little distance after all. Moreover, from the perspective of transportation, even if a war broke out between Japan and the Soviet Union, this place will not be the main battlefield. Building fortifications here is not as threatening to the Soviet Union as it is better to be in Fujin's territory in the north.

The Japanese army here is not as powerful as a fortress or military fortification. There are two rows of bungalows at the foot of the mountain. According to Yang Zhen's estimate, at most five or six hundred people can be stationed here, which is impossible to accommodate at most. Unless all these Japanese troops are stationed in the cave. After careful observation, Yang Zhen did not find any hidden shooting holes that can be used for combat, except for a large number of vents.

Moreover, the strength of the Japanese army that was only two squadrons in the morning proved that this place should not be a fortress. Otherwise, only such troops stationed at most, which can be called garrisons will not be able to fight on a large scale.

Yang Zhen looked very carefully. He was not only carefully observing the true face of the Japanese army here, but also carefully observing the fortifications of the Japanese garrison troops. Although the Japanese fortifications were extremely hidden and extremely tricky, Yang Zhen's pair of eyes that had seen many such hidden fortifications in later generations were still fully exposed.

Every time he found a place, Yang Zhen would mark it on the topographic map he drew. It was not until he repeatedly observed it three or five times and confirmed that it was correct that Yang Zhen stopped to rest and rest. Of course, this kind of rest was just to close his eyes in place for a while, not to mention walking or eating, even sitting up, he would never dare to sit up.

Although there are not many Japanese at the foot of the mountain, they have two squadrons of troops. Their current location is on the head of the Japanese warehouse, at the core of the entire camp.

Once exposed, with the two Browning pistols he carried with him, which had only more than ten bullets combined, and the two fast and slow aircraft on Li Mingrui, there was almost no possibility of breaking through in front of the superior Japanese army except for a desperate attempt. In other words, if the two people were exposed, it would not be a life of death, but a life of ten deaths.

Yang Zhen was extremely careful in every move, for fear of attracting the attention of the Japanese patrol team carrying military dogs who had walked by in more than ten minutes. Li Mingrui, who was beside him, was nervous and sweating, and his heart was almost in his throat.

The reason why Li Mingrui, who had been a thief for many years and had seen strong winds and waves, was nervous that Li Mingrui, who had been worried, was not the Japanese soldiers patrolling back and forth under the tip of his nose, but Yang Zhen, who was lying beside him.

Li Mingrui was not afraid of the Japanese army, nor was he nervous. What he was more worried about was that once exposed, it would threaten Yang Zhen's safety. Li Mingrui knew that once exposed, it would be difficult for the two of them to rush out.

It's okay for him, but once something happened to Yang Zhen, the newly formed troops would probably be ruined. Not to mention the commander-in-chief, the political commissar and others could not spare him, nor could they forgive him. Out of concern for Yang Zhen's safety, Li Mingrui had never been like today, waiting for darkness when the sun just rose.

Fortunately, both of them were masters of action. After enduring without any danger until dark, they safely evacuated the secret warehouse of the Japanese army. With the support of Dong Ping on the outside, they returned to Wang Guangyu.

Seeing Yang Zhen return safely, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Just after Yang Zhen ate something and recovered his strength, the hearts of these people were raised.

Regarding Yang Zhen’s idea of ​​taking the reconnaissance team back to the Japanese base this time and opening an offensive channel for the main force, Wang Guangyu firmly opposed: “Commander, you have figured out the Japanese defense deployment and general fortifications. I think Mingrui and Dong Ping can do the rest. You should be responsible for commanding the overall situation.”
Chapter completed!