sbdcsierra Chapter 113 Poisoning
Chapter 113 Poisoning
At midnight, the commando team was dispatched. Without disturbing the innkeeper, the team members jumped down from the second-floor window, crossed the quiet streets, and moved to the outskirts of the warehouse to hide.
Chen Feng asked his team members to be ready to attack from outside if they heard gunshots to disrupt the defenders' vision. He then slowly approached the warehouse with Wu Tianxiang, carrying a bundle of ropes on his shoulders to clear the way. Wu Tianxiang followed behind with a bag of arsenic on his back. The two of them carefully approached the back wall of the warehouse. The wall was very thick, and it was impossible to get into the warehouse unless explosives were used. The Japanese were not worried at all that someone would break through from here.
Chen Feng carried the rope and began to climb up along the corners of the east and south walls. Wu Tianxiang's eyes widened in the night. Is this possible? Climbing up with only two walls at a 90-degree angle as support.
Chen Feng was very fast and made no noise. In more than 20 seconds, he had climbed to the slope of the roof and lowered the rope. Wu Tianxiang quickly tied up the bag of arsenic and pulled the rope hard. The bag of arsenic slowly began to slide upwards. Wu Tianxiang was quite nervous, but after seeing Chen Feng's gesture above, he quickly hid himself.
Fortunately, the arsenic reached the roof smoothly, and Chen Feng disappeared on the eaves carrying the arsenic.
Just as Chen Feng thought, the ventilation window can be opened. Chen Feng quietly used a wire to push open the latch inside, opened the window and looked down. The warehouse was pitch black, without any light source, but some light came in through the crack of the door. His eyes adjusted to the darkness, and he checked the warehouse through that ray of light. It was empty.
From a distance, the warehouses seemed to be connected, but in fact, every two warehouses were four or five meters apart. Chen Feng pushed the latch of the skylight back to its original position, took a light run, jumped into the air, and landed on the roof of the warehouse opposite. He continued to open the skylight to check, and this time he found the dense black shadows in the warehouse, which should be sacks of rice.
After listening carefully for a while and judging that there was no one in the warehouse, Chen Feng tied one end of the rope to the square building of the skylight and the other end to the arsenic bag. He slid down little by little. After the bag dropped four or five meters, the tension disappeared. Chen Feng judged that he must have reached the goods, so he went into the skylight and slid down along the rope. Sure enough, the sacks of rice were piled four meters high.
He untied the bag, walked around the top layer of the sack, and began to add the poison. He did not spread it evenly, but only used a dagger to stir the arsenic into twenty or thirty sacks near the warehouse. It would be useless if it was too diluted. Once the Japanese army found out that someone was poisoned, they would definitely not continue to eat it, and would even capture civilians to test the poison. Thirty sacks and three thousand kilograms of rice, even if it was just the rations for a legion, would probably be used up in one meal.
After cleaning up all the traces, he climbed up along the rope with the bag.
I jumped to the third warehouse and found it was completely dark inside. There was no light coming through the gap in the door. There were four more warehouses, including this one. Which one was used to store ammunition? I guess it wasn't this one. Ammunition was next to the granary. Once an explosion occurred, it would affect the grain. These were all military rations. The guarding officer shouldn't be so stupid. Forget it, let's start checking from the back!
After three consecutive leaps, he arrived at the sixth warehouse and opened the skylight, but there was still no light. He listened carefully for a while, made sure that no one was in the warehouse, tied the rope and slid down.
After groping around for a while, his eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness and he found something. He touched some boxes and some sacks. The boxes were filled with anti-personnel mines, the sacks were filled with explosive packs and fuses, and there were detonators on the shelf next to them. Fortunately, there were no artillery shells, otherwise it would be inappropriate to blow up the place or not. If he exploded, the rice might be affected. If he didn't explode, once the artillery shells reached the front line, it would be the lives of thousands of national soldiers.
There are not many mines, and there are more than twenty boxes neatly arranged. Chen Feng is not going to move them. The sacks are very messy and there are a lot of them. It is estimated that they will not be noticeable if some are moved.
It took more than an hour to climb up and down, pack the eighteen five-pound explosives into two sacks, and pull them to the roof with ropes. Finally, he came down again and climbed up again with the fuse and twenty detonators. The loss of these things should not attract the attention of the Japanese.
Not daring to use the flashlight to signal his teammates, Chen Feng tied the rope tightly and slid along the rope to the back wall.
After finding out the location of his teammates, he whistled softly, and all his teammates came over. He took them to the back of the sixth warehouse, and Chen Feng climbed up quickly again.
They didn't go back to the inn. Each of the nine people carried two explosive packs and left Lincheng under the cover of night. Next, they were going to attack the Jinpu Line. Didn't the Japanese want to quickly open up the Jinpu Line? They must not be allowed to do so. This was an important part of preventing the commander-in-chief from bombing Huayuankou.
The Tientsin-Pukow Railway, also known as the Jinpu Line, is a trunk railway line connecting Tianjin and Nanjing Pukou. Construction of the entire line began in June 1908 (the 34th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty) and was completed and opened to traffic in November 1912 (the first year of the Republic of China).
The line starts from Tianjin North Station of Beijing-Fengtian Railway in the north, passes through Cangzhou, Dezhou, Jinan, Tai'an, Tengzhou, Xuzhou, Suzhou, Bengbu, Chuzhou and other places, and ends at Nanjing Pukou Station in the south.
The Japanese army attacked Xuzhou in order to open up this railway line. Once the entire Jinpu line was occupied, the Japanese army could maneuver to most of the eastern part of China at any time. Whether it was to encircle the anti-Japanese forces east of the Jinpu line or to attack Anhui and Henan to the west, the strategic significance was very important.
The team took all their equipment, and each person carried two packs of explosives. They headed north along the Jinpu Railway in the north of Lincheng City and stopped at a place called Muzu Mountain. It was just dawn and there was still fog in the sky. As the sun rose, the fog slowly dissipated. Standing on the height of Muzu Mountain, one could see the Jinpu Railway line from afar.
This place is very suitable. It is located at the midpoint between Lincheng and Teng County. The mountains are full of abandoned rock fields, lush trees and bushes. We found a terrain that can be advanced or retreated to set up camp. At eight o'clock, Chen Feng adjusted the radio and sent a message to Li Yunyan:
The Lone Wolf Commando poisoned the railway station warehouse in Lincheng last night. A batch of rice will be sent to the Taierzhuang front in a few days. Please observe closely at the frontline positions. If you find any abnormalities in the Japanese military camp, you can take the initiative to attack.
In addition, please ask the Fifth War Zone to collect information on the Jinpu Railway. Once there is news of arms or troop carriers, please notify the Lone Wolf Commando in time. The commando will intercept them halfway. From now on, the radio station will be monitored at all times, with rotation around the clock.
After sending the telegram and monitoring the situation for half an hour, Li Yunyan called back to say that he had received the message and would actively inquire about news from spies and the headquarters. If there was any news, he would immediately notify the Lone Wolf Commando and asked the Lone Wolf Commando to make sure they were safe before taking any action and to ensure their own safety.
After hearing the message, Chen Feng began to teach the team members how to monitor. There were nine people, and each person had to monitor for nearly three hours. There was no other good way. It would be time-consuming and laborious for the team to inquire and it would be difficult to get the desired results.