Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

When Li Yunlong received the telegram, his eyebrows raised slightly. "Is this a telegram from the commander of the Japanese 26th Division, Kuroda Shigenori? Does he have a treasure at home?"

After seeing the content of the telegram, Li Yunlong immediately led people to Kuroda Shigenori's home to conduct a carpet search.

When Li Yunlong's troops entered these homes before, they were mainly there to arrest people, so they did not pay attention to the paintings hanging on the walls of these people's homes, and even some basements were directly ignored without any detailed inspection.

After all, there was not much time left for Li Yunlong's troops at that time, and they had to race against time to seize supplies so that they could transport as many supplies as possible out of Datong.

"Report, we found the basement!"

Kuroda Shigenori's basement was not built very secretly. It was just below the stairs in the living room, but it was not noticed during the previous search. When Li Yunlong entered the basement, all he saw were neatly arranged boxes.

The boxes contained various valuables. As the basement of the home of a Japanese division commander, Kuroda Shigenori, all the collections were priceless.

Kuroda Shigenori served as the commander of the 1938th Division from and was never transferred. He served as the commander of the th Division for nearly four years and was stationed in Datong, plundering Datong and its surrounding areas for many years.

In addition, if the Japanese wanted Datong's high-quality coal, they all needed to have a good relationship with Kuroda Shigenori, so many Japanese officials would take the initiative to give gifts to Kuroda Shigenori, so Kuroda Shigenori had a treasure in the basement.

"Commander, so much gold!"

Compared with the silver dollars seized from other Japanese homes, Kuroda Shigenori looked down on silver. After all, the Japanese themselves produced silver. Kuroda Shigenori's basement was full of yellow croakers of all sizes. There were at least 400 kilograms of gold in the entire basement.

Li Yunlong looked at the gold in front of him and was a little dazed for a moment. This was just a Japanese division commander. If he was the commander of various Japanese expeditionary forces, how much could they plunder?

Li Yunlong remembers a later memory that the Japanese invaders looted 1 tons of gold from China. Many people don't realize how huge this amount is just by looking at this number. A simple comparison shows how huge this amount is. During World War II, England's entire national gold reserves were only tons. (Note )

"Move everything away! Damn it! I was wondering why there was no gold in the Datong Bank. It was all just some foreign currency and counterfeit Japanese banknotes, all hidden in the house by this old Japanese devil. And be careful with these things! They are national treasures!"

Li Yunlong noticed that there was a small box among these boxes. When he opened it, he found a teacup inside.

But Li Yunlong recognized it at a glance, the famous Song Dynasty Jianyang Kiln Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl.

"Didn't they say this thing was passed down from the Japs? It seems the Japs lied about this as well."

Li Yunlong gently picked up the box and took a closer look, confirming that this Song Dynasty Jianyang Kiln Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl was the same one he saw when he was on a business trip to the Japanese side in later life.

He immediately put the box into his arms. This thing is definitely a national treasure among national treasures. It seems that there is only one such box in the world, so Li Yunlong is extremely careful. This thing must be kept well and handed over after the war. Now Li Yunlong is keeping it temporarily.

In addition, Li Yunlong also found some other antiques in Kuroda Shigenori's room, especially some paintings hanging on the wall. Most of the soldiers had just learned to read and did not recognize the works of these historical celebrities, but Li Yunlong could recognize some of them. After all, the information bombardment of later generations allowed Li Yunlong to learn some things that he did not understand before, such as listening to the springs and appraising treasures.

After walking out of Kuroda Shigenori's house, Li Yunlong realized a problem. Throughout the city of Datong, there should be many domestic cultural relics in the homes of the Japanese devils, but most of the soldiers did not recognize them and thus missed these treasures.

"Old Xing, Old Xing, is there anyone in our army who knows about cultural relics?"

When Li Yunlong returned to the command center, he found Xing Zhiguo immediately. Lao Zhao had already returned to the mine and was preparing to transfer the miners.

"Knowing about cultural relics? I don't know about that, but the instructors and political instructors in our team should know a few. They've all been to school, and many of them come from wealthy families, so they should have some knowledge."

"Immediately arrange for the instructors and political instructors of each company and detachment to go to each of the Japanese's homes and search them carefully. The Japanese have hidden a lot of good things. Take a look at these things."

Li Yunlong pointed to the boxes outside and said, "There's about a ton of gold in here, and a bunch of cultural relics. This is just the wealth looted by a Japanese division commander. The Japanese officers and ordinary soldiers must have a lot of it too. Be careful not to miss anything. Oh, and check the banks and those Japanese companies carefully too, don't miss anything!"

"Yes!"

When Old Xing saw so much gold, his eyes lit up and he immediately took his men to the Japanese's house. He didn't care whether the gold could be transported away or not, he just wanted to find it first.

And at this time in Taiyuan City.

A train coming from Datong is slowly slowing down because it needs to change tracks at Taiyuan Railway Station in order to switch from the Tongpu Line to the Shitai Line. The train needs to wait at Taiyuan Station for a while, otherwise Li Yunlong would have ordered several trains to rush through the checkpoint together.

The train driver nervously stopped the train. Fang Zheng beside him whispered, "Don't be nervous. Just do as the commander says."

As he spoke, he walked down from the locomotive. At this time, a train station staff member came over and saw the two people wearing puppet army uniforms after getting off the train and did not have any doubts. Many of the Japanese train drivers were puppet soldiers, and only a small number of military trains with a higher level of confidentiality would be driven by Japanese drivers themselves.

At this time, a Japanese officer also walked down from the carriage. After taking a look at the train station, he started smoking by himself. These soldiers often followed Li Yunlong to disguise themselves as Japanese soldiers and had their own experience. The Japanese soldiers would not suspect them at all.

The staff at Taiyuan Railway Station did not suspect anything. They just took the train freight list and dispatch order handed over by Fang Zheng, took a look at the contents, and prepared to sign.

"Why haven't I seen you before?"

"There are four trains leaving today. I'm Master Zhang's apprentice, and I used to specialize in short-line transportation between the mines and Datong."

"Be careful on your first long-distance trip. The area around Taiyuan isn't very safe lately. The Eighth Route Army is active nearby and there's a high chance they'll attack the train."

Upon hearing the train station staff's words, Fang Zheng immediately handed over a cigarette and said, "I heard about it when I got here. Security has been increased, and a squadron of Taijuns are escorting us."

"That shouldn't be a problem. Okay, get ready. We'll be changing course soon."

"Thank you, hard work!"

Fang Zheng smiled and waved his hand. After taking the signed dispatch form, he returned to the train again. The Japanese officers who had been smoking just now also got on the train one after another.

The whistle sounded, and the train, which appeared to be loaded with coal, slowly started from Taiyuan Station. After leaving Taiyuan Railway Station, it sped towards Shimen.

At this time, on the Zhengtai Railway.

The 129th Division, the 120th Division and other units of the Eighth Route Army have appeared along the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan Railway.

Yang Wanli, the commander of the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment, looked at the nearby railway and leaned against a large tree. He said, "Commander, why did headquarters send us to the railway so late at night and not allow us to destroy it? What's the purpose? Are there any important Japanese troops passing through this railway?"

Kong Jie was dozing off at the moment. After hearing this, he slowly opened his eyes and said, "It's really possible. Let's all cheer up. Damn Li Yunlong can capture a Japanese major general at the train station. Let's do it too. If we can capture a Japanese lieutenant general, I can show off in front of Li Yunlong too."

Note 1: The authenticity of the data cannot be guaranteed. I checked but could not find any reliable data. These are all from some news reports. So you can just take the data of tons as it is. I will change it when I have real data.

Chapter 202 Who got rich?

"Lieutenant General? Commander, you're really imagining it! Commander Li went all the way to Taiyuan City to capture a Lieutenant General. Do you really think Lieutenant Generals are cabbages? There's one on every train?"

Hearing Yang Wanli's complaints, Kong Jie couldn't help but stretch out his big pipe and knocked Yang Wanli on the head twice: "How can you talk like that, kid? Can't you think about it?"

At this moment, a messenger trotted over to Kong Jie and said, "Captain, Captain, Captain Ding of the New Second Regiment has also arrived with his troops."

"The New Second Regiment is here too?"

Kong Jie immediately stood up and looked behind him. In the darkness of the night, Ding Wei and his men were walking quickly towards him.

"Lao Kong!"

"Old Ding, why are you here?"

"The division headquarters ordered us to come to the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan Railway and wait for orders. The specific mission was not specified. I didn't expect you to come."

"What's going on at the division headquarters? They're so secretive!"

Kong Jie glanced at the railway in the distance and was a little confused about the order from the division headquarters. There was only one goal, which was to do nothing after he arrived. Kong Jie was relatively close to the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan Railway and had been here for two hours.

"I don't know, but the 772nd and 771st Regiments are here, as well as the 2nd Independent Regiment. Oh, and the 120th Division is here too."

Hearing this, Kong Jie couldn't help but take a deep breath: "So many people? Are we going to have another Hundred Regiments Campaign?"

"It's hard to say. I heard the situation in Zhongtiao Mountain is not optimistic. I think they will be defeated soon. At this time, a big victory may be needed to alleviate the impact of the defeat in Zhongtiao Mountain."

The battle situation in Zhongtiao Mountain was watched not only by the Japanese, but also by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Eighth Route Army.

However, the news we received was not optimistic. The main force of the Nationalist Army had basically withdrawn from Zhongtiao Mountain and retreated to the south bank of the Yellow River.

There are even rumors that this was a crushing defeat. If it were not for the Yellow River blocking the way, it might have even turned into a large-scale rout after the Battle of Shanghai.

"How long has it been? Twenty days. Even if there were 200,000 pigs left in the mountains, the Japanese wouldn't be able to catch them all in twenty days!"

Both of them sighed. In the past, there were 200,000 Nationalist troops in Zhongtiao Mountain, which could tie down part of the Japanese troops. Now that the Nationalist troops in Zhongtiao Mountain have been defeated, the Japanese will definitely have to focus their main energy on dealing with the Eighth Route Army. The days ahead may be difficult.

"Okay, let's not talk about these bad things. Let's wait for the telegram from the division headquarters."

Kong Jie wanted to smoke to relieve his stress, but after looking at the surroundings, he decided to give up and lay on the ground with Ding Wei to chat.

The New Second Regiment was right next to the Independent Regiment, so the command posts of both sides were simply built together.

"By the way, where's Li Yunlong? It's been so long, and there's been no sign of the Independent Column's activities."

"Some time ago, I saw the Ninth Detachment of the Independent Column near Taiyuan. I haven't seen the rest of the troops. I heard that the brigade commander went to Ping'an County but came up empty-handed."

"What the hell is this guy doing? He didn't hit Taiyuan when he had such a good opportunity. It's not like him!"

Ding Wei touched his chin and muttered to himself.

"I think this guy is planning to give the Japanese a big surprise. I feel like today's mission is closely related to Li Yunlong."

Kong Jie keenly realized that the headquarters had mobilized the main forces of two divisions, which must be a big deal.

Recently everyone has been busy around Taiyuan City, occasionally feinting attacks on some county towns to scare the Japanese. Only Li Yunlong's troops have disappeared. They must be doing something big. Kong Jie knows very well that Li Yunlong is not a man who can sit idle.

"Report, telegram from headquarters!"

"Headquarters?"

Kong Jie and Ding Wei looked at each other with surprise in their eyes. The command system of the Eighth Route Army was very clearly hierarchical, and there was basically no such thing as bypassing the level of command. Generally, even if the headquarters had any orders for their regiments to do, they would ask the division headquarters to give the order.

The last time the headquarters gave direct orders to the regiments was during the Hundred Regiments Campaign.

Kong Jie immediately took the telegram and read it carefully, then handed it to Ding Wei: "Headquarters asked us to take the train?"

Ding Wei looked up at the telegraph operator and asked, "Are you sure it's a call, not a robbery? Are you sure?"

"No, we've confirmed this with headquarters. We're picking up a train from Taiyuan. Someone on the train will flash their lights. When we see the lights, we'll immediately respond with a flashlight, and the train will honk the horn and stop!"

When the telegraph operator received the telegram, he also noticed the difference between "receive" and "rob", so he sent a telegram to inquire, and only after confirming that it was correct did he deliver the telegram to Kong Jie and Ding Wei.

"Okay, we get it!"

After reading the telegram, Ding Wei immediately found a few flashlights. Kong Jie's independent regiment also had some flashlights. He took one and tried it out, saying, "No wonder they asked us to bring flashlights when we set out. So this is why."

Ding Wei played with the flashlight, looked at the contents of the telegram, thought for a moment and said, "Lao Kong, what do you think is in this train?"

"How would I know? She can't be a woman pretending to be a devil, right?"

"Let's get down to business and stop talking nonsense. Do you still remember how Li Yunlong brought Shinozuka Kazuo out of Taiyuan City?"

After hearing this, Kong Jie was stunned for a moment and asked, "What do you mean? Li Yunlong gave the devil's prince to him?"

As Kong Jie spoke, he made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Ding Wei nodded and said, "I think it's possible. Otherwise, they wouldn't have asked us to come pick up the train in such a grand manner. I guess the Japanese are chasing us frantically."

When two people were guessing.

In the division headquarters, the division commander and chief of staff were also confused by the contents of the telegram. The headquarters bypassed them and sent telegrams directly to the regiments below, but still sent a telegram to the division headquarters to explain.

The general meaning is that this matter is quite urgent and must be kept confidential within the command center and must not be leaked.

"It seems that the headquarters is worried about our division!"

The division commander said with a smile, but there was no smile on his face. The chief of staff nodded and said, "There is no way, there are still some termites. It seems that this is a big deal!"

In fact, whether it is the headquarters or the division headquarters, there must be intelligence personnel from the Japanese, the National Army, or the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army lurking.

It’s just that these people may not have been activated, and they cannot tell the difference. This is unavoidable. Even if the headquarters and division headquarters conduct strict audits, there will always be some that slip through the net.