That evening, Ning Zhiheng and Yi Huaan left their residence and went to a safe house. Kang Xuezhi and Deng Zhihong were already waiting there. When they saw Ning Zhiheng come in, they quickly stood up at attention.
"Chief!"
"Chief!"
Ning Zhiheng went straight to his seat, waved his hand, and said directly, "No work reports today, time is tight, let's get straight to the point!"
Kang Xuezhi and Deng Zhihong dared not be negligent and listened attentively.
Ning Zhiheng recounted the whole story, concluding, "Nojima Ichiro's hands are stained with the blood of our soldiers and civilians; he is a man of countless blood debts and he is utterly wicked. Ueno Keisuke is even worse; he previously caused numerous incidents in the no-man's-land in Northeast my country. Later, he was transferred to Nanjing to oversee the construction of a poison gas factory, posing a great threat to us. In addition, there are seven poisoned individuals, all of whom are Japanese invaders and traitors, and they all deserve to die. These people must be eliminated. Tomorrow, when they leave Nanjing, it will be a good opportunity for us to take action."
After he finished speaking, he spread a map on the table. The others quickly stepped forward, gathered around the table, and looked down to see that it was a route map of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway.
Ning Zhiheng continued, "Tomorrow morning at nine o'clock, these nine people will take a military special train to Shanghai for medical treatment. I've decided that Zhihong will lead a team of ten members selected from the action team to infiltrate here..."
His finger landed on a point on the map. "This place is called Jinshanwei. It's west of Zhenjiang, about 60 kilometers from Nanjing Railway Station. The train journey takes about one hour and forty minutes."
"You mean you want to set up explosives here to blow up the train?" Deng Zhihong's eyes lit up as he asked.
His specialty is using explosives to get the leader to name him as the leader, which clearly means he intends to use explosives to eliminate all targets.
“Yes, that’s exactly what I mean!” Ning Zhiheng nodded and said.
He had carefully considered this operation plan beforehand. He had originally planned to use time bombs to plant on the military train, but this plan was not feasible. First of all, the difficulty of planting them was too great. Without an inside agent to carry and plant the time bombs, it would be very difficult to complete the operation. He did not have the means to do so.
Secondly, the time bombs they made had limited power; at most, they could only destroy one carriage, and their destructive power on other carriages of the special train was limited, making it difficult to guarantee that all targets could be eliminated at once.
So in the end, he decided to focus on the railway sector, which was the safest and most effective approach.
On his way to Nanjing, he was delayed for several hours because the railway tracks were damaged. At that time, he felt that this was a very cost-effective attack method.
Firstly, trains travel on fixed routes, making it impossible to conceal their movements. Along railway lines that stretch for hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, finding a single loophole can lead to a fatal attack.
This is very advantageous to the attackers, while the attacked party is in a very passive position, at a great disadvantage in defense, and requires a large investment of military and manpower, which is very difficult.
It was precisely because of this that the Beijing-Shanghai Railway was repeatedly damaged by the National Salvation Army and the New Fourth Army in the early stages of the war, which caused the Japanese great trouble. Later, they made great efforts to mobilize all their military forces to suppress the Chinese army in the remote areas of southern Jiangsu before they were able to repair the Beijing-Shanghai Railway. Even so, it was still difficult to guarantee absolute safety along the railway line.
Last time, the Kuomintang's operation failed halfway through the journey, but no one was injured. This was because the attacking side was proactive and could easily escape if they missed their first strike. Conversely, the defending side had a hard time finding their hidden opponents and needed a lot of mobility and luck to capture them.
And all of this perfectly meets all of Ning Zhiheng's requirements!
Upon hearing Ning Zhiheng propose this action plan, Deng Zhihong said, "I know Jinshanwei. I passed through here when I went to Zhenjiang on business before the war. The terrain there is complicated, with many mountains and jungles. My action team member Lei Peng is from Zhenjiang. He is familiar with the terrain in that area and should be able to find the demolition point quickly."
"That would be even better. Remember, there's a grove of trees not far west of Jinshanwei, less than 200 meters south of the railway. It's an excellent observation point where you can hide. Once the special train arrives, you can detonate the explosives!"
Upon hearing this, Deng Zhihong stepped forward to carefully confirm the location and immediately nodded, saying, "The blasting location has been determined. Now we need to prepare the explosives. Are you going to blow up the entire train? That will require a lot of explosives."
"This time, the main purpose is to transport patients to Shanghai, so there won't be too many guards, at most one or two small teams. I estimate that there will be about seven or eight carriages. I can't be sure which carriages they will be in, so we need to use all the available resources this time. We need to not only blow up the tracks, but also make sure the special train is completely destroyed so that we can achieve our mission objectives."
Upon hearing this, Deng Zhihong secretly calculated for a while before nodding and saying, "If we have TNT, we need at least 300 to 400 kilograms, as well as the corresponding detonators. If we use electric mines, we will be even more confident. We will also need at least 250 meters of fuse. As for the detonation device, I can make it myself."
Ning Zhiheng had no shortage of weapons and explosives. After all, the Fujiwara Company's guard was a quasi-military force. Although he did not sell weapons, it did not mean that he did not store them. However, he did not have any so-called electric mines!
“No electric explosive mines.” Ning Zhiheng said irritably. He knew that the kind of mine Deng Zhihong was talking about was an anti-tank mine with extremely high explosive power, capable of blowing up armored tracks. However, he was not so wealthy as to equip himself with such high-end weapons.
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