Time passed by bit by bit, and the scouts continued to report that the Japanese army was advancing, and the target was getting closer and closer.
Two kilometers. . .
one kilometer
Less than a mile away…
Soon, Mitsui Benio led his team several hundred meters away from the rolling thunder ambush point set by the monk.
"Platoon leader, the enemy is less than 400 meters away."
The platoon leader responsible for the ambush command of the rolling thunder group calmed down and ordered in a low voice: "Be ready for battle, pass on the order, hide everything, and wait until the Japanese truck passes by the area where we expect the rolling thunder to fall before we take action."
"yes!"
…
On the mountain road, looking at the high mountains on both sides of the mountain road, Mitsui Bunio frowned. This mountain road stretched for several kilometers. If there were ambushes of the Eighth Route Army on both sides, it would be difficult to detect them. Even if he had sent advance troops and scouts in advance, they might not be able to detect it. Able to uncover hidden enemies.
Fortunately, Mitsui Squadron was just a cover for the artillery transportation this time. Mitsui Yuuben admired the brigade commander's wisdom very much for this, and specially formulated this strategy to prevent the artillery from being sneak attacked by the Eighth Route Army in the middle.
"Send the order, the Imperial Association Army is at the front, followed by the truck squad, and the main force of the squadron is at the rear."
Mitsui Benio still held on to his previous thoughts. Even if he was used as bait, he did not want to be eaten by the Eighth Route Army in vain. If there were an ambush unit of the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the mountain road, they would definitely attack the truck.
In this case, it is better to place the truck in the front row of the team to attract the ambush firepower of the Eighth Route Army and give the main force of the squadron time to counterattack.
"The vanguard and the scouts conduct extensive reconnaissance to ensure that there are no enemies lurking in the mountains and forests on both sides."
After Mitsui Benio gave the order, Japanese scouts entered the mountains and forests on both sides to conduct reconnaissance.
A platoon leader led a rolling thunder team of twenty-five people to hide in a deeper part of the mountain forest, using the surrounding leafy trees to lurk.
When the Japanese scouts passed through the tunnel, a group of them were eliminated by Sun Qingshan, the leader of the third platoon. There were not many of them at the moment. It was not easy to find the soldiers in such a wide forest.
"Wait until the Japanese scouts pass by, then take action on the Japanese truck."
The platoon leader who was crawling under a bush somewhere whispered the order.
The twenty-five soldiers of the Rolling Thunder Team were all ready, with two Rolling Thunders in each hand, waiting steadily.
The Japanese scouts searched around the mountains and forests. After not noticing anything unusual, they continued to search forward. Mitsui Bubuo led the troops to follow up.
The roar of trucks came from the mountain road. Through the sparse trees in this area, long rows of trucks could be faintly seen moving forward on the mountain road.
"preparation--"
The platoon leader stretched out his right hand, and the soldiers entered the state of preparation. The twenty-five members placed the prepared rolling thunder first, held another rolling thunder, held it with their left hand, and touched the lead above the rolling thunder with their right hand. After the platoon leader gives the order, he only needs to pull off the lead, then hold the rolling thunder with both hands to confirm the direction of its fall, and then he can launch an attack.
beat--
This word has been brewing in the throat of the platoon leader, and just when it was about to burst out, a voice came from not far away, "Platoon leader, Jiang Huaimin is back."
When the platoon leader heard about the reputation, he found that it was really Jiang Huaimin.
Still some distance away, Jiang Huaimin kept waving his hands and head towards the platoon leader.
The implication is obvious: ask the platoon leader to suspend offensive operations.
The first platoon leader knew that Jiang Huaimin, the third platoon leader, had stayed in the corridor area to continue investigating. At this moment, he hurried back with a tired and anxious look on his face, and kept shaking his head and hands, wondering if there was any emergency.
At this point, the platoon commander shouted in a low voice: "Don't be anxious, everyone. Wait first. No one should take action without my order."
After a moment of waiting, Jiang Huaimin arrived and knelt beside the long row.
"What's going on?" the platoon leader asked with a frown.
Jiang Huaimin took a deep breath, holding back his breath as he hurried back all the way, and said: "One platoon leader, we can't fight. This enemy is a bait. It's fake. There is no artillery in the truck at all."
"What, fake?"
"You can't be wrong!" Jiang Huaimin recounted what he had detected in the area along the road. "The enemy's real artillery transport team is still three miles away!"
The platoon leader's expression changed and he hurriedly said: "Comrades, the situation has changed. Suspend the attack. The communications troops will report the situation to the company commander as soon as possible."
"yes!"
The soldiers of the communications corps took the order and circled to the back of the mountain forest, then Sayazi ran towards the second ambush location where the monk was.
The Japs were not moving very fast on the mountain road. After all, they still needed to conduct rough exploration on both sides, so they were naturally not as fast as the signal corps soldiers.
When the signal corps soldiers rushed from the first ambush site to the second ambush site, the Japanese had traveled less than one-third of the way.
"...Company commander, this is the situation. The platoon commander asked me to come over and inform you. You should come up with an idea quickly!"
The monk who learned about the situation couldn't help but cursed, this little devil is really cunning.
If Jiang Huaimin's message had not been delivered in time, once the Rolling Thunder Group took action, the methods originally used to deal with the Japanese artillery troops would have been exposed in advance, and the ambush would have definitely been passive.
At that time, whether it is the rolling thunder team or the remotely detonated explosive package method, all will be used on the devil's bait.
It would be difficult to stop the Japanese's subsequent real artillery units.
While thinking, the monk couldn't help but think about what the group leader would do if he encountered such a situation.
According to the regiment leader's usual thinking, first think about the enemy's purpose of doing this, and then consider whether to respond to changes in the situation, make adjustments to the deployment of troops, or to take advantage of the situation.
Following this train of thought, the monk quickly came up with an idea: "In this way, inform the Rolling Thunder team to stop the first phase of the ambush plan and move closer to the second ambush site. We will wait until the Japanese troops who actually transport the artillery arrive before taking action." .
Our second ambush location also stayed put and retreated deep into the mountains and forests to avoid exposure.
The district team and militia comrades immediately went to the third ambush site. They waited until the Japanese decoy at the foot of the mountain arrived in the minefield and launched an attack with the help of the minefield's obstruction.
The requirement is to convince the Japanese decoy troops that our ambush at the third location is the main force of the ambush. "
After the monks made arrangements, the cadres immediately understood that this was a plan to use a trick. As long as the battle started at the third ambush site, the Japanese would probably think that the Eighth Route Army had been fooled and used their decoy as the main force. The troops that actually transported the artillery would follow. They would then relax their vigilance and quickly provide support to the third ambush location. This gave the guard company and his party the opportunity to truly ambush the Japanese.
After the monk's plan was arranged, everything went smoothly.
Mitsui Bubuo led his troops as bait for the Japanese artillery troops to move forward in rough reconnaissance, and did not encounter any sneak attacks.
When they passed the second ambush site and the monk ordered the remote detonation of the explosive package to be planted, the Japanese would never have imagined that they would step over the god of death's head.
Until they approached the third ambush site arranged by the monk, when Mitsui was wondering whether the Eighth Route Army had arranged an ambush on the way, the leading puppet army was caught off guard and stepped on a landmine.
"beat--"
The district team and militia comrades responsible for the third ambush firepower, led by a squad of soldiers from the guard company, launched a surprise attack on the Japanese on the mountain road.
Although this is not the main force of the guard company, the combat effectiveness of the district squad and militia soldiers is also not weak. Especially in this operation, the independent regiment strengthened the firepower configuration for the district squad and militia comrades.
It was even equipped with some 50 cannons.
This made the district team and militia comrades laugh out loud.
In the eyes of the district team and militia comrades, this modified barrel gun (grenade) is no less important than the heavy artillery in the eyes of the Eighth Route Army troops.
Since it was Commander Kong who provided the equipment and ammunition, it would be over if he just fought hard.
After this battle is over, we will have bragging rights when we go back. We have all fired 50 small artillery pieces. I don’t know how many Japanese cannons can be killed with one shot.
As soon as the battle began, the comrades from the district team and the militia, with all kinds of weapons on hand, greeted them at the same time.
Hand grenades and 50 cannons were used to attack the first and last Japanese trucks.
After the Japanese's first truck and the truck at the rear were blown up first, the trucks caught in this not-so-wide mountain road could not move directly, and the soldiers could slowly clean up.
More of the offensive focus is on the Japs who follow up.
The Japanese was stunned for a moment by the unexpected blow.
Mitsui Bunio quickly called the troops and launched a counterattack on the spot.
In the hasty battle, Mitsui Benio noticed that the troops ambushing on both sides were wearing uniform military boots.
Coupled with the sudden burst of firepower in front of him, this is not the intensity of firepower that Tubalu can possess.
"Your Excellency, the squadron leader, is wearing military boots and has powerful firepower. This should be a regular combat force of the independent regiment!"
The adjutant on the side made the same judgment as Mitsui Yuuben while firing towards the forest.
Mitsui nodded eloquently and shouted: "Signal Corps, immediately inform Major Furukawa that our unit has successfully lured out the ambush troops of the independent regiment, and requests rapid reinforcements from the main force."
"Hi!"
The communications soldiers accompanying the Mitsui Squadron are equipped with small shortwave radios. This small shortwave radio can support radio communications over a short distance of one or two kilometers.
The Mitsui Squadron used as a decoy this time and the subsequent artillery unit led by Japanese Major Hirakawa communicated with each other through this shortwave radio station.
The two armies were separated by less than three miles.
The follow-up Japanese artillery force moved forward under the leadership of Japanese Major Furukawa Hisamasa.
Furukawa Hisamasa first heard the sound of gunfire and artillery coming from not far away, and immediately realized that the Mitsui Squadron, as the advance force, had been ambushed.
"Your Majesty the brigade commander's guess is good. The Eighth Route Army indeed set up an ambush in the middle."
"If we hadn't divided the transportation force into two parts this time, we would probably be in trouble right now."
Just as he was talking, the communications soldier received a communication message from Mitsui Squadron.
"Reporting to the commander, there is news from Mitsui Squadron that its troops are being ambushed by the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, requesting immediate reinforcements."
Furukawa nodded and said: "Xingxi, order the team to move forward quickly!"
"Hi!"
…
"Company Commander, the Japs were fooled. After the battle in the direction of the minefield started, the Japs' follow-up artillery units are advancing rapidly."
The news reached the monk's ears. The monk thought for a moment and asked, "Where is the Rolling Thunder team now?"
"It's less than three hundred meters away from our second ambush location."
"What is the specific troop deployment of the Japanese artillery troops?"
"Eight trucks opened the road ahead, and the Japanese troops followed up quickly."
"It seems that this little devil thought their baiting tactic was successful and really attracted our main force to the third ambush location."
The monk analyzed the situation.
"Inform the Rolling Thunder team that the ambush location will be determined there. Clear the obstacles immediately and prepare for combat. Give the little devil a heavy hammer first."
"yes!"
…
Around five o'clock in the afternoon that day.
The new weapon Rolling Thunder, newly developed by the Independent Regiment Armory Institute and proposed by Kong Jie, the leader of the Independent Regiment, made its debut on the battlefield against Japan in northwestern Shanxi.
When twenty-five large balls with thick smoke rolled down the steep slope on the right side of the mountain.
Among the eight Japanese trucks that drove in first, the Japs driver sitting in the right-hand drive saw the ball rolling down in the forest at a glance, and all of them widened their eyes, as if they had seen a ghost. look.
Although they didn't understand what this was, when they encountered this kind of situation on the battlefield, the first thing that was born in their hearts was naturally the fear of the unknown.
The two Japs drivers at the head were quick-sighted and stepped on the accelerator. The first two trucks quickly accelerated and rushed directly out of the area covered by rolling thunder.
But the remaining six trucks and the Japs quickly following them would suffer.
Twenty-five large, smoking balls almost rolled down to the mountain road and exploded.
The principle of this rolling thunder is actually very simple. To describe it vividly, it is like changing the shape of the commonly seen rectangular explosive package and condensing it into a spherical explosive body that can be used to roll down.
"The explosives we use to deal with the Japanese can be explosive packets, which can be thrown or detonated remotely. But why can't they be made into a ball shape and used for roll-down attacks? A variety of attack methods are more adaptable to many situations. Changing combat environment.”
At that time, Kong Jie was in the repair shop, and this is how he inspired Dong San.
Dong San was smart enough. It didn't take long before he made the first rolling thunder.
As a result, because the delay was too short, it rolled down seven or eight meters before exploding directly. At that time, it also caused minor injuries to the personnel who tested the rolling mine, but Dong San was seriously frightened.
Later, Dong San led the research and development personnel of new weapons at the repair shop to continuously improve and control the delay of the rolling thunder explosion. He also calculated the rolling thunder usage data table, with what force, what rolling angle, and corresponding delayed rolling distance. how far.
The current batch of rolling thunder produced by the repair shop is not light, each weighing nearly five kilograms.
The comrades in the Rolling Thunder Group each held two Rolling Thunders in their arms and could not even hold their guns.
At this weight, the gunpowder contained in the rolling thunder is not light, and the power of the explosion is equivalent to the power of a cluster grenade composed of more than a dozen grenades.
At this moment, rolling thunder suddenly exploded on the mountain road, and the Japanese and puppet troops were turned upside down.
In particular, some rolling thunder followed the Japs' truck and rolled down under the wheels of the Japs' truck, and then exploded. The huge shock wave was released, and the entire Japs' truck was even blown away.
A hellish situation unfolds here.
The Japs Major Furukawa Hisamasa, who was leading the team to follow up from behind, was almost sluggish...
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