That night.
The moonlight is somewhere between bright and dim, and the hazy moonlight seems to wrap a veil around everything in the world.
Looking around, the quiet mountain forest and the shadows of the whirling trees are all dead silent. Even the rustling of the leaves in the wind is rarely heard.
Somewhere on the Nanshan Highway, which is close to Qinghe Village, is a medium-sized Japanese stronghold. There was originally a small group of Japanese troops stationed in the stronghold, plus a platoon of the Imperial Alliance Army.
During these days, in order to deal with the sneak attacks of the independent regiment, this stronghold has also been specially strengthened.
First, in terms of military strength, the Japanese army strengthened two more squads. Together with the original platoon of the Imperial Army, the number of Japanese troops exceeded 230.
For the Japanese army's conventional medium-sized strongholds, this kind of strength is much extra.
In addition to the changes in military strength, the Japanese army also built two reinforced concrete bunker fortifications around the stronghold, with built-in machine guns, specifically to deal with the attack artillery held by the independent regiment.
Not only that, inside the stronghold, the Japanese army also shrewdly followed the example of the Eighth Route Army and dug many solid tunnels as anti-artillery fortifications.
This is to prevent the independent regiment from using concentrated artillery fire to attack and cause greater casualties to the Japanese and puppet troops concentrated in the stronghold.
In addition to these conventional troop deployments, there are also five Japanese snipers hidden in this stronghold.
This is different from the special marksman in the Japanese army. In the early days of the invasion of China, the Japanese army had extremely high requirements on the marksmanship training of soldiers, and even required that at least one of the three people should have marksmanship to the level of a special marksman.
At this moment, the five snipers in this stronghold were selected from these two Japanese squads after Yoshio Shinozuka ordered each department to learn from the Eighth Route Army, form a sniper establishment, and use sniper team tactics to fight the enemy. The five veterans with the best marksmanship were issued Type 99 sniper rifles equipped with a four-fold optical sight. .
This is much better than the Type 97 sniper rifle used by the Japanese special shooters.
In addition, the Japanese army specially trained these snipers for two days, mainly on tactical teaching.
It is required to innovate the sniper tactics of the past. They cannot be fixed at one location and fire continuously, which will lead to their own exposure. They must abandon the bushido spirit of the past where retreat was a shame.
You must learn the Eighth Route Army's sniper team tactics, work in groups of two, and fight together.
These snipers are also equipped with observers who use range-finding telescopes to detect targets.
In addition, the battlefields of these five Japanese snipers are not fixed in strongholds.
In order to maximize the role of these snipers, recently Kazuki Yamamoto, who personally wrote the innovation of Japanese sniper tactics, proposed that some secret passages can be dug inside the stronghold to transfer personnel inside the stronghold.
Once the stronghold is attacked by the Eighth Route Army, these snipers can quickly move through the passage to the area surrounding the stronghold and lurk, waiting for opportunities to strike at more valuable targets.
Coupled with the additional firepower configuration of the Japanese and puppet troops in response to the independent regiment's raid, the Japanese strongholds around the independent regiment can be said to be armed to the teeth.
In order to deal with the independent group, the little devils really worked hard.
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In the evening, the Japanese soldiers in the stronghold finished their dinner cursing and went into the bunkhouse to rest. The living environment, which used to be quite spacious, now seems a bit bloated with the increase in troops. It is no wonder that these soldiers can't help but complain. .
These days, since the stronghold has strengthened its garrison firepower and built concrete bunkers, it has not encountered a surprise attack by the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, after nightfall, the Japanese and puppet troops were still vigilant, but not too worried.
As usual, checkpoints are set up in the stronghold's turrets and various strategic locations, and sentries patrol around the clock. In addition, the searchlights on the top of the stronghold's turrets will patrol the stronghold and its surroundings to guard against enemy sneak attacks at any time.
From the perspective of the Japanese and puppet troops, the now strengthened stronghold is as strong as an iron barrel. In addition, the patrol team patrols around during the day. Even the independent regiment may not be able to find a way to attack. Otherwise, it would have been a long time ago. Stronghold.
The current caution is more like wasting effort.
Around two o'clock in the night, it was the time when the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold were sleeping most soundly.
In the woods six hundred meters outside the Japanese stronghold, there was suddenly a burst of rustling sounds from time to time.
But this small sound soon merged into the vast mountains and fields, and no more movement was heard.
The soldiers of the Independent Regiment appeared quietly under the cover of night. They were led by a certain platoon leader of the First Company of the Independent Regiment. Behind them were a long line of soldiers. They were fully armed but different from the usual ones. Most of them were holding explosives in their hands. Bag.
Seeing the Japanese stronghold six hundred meters away, the platoon leader turned his head, gathered the squad leaders and deputy squad leaders around him, and whispered:
"The small artillery team stayed behind, with the first, second, and third squads. Each squad was responsible for a section and began to bury the explosive packages. The burial location does not need to be too close to the Japanese stronghold. It can be placed on a section of the road where the Japanese patrol will pass by during the day. In addition, Used with wooden box mines.”
"yes!"
Several squad leaders and deputy squad leaders responded and immediately led their respective teams to execute the order.
The platoon leader waved his hand again, and led several members of the small artillery team, plus four 50 small artillery pieces, to advance a certain distance.
"Group of two, separate our four 50-gun cannons into four directions. According to our many days of reconnaissance, after the sky gets light, the Japanese patrol team will come out of the stronghold. Wait until the Japanese patrol After the team is hit by the explosives we planted, Japanese reinforcements will follow up, and after the Japanese come out and gather, we will make a surprise attack with artillery fire."
"yes!"
After the arrangement was completed, the platoon leader looked at the eight people beside him. These eight people were not his soldiers, but four snipers who came from the sniper platoon to support them.
The platoon leader said: "Lao Zhou, your sniper team has your own tactics. I don't understand them very well, so I won't arrange them. You can use your own tactics!"
Lao Zhou responded: "Please don't worry, Platoon Leader Jiang. Before coming here, our platoon leader repeatedly told us that the comrades of the third platoon will just leave the cover task to the four of us."
"Okay!" Platoon Leader Jiang nodded. He had witnessed the power of these snipers with his own eyes. They were absolutely shocked. Even though there were only four of them, he believed that Lao Zhou was not exaggerating.
Time passed bit by bit, under the cover of night, and the soldiers trained quickly, moved secretly and carefully, and were far away from the Japanese stronghold. After all deployment methods were completed, the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold Not aware of this.
The next day, the sky, which had been dark all night, quickly brightened from the first hint of white fish belly appearing on the distant horizon, and day once again replaced night.
Japanese soldiers have been immersed in high-intensity militarized management all year round and have long formed a habit. After the sky gets bright, the Japanese soldiers get up quickly according to the time point according to the orders issued by their superiors, and quite arrogantly wake up one by one. Wake up to the coming Imperial Army.
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"Patrol, it's time for patrol, you lazy idiots!"
Several Japanese squad captains roared, and they were not polite at all to these lazy Imperial Army soldiers with poor military discipline.
The patrol began, in accordance with the recently adjusted policy of the Japanese military command:
After daybreak, each stronghold will dispatch a patrol team to patrol the road where it is located twice to ensure that the road was not tampered with by the Eighth Route Army troops last night.
The Japs' strongholds were not too far apart. When these Japs patrols went out to patrol, they were protected by two strongholds. The Japanese and puppet troops on the patrol were not too worried.
In addition, in addition to patrolling certain sections of the highway and railway lines where they are located, the Japanese patrol team will also enter the villages surrounding the stronghold to patrol, to be on guard against the Eighth Route Army troops secretly gathering in the villages last night.
Several patrol teams just walked out.
Each patrol was led by five or six puppet troops, followed by five or six Japanese troops, basically a squad of troops.
In the woods six or seven hundred meters away from the stronghold, Platoon Leader Jiang and his party had been waiting all night, watching the Japanese and puppet troops coming out of the stronghold. The soldiers were no longer sleepy and were full of excitement, looking forward to the results of last night's busy work. .
The section of road where Platoon Leader Jiang was located was surrounded by hillsides covered with green trees on both sides, with a mountain road sandwiched between them. A team of thirteen Japanese and puppet troops patrolled over slowly.
The unknowing Japanese and puppet troops marched all the way from the highway and successfully passed the area where Platoon Leader Jiang and his party had planted remote detonation explosive packages.
These explosive packets are directly controlled by soldiers to explode through detonators. The explosive packets and detonators are connected with wires, which is a controllable explosion method that detonates through electric current.
As for the burial of explosive packets, in order not to damage the surface of the road built by the Japanese army and expose traces for the Japanese army to notice, a deep pit was dug from the side of the road, and then the explosive packets were buried horizontally on the edge of the road, and then the explosive packets were connected The wires connected to the detonator were buried in a shallow layer of soil or among weeds and shrubs along the way. It was simple and convenient to lay out. The soldiers gave it a rather vivid name - side bomb.
The road explosion here can be controlled remotely through the detonator.
When the Japanese and puppet patrol team passed the explosive explosion area, Platoon Leader Jiang and his party did not immediately start the explosion.
There are still good things waiting for the Japanese and puppet troops going forward!
That's a new wooden box mine produced by the Independence Repair Institute.
The device is simple and the structure is simple. The half-open wooden box is equipped with explosives and fuses. When the top of the box is put under a certain pressure and the wooden box is closed, the explosives will be detonated immediately.
The wooden box is small in size and easy to bury. It is buried shallowly under the surface of the road. The surface is naturally treated so that it is difficult to detect with the naked eye.
In addition, the biggest advantage of this wooden box mine is that basically no metal material is used in the entire explosive device inside, and it is difficult for the enemy's mine detector to work.
This makes the Japanese very difficult to guard against.
Boom——
The advancing puppet troops successfully stepped on the wooden box mines buried shallowly under the surface of the road.
Fortunately, the size of this wooden box was limited, and the amount of explosives inside was limited, so it was far less powerful than the explosive pack. After the explosion, one of the four puppet soldiers at the front was killed and three were injured, but the Japanese behind were unharmed. .
The Japanese and puppet troops were more frightened. They realized that the long-lost independent regiment's attack had finally arrived.
"Be careful of enemy attacks, retreat, retreat!" the Japanese soldier who led the team shouted. Accompanied by the screams and wails of the three wounded puppet soldiers, the surviving puppet soldiers dragged two wounded soldiers The soldier, a corpse, retreated towards the stronghold in fear all the way.
"fry--"
The five or six Japanese soldiers who were retreating successfully entered the area where the remotely detonated explosive package was located. The soldier lurking forty or fifty meters away on the right side of the road received the observer's gesture command and pressed the detonator.
Boom——
The sound of this explosion was much louder than the previous explosion of the wooden box mine.
The weight of the explosives contained in this remotely detonated explosive bag is no less than the total explosive content contained in ten conventional hand grenades, and the power of the explosion is much greater than the explosion of a Jujutsu grenade composed of ten grenades.
The power was quite astonishing. Except for one of the six Japs who was seriously injured in the explosion, the other five Japs were directly enveloped by the big explosion and died on the spot.
A large crater was blown out of the roadside area on the originally smooth road. Six Japs were blown away by the impact of the explosion. Some fell on the hillside beside the road, and some rolled under the fields on the roadside. , the seriously injured Japanese soldier did not die immediately, but he had too little air coming in and too much air coming out, so he could not survive.
The few remaining puppet soldiers had already been frightened to death by the unpredictable sneak attack method of the Independent Regiment.
At the same time, an explosion was heard in the direction of the Japanese stronghold.
Moreover, the explosion was not just in one place, but came from multiple sections of the road. Then, the Japanese sentries in the stronghold used binoculars to notice that patrols on several sections of the road were attacked one after another, and suffered heavy casualties in the explosion. A large number of The wounded soldiers were in urgent need of reinforcements.
The Japanese squadron leader sitting in the stronghold did not dare to hesitate and quickly sent troops to reinforce several patrol teams in an attempt to rescue the wounded soldiers.
The Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold have already exploded, searching everywhere for traces of possible lurking enemies.
But in the end nothing was found.
Platoon Leader Jiang always used landmines and remote-controlled explosive packs to detonate. The whole process was extremely concealed. As long as they were not exposed actively and with the cover of the mountains and forests, it would be difficult for the Japanese and puppet troops to detect it.
He also understood what methods the Eighth Route Army used to sneak attack several patrols. The Japanese squadron leader thought that the patrol accidentally stepped on a landmine. Among the newly sent reinforcements, Japanese engineers followed them and carried mine detectors on their backs.
However, the reinforcement team still encountered an explosion on the way.
This was a big explosion caused by Platoon Leader Jiang and others using remote detonators.
It was up to the soldiers to decide when the explosion would occur. The Japanese mine detectors had no time to detect the explosive package, and the Japanese were unable to prevent it.
At the moment when the explosive package exploded, the soldiers who hid dozens of meters away in the mountain forest and detonated the explosive package even leisurely pulled back the wires left behind after the explosion for recycling.
After eight or nine explosions, the Japanese and puppet troops had already suffered more than 40 casualties before even seeing half of the enemy...
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