After Zhang Dabiao took the order, he immediately called more than a dozen engineering soldiers.
He unloaded the German-made mines from the mule cart, then carried the box toward the slope pointed by Li Yunlong.
The Eighth Route Army is also equipped with land mines, but most of them are land mines made in the border areas. Not to mention their low power, some even require strings to be pulled before they sound.
Even with such land mines, the Eighth Route Army units don't have any extra, and they save what they can.
The slope Li Yunlong mentioned was between the New Regiment's position and the Japanese's position, close to the New Regiment's position.
If the Japs want to attack the new regiment's position, the dirt slope is the only way to go, and the engineers are doing soil work behind the dirt slope without being noticed by the Japs.
Li Yunlong had been fighting with the Japanese for several years, and he had already understood the Japanese tactics clearly.
It's nothing more than artillery bombarding the infantry and then charging. After the infantry has charged, the artillery bombs. After the artillery bombards, the infantry charges.
This tactic may seem simple and mindless, but the simpler and cruder it is, the more effective it is. The Chinese army, with its poor equipment and lack of weapons and ammunition, suffered huge losses when faced with this Japanese tactic.
The engineer soldiers carried the mine boxes and quickly reached the bottom of the slope. Two soldiers were on guard, and the remaining soldiers picked up bayonets and shovels and began to dig the soil.
These soldiers are all good at laying land mines. Although they have never seen German-made land mines, the principles of land mines are similar.
There is also an instruction manual produced by the system, which is equipped with text and pictures to make it clear at a glance.
Landmines are generally divided into pressure-fired, loose-fired, or trip-fired mines. The German-made S-type mine is a loose-fired mine.
That is, after the enemy who stepped on the mine releases his foot, the mine will first ricochet to waist height and then explode, shooting the pellets horizontally at a fatal speed.
After about half a second, the main charge explodes at the appropriate height, killing infantry and personnel.
The German-made S-type mine is the most famous among jumping mines. It is notorious for its huge power and anti-human shooting.
In less than 10 minutes, the soldiers buried all 50 landmines, removed the safety devices, and buried the mines with sand.
Then he carefully exited the mine array, carried the empty box on his shoulders, and returned to the new regiment's position with the rifle in his hand.
"Report to the captain, all the landmines have been laid!" The captain of the engineering team ran to Li Yunlong and reported the report.
"Okay!" Li Yunlong nodded and said loudly, "I'm afraid the Japanese are about to start shelling. Soldiers, please take cover!"
After a pause, Li Yunlong said again: "Pull the Italian cannon behind, don't let the Japanese cannon explode!"
Immediately, several soldiers came up and led the mules to pull the field artillery and artillery shells to a hidden position behind.
About 5 minutes later, there was a piercing scream in the sky, and a shell was coming.
boom--
A shell exploded more than 20 meters in front of the new regiment's position, raising a mud mist.
The first shell was a test fire.
More than ten seconds later, the whistle of multiple artillery shells sounded again. The artillery shells fired from the Japanese artillery position arced across the sky and landed on the new regiment position.
Boom boom boom, boom boom, boom boom boom——
Continuous shells fell down one after another, and with the rumbling sound of explosions, the new group's position was instantly enveloped in fire and smoke.
However, Li Yunlong was well prepared for this and had already withdrawn the soldiers to a safe position, leaving only a few observers on the position.
At the same time, a squadron of more than 200 Japs held rifles and launched a probing attack on the new regiment's position.
This is a consistent tactic of the Japs in combat. Before a general attack, a small group of troops is sent out to conduct a trial attack to find out the opponent's number of troops and firepower distribution.
The Japanese commander then makes corresponding combat arrangements based on the opponent's strength. Using artillery advantage to destroy the opponent's firepower points is just a basic operation.
After the shelling stopped, the Japanese probing troops were already 300 meters close to the position, and the Japanese machine gunners were looking for a favorable position.
Quickly set up two crooked light machine guns and a Type 92 heavy machine gun and opened fire on the new regiment's position.
Da da da da…
Three machine guns sprayed out long tongues of flame one after another, and the machine gun bullets hit the new group's position, sending up a cloud of mud mist.
Under the cover of machine gun fire, the charging Japanese became even more arrogant and rushed toward the new group's position with strange screams.
It has to be said that the Fourth Brigade is known as the elite of the Japanese army. The Japanese soldiers have extremely high combat literacy and have a fierce and fierce momentum when charging.
It didn't take long for the Japanese's dense charging formation to reach the slope in front of the position. Then they jumped off the slope one after another and continued to charge towards the Eighth Route Position with bayonets in hand.
Most of the more than 200 Japanese soldiers entered the mine array.
A Japanese soldier's right foot hit the mine first, and then he quickly lifted it up and stepped forward.
Only a slight dinging sound was heard as the detonator ignited the projectile charge at the bottom of the mine, and then threw the cylindrical body of the mine into the air 1 meter high.
boom--
After 0.5 seconds, the explosive inside the mine was ignited.
Along with the explosion of the mine, hundreds of steel balls and metal fragments were shot horizontally in all directions.
German-shaped mines are extremely powerful, lethal within a range of 20 meters, and lethal within a range of 100 meters.
Suddenly, the Japanese screamed like slaughtering pigs. Seven or eight Japanese fell to the ground. The Japanese who stepped on the landmine was even blown into two pieces.
Immediately afterwards, more and more Japanese soldiers stepped on the landmines, and a series of violent explosions were heard below the slope.
The entire slope was shrouded in fire and smoke.
Blood mist splashed everywhere, and pieces of flesh flew everywhere!
After more than 20 explosions in succession, as the smoke dispersed, less than 80 Japanese were still standing.
Many of the Japs lost their luck, and those who survived lost all their initial arrogance and looked at the ground around them in horror, their legs and feet trembling.
"Don't panic, just go back the way you came!" The Japanese squadron leader was still calm and gave the order immediately.
At this time, all the Japs have entered the mine array, and it is not easy to get out. Moreover, the footprints on the mud are messy, and no one knows where they came from.
The squadron leader quickly made two retreat gestures, and the Japanese soldiers retreated cautiously.
Immediately afterwards, another Japanese soldier stepped on a landmine, and there was a loud bang. Several more Japanese soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.
The Japanese finally panicked, turned around and ran away, wishing his parents would give him two more legs.
The consequence was that more landmines were triggered, and the Japanese were killed and injured one after another.
Of the more than 200 Japanese who came, only about 20 escaped, and the remaining 180 or so Japanese all died in the mine array.
When the bombardment was over, Li Yunlong returned to his position and looked through the binoculars. He only saw the figures of about 20 Japanese soldiers fleeing in panic.
Looking towards the direction of the mine formation, Li Yunlong couldn't help but take a breath.
Through the field of vision through the telescope, Li Yunlong saw that the landmine array was filled with corpses of Japanese soldiers, with broken limbs and broken arms scattered everywhere, and even the muddy ground was dyed red with the blood of Japanese soldiers.
Zhang Dabiao came up with a ghost machete on his back, looked over with a telescope, and was stunned.
"Dear me..." Zhang Dabiao exclaimed, "What a powerful mine!"
