under fire

A temporary command post was dug out from the ditch, and the tent was covered with two layers of tarpaulin.

Not a ray of light could penetrate.

With four people huddled together, the smell was really bad.

Luo Fugui stuffed cotton in his nostrils and stared at Yang Fengzi with triangular eyes: "Damn it, are you imitating Zhao Kuo's armchair strategy?"

Monkey warned Luo Fugui: "Stop talking nonsense, I just ambushed the security team and seized more than 300 guns and countless ammunition."

"Didn't you follow Sister Su? How did you get together with her again?"

The bandit Qi pushed Luo Fugui aside and said, "The puppet army and the devils are all preparing for the attack. If you want to reminisce about the past, can you wait until the battle is over?"

[The enemy's strength was no less than two squadrons, and they would fire artillery before attacking to clear obstacles for the infantry.] Due to the language barrier, Yang Fengzi participated in the pre-war planning discussion by writing.

"That's right. There's not much use burying mines in front of the position. Mixed-detonation and pressure-detonation mines can easily explode when the Japanese artillery fires." The old bandit Qi agreed.

"Then all the work we did before in vain?" the monkey looked unhappy.

[Concentrate the mines and use electric detonation to inflict massive casualties on the enemy.]

Luo Fugui immediately became interested: "Hey, I'm good at digging holes and burying large mines!"

[Dig a shallow pit on the flat ground, place a layer of explosive packs, and place thirty grenades around the explosive packs. Pull out all the grenade pull rings and tie them together. When the Japanese and puppet troops come, detonate the explosives with electricity. The explosive packs will blow the grenades away and pull out the fuse at the same time. In this way, a secondary coverage area of ​​about fifty meters can be formed near the explosion point.] Crazy Yang also drew a schematic diagram on the paper.

"Who came up with this wicked idea?"

[It's in the blasting manual] Crazy Yang raised the booklet in his hand and pointed at the four words on it.

"Flowers falling from the sky?" Qi Laofei was stunned for a moment: "Really? How come I haven't seen this booklet of yours before?"

"I've never heard of anyone using my grandma's book." Luo Fugui snatched the book away and said, "Isn't this the one that Boss Hu always carries with him?"

Crazy Yang pushed the booklet from Luo Fugui's hand and said, "Give it to me."

Monkey shook his head. "It's hard to even get explosive packs at ordinary times. Moreover, it takes dozens of grenades to explode once. The person who came up with this idea is a loser."

"I think thirty grenades are a bit small. How about I get you a hundred or so?" Luo Fugui suggested. In his opinion, grenades are only used in close combat.

He felt that he would not need it.

We have fought so many battles, big and small, but have never faced the enemy face to face.

There never was in the past, and there won’t be in the future!

This can be avoided by switching to electric detonation, so the focus will be placed on electric detonation explosive packages.

The result of the discussion was that one explosion point was not satisfying enough, so they decided to have three.

As for the fact that there is only one electric detonator now, this is not difficult.

Gather the detonating wires in one place, connect them one by one and detonate them!
As for detonating three at a time, if the puppet troops are not in place, it would be a waste.
The garrison was rich in spoils, including almost four hundred grenades.

After the explosive pack is detonated, the grenade can be blown away and used as fragments to cause casualties.

The shock wave might cause the grenade to explode as well, but that doesn't matter much.

At least it can increase the power of the explosion.

At the moment of detonation, the grenade fuse rope is pulled and burned, which is equivalent to the grenade fuse being burned. If the explosive pack is too powerful,
There will always be a portion of grenades that are blown away and will not explode.

Another explosion occurred about five seconds after it flew out.

However, there is no experience in this matter, and no one can estimate how far the explosive pack can blow the grenade.

After discussion, they unanimously decided that fifty meters would be more scientific.

We are not afraid that the enemy will not come, we are only afraid that there will be fewer enemies coming!

This ambush was more advanced than any previous one.

The arrangement was more detailed, and the outcome on the battlefield was almost predictably completely one-sided.

The feeling of setting up a temple in a nutshell made Yang Fengzi feel more and more interesting.

The Japanese lieutenant colonel who was preparing to launch the attack was not idle. He had rich experience in past raids and did not think there would be any accidents this time.

His goal of this operation was to completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army in a hunting-style manner.

The originally perfect encirclement tactics unexpectedly had flaws.
The major looked at the message sent by his men, his face livid: "Only one company of security forces crossed the river?"

"Captain Okamura said they have reached the east bank of the canal and are waiting for the boat to cross the river."

The major gripped his command knife tightly and asked: "Didn't they make any preparations in advance?"

“I don’t know about this for now.”

The major immediately roared: "How did the security forces that were outflanking from the south cross the river?"

"I'll send a telegram to inquire right away." The radio soldier was very lucky that even though the major was so angry, he didn't get slapped in the face.

The major was very angry and sent a large number of troops to pursue the enemy for a day and a night.

It was difficult to catch the Eighth Route Army's tail.

A large brigade of troops was mobilized from the east of the canal to mop up the southern area to encircle and intercept.

They didn't even exercise on time!

There was only one company of security forces crossing the river?

The security army is even less powerful than the Imperial Army!

Are they capable of taking on the important task of stopping the Eighth Route Army?
The major was very annoyed and had to change the troop deployment!
An order was quickly issued: "Send two teams from the reserve, detour from the west to guide the security forces that have already crossed the river and establish a blocking position."

The major felt that he finally understood the reason.

Why did the Eighth Route Army dare to openly set up ambush positions when facing the pursuit of a large number of Imperial Army and Imperial Auxiliary Army?

After the battle begins, they will definitely cross the canal to the south to block the Security Army's defense line from breaking through.

As long as the only loophole is blocked, Tuba will be unable to escape.
The major reviewed the current situation in his mind again.

The attack was about to be launched, and we could not expect the troops that had just arrived at the east bank of the canal to cross the river in a short time.

Nearly a battalion of troops were dispatched in the pursuit. Lieutenant Yamashita took a squadron to pursue along the east bank of the canal. The messenger has not reported on their current situation yet, but it is estimated that there will be news soon.

He currently has two infantry squadrons, a light mortar squad, and a transport squad, totaling nearly three squadrons of troops.

Plus the two battalions of the Imperial Army, nearly a thousand people.
It is completely enough to fight a larger local war.

The encirclement is divided into three layers. It doesn't matter if they break out to the south and are blocked by the security forces. Although this pursuit game is more troublesome, the result will still not deviate too much.

To deal with the Eighth Route Army, such a force is simply using a sledgehammer to kill a chicken.

Before the battle, let's analyze the Eighth Route Army
They ambushed a battalion of the security force and a squad of the Imperial Army, which shows that their fighting capacity is not weak.

A large amount of guns and ammunition were seized, but the rifles of these guards were completely incapable of confronting the Imperial elite's Tomosaka rifles.

Preliminary estimation shows that the enemy has more than 500 to 600 rifles, and probably several light machine gun groups.

Now he has become arrogant and plans to act like a hero in the dark, and dares to ambush the Imperial Army to take advantage of him.

They had no idea that with the invincible elite imperial army behind them, this behavior was tantamount to a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

Who is the praying mantis?

Later, the mortar grenade launcher will let the Eighth Route Army understand what fire suppression is.

I don't think there should be any big problems since we have been sweeping for so many years.

Didn’t they kill the Eighth Route Army every time and flee in a panic, leaving behind countless corpses?

Therefore, he decided not to adjust the battle plan for the time being.

At the same time, a new order was issued: the troops on the east bank of the canal should immediately move southwards and wait for an opportunity to cross the river.
This way, it's basically foolproof! (End of this chapter)