Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 2178 The Japs retreat!

Li Ergou held a grenade tightly in his hand. He wanted to try whether Leader Ye's method would work.

Duanwu once told him that in jungle warfare, grenades are far more useful than rifles.

It’s just that the guerrillas had too few grenades, and he was really reluctant to use them.

But seeing that the Japanese were about to run away, and his position was just right for throwing a grenade, he had no choice but to sacrifice it first.

"Hand grenade, hand grenade, please don't let me down, at least kill two or three of them."

Li Ergou muttered to himself, and then he threw a grenade at the running Japanese soldiers fifty meters away from a cliff-like slope more than three meters high across a tract of woods.

Although the Japanese soldiers were not in panic at this time and their formation was still neat, their pace was much faster.

This was also the reason why Li Ergou boldly approached the Japanese and threw grenades. The Japanese had no time to guard against the enemy at this time. They were preparing to return as quickly as possible and escape from the forest in Hupigou.

So the Japanese were unaware of Li Ergou's approach.

So, Li Ergou successfully approached the Japanese and threw a grenade.

The grenade flew over the woods, spinning clockwise in the air like a windmill, and landed squarely in the middle of the marching Japanese army.

Something fell from the sky. The Japanese was stunned for a moment, then looked down at the ground.

And when he saw this, he was immediately scared out of his wits.

It was a grenade and it was smoking.

"Grenade!"

A Japanese soldier shouted, but it was too late.

The grenade's fuse only lasts five seconds. It flies from a distance to the ground. The Japanese are stunned for a moment, and then they discover the grenade. After that, the five seconds are up.

So just as the Japanese screamed, the grenade exploded.

  boom!

A deafening roar broke through the night sky, and the shock wave generated by the explosion rolled up the surrounding dust, forming a huge air wave.

Under the impact of this air wave, several Japanese soldiers who were close to it were blown away.

The Japs danced in the air and screamed in fear, but the sound soon stopped.

Their lives came to an end, their bodies were riddled with holes from the shrapnel, and they fell heavily to the ground like dead dogs.

The Japanese soldiers nearby were shaken to the ground, their eardrums were buzzing, and they could not even hear the Japanese officers' loud roars at them to fight back.

Of course, some Japanese soldiers also reacted and started firing indiscriminately into the woods.

Because they have no idea where their enemies are.

The explosion came so suddenly that they had no time to react.

And when they heard the explosion, no one knew where the grenade came from.

Li Ergou was lying on the hillside watching the Japanese shooting indiscriminately, making a rustling sound in the woods, but they were so far away from him that not even a leaf on the hillside where he was was damaged.

"Leader Ye is right. This grenade is really useful."

Li Ergou pulled out another grenade from his waist, but after thinking about it, he was reluctant to throw it away.

In previous battles, the guerrillas had consumed a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and especially explosives and grenades, which were thrown into minefields.

Therefore, today, the guerrillas still have very few melon-handled grenades, and even fewer wooden-handled grenades.

Li Ergou also wanted to leave this grenade to set a trap for the Japanese and slow down the enemy's retreat.

For setting traps, wooden-handled grenades are much more useful than the Japanese melon grenades.

Wooden-handled grenades can be made into trip-fire mines, which have the characteristic of high probability of being triggered. On the contrary, the Japanese melon-shaped grenades can only be made into pressure-fire mines, which have a much lower probability of being triggered than wooden-handled grenades.

So Li Ergou thought about it and decided to keep the grenade and find another opportunity to set a trap for the Japanese.

  But if Duanwu were here at this time, he would definitely call Li Ergou a pig-head. It's all about killing the Japanese anyway, so what's the difference whether you throw it out to explode or use it to make a trap?

But Li Ergou just didn't understand this point and thought it would be more useful to set a trap with grenades!

"Leader Ye, where are you now? Have all the fellow villagers been rescued?"

Li Ergou murmured, thinking about the mysterious leader Ye, and he was actually a little absent-minded.

At the same time, Duanwu was rushing back with his spoils.

Duanwu was carrying a machine gun on his back and holding a Japanese sniper rifle in his hand.

There was a Japanese soldier's canvas backpack on each side of his body, one containing machine gun bullets and the other containing grenades.

Duanwu put the rifle bullet directly into his shirt pocket.

There was a pistol on his waist, two black blades on his back, and a bayonet stuck in his boot.

This makes the Dragon Boat Festival at this time look like a mobile arsenal.

But Duanwu's speed was not slow, he had already heard the explosion coming from the front.

Hearing the explosion just now, Duanwu smiled slightly.

Because he knew that it was a grenade thrown by one of his own people, otherwise there would not have been only one sound.

In jungle warfare, grenades and crossbows are undoubtedly the most useful weapons.

It’s just a pity that a huge amount of grenades were consumed in the previous battles. Otherwise, if a dozen people were to throw grenades into the crowd of Japanese soldiers, they would definitely be able to blow all the Japanese soldiers to the ground.

But after thinking about it, Duanwu decided not to leave.

There was no point in him turning back now. Judging from the gunshots, the Japanese were probably returning to their positions for unknown reasons.

He looked at the sky, as if he understood something.

It was getting dark. If the Japanese were not absolutely sure of crossing Hupi Gorge, then they would have no choice but to retreat.

"It seems that Li Ergou and his men did a good job and forced the Japanese back."

Duanwu also muttered something, then looked around and chose a place with a wide view to ambush.

The geographical environment was very good. It was more than 200 meters away from the path in the forest and formed an angle of 60 degrees between the northwest and southeast, so that an attack could be launched from behind the enemy.

This is very important. If Duanwu chooses to block the Japanese in front, what awaits him will only be the enemy's crazy attack.

But the situation was different in his current position. He shot at the Japanese from behind, and the Japanese who were eager to leave Hupigou would definitely not dare to turn back and attack him.

Of course, this possibility cannot be ruled out. However, Duanwu's ambush position is at a high altitude of about five meters, and behind him is a dense forest. If the devils attack him with all their strength, he may retreat at any time.

So this is a position where you can attack or defend.

After Duanwu chose this place, he took off the machine gun on his body.

He had two machine guns, one of which was fixed with a bandage to the roots of a tree about seven or eight meters away from him, and the muzzle was also facing the direction of the mountain road.

He tore off another legging, tied it to the trigger, then went around from the other side of the tree trunk and grabbed it in Duanwu's hand.

In this way, as long as Duanwu pulls the rope, the machine gun will automatically fire.

After doing all this, Duanwu returned to his ambush position, lay down, aimed his machine gun at the unmanned mountain road, and adjusted the shooting angle of the machine gun.

  Duanwu was very satisfied. This shooting position was indeed unique. He just waited for the Japanese to come to him! .

(End of this chapter)