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Chapter 297 Chapter 296 What? We also have pepper bombs?
In Laiyuan Town, on the highway, the 400st Special Company's troops had already approached a position more than meters away from the stronghold.

However, Captain Ge and his men did not rush to attack, but set up machine guns on the spot and guarded the direction of the town. Of course, they did not stop, but sent part of their forces to the hilltop on the southwest side of the valley, intending to set up a heavy machine gun position on the hilltop to cover the attack.

The river valley where Laiyuan Town is located spans only 310 meters. If the hilltop on the southwest side of the town is occupied, then the firepower advantage of the heavy machine guns will be enough to suppress the firepower of the Japanese in the stronghold.

At this time, Captain Nakamura in the town was anxious and determined. He didn't understand why the situation was fine in the morning, but how could it deteriorate to such a degree in such a short time?

Through the observation port of the stronghold's artillery tower, he saw the Eighth Route Army on the southern hilltop digging trenches, and he also saw his own artillery positions being destroyed. He also saw that a force of nearly a thousand Eighth Route Army troops had swarmed into the valley and were about to launch an attack!
"Baga... These Eighth Route Army soldiers are so bold that they actually take the initiative to attack our stronghold!" While Nakamura was feeling grief-stricken and indignant, he also expressed his dissatisfaction with the idiots who built the stronghold in the first place.

"Which idiot built this stronghold? Why didn't they build fortifications on the commanding heights? Why did they only build a stronghold in this town and some bunkers around it? Why, even on the mountain behind us, there are no decent fortifications? How can this be an act of underestimating the enemy? If I survive, I will definitely go to the brigade headquarters to argue..."

Well, since Laiyuan Town had not been attacked since it was occupied, and there were three strongholds ahead, the Japanese no longer attached much importance to Laiyuan Town, so not many fortifications were built.

Thanks to the play, everyone keenly discovered this loophole in the defense and planned to make a big move.

The hundred-meter-high mountaintop was not that difficult to climb. All they had to do was find a small path up the mountain and quickly go around to the opposite side of Laiyuan Town to set up a position.

So, the Japanese soldier Nakamura watched helplessly as the Eighth Route Army went up the mountain from a small road, staying far away from the range of the heavy machine guns in the artillery tower, and blatantly walked towards the opposing side.

This almost mocking attitude finally angered the Japanese in the artillery tower. Then, the Type 92 heavy machine gun started to fire, and strings of bullets came out from the firing holes of the artillery tower, hitting the team in the valley and the team moving on the mountain.

"Can't the Japanese hold on any longer?" On the top of the hill, Li Yuexuan smiled slightly and said, "Shi Peican, you guys stay here, where you can see the Japanese artillery tower, and bombard the Japanese artillery tower. I want to see what the Japanese can do! Oh, and bombard the observation post on the roof first!"

"Yes, Captain!" Shi Peican agreed and raised the telescope to measure the distance.

"Captain, I think the time is almost right. I'm taking my men down the mountain. Can you keep an eye on them?" While Shi Peican was calculating the trajectory, Li Yuexuan asked Xing Weiguo.

"Well, wait a moment. Let the Special First Company launch an attack, and then you quickly go around them! According to intelligence, there are still more than 100 Japanese in the stronghold. We have to make sure that all the Japanese are attracted by the Special First Company so that you can approach them stealthily." Xing Weiguo said.

"Report to the captain, we have 5 boxes of artillery shells here that are a little different!" Shi Peican's voice interrupted the discussion between Li Yuexuan and Xing Weiguo.

"The shells are different? How come they are different? The brigade commander shouldn't have made a mistake, right? Did he explain it when he received it?" Li Yuexuan first asked Shi Peican, and then asked Xing Weiguo. "Different? The brigade quartermaster said that the ammunition was distributed according to the proportion of the artillery battalion... proportion?" Xing Weiguo himself discovered what he had overlooked. Then, he and Li Yuexuan came to the different mortar shells.

"These shells are marked with red icons, and there is a piece of paper here saying they are smoke bombs. And the ingredients..." Before Shi Peican finished speaking, the instruction manual was taken away by Xing Weiguo.

Li Yuexuan, on the other hand, directly grabbed a shell and opened the auxiliary panel. Then, Li Yuexuan smiled and said, "Ha, I was wondering what was going on! Minister Zhang has made a chili shell! But it just so happens that with this, we probably don't need to go around behind the enemy! Oh, the shells have chili shells, and the grenade launcher should also have grenades, hurry up and find them!"

"Oh, right, Shi Peican, don't stop here. Use the high-explosive bomb to blow up the roof of the enemy's artillery tower first. Let the enemy tremble! Then, I'll see how to use the pepper bomb."

Li Yuexuan did not check the newly distributed ammunition along the way, so the pepper shells were leaked. This is not his fault, because the guerrillas themselves have a lot of grenade launchers, so he has enough to lead the team in the battle, and he will not need the ones distributed by the brigade commander for a while. If someone had not carried the mortar shells to the mountain and was discovered, Li Yuexuan would not have known this.

The ammunition was on the hill east of the radio station, so news came in soon - there really were pepper grenade launchers and grenades.

Hearing this news, Li Yuexuan was very happy and asked people to bring it over quickly and distribute it to the shooters of the grenade launcher combat team. There were not many, and three rounds per shooter was enough.

It would take some time for the grenade launchers to be delivered, but Shi Peican was ready to fire. At this time, the team of the Special Company 1 was a little frustrated! After all, they were distributed on the river beach and the western mountains, without the bunkers of the devils, and their firepower was not as fierce as the devils. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Special Company 1 were all good fighters, and they were very good at hiding on the spot, so the casualties were not heavy.

However, this also made Captain Ge a little annoyed. He was not annoyed that his own artillery could not keep up, but annoyed that the Japanese did not dare to come out and fight them to the death. Artillery reinforcements? Didn't we still fight when we didn't have artillery reinforcements before?
Just when he was annoyed and wanted to organize a small-scale exploratory attack, Shi Peican finally took action.

He personally adjusted the parameters, gave orders, and watched a grenade blurt out, heading for the roof of the turret in the front stronghold. Then, the mortar shell exploded on the roof with a bang, causing the entire turret to tremble and dust to fall down. However, the solid roof did not collapse, and the shell only blew away the lookout on the roof.

Li Yuexuan admired Shi Peican's ability to operate the artillery! Judging from today's combat performance, within 1000 meters, Shi Peican's accuracy is still very high! Yes, within 1000 meters, because this is the distance between the artillery position and the Japanese stronghold.

In fact, if Li Yuexuan and the others went down the mountain, the range of the Dinglong grenade launcher would be enough to cover the entire Laiyuan Town, but the accuracy of other shooters would be slightly worse.

Now, knowing that he has pepper bombs at home and can use them immediately, Li Yuexuan has a new idea.

(End of this chapter)