Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The Japanese may not have heard the saying: When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you! However, today's experience also made the surviving Japanese understand a truth: When you aim at the Eighth Route Army with a grenade launcher, the Eighth Route Army's grenade launcher is also aiming at you!
Well, everyone knows this, but the lesson we taught the devils today was really a bit more profound. How should I put it? The devil's grenade launchers were aiming at the Eighth Route Army assaulting from outside, while our soldiers were either constantly moving or digging individual pits on the spot, and the intervals were very far, which allowed the devil's grenade launchers to bomb without causing much casualties.

There is also the issue of weapon performance. The Japanese Type 89 grenade launcher is complex to operate, and its accuracy is more dependent on the experience of the grenade launcher soldiers. This is not the early days of the War of Resistance. Most of the Japanese infantry are new recruits, and most of the grenade launchers are also new recruits. If the Japanese grenade launcher had an 80% hit rate before, it would be good if it could reach 50% now!

Especially now, the Japanese grenade throwers need to measure distance in real time and chase the moving Eighth Route Army to bomb, so the hit rate is even lower.

What about the Eighth Route Army? The structure of the Dinglong grenade launcher is more like a simple mortar, which is easier to control, more accurate, and easier to train. A qualified grenade launcher soldier who does not have a hit rate of 90% would be embarrassed to say hello to his comrades!

Just now, the grenade launchers had completed a bombing, obtained the distance and other data, and had more accurate coordinates. So when the grenade launchers on the Japanese side just fired, the comrades found the Japanese position and started to attack directly, and 27 grenade launchers whizzed down. Just one wave of bombing caused heavy losses to the Japanese grenade launchers!

This is the gap, the gap caused by different weapons and soldiers! Of course, there are still many devils in the village at this time, and there are also many puppet troops. The village defense fortifications have no effect, and the attack is still difficult!
In the three tunnels under the village, Platoon Leader Zeng, Captain Wang, and Ma Dabao were soaked with sweat, but they still did not let go of the tools in their hands. With the continuous swinging of the engineer picks and shovels, the sides of the tunnels were dug open little by little, and then some simple wooden supports were propped up on the top.

Every time they advance a certain distance and put up new support, they would replace them with new people, allowing those who are in better physical condition to take over and give the people who are working a break.

"Okay, I feel we're about the right distance!" In the easternmost tunnel, Madaha raised his hand and stopped the digging work.

After people retreated from the side tunnel, Ma Daha picked up a Luoyang shovel and came to the front of the tunnel. He first chiseled two footrests on the front wall, then stepped on the footrests and kept poking the Luoyang shovel upwards. Soon, a soil hole with a diameter of only ten centimeters was formed, and it was still rising.

"I feel it's almost there, it'll be through soon!" As Madaha spoke, beads of sweat continued to drip from his chin.

"It has to be about two meters thick, right?" Captain Wang took a look at the second pole newly connected to the Luoyang shovel and made a judgment.

"It's about this height!" Ma Daha said, and his feet loosened from the wall, landing in the tunnel: "Captain, how can we see where the top is? It's just this small opening!"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me think..." When Captain Wang was still struggling, a soldier from the transport platoon who was working with them reminded him, "Don't we have a periscope?" This sentence reminded everyone, and Captain Wang slapped his forehead and said, "Although that can only be pulled out to a height of more than 50 centimeters, we can still dig up! Come on, work!"

Captain Wang took an engineer shovel and stepped on the place where Ma Daha had just stood, shoveling soil from the top of his head. The other soldiers were not idle either. The soil they had dug out had been put into sacks, and new sacks were just being added. When the sacks were mostly full, they tied the mouths of the sacks and placed them horizontally on the ground, forming a staircase.

If you can sneak up to this position, then this will be the upward passage; if the position is not suitable, remove the sack and continue digging forward and upward. The main point is flexibility.

The key point is that when the passage is finally located, these sacks can be carried out as temporary shelters. Of course, it is best to go to the north bank of the river to collect some sand to make sandbags.

The work was going on in the tunnel, and the feint attack outside was still going on! As the individual pits were dug more than 200 meters away from the village wall, a temporary and scattered front position was formed outside the village. At this time, the squad leaders also discovered this and simply organized half of the troops to dig again, while the remaining soldiers continued to shoot at the devils.

The squad leaders knew very well that when fighting the devils in the village defense works in the wild, having some bunkers like this could greatly reduce their own casualties! Moreover, they would launch a strong attack later, and these bunkers were the best approach channels before the charge.

"Good, good, you know how to dig a hole!" On the western mountain, Li Yunlong scanned back and forth with his telescope. Naturally, he saw the busy figures of the soldiers and sighed.

"Oh, why didn't I think of that?" In the north, Shen Quan slapped his forehead and quickly shouted to the soldiers around him: "What are you all standing there for? Dig along the riverbed, dig a passage through!"

As soon as Shen Quan called out, soldiers immediately stood up, holding digging tools in their hands and ran to the river. Then, two passages were started at the same time, and they dug towards the two front positions in the northwest and northeast. Of course, the digging work would not be too fast, but as long as the hoe was used well, there would always be a time to dig through, right?
"Baga...Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army is indeed a group of farmers! They actually thought of attacking in this way!" Behind the village wall, Nakano sighed as he watched the dirt and sand being thrown up. However, before he could finish his sigh, a hissing sound came from above his head, which gave him a startle.

Boom boom boom... Boom boom boom... One after another, the heavy mortar shells exploded in the village. The huge explosive force destroyed more than a dozen houses in the village and also took away the Japanese troops operating in it. That's right, on the West Mountain, Instructor Li personally guided the position, and Captain Qi personally calculated the trajectory parameters. The heavy mortar once again played a deterrent role. (End of this chapter)