Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 90 The Village That Was Flattened
And most importantly, this way the traps set by Wang Gensheng in the village will not be wasted.

You know, in order to welcome the Japanese invaders who were coming for this raid, Wang Gensheng laid a lot of landmine and grenade traps in the village!

Wang Gensheng did not panic when he saw the teams of Japanese soldiers rushing into the village. The explosions had not stopped since the first Japanese soldier pushed open the gate of a house.

The grenade hidden on the gate was ignited as the Japanese pushed the door, and the grenade exploded immediately after Wang Gen removed the delay fuse.

The explosion not only blew away the yard gate, but also killed several Japanese soldiers at the gate.

But this was still considered lucky, as some grenades were buried under the pedal behind the threshold. When the Japanese soldier stepped over the door and stepped on it, one of his legs was immediately blown off by the power of the explosion.

Grenade traps have been set up at the doorways, windows, and other places, but these are not the key points. The most important thing is that there are commandos in some houses who are ready to fight with submachine guns.

Sometimes, a few Japanese soldiers had just pushed open the yard and entered the house when they were faced with submachine gun fire.

Of course, in addition to this, even the Japanese soldiers walking on the village road had to worry about air-burst grenades falling from the sky.

This grenade was naturally thrown by Wang Gensheng in the yard. Although there was a wall more than one person high blocking it, Wang Gensheng's perception ability within a hundred meters was still enough to accurately sense the position of the Japanese soldiers, so the grenade could naturally be thrown very accurately.

Under multiple attacks, the Japanese soldiers suffered more than two hundred casualties within just a short time of entering the village!

Seeing such heavy casualties, Captain Watanabe knew that he couldn't continue like this. If the casualties were too great, his regiment's designation would definitely be revoked. So he immediately ordered all the Japanese soldiers who had entered Wangjia Village to withdraw. Without hesitation, he said to the signalman beside him:

"Send a telegram to the higher-ups, requesting artillery guidance!"

Wang Gensheng watched the Japanese soldiers withdraw from Wangjia Village, and he became worried that the Japanese soldiers might feel that the casualties were too heavy, so he decided to directly bomb Wangjia Village with artillery!
After all, just because the previous Type 92 infantry gun couldn't do it doesn't mean the Type 97 150mm large-caliber mortar can't do it!
So in order not to be too passive, Wang Gensheng immediately went into the underground passage in the village and notified all the commandos to hide in the underground passage.

If the Japanese do not bombard, then continue to enter the village and fight.

However, just when Wang Gensheng called all the team members into the tunnel, a sudden tremor made Wang Gensheng realize that the Japanese were still bombing with heavy artillery.

At this time, a mud brick house at the entrance of the village and even the yard outside the house were knocked down by the powerful shock wave generated by the explosion.

The entire house with an area of ​​more than 100 square meters, including the yard wall and even the farmhouse with an area of ​​more than 200 square meters, was reduced to a pile of ruins by a 150mm mortar shell.

Where the mortar landed, a large pit with a diameter of more than six meters and a depth of two meters was formed.

Feeling the mud falling from the tunnel above his head, Wang Gensheng realized that he could no longer stay in the tunnel in the village and had to quickly evacuate to the escape passage leading out of the village.

Under such a huge explosion, even if the underground tunnel in the village is more than two meters deep, it will be useless. After all, the earthen tunnel is not reinforced with any steel bars or concrete, so it is impossible to withstand such a powerful bombing. It is estimated that when the Japanese destroy all the houses in the village, the tunnel under the village will also be collapsed.

"Hurry! Retreat to the escape route!"

Following Wang Gensheng's urging, the commandos also headed towards the escape passage outside the village.

Feeling the continuous vibrations, Wang Gensheng didn't dare to stay for a moment until he retreated more than 500 meters in the tunnel. Then he said to the commandos:
"Does anyone still have grenades? Give me ten first! I'm setting a trap!"

That's right, in order to prevent the Japanese from chasing him through the underground escape passage, Wang Gensheng had no choice but to place some mines in the escape passage.

Wang Gensheng did not make many arrangements, but only placed some mines at several turning points in the passage.

That’s right, the escape passage leading out of the village is not straight, but has turns. The purpose is very simple, which is to confuse the Japanese and prevent them from understanding the true direction of the escape passage.

Just as Wang Gensheng was retreating and setting mine traps in the passage, the bombing in the village had stopped.

The Japanese spent more than 300 artillery shells to flatten the entire Wangjia Village.

After the bombing, the natural next step was to clean up the battlefield and search for the remains of the Eighth Route Army soldiers to show their achievements.

However, the result of the search made Captain Watanabe furious and asked again with a look of disbelief:
"Baga! What are you talking about? We didn't even find a single Eighth Route Army soldier's remains! Maybe they were blown to pieces, making them hard to identify!"

"There isn't a single fragment left. What's left are the remains of Imperial soldiers that we didn't have time to transport back!"

The signalman's words made Captain Watanabe look extremely ugly, so he reluctantly went to Wangjia Village, which had been bombed into ruins, to check it out in person.

As soon as they arrived at the ruins, a soldier reported that a large number of collapsed underground tunnels were found under Wangjia Village. So at this time, no matter how stupid Captain Watanabe was, he understood that there must be an underground tunnel leading to the outside of Wangjia Village.

So naturally, he ordered that they must dig three feet into the ground to find this passage.

It’s true, having more people is a good thing. Within an hour, the Japanese found the passage leading out of the village dug by the New Second Regiment.

Then naturally there were successive explosions. Wang Gensheng buried basically ten mines at a time, and the power of the explosion was enough to collapse a section of the tunnel.

So the Japanese plan to pursue them through the tunnel naturally failed.

"Fortunately, we retreated early! Otherwise, we might have been buried with Wangjia Village!"

After Wang Gensheng came out of the passage, he stood on the mountain and looked at Wangjia Village more than ten miles away with a telescope, with an expression of admiration on his face!

"By the way! Vice Captain Wang, what are you going to do next?"

Kong Jie, who had already reunited with Wang Gensheng, asked Wang Gensheng what his next plan was. After hearing what Kong Jie said, Wang Gensheng thought for a moment and said:

"Commander, we're going to split up into two groups. You'll lead the ordinary soldiers of the New Second Regiment into the mountains to avoid the Japanese's raids and encirclements. The Japanese are so powerful right now that we can't confront them head-on! I'll lead the Special Cavalry Company to other bases to see if there are any brother troops who need help! After all, our base is on the outermost perimeter. We've escaped the encirclement, but other troops may still be inside!"

That's right, in the plot of Bright Sword, the reason why Kong Jie's team suffered heavy losses was not only because of insufficient manpower and Kong Jie's poor command ability, but more importantly, Kong Jie's base was at the outermost edge.

(End of this chapter)