The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 490
That night.

The moonlight is between bright and dark, and the hazy moonlight seems to wrap a layer of veil on everything in the world.

Looking at it with wide eyes, the quiet mountain forest and the shadows of the whirling trees are all dead silent, and even the rustling sound of the leaves being blown by the wind is rarely heard.

Somewhere on the Nanshan Highway, which is closer to Qinghe Village, there is a medium-sized Japanese stronghold. There was originally a small Japanese army stationed in the stronghold, plus a platoon of the Imperial Association Army.

These days, in order to deal with the sneak attacks of the independent regiment, this stronghold has also been specially strengthened.

First of all, in terms of military strength, the Japanese army has strengthened two squads, plus the original platoon of the Imperial Association Army, the number of Japanese troops exceeds 230.

For the conventional medium-sized strongholds of the Japanese army, such a force is much more.

In addition to the change in troop strength, the Japanese army added two reinforced concrete bunker fortifications around the stronghold, and internally fired machine guns, which were specially used to deal with the fortified artillery held by the independent regiment.

Not only that, inside the stronghold, the Japanese army also imitated the appearance of the Eighth Route Army quite shrewdly, and dug many solid tunnels as artillery fortifications.

This is to prevent the Independence Regiment from sneak attacking with concentrated artillery fire, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese and puppet troops concentrated in the stronghold.

In addition to these conventional troop deployments, five Japanese snipers were hidden in this stronghold.

This is different from the special shooters in the Japanese military establishment. In the early days of the Japanese invasion of China, the Japanese army had extremely high requirements on the marksmanship training of soldiers, and even required at least one of the three soldiers to have a marksmanship that reached the level of a special shooter.

At this moment, the five snipers in this stronghold were selected from these two Japanese squads after Yoshio Shinozuka ordered them to follow the example of the Eighth Route Army, set up a sniper organization, and use sniper team tactics to confront the enemy. The five veterans with the best marksmanship were issued with Type [-] sniper rifles equipped with quadruple optical sights.

This is much better than the performance of the Type [-] sniper rifles used by the devil's special shooters.

In addition, for these snipers, the Japanese army specially trained for two days, mainly teaching tactics.

It is required to innovate the previous sniper tactics, not to be fixed in one place and keep shooting, which will lead to the exposure of oneself, and to abandon the Bushido spirit of the past that was ashamed to retreat.

To learn the sniper team tactics of the Eighth Route Army, two people work together in teams.

These snipers are also accompanied by spotters who use range-finding binoculars to scout out targets.

In addition, the battlefields of these five Japanese snipers were not fixed in strongholds.

In order to maximize the role of these snipers, recently, Kazuki Yamamoto, who personally wrote the Japanese sniper tactical innovation, proposed that some secret passages could be dug inside the stronghold to transfer personnel inside the stronghold.

Once the stronghold is attacked by the Eighth Route Army, these snipers can quickly move to the area around the stronghold to lurk through the passage, waiting for an opportunity to attack more valuable targets.

Coupled with the additional firepower configuration of the Japanese and puppet troops in response to the surprise attack of the Independence Regiment, the strongholds of the Japanese army around the Independence Regiment can be said to be armed to the teeth.

In order to deal with the independent regiment, the little devil really worked hard.

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In the evening, the devils in the stronghold sweared and ate dinner and went to the bunk to rest. In the past, the living environment was relatively spacious and more than enough, but now with the increase in the number of troops, it seems a bit bloated. It is no wonder that these soldiers could not help complaining .

These days, since the stronghold has increased the firepower of the garrison and built a concrete bunker, it has not encountered a surprise attack by the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, after nightfall, the Japanese and puppet soldiers were still vigilant, but not too worried.

As usual, checkpoints are set up in the gun towers of the stronghold and various important places. There are sentries changing guards and patrolling 24 hours a day. In addition, the searchlights on the top floor of the gun towers of the stronghold will search back and forth between the stronghold and its surroundings to guard against sneak attacks by the enemy at any time.

From the perspective of the Japanese and puppet troops, the strengthened strongholds are now guarded like iron barrels, and the patrols are patrolling around during the day, even the independent regiment may not be able to find a way to attack, or they will fight early. stronghold.

The immediate caution is more like doing futile work.

Around two o'clock in the middle of the night, it was the time when the Japanese and puppet soldiers in the stronghold slept most soundly.

In the woods 600 meters outside the Japanese stronghold, there were sudden rustling sounds from time to time.

It's just that this small sound quickly merged into the vast and boundless mountains, and no more movement could be heard.

Soldiers of the Independent Regiment quietly appeared under the cover of night, led by a certain platoon leader of the First Company of the Independent Regiment, followed by a long line of soldiers, who were different from the usual full armor, almost holding a dynamite in their hands Bag.

Seeing the stronghold of the Japanese army 600 meters away, the platoon leader turned his head, gathered the squad leaders and deputy squad leaders around him, and said in a low voice:
"The small artillery team is left behind. The first, second, and third squads are responsible for each section. They start to bury the explosives. The burial site does not need to be too close to the Japanese stronghold. It should be placed on the section of the road that the Japanese patrols will pass during the day. Use with wooden box mines."

"Yes!"

Several squad leaders and deputy squad leaders responded, and immediately led their respective teams to carry out the order.

The platoon leader waved his hand again, and led several members of the small artillery team, plus four [-] small artillery, to advance a certain distance.

"Two people, separate our four [-] small cannons and divide them into four directions. According to our many days of investigation, after the sky is bright, the devil's patrol team will come out of the stronghold and wait until the devil's patrol After the team is hit by the explosives we planted, there will be Japanese reinforcements in the follow-up, and after the devils come out and gather, we will use artillery fire to attack."

"Yes!"

After finishing the arrangement, the platoon leader looked at the eight people beside him. These eight people were not his soldiers, but the four snipers who had been supported by the sniper platoon.

The platoon leader said: "Old Zhou, your sniper team has your own tactics, and I don't quite understand them, so I won't arrange them. You can use them yourself!"

Old Zhou Ying said: "Please don't worry, platoon leader Jiang. Before coming, our platoon leader has repeatedly explained that the comrades in the third platoon will entrust the covering task to the four of us."

"Okay!" Platoon Leader Jiang nodded. He had witnessed the power of these snipers and was absolutely shocked. Although there were only four of them, he believed that Lao Zhou was not talking too much.

Time passed bit by bit, under the cover of night, coupled with the fact that the soldiers trained fast, moved secretly and carefully, and were far away from the stronghold of the Japanese army. After all the deployment methods were completed, the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold Unaware of it.

The next day, the sky, which had been dark all night, began to brighten quickly from the first white belly in the distant sky, and day once again replaced night.

Japanese soldiers have been immersed in relatively high-intensity militarized management for many years, and they have long formed a habit. After the sky brightened, the devil soldiers followed the orders given by their superiors, got up quickly according to the time, and arrogantly put each one of them who did not want to wake up. The Royal Association Army came to wake up.

"Patrol, it's time to patrol, you lazy bastards!"

Several Japanese army squad leaders roared, they were not polite at all to these lazy imperial association troops with poor military discipline.

The patrol started, according to the policy recently adjusted by the Japanese Army Command:
After dawn, each stronghold will dispatch a patrol team to patrol the road twice to ensure that the road was not tampered with by the Eighth Route Army troops last night.

The devil's strongholds were not too far apart. These devil patrols went out to patrol, between the strongholds, and there were two strongholds as protection. The Japanese and puppet soldiers on the patrol were not too worried.

In addition, in addition to patrolling a certain section of the road or railway line where they are located, the devil patrol team will also enter the villages around the stronghold to patrol, beware of the Eighth Route Army troops secretly gathering in the village last night.

Several patrols just walked out.

Each patrol team is led by five or six puppet troops, followed by five or six Japanese troops, basically a squadron of troops.

In the woods 700 meters away from stronghold [-], platoon leader Jiang and his party had been waiting all night, watching the Japanese and puppet troops coming out of the stronghold.

On both sides of the road where Platoon Leader Jiang was, there were hillsides surrounded by lush trees, and a mountain road was sandwiched between them. A Japanese and puppet army, a team of 13 people, patrolled slowly.

Unknowingly, the Japanese and puppet troops marched all the way from the road, and successfully stepped over the area where Platoon Leader Jiang and his party buried the remote detonation explosive package.

These explosive packages are directly controlled by the soldiers through the detonator. The explosive package and the detonator are connected by wires, which is a controllable explosion method that detonates through electric current.

As for the burial of the explosive package, in order not to damage the surface of the road built by the Japanese army and expose traces for the Japanese army to notice, a deep pit was dug from the side of the road, and then the explosive package was buried horizontally on the edge of the road, and then the explosive package connected The wires of the detonator and the detonator are buried in the shallow soil or between weeds and bushes along the way. It is simple and convenient to lay out. The soldiers gave it a very vivid name-side bomb.

The side road explosion can be controlled remotely through the detonator.

When the patrol team of the Japanese and puppet troops passed the area where the explosives exploded, Platoon Leader Jiang and his party did not start the explosion immediately.

Going forward, there is still a good show waiting for the devils and puppet soldiers!

It was a wooden box landmine newly produced by the Independent Training Institute.

The device is simple and the structure is simple. Explosives and fuze means are arranged in the half-open wooden box. When the top of the box is under a certain pressure, the wooden box closes, and the explosive will be detonated immediately.

The wooden box is small in size and easy to bury. It is buried shallowly under the surface of the road, and the surface is treated naturally so that it is difficult to detect with the naked eye.

In addition, the biggest advantage of this wooden box mine is that the entire explosive device inside basically does not use any metal substances, and it is difficult for the devil's mine detector to work.

This makes the devil hard to guard against.

boom -

The marching puppet army successfully stepped on the wooden box mines buried shallowly under the surface of the road.

Fortunately, the size of the wooden box is limited, and the amount of explosives inside is limited. Its power is far inferior to that of the explosive pack. After the explosion, the four puppet soldiers at the head killed one and injured three, while the devils behind were safe and sound. .

The devils and puppet troops were more frightened. They realized that the long-lost independent regiment's attack had finally arrived.

"Be careful of enemy attacks, retreat, retreat!" The devil army Cao who led the team shouted, accompanied by the screams and wailing of the three puppet soldiers who were injured, the living puppet soldiers dragged two wounded The soldier, a corpse, retreated in the direction of the stronghold in fear.

"fry--"

The five or six devils who were retreating successfully stepped into the area where the explosive package was remotely detonated. The soldiers lurking four or fifty meters away on the right side of the road received a gesture command from the observer and pressed the detonator.

boom -

The sound of the explosion this time was much louder than that of the previous wooden box mine.

The weight of the explosives contained in this remote detonating explosive package is no less than the total amount of explosives contained in ten conventional grenades, and the power of the explosion is far greater than the explosion of the collective grenade composed of ten grenades.

The power was astonishing. In the explosion, except for one of the six devils who was seriously injured, the other five devils were directly enveloped by the big explosion and died on the spot.

The road, which was originally fairly flat, was blown out of a big hole from the roadside area. The six devils were blown away by the impact of the explosion. Some fell on the hillside by the roadside, and some rolled under the field beside the road , the devil who was seriously injured did not die immediately, but he also took in less air and expelled a lot of air, and it seemed that he would not survive.

The few remaining puppet troops had already been terrified by the unpredictable sneak attack method of the Independence Regiment.

At the same time, explosions were heard in the direction of the Japanese stronghold.

Moreover, the explosion sounded not only in one place, but from multiple road sections. Then, the devil sentry in the stronghold noticed with binoculars that the patrols on several road sections were attacked one after another, and suffered heavy casualties in the explosion. The wounded are in urgent need of reinforcements.

The leader of the devil squadron sitting in the stronghold did not dare to hesitate, and quickly sent troops to reinforce several patrol teams in an attempt to rescue the wounded soldiers.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold have already exploded, searching for traces of possible lurking enemies.

But after all nothing.

Platoon Leader Jiang has always used landmines and remote-controlled explosives to detonate. The whole process is extremely concealed. As long as they don't take the initiative to expose, with the help of the cover of the mountains, it is difficult for the devils and puppet troops to detect.

He also understood what method the Eighth Route Army had used to attack several patrols. The squadron leader of the Japanese army thought that the patrol had accidentally stepped on a landmine.

The reinforcement team still encountered an explosion on the way.

This is a big explosion caused by platoon leader Jiang and others using remote detonators.

The soldiers had the final say on when to explode, and the devil's mine detectors had no time to detect the explosive package, so the devil was hard to defend against.

At the moment when the explosive package exploded, the soldier who hid in the forest dozens of meters away and detonated the explosive package even leisurely pulled back the wires left behind after the explosion for recycling.

After eight or nine explosions successively, the Japanese and puppet troops had suffered more than forty casualties before seeing half of the enemy...

(End of this chapter)