At four o'clock in the afternoon, none of the scouts sent from the county town came back.

Thinking of the gunshots that had been sounding outside the city for more than three hours, the fool also understood that something had happened to them.

The squadron leader's face looked very ugly, and he could only hope that the Zhangzhuang Town stronghold could bring him some good news.

Hurry up and order: "Contact the Zhangzhuang Town stronghold immediately and find out what the enemy is identifiable at all costs, and the speed should be fast."

On the battlefield of Zhangzhuang Town, the team leader was completely desperate.

He knew that his opponent was digging tunnels outside, and three tunnels were moving in unison, but there was no way.

At the beginning, he was planning to break through the situation by counter-digging trenches. As long as the tunnel he dug himself collided with the tunnel he dug out of his opponent, a few grenades would collapse and turn into a pile of ruins. The opponent's plan to approach the artillery tower through the tunnel would go bankrupt.

But this is not as easy as I imagined.

To connect to the trench where the opponent is digging forward, you must understand the direction and path of the trench.

This is not difficult for experienced Japanese.

Build a water tank on the ground of the artillery tower, and the soldier lay at the entrance of the water tank and listened to the sound. He could almost determine the specific location of the tunnel, and then began to dig.

As they digged, the guerrillas outside the stronghold found out.

I don’t know what method I used, but in less than an hour, the sound of digging tunnels around the base was actually full of sounds.

This was what Zhou Cheng learned that the Japanese and puppet troops had also started digging tunnels, and immediately ordered the troops to open several tunnel entrances from the edge of the trenches to confuse them.

The Japanese were indeed confused and could not tell where the real tunnel was, and where was the illusion created by the guerrillas on purpose. They could only dig tunnels outside the artillery tower in an approximate direction, hoping to meet the tunnels dug out of the guerrillas.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, one of the tunnels dug out by the guerrillas was knocked together by the tunnels dug out by the Japanese.

"Boom..."

During a series of explosions, the junction of two tunnels was blown up and there was no way to continue digging forward.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the remaining two tunnels were lucky enough to dig them all to the edge of the artillery tower.

A total of 100 grenades were sent into the tunnel, and all the grenade fuses were tied together, and they were sealed into the tunnel.

So many grenades exploded in a small and dense space at the same time, and their power was no worse than a twenty-pound explosive pack.

With a "boom...", a ball of black smoke rose into the air from the foot of the artillery tower.

The soil on the ground was blown up, the bricks and stones on the ground were blown up, and the ruins were everywhere like flowers scattered.

When the smoke that filled the explosion site dissipated, the exterior wall of the artillery tower directly above the explosion site had been blown out of a semicircular hole with a diameter of two meters.

Looking into the artillery tower from the entrance of the cave, the Japanese and puppet troops guarding the first floor were almost killed or injured, and all fell to the ground.

The worst thing was the Japanese and puppet troops around the blast. Many of them were blown away without any bones, and even a complete body was left behind.

The only regret is that the artillery tower was not blown up on the spot. Although a big hole was blown out near the ground and was shaking, it finally stood in front of the guerrillas and did not fall.

The Japanese and puppet troops defending the second and third floors were not affected, and continued to shoot out of the shooting hole.

A trace of disappointment flashed across Zhou Cheng's face, but he did not give up: "Don't worry, we still have an authentic story that is useless!"

"I stared at the gap in the artillery tower for heavy machine guns. I can't let a Japanese and puppet army get close to it and use sandbags to block the hole."

"Buried all the remaining grenades we had in another tunnel."

"As long as we blow up another gap, the artillery tower will definitely collapse, and we will win this battle."

"Boom..."

The second explosion sounded ten minutes later and lasted for five seconds before stopping.

First the grenade exploded, and then the artillery tower collapsed.

The artillery tower more than ten meters high was watched by everyone, and it turned into a pile of ruins less than three meters high in a few seconds.

All the Japanese and puppet troops who were still alive were buried inside.

The guerrillas rushed into the ruins like crazy to deal with the Japanese and puppet troops who were not dead yet.

Xiang Feng walked out of it half an hour later, his face full of disappointment.

"Captain, we have suffered a huge loss in this battle!"

"The Japanese knew that the stronghold could not be defended, so they destroyed all the food and ammunition in the stronghold in advance, leaving only a small part of the ammunition in the artillery tower."

"I took people to check it out and reduced the amount of use by the Japanese and puppet troops. There were less than a thousand rounds left in the ruins, and even fewer grenades and grenades, less than a hundred."

"In order to cover the troops to dig tunnels, our gunshots have not been cut off today. The light and heavy machine guns alone fired nearly 2,000 bullets, which is not counting the more than 100 grenades fired from the grenade launcher and the more than 200 grenades used to blow up the artillery tower in the end."

"This is a small amount of seizure that we can't even make up for the loss we lost in the battle."

"Fortunately, more than a hundred puppet troops were killed in the morning and some ammunition was snatched back, otherwise everyone would have lost bullets."

Zhou Cheng's face was even worse. The Eighth Route Army currently has no arsenal, and weapons and ammunition are all based on seizure. If the seizure cannot keep up with the loss, the troops will definitely become weaker and weaker, and in the end they will be exhausted from ammunition and food and will not be eliminated by the enemy.

I didn't expect this to happen to the guerrillas so soon.

Until now, Zhou Cheng truly understood why the Eighth Route Army rarely fought tough battles.

It was like attacking the Zhangzhuang Town stronghold by himself, and it seemed that he had eliminated more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops. The battle was impressive, but the weapons and ammunition seized were pitifully small.

If the guerrillas had not had a wealth of wealth, the other Eighth Route Army would have exhausted ammunition and food after this battle.

Of course, the guerrillas are not much better.

This kind of tough battle only needs to be fought again, and the rifles in the hands of the soldiers will turn into fire sticks because they have no bullets!

Zhou Cheng looked scared when he thought about it and quickly explained: "From now on, we will never fight such a tough battle unless we have to, it will be a loss."

"Unless there is a way to quickly capture the stronghold through raids, there is no time to give the Japanese to destroy weapons and ammunition."

Xiang Feng nodded in agreement: "I agree... Our guerrillas have only this little bit of their wealth. They can't afford to fight attrition. If they want to fight, they will fight guerrilla wars and annihilation wars. At least they must ensure that they seize and make up for the loss, and they will not suffer any losses after a battle."

Zhou Cheng raised his hand to stop Xiang Feng from continuing: "Get back to the point, let's discuss this matter when the Japanese and puppet troops are repelled."

"No seizure here does not mean that there is no other place either."

"The troops will have a good rest tonight. We will attack separately early tomorrow morning and sweep away all the traitors who are working hard for the Japanese in Zhangzhuang Town."

"These Ergouzi have not only guns, ammunition, but also food and finance."

"Killing them can not only make up for the loss we have here, but also expand the influence of our guerrillas, take out part of the seizures and distribute it to the people, get their support, kill two birds with one stone!"
Chapter completed!