This uncertainty is fatal, because it means that the Eighth Route Army cannot determine in which direction the two minesweeper trucks hidden by the enemy will suddenly appear, so it must guard every direction and even every position of the defense line.
However, it seemed unnecessary to worry about this. The Japanese's frontal charge was too much for the Eighth Route Army.
The minesweeper truck rumbled up.
The process was not smooth because the Japanese minesweeper was modified from a tractor and the driver had no cover.
The sharpshooters of the Eighth Route Army shot down the minesweeper driver one after another from a distance, but the Japs drivers came up one after another.
Later, the Japanese pilots even learned the lesson. After climbing into the cab, they did not show their heads at all but huddled under the fender.
As for the driving direction, you just need to keep the speed and keep driving forward. At worst, you can ask the infantryman following you loudly.
Directional mines were detonated one after another, but they failed to cause much damage to the Japs. Seeing the Japs getting closer and closer, Tang Liangjun anxiously called the headquarters: "Batalion Commander, the position cannot be defended, please withdraw to the underground warehouse!"
Wang Xuexin looked at the time with a dark face. There was still an hour before dark, so it wasn't even time yet.
If the Japanese were allowed to occupy the ground positions at this time...then they would blast the underground warehouses.
The design of the underground warehouse is just a warehouse, and it is an underground warehouse built under the plain loess. It is not as attackable and defensive as the highland tunnels, so the battle will be very passive.
Therefore, the ground position will have to be defended for a while.
But now this situation...
After thinking about it, Wang Xuexin ordered: "Asking for permission, but before withdrawing, a batch of directional mines should be planted in the trenches. Do you understand?"
Tang Liangjun was stunned for a moment, and then immediately responded: "Understood!"
Tang Liangjun indeed understood that this retreat was not a retreat, but a retreat for counterattack.
The 208th Regiment was worthy of being the main force. After Tang Liangjun gave the order, the battalion commanders, company commanders and other commanders immediately understood the meaning and immediately ordered the soldiers to lay secret directional mines in the trenches.
This is what the idiom calls "like an arm commanding".
If it is a poorly-qualified unit, such an order may cause a series of command chaos.
For example, Tang Liangjun's order was only one sentence: "Deploy directional mines in the trenches and prepare to retreat!"
Some people may understand what Tang Liangjun means, and they will secretly lay directional mines, that is, bury directional mines and wires in the soil and then lead them all the way to the entrance of the underground warehouse, and lay them in large numbers.
But some people don't understand what this means. They just throw away the directional mines or insert them into the trenches... This is also laying directional mines, and it is also in the trenches. From the perspective of executing orders, there is nothing wrong with it.
But if this is done, the enemy will immediately discover the problem as soon as they jump into the trench, and then the combat plan will be exposed in advance to let the enemy know that it is a trap and respond.
Therefore, if it is a unit of average quality, the correct way to issue this order is to gather battalion-level cadres for a short meeting, tell them the combat plan as quickly as possible, and then ask the battalion commander to convey the combat plan to
Company commander, the company commander then passes it on to the soldiers.
Only in the end can this order be implemented accurately.
But if that happens, the Japanese will have already followed the minesweeper and rushed into the trenches, and there will be no time and space to implement this combat plan.
The 208th Regiment is not an ordinary unit. Tang Liangjun usually gets along with the battalion commander and company commander. Tang Liangjun understands the commanders of each battalion and company, and the commanders of each battalion and company also understand Tang Liangjun.
Therefore, when Tang Liangjun gave an order, all battalions and companies understood it by heart, and then consciously and proactively filled in the missing parts of the order.
Soon, directional mines were planted every ten meters in the trenches, and they were all covered with loess.
Because time was tight, I only covered it with a thin layer of soil.
But it didn't matter, because the enemy's artillery fire and the strafing from the planes overhead kept shaking off the loess on both sides of the trench, which instead helped the soldiers to speed up the completion of the trap without revealing any traces.
After that, the soldiers retreated to the underground warehouses along the communication trenches one by one... This was built by the soldiers when they were building the trenches. The entrance to each underground warehouse was connected to the trenches by communication trenches.
This is common sense, because only in this way, when evacuating from the ground trenches to the underground warehouse, there is no need to climb out of the trenches and expose yourself to the enemy's guns and muzzles.
Only in this way, when launching a counterattack from the underground warehouse, will the enemy not be discovered immediately.
On the other side, Shino Endo saw that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was gradually weakening, and he was secretly happy: Finally, we have defeated these cunning Eighth Route Army. It is not easy!
Perhaps worried that the war situation would change, Endo Shino ordered: "Order Shimada Squadron to speed up and occupy the enemy's defense line immediately to prevent the enemy from counterattack. Ishikawa Squadron continues the attack!"
There is nothing wrong with the conductor of Shino Endo.
Because the Eighth Route Army's defense line had this loophole... They formed a circle and had no depth of defense.
The imperial army only needs to break through a little, then use one squadron to guard the trench to secure the gap and expand it, while the other squadron rushes straight into the hinterland, and then they can rush to the back of the other side of the Eighth Route Army's defense line.
At that time, the entire Eighth Route Army defense line will collapse.
Under the satisfied eyes of Shino Endo, the Japanese successfully occupied the trench.
The Japanese's movements were also extremely fast. They immediately filled up a section of the trench with sandbags, and allowed minesweepers and combat vehicles to cross the trench one by one and then launch an attack on the other side.
However, at this moment something unexpected happened.
Just when Endo Shino thought that the battle situation was decided, and he even wanted to report to the headquarters: "The enemy has collapsed, and our army has fully occupied the enemy's ground positions," a series of explosions suddenly came from the trenches, accompanied by these explosions.
, it was the Japanese who screamed loudly and pitifully like killing pigs.
Endo Shino's expression changed, and he immediately realized what happened.
"Bastard!" Endo Shino shouted: "Everyone, hold the trenches! Hold the trenches!"
Endo Shino did not order a "retreat", which shows that he has some insight and knows that there is no benefit in retreating at this time. Only by gathering all troops to fight for the trenches with the Eighth Route Army can there be any hope of victory.
However, this order is also inappropriate.
because……
The Japanese in the trenches and even near the trenches were beaten all over by flying steel balls and had little fighting capacity at all, let alone holding the trenches or even competing with the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army shouted and rushed out of the warehouse entrance.
At this time, all they had in their hands were broadswords and engineer shovels... When fighting in trenches, broadswords and engineer shovels were far more useful than rifles.