Sano Torata ordered the soldiers to light up a dozen flashlights and shine them along the road, only to find that there were small triangular flags like this all the way to the end of the field of vision.
"Haga." Sano Tora turned around and asked the captain of the First Infantry Battalion, Tabuchi Yuuto, "Tabuchi-san, what happened just now? Are there landmines under these triangular flags?"
"Hai." Tabuchi Yuuto paused and said, "Some have them, some don't, and they are made of ceramic mines. Our mine detectors can't even detect them!"
When the First Infantry Battalion saw this mine array just now, Tabuchi Yuuto didn't take it seriously at all.
Tabuchi Yuuto took it for granted that it was impossible for the Chinese to lay so many landmines on the highway. Although the Chinese liked to lay landmines and usually laid a large number of mines, they would never be so luxurious as to lay mines on such a short stretch of road.
Laying so many minefields is because the cost-effectiveness ratio of doing so is really too low.
However, among so many false targets, there is no guarantee that one of them is real.
Therefore, Tabuchi Yuuto still followed the instructions and ordered the engineers to carry out mine clearance operations.
As expected, the engineers did not detect any mines on the road, at least not within the first ten meters. In view of this, Tabuchi immediately stopped the minesweeping of the engineers.
Operation, and then ordered the troops to continue moving forward. However, the large troops had just entered the mine array and immediately stepped on the mines.
The two explosions that Tora Sano heard just now were the infantrymen of Tabuchi Battalion stepping on landmines.
These two sudden explosions stunned Tabuchi. Tabuchi quickly ordered the engineering squadron to conduct mine clearance operations again, and no longer used mine detectors, but instead used bayonets to manually detect mines. The result was really
More than a dozen landmines were found on that section of the road that had been previously surveyed.
After digging out the dozen landmines, I discovered that they were made of ceramics.
But the little devil was equipped with a metal mine detector, so no wonder it couldn't be detected.
"Ceramic landmines?" Two black lines immediately appeared on Sano Tora's forehead, and he said through gritted teeth, "These cunning Chinese people are so full of all kinds of weird and weird tricks, they can even think of using ceramics to make landmines!"
Tabuchi Yuuto shouted and said: "Captain, the lethality of ceramic landmines is no worse than that of metal mines."
Sano Tora groaned and added: "The mine detector cannot detect ceramic mines. Doesn't this mean that for such a long distance ahead, you have to use a bayonet to manually detect mines?"
"Hai." Tabuchi Yuuto paused and said, "Manual mine detection will take longer."
"But what we are short of now is time." Sano Huta snorted and said, "Let's go around!"
The 23rd Infantry Regiment was responsible for the forward mission this time, so it went into battle lightly and did not carry heavy weapons. Even the only artillery squadron was equipped with only eight Type 92 infantry cannons. Compared with mountain cannons and
The transportation of field artillery and Type 92 infantry artillery is much simpler. The gun mount and gun body can be disassembled and carried away.
Therefore, the 23rd Infantry Regiment does not need to rely on roads for maneuvers at all.
Sano Tora's order was quickly conveyed, and the Japs who had been parked on the road immediately spread to both sides, preparing to detour from the fields on the left and right sides of the road. Fortunately, the terrain near Badou Town was already open.
The terrain is plain, with endless fields on both sides of the road, making it easy to pass.
However, Sano Tora's wishful thinking soon came to nothing.
The two infantry teams that were the first to enter the fields on both sides of the road walked less than fifty meters before they immediately stepped on another landmine. With four loud "boom, boom, boom, boom" sounds, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were killed in an instant.
They were blown to the ground. Two of the little Japs were killed on the spot, and another one had his right leg blown off, wailing incessantly.
Sano Tora's eyes instantly became dull, couldn't he?
Damn it, there are actually landmines buried in the fields on both sides of the road?
Sister Ni, if you don’t lead such a bully, why don’t you let us march happily?
Tabuchi Yuuto had just stretched out his foot, preparing to go down to the ground, but when he heard the explosion, he immediately retracted his stretched out right foot.
Then, Tabuchi Yuuto turned around and said, "Captain, the Chinese are really cunning. They even secretly planted landmines in the fields on both sides of the road. What should we do now?"
"You ask me, who am I going to ask?" Sano Torata immediately became confused.
Tabuchi Yuuto just stood there dumbly, his head hanging down, not knowing what to do.
After a long while, Sano Tora gritted his teeth and said: "Order, human body rolling thunder!"
"Nanani?" Tabuchi Yuuto was surprised when he heard this, and said in a voiceless voice, "Human body rolling thunder?!"
Sano Kota's eyes immediately turned over and asked coldly: "Why, Tabuchi-san, you have a better way."
"Ah?" Tabuchi Yuuto shuddered, quickly shook his head and said, "No, I didn't think of a better way."
"Then what nonsense are you talking about?" Sano Torata said, "Hurry up and start selecting people and prepare human rolling thunder. In addition, I will reiterate to you, time, time! What we lack most now is time!"
"Hai!" Tabuchi Yuuto didn't dare to say anything more and hurriedly went to pick someone.
In a short while, Tabuchi Yuuto selected a dozen Japanese soldiers and prepared the human body rolling thunder.
It should be noted that these dozen Japanese soldiers were not forced by Tabuchi Yuuto, but stood up on their own. The Kumamoto Division can become one of the two most capable divisions among the seventeen permanent divisions in Little Japan.
, it’s not a fluke, many of these little devils from Southern Kyushu are really not afraid of death.
After these dozen Japanese soldiers came out, they first faced the east and performed a brief and solemn ceremony to say goodbye to the emperor and their relatives. Then they took off their military uniforms and lay down on the cold floor wearing only a pair of crotch pants.
On the field, as soon as he gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, he rolled forward like a bone!
"Boom!" A Japanese soldier quickly ran over a mine and was blown to pieces.
"Boom!" Two more Japanese soldiers ran over the mines and were killed on the spot.
However, there was no more behind, and the remaining dozen or so Japanese soldiers rolled forward very far, and they never crushed any landmines. By the time the last dozen or so Japanese soldiers gave up their courage, they all agreed in unison.
They stopped. No matter how brave these dozen Japs were, they were unwilling to give up if they had a chance to survive.
We have already gone so far, and we are not satisfied with the Empire and His Majesty the Emperor, right?
At that moment, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers stood up and shouted loudly, standing several hundred meters away: "Captain, it's safe here!"
Tabuchi Yuuto let out a long breath, a little confused, but also a little happy. He turned back to Sano Torata and said: "Captain, it seems that the Chinese did not lay too many landmines."
"Yoshi." Sano Torata nodded happily when he heard this, then waved his hand and said, "Open the way!"
The queue of Japanese soldiers who had been stationary in the field moved forward again, following the safe passage that the dozen or so Japanese soldiers had used their bodies to roll out, and cautiously walked forward until they had walked more than 500 meters, and then turned to look at the road.
At that time, I found that those annoying little flags were no longer visible on the road, so I returned to the road and continued marching.
However, for the sake of caution, Tabuchi Yuuto first ordered the engineers to go to the road to detect it. Of course, they did not use detectors, but bayonets! A dozen Japanese engineers lined up on the road, and then they lay down and
I stabbed the road with a bayonet up and down and probed carefully. I probed fifty meters forward and found nothing.
Tabuchi Yuuto was relieved and ordered the troops to leave the fields and return to the road.
Compared with soft fields, marching on hard roads is certainly more comfortable.
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What Sano Torata and Tabuchi Yuuto didn't know was that the guard camp was waiting for them ahead.
The officers and soldiers of the guard camp had actually seen the Japanese torches for a long time, but they had to wait for a long time.
The little devil didn't come for a long time. Qiu Feng was a little impatient in waiting and actually took the time to take a nap. In his daze, he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps. When he opened his eyes, he saw Mr. Xue, the commander of the third company of the guard.
Yao hurried back from the front, and then shouted excitedly: "Batalion Commander, here we come, the little devil is here."
"Damn, are you finally here?" Qiu Feng raised his pistol and shouted in a low voice, "Get ready to fight!"
The officers and soldiers of the third company, who were also waiting a little impatiently, cheered up one after another. Because the temperature was low, the officers and soldiers' fingers were a little stiff from the cold, so they breathed to warm their fingers. Looking around, they saw white clouds rising from the position.
The fog was very eye-catching, but the little devil walking forward with a torch in front could not be seen.
After a while, the Japs forward came within a hundred meters.
Qiu Feng immediately pulled the trigger and shouted: "Hit!"
Young Xue immediately yelled at the top of his lungs: "Hit me, beat me hard! Beat me to death!"
The next moment, more than two hundred officers and soldiers of the third company of the guard battalion opened fire one after another. Two Maxims, six Crooked Handles, and more than 180 rifles opened fire at the same time. The dense rain of bullets instantly intertwined into a dense sheet.
The fire net enveloped the Japanese who were striding forward. In the next moment, the Japanese fell down piece by piece like cut weeds.
This time, the Japs must have suffered heavy losses. In normal times, the Japs would never have been so careless. Even if they were marching during the day, the Japs would most likely send out spearheads to clear the way, not to mention marching at night. But this time, Tian
However, the Yuan Brigade was confused by the virtual and real mine array, so they neglected it.
This oversight directly ruined the team responsible for clearing the way.
In the blink of an eye, an infantry team that cleared the way and more than fifty Japanese were killed!
Fortunately, the main force of the Tabuchi brigade who followed up had a certain distance from the forward team responsible for clearing the way. Otherwise, with just this sudden firepower attack, at least half of the Tabuchi brigade could be killed!
