In order to avoid sneak attacks and assassinations by the Eighth Route Army, although it was uncomfortable to march in an armored vehicle, Watanabe still gritted his teeth and sat in the carriage.
He also heard the sudden explosion from the forward troops. His face instantly darkened and he was in a very bad mood.
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army laid mines on the road and dug up the road. An armored vehicle at the front was destroyed, and the Imperial Army and Imperial Alliance Army who were building the road also lost 13 people!"
After hearing the report, Watanabe was stunned.
In this sweep, the armored vehicles were a huge reliance on me in defeating the independent battalion, and they also gave me more confidence.
The perfect fact actually told me that armored vehicles are not as invincible and invincible as everyone imagined.
Losing an armored vehicle before even reaching the base of the independent battalion can definitely be called a bad start.
Major Watanabe was not superstitious, but the casualties and losses before him still cast a shadow over him, and he couldn't help but start to worry about the next attack.
I saw Watanabe's sullen face, with a gloomy look on his face, and he frowned and said nothing.
The adjutant couldn't help but ask: "Sir, what should we do next?"
"Keep going!" Major Watanabe shook his head to ignore the concerns and worries in his mind, and made a decisive decision!
"But the armored vehicles can no longer lead the way! I am sure that the Eighth Route Army has also placed a large number of mines on the road in front: the engineering team will immediately reinforce the forward troops and clear the mines under the cover of the forward troops to ensure that the road is no longer dangerous!"
"Hi!" the vice-captain replied immediately.
More than 30 Japanese soldiers rushed to the front carrying metal detectors. Under the protection of more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops, they crossed the armored vehicles and began to detect mines.
Soon, another booby trap was found a hundred meters ahead, along with three mortar shells.
In the woods on both sides of the road, Xiao Yuan and Chen Wei could clearly see every move of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Xiao Yuan was the first to react: "The kid must be holding a mine detector, which can detect metal mines buried underground!"
Chen Wei's face turned ugly at that time: "Then continuing to bury artillery shells to blow up Japanese armored vehicles won't work!"
Xiao Yuan shook his head and replied: "No, we can continue to use landmines, this time we won't blow up armored vehicles!"
"The battalion commander said that this kind of detector can only find mines with metal shells. It can also find stone mines and ceramic landmines that we did not make ourselves!"
"Although they are not very powerful, it is still no problem to explode the little Japanese infantry and engineers after adding some ingredients!"
"Also, we can have snipers work together with the mines!"
"Place mines on the road to blow up the forward troops and engineers."
"The snipers were lying in ambush in the woods, shooting Japanese machine gunners, gunners, and officers under the cover of mine explosions!"
"With the explosion cover, the enemy's armored vehicles scattered in the middle of the team will not be able to find the sniper position, and they will not be able to fight back!"
"Fireman, assaulter is responsible for covering!"
"Once the Japs send troops to counterattack, while covering the retreat of the snipers, find a way to bring the Japanese and puppet counterattack troops into the woods and kill them!"
In the vanguard of the Japanese and puppet troops, more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops held rifles in their hands and mounted machine guns on the ground. They were scattered on both sides of the road in a battle formation, staring at the surroundings with vigilance.
A dozen engineers, armed with metal detectors, lined up in a row and carefully inspected every corner of the road.
Soon they were approaching fifty meters forward.
"Sir, the road 50 meters ahead has been inspected. There are no mines and it is passable!" An engineer sergeant rushed over and reported.
"Advance!" the Japanese lieutenant commanding the forward troops decisively ordered.
"Rumble..."
More than two hundred Japanese and puppet troops escorted two wheeled armored vehicles and slowly advanced.
"boom……"
"Baga, I'm injured, medical soldier..."
The explosion went off again to everyone's surprise, and there were several screams at the same time. There were both Japanese and puppet soldiers.
Looking at the wounded and corpses of the Japanese and puppet troops lying in front of the armored vehicle, the lieutenant commanding the forward troops yelled: "What do the engineers do for food? Didn't you say that there are no landmines on the road? So what happened to the explosion just now?
They are responsible for these casualties!"
"boom……"
Just when he was about to curse, the explosion sounded again.
"It's an engineer. The engineer himself was blown up by a mine!" The second lieutenant standing next to the lieutenant was stunned and shouted with a look of disbelief on his face.
"What's going on? Are they pigs?" The lieutenant's face became even more angry!
"The captain asked them to come over and remove the mines. Now that the mines have not been found, he himself has been bombed. What kind of bullshit engineers are he?"
The engineering second lieutenant who hurried over did not dare to argue and could only lower his head.
It took a long time before he answered: "Sir, the explosion just now must have been an accident. I promise that we will carefully check every inch of land on the road and not miss a landmine!"
"Hurry up, our marching speed is too slow!" the lieutenant replied helplessly.
No matter how miserable the engineers are, they are still the best force to deal with the threat of landmines. Until there is no other way, the lieutenant can only place his hope on the engineers.
"Boom...boom..."
The forward troops protecting the engineering team walked less than fifty meters and stepped on three more landmines, including a chain mine.
The engineers, the Imperial Army and the Imperial Alliance Army suffered more than 20 casualties.
The lieutenant finally couldn't help but burst out: "Stop, the troops stop immediately!"
"The engineers will immediately find out why there are landmines on the road you confirmed to be safe, and even you yourself stepped on landmines one after another!"
"The captain sent you here to find mines and reduce the casualties of the forward troops, not just to hang out!"
"The casualties of the forward troops have exceeded thirty. If you can't give me a reasonable explanation, I will definitely report you to the captain and ask the captain to give an explanation to the forward troops!"
"Hi!"
The engineer team leader lowered his head and answered. He was also holding back his anger, but he could only endure it in front of his superiors and swallowed it by himself.
Not long after, the engineer squad leader came back, with an angry look on his face as he asked his subordinates to carry two seriously wounded men.
"Sir, I found out the reason!"
"It's not that our engineers didn't fulfill our responsibilities, it's just that the Eighth Route Army was too cunning. The problem lies in the landmines!"
"In our understanding, landmines are all made of iron. But the landmines that exploded just now are all made of ceramic and stone shells. Without iron, our mine detectors will not react even if they touch it!"
"Sir, if you don't believe me, you can check their wounds yourself!"
The lieutenant's face became more and more solemn. After holding two pieces of ceramic fragments bombarded with blood in his hands, he stared at the engineer team leader and asked.
"Do you have any solution?"
The engineer team leader raised his head again: "Abandon the mine detector and use mine detectors for manual demining!"
"It's just that this demining speed is too slow, and our marching speed will continue to drop!"
"However, if the commander can send troops to protect the engineers to bypass the minefield, divide the engineering teams into two groups, and conduct mine clearance at a distance of 100 meters from each other, the speed should be able to keep up with the demining speed of mine detectors!"
The lieutenant raised his eyebrows and retorted: "Divide the troops?"
"Yes, this is the only way we can speed up manual demining. Please consider it, sir!" the engineer team leader replied bravely.
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