The assault group was the first to take action and prepared a serial mine for the Japanese and puppet forward troops!
But the Japanese were also very cautious. In order to guard against landmines, they kept a long distance between people during the march!
A forward force of more than a hundred people would only be more than thirty meters long if they marched normally, but here it stretched a full hundred meters!
Black smoke rose into the sky among the sparse crowd, and the explosion sounded violent, but the five landmines combined only killed and injured less than ten Japanese and puppet troops!
Although the casualties were small, it was still a big blow to the aggressive Major General Brigade Commander!
Casualties occurred before the troops entered the battlefield, which can definitely be called a bad start!
He frowned and ordered: "The engineers will immediately reinforce the forward troops and clear the mines on the roads to ensure the safety of the main troops!"
"Hi!"
Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff answered with a frown!
"Boom boom boom..."
The troops moved forward less than 500 meters when the explosion sounded again!
"General, the engineer squadron reports that the enemy's mines buried on the road are all stone shells and ceramic shells. The mine detectors they are equipped with are useless in front of such mines. They can only be found through manual demining, but the speed is too slow. It must be
It will affect the march!" A lieutenant officer rushed over and reported!
"No, the marching speed must not be affected!" the major general brigade commander refused without hesitation!
"We must get to Lingqiu City before dark. Since manual mine clearing is too slow, we will not do it. We will find a way to force the enemy to give up using mines!"
Having said this, the Major General Brigade Commander's face clearly flashed with ruthlessness, and he ordered decisively.
"Deploy a company from the Imperial Alliance Army and send it to the front of the team. Let the Imperial Alliance Army go to the front to clear the way and detonate the mines on the road to ensure the safe passage of the main force!"
"The cavalry unit takes action immediately. Go to the village in front and capture fifty civilians for me. Replace the Imperial Army with civilians. Continue to open the road in front of us and detonate landmines!"
"If the enemy continues to lay landmines on the highway, then let those landmines blow up their own people!"
Every move of the Japanese and puppet troops did not escape the eyes of the commandos!
"Captain, the Japanese are too cruel. Let the Imperial Army drive the common people to the front of the line and detonate our mines. What should we do next!" The leader of the helpless assault group came to Xiao Yuan and reported!
Xiao Yuan immediately made a decision: "Our weapons are for fighting little devils and must not be used on ordinary people!"
"Playing mines is suspended, but you continue to keep an eye on the Japs' vanguard troops. The common people cannot move fast, and the Japs cannot keep marching with them. As long as the people at the front are not civilians, I will find opportunities to lay mines, no matter whether the Japs or the puppet troops."
, blow them all up for me, no need to be merciful!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Looking at the slowly disappearing figures of the assault group, Xiao Yuan followed the order: "It's our turn to take action next!"
"If I remember correctly, there is a mountain pass ahead, and the artillery team set up artillery there to bombard the Japanese and puppet troops' marching columns!"
"The others will cover with me. If there are little Japs coming to kill us, if there are not many people, we will kill them. If there are many people, we will engage in guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare with them, wearing them down little by little!"
The commander of the Japanese Major General Brigade is in a good mood again!
After ordinary people opened the way in front, the troops never encountered a landmine again, which means that their method is effective!
But less than ten minutes after the smile lasted on his face, an explosion sounded not far away.
The smile on his face disappeared in an instant and became serious again!
He frowned and shouted: "Baga, what exploded just now was not a mine, it was an artillery shell. Where did it come from?"
The reaction of the subordinates was very fast. At that time, an officer rushed over: "General, we were attacked by the enemy's mortars. The enemy only had one mortar, which was placed about 800 meters to our right. The hit rate is very high!
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"boom……"
As soon as he finished speaking, a second explosion came.
The brigade leader's face changed from serious to gloomy, and his eyes were full of anger!
The landmine problem has just been solved, and now there is a long-range artillery strike. It directly avoids all the close defenses deployed on both sides of the road, making it impossible to defend against it!
Angry as hell, the brigade leader did not get carried away by this and quickly calmed down!
He judged with great certainty: "The enemy who attacked us must be an independent group!"
"Only well-equipped independent regiments have enough artillery shells to sneak attack us from a long distance!"
"The equipment of the other Eighth Route Army is too poor, and the ammunition is insufficient! The limited artillery shells are reserved for critical moments and will never be wasted like this. A shell will only hurt one or two of us!"
"It seems that I still underestimated this independent group. I thought they had been trapped in Lingqiu by us, but I didn't expect that some troops had already reached Laiyuan!"
The Lieutenant Colonel and Chief of Staff reminded: "General, although the casualties caused by the long-distance artillery attack are very limited, this kind of mindless artillery attack will definitely have a huge impact on the morale of the troops!"
"Even if this independent group is very powerful, there won't be too many troops crossing our blockade!"
"I suggest that we directly dispatch the cavalry troops to find them, kill them, and completely solve this worry!"
The brigade leader frowned and said nothing!
He also wanted to take action to avoid future troubles, but the past performance of the Independent Regiment was too dazzling. He was afraid that the troops he sent out would be like the imperial army troops who wiped out the Independent Regiment before, never to return!
After hesitating for a long time before making a decision, he shook his head and answered!
"No, we can't send troops!"
"I am certain that the Eighth Route Army that attacked us has laid a large number of traps around us, and the mortar that bombarded us from a long distance was the bait of these traps, attracting us to send troops to step into these traps step by step, and actively drill into them.
Then kill all our attacking troops in one fell swoop!"
"In previous raids, more than one imperial army unit suffered losses from this. Now that there are so many lessons learned, we must not be fooled again!"
"As for the casualties and morale problems caused by the shelling, they can be easily solved!"
"Order, the troops continue to stretch and widen the marching column. Even if a shell hits the road, it will not hurt a few of us!"
"As for morale, I believe in our troops, and we will have to rest for a night after arriving at Lingqiu City. We can use this time to regain our fallen morale!"
"In addition, although the independent regiment is well-equipped and has sufficient ammunition! But they do not have a complete logistics supply and military industry system!"
"If my judgment is correct, the weapons and ammunition they are equipped with are all captured. Even if they are sufficient, they are not enough to be wasted like this. Moreover, every time a round is fired, there is one less round, and there is no replenishment!"
"As long as we don't fall for the trick, their long-range artillery strikes will stop in a short time!"
In the forest a few hundred meters away, five artillery shells had been fired. With the help of a telescope, Xiao Yuan could clearly see the effect of the shelling!
Nearly ten Japanese and puppet troops were killed and injured, and the shells falling from the sky still caused quite a disturbance among the Japanese group!
But surprisingly, the Japanese army did not fight back, not even with artillery fire!
As soon as the chaos calmed down, they continued marching as if the shelling just now had never happened!
"Captain, the Japanese were not fooled, what should we do next?" the leader of the second assault team asked with a frown on his face, his face looking very ugly.
The tactics that had been tried and tested before failed unexpectedly today, and everyone realized that the opponent in front of them was extraordinary, at least in terms of caution, which other troops could not match!
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