Chapter 34: Cannonballs Open the Way
When the Japanese troops arrived at the rear of the canyon, they were stunned by the terrain.
There were rocks everywhere on the slope, and every so often there was a dirt slope more than one meter high.
Some places that are easy to reach have been dug up by humans.
Or it may be filled with red bricks or something like that, and the entire slope is covered with sharp gravel. If you fall in such a place, you will definitely get a bloody head.
The most amazing thing is that the Japanese just asked someone to climb and they stepped on a landmine.
Landmines made with TNT explosives are not comparable to those made with black powder.
The powerful explosion and the rubble covering the mines instantly killed seven Japanese infantrymen.
I stepped on a landmine as soon as I stepped onto the slope. It goes without saying how many landmines there are on this two-kilometer slope.
Moreover, the Japanese captain who led the team had already seen the heavy machine guns set up by the Eighth Route Army through the telescope.
The Eighth Route Army attacked from above and they had no place to hide.
They attacked from below, and in front of the Eighth Route Army were all kinds of sandbags, brick walls, and even huge round rocks that were fixed!
Some Eighth Route Army soldiers knew some stone quarrying skills, and when they had nothing to do, they carved stones in the canyon.
There isn't much else on Baihu Ridge except for a lot of stones. I don't know how many stones have been carved into balls by these guys.
The captain originally wanted to use the infantry artillery to bomb it to see how it went, but just as the infantry artillery was pushed up, the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells fired first.
One of the two infantry guns was blown up before it could be deployed.
Seeing that attacking from the rear was not feasible, the Japanese captain could only take his troops back to report the situation.
The Ono Corps, which had originally planned to take Baihu Ridge within an hour, ended up taking an hour in the process.
Ono Heissuo planned to send a small team of Japanese soldiers and a company of puppet troops to charge along the road below the canyon to try.
Qin Yangming could bury mines on the slope, so he could naturally bury mines on the road below the canyon.
Usually, pits are dug on the road and filled with stones for easy passage.
When needed, just replace the stones with mines, then sprinkle some soil and the mines will be buried.
In order to consume the Japanese supplies to the greatest extent possible and to delay their troops.
Qin Yangming specially exchanged a batch of extremely sensitive bullet primer materials from the system.
Then they made a batch of small mines. They were not very powerful, but they were enough to blow the foot of the person who stepped on the mine to pieces.
Before the puppet troops and the Japanese soldiers could officially enter the canyon, they were blown back by landmines.
Ono Heisuo wanted to send engineers to clear the mines, but the small mines made by Qin Yangming were not made of metal materials at all. They were simply made of bamboo tubes or small wooden boxes.
The engineers' minesweepers were completely useless.
Not only were the mines not found, but two engineers were also killed in the explosion.
Ono Heissomatsu looked at the bamboo tube in his hand and said, "Who is the commander of this unit?
I can think of using this method to make mines."
In his hand was a bamboo tube only seven or eight centimeters long and three or four centimeters in diameter.
It was a mine that an engineer found using a mine detector while retreating.
However, when the mine reached Ohno Heissuo's hands, the fuse had been removed.
He looked at the fuse in the adjutant's hand, then took it and smashed it hard on the ground.
The fuse exploded instantly.
The explosives in the bamboo tube were not good ones, but just ordinary granular black powder.
This type of mine is mass-produced, so the lower the cost, the better.
"With this kind of material and this kind of cost, I'm afraid the Eighth Route Army must have buried quite a few mines."
The engineer who dug out the mine suddenly spoke rashly.
"Your Excellency, Commander, I have a way to crack the Eighth Route Army's mines. I wonder if it will work."
When Ohno Heissomatsu heard what the engineer said, he turned around and patted him on the shoulder.
"Yoshi, what's your name? You are a brave soldier, what's your position?" "Hi, Your Excellency the Regiment Commander, my name is Tano Kojiro, and I'm an infantryman in the Engineer Squadron."
"Yoshi, Sergeant Kojiro, do you have any way to break the mines of the Eighth Route Army?"
Hearing Ohno Heissomatsu's easy words promoting him to the rank of sergeant,
Kojiro Tano excitedly told Ono Heisao what was in his mind.
"Your Excellency, the wing commander, the fuse of this landmine of the Eighth Route Army is very sensitive. If someone steps on it, it will explode.
I thought that if I detonated some explosives nearby, I might be able to detonate the mine with the shock wave of the explosives.
In this way, even if all the mines cannot be detonated, most of them can be destroyed.
The remaining mines can be used to cut down some trees.
Then rolling the trees forward,
The thickness of the tree trunk is enough to block the explosion of the mine and protect our warriors."
There are still some smart people in the Japanese army, but in just a few minutes,
The flaw in Qin Yangming's mine was discovered.
"Yoshi, your method is very good."
"Just do it as you said. You are responsible for this matter.
If you perform well in this battle, I will make you a squad leader."
"Hi!"
……
"boom!"
As some explosives exploded on the road, the small mines buried by Qin Yangming and others were detonated by the vibration and shock waves of the explosion.
Some Japanese soldiers were pushing the tree trunks slowly forward.
The heavy tree trunk did block the explosion of the small mine.
But Qin Yangming didn't just bury small mines.
There are also large mines made from TNT explosives.
As the large landmine exploded, the Japanese soldier who had just been promoted to sergeant once again thought of a solution.
He asked the engineer to hold a long stick with a piece of wood tied to the other end.
Make something like a broom, use the mine detector to sweep the mines while moving forward by rubbing the ground with a piece of wood.
"Captain, those little devils are smart. They have come up with this idea. Should we attack those engineers?"
The soldier in the canyon looked at the Japanese outside clearing mines and reminded the company commander beside him.
"No, that's not necessary. The battalion commander said that as long as the mines are not made of iron, the Japanese mine detectors will be useless."
"Just wait and see what new tricks the Japs have."
"The battalion commander said that if the Japanese want to enter the canyon, they can either use people to slowly detect mines,
Or use artillery shells to clear the way,
Or use human lives to fill it up!"
"No matter what method we use, we make money. With manpower mine detection, we earn time.
The shells cleared the way, and we were able to consume the Japanese shells.
As for human lives, haha, the little devils won’t be able to reach the canyon unless three hundred of them are dead.”
As the mine exploded again, Kojiro took action himself and used a mine detector to dig out a mine made of a clay pot from the road.
In addition to explosives, the pottery jar also contains a lot of small stones to increase its power.
It's like a shotgun. Once it explodes, dozens of bullet-sized stones will fly out.
Ohno Heissomatsu looked at the clay mine in front of him and the sergeant who was lowering his head in front of him, and still patted the other's shoulder.
"Mr. Tian Ye, this mistake is not your fault. It's because the Eighth Route Army was too cunning. They actually thought of using clay pots as mines."
"Order all troops to use grenade launchers and grenades to clear the way!"
"Hi!"
As the Japanese took out grenade launchers one by one, small grenades began to explode on the road.
The Japanese grenade launcher operators were really experienced, and basically no shells landed in the same place.
There was one bomb every two to three meters, and they used small grenades and grenades that could be launched from grenade launchers to blast open a road more than three meters wide.
Captain Luo, who was in the canyon, saw the way the Japanese were clearing a path, laughed, and then called on the soldiers to prepare for a counterattack.
(End of this chapter)
