Chapter 141: Hunting Sappers

The Devil's Engineer Wing generally has about 800 to 1,000 people. However www.biquge.info not all of these people are engineers who can clear mines, and most of them are engineers who are responsible for being the main force of the division and regiment, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water.

In fact, there are less than 200 minesweepers in each division and regiment, and there are less than 100 minesweepers and other equipment.

Therefore, as long as these mine-sweeping tools of the devils are blown up and the minesweepers are killed, they will not be able to clear mines according to conventional methods, and the attack will become a hundred times more difficult.

Sasaki was a second lieutenant officer among the Japanese minesweepers, and he was also a veteran minesweeper who was familiar with handling various demining equipment.

At this moment, he was personally carrying a pair of minesweepers on his back and leading dozens of minesweepers to work in an intense and orderly manner.

There are already dozens of mines, which have been detected by them one after another, and they have planted marking flags.

Behind them, dozens of sappers were crouching or sitting, or lying on their stomachs, carefully clearing mines, lifting mines one after another.

Because of the super suppression of their own artillery fire and heavy machine gun fire, the anti-coalition defenders on the opposite side could not pose much threat to them, and occasionally some bullets came, but most of them missed.

Just as Sasaki and his subordinates continued to probe forward.

A sharp and piercing whistling sound suddenly came, and this sound was not heard by Sasaki, who was a sapper, it was the sound of cannonballs flying rapidly through the air.

And the sound seems to be coming from the front, not like a shell fired by your own artillery group. So he raised his head suddenly, and this look suddenly frightened him to the point that his hairs stood on end, as if he was walking on thin ice, and the whole person was stunned on the spot for a while.

In fact, it was the shells that came too fast, and he and his fellow sappers had no chance to escape at all.

Yes! The shells grew bigger and bigger in his eyes, and finally he only had time to let out a terrified scream.

Dozens of high-explosive grenades fell on their heads and faces.

Falling on the minefield, almost simultaneously there were violent explosions one after another.

Boom Boom! A deafening explosion resounded in all directions! Countless clouds of smoke and dust rose into the sky along with clusters of fire.

The devil sappers who were clearing mines or clearing mines were instantly engulfed by the flames and the shock wave of the explosion, and even the people with the demining equipment were all torn apart, all kinds of stumps and arms were broken, and the parts and components were thrown up by the raging shock wave and fell to the ground again.

Dozens of shells were as powerful as a small missile, and the power was added up when the explosion detonated mines that were hidden in the ground and had just been picked up by the devils before they could be sent away.

Therefore, after a violent explosion, nearly 100 minesweepers and deminers of the devil were all wiped out, and none of them survived.

Xu Guoren stood in the command post, holding a telescope to take in the view.

"Good! Well done! When the smoke cleared slightly, Xu Guoren couldn't help but applaud loudly, this artillery attack was too sudden and timely, and it really caught the devil sappers off guard.

"Inform Wei Yong that the artillery regiment immediately transfer its position, just in case, and send another battalion to Erdaogou to support the 2nd Division and assist them in killing the devil's sappers, and that's it! Without sappers, if the little devil wants to break through our minefield, he can only fill it with his life! Xu Guoren was happy, and immediately ordered, his eyes full of excitement.

A herald gladly accepted the order and trotted away.

The artillery regiment fired three rounds of artillery shells in a row, pouring hundreds of shells on the heads of the devil engineer troops, and blasting the more than 100 devil sappers and some devil infantry who tried to rush to the rescue.

Only after receiving Xu Guoren's order, Wei Yong did not hesitate, and immediately said to the herald soldiers beside him: "Quick, do what the chief instructs!" Collect the guns, transfer! ”

More than 1,000 officers and men of the artillery regiment, with the assistance of a part of the militia, quickly packed up their artillery and ammunition, immediately withdrew from their original positions, and withdrew to another preset artillery position not far away.

At the same time, Wei Yong sent an artillery battalion to Erdaogouzi to assist the 2nd Division in the operation.

Taiping Town, the former enemy headquarters of the Japanese army.

Jiro Tamen and Seishiro Itagaki couldn't help but be surprised when they heard the news from the front. The former couldn't hide his anger and said, "Baga, what did you say? The engineer wing was bombarded by the artillery of China and lost everything? What do front-line commanders eat? And what about our artillery? ”

Itagaki Seishiro's face was not very good-looking, he understood that without the engineers, the attacking troops would have to pay a huge price for casualties, which was secondly, and the huge casualties would cause the morale of the Imperial Army to be demoralized.

At present, the battle has just begun, and if the morale of the imperial army is frustrated, it will be a great disadvantage, and in the end, it may even lead to the defeat of this encirclement and suppression campaign.

The communications staff officer who came to report the news lowered his head and responded: "Yes, Your Excellency General, the news from the front command post is like this, the engineer wing, deminers, and minesweepers of the 20th Division were all killed, and dozens of deminers were also blown up by the artillery fire of the Zhinamen!" Now they are asking for instructions, should they continue to clear mines? ”

When Jiro Tamen heard that it was the engineer wing of the 20th Division that was bombed, he felt a little better, and his face softened a little.

However, he was not very happy to let his engineer wing go up and take risks.

Therefore, he did not rush to respond to the communications staff officer, but turned his head to Itagaki Seishiro, who was frowning and contemplative, and said, "Sakagaki-kun, what do you think should be done?" ”

Itagaki Seishiro's narrow eyes flashed a trace of coldness, and he said: "The people of China have formed artillery, and if we send engineers to clear mines, we may still be hit by their artillery fire, if we want to remove this danger, the only way to do this is to use aviation, take advantage of the air firepower advantage of the imperial army, and carry out air raids and bombardment of their artillery positions!" ”

Duomen Erlang bowed slightly, but said worriedly: "However, where is the artillery position of the Chinese army, if we don't have accurate information, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the air raid and bombing to work!" ”

Itagaki Seishiro said: "This is not difficult, first of all, we can deduce the location of the artillery position of the Chinese Army from the location where the Imperial Army Engineer Wing was bombarded by artillery fire!" In order to avoid the suppression of the artillery fire of the imperial army, the artillery of the Chinese army must be placed at the limit of its range!

As long as you ask the front-line troops to report the location of the attack, and then find a professional combat staff officer from the army non-commissioned officer school, after calculation, you can judge the approximate location of the artillery position of the Chinese army, demarcate this area, and report it to the aviation unit, and the rest of the matter can be handed over to the aviation unit, or wait for the heavy artillery brigade of the imperial army to arrive, or you can rely on the ultra-long range of the heavy artillery to complete this task!

Destroy the artillery positions of the Chinese army! After killing their artillery, the Imperial Army will completely control the air supremacy and artillery superiority, and in that case, it will be impossible to stop the advance of the Imperial Army in a mere minefield! ”

Duomen Jiro couldn't help but nod and praised: "Yo Xi, Sakagaki-kun is worthy of being a senior staff officer of the empire, resourceful!" If you can exterminate the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation this time, I will definitely ask the base camp for credit for you! (To be continued.) )