Chapter 140: The Power of the Minefield

The explosion suddenly happened, and the other devils and puppet soldiers were still charging, and soon, more mines were triggered. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Some of them were serial mines, and a series of explosions rang out one after another.

Dozens of devils and puppet soldiers fell down screaming in the explosion.

The devil Shaozuo's pupils constricted, he gritted his teeth, and said in disbelief: "Eight Ga Yalu!" It turned out to be a minefield? The people of China actually laid out a minefield? ”

Looking at those devil soldiers who were blown up and flesh and blood, missing arms and legs, Devil Shaozuo only felt shocked, and he was afraid for a while.

If he hadn't been injured by the trap, he would definitely be within the scope of the bombing. I can't help but feel glad when I think of this.

In modern warfare, the appearance of a mine is likely to scare off the enemy's pursuit or attack, thus forcing them to send sappers to clear mines, because no one wants to risk the lives of their own soldiers to test the depth and density of the opponent's minefield.

That's stupid, even if you're arrogant like a devil, you wouldn't do that.

What's more, it now seems that the minefield in front of it is certainly not small, and the density is also very amazing.

Therefore, the devil Shaozuo gritted his teeth and gave the order to retreat.

"What? The Chinese army deployed traps and minefields in front of the positions? "When the devil Shaosa hastily bandaged it and returned to the headquarters to report to Jiro Tamen and Seishiro Itagaki in person, the two old devils were taken aback.

"Yes sir, my troops have been killed and wounded by countless traps and mines, and have suffered heavy casualties!" The devil Shaozuo replied with his head down.

The first attack ended in failure, and he didn't even touch the position of the Anti-Alliance, the anger and depression in Domen Jiro's heart can be imagined, but looking at the shocking injuries on Shaozuo's face and the blood stains on his collar, he forcibly suppressed his anger again.

Said to Shao Zuo: "You go down to recuperate first, and I will send an engineer unit to clear the traps and mines!" ”

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Compared with the failure of the 20th Division's attack, the "fledgling" 14th Division suffered even heavier losses, because the 14th Division thought that the Anti-Japanese Union was just a group, a rabble, and vulnerable, and the arrogant and invincible 14th Division Commander Matsuki Naoliang sent two brigades as soon as he came up, and even Yu Zhishan, Zhang Haipeng and other puppet troops were not used.

The main defensive position of the 2nd Division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Erdaogou, launched an attack.

Without exception, all of them went home! The devils of the two brigades lost nearly half of them under the combined fire of the minefields and traps, as well as the blocking forces of the 2nd Division.

Originally, if the devils had retreated in the face of difficulties like the Japanese army on the northern front, the losses of the 14th Division would not have been so great.

However, after the attacking troops encountered a minefield, Naoaki Matsuki was so angry that he did not give the order to stop the attack in time, but arrogantly ordered the troops to continue the attack.

In the end, it was intercepted by the strong firepower of the blocking force of the 2nd Division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, coupled with the role of the minefield, and in less than two hours of attack, the Japanese casualties exceeded 1,000.

The strength of one brigade was directly reimbursed, and the two brigades that participated in the attack suffered heavy casualties and were incomplete, and basically lost their combat effectiveness.

After suffering a big loss, Matsuki Naoliang, under the persuasion of his staff officers, stopped the assault and sent an engineer unit to begin preparations for mine clearance.

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Jiangcheng, Anti-United Nations Headquarters.

Xu Guoren, Yang Jingyu, Huang Xiansheng, and Yang Wentao are all sitting here to command the overall situation, and only Chen Zhiyuan is still busy in the arsenal with a group of backbones.

The battle reports on the front line can be fed back here in a timely manner by telephone.

Knowing that the mines and traps had an unimaginable effect, Huang Xiansheng couldn't help but smile and praise: "Guoren, it's still your way, now, the little devil is really unable to move an inch!" ”

Yang Jingyu also looked at Xu Guoren with appreciation, and said: "Yes, although Comrade Guoren is young, he is resourceful, and he is the leader of our Anti-Japanese Federation, both civil and military!" ”

Although Xu Guoren was happy in his heart, he did not show it too much on the surface, and Yang Jingyu and Huang Xiansheng, who are famous anti-Japanese generals in history, should not be too casual and exaggerated, and should be appropriately calm.

Moreover, Xu Guoren knew that with minefields and traps alone, of course, it was impossible to really block the devils, but it could only cause as much trouble and damage to the devils as possible, and slow down their offensive edge and speed.

"We can't be too optimistic, minefields alone are not enough to really stop the devil's attack! The real battle is yet to come. It is no exaggeration to say that a bloody battle is inevitable, after all, there are 100,000 devils! Xu Guoren said this, watched everyone's expressions change, and continued: "Therefore, I suggest that all our division commanders go down to the headquarters of each division and command each division to fight!" It would be good if the headquarters was headed by the commander and Deputy Chief of Staff Chen. ”

Yang Jingyu and Yang Wentao both nodded in agreement: "Well, it is indeed our responsibility as commanders to go to the front line to command, as division commanders, we should return to our own command posts." ”

Huang Xiansheng also nodded in agreement: "Guoren is right, leave it to me here, I will unify the dispatch, cooperate with your divisions, and provide you with timely support, so you can rest assured to go to the front line." ”

So, Xu Guoren, Yang Jingyu, and Yang Wentao, with some of the guards, left the Jiangcheng Headquarters and rushed to their respective division headquarters to take command.

On the front line of Xuejiayuan, the engineer wings of the 20th Division and the 2nd Division formed a large-scale demining unit and began to clean up the minefields and trap areas in front of the Xuejiayuan Anti-Union position.

The artillery wings directly under the two divisions and regiments also formed artillery groups with strong firepower, constantly firing artillery at the Xue Jiayuan position, so as to cover their sappers for demining.

Constrained by the suppression of Japanese artillery fire, the officers and men of the defending troops of the 1st Division suffered a lot of casualties, and they could only hide in the fortifications, not daring to raise their heads and open fire at all.

Seeing that the traps were pulled out little by little by the devil sappers, and the mines in the minefield were also marked one after another, the deputy division commander Guo Hu was in a hurry in the command headquarters.

Xu Guoren arrived at this time, and after learning about the situation, he immediately took a telescope and braved the artillery fire of devils to come to a regimental command post slightly ahead to observe the situation.

After observing for a while, Xu Guoren said to Guo Hu: "Send someone to notify the artillery regiment and immediately fire on our minefield." ”

"Brother Guoren, this will blow up my own minefield!" Guo Hu was a little puzzled.

Xu Guoren said: "You are stupid, the minefield is destroyed, we can still arrange it, as long as we kill the devil's sappers and demining detectors, they will not be able to clear the mines, so it is the most beneficial for us!" ”

"Oh! Understood" Guo Hu suddenly realized, and hurriedly turned around and took the order.

Not long after, after receiving the notice, Wei Yong, the commander of the artillery regiment, instructed the artillerymen to adjust the location of the firing Zhuyuan and minefields.

With the wave of Wei Yongling's flag, dozens of infantry guns and field artillery opened fire one after another. (To be continued.) )