Chapter 88: Digging Holes, Digging Pits

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On a dirt road about 20 kilometers away from Mukden City, an artillery team of the Japanese army was speeding forward, with 12 guns, 8 field guns, and boxes full of shells also loaded on cars, and was rushing towards Mukden City under the strict protection of the Japanese troops.

This is the first brigade of the Sichuan Armor Artillery Wing of the Second Division, and it is also one of the only two artillery brigades of the Second Division.

This morning, they received an order from the 2nd Division to assemble and stand by, and then prepare to go to Mukden to support the Japanese troops there.

The artillery brigade immediately entered a state of imminent battle, all the personnel were assembled and on standby, and the mountain artillery equipment was also packed up and ready to set off at any time.

However, the captain of the artillery brigade, Yamamoto, did not think so, he was well aware of the situation in Mukden City, where the city was high and thick, and there were elite Kwantung Army troops stationed, and it might not be so easy to capture it. This time, I may just be nervous, and I may not have a chance to play in the end.

While ordering the soldiers to be ready for battle, Captain Yamamoto paid attention to the orders from above, even though they knew that it was unlikely that they would participate in the battle, but they had to prepare.

Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, I received an order from the division headquarters, saying that Mukden had been captured, most of the Japanese troops in the city had been annihilated, and only a small part had withdrawn.

Hearing this news, Yamamoto was silent, he didn't expect the strength of the Yanhuang Legion to be so strong, the city gate was breached in an instant, and the defenders of Fengtian City almost didn't have the strength to fight back, so they were defeated.

However, in this way, the offensive and defensive positions occurred, the defenders of the city became the Yanhuang Army, and the attackers became the Japanese, and the devil's artillery also had the opportunity to participate in the battle.

Fifteen minutes after receiving the order, the artillery brigade, which had been in full position for a long time, set out, and Yamamoto ordered his troops to rush to the outside of Mukden as fast as possible in order to assist the other infantry units in taking Mukden City.

At the same time, the cavalry wing of the 2nd Division also sent a large group of cavalry to Mukden to assist the attack of other troops, and the forces of the devils from all sides quickly converged towards Mukden City.

Captain Yamamoto rode on an Oriental horse, thinking about the problem as he walked, he always felt that the attack of the Yanhuang Legion this time was not so simple, and I was afraid that there would be a bigger conspiracy in the future.

"I don't know what they think, what the hell do they want to do?" Yamamoto muttered to himself, but didn't have a clue.

A Japanese soldier hurried over and reported, "Captain, the road ahead has been cut off. ”

"Really?"

Yamamoto's brow furrowed, and he waved his hand and said, "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”

When he came to the front with a few Japanese soldiers, he saw that in front of the team, the road was cut off by someone, and a ravine, two or three feet deep, was lying in front of him, and it was filled with half of the mud.

"What's going on, who did it?" After Yamamoto saw these ravines, he suddenly felt that his head was several times bigger, these ravines were not a big problem for the infantry, but for them artillerymen, it was troublesome to fight.

Yamamoto's artillery unit consisted of twelve large trucks and twenty mules and horses, all of which were used to haul cannons and load shells. It would be nice to say that the mules and horses passed through these ravines, but the trucks didn't pass at all, not to mention the heavy mountain artillery.

Yamamoto's iron-blue face made all the other Japanese soldiers around him silent, no one dared to speak casually, and they really didn't know who dug these big pits, so they couldn't answer.

Yamamoto also knew that these people couldn't give him an answer, so after he vented for a while, he didn't continue to ask, but let the troops change their route and detour to another dirt road.

After giving the order, the troops had to retreat more than a mile and turn onto another dirt road, which could also lead to Mukden, but it was much farther away, and Yamamoto didn't plan to choose it, but now there was no way, so he could only go around it so far.

But can you get there by going around a long way?

The artillery unit turned onto the dirt road and walked west for about three or four miles, and then the dirt road turned north and began to advance towards Fengfengtian, but it was at this time that the Japanese soldiers found that the road ahead had been cut off again.

Enraged, Yamamoto roared angrily before ordering the team to continue on another path, hoping to bypass the ravines.

However, the people who dug the pit did not seem to intend to let them go, and the road was also dug up, and the same ravines crisscrossed it, and it was impossible to cross at all.

"Yaga, these cunning Shina people." Yamamoto angrily pulled out his command knife and slashed a small tree on the side of the road, then roared, "Go back, go the way you came from, and see if there is any other way to go." ”

The Japanese artillerymen were all in distress, and the road was very rough, and the snow on the ground began to melt, so it became muddy, and several gun wagons were stuck in the muddy water, and it took a lot of effort to get out.

But there was no way, the captain gave another order, and besides, the team couldn't stop in this place where there was no place to go up and down the village, so the artillerymen cheered up and walked towards the first road.

Just when the devils were going around in circles, on the road they walked for the first time, a group of people were nervously busy, led by a middle-aged man wrapped in a sheep's belly handkerchief, with a black face, the skin on his body was tanned from perennial labor, his hands and feet were thick, and his body was as strong as a cow. Behind him were all young juniors, some of whom were holding guns, and most of the remaining young juniors were carrying frozen picks, shovels, rammers, sledgehammers and drills, and the entire demolition team of the old society.

There were probably more than a hundred people in this group, and the clothes on their bodies showed that they were all local people, and even from nearby villages.

The middle-aged farmer was carrying a large guillotine knife in his hand, the blade was sharpened, and a pistol was stuck in his waist, and he shouted as he walked, "Everyone, hurry up, dig this way for the little devils, so that these bastards have nowhere to go." ”

"The captain is right, let's work harder." People responded one after another, and one by one they looked full of energy.

Seeing that the people were full of energy, Li Datie was very happy in his heart, as the captain of the militia self-defense force of the thirty-four villages outside Fengtian City, he was righteous and chivalrous, so he had a high prestige and was the backbone of the local armed forces of the Yanhuang Regiment.

This time, the Yanhuang Legion gave their militia the task of destroying the devil's road to Fengtian, so that the devil's artillery unit could not rush to the outside of Fengtian City in time, so as to buy more time for the troops in the city to deploy defenses.

After receiving the order, Li Da's heart was full of joy, he had long wanted to carry out a decent mission, since the establishment of the militia self-defense force, it has been in a state of training and repair, this is the first time that they have carried out a mission independently.

Unable to take care of lunch, Li Datie asked people to go to various villages and inform the militia company commanders of each village, asking them to rush to the ancestral hall of Lijiazhuang with the militia of each village before noon to discuss the matter of breaking the road.

There was still more than half an hour before the appointed time, and the responsible persons of all the villages gathered in the ancestral hall early, and when they heard the news, they were all overjoyed, and they were all shouting one by one.

Li Datie assigned tasks to each village, letting them each be responsible for an area, and the main task was to dig pits, pits and pits, and pits to be dug were densely packed, so that the devils would not be so easy to pass.

After the arrangement was made, the Lijiazhuang militia led by Li Datie was in charge of the main road from Liaoyang to Fengtian, as well as the surrounding area.

Although the road was cut off, Li Datie did not give up, he sent people to keep an eye on the devil's troops, and when they turned into a fork in the road, he brought people to rush over, and cut off the way back for the devils.

Striding to the selected position, Li Datie waved his big hand and shouted thunderously, "Dig for me, send it, here and there, and there are all dug into big pits, and the pits are filled with water and mud, so that the devils can stare dryly." ”

The people laughed, and then the militia with guns stood on the high ground to guard against the arrival of the devils, while the rest of the people picked up picks, shovels, and other guys, and began to dig the road.

In the early spring season, the ground is still a little frozen, and it is not so easy to dig, and many people have beads of sweat on their foreheads, but no one says anything, and they are still working hard.

With the concerted efforts of the people, large pits appeared in the middle of the road, each pit could be as deep as two people, and the two people lay down hand in hand, and the pits were full of mud and dirty water.

Such a big pit is not one, but dense, and it has been filmed for as far as it goes, and it has also extended into the fields on both sides of the road, spreading to the riverside embankment, and it is impossible for the devil to bypass it even if he wants to.

As he was doing his work, the militia guarding on the high slope suddenly shouted, "The devil is coming, the devil is coming." ”

As soon as Li Datie heard this, he jumped up the high slope in a few steps, looked into the distance, and saw the devil more than a mile away, he smiled and shouted down the slope, "Big guy, work hard, the devil is coming." ”

When the people heard this, they all went crazy and rotated the guy in their hands, making the ground a mess beyond recognition.

The devil had already reached the position half a mile away, and there were still three pits that had not been dug properly, Li Datie arrived when he heard the news, he looked at the pit, and then shouted, "Take a few grenades and blow them up for me." ”

Someone picked up a grenade, jumped into the pit and stuffed it into an eye chiseled out with a rammer, then pulled the fuse, turned around and ran out of the pit.

There were a few loud bangs, the soil in the pit flew, the smoke rose, and when the smoke and dust dissipated, the bottom of the pit was blown away by a large layer, which was obviously much deeper.

Li Datie looked at it and immediately smiled, "It's over, the big guy is about to retreat." ”

The people rushed away and disappeared into the field with Li Datie.

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