The tide of battle was reversed all at once! Originally, the dozens of Eighth Route troops rushing down from the top of the mountain bag that could be seen with the naked eye were almost surrounded by two echelons of infantry, and it shouldn't take long to win the white-knuckle battle, but now not only the troops who had been in the past were disrupted by the sudden attack, but the infantry on the hillside also suddenly appeared a large group of Eighth Route Army behind the flanks!

Under the sunshine of the west slope, the Japanese soldiers in yellow uniforms and the Eighth Route Army in black and blue military uniforms were mixed together almost in the blink of an eye! Fukushima didn't even have time to think about whether to continue the blockade with the firepower of the mountainside, and his soldiers were already face to face with the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army!

The motorized infantry squadrons of the tank brigade and the rearmament units that have not yet participated in the battle, in terms of combat effectiveness, to be honest, in North China, they are not as good as the second-line garrison troops that have been fighting for a long time on the Eighth Road! No matter how good the training is, it is better to rush to the battlefield and stay for three minutes!

These soldiers of the Eighth Route Army brought out by Yang Bangzi used this typical mountain defense battle and excellent white-knuckle combat to really teach these infantry in the convoy who are accustomed to riding trucks and tracked vehicles a good lesson!

Up to now, all of Fukushima's family background has been exposed, including your troop allocation, your firearms allocation, your tactical use, etc., all of which have been clearly figured out by the Eighth Road, and on the Eighth Road side, Fukushima has not predicted the opponent's strength and firepower at all, except for the Eight Roads on this hill bag and the Eight Roads that sounded the mines!

It wasn't until the Eighth Route launched a counter-charge that Fukushima woke up like a dream, feeling that he had placed the entire convoy on this kind of hillside road, and it was still lined up. Use infantry to fight for flank hills. This is very stupid!

It's not too late to get it! Within minutes on the hillside. The Japanese infantry collapsed! If it weren't for the heavy machine guns at the squadron headquarters commanded by Captain Kawaguchi and the rapid-fire guns on the road to desperately return fire, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who had defeated the Japanese infantry, would have been able to attack this side of the road!

Fortunately, the eighth road didn't seem to want to fight, and after defeating the devils who attacked from both sides, he withdrew behind the mountain buns while fighting. Fukushima hurriedly contacted the tank and the tracked vehicle at the top of the ramp, and learned that the tank had not suffered any losses, and that one of the tracked vehicles had been slightly injured, and two maintenance personnel, one dead and one seriously injured, were towing the tank down. Fukushima Nakasa breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

After thinking about it, the sun was about to set behind the mountain, and it was very unfavorable to retreat to the broken place where it could not go up, so it was better to retreat, and then Fukushima ordered the tanks to cover the infantry and trucks to retreat down the mountain, and set up a circular defensive position in the hilly area, and camp here tonight, and at the same time inform Kuroda of the battle situation in the afternoon, and wait for Kuroda's reply.

The devils dragged the broken tanks that were still smoking. The tracked cart carried the dead and wounded soldiers and slowly drove down the mountain. The shovel monkey on the terrace and the soldiers of all the reconnaissance companies participating in the battle saw that the devil had retreated, and there was a cheer on the position! Before the war, I still had a heart, and I thought that this tank I had never met was a terrible guy, but I didn't expect that after a battle, our pure infantry would teach the little devil's tank a lesson!

The Japanese mixed tank search team lost two light tanks and one tracked vehicle was damaged, and a total of 43 people were killed and 51 wounded, including the tank crew, according to this ratio, the Fukushima convoy of less than 400 people was basically about to lose its combat effectiveness.

The reconnaissance company of the 11th Division of the 8th Route and 11th Division, the cavalry company, the guerrillas, and the militia who participated in the battle did not directly participate in the battle, and they did not put their guns down, and the reconnaissance company lost 22 people, wounded 16 people, and consumed more than 30 mortar shells, more than 2,000 bullets, more than 100 grenades, and 9 iron mines.

The three groups of mines in this battle are the absolute first merit! Although the first group of mines did not blow up the devil's tank, it just paralyzed the devil, making them think that the home-made mines of the Eighth Route had no deterrent effect on the tank, so they rushed in without the accompaniment of infantry and were blown up and two of them were destroyed.

And Fukushima Nakasa was also angry because the tank was blown up by a mine, and he forgot that his main task was to control the mountain pass and road in Heiyaogou, and instead used the infantry with weak combat effectiveness to compete with the Eighth Road for the mountain, as a result, after the infantry team was defeated, the whole army was discouraged, and the fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of the soldiers were greatly reduced, and they had to retreat.

Three of the three groups of pullers of the reconnaissance company came back, three of them returned, and two of the first group came back and one was wounded. The tankmen of the second group were covered by the artillery fire of the devils because they wanted to catch the devils, and the third group was also covered by the retaliatory fire of the Japanese army on the way back, and one was sacrificed.

In fact, this thunderbolt can be said to be the most dangerous special "troop" in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the Eighth Route Army and the anti-Japanese local armed forces led by our party!

The real Ghost Day mine warfare is not as brilliant and magical as in the movie, and the vast majority of self-made mines are used to fight the devils, and the results are often not as good as imagined.

For example, the simplest kind of "stepping (pressing) mines" that cannot be managed if they are buried are not as good as "pulling mines" that are controlled by special personnel, and the saying that the "hit rate of pressing mines" is often seen in the battlefield records of both the enemy and us.

Moreover, the disadvantages of press-firing mines do not stop there, those who do not see mines (that is, use uncontrolled press-firing mines), the effect is small, not timely, and sometimes they even blow up the people and their own people.

The most common way to use mines in ambush warfare is to assign special fighters to control mines "only a dozen meters away from the mines," and to pull the mines almost under the nose of the enemy.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, or militia, who are responsible for controlling the mines, have a special name called "mine pullers". They monitored the movement of the Japanese army, and only when the mines could cause the best killing effect, they suddenly pulled the mine rope of the mine and detonated a single mine or a group of mines ambushed on the Japanese army's marching route.

The "mine puller" can wait for the Japanese puppet army to walk next to the mine and then pull the mine rope, but it is difficult to throw a grenade with such accuracy. If you also throw grenades in ambush at a distance of "only a dozen meters away", raise your body sharply and wave your arms, you will obviously expose yourself in advance - the "mine puller" can pull the mine rope with a very small movement in complete concealment.

Enemies who are hit by mines are often not all killed. The last dead enemy frantically retaliates. They searched the slopes on both sides, and if they found Lalei's militia, they would definitely chase after them, and the probability of Lalei's Eighth Route Army soldiers and militia dying greatly increased!

Even if they were "particularly brave and vigorous", they simply jumped up and "ran as fast as they could" under the pursuit of the Japanese cavalry specially prepared to counterattack the "miners" or the pursuit of machine guns and grenadiers.

Of course, the "Thunder Puller" did not rely only on "bravery and vigor" to get out of danger, but also on appropriate tactics:

Arrange the combat group and sniper group in advance to cooperate and cover the retreat of the "deminer"; On the way back of the "mine-pullers", "pressure mines" were planted in advance to stop the pursuing Japanese troops -- these are all common methods.

Our army even adopted the tactic of "pulling mines to cover them", "after the first mine buried on the road sounded, the enemy searched the mountains and the militia ran away." The enemy saw that the militia was only one and desperately pursued. So often hit the second Laray. It turned out that on the way for the militia to flee, a second Ralei was buried in advance, and when the enemy was chasing, the militia in charge of the second Ralei pulled the wire, and the secondary explosion often blocked the pursuing enemy.

This is the reason why the mine-pulling group of the reconnaissance company has to work in groups of two, and the deputy mine-pullers of each group still have a mine hanging on their bodies, just to prevent the Japanese from chasing them.

The relative sacrifice rate of the Lalei group is much higher than that of other troops, and almost all of them are injured when they go to six and come back three, and this kind of work is really unjustifiable if they don't make meritorious contributions! Therefore, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as long as the mine-pullers could survive, they made the most meritorious contributions! (To be continued......)