"Dada...... Boom Boom Boom ......"

The gunfire from the forward troops has been going on for ten minutes, and there is no sign of stopping.

Lieutenant General Ito's brows furrowed, and he directly ordered: "Chief of Staff, transfer an infantry brigade and a mountain artillery squadron from the main force to kill them, and in addition, contact aviation to provide fire support to the ground offensive forces." Within half an hour, it was necessary to break through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army......"

"Hey!" The chief of staff immediately replied.

The first line of defense arranged by the Eighth Route Army on the edge of the base area should be the easiest to fight, and a mixed brigade in the forward has not broken through after fighting for so long, and not only the face of the division commander Lieutenant General Ito has no light, but also the face of the chief of staff.

When he was about to give the order with a frown, the dense gunfire suddenly stopped, as if the forward troops had not experienced a battle just now.

Soon, a cavalry communications officer rushed over: "Sir, the forward troops have successfully broken through the forward positions of the Eighth Route Army......"

"How many people the troops lost, how many Eighth Route Army were destroyed!" With a hint of dissatisfaction on his face, Lieutenant General Ito asked, staring at the communications officer.

"Because the Eighth Route Army deliberately hid its firepower, the forward troops lost a total of more than 50 imperial troops and an infantry squad ~ As for the ...... of the Eighth Route Army"

The communications officer hesitated for a few seconds before continuing to answer: "We did not find a single body of the Eighth Route Army in the forward position of the Eighth Route Army...... They must have taken the corpses with them when they retreated! ”

"Eight Grid Tooth Road ......"

Lieutenant General Ito's anger surged up at once, and he scolded unceremoniously: "In other words, the Eighth Route Army guarding the position was not repelled by you...... They retreated on their own initiative. What are you forward troops doing, even attacking the forward positions of the Eighth Route Army! ”

"Chief of Staff, immediately change to a brigade, such a unit, such a combat effectiveness and combat level, how can it open the way for the main force of the division and regiment!"

Seeing Lieutenant General Ito's determined face, the chief of staff, who was still going to say two kind words, resolutely closed his mouth.

Ten minutes later, the troops stopped on the road continued to march forward and really entered the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Less than ten minutes after walking, a series of violent explosions reached Lieutenant General Ito's ears.

"It's a mine, and I'm all too familiar with the sound of this explosion. The cunning Eighth Route Army even used mines to deal with us......" Lieutenant General Ito scolded with anger and a gritted tooth expression.

The chief of staff immediately said: "The division commander is angry, and I will immediately send sappers to reinforce the forward troops!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Not long after, another series of explosions reached Lieutenant General Ito's ears.

"What do the sappers eat, why are there still mines exploding...... "Even the shadow of the Eighth Route Army was attacked a second time without seeing the troops, and it is certain that the losses of the two attacks on the Imperial Army must be not small. After all, the explosion just now was not a single mine, but a series of mines. Lieutenant General Ito, who was furious, directly became furious and scolded loudly.

It is also not clear to the chief of staff why the sappers went to the forward units and the mines were detonated.

It didn't take long for this question to be solved by a communications officer rushing over from the forward troops!

"Sir, the mines buried on the road by the Eighth Route Army are not iron, the mine shell is ceramic, and our mine detectors can only detect mines with iron shells, not mines with ceramic shells!"

"In the two mine attacks just now, we lost a total of 32 imperial troops, of which 17 were directly killed, and all the others were seriously injured or their legs were blown off, and they lost their combat effectiveness!"

"Nani? Ceramic mines~" Lieutenant General Ito was stunned for a long time before he reacted.

The captain of the engineer wing next to him frowned directly into a big Sichuan character.

After hesitating for a few seconds, he explained: "Division commander...... The Eighth Route Army is too cunning! ”

"Ceramic mines are not only simple to produce and can evade the mine detectors in our hands, but more importantly, there are a lot of fragments produced after the mine explodes. It would be bad if the Eighth Route Army used a lot of ceramic mines on our offensive path! ”

Lieutenant General Ito stared at the commander of the engineer wing, who had become the commander of the light pole, and scolded unceremoniously: "You are all professionally trained engineer elites of the Great Japanese Empire, and those ceramic mines are just home-made weapons made by the Eighth Route Army itself, don't you have a solution?" In that case, what use does the Empire want from you? ”

The commander of the engineer wing hurriedly replied: "Please rest assured that we can find these ceramic mines by means of manual demining." The only problem is that manual demining is done little by little with a lightning detector rod, and the speed of demining is very slow......"

"How slow?" Lieutenant General Ito's face lit up with hope, and he stared at his subordinates and asked rhetorically.

"If the entire highway is completely cleared, everyone in the engineering wing will go up, and a maximum of ten kilometers of road ...... will be dispatched in a day," replied the commander of the engineering wing, bowing his head.

He knew that his answer would surely cause Lieutenant General Ito to be even more angry.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Lieutenant General Ito's angry scolding sounded in his ears.

"Bageya Road, ten kilometers a day, how long will it take us to sweep the entire Eighth Route Army base area, is it a month or half a year~"

"No, it's too slow, think of another way!"

"Draw surplus horses from the baggage units and go to the front of the troops to help us detonate the ......mines on the road," the engineer wing commander proposed with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Also, we can go to the surrounding villages to catch some civilians, let them go ahead of us, and force the Eighth Route Army to stop using mines!"

Lieutenant General Ito's face looked much better, and he decisively ordered: "That's it!" ”

"Use a horse to detonate the mine engineer wing!"

"Chief of Staff, you arrange for the troops to go to the nearby villages to arrest some ordinary people, try to catch the young and strong, and kill people if they are not obedient and force them to obey!"

The chief of staff immediately reminded: "The division commander is angry~ Before sending troops, the front army headquarters explained that in the battle to encircle and suppress the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the imperial army could not take the initiative to slaughter the people. The new regiment holds the lives of more than a thousand imperial expatriates in its hands, and there are quite a few big people in it. We directly arrest their civilians and step on mines for us, I am afraid that it will cause them to retaliate! ”

"......No," Lieutenant General Ito replied, shaking his head.

"We didn't deliberately slaughter these civilians, nor did we force them to go to war and block our bullets. Just take them hostage and force the Eighth Route Army to stop using mines. If the Eighth Route Army slaughters our diaspora because of this, I promise, slaughter ten times as many ordinary people as they take revenge on them! ”

"Arrest people immediately, we have to walk fifteen kilometers before dark today to reach the pre-selected station!"

"Hi...... Go for it now! ”

An hour later, the troops finally moved.

Less than ten minutes after walking, a series of explosions followed and reached Lieutenant General Ito's ears.

However, this series of explosions did not affect the speed of the march of the main forces.

Less than three kilometers after following the troops, Lieutenant General Ito saw two killed horses lying on the side of the road.

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