Chapter 378: Tunnel Warfare

Before dawn, Onoda Jiro led all eighteen snipers into the trenches on the eastern side of Fuliang Mountain.

It's still the same outfit as yesterday, wearing the military uniform of the puppet army, and forcing the puppet army to camouflage the rifle, and the nineteen devil snipers hid in the middle of more than 100 puppet troops, and they really can't tell the difference.

"Listen up!" Onoda Jiro said in stiff Chinese.

"When we fire, you must follow suit."

"Whoever dares not to open fire will die after the battle is over."

"Do you fucking hear that?" Li Wudou seems to be reprimanding, but in fact he is reminding.

"When Taijun shoots, we will shoot with us, and we are not allowed to play tricks."

Li Wudou said that he was not allowed to play tricks, but in fact, he was reminding the puppet army not to really fight.

But it was impossible for Onoda Jiro to hear it, and he thought that Li Wudou was really cooperative.

At that moment, Onoda Jiro nodded happily, and said with a smile: "Li San, your good people are very good." ”

"Of course." Li Wudou's face was about to laugh into a daisy, "My great loyalty to the imperial army." ”

Onoda Jiro ignored Li Wudou and instead took a sniper rifle and aimed at the Fuliang Mountain Fortress opposite.

At this time, the artillery bombardment of the eastern slope of the Fuliang Mountain fortress by the Japanese artillery group had ended, and the extended artillery bombardment was being carried out on the top of the mountain and the positions on the left and right sides.

Then, about a small squad of infantry, under the guidance of a chariot detachment, went on the attack.

Considering the convenience of passage, the five outer blockades each reserved a few passages, and the sixth blockade ditch also left an offensive channel considering that a general attack would definitely be launched in the end.

To put it bluntly, the blockade ditch is not fully connected.

Instead, four gaps were left in the blockade ditch that surrounds Fuliang Mountain.

The width of each gap was about 30 meters, and the Japanese army could directly attack the fortress of Fuliang Mountain from these four gaps or passages without crossing the blockade ditch.

The Japanese were now using the eastern passage, and they were attacking the eastern side of the fortress.

As mentioned earlier, the fortress of Fuliang Mountain is like a large beehive, with thousands of sniper positions scattered throughout the mountain, but there are only sixteen entrances near the foot of the mountain.

Southeast, northwest, four directions, four passages each.

More than 50 Japanese soldiers, guided by four Type 95 light tanks, quickly passed through the gap and quickly pounced in front of the three tunnel crossings to the east of the Fuliang Mountain Fortress.

Nineteen devil snipers such as Onoda Jiro quickly pushed the bullet into the chamber.

Seeing this, Li Wudou looked at him, and more than 100 puppet soldiers also pulled the bolt and pushed the bullet into the chamber.

According to Onoda Jiro's assumption, at this time, the Eighth Route Army will definitely appear in a beehive-like sniper position, using all kinds of guns to try to prevent the Japanese army from breaking through the tunnel.

Isn't that what a fortress defense is all about?

If you let the Japanese infantry break into the fortress,

This means that the fortified defense has failed.

However, Onoda Jiro was wrong this time, and he was very wrong.

Soon, the four tanks passed through the reserved 30-meter-wide gap, and before they broke through to the fortress, the front-firing machine gun muzzles of the tanks and the muzzles of the 37mm caliber main guns had even reached the tunnel entrance, and more than 50 Japanese soldiers who followed up had also approached the tunnel entrance of the black hole.

However, the hundreds of sniper positions on the eastern slope of the Floating Mountains remained silent.

Not a single Eighth Route Army showed its head, and not even a single gunshot rang out.

"Yaga? What's going on? Onoda Jiro was stunned.

The Eighth Route Army so easily abandoned the surface position of the Fuliang Mountain Fortress?

……

Not only Onoda Jiro, but Miyano Michiichi also felt a little confused.

From the forward observation post through the artillery mirror, Michiichi Miyano had a full view of the scene just now.

Seeing that the four tanks and more than 50 Japanese soldiers who had been put into the attack had already arrived at the tunnel entrance on the east side of Fuliang Mountain, the Eighth Route Army in the fortress did not react, and Miyano Michichi suddenly felt confused.

"Yaga? What's going on? Is the Eighth Route Army going to give up the fortress of Fuliang Mountain? ”

"But that's not right, the fortress of Fuliang Mountain has been surrounded by water."

"If the Eighth Route Army abandons the Fuliang Mountain Fortress, where else can they retreat?"

"Do you turn into a birdman and fly away from the sky? Or do you become a groundhog and run away from the ground? ”

"Or is the Eighth Route Army ready to put the Imperial Army into the tunnels of the Fuliang Mountain Fortress and prepare to fight a tunnel war with the Imperial Army? In that case, it's really a bit of a problem. ”

……

Onoda Jiro and Miyano Michiichi can be confused, but the devils who are engaged in the attack can't be confused.

The entrance to the tunnel of Fuliang Mountain Fortress is not small, but it is impossible for tanks to drive in, so the four tanks in charge of guiding each fired a few shells at a tunnel entrance, and then turned around and returned to the vicinity of the gap to guard.

The infantry squad was divided into detachments and broke through the four tunnel openings.

An infantry squad of the Japanese army consisted of three infantry detachments, each with thirteen men and eight infantrymen, in addition to a four-man machine gun squad with one main and one secondary marksman and two ammunitionmen.

In addition to the three infantry detachments, there was also a grenadier detachment with eight people and three grenadiers, in addition to seven people at the squad headquarters, and the grenadier detachment and the squad headquarters were tentatively organized into a detachment, which was led by the squad leader Tadashi Toda himself.

Considering that the grenadiers were useless in the tunnels, Toda Tadashi only allowed the grenadier detachment to carry pistols into battle.

Less than ten meters deep into the tunnel entrance, the light inside began to dim, and Toda Tadashi immediately ordered: "Flashlight!" ”

The five Japanese soldiers immediately took out flashlights from their satchels, and five bright beams of light lit up at once, shining in different directions.

The entire tunnel is brightly illuminated.

Moving on, we soon came to a fork in the road.

Strangely, the movement of the other three detachments could not be heard.

It stands to reason that the four side-by-side passages are not far apart, so this diagonal fork should intersect with the other three underpasses in addition to their passage.

Tadashi Toda was the first to walk to the fork and shone a flashlight to the left.

I saw a straight passage leading to an unknown depth, swarthy and bottomless.

"Kasawara-kun? Seto-kun? Toda Tadashi shouted loudly, and a response was quickly heard in the corridor, but it was an echo.

After waiting for a few seconds and not hearing back, Toda turned around and shone his flashlight on the fork on the right, which was shallow, about fifty meters away, or it was a bend.

"Go this way!" Tadashi Toda pointed to the fork in the road on the right.

Now there are only fifteen people with him, so it is better not to divide the troops for the sake of safety.

When you turn into the fork in the road on the left, you are completely darkened behind you, and you can't see the exit anymore.

At this time, it felt like they had been completely cut off, as if there were only fifteen of them left in the whole world, which was really bad.

What's even more heart-wrenching is that it's very quiet in the tunnel.

It was so quiet that you could hear everyone's footsteps and gasps.

Holding a Southern Type 14 pistol in his left hand and a flashlight in his right hand, Tadashi Toda walked in the front.

The lighting effect of the flashlight in the tunnel is quite good, and it can clearly illuminate the tunnel dozens of meters deep in front of it, and even the hole reserved on the wall at the end of the tunnel is clearly visible.

The fork on the right quickly came to an end, and there was indeed a turn at the end.

So a group of fifteen people continued to go deeper along the bend of the road.

"Pay attention to the holes in the walls on both sides." Toda said in a deep voice.

"That may be a shooting hole reserved by the Eighth Route Army, you must be careful."

As soon as he finished speaking, a muzzle poked out of a hole in front of him.

In the next moment, a dense stream of submachine gun bullets rained down.

"Submachine gun, turn off the flashlight and lie down!" Toda quickly fell to his stomach and turned off his flashlight.

The other flashlights were also extinguished one after another, and the entire corridor was instantly plunged into darkness, with only dazzling bullet streamers whizzing and shuttling in the darkness.

Tadashi Toda did not fight back.

Because he saw very clearly,

The firing point of the Eighth Route Army was hiding behind the firing hole.

So even if they are full firepower, they can't hit each other.

The submachine guns of the Eighth Route Army soon stopped firing, and the tunnel fell silent again.

Although Toda Tadashi wanted to know the casualties at this time, he couldn't help but make no sound, because in such a quiet environment, no matter how small a sound was, it would lead to death.

At this time, you must calm down and wait for the other party to make a mistake first.

In the midst of this dead silence, the sound of bones rolling suddenly sounded in the darkness, accompanied by a clattering sound.

"Grenade!" Toda could no longer be quiet, unable to see the exact location of the grenade in the darkness, and could only leap forward in the direction he felt when he came and went.

Toda Tadashi soon landed and overwhelmed a Japanese soldier.

The Japanese soldier was pressed and let out a muffled grunt.

Toda Tada, however, couldn't care so much about it, kicked his legs, and jumped up again.

This time, it is estimated that he stepped on the vital point, and the Japanese soldier under him suddenly let out a scream like killing a pig.

At this time, the grenade that rolled over against the ground also exploded with a bang, and Tadashi Toda, who was in the air again, subconsciously looked back and saw two Japanese soldiers being blown over.

"Stand back! Back off! Hurry back to the fork in the road! ”

Tadashi Toda got up from the ground and ran back along the road.

As he ran, Tadashi Toda turned on the flashlight again.

Because the tunnel under their feet was not flat, the cunning Eighth Route Army left many pits on the ground, and it was easy to fall without the help of flashlight lighting.

However, as soon as he turned on the flashlight, Toda was horrified to find a dark shadow emerging from the fork in the road ahead.

But I saw that the black shadow was holding an imitation M1921 Thomson submachine gun in his hand, and the muzzle of the gun was aimed at this side.

"Yaga!" Toda Zhong cursed, and subconsciously wanted to raise the Nanbu 14 pistol to shoot, but before he could raise the pistol, the other party had already fired first.

A dazzling tongue of fire jerked over.

Tadashi Toda was knocked to the ground in one fell swoop.

Toda tried his best to remove a grenade from his waist, but tried several times but couldn't do so.

As he was dying, Toda Tadashi saw dozens of holes of different sizes suddenly appear in the walls on both sides of the corridor, and sharp bayonets or black holes poked out of them.

Bayonets stabbed, bullets fired, and all the Japanese soldiers quickly fell in pools of blood.

Toda's last thought was: this is simply a preset slaughterhouse!

……

In the middle of another fork in the road.

Xu Yougeng was lying behind a fist-sized surveillance hole and watching carefully.

Whether it is the tunnels of Fuliang Mountain Fortress or the tunnels of other villages in the base, they will be divided into different areas due to different functions.

The living area, that is, the living people.

The combat zone, that is, the combat one.

The labyrinth area is the transition in the middle.

The living area is generally hidden in the deepest part and must be reached through the combat area and the maze area, which as the name suggests, is designed to circle the devil.

And the purpose of the combat area is to use it for combat.

Xu Yougeng led a platoon of troops, and he was in the combat area at the moment.

The Eighth Route Army could ambush in advance in parallel tunnels and attack the devils in the combat area with bayonets, rifles or submachine guns through the shooting holes all over the tunnel walls.

Xu Yougeng's position at this time is in front.

Without warning, a beam of light dispelled the darkness in the tunnel.

Xu Yougeng immediately patted the head of the soldier behind him, and the soldier immediately patted the head of the soldier next to him, and through this order, the order was quickly conveyed.

Immediately, more than 40 fighters, armed with submachine guns, bayonet loads, or light machine guns, silently entered the parallel tunnels on the left and right, front and rear, and above the combat area.

Soon light leaked through the shooting holes in the wall into the parallel tunnels.

From the shooting hole came the footsteps, wheezing, and talking of the devils.

It's a pity that the fighters of the guard company can't understand Japanese and don't know what the Japanese devils are talking about?

Without warning, a 38 cover suddenly poked out of one of the shooting holes, followed by a horn hook, but it was the devil who shot through the shooting hole and fired at the parallel tunnel.

The shooting hole is two-way, and the Eighth Route Army can use it, and the devils can also use it.

However, it is a pity that the Eighth Route Army already knew about the existence of the devil, but the devil did not know the existence of the Eighth Route Army at all, so the shooting just now was just nonsense.

More and more bright light is leaking out of the shooting holes.

This shows that the devil is gradually going deeper into the battle tunnel.

At a certain moment, Xu Yougeng, who was in front of the combat tunnel, opened fire.

As soon as he opened fire, more than 40 soldiers in the platoon opened fire together, more than 20 submachine guns and two machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the remaining dozen or so soldiers also held rifles with good bayonets and stabbed the devils in the combat tunnel through the shooting holes.

The devils who entered the combat tunnel were in chaos in an instant.

The battle ended quickly, and all thirteen devils who entered the combat tunnel were killed in less than half a minute, or stabbed to death with bayonets by the guard company.

Then soon, Xu Yougeng took a few soldiers and entered the combat tunnel.

This time, the thirteen devils were really killed, and none of the devils pretended to be dead.

At that moment, Xu Yougeng said: "Put away the weapons and ammunition, and return the corpse." ”

"A feng shui treasure like Fuliang Mountain, there are no devils."

……

Outside Fuliang Mountain, the Japanese army forward observation post.

Michiichi Miyano was staring at the entrance of the passage for a moment through the field of vision of the artillery mirror.

"Matsumoto-kun." Michiichi Miyano asked his adjutant Matsumoto Masanomichi, "How long has the Toda team been in the tunnel?" ”

Matsumoto Masaken took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, and said with a pause: "Division commander, it has been more than half an hour since the Toda team entered the tunnel entrance of the Fuliang Mountain Fortress. ”

"Half an hour?"

Miyano Michi's face fell.

There has been no news for half an hour, and it seems that there is trouble.

At that moment, Miyano Michiichi said in a deep voice: "Order the Okabe squadron to ......"

Before the words fell, Matsumoto Masanoshi suddenly said: "Division commander, there is a situation. ”

When Miyano Michichi looked at it urgently, he saw that one after another the corpses of Japanese soldiers had been pushed out of several sniper positions above the entrance of the passage.

The Eighth Route Army was very well hidden.

I only saw the corpses of Japanese soldiers being pushed out.

Then it rolled down the hill and ended up in front of the four passages that had been passed before.

No more, no less, a total of fifty-four corpses of Japanese soldiers were pushed out in the end, and the entire squad was wiped out!

Such a result was expected by Miyano Michiichi, but it was unexpected, he expected that it would not be easy to storm the fortress of Fuliang Mountain, but he did not expect it to be so difficult.

In less than half an hour, an infantry squad was completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army.

So how long can an infantry squadron hold out? What about an infantry brigade?

Although there were more than 16,000 imperial soldiers in the Second Guards Division, 10,000 of them were scattered in more than 2,000 pillboxes, and there were only more than 6,000 people on the side of Fuliang Mountain Fortress.

More than 3,000 of them are artillerymen!

Michiichi Miyano suddenly felt that something was a little tricky.

Although the Second Guards Division had an absolute superiority in strength and firepower over Li Yunlong's independent regiment, because the independent regiment could not come out of the fortress of Fuliang Mountain, the artillery group of the Second Guards Division became an ornament, and although the three mobile strike groups still had the advantage of troops, because the strength of the troops in the tunnel could not be deployed, they could only be put into battle one squadron at a time.

Or do you want to attack at the same time from thousands of sniper positions scattered across the surface of the floating mountain?

In this way, it would be possible to throw in one infantry brigade at a time, but Miyano Michiichi did not dare to take this risk.

Because the passages behind the sniper positions that spread all over the surface of the floating mountain are extremely narrow, they cannot be compared with the sixteen passages on the ground.

Those narrow and cramped passages can be easily blocked by only one Eighth Route Army.

After thinking about it, Miyano Michiichi actually had a sense of powerlessness that he didn't know how to speak.

But one thing Miyano Michi is extremely sure of is that today's attack must not end in such a hurry, and no matter what the final result is, at least an infantry squadron must be put in to try.

At that moment, Miyano Michiichi said in a deep voice: "Matsumoto-kun, order the Maori Brigade to immediately organize four infantry squadrons and attack from the sixteen passages at the same time in small teams!" ”

"Hello!" Matsumoto Masaken paused.

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