It's night.

The moonlight is somewhere between bright and dim, and the hazy moonlight seems to wrap a light veil on everything in the world.

Looking widely, the quiet mountains and forests, the shadows of the swaying trees, one by one is dead and silent, and even the rustle of the leaves blown by the wind is rarely heard.

Somewhere on the Nanshan Highway, near Qinghe Village, sat a medium-sized Japanese stronghold with a small squad of Japanese troops stationed in the stronghold, plus a platoon of Imperial Allied troops.

During these days, the stronghold has also been specially strengthened in order to deal with the sneak attacks of the independent regiments.

First of all, in terms of troops, the Japanese army strengthened two more squads, plus the original platoon of the Imperial Allied Army, the number of Japanese troops exceeded 230 people.

For a regular medium-sized stronghold of the Japanese army, such a large number of troops were much more.

In addition to the change in strength, the Japanese army also built two reinforced concrete pillboxes around the perimeter of the stronghold, and fired machine guns to deal with the artillery held by the independent regiment.

Not only that, but inside the stronghold, the Japanese army also shrewdly learned from the Eighth Route Army and dug a lot of strong tunnels as anti-artillery fortifications.

This was to prevent the independent regiment from using concentrated artillery fire to sneak attack, causing large casualties to the Japanese puppet army concentrated in the stronghold.

In addition to these regular troop deployments, there were also five Japanese snipers hidden in this stronghold.

This is different from the special marksman in the Japanese army, which had extremely high requirements for the marksmanship training of soldiers in the early days of the invasion of China, and even required at least one of the three people to have the marksmanship to reach the level of a special marksman.

At this moment, the five snipers in this stronghold are the five veterans with the best marksmanship selected from these two Japanese squads after Yoshio Shinozuka ordered to learn from the Eighth Route Army in various departments, form a sniper formation, and use sniper group tactics to face the enemy, and are issued with Type 99 sniper rifles equipped with quadruple optical sights.

This is much better than the performance of the Type 97 sniper rifle used in the hands of the devil's special marksman.

In addition, for these snipers, the Japanese army specially trained for two days, mainly in tactical teaching.

It is necessary to innovate the sniper tactics of the past, not to fix themselves in one place, to keep shooting, leading to their own exposure, and to abandon the bushido spirit of the past, which is ashamed of retreating.

It is necessary to learn the sniper group tactics of the Eighth Route Army, and work in groups of two to cooperate in combat.

These snipers are also equipped with observers who can detect targets with rangefinder telescopes.

In addition, the battlefield of these five Japanese snipers was not fixed in a stronghold.

In order to give full play to the role of these snipers, Kazuki Yamamoto, who personally compiled the innovation of the Japanese army's sniper tactics, recently proposed that some secret passages could be dug inside the stronghold to transfer personnel from inside the stronghold.

Once the stronghold is attacked by the Eighth Route Army, these snipers can quickly move to the area around the stronghold through the passage and lurk, waiting for an opportunity to strike more valuable targets.

Coupled with the additional enhanced firepower configuration of the Japanese puppet army in order to cope with the surprise attack of the independent regiment, the strongholds of the Japanese army around the independent regiment can be said to be armed to the teeth.

In order to deal with the independent regiment, the little devil did work hard.

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In the evening, the devils in the stronghold scolded and ate dinner, entered the bunk to rest, the living environment that used to be quite spacious and more than enough, now with the increase of troops, it looks a little bloated, and it is no wonder that these soldiers can't help but complain.

In recent days, since the stronghold has strengthened the firepower of the garrison and built concrete pillboxes, it has not encountered a surprise attack by the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, after nightfall, the Japanese puppet army was still vigilant, but they did not worry too much.

In addition, the searchlight on the top floor of the stronghold will probe back and forth in and around the stronghold to guard against enemy sneak attacks at any time.

In the eyes of the Japanese puppet army, the stronghold that has been strengthened now is guarded like an iron barrel, and the patrols patrol everywhere during the day, even the independent regiment may not be able to find a way to attack, or it will come to attack the stronghold long ago.

The caution in front of you is more like doing useless work.

At about two o'clock in the evening, it was the time when the Japanese puppet soldiers in the stronghold slept the most.

In the woods 600 meters outside the Japanese stronghold, there was a sudden sound of rustling from time to time.

But this small sound quickly melted into the vast and boundless mountains, and no movement could be heard.

The soldiers of the Independent Regiment quietly appeared under the cover of night, led by a certain platoon commander of the first company of the Independent Regiment, followed by the soldiers who formed a long line, fully armed but different from the usual, almost holding an explosive bag in their hands.

Seeing that there was a stronghold of the Japanese army 600 meters away, the platoon commander turned his head, gathered several squad leaders and deputy squad leaders around him, and said in a low voice:

"The small artillery group stayed, the first, second, and third shifts, each squad was responsible for a section, and began to bury explosive packs, which were not too close to the Japanese stronghold, and were placed on the section of the road where the Japanese patrol would pass during the day, and was used with wooden box mines."

"Yes!"

Several squad leaders and deputy squad leaders responded, and immediately led their respective teams to carry out the order.

The platoon commander waved his hand again, and with several members of the small artillery group, plus four 50 small guns, he advanced some distance.

"In a group of two, separate our four 50 small cannons, divide them into four directions, according to our multi-day reconnaissance, after the sky is bright, the devil's patrol will come out of the stronghold, and wait until the devil's patrol is hit by the explosives we planted, and there will be Japanese reinforcements in the follow-up, and after the devils come out and gather, we will use artillery fire to raid."

"Yes!"

After the arrangement, the platoon commander looked at the eight people beside him, these eight people were not his soldiers, but the four snipers who had come from the sniper platoon.

The platoon commander said: "Lao Zhou, your sniper team has your own tactics, and I don't understand it very well, so I won't arrange it, you can play it independently!" ”

Lao Zhou said: "Please rest assured Platoon Commander Jiang, before coming, our platoon commander explained again and again, and the comrades of the third platoon handed over the task of covering to the four of us." ”

"Good!" Platoon Commander Jiang nodded, he had seen the power of these snipers with his own eyes, and he was absolutely shocked, don't look at the fact that there were only four people, but he believed that Lao Zhou didn't say anything big.

Time passed bit by bit, under the cover of night, coupled with the rapid training of the soldiers, the secret and careful movements, and the distance from the Japanese stronghold, after all the deployment means were completed, the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold was unaware of this.

The next day, the sky, which had been dark all night, began to shine quickly from the distant horizon with the first touch of white fish belly, and the day once again replaced the night.

The Japanese soldiers have been immersed in the higher intensity of militarized management all year round, and have long formed a habit, after the sky is bright, the devil soldiers according to the orders issued by their superiors, according to the time point quickly get up, and quite arrogantly wake up one by one the imperial army who do not want to wake up.

Gu Ying

"Patrol, it's time to patrol, you lazy people!"

Several Japanese squad leaders roared, they were not polite to these lazy Imperial Allies with poor military discipline.

The patrol began, in accordance with the recently adjusted policy of the Japanese command:

After dawn, each stronghold will dispatch a patrol team to patrol the road where it is located twice to ensure that the road has not been touched by the troops of the Eighth Route Army yesterday night.

The devil's stronghold is not too far away from each other, and these devil patrols go out to patrol with two strongholds between the strongholds, and the Japanese puppet soldiers on the patrol are not too worried.

In addition, in addition to patrolling a certain section of the road and railway line where they are located, the devil patrol team will also enter the villages around the stronghold to patrol in case the troops of the Eighth Route Army secretly assembled in the village last night.

A couple of patrols just walked out.

Each patrol was led by five or six puppet soldiers, followed by five or six Japanese soldiers, basically the strength of one squad.

In the woods six or seven hundred meters away from the stronghold, Platoon Commander Jiang and his entourage had been waiting all night, looking at the Japanese puppet army that came out of the stronghold, the soldiers were no longer sleepy, full of excitement, looking forward to the results of last night's busyness.

The section of the road where the platoon leader Jiang was located, on both sides was a hillside with trees and green cages, and a mountain road was sandwiched between them, and a Japanese puppet army, a team of thirteen people, patrolled over slowly.

Unbeknownst to them, the Japanese puppet army marched all the way down the road and smoothly stepped through the area where Platoon Commander Jiang and his entourage had planted a remote explosive package.

These explosive packs are directly controlled by the fighters through the detonator, and the explosives are connected by wires between the explosive packs and the detonators, which can be controlled by means of detonation by electric current.

As for the burial of the explosive pack, in order not to damage the surface of the highway built by the Japanese army, and to expose the traces for the Japanese army to notice, a deep pit was dug from the side of the road, and then the explosive bag was buried horizontally at the edge of the road, and then the wire connecting the explosive bag and the detonator was buried in the shallow soil or between the weeds and bushes along the road, which was simple and convenient to lay, and the soldiers gave it a rather vivid name - side bomb.

This side of the road can be remotely controlled by the detonator.

When the Japanese puppet army patrol team passed by the explosives explosion area, Platoon Commander Jiang and his entourage did not immediately start the explosion.

There are still good things waiting for the devils and puppet army!

It was a new wooden box mine from the Independent Transmission and Repair Institute.

The device is simple, the structure is simple, the half-open wooden box is arranged with explosives and fuse means, when the top of the box is subjected to a certain pressure, the wooden box is closed, and the explosive will be detonated immediately.

The volume of the wooden box is not large, which is easy to bury, and it is shallow buried under the surface of the road surface, and the surface is naturally treated, which is difficult to detect with the naked eye.

In addition, the biggest advantage of this wooden box mine is that the entire explosive device inside basically does not use any metal substance, and it is difficult for the devil's mine detector to work.

This makes the devil unguardable.

Boom –

The marching puppet army smoothly stepped on the wooden box mines shallow buried under the surface of the road.

Fortunately, the volume of this wooden box is limited, the amount of explosives inside is limited, and the power is far inferior to the explosives pack, after the explosion, the four puppet soldiers at the head killed one and injured three, and the devil behind was unharmed.

The devil puppet army was even more frightened, and they realized that the attack of the long-lost independent regiment had finally arrived.

"Watch out for enemy attacks, retreat, retreat!" Cao Cao, the devil soldier who led the team, shouted, accompanied by the screams and wails of the three puppet soldiers who were injured by the explosion, the living puppet soldiers, dragging two wounded soldiers and a corpse, retreated in the direction of the stronghold in horror all the way.

"Fried—"

The five or six devils in the retreat successfully stepped into the area where the explosive package was detonated remotely, and the fighters lurking forty or fifty meters away on the right side of the road received the observer's gesture command and pressed the detonator.

Boom –

This time the explosion was much more violent than the explosion of the previous wooden box mine.

The amount of explosives contained in this long-range explosive package is no less than the total explosives contained in ten conventional grenades, and the power of the explosion is much greater than the explosion of a collective grenade composed of ten grenades.

The power was quite amazing, and in the explosion, in addition to one who was seriously injured, the other five devils were directly enveloped by the explosion and died on the spot.

The road surface, which was originally quite smooth, was blown out of a large crater from the roadside area, and six devils were swept away by the impact of the explosion, some fell on the hillside of the roadside, and some rolled under the fields on the side of the road.

The remaining few puppet soldiers have already been frightened by the unpredictable sneak attack methods of the independent regiment.

At the same time, explosions were heard in the direction of the Japanese stronghold.

Moreover, the explosion was not heard in more than one place, it came from multiple road sections, and then, the devil sentries in the stronghold noticed with binoculars that the patrols in several road sections had encountered surprise attacks, and there were heavy casualties in the explosion, and a large number of wounded soldiers were in urgent need of reinforcements.

The leader of the devil squadron sitting in the stronghold did not dare to hesitate, and hurriedly sent troops to reinforce several patrols in an attempt to rescue the wounded soldiers.

The Japanese puppet army in the stronghold had already exploded, searching everywhere for traces of possible lurking enemies.

But in the end, nothing was found.

Platoon Commander Jiang always uses mines and remotely controlled explosive packs to detonate, and the whole process is extremely hidden, as long as he does not take the initiative to expose it, with the cover of the mountains and forests, it is difficult for the devil puppet army to detect.

And understood what means the Eighth Route Army used to sneak attack several patrols, and the Japanese squadron leader thought that the patrol team had accidentally stepped on a mine, and among the newly sent reinforcements, the devil's sappers followed with them, and they also carried mine detectors.

The reinforcements were still bombed on the way.

This was a big explosion caused by platoon commander Jiang and others using a remote detonator.

When the explosion will be decided by the fighters, the devil's mine detector has no time to detect the explosive package, and the devil can't prevent it.

At the moment when the explosive bag exploded, the soldiers who hid in the mountains and forests dozens of meters away and detonated the explosive bag even leisurely dragged back the wires left behind after the explosion and recycled them.

After eight or nine explosions, the Japanese puppet army had already suffered more than 40 casualties before they saw half of the enemy......

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