The troops carry a large amount of artillery and baggage and ammunition, which cannot be separated from the highway. If the National Rescue Army really buried a large number of mines on the highway, the troops would definitely not be able to march back to help and pacify the country as quickly as before.

As he thought about it, Colonel Watanabe gradually became anxious.

I was very anxious to order: "The engineer squadron immediately went over to help, and use the fastest speed to find out whether there are landmines on the road ahead, and find out immediately if there is. If there is no, the troops will continue to advance and the marching speed will be accelerated, so that we can get back the time we have been wasted here."

Colonel Watanabe walked around the road with his hands on his back, his expression both nervous and anxious. He kept raising his hands to look at the time, or looking up at the vanguard troops, hoping that the engineer squadron would be faster.

After waiting for almost ten minutes, the squadron leader of the Engineer Squadron appeared and hurried to Watanabe: "Sir, we have explored the nearly three hundred meters of road ahead and found no landmine."

"Wei Yi went to the mine explosion site to inspect it. The few mines that just exploded were all bouncing mines we had encountered before. Although we did not seize such mines, we probably guessed the principle of this mine."

"Its production process is much more complex than ordinary landmines. Even if the National Salvation Army has its own arsenal, the number of this new type of landmine will not be too many. So I think there are only three landmines on the road ahead, so the troops can continue to move forward with confidence."

Colonel Watanabe has seen the scene after the bounce mine exploded. It is no less powerful than a mountain cannon shell, which is very amazing.

Such a powerful landmine is definitely not easy to produce. After thinking about it, I recognized the judgment of the engineer squadron leader and ordered: "Yoxi, since there are no mines ahead, then we will continue to move forward. The speed of the march must be accelerated, and we will drive back the ten minutes that had been delayed just now."

The engineer squadron leader's judgment on landmines is very correct.

Reducing the consumption in the past few days, Chen Zhengyu had fewer bouncing mines in his hand, and he could count them with both slaps. Unless he was sure to win, he would not use them again.

During the next hour of marching, the Japanese army did not encounter any other emergencies except for continuing to be attacked by cold guns and cold artillery.

Colonel Watanabe's tense nerves finally sootheed.

The subordinates were also very happy. Although cold guns and cold cannons can also cause some casualties to the army, for a team with a total force of nearly 2,000 people, that little casualties are nothing at all?

Looking at Colonel Watanabe, he analyzed easily: "Captain of the regiment, the national rescue army must have used up all the means of attacking us. Apart from cold guns and cold cannons, they have no other way to threaten us!

Colonel Watanabe did not respond, but the smile flashed on his face showed that he agreed with his subordinates' analysis very much.

Before we knew it, the hills on both sides of the highway began to become shorter, and then slowly became plains with no end to see at a glance.

The cold guns and cannons that had been with the troops also became sparse because there was no hiding place on both sides of the road.

Faced with this situation, all the Japanese army's vigilance decreased and decided to seize the opportunity to have a good rest.

Behind a earth beam about two kilometers away from this area, four field cannons and 12 mountain cannons equipped by the National Salvation Army Artillery Battalion were all holding black muzzles, pointing directly to the highway directly in front of the Japanese army.

A telephone extended from the artillery position to a small mound less than 800 meters away from the Japanese army.

There are three artillery observers here. They are the eyes of the artillery battalion and directly command sixteen mountain artillery where to fire later.

There were several piles of corn straw piled up more than 500 meters in front of the Japanese vanguard, and behind it were a tank, two armored vehicles, and five modified cars.

The Cavalry Company of the Special Service Company hid behind them and prepared to cover it up together to fight out.

Ten mortars equipped by the artillery platoon of the first battalion of artillery companies and the spy company were placed at the end. More than a dozen gunners and ammunition soldiers were squatting behind each mortar, ready to carry mortars and ammunition at any time to keep up with the assault pace of the offensive troops.

Less than a kilometer behind them, the terrain changed again, and the plains on both sides of the highway turned into rolling hills again. A battalion of three infantry companies divided their troops into ambushing this hilly area, preparing to ambush the Japanese who broke through the battlefield.

When the vanguard troops were less than three hundred meters away from the platoon of the tanks, the artillery observation post moved and shouted excitedly at the microphone: "Fire the artillery..."

The artillery position more than a thousand meters away, and as soon as the word "fire of artillery" was heard from the receiver, battalion commander Tan Wei turned around and ordered the artillery position behind him: "Each gun fires five rapid fires, all fires..."

"Boom..."

Before he finished speaking, the dull sound of shelling sounded in his ears. Sixteen cannons roared in rows, and the thick gun barrels instantly spewed out a large ball of flames. The shells roared into the sky under their push.

“Woo woo woo woo…”

Colonel Watanabe soon heard the screaming sound of shells passing through the sky, and the sound quickly hit him from far to near.

"It's the shelling... the captain of the protection wing..." The captain of the guard responded quickly and rushed towards the captain of the wing wing.

The two of them fell to the ground at the same time. Before they could look up, the violent explosion sounded, trembling their ears buzzing.

Colonel Watanabe raised his head carefully. A ball of orange-red fireball that soared into the air less than 30 meters away suddenly came into view. Several soldiers were blown away and flew into the sky with the light of fire and soil...

"It's the mountain cannon! We were attacked by at least one mountain cannon brigade!" Colonel Watanabe's face quickly confessed.

He was very anxious to order his subordinates who were lying next to him: "Let our artillery troops fight back immediately, and even if they are not opponents, they must fire their guns and harass them. We must not let them attack us so unscrupulously!"

"The troops are scattered away from here immediately. As long as we rush out of the artillery fire coverage area, the mountain artillery equipped by the National Salvation Army will not do anything to us!"

Although Colonel Watanabe was very panicked, he did not lose his mind and issued several combat orders in the blink of an eye.

I also left the road under the protection of the guards.

"Boom boom boom..."

A series of different explosions suddenly rang behind Watanabe.

Under the night, the fireballs and firelight generated by the explosion were particularly dazzling.

However, the fireballs produced by this series of explosions are obviously not as large as those produced by the explosion just now, but their explosion points are more concentrated.

In just one round of artillery bombardment, almost one squad of soldiers was covered by artillery fire, and life and death were uncertain.

"It's mortars, and there are mortar positions hidden around us. Find them immediately and destroy them, and be faster..."

"Although the power of the mortar is not very strong, it has a fast firing rate and the lethality on the battlefield is not smaller than that of the mountain cannon.

"Boom boom boom..." Before Watanabe's order was finished, the second round of mortar shells had already fallen from the sky, covering another transferable infantry squad.

"Woooooooooooooo... rumble..." With the harsh roar, sixteen mountain artillery shells were also smashed down in the second round. In the splashing flames, a large number of soldiers were killed and injured...

"Boom..." Just as Colonel Watanabe was pulled by the guards to continue away from the highway, more than a dozen lamp posts suddenly popped up in front of the team, and there was also a dull engine roar.

"Don't move for now... stop..." Colonel Watanabe frowned and ordered, immediately asked the guards to come to the telescope, and looked at the location of the lamp post and the roar.

"Dadada..." The heavy machine gun on the vehicle joined the battle at this moment, and Watanabe happened to see long flames spewing out of the muzzle of the heavy machine gun.

With the help of Ye Se and the telescope, he could see clearly.

A light tank appeared from somewhere on the road, and with its headlights on it, quickly rushed towards the vanguard troops.

The light machine guns and vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns mounted on the roof were shooting all the time. The bullets were intertwined in front of the tank, forming an impenetrable bullet net, shooting the soldiers in front without mercy, and preventing the soldiers from approaching the tank...

There was an armored vehicle on each side of the tank, which seemed to be two sword guards, one followed the tank on the left and the other on the right, assaulting forward and firing.

There are five cars scattered next to the three tanks, and armored cars are not like monsters that are armored cars.

The appearance is similar to a car, and the whole body is wrapped in steel plates. The roof and co-pilot each have a machine gun, and they also assault forward while shooting.

Under the joint assault of the chariot and armed cars, the forward squadron was defeated after one contact.

Although they were equipped with two mortars that could destroy armored vehicles and armored vehicles head-on, it was too difficult to hit the targets in a short period of time, and the platoon of war vehicles did not give them a chance to fire.

An unblocked battlefield is not conducive to hiding the ambush troops, nor is it conducive to hiding the ambushed Japanese troops.

There was no shelter on the road, which led to their every move within the field of view of the chariot platoon.

When they saw a Japanese gunfire, the machine gunners who operated the heavy machine gun on the vehicle immediately pointed at them.

The effective range of the vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun exceeds one thousand meters, making it easy to knock the Japanese gunner into a sieve.

I don't know which Japanese devils led the lead. The vanguard troops, with more than half of the casualties, instantly turned into a group of defeated soldiers. They fled like a dog in the family, allowing chariots and armed cars to chase them from behind.

Colonel Watanabe gritted his teeth and cursed: "Bageya Road, the vanguard troops are a bunch of cowards. He ordered the First Battalion to block the enemy's chariots and armed cars. If they really can't stop them, they will be held back."

"The rapid-fire gun squadron immediately reinforces the past to support the First Battalion to destroy all combat vehicles and armed cars."

"Contact the troops behind to bypass the shelling area and quickly approach me. After the enemy's chariot was destroyed, we fought back on the whole line and wiped out all the enemies that ambushed us."

The Japanese army had nearly 2,000 men, plus artillery and large supplies, and the team was more than 1,000 meters long.

No matter how powerful the sixteen mountain cannons are, a round of cannonage can only threaten the three or four hundred meters long team.

Although all the sixteen mountain artillery pieces were staring at the middle of the most concentrated Japanese team, and ten mortars were staring at the front of the team firing, there were still four or five hundred people behind the team not affected by artillery fire.

Although Colonel Watanabe's order had not been passed, these Japanese devils were still quickly dispersed. Under the leadership of their respective squadron leaders and squadron leaders, they bypassed the artillery coverage area and headed straight to Colonel Watanabe's location...
Chapter completed!