If more than a hundred landmines were buried on a narrow road and a Japanese army happened to pass by, the lethality would still be considerable. However, if these more than a hundred landmines were distributed over a vast area of nearly four square kilometers, Inside, the density is very pitiful. There is only one landmine in an average of 40,000 square meters!
To put it more bluntly, there is only one landmine within a range of 2oo meters * 2oo meters. What effect can it have
Of course, when the independent regiment laid landmines, they were not evenly distributed within an area of nearly four square kilometers. The distribution of more than a hundred landmines and corresponding sawdust piles was still focused. Relatively speaking, outside the U-shaped entrance of Yematan There are more mines distributed on the circular line, but the mines inside are relatively sparse.
This was done, of course, so that the coalfield would burn from the outside of the mouth first, and then spread inside.
As a result, when the little devil tries to escape when he realizes something is wrong, he has no way to escape!
Therefore, the explosion of more than a hundred landmines did not cause substantial damage to the Kawaguchi Detachment. At best, it caused some confusion to the Kawaguchi Detachment, especially the artillery wing that fell behind and had not had time to enter Yematan. , the more than 100 draft horses responsible for pulling the artillery were greatly frightened, and immediately began to scream and jump wildly, and even overturned two artillery pieces. One of the overturned artillery pieces crushed a Japanese to death.
Kawaguchi Heiji was also startled by the sudden explosion.
When I looked back hurriedly, I saw explosions at many places on Yema Beach, and after each explosion, a fire was set off. The raging flames almost turned red in most of the night sky. Kawaguchi Heiji roughly estimated After a while, there were almost more than a hundred fires, but the actual damage seemed to be limited, which meant it looked scary.
"Baga, mines?" Heiji Kawaguchi gritted his teeth and said, "Cunning Chinese people!"
"Compression mines and chain mines can also catch fire. It seems that most of them are mines modified from sulfur bombs!" Tatsuya Yongjin said solemnly, "Your Excellency, Commander, it seems that there is a blasting expert in the China Army. Such a complex mine array can actually be designed. Fortunately, the China Army's mine array did not explode the imperial army."
It’s no wonder that Yong Jinda is also imaginative, because this is Xu Rui’s careful design.
The 1st Infantry Brigade, the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the two squadrons of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Kawaguchi Detachment had all passed there without stepping on the mines. Only the artillery regiment stepped on the mines when passing through Yematankou. It is inevitable to give people the impression that the independent regiment laid pressure mines. The infantry did not hit the mines because they were light. The artillery vehicles hit the mines because of their heavy weight. Then, one mine exploded, detonating more surrounding mines. A series of explosions.
Because the mine explosion ignited the sawdust mixed with gasoline and started to catch fire, Yong Jinda took it for granted that the independent regiment's landmines were modified from sulfur bombs.
Kawaguchi Heiji was still a little confused at first, but he was relieved after Nagashin Tatsuya said this.
"Baga." Kawaguchi Heiji said in a ferocious voice, "Xu Rui is too naive to think that he can stop the imperial army with this little trick. He ordered the artillery regiment not to be affected, enter Yematan immediately, and then use the fastest speed to It launched a large-scale artillery attack on the Dameishan Independent Regiment opposite the burning zone."
After a pause, Kawaguchi Heiji said again: "This time, I also want to let the Dameishan Independent Regiment taste the taste of being bombarded by the imperial army's artillery. I want to add the Chinese army to the imperial army in the battle of Xiaolizhuang." Returning all the humiliations on your body to the Chinese army is called repaying them in their own way, hum!"
"Hai." Yongjin Tatsuya paused slightly, and immediately ordered the communications troops to go and convey the order to the artillery regiment.
Kawaguchi Heiji then said: "Eongjin-san, by the way, give another order to the 1st Infantry Battalion. Let them not waste time building fortifications. Let them seize the time to eat and build up their strength. If nothing unexpected happens, block the wild horses. This burning zone on the beach will only last for half an hour at most. After half an hour, the 1st Infantry Battalion can cross the burning zone and launch a general attack on the remaining soldiers of the Dameishan Independent Regiment. However, it is conceivable that the Dameishan Independent Regiment will fight even if it is trapped. The explosive power cannot be underestimated, so the 1st Infantry Battalion must maintain sufficient physical strength."
"Hai, your Excellency, Commander, is clear." Yongjin Tatsuya paused again.
Until this time, Kawaguchi Heiji and Nagashin Tatsuya didn't realize that the Kawaguchi detachment was actually in danger. In ten minutes at most, the hundreds of burning points outside Yema Beach would spread. Waiting for these more than a hundred When the burning points converged into a line and completely sealed the U-shaped exit of the entire river beach, the Kawaguchi detachment was unable to escape.
Kawaguchi Heiji and Nagajin Tatsuya had not realized the danger until this moment. This does not mean that these two old devils must be stupid, nor is it that they are too careless. It is because Xu Rui's thinking is too unconstrained. , the attack methods he came up with have exceeded the imagination limits of the two old devils.
In short, Kawaguchi Heiji never believed that the Dameishan Independent Regiment was capable of eating his Kawaguchi detachment in one go. Kawaguchi Heiji was more willing to believe that the attacks the Japanese army encountered along the way were all designed by Xu Rui in advance to deal with the Japanese who took the bait. Of the troops, it’s just that the entire Kawaguchi detachment is now taking the bait, but it has already exceeded the limit of the Dameishan Independent Regiment. Naturally, the Dameishan Independent Regiment has self-defeated and brought the situation to the current endgame.
Kawaguchi Heiji leaned his saber on the ground and said coldly: "Hmph, I want to see what kind of tricks Xu Rui can use to solve the current situation."
Yongjin Tatsuya said: "Except for continuing to delay, Xu Rui may have nothing to do."
"Delaying time?" Kawaguchi Heiji said coldly, "Let's see how long he can delay."
At the moment, the two old Japanese soldiers said nothing more and waited calmly for the artillery regiment to come up.
Five minutes later, the artillery regiment's 34 75mm-caliber field howitzers had been pulled to Yema Beach. The remaining two field howitzers were due to the artillery truck rolling over. It took the Japanese artillerymen a long time to turn the artillery truck over again. Some time, so behind, it will take at least five minutes to arrive.
However, Kawaguchi Heiji didn't care about this. There didn't seem to be much difference between 34 artillery pieces and 36 pieces. The cluster bombardment of 34 field howitzers was enough to smash the independent regiment huddled at the head of Mustang Beach into rubbish.
The artillery regiment quickly deployed after entering Yematan and began to build artillery positions on the spot.
Kawaguchi Heiji watched the artillerymen setting up their artillery for a while. He turned his head inadvertently and was suddenly stunned because he saw a vague fire out of the corner of his eye!
When I looked back hurriedly, the fire was gone.
Damn it! Kawaguchi Heiji muttered, rubbed his eyes, and when he took a closer look, the looming flame appeared again. It was at the explosion point where the previous mine exploded. The explosion of the mine at that time caused a fire, and the fire continued. It burned for about five or six minutes before it finally went out.
To figure it out, Kawaguchi Heiji closed his eyes and then opened them again.
After opening his eyes again, he unexpectedly found that the flame was gone again.
Now Kawaguchi Heiji felt a little embarrassed. Could it be that he encountered a will-o'-the-wisp
At that moment, Kawaguchi Heiji asked Nagashin Tatsuya: "Egjin-san, did you see a fire?"
"A ball of fire?" Tatsuya Yongjin turned around and said blankly, "Your Excellency, Commander, it's not a ball, it's a fire."
"Baga, I'm not talking about the burning belt in front, I'm talking about the five o'clock direction behind you, where a landmine exploded just now." Kawaguchi Heiji said, pointing to the previous landmine explosion point, and then Said, "There, right there, five o'clock."
Nagajin Tatsuya looked in the direction of Kawaguchi Heiji's finger, and then he really saw a ball of fire.
"Your Excellency, Commander, there really is a fire." Tatsuya Nagajin said, "That's strange. Wasn't the fire caused by the mine just extinguished? Why did it start burning again?"
As he spoke, the looming flame became very clear and started to grow louder.
"Yongjin-san, come over and see what's going on?" Kawaguchi Heiji hadn't finished speaking, but he had already walked over there first. I don't know why, but a strong uneasiness was coming from him. His heart arose, so he had to immediately figure out what was going on with this flame that appeared for no reason.
After a while, Kawaguchi Heiji and Nagashin Tatsuya walked near the flame.
In fact, we were still at least ten meters away from the flame, but we could no longer go any further because the scorching heat wave was spreading out from the center of the flame. If we went any further, our head and eyebrows would be scorched. , but even from ten meters away, it was enough for Kawaguchi Heiji to clearly see the huge radius of the flame.
The burning radius of this flame is more than ten meters. It was only because of the obstruction of the rocky beach just now that the flames appeared looming from the direction where they were standing. In fact, this fire was already very strong. Kawaguchi Heiji and Nagashin Tatsu Standing more than ten meters away, I saw that the center of the flame was already so red that it could blind someone!
"Baga, what's going on?" Kawaguchi Heiji couldn't help being shocked after seeing it clearly.
Yongjin Tatsuya and the dozen combat staff officers and guards following behind him also looked at each other in confusion.
Yongjin Tatsuya said in a dream: "What a ghost. Even if the China Army's mines were modified with sulfur bombs, the fuel should have been exhausted after such a long time. Why are they still burning, and they are still burning?" The ground also nodded? When did the sulfur bombs of the Japanese Empire become so powerful that they can even burn the ground?"
"Ground?" Kawaguchi Heiji suddenly thought of something and shouted wildly, "Ground fire!" (To be continued.)