Chapter 279: In the disorderly minefield, the Japanese are helpless in clearing mines!

Author: Lonely Jungle

Chapter 279: In the disorderly minefield, the Japanese are helpless in clearing mines!

"Yes, Tuanzuo."

Gu Jiaping, the communications staff officer of the 303rd Regiment of the Jinsui Army, said with a smile, and then handed the Czech Republic telegram to Xu Rui.

Xu Rui nodded, and then looked at it with a smile.

"Chief of Staff, give me a battalion of lightning!"

Xu Rui handed the finished telegram to Luo Youdu, the chief of staff across the table, and said with a smile.

"Well done! Well done! Well done!"

After Luo Youdu read the victory report, he smiled at Xu Rui and said, "I didn't expect that using the entire Mingjia Town as bait and planting mines modified with artillery shells underground in the town, and then detonating them in an instant, could actually kill so many Japs.

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"And we didn't even suffer any casualties among our soldiers. It's simply unbelievable, unbelievable, regimental seat!"

Xu Rui smiled and said: "As long as you have a sharp mind and can calculate properly."

"With the modified landmines we buried underground in Mingjia Town, it would be easy to kill two infantry brigades of Japs. It's a pity that the Japs only sent an infantry corps or so of Japs into Mingjia Town. If there were more

When one or two infantry brigades of Japanese soldiers enter Mingjia Town, the scene will be even more beautiful."

Seeing this, Luo Youdu said: "Tuanzuo, this is already pretty good."

"Not long after we started fighting, we killed a Japanese infantry brigade with zero casualties. This is definitely a face-saving thing."

Xu Rui nodded and said with a smile: "That's right! I'm just a little greedy."

"Take your time, then work piecemeal, bit by bit, to eat away at these more than 46,000 Japanese. We have plenty of time now."

Chief of Staff Luo Youdu smiled and said: "That's right!!!".

"Chen Zhenping reports!"

Luo Youdu pointed to the Czech telegram sent by a battalion commander, and then continued: "The Japanese showed no signs of retreating after losing an infantry brigade."

"Now, another infantry team has been sent into Mingjia Town to conduct a search. They are probably going to continue northward!"

Xu Rui looked at the map on the table in front of him, and then said solemnly: "Of course it is impossible that an old devil like Taro Takeshita would retreat just because an infantry brigade lost casualties in less than a few minutes."

"After all, this old devil has more than 40,000 elite devils in his hands. The casualties of an infantry brigade cannot scare this old devil!"

Luo Youdu nodded and said: "The telegram ordered Chen Zhenping to withdraw northward and return to the north bank of the Nanliu River according to the plan."

"Um!!!"

Xu Rui nodded, and then said to Gu Jiaping, the communications staff officer standing beside him: "Send the report to Chen Zhenping. Ask him to evacuate Mingjia Town according to the plan. The mines along the way will be carried out according to the pre-war plan."

"I can't believe that the Japanese army went too smoothly on its way north from Mingjia Town."

Gu Jiaping remembered Xu Rui's words and immediately stood up and saluted: "Yes, group seat!".

"Right!"

Xu Rui stopped Gu Jiaping, who was about to turn away, and said: "Send a report to the commander of the new regiment of the friendly Eighth Route Army, Li Yunlong, to report the situation in Mingjia Town."

"Understood, Tuanzuo!"

Gu Jiaping nodded, then turned around and walked aside, ordering the communications soldier to send a report immediately.

Xu Rui, on the other hand, looked at the map with solemn eyes.

Although it got off to a good start, a Japanese infantry brigade was killed at the expense of the entire Mingjia Town abandoning its defense.

However, that old Japs Takeshita Taro still has more than 45,000 Japs in his hands.

In terms of strength and military strength, they still crushed the 303rd Regiment of our own side, Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment, the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the New Regiment and the 28th Regiment combined.

Therefore, the war situation is still under great pressure.

"Tuanzu, what are you thinking about?"

At this time, seeing Xu Rui silently looking at the map with serious eyes, Chief of Staff Luo Youdu asked.

"The next battle should not be as easy as the beginning."

Xu Rui said in a condensed voice: "The old Japs, Taro Takeshita, the commander of the Japs 41st Division, are not easy to defeat. This old Japs has now gained a clear understanding of us."

"Next, I'm afraid it will be a head-to-head battle!"

Luo Youdu pointed at the map and said: "According to the pre-war plan, we will block the Japanese army across the Nanliu River for at least two or three days, so that the energy of the Japanese army can be exhausted first."

"Once it falls into a confrontation, a war of attrition, and when the Eighth Route Army's Independent Regiment and the 28th Regiment launch a surprise attack on the important town of Datongcheng in northern Shanxi, Takeshita Taro will no longer be able to divide his forces even if he doesn't want to."

"Time is very favorable to me! Even if the next battle is unfavorable, we can retreat along the road to the area north of the Xiushui River. That will have enough defense depth. Don't worry, regiment."

Hearing what Luo Youdu said, Xu Rui thought for a while, that was true.

The war has already begun, so let’s fight hard!

"Then let's see how the Japanese army slowly marches to the south bank of the Nanliu River. Hahaha!'

Xu Rui smiled and said.

"Hahaha!"

Luo Youdu knew what Xu Rui meant.

On the road surface from Mingjia Town to the entrance of Nanliujiang Shiqiao Bridge, when the First Battalion withdrew from Mingjia Town and headed north, mines would be laid along the way to delay and injure the Japanese going north.

Although not many Japs can be killed or injured, it is still very beneficial to combat the Japs' arrogance and slow down the Japs' northward speed.

And sure enough, at twelve twenty-three noon.

After a Japanese infantry team entered Mingjia Town for the second time, they returned and reported to Takeshita Taro and other Japanese soldiers that there were no explosives underground in Mingjia Town.

Taro Takeshita ordered the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 67th Infantry Regiment of the 30th Infantry Brigade of the 41st Division to be stationed in Mingjia Town, while the remaining Japanese troops continued to advance northward along the highway.

However, within three minutes of continuing north along the highway from Mingjia Town, something bad happened.

"Boom boom boom, boom boom boom!"

As bursts of explosions came from the direction of the vanguard, all the Japanese immediately crouched down and took cover, getting ready for battle.

But after Taro Takeshita sent someone to understand why the explosion occurred in front of him, he immediately frowned.

"Nani?"

Facing the Japanese staff officer who reported the cause of the explosion ahead, Taro Takeshita frowned and said, "The vanguard stepped on a landmine on the road ahead?".

"Yes, Your Majesty General!"

The Japanese staff officer nodded and said: "The leading troops were killed and injured about twenty people by mines planted by the enemy on the road."

"The troops who bypassed both sides of the road were also killed and injured several people. Your Excellency General, the enemy has laid mines along the road and within tens of meters on both sides of the road. Moreover, they are mines belonging to the Imperial Army.

.In addition, the enemy is very cunning and lays the mines in a disorderly manner. We have no way to use mortars to directly blast all the way to detonate the mines laid by the enemy along the road and on both sides, General!"

After hearing this, Major General Tada Hideki, the chief of staff of the Japanese 41st Division beside Taro Takeshita, said solemnly: "The division commander should be the 36th Division and the 41st Infantry Regiment that were captured after they were annihilated by the enemy.

Mines from the Imperial Army.”.

"Now, it's used on us."

Taro Takeshita nodded silently with a gloomy face, and then said to the staff officer who reported the situation: "Ask the engineering team to dispatch the mines along the road and both sides!".

"Yes, Your Majesty General!"

The Japanese staff officer who reported the sudden explosion in front of him paused heavily, and then immediately ran away to order the engineers in the engineering unit to clear the mines.

However, as the 1st Battalion of the 303rd Regiment retreated north, the mines laid along the road and on both sides were disorderly.

Moreover, there are still quite a few mines made by the 303rd Regiment itself, and the Japanese engineers cannot use detectors to remove the mines.

In addition, the minefields laid out on the road from Mingjia Town to the south bank of the Nanliu River and in the woods and grass within tens of meters on both sides are disorderly.

In addition, many of the landmines were made by the 303rd Regiment themselves and could not be detected with Japanese detectors.

Therefore, the Japanese engineers tried their best to clear mines, but many Japanese engineers were killed along the way.

Faced with this situation, the Japanese Engineer Regiment was extremely helpless.
Chapter completed!