Because the Japanese army responded so quickly, there was not much time left for Wang Xiaoming to prepare. However, after years of hard training in his guerrilla career, Wang Xiaoming had already begun preparations after leaving the main force led by Liu Changshun. [.Com text]
Although due to time constraints, the deployment was not very complete. However, because many of the Japanese army's original fortifications could be used, the link of building blocking fortifications was omitted. Before the arrival of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, the general preparations had been completed.
Wang Xiaoming seized the 500 mines Liu Changshun left for him from Xingshan Fortress. All the Japanese-style mines originally laid after the construction of the fortress was completed were buried on the road from Xingshan Street into the mountain to the front of Guanmenzuizi Mountain.
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Even in order to increase the power of the mines, when laying them out, Wang Xiaoming tied grenades and bullets to the mines to increase the power of the explosion.
Wang Xiaoming, who had listened to Yang Zhen's lecture to the reconnaissance camp, did not follow the routine of laying landmines in front of his own position. Instead, he adopted a method of laying landmines that were both false and true, starting from the moment the road entered the mountain.
Deployment. He placed mines on the roads and in the mountains on both sides of the roads where it was easy to walk.
In addition to landmines, Wang Xiaoming was also at the foot of a hill a kilometer away from his main position. As the only slightly wider open space nearby, Wang Xiaoming believed that it could be used as a gathering place for the Japanese attack.
, nearly two tons were buried, and electric detonators were installed, which can be used to detonate explosives using field telephones as power sources.
Although Wang Xiaoming had not mentioned Yang Zhen's shocking explosion at the Wudaohezi Iron Mine, he had heard of it. He did not fire a single shot and only used part of the captured explosives to annihilate the thousand-day puppet army.
Fighting has always fascinated Wang Xiaoming. Although the terrain in front of him is not as dangerous as the Wudaolingzi Iron Mine, it also makes Wang Xiaoming feel that he can repeat the commander's tactics here.
Anyway, the Japanese army transported several tons of ammonium nitrate explosives to build the Xingshan Fortress. Although it is not as powerful as the military-standard TNT explosive, the good news is that the quantity is sufficient. It is not about making artillery shells. The explosive power of ammonium nitrate explosives for building the fortress is sufficient. There is no solid one.
For fortifications, there is no need to use the few TNTs that I have on hand, which are powerful but relatively expensive.
Although the layout was a bit hasty, especially since there were no professional engineers, no one could calculate the intervals between the points where the explosives were buried and the buried yield. After all, these required extremely professional engineering knowledge. But fortunately, the number of explosives was sufficient.
Wang Xiaoming's painstaking arrangements were not in vain. All the efforts were used on the 3rd Cavalry Brigade that was galloping all the way. Before the attack could be launched, the leading troops of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade suffered heavy casualties as soon as they entered the mountain.
The quality of the military highway built by the Japanese army was quite good. After crossing the Songhua River, it only took half a day to arrive at Xingshan Street, south of Xingshan Fortress. The journey was quite smooth. The enemy was recaptured without firing a single shot.
After the well-fortified Xingshan Street, Major General Naoda Yoshi, who had been a little uneasy along the way, relaxed.
In his opinion, maybe the opponent retreated because they were unable to defend the fortress after occupying the fortress. Otherwise, according to military common sense, if you want to defend the Xingshan Fortress from the south, you must defend it. Xingshan Street, which is the outpost of the fortress, except
Outside of the collapsed coal mines everywhere, there is not even a shadow of a ghost.
Major General Naoda Yoshi breathed a sigh of relief before he could relax. After entering the mountain, he realized that his hard days were coming. As soon as he entered the mountain, the leading cavalry squadron was trapped in a mine formation and was killed.
Landmines exploded everywhere, killing and injuring most of the squadron.
Naoda Yoshi, who lost most of his squadron without firing a single shot, looked at the dead men and horses lying on the ground, and his face instantly turned livid. At this time, almost one-sixth of the few troops he had on hand were lost in one go.
.Looking at the vast surrounding mountains, Naoda Yoshi felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.
Sending cavalry, which is more suitable for plain assault operations, to fight in mountain warfare is to use your own shortcomings to counter the opponent's strengths. Now that the opponent has mines, and you don't even have an engineer on hand, the outcome of this battle may not be good.
After asking Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru several times whether to wait for the arrival of the 104th Division, Major General Naoda Yoshi could only bite the bullet and order the troops to dismount and leave all the horses in Xingshan after entering the mountain to no avail.
Street. Everyone formed a formation and walked into the mountain.
But what happened next was not optimistic. Although they voluntarily gave up their war horses and switched to infantry, the mines laid by their opponents were almost endless. There were mines on the highway, in the mountains on both sides of the highway, and even in the bushes on both sides of the road.
There are even some trip mines with grenades attached to them and hung in the bushes in inconspicuous places. They look harmless, but if you walk inside, they might explode.
The most exaggerated one was a Japanese soldier who was in need of urination and ran to the side of the road to urinate. Although he was very careful, he still tripped a trip mine buried with a grenade tied in the grass beside the road. Not only did he get blown up
He also implicated several combat groups who were marching behind him. The grenades that exploded in the air and shrapnel flying in all directions turned these Japanese soldiers into hedgehogs.
Fortunately, the formation was very open. Although there were not many Japanese soldiers who won the lottery and the marching speed was very slow, the overall casualties were reduced a lot. But even so, the soldiers who were injured and killed by landmines along the way plus the soldiers who had just marched
Most of the squadron suffered casualties when they entered the mountain, enough to make up a squadron.
Fortunately, after arriving at the front line of Guanmenzuizi Mountain, no one finally stepped on the strange and strange landmines planted everywhere. Looking at Guanmenzuizi Mountain, which was less than a kilometer away from me in a straight line, almost all the mines were buried in the ground.
The faces of the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, who were almost going crazy after being tortured by landmines, showed expressions of relief at last.
Almost all the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade believed that being killed by bullets was better than being blown to pieces or maimed by a loaded mine that appeared at some point. They were almost so weirdly buried by these mines that they even urinated on them.
It can lay down dangerous mines to torture and is about to collapse.
It's just that all the Japanese officers and soldiers of the Third Cavalry Brigade did not know that their opponent and the reconnaissance platoon under his opponent who planted these mines only learned less than 30% of the skills of their top commander.
If the opponent's top commander, who had learned how to lay booby traps decades later, came, it would be good if half of them could reach Guanmenzuizi Mountain safely with their small force.
You must know that the later Chinese squadron, which experienced mine warfare in the Anti-Japanese War and the mine warfare in the ten-year border war between China and Vietnam, claimed to be second in the tactics of laying booby traps. Absolutely no one would dare to claim to be first. Especially
It is Yang Zhen who has specially learned special minelaying tactics. His unique skills are definitely the best in this world and this era.
If Yang Zhen saw these so-called booby traps arranged by Wang Xiaoming that were full of flaws in his eyes, he would have to scold him for embarrassing himself.
Just hang the trip mine in an inconspicuous place in the bushes, and just do a little camouflage. Is this also called a booby trap? After burying the mine on the hillside, it is not necessary to cover the mine with a fresh layer of
Just make some disguise.
This was also the first attempt. The inexperienced Japanese army would not even be able to step on one if it were Yang Zhen himself. How about losing an entire cavalry squadron?
Of course, Yang Zhen thought that the booby trap deployed by Wang Xiaoming from the beginning of entering the mountain to the front line of Guanmenzuizi Mountain was embarrassing for him. That was a matter later. But at this moment, the officers and soldiers of the third cavalry brigade were still intact, from Naoda Yoshi to
The most ordinary soldier below breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking through the telescope at Menmenzuizi Mountain, which is less than a kilometer away from him, Major General Naoda Yoshi knew that as long as he passed this mountain pass, his destination, the core position of Xingshan Fortress, would be behind him. As long as he captured the position of Mountain Line,
, my task should be considered completed.
Looking at the tired look on his face, in order to avoid winning the bid, because the skirmishing line was wide open and his subordinates were still arriving one after another. Major General Naoda Yoshi could only find a slightly flat terrain to regroup first. The troops were walking in a mess.
With the artillery still jumping around behind, it was impossible to launch an attack or defend.
However, for the sake of reliability, Major General Naoda Yoshi did not immediately move his troops to the flat land. Instead, after the only artillery squadron carrying horses among the troops that had been converted to infantry arrived, he drove all the horses pulling the artillery.
He ran several laps on the flat land. After confirming that there were no mines, he deployed his headquarters and troops there as a starting point for the attack.
However, Major General Naoda Yoshi, who was busy organizing his troops, did not know that there were indeed no landmines here and that it was outside the main fire range of Mengmenzuizi Mountain. Moreover, there was a small hill separated from Mengmenzuizi Mountain, which blocked the opponent's artillery fire and looked very dangerous.
In a safe place, there are explosives buried in the ground that can blow up their entire brigade.
In fact, not far away from him, even under the security position he had set up, Wang Xiaoming, who was carefully observing his movements with a telescope, looked at his actions of organizing his troops, with an imperceptible sly smile on his lips.
The sly smile on his lips made his hair stand on end. The platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon, who was holding a field phone used as a detonator in his hand, asked softly when he saw that most of the Japanese troops had entered the open area:
"Political Commissar, is it ready to explode?"
Wang Xiaoming, who was holding a telescope, said calmly: "Don't worry, the Japanese haven't all entered the open ground yet. Wait a while, I will stew them all with a spoon this time. It's a pity that there are only two squadrons, one
The artillery squadron is a little short of people. It would be great if there were a group of Japanese soldiers."
If Wang Xiaoming was a little dissatisfied, the reconnaissance platoon leader didn't know what to say. Two squadrons of Japanese troops were too few? If it were a head-on fight, a real fight would be fought. He, the political commissar Wang, didn't want to think about it because he was only a battalion in strength.
, coupled with the independent companies put together by miscellaneous prisoners of war, with the existing equipment, it is already good to be able to take down a squadron of the opponent.
He also thought that in the battle at Qunce Mountain, his side had an absolute advantage in artillery cover.
But since commander Wang Xiaoming was not in a hurry, what did his subordinates have to worry about? The two of them slowly waited here for all the Japanese troops who were still rushing here to enter the open area. They sat down on a stone to rest.
Major General Tian Ji stood up and stood in front of the assembled Japanese troops. Just when he was giving a lecture, Wang Xiaoming waved his hand slowly.
After tons of explosives were detonated, the open area where a large number of Japanese troops had just concentrated almost turned into a hell on earth. When Major General Naoda Yoshi was torn into pieces by the violent explosion, the only thought that stayed in his mind was: "Baga
, I still fell into the Chinese people’s trick.”
Major General Naoda Yoshi and his main force of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade were completely wiped out. However, the small team and heavy machine gun team placed on the guard position on the hill had not yet woken up from the shock caused by the explosion.
, was hidden at the foot of the mountain. The defenders suddenly appeared and swept across with a burst of submachine guns, killing and wounding the remains. Wang Xiaoming wiped out the main force of the Japanese cavalry third brigade with almost zero casualties.
Although the Japanese 3rd Cavalry Brigade was neatly eliminated in one move, the 108th Regiment that arrived later saw the broken limbs and broken arms at the explosion site. Not only was it not beaten like the Fourth Division,
He was so frightened that he retracted, but he launched a thunderstorm-like attack in revenge, which made Wang Xiaoming really feel the tremendous pressure.
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