my bright sword career

Chapter 125 Dilemma
"Yoshi..."

Seeing his own troops rushing towards the Huaxia Army's position, Koizumi Koizumi's face showed satisfaction, and he couldn't help saying: "Ota-kun's command ability is still good, oppressing from the front, outflanking from both sides , with the meager strength of the Chinese people, it is impossible to resist."

Ogiwara Toda also agreed: "Although the weapons of the Chinese people are not inferior to those of the imperial army, their most fatal weakness is that they are too small to withstand high-intensity attacks. It will be a matter of time before they collapse."

Whether it is Yukio Koizumi or Ogiwara Toda, they all have the confidence to win this war, and the only thing they worry about is casualties.

Seeing that the frontal attacking force had approached more than 300 meters from the first line of defense, Yukio Koizumi nodded: "That brigade is advancing very fast, as long as they cut off the barbed wire in front, they can start charging."

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, is right." Ogiwara Toda put down his binoculars and said with a smile: "I was worried that the artillery fire of the Chinese people would launch an artillery attack on the attacking troops and cause a large number of casualties, but now it seems that the artillery fire of the Chinese people seems to have no effect. That's great."

Almost at the same time, a small team leader who led the attack couldn't help but get excited when he saw the Chinese army position close at hand, and shouted loudly: "Warriors of His Majesty the Emperor, for the sake of the Great Japanese Empire, we must let the Emperor The flag of the army will always fly on the land of China, kill those China..."

It's just that the squad leader's mobilization on the battlefield was only halfway through. Before he could finish his sentence with his command saber held high, he felt as if he had tripped over something, and made a weak but crisp sound.

"Bah!"

The Japanese soldiers near the second lieutenant only saw a black, fist-sized cylinder jumping up from the ground under their second lieutenant's feet, and suddenly exploded about one meter away from the ground.

"boom……"

The team leader who was the person involved naturally also heard the explosion, and then he watched his two legs break off suddenly, and his two feet flew up with yellow-brown cowhide military boots.

He didn't see his own blood, and it didn't gush out for an instant.

Then he saw a small tree next to him being pushed down by the shock wave. He tried hard to stand up, but it was impossible. After all, the two support points no longer existed, and he was blown up by the shock wave after the mine exploded. Still holding the command knife in his hand, he flew a few meters and fell hard in the third place.

His body fell on the ground and was crushed by a POMZ anti-personnel mine. Black gunpowder smoke rose from under his body, and half of his buttocks and stomach were immediately blown away.

Only at this moment did the pain pass from his body to his head, and he let out a shrill scream. The cry hadn't finished yet, but his whole body seemed to be lifted up by a violent torrent and washed away by a huge vortex. Turn it over, and the command saber that was originally held in your hand was inserted obliquely into the grass when it fell to the ground.

"Second Lieutenant!"

Seeing this, two Japanese soldiers nearby subconsciously rushed over to help, but just after running two steps, a soldier stepped on the landmine again.

The same cylindrical object bounced from the ground and exploded one meter above the ground. Two Japanese soldiers who were almost side by side screamed and fell to the ground at the same time.

The luck of the two Japanese soldiers was much better than that of the lieutenant. At least two legs were not broken, but the screams of the two were worse than that of the lieutenant. The two who fell on the ground The screams could be heard clearly hundreds of meters away.

Writhing in pain, they covered their crotch with the same movement, and bright red blood continued to flow out from the gap between their fingers.

The tragic situation of the two stunned the nearby Japanese soldiers. The offensive formation stopped for a while, and the soldiers hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to continue the attack or go to rescue their companions.

A lieutenant walking behind couldn't help cursing angrily when he saw this: "Baga, you stupid red deer, go forward like a warrior... Keep going, you must not stay here."

Before the smoke of the landmines cleared, the squadron leader who came from behind kicked and kicked the soldiers who were standing still, and at the same time slapped the surrounding soldiers with the back of the command knife in his hand.

In this way, except for a medical soldier who heard the explosion, no one paid any attention to the soldiers who were lying on the ground and kept crying, and let them scream in pain. The unlucky second lieutenant had already stopped breathing.

Under the scolding and scolding of the lieutenant and the surrounding officers, the Japanese soldiers who re-attacked began to move forward cautiously. This time they dared not think of the unscrupulous strides just now.

They would carefully watch the grass under their feet, for fear of stepping on a landmine again. Many soldiers could still see the shattered limbs and severed intestines of the second lieutenant just now.

In the Fourth Battalion's position hundreds of meters away from the Japanese army, the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion watched this scene with their eyelids twitching. Many people only felt that their legs were shivering, and there was a chill somewhere. a feeling of.

"His grandma is a bear, this turtle son's landmine is too bad, which wicked guy with smoke made it." A soldier from Jiangxi was so surprised that he even came up with his hometown dialect.

"My darling, why don't you change the name of this thing to Duanzi Juesun Lei?" The third company commander Ma Zhanfu also saw the power of this kind of landmine for the first time, and his expression was not much better than that of the soldiers around him.

Some of the soldiers who planted the landmines with their own hands even peeped at each other, a little unbelievable that they really made this thing.

In fact, what they don't know is that the kind of landmine that jumps up is the S-type landmine invented by Germany, nicknamed "Bouncing Betty".

The entire mine is a steel cylinder less than 13 centimeters high (excluding sensors) and less than 10 centimeters in diameter.A protruding steel rod from the upper part of the mine surrounds the main fuze, which is connected with an trigger switch or sensor.

Once triggered, the mine catapults waist-high before exploding, sending shotgun shells horizontally at deadly speed.

To put it bluntly, this kind of landmine is not designed to kill people, its main purpose is to kill the lower body of unprotected personnel.

According to research, killing a soldier of the opponent in battle can only result in the loss of one soldier in the battle, but if a soldier is wounded, the opponent will have at least two people to take care of him, so the combat efficiency is better than killing him directly. Death is much higher.

Considering that the number of Japanese troops attacking this time was too large, Gao Hongming asked people to set up barbed wire in front of the position last night, and planted about 5500 anti-infantry mines, including more than 3000 Bouncing Betty mines.

It is said that the first Allied forces to encounter S-type mines were French soldiers in the sit-down battle. Today, the Japanese also enjoy the same treatment as French soldiers.

"You are a bunch of cowards, fools, hurry up and act like a man of the Great Japanese Empire."

The Huaxia soldiers on the opposite position still did not shoot, but the Japanese soldiers who were attacked by landmines obviously did not dare to make strides forward as before.

Seeing this, the squadron leader walking in the middle of the line cursed loudly at the soldiers who were advancing cautiously, while pushing and kicking them hard to make them run.

"If you don't speed up your progress, don't blame me for being rude to you." The lieutenant, waving his command knife, cursed loudly.

This kind of squadron leader is very anxious. Now they are less than 100 meters away from the barbed wire fence, which is also the most dangerous place. If they can't cut off the barbed wire as soon as possible and rush in, the longer they stay here, the more dangerous it will be.

"bump……"

At this moment, a clear gunshot sounded in front, and a Japanese soldier walking behind the lieutenant fell on his back, and then a burst of gunfire sounded like tearing tarpaulin. The Japanese soldiers in front fell to the ground like cutting wheat.

And the moment the gunshot rang out, the lieutenant immediately sprinted to the side, and the whole person sprinted into a depression on the right like a nimble mouse.

At this time, a layer of cold sweat even oozes from his back. He knows that the shot just now was actually aimed at him, but he unintentionally took a step to the left when the shot was fired, and the Japanese soldiers behind him took the place. He got shot.

"Charge quickly...damn idiot...you only need to charge up to survive!" The frightened lieutenant drew out his command knife and swung it forward, screaming frantically.

The 41st Division was indeed well-trained. After being suddenly attacked, they began to run forward frantically, ignoring the landmines under their feet.

They understand that, as the lieutenant said, staying here can only lead to a dead end.

But not far away, another series of explosions, this is a series of mines, more than a dozen bouncing Betty colleagues jumped up and exploded, dozens of Japanese soldiers were blown to the ground by the jumping mines, Japanese soldiers whose lower bodies were blown to death The soldier covered his lower body and let out a horrific cry.

The Japanese commander was also furious, ignoring the wailing Japanese soldiers on the ground, and still waving his command knife to drive the soldiers forward. The soldiers of this squadron almost rushed forward stepping on land mines. When they finally came to the barbed wire fence At that time, there were only more than 70 people left in a squadron that was originally full of people.

But before they got to the front and back of the barbed wire, they hadn't had time to be happy, the machine gun bullets from the opposite side swept over like water, and swept the two soldiers who picked up the big scissors to cut off the barbed wire to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, one after another mortar shells also flew over and landed in the ranks of the Japanese army. The density was almost comparable to hail. In just five or six minutes, there was no one who could stand in front of the barbed wire fence. Soldier.

The gunshots stopped and the smoke cleared. Even though it was already summer, the June sun seemed to have no warmth on the land.

In front of the barbed wire fence, there are scattered corpses and broken limbs flying everywhere. This scene is no different from the hell described by Western religious personnel.

Yukio Koizumi, who was a few miles away, saw clearly through the binoculars. He was silent for a long time, and he couldn't believe that a squadron full of people was gone just like that.

It's not that he has never fought, nor has he never seen dead people. He has seen more battlefields than this, but in less than 10 minutes, a squadron disappeared like this. He is still the first See you once.

This is a whole squadron. As usual, a squadron would have nothing to lose against a battalion of the Central Army of China, but today they all fell in front of the barbed wire, and most of them didn't even have a single shot. In time to open.

A breeze blew from the opposite side, Koizumi Yukio could even smell the strong smell of blood in the wind.

It took him a long time before he gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice: "Damn the Chinese, they actually planted landmines in front of the camp."

Chief of Staff Ogiwara Toda knew that Yukio Koizumi was angry not because the Chinese planted landmines in front of the positions, but because those landmines were so vicious that they rushed to greet people in Xiasanlu.

Under the extreme bushido education, Japanese soldiers are not too afraid of death, but this does not mean that they are willing to lose their lifeblood.

No matter how fierce and extreme a person is, he can't face the loss of his life without changing his face. Once this thing is gone, what's the fun of being a human being? Not everyone is willing to be a eunuch.

"Your Excellency, Commander, do we want the No.60 Seventh Regiment to continue to attack?" Ogiwara Toda asked quietly.

"No!"

Yukio Koizumi shook his head, "The mines of the Chinese people are too dense, and it is unrealistic for the soldiers to cut the barbed wire with scissors under the fire of machine guns. Immediately order the field artillery squadron to aim at the positions of the Chinese people The forward bombardment lasted for 10 minutes, and the infantry launched an attack after the minefield was cleared."

"Hi!"

Following Yukio Koizumi's order, the Field Artillery Regiment's position, which had been silent for a long time, began to roar again.

"Tuan Zuo, the little devil is clearing mines with artillery fire!"

"I saw it." Gao Hongming snorted softly: "I didn't expect that the devil, who has always been stingy, would be willing to do such an extravagant thing, but I'm afraid it won't be possible to clear the minefield if I don't use two or three base ammunition. Bar?"

After thinking for a while, he said to himself: "You can't let the little devil clear the landmines so easily...Come here... Let's also raise the scout balloons. I want to see how many artillery positions the little devil has."

Soon, a huge balloon rose a few miles behind Qixia Pass.

This time, both warring parties raised scouting balloons, and the two sides stared at each other more than ten miles apart.
"Your Excellency, division commander, the Chinese people have also raised scout balloons, and they are also observing our artillery positions!" Ogiwara Toda shouted.

"Ba Ga, Lu..."

Koizumi Koizumi's eyes were red with anger, these Chinese people are so difficult to deal with, now he is in a dilemma.

If the Field Artillery Wing continues to fire, the artillery positions will be exposed soon. If they don't fire, they won't clear the minefields. It's really a dilemma.

(End of this chapter)