The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

"Da da da……"

The sound of machine gun fire suddenly rang out at a tunnel entrance right in front of them, and two Kwantung Army soldiers who were about to approach were instantly shot to pieces.

The other Japanese soldiers around quickly lay down, fearing that more bullets would fly out from inside.

"Prepare grenades... blow up the entrances and exits and bury the enemy inside..." The Japanese team leader gave the order with an angry face. He did not expect that the battle was about to end and he had lost two of his subordinates inexplicably. He immediately vented his anger on the Eighth Route Army in the tunnel and decided to bury them inside the tunnel.

"Boom boom..."

Three consecutive explosions were heard from the tunnel entrance, and gunpowder smoke mixed with dust poured out from the tunnel entrance. The hole, about one meter high, was blown down at the same time.

Faced with this result, the team leader looked much better, but the anger suppressed in his heart had not yet been completely vented. He continued to order: "Throw a few more grenades to completely block the hole and suffocate the enemy to death in the anti-artillery hole..."

The same battle took place in many places on the battlefield.

But what surprised the Japanese was that it seemed as if the entrances and exits of the tunnels on the battlefield and the Eighth Route Army were endlessly bombed.

The opening in front had just been destroyed, and the Eighth Route Army hiding inside seemed to have been buried.

Before the group of Japanese soldiers had time to be happy, there was a burst of gunfire behind them. The bullets penetrated into their backs in a fan shape, taking away several days' work in just a moment.

Machine gun fire is relatively not that dangerous.

What they are most worried about is the grenades that appear out of nowhere.

With a loud "boom..." explosion, all the surrounding soldiers were blown to the ground. Many times, one grenade could kill half of the soldiers in a squad.

As the fight went on, the Japanese captain realized that something was wrong.

He felt that the anti-artillery holes dug by the Eighth Route Army on their positions must have some unknown secrets.

After more than ten minutes, we had destroyed at least thirty or forty holes.

If each opening was connected to an anti-artillery hole, it meant that the attacking troops had destroyed thirty or forty anti-artillery holes of the Eighth Route Army.

There were four or five Eighth Route Army soldiers hiding in one anti-artillery cave, and more than two hundred Eighth Route Army soldiers were killed just by destroying these anti-artillery caves.

But according to intelligence, there were not so many Eighth Route Army soldiers on the defense line.

There is only one possibility.

There is a secret about the anti-artillery cave under your feet. Although everyone destroyed the entrance and exit of the cave, they did not bury the Eighth Route Army inside.

He decided to take down a bomb-proof hole to see what unknown secrets were hidden inside.

"Da da da……"

Three light machine guns were pointed at a tunnel entrance and fired continuously. The bullets whizzed into the hole and then penetrated into the surrounding soil as if they were free.

More than a dozen Kwantung Army soldiers took the opportunity to reach the edge of the cave entrance.

He took out a grenade and threw it hard into the cave entrance, praying that the cave entrance would not collapse.

"boom……"

The explosion came from inside the cave entrance, and it did not collapse and no screams were heard, which meant that there was no danger inside the cave.

"Continue to attack..."

Looking at the cave entrance completely covered by smoke, the captain was a little worried, but in order to resolve the doubts in his mind, he still insisted on letting his subordinates charge in.

More than a dozen men rushed into the tunnel one after another, and the three light machine guns providing fire cover stopped firing at the same time.

Most anti-artillery holes have an end, the shallowest is four or five meters, the deepest is more than ten meters. But the tunnel under the devil's feet seemed to have no end, and as they walked, they unexpectedly found a fork in the road.

The leading Japanese soldier was completely confused and didn't know what to choose. Suddenly, a gunshot rang out right in front of him.

The powerful penetrating ability of the Type 38 rifle played a huge role here. One bullet killed three Kwantung Army soldiers in succession before losing kinetic energy and stopping on the body of the last Japanese soldier.

And this was just an appetizer prepared for them by the Eighth Route Army.

"Damn it, there are grenades on the road...scatter and hide..."

A cry of surprise suddenly sounded in the middle of the team. The Japanese soldier who first discovered the grenade subconsciously ran back and lay on the ground to avoid the flying fragments produced by the explosion of the grenade.

But the tunnel was too narrow and there were people blocking the way behind him, so he couldn't make enough space to lie down. In a hurry, he could only squat on the ground with his head in his hands, exposing the soldiers behind him to the grenade, and then watch the grenade explode beside him without being able to do anything.

"boom……"

The explosion soon sounded in the tunnel, and a total of four Kwantung Army soldiers were killed or injured.

Seven of the ten Kwantung Army soldiers who had just entered the tunnel were killed in an instant, leaving only three soldiers with terrified faces alive.

They were frightened by the smell of blood and gunpowder in the air.

Thinking that the sergeant in charge had been killed in the explosion, he immediately lost the courage to move forward and turned around and ran back.

"Snapped……"

The familiar sound of gunfire rang out again, and the two Kwantung Army soldiers running behind fell down less than ten meters away from the cave entrance.

In the end, only one Kwantung Army soldier managed to escape from the tunnel.

"Bageyalu, why are you the only one who came out? Where are the others? What happened in the cave just now? Why were there gunshots and explosions..."

Unable to see that he still hadn't recovered from the fear, he slapped him twice in the face.

"Calm down..."

"Tell me everything you just saw right now. The more you believe it, the better..."

"Sir, we've been fooled..." This was the first sentence the soldier said when faced with the captain's questioning.

"What we are facing is not a blast hole, but a tunnel fortification..."

"After we went in, we couldn't see the end at all. The Eighth Route Army had dug a lot of tunnels inside. The fortifications and tunnels were all connected by tunnels. The Eighth Route Army hid in the dark of the tunnels and attacked us. They only used two bullets and a grenade to kill and injure nine of us..."

"We absolutely cannot go down any further, otherwise the casualties of our troops will increase, even exceeding our casualties on the ground..."

Although the captain did not enter the tunnel, he had brains.

After a little thought, he found out from his subordinates' reports what the so-called tunnel fortifications were, and a picture of the tunnel fortifications appeared in front of him.

The more he thought about it, the more serious his expression became. Then he ordered, "You are right. Before we come up with a way out, we must not rush into the tunnel and die."

"Order: Immediately use machine guns to block all the tunnel entrances and exits we have discovered..."

"No Eighth Route Army troops are allowed to enter or leave, and our troops cannot rush in rashly."

"I will report this matter to the brigade commander in person, and ask him for instructions on the next combat plan..."

"Just now, the number of soldiers killed or wounded on the Eighth Route Army's defense line has reached two squadrons. We cannot lose any more, otherwise the entire battalion will be wiped out." (End of this chapter)