The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1418 Counterattack (First Update)

"Then how can we use strategy to take down the second line of defense built by the Kwantung Army on our position halfway up the mountain?" Shi Jin asked immediately.

The entrances and exits of the tunnels on the position were blown up by the Kwantung Army, so the troops could not enter the position directly through the tunnels and launch an attack from behind the Kwantung Army.

The only way to take down their second line of defense is to attack from the front. Shi Jin can't think of any other way to break the impasse, so he can only pin his hopes on Li Yunlong.

"Let's use the tunnel..." Li Yunlong answered seriously.

"Although the tunnel entrances and exits on the position were bombed, they were not completely destroyed. There must be many tunnel entrances and exits that can be repaired."

"When Yang Song led the team to attack the first line of defense of the Kwantung Army, we could also send some troops to repair some collapsed tunnel entrances and exits under the cover of the exchange of fire, quietly enter the surface position, sneak behind the second line of defense of the Kwantung Army, and still attack them with grenades, severely damaging them."

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11pm.

The entire halfway point of the mountainside defense line was illuminated by bonfires, and the Kwantung Army would occasionally fire one or two flares into the sky to increase everyone's field of vision and prevent the Eighth Route Army from having any chance to launch a sneak attack on the defense line.

More than a thousand Kwantung Army soldiers were divided into two groups, with about two reinforced squadrons defending the first line of defense and the remaining three reinforced squadrons defending the second line of defense. The two lines of defense were forty meters apart.

After ensuring that the first line of defense was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, the Kwantung Army defending the second line of defense could immediately provide fire support to the first line of defense.

Take a thousand steps back.

Even if the Eighth Route Army managed to occupy the first line of defense by chance, as long as the Kwantung Army held the second line of defense, they could still use the existing positions to easily retake the first line of defense occupied by the Eighth Route Army after daybreak.

Despite this, the Kwantung Army on the defense line remained very vigilant.

Except for a small number of troops hiding behind bunkers to recuperate, at least half of the Kwantung Army kept their eyes wide open, staring at the direction of the high ground to prevent any sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army.

"Boom boom boom..."

The sound of several artillery shells exploding suddenly rang out on the defense line, scaring the Japanese soldiers on the position and attracting their attention.

Of course, these explosions also woke up the brigade commander who was sleeping at the foot of the mountain.

As soon as I rushed out of the tent, I saw fireballs rising from the defense line halfway up the mountain. In the splashing flames, I could even see soldiers being blown away.

The brigade commander didn't know what the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army's night attack on the halfway point of the mountain was, but he would never allow the Eighth Route Army's artillery to continue attacking the halfway point of the mountain so recklessly.

He immediately ordered the combat staff officer beside him: "Immediately find the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, prevent the artillery from counterattacking, and kill them."

"The troops stationed on the defense line should step up their alert and not allow any Eighth Route Army troops to approach our positions."

Soon the Kwantung Army artillery units joined the battle, but the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire at the mid-mountain defense line did not decrease.

Sometimes a few shells came from the east, sometimes a few shells came from the south, and even some shells came from directly behind the top of the mountain. The artillery of the Kwantung Army participating in the battle was never able to lock on to them and destroy them.

As a result, explosions continued to be heard along the mountainside defense line defended by the Kwantung Army. With the cover of these explosions, the ground about thirty meters away from the Kwantung Army's first line of defense suddenly began to loosen.

After the baffle under the soil was removed, the soil covering the surface fell into the tunnel all at once.

Tunnel entrances and exits with a diameter of about one meter then appeared on the ground.

The Kwantung Army's attention was all focused on the shells that kept falling overhead, and there were all kinds of explosions in their ears. Almost no one paid attention to the area thirty meters directly in front of them.

The area was covered with bushes and thatch, so even if a few more entrances and exits suddenly appeared, no Japanese would be able to find them.

A soldier slowly crawled out of the tunnel, and with the help of the thatched grass, he quickly crawled behind a bush.

The rifle was laid aside, ready to be fired at any moment.

He placed the grenades tied around his waist on the ground one by one and pulled out the fuses so that he could throw them out later.

Inside the tunnel, about a company of soldiers were quietly sneaking up to the Kwantung Army along the underground passage.

According to the degree of destruction of the tunnel entrances and exits, select eight openings approximately fifty meters apart and wait quietly for the final moment of attack.

"Grenade attack, get down quickly..."

A Japanese soldier suddenly saw a grenade thrown at him not far away. His eyes immediately widened, and he quickly lay on the ground with his head in his hands, shouting in disbelief.

"Boom boom boom..."

The grenade attack came too suddenly, and the Eighth Route Army did not stop its sneak attacks against them.

Under the cover of the sound of artillery shells, the Japanese's early warning sound only traveled twenty or thirty meters. Less than fifty Japanese soldiers heard it and lay on the ground together to avoid the grenades.

Most of the rest of the Kwantung Army was unaware of the danger until grenades fell from the sky and exploded near them.

But it was too late.

The flying grenade fragments quickly swept across the entire defense line and penetrated into the bodies of one Japanese soldier after another.

Before the first round of explosions was over, the second round of grenades fell from the sky, once again setting off a bloody storm.

Although many Kwantung Army soldiers lay on the ground to avoid grenade fragments, as long as the grenade hit near them, the powerful shock wave generated by the explosion could still take their lives.

After four consecutive rounds of grenade rain, Yang Song could clearly feel that the wailing sounds on the Kwantung Army's defense line had become much quieter.

This meant that many of the wounded soldiers lying on the ground were killed in the explosion, not to mention the Japanese soldiers who were intact.

"kill……"

Yang Song, holding a box gun in one hand, jumped out from behind the bushes where he was hiding and ran straight to the first line of defense which was still shrouded in smoke.

There were bonfires that had been blown up everywhere, and the flares that the Japanese in the rear fired into the sky continuously helped the Eighth Route Army to illuminate the defense line clearly.

When Yang Song got up from the ground, he saw clearly the Kwantung Army soldiers lying on the ground not far away. Many of their bodies were blown to pieces by grenades, and their internal organs, limbs and arms... were splattered everywhere.

There were still quite a few Japanese soldiers alive, but most of them were seriously injured and could only scream and crawl on the ground.

He was not polite at all to these Japs.

He raised his box gun and called out their names one by one to prevent them from rushing to their side and detonating the grenade, killing themselves along with him.

“Dong dong dong… da da da…”

Suddenly, the sound of intense light and heavy machine gun fire rang out on the second line of defense forty meters behind the Kwantung Army's first line of defense. The hot and dazzling tongues of fire were a foot long, and the rain of bullets crossed each other to form a dense firepower network, flying towards everyone.

When Yang Song saw the flames, he fell to the ground. In addition, he was prepared for the Kwantung Army's second line of defense forty meters away, so he was lucky enough to avoid the first round of bullets they fired.