The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

The instructor's eyes lit up and he said, "It's true..."

"The Kwantung Army didn't know whether the tunnels on the positions were dug through, and they rushed into the defense line rashly. We suddenly rushed out of those tunnels, fired a round of fierce attacks, and then retreated into the tunnels. We will definitely be able to kill a lot of Japanese soldiers."

"battalion commander……"

"I will lead a company to the dozen tunnels ahead."

"Although the time we had to repair the fortifications just now was very short, considering that it was the forefront of the defense line, I deployed most of my troops there to repair the positions. We have already dug through seven or eight tunnels."

"Including the ones that have been dug out before, there are about twenty of them, which is just the right amount of troops for a company."

Without waiting for Yang Song to nod, he turned around and went into a tunnel not far away, commanding at the same time: "Company 3, follow me..."

"Bring more grenades and hand grenades..."

"Take all the light machine guns that were just captured from the Kwantung Army, and make sure that every tunnel entrance and exit has a machine gun to provide fire cover..."

"Others used grenades and hand grenades to deal with the Japs."

Seeing the instructor running so fast, Yang Song couldn't help but flash a bitter smile on his face.

He knew that the instructor was thinking of him and taking away the more dangerous task to prevent himself, the battalion commander, from getting into any accidents on the battlefield.

To know……

Although the twenty-odd tunnels that the instructor was about to defend were not many, they were located on the route that the Kwantung Army's attacking troops had to pass through.

The Kwantung Army's attacking forces could enter the defense line only by crossing those tunnels, and continuing to attack the dozens of tunnels they were about to defend would make them particularly vulnerable to exposure and danger.

Seeing the instructor disappear in the temporary command center in the blink of an eye without giving Yang Song a chance to speak, Yang Song knew that the instructor had made up his mind and nothing he said could change his decision, so he immediately gave orders to his subordinates.

"Comrades... The instructor and the Third Company have taken the most dangerous mission, and we can't fall behind..."

"Take the grenades, hand grenades, and all the light machine guns that have just been seized, and enter the position immediately..."

"Even if we cannot completely wipe out the attacking forces of the Kwantung Army, we must tear off a piece of fat meat from them and let the Kwantung Army know that the positions defended by our Eighth Route Army are not something they can take away just because they want to."

“If you want to capture these positions, you must be prepared to pay a huge price in casualties.”

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As the instructor led the team into the designated tunnel, the explosions overhead continued.

He racked his brains to prevent the Kwantung Army's attacking forces from discovering these tunnels.

They found some wooden boards to prop up the tunnel entrances and exits, sent a soldier to risk his life to get out of the tunnel, and covered the wooden boards with a layer of loose soil, trying to hide the tunnel entrances and exits as much as possible so that the Kwantung Army's attacking forces would not notice anything when they attacked.

In this way, the three companies under his command could use these tunnels to kill the enemy by surprise.

"Instructor, the attacking force of the Kwantung Army is coming..." A soldier suddenly reminded...

"Keep quiet...Everyone, retreat and stay away from the tunnel entrances and exits...If an opening is discovered, the Kwantung Army will definitely blow it up with grenades. The farther we are from the entrances and exits, the less likely we are to be affected."

"As long as we can keep a large portion of the tunnel entrances and exits, we will definitely win this surprise attack."

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Ground battlefield.

The three squadrons of Japanese soldiers were charging forward quickly, trying to rush forward as much as possible before the Eighth Route Army could react from the previous artillery fire.

This way, the distance of the assault after being blocked will be shorter, and the casualties will be much less.

When they were still thirty or forty meters away from the defense line, the Kwantung Army at the front of the team began throwing grenades, one round after another, as if they were free, hoping to use this method to further kill the Eighth Route Army on the surface positions.

What puzzled them was that there were continuous explosions on the defense line, but no screams from the soldiers were heard.

If there were still surviving Eighth Route Army soldiers on the current defense line, they would definitely hear screams.

But apart from the sound of the grenade exploding, no other sound was heard.

At this time, many Kwantung Army soldiers had a bold idea in their minds: "The Eighth Route Army that had just occupied the position was either destroyed by artillery fire or retreated into the tunnels and has not yet come out.

But no matter which situation, now is a great opportunity for them to seize the ground position.

Take a thousand steps back.

Even if all the Eighth Route Army soldiers hid in the tunnels, they still had strong combat effectiveness.

As long as the attacking troops are fast enough, they can immediately seize the surface positions, use grenades to blow up the entrances and exits of the tunnels on the positions, and block the Eighth Route Army in the tunnels. No matter how strong the combat effectiveness of those troops is, they cannot threaten the safety of the ground troops and can only abandon the surface positions and retreat to the top of the mountain like they did in the afternoon.

This was the combat experience summarized by the attacking troops when they took over the defense line halfway up the mountain in the afternoon.

The attacking Kwantung Army decided to put its knowledge into practice. While there were no Eighth Route Army troops on the surface, they seized the entire position at the fastest speed and did not give the Eighth Route Army any chance to counterattack.

"Kill them..." The captain of the Japanese battalion raised his command knife and ordered loudly.

"Quickly disperse the troops, seize the ground positions, blow up all the tunnel entrances and exits you find, and block the Eighth Route Army in the tunnels..."

At the captain's command, the five or six hundred Kwantung Army rushed forward as if they were injected with chicken blood, roaring and trying to reach the defense line as quickly as possible.

The ensuing battle seemed to go exactly as they had expected.

The front row of Kwantung Army successfully reached the defense line. As far as the eye could see, there were corpses of Kwantung Army and Eighth Route Army soldiers killed in the explosion, with the majority being Kwantung Army.

But no matter what, there were more than a hundred bodies of the Eighth Route Army mixed in, which showed that they had indeed suffered heavy losses in the artillery fire just now.

As long as the attacking force blows up all the entrances and exits of the tunnels on the position in time and blocks all the Eighth Route Army soldiers who are not killed in the explosion inside the tunnels, the attack will be won.

Faced with this victory, the Kwantung Army became more and more excited and rushed forward faster than the other.

More than a dozen tunnels located on the edge of the defense line did not attract their attention.

The Kwantung Army soldiers rushed through the tunnel entrances and exits with machine guns in hand as if they were injected with chicken blood.

"Boom boom boom..."

Explosions continued to sound on the battlefield.

Although there were not many entrances and exits to the tunnels dug on the defense line, they were still discovered by the Japanese who were so excited that they immediately blew them up with grenades, regardless of whether there were any Eighth Route Army soldiers hiding inside.

The Kwantung Army, which had not yet reached the defense line, became even more anxious and quickly accelerated its attack.

He was afraid that if he ran a step too slowly, the entrances and exits of the tunnels on the position would be blown up.

In this situation, even many entrances and exits of the tunnels that had not been dug through were targeted by the Kwantung Army's offensive forces, and several grenades were thrown into them.

Hearing the explosions above his head and the sound of footsteps getting farther and farther away, the instructor knew his chance had come. (End of this chapter)