The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1432 8Ga, it’s the Flying Thunder Cannon!

Chapter 1432 Baka, it’s the Flying Thunder Cannon! (First update)

At this moment, a series of thunderous explosions suddenly reached Colonel Koike's ears.

As a veteran of many battles, he knew the explosion was unusual as soon as he heard the sound. A small-caliber mortar shell could not produce such a loud explosion.

Even large-caliber mortar shells cannot produce such a powerful explosion.

In addition to large-caliber heavy artillery.

But they are now in the mountains, and large-caliber heavy artillery cannot get in at all.

Moreover, although the Eighth Route Army operating in the mountains was well-equipped, almost all of their weapons and equipment were captured.

The Kwantung Army had never lost any heavy artillery on the battlefield, so the Eighth Route Army active in the Jinzhou area could not be equipped with heavy artillery. The violent explosion that just reached his ears was strange.

"Could this be a trap... The Eighth Route Army placed explosive packs on the battlefield in advance, and suddenly detonated the explosive packs after the counterattack troops they sent entered the pocket formation, taking the opportunity to severely damage the counterattack troops they sent..." This was the only explanation Colonel Koike could think of.

But he quickly rejected the idea in his mind.

The Eighth Route Army did not know where the counterattack troops they sent out would launch the attack from, and detonating the explosive packs was not as simple as they imagined, not to mention detonating thirty explosive packs buried under the feet of the counterattack troops at the same time. The possibility of success was almost zero.

Besides, the Eighth Route Army was not gods. How could they know that all the explosive packs they had buried would fall under the feet of the counterattacking troops?

Just as Major Koike's face became more and more solemn, a thunderous explosion reached his ears again.

Compared with the sudden surprise just now, this time Major Koike was obviously prepared in advance.

He kept holding a telescope and observing the battlefield, wanting to see what was going on.

  We need to figure out what happened in these two rounds of explosions. Could it be that the Eighth Route Army was equipped with new weapons that the Kwantung Army had never seen before?

In the end, he really saw some clues.

With the help of the telescope and the fire on the battlefield, he clearly saw two packs of explosives rolling and hitting the counterattacking troops, and at the same time saw the flames coming out of the explosives thrown by the flying thunder cannon.

An expression of sudden enlightenment suddenly appeared on his face.

Although they were affiliated with the Kwantung Army, because of the activities of the Eighth Route Army in Northeast China, the North China Front Army directly provided all the intelligence they had about the Eighth Route Army to the Kwantung Army for their research and reference.

Colonel Koike still remembers clearly some of the content about the Eighth Route Army making its own weapons.

Because he was also shocked by this genius idea at that time.

Two gasoline barrels combined with some gunpowder can actually be made into a flying thunder cannon that is as powerful as a heavy artillery.

Although the shooting accuracy is a bit poor, in close-range firefights, the impact of accuracy on the battlefield is very small.

Because as long as the flying thunder cannon throws the explosive pack to the enemy's position, with the killing radius of the explosive pack up to 30 meters, it will definitely achieve very great results.

From the scene he saw before his eyes, combined with the introduction of the flying thunder cannon in the intelligence, he realized that he actually had the chance to encounter real flying thunder cannons, and there were dozens of them participating in the battle together.

His face turned pale in an instant, and he shouted immediately without caring whether his subordinates around him reacted or not.

"Order the counterattack troops to retreat immediately..."

"No matter what they are doing now, they must immediately break away from the battle with the Eighth Route Army and withdraw to their base. They cannot continue their counterattack."

"The Eighth Route Army is equipped with a large number of thunder cannons. Fighting them in close combat outside the base is tantamount to suicide. Give the order now, quickly..."

"If it's too late, it will be too late."

The subordinates were confused, not knowing why the captain suddenly became so anxious.

But judging from the expression on the brigade commander's face, this matter was very serious. He was able to prioritize and immediately rushed out of the command center and dispersed to the four battlefields.

"Rumble..."

The explosion that Colonel Koike least wanted to hear rang out again, and it came from other directions of the base, which meant that one of the four counterattack forces he had sent out was attacked by the flying thunder cannon.

With the powerful killing capability of the Flying Thunder Cannon, even if this counterattack force is not completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, it will suffer heavy damage on the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Colonel Koike's anxious expression became even more intense.

Until this moment, the wing chief of staff still hadn't recovered from the shock. He stared at the battlefield full of artillery fire and asked in confusion, "Sir, what is a flying thunder cannon?"

"A simple projectile device that can throw explosive packs two or three hundred meters away to cause an explosion... The explosive packs that exploded on the battlefield were all thrown by this device. The explosive power is very amazing and the lethality is also very great."

"As long as our counterattack troops are attacked by the Flying Thunder Cannon, they will be seriously injured if they don't die..."

Explosive packs are generally used for blasting. No matter how solid the fortifications are, they will be blown into ruins in front of the explosive packs. Their power is obvious.

Now the Eighth Route Army actually threw explosive packs onto the battlefield to attack the infantry who had no fortifications to protect them. Although the chief of staff did not go to the battlefield in person, he could imagine the bloody scene of the infantry suffering heavy casualties in the face of the explosive packs.

Beads of sweat the size of beans kept coming out of his forehead like rain.

He took a deep breath and asked Colonel Koike for help: "The south and west of the base have not been attacked by the flying thunder cannons..."

"I will personally go to the south to urge the counterattack troops to disengage from the battle and quickly withdraw to their bases..."

After the chief of staff finished speaking, he rushed towards the battlefield in the south.

Unfortunately, he was still a step late.

When they were about to reach the battlefield in the south, a thunderous explosion sounded directly five or six hundred meters ahead.

Because the distance was very close, even without a telescope, the chief of staff could still clearly see the huge fireball produced by the explosion of the explosive pack, the billowing black smoke wrapped in flames rising from the ground, and many soldiers were blown into the sky with terrified expressions and fell to the ground and turned into corpses.

"It's over..." These two words quickly popped up in the chief of staff's mind.

But he still rushed to the battlefield with the last glimmer of hope.

"Rumble..."

When there were only two hundred meters left to the battlefield, a second round of thunderous explosions reached his ears, and a powerful and hot air wave hit him head-on. Although there was a distance of two hundred meters in between, the chief of staff could still feel the heat of the air wave, and his ears were buzzing from the shock wave.

One can imagine how painful it would be for the soldiers near the impact point.

Even if they were not killed on the spot by the explosives, the powerful shock wave would cause them to lose their combat effectiveness on the spot.

"Tick-tick...tick-tock..."

The loud charge horn sounded on the battlefield before the explosion ended, and the chief of staff looked at the battlefield with his eyes wide open.

Hundreds of Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed towards the deadly battlefield like wild horses...

Yes, it was dead silent.

After two rounds of bombing with sixty explosive packs, even if the more than three hundred Japanese soldiers in the two squadrons were not all killed, the surviving soldiers were in a daze due to the impact of the shock wave.


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