Chapter 32
There was no flame that soaring into the sky, nor did there be choking smoke. Only a dull roar like a beast roar came from the ground. Although we could not clearly see the explosion in the darkness, we could clearly feel that more than ten houses in the south disappeared from our sight in an instant.
Without thinking too much, we picked up the weapon in our hands and ran towards the direction of the explosion. We ran closer to see... There was a large pit on the ground, and there was a lot of gravel and soil everywhere. Occasionally, we would see a few pieces of human body that were blown up so much that they were...
"Flashlight!" the captain shouted.
If it is normal, our discipline is that flashlights are not allowed in the village. Even if we really want to use flashlights, it will be covered with black cloth and confirmed to be safe. This is to not want Vietnamese snipers to find the target.
But the situation is of course different now. As soon as the ammunition depot of the Vietnamese Japanese was blown up, they almost doomed to defeat them. And now it is when they are not awakened by the blow. When will they still fire the flashlight?
"Bang..." A few sounds, the flashlights around the pit quickly lit up one after another. Hundreds of lightnings shot towards the big pit that had just been blown out like sharp swords, and immediately illuminated the big pit filled with blood and dust.
The air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder. Under the light of the flashlight, the soil in the pit was still steaming upwards, just like a big pot cooking the earth and rocks. Of course, there were countless bodies of Vietnamese troops in the earth and rocks.
"There are ghosts!" At this time, someone shouted, and dozens of flashlights were all concentrated in a "swish" at once. The Japanese who stood up shakingly with a gun. As soon as he was about to pick up the gun, he was shot into a sieve by a row of bullets.
The battlefield is so ruthless. Although the soldiers all know that this Viet Japanese devil will not have much ability to resist, no one will risk his life to capture him alive. The plot of sacrificing oneself to save the enemy can only appear in TV movies.
After killing the Vietnamese devil, the flashlight was searching for the surviving enemies everywhere, and indeed found several more intermittently... Of course, all of them were solved by the soldiers one by one without exception.
"Hey! These Japanese devils are really alive!" Scar said mockingly, "This entire ammunition depot has been exposed to the sky, and they can still live..."
"Isn't there a saying? The disaster will last for a thousand years!" The commander's words caused the soldiers around him to burst into laughter.
However, I frowned: "No! With such a big explosion, even if the Japanese invaders can still survive... they will not have any injuries..."
"Huh!" The soldiers were a little surprised by what I said.
Then I quickly thought of the answer, so I hurriedly reported to Captain Liu: "Captain, the ammunition depot is connected to many tunnels. When the ammunition depot exploded... all the tunnels were also turned out, and these Yue Japanese people came out of the tunnel!"
In fact, this principle is very simple. The ammunition depot is like the heart of the Yue Army tunnel. In order to facilitate transportation of food and ammunition, the Vietnamese army will of course open all directions to the ammunition depot. So once the ammunition depot is exploded, it means that the breaks of each tunnel will be exposed to us... The reason why we did not find it was because the entrances of these tunnels were covered by soil and rocks.
"Well!" The commander quickly understood what I meant and immediately ordered loudly: "Everyone has it, be ready for battle, be careful to search for the tunnel where the Japanese were blown up!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded and pointed the flashlight at the side wall of the pit to search. Not long after, they found several suspected tunnel entrances, and some even had the Japanese invaders coming out of it...
"Here is here..." Suddenly there was tension around, and rifles, submachine guns, grenades and even bazooka kept greetings in that direction.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but frown. The soldiers' fighting like this seemed to be full of firepower and it was very good, but it didn't have any effect... The entrances of those tunnels were almost covered by the earth and rocks, right? Then the dust was blown up by the soldiers' bombardment, and there was nothing I could see!
The regiment commander was so angry that he cursed and shouted at the fighters who were beating: "Stop! Stop... don't shoot..."
Finally, the soldiers finally ceased the fire, but the tunnel was filled with smoke and dust like thick fog, and there was no trace of the tunnel and the Vietnamese army anymore.
Originally, I thought the regiment commander would definitely launch a decisive attack next, but he didn't. He just ordered the soldiers to lie around the pit in circles and do nothing, and that was, there was no flashlight or shooting. The battlefield suddenly became quiet like death. If it weren't for the smell of gunpowder and blood in the air, I would have been a little unbelievable that a battle had just been held here...
After waiting for a long time, I didn’t see any orders from the commander. When there was a little stone lying beside me, I couldn’t help it. He pulled the corner of my clothes and said, “Squad Leader, let’s just wait like this and do nothing?”
"That's right! The Japanese made us faint, rush in and fight!" The bayonet also agreed.
"Shut up!" I lowered my voice and ordered: "Don't make any sound!"
I know the purpose of the leader doing this.
Obviously, the regiment commander surrounded him and did not fight. It is not dawn now, so there are many inconveniences to deal with the Japanese tunnel. Fighting can easily cause chaos and accidental injuries. Anyway, the Japanese were surrounded and could not escape. It would be better to surround him and wait until dawn before cleaning up slowly! Besides, the warehouse used by the Japanese to store grain and ammunition has been blown up by us. So sooner or later, the victory will belong to us. Why do we need to compete for the victory and pleasure at that time, and let the soldiers venture into the tunnel to fight with the Japanese military?
From this point of view, the regiment commander is still very concerned about his soldiers, rather than simply killing the enemy for the sake of killing the enemy, and executing the orders for the sake of executing the orders.
The facts also proved that I was not wrong. We were quickly replaced by other soldiers to rest. Moreover, there was no large-scale battle until dawn. However, occasionally some Vietnamese soldiers couldn't help but want to rush out of the tunnel to escape, so there were a few gunshots.
After dawn, the method of dealing with the Japanese tunnel was simple. After discovering a tunnel entrance, the location was recorded and fire blocked. Then, based on the location of the tunnel entrance, the direction of the tunnel was far away and dug down. The soldiers in an image called this method "opening a skylight". As the name suggests, it is to open a "skylight" at the enemy's tunnel entrance and then throw grenades and explosives downwards...
So we watched the grenades, explosives were packed into the enemy's tunnel, and the explosion was only to explode, and the Japanese were so angry that they had no power to fight back. What we had to do... seemed to be digging a few holes and then piled the bullets into it.
Baekabad was stunned when he saw this. He grabbed his head stupidly and said, "This... it's so easy for the Japanese to deal with, why didn't you think of this method before?"
"Before?" Scar responded angrily: "Can you know where to open the skylight in the past?"
After being scarred, the soldiers understood.
In the past... we could find a tunnel entrance for two or three days, and the tunnel entrances of the Japanese invaders were carefully designed. Not to mention fireproof, waterproof, and poisonproof... and there were also turns. Just looking at the tunnel entrance, we could not speculate on the direction of the enemy tunnel.
But these tunnels that were lifted out of the ammunition depot are different. They were blown up in half the middle. We can easily infer their direction. It is not difficult to 'open the skylight'!"
"So..." Xiao Shitou said excitedly: "Are we still making the most of our contributions?"
"That's not?" At this time, the regiment commander walked up in a good mood and nodded with a smile: "If it weren't for your 2nd squad that exploded the Japanese ammunition depot... I'm afraid we are still helpless with those ground mice! Now it can be said that they pinch the snails with three fingers - they can take it safely!"
The soldiers around us smiled happily and looked at us with envy, and their faces were full of pride, as if we had also won honor for them.
However, the facts are not as simple as we think. Without any mental preparation, a dull gunfire suddenly came from the battlefield and a "boom" explosion. In an instant, more than ten People's Liberation Army soldiers were blown up high...
"What's going on?" The regiment commander roared in a fury. He was just telling us that this battle was almost certain, but immediately the Vietnamese Japanese launched a counterattack like a slap him. What's even more annoying is that... we don't know how the Vietnamese Japanese who were trapped in the tunnel and waiting to die launched a counterattack!
"Report!" After a while, a blood-covered cadre came to report to Captain Zhou and said, "It was the devils of the Yue Dynasty. We sacrificed five soldiers and injured eleven..."
"Zhang Risheng!" Commander Zhou shouted impatiently before he could finish his words: "Speak something I don't know! So many of you have crushed the Japanese in the tunnel and beat them and made people bite them back? How did you, the battalion commander?"
"Report!" The battalion commander, known as Zhang Risheng, responded with grievance: "The Vietnamese Japanese suddenly launched a counterattack, and it was organized. They... they attacked the 'skylight' almost at the same time, first shooting guns outwards, then throwing grenades outwards, and firing mortars!"
Chapter completed!