The Japanese armored troops, who originally thought that there would not be a minefield in front, naturally had a much faster speed than before in order to regain the time wasted just now. As a result, another explosion sounded, and the armored vehicles following the tanks behind them were braked suddenly, so that Niu Ishii, who was resting, bounced up from his seat and hit the armored deck.

'Ouch!'

Major General Ishii, who was knocked out of a big bag, immediately slapped the soldier in charge of driving and scolded: "Baga, why are you driving?"

The driver who was slapped in the face said in a panic: "God General, because the speed of the car is too fast, the armored vehicle in front suddenly slowed down. In order to prevent the second vehicle from colliding, I stepped on the brakes suddenly."

After hearing what the driver said, touching the big bag on his forehead, Ishii scolded the other party and finally opened the car door. He did not send anyone to call Suzuki, who was commanding in front, to the central position, but personally led several officers to the tank squadron in front.

Seeing the figures of engineers appearing in the open space ahead, Ishii naturally knew what was going on and said angrily: "The shameless Chinese army knew to use this method to delay the army of our great Japanese Empire. Suzuki ordered the entire engineering brigade to quickly clear the mines and open up roads. If the attack plan is delayed, they will let their caesarean sections themselves to thank His Majesty the Emperor."

Listening to Ishii's murderous words, the Japanese engineer captain cursed the Chinese soldiers who buried mines while personally taking action to clear the mines.

Unfortunately, his appearance did not speed up the mine clearance speed for the engineering brigade. Instead, Wu Zhongyuan, who had been observing the situation of the engineers in the minefield, saw a major officer entering the minefield, immediately moved the gun to his head. At the same time, he ordered: "This major is my. When the gunshot sounds, you will each clear one target, and then hide in the anti-cannon hole and lurk in the anti-cannon hole after three shots. Have you heard it clearly?"

‘It’s clear!’

Although these special forces members were jealous of the Japanese Grand Priest and wanted to be the first to shoot the other party, who said Wu Zhongyuan was the commander? The gun that was originally aimed at the Grand Priest suddenly was Wu Zhongyuan, and they each looked for the target again.

With the sound of gunfire from "bang bang bang", the engineer captain who was concentrating on clearing mines in the minefield immediately fell on the mine. A series of gunfires sounded, and there were few engineers who could stand in the minefield. Even some unlucky engineers were shot and touched the mines while being shot, which made some Japanese engineers who were not originally targeted by special forces.

Ishii, who was also observing the mine clearance, was immediately pulled aside by the accompanying officers around him to cover up and protect him after hearing gunfire from the opposite mountains and forests. After the gunfire stopped, he saw that the engineer brigade was almost dead. Ishii was angry and commanded the mortar unit, which had been in charge of guarding, to fight back.

It's a pity that when each mortar reported that no less than ten shells were fired in the forest just now, Suzuki, who was by Ishii, whispered: "God of General, I think the Chinese soldiers have escaped. They just did this, and they shot some of us warriors and ran away immediately. I think their intention was to delay our time, so it should not be meaningful to continue shelling."

After hearing Suzuki's words, Ishii, who had not heard any movement, ordered the mortar troops to stop the artillery and asked Suzuki to send out the soldiers familiar with demining in the army again. In order to prevent the other party from continuing to shoot his soldiers, Ishii specifically told that once the other party fired, the artillery troops immediately bomb the place where the gunshots were fired.

After experiencing the full attack of artillery shells, the special forces team members who were hiding in the anti-aircraft artillery holes saw that there was no sound of artillery outside. After sneaking out, they found that the other party had begun to detonate troops and mines again.

Wu Zhongyuan, who had been sneaking back to the ambush site, carefully observed the engineers who were sweeping mines through a telescope, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It seems that the Japanese engineers had almost wiped out us just now. The soldiers who entered the minefield to sweep meteorites now do not seem to be the ones who were just now. Brothers, each of us is responsible for shooting and evacuating immediately, and set up a thunder along the way. Hehe, without the engineers who sweep mines, I see how these Japanese soldiers pass through the minefield nearly one kilometer in the future."

Just when Suzuki thought that the small troops that had just attacked would have left long ago, just like the troops that had attacked for the first time, another string of gunfire sounded, and the demining soldiers who had finally been selected from the brigade were shot and killed by the opponent again.

As soon as the gunfire stopped, the mortar unit, which was also on alert, immediately started loading and firing again. Unfortunately, the special forces team members who had fired a row of bullets had quickly withdrawn their guns and retreated. After they left for the front feet, the sound of shelling sounded from behind was undoubtedly another roar of seeing off the special forces team members.

Seeing that all the soldiers in the brigade who knew to demine were shot to death by the local area, most of the other survived were seriously injured. Major General Ishii, who had always felt that the war was extremely cowardly, slapped Suzuki Nakasa without saying a word, and cursed: "Baga, you're so damn, beeping! Didn't you say that the Chinese soldiers have left? Who shot our soldiers just now? Now there are no soldiers who know to demine, how can the troops pass through the minefield?"

Suzuki, whose mouth was beaten bleeding, dared not refute at all, and said toughly: "I am willing to lead a group of warriors and use my body to break a way for the brigade."

Suzuki, who knew that he had no way to survive, said such tough words in order to be as dignified as possible. Ishii, who was also shocked by his words, was really hard to say for a moment. Looking at his watch again, it was not long before dark. If he couldn't arrive in Xingtai tonight, it would inevitably affect the entire Japanese army's North China siege operation plan to a certain extent.

Originally, he really wanted Suzuki to take a group of soldiers to roll thunder with his body, but after thinking about the consequences of doing so, the soldiers in the brigade would inevitably resent him. After thinking hard for a while, he finally asked a surviving engineer and learned that to clear this minefield, he could also use detonation to clear mines. However, this mine removal method is suitable for use in dense mine arrays, and it is a waste of explosives.

Compared to wasting some explosives, Ishii was more worried that he would not be able to capture Xingtai City in time. He gritted his teeth and finally let his artillery troops start bombing one by one along the road ahead. He did not order the troops to advance again until the mortar shells in the brigade were consumed and the last section of the bombing seemed to have not detonated the mines.

Ishii, who was worried that there would be some attack along the way, did not let the tank troops take the lead this time, but instead transferred the infantry brigade. He asked them to send a 100-man army to go to the mountains and forests that were bombed by artillery shells to pursue the tracks of the Chinese soldiers. The other soldiers accelerated their pace and marched to Xingtai City.

With this 100-man pursuit team, after experiencing the taste of thunder, only half of the Japanese soldiers ran back in dust and reported to Ishii that the last trace of the other party had left the forest and entered the main road. The infantry who had just moved forward was also injured by several undetonated mines and did not say a word, asking his subordinates to send the injured soldiers to the back for treatment.

Ishii has decided that when he captures Xingtai City, he will definitely let these people dare to attack his troops, causing two tanks of his entire brigade to be scrapped, hundreds of officers below the level of a major officer, and nearly four hundred casualties. This painful price is a heavy loss he has never encountered since he served as the commander of the 108th Brigade. If he does not find some people to vent his anger, then he, the commander of the brigade, will really have no face to face these soldiers with a little low morale.

Under the frequent attacks of the special forces members from cold guns, the Japanese army's defeat in Xingtai on the day of the retreat of the National Army in history was modified by Deng Chenggong and the special forces to enter Xingtai City with a tired look in the morning. When Shijing saw the empty appearance of Xingtai City, he was really shocked.

It was not until the soldiers were sent to catch some people who were still lucky and asked questions that the National Army was responsible for garrisoning here had secretly left Xingcheng last night. What puzzled him was that after the National Army retreated, another unknown team that had never heard of had entered Xingtai, and all the useful things in the county were removed, and they disappeared into the mountains and forests outside the city an hour before they arrived.

Ishii never thought that the scourge he was attacked along the way was designed by the other party because he knew very well that all the soldiers engaged in such small-scale harassment were elite soldiers in the army. Just a group of bandit armed forces born with hoes, how could they do such a thing? The other party just snatched supplies to satisfy their selfish desires. Otherwise, why would these people flee in shame when they saw them coming?

But before he could finish feeling good, a series of explosions sounded in the city. Ishii, who was interrupted by his thoughts, said angrily: "Baga, is the explosion coming from there?"

The adjutant who rushed over said cautiously: "Report to the brigade commander, after our troops entered the other party's military camp just now, they accidentally touched the explosives buried by the other party. The infantry brigade that was preparing to camp had broken more than 300 people, and also caused more than 500 minor and serious injuries to the infantry brigade. It can be said that the infantry brigade has basically lost its combat effectiveness, and the explosion just now destroyed all the Chinese army's barracks, which is no longer suitable for us to station."

Another brigade lost its combat power. Ishii, who was angry and embarrassed, pulled out the sword he brought with him, and chopped off a corner of a pear blossom wooden table in front of him under the look of the adjutant who almost ran away. Finally, he knew that under such circumstances, he could not continue to pursue the fleeing national army, but he had already remembered the 141st Division of the 32nd National Army stationed in Xingtai in his heart.

At the same time, let the radio operator report this situation to the newly established North China Front Army Command and request the command to notify the troops below that if they encounter this national army unit that caused nearly half of the losses to his brigade, they will definitely take the harshest revenge.
Chapter completed!