Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

However, looking from a distance, it was still quiet until the sound of artillery stopped.

It seemed as if the Japanese had used up so many artillery shells only to blow up some mud houses in vain.

"Is there... no one?"

It was not until the nearly five-minute shelling stopped that the old Japanese soldier Hei Teng spoke with some uncertainty.

Logically speaking, the villages within the Eighth Route Army base must be inhabited by ordinary people. From the relatively tidy dirt roads in the village and the furnishings and furniture of each household, it can be seen that this village is usually inhabited.

It's just that the Japanese army is advancing from this direction.

It is very likely that the Eighth Route Army had already evacuated the villagers in advance.

Then the Eighth Route Army would lurk in the village, waiting for the Japanese army to enter the village and then launch a surprise attack.

But the bombardment was so fierce.

If there really were ambushes of the Eighth Route Army hiding in the village, they would either be hiding in the house or behind the earth wall, and would definitely be exposed.

But after the earthen houses and walls collapsed one after another, nothing unusual happened.

Still no one was seen in the village.

It was as if there were no enemies lurking in the village at all.

Could it be that I thought wrong?

The Eighth Route Army didn’t set an ambush in the village at all?

I could have quickly passed through the village by sending three or two scouts to confirm the situation, but I wasted five minutes and consumed so many artillery shells?

Thinking of this, Colonel Kurofuji, feeling a little embarrassed, ordered the vanguard troops to enter the village.

More than 500 Japanese soldiers from the vanguard troops entered the village with guns in hand.

Everywhere you look, you can see the collapsed earthen walls of mud houses covered in dust due to the Japanese artillery fire.

As the Japanese advanced, they arranged scouts to explore the village, but when they advanced to the central area of ​​the village, they still did not notice anything unusual.

After the news was passed to the central army command, the old Japanese devil Hei Teng ordered the main force of the central army to follow into the village.

More than 20 Japanese soldiers in the front row carefully held their rifles, dispersed their formation, and advanced in a line to avoid concentrated damage from possible lurking fire from the enemy.

They had searched a distance of several hundred meters, but did not find any lurking enemies, nor did they encounter any danger.

The originally tense nerves also relaxed a little.

Maybe there is no ambush here at all!

Several Japanese soldiers continued to search and advance, and at this moment, a slightly bent iron box with a tripod on the bottom and the Chinese characters "This side faces the enemy" written on the front was stuck in the ground, blocking the path for the Japanese soldiers to advance.

The Japanese soldier who saw the situation first yelled in fear, "Get down!" almost as a reflex.

The seven or eight Japanese soldiers around him immediately prostrated themselves on the ground.

Just now when they were in the wheat field, they seemed to have encountered this thing. It was extremely powerful. Once it exploded, the lead bullets inside would scatter like ink, and no soldier in a large area would be spared.

Just because a few soldiers accidentally triggered a few of these strange weapons that no one had ever seen before.

The Japanese army quickly suffered twenty to thirty casualties.

At this moment, how could the Japanese not be terrified? They crawled down with strange cries, huddled their bodies, and waited for the explosion to happen.

However, one second, two seconds, and more than ten seconds passed, and it was still calm.

The expected explosion did not occur.

What's going on?

The team leader got up from the ground in a somewhat embarrassed manner and yelled at the soldier who first warned him: "Baga, what are you yelling about?"

"Sir, what kind of new weapon is this?"

"You ask me how I know," the Japanese squad leader said, and then pondered, "It is very likely that it is a new weapon developed by the Eighth Route Army. Just now in the wheat field, one of our soldiers stepped on this trap and suffered many casualties.

But this strange weapon must have its triggering device.

We are still so far away, we haven't approached it, and we haven't stepped on it, so it won't explode easily."

"But, sir, why would the Eighth Route Army openly place this new weapon on the road?"

The Japanese squad leader was stunned.

If you ask me, who should I ask?

He was just about to curse, but at this moment, something strange happened.

Boom——

At this time, the Japanese soldiers got up from the ground one after another after confirming that the new weapons not far away would not explode and posed no threat.

The first few Japanese soldiers were less than 10 meters away from the iron box facing upwards.

The Japanese soldiers were pointing and discussing what this new weapon was!

The curved iron box exploded without any warning.

At the moment of the explosion, under the specific physical and chemical effects, a large amount of lead bullets stored inside, like raindrops, flew towards the direction of the enemy at a rapid speed.

Seven or eight Japanese soldiers who were nearby were looking at the strange iron box curiously. The flying lead bullets, fragments and steel balls suddenly embedded in their faces and bodies.

It was like a bunch of honeycomb briquettes that were knocked out in an instant. With a few screams, the body quickly fell limp to the ground.

The other steel balls, fragments, and lead bullets that passed over the bodies of these seven or eight Japanese soldiers continued to scatter towards the surrounding Japanese soldiers.

Within a range of nearly 100 meters.

Any Japanese soldier hit by these fragments, steel balls, and lead bullets would either die or be crippled.

Half of the twenty or thirty Japanese soldiers at the front of the line fell down on the spot under the sudden fire attack.

The rest basically fell to the ground with injuries, rolling around and wailing in pain.

——These stupid little Japanese devils had no idea that this special directional anti-infantry mine made by Kong Jie could be detonated in many ways.

In addition to the release device that is stepped on and the device that is triggered by a trip wire, it can also be manually detonated using a fuse buried shallowly under the soil.

Just now.

The soldiers openly placed this directional anti-personnel mine in the middle of the path.

Then they secretly observed the situation, while the soldiers pulling the wire hid in the earthen houses on both sides that were not completely destroyed by the Japanese artillery shells.

Seeing that the Japanese thought this type of weapon would not explode and were watching with curiosity, the mine suddenly exploded.

The effect was immediate, and twenty or thirty Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded in an instant.

"beat!"

Almost at the moment of the explosion, a roar came from somewhere, and then the fire hidden in some collapsed earth walls and the earth house suddenly erupted.

They opened fire crazily at the one or two hundred Japanese soldiers advancing in the front.

at the same time.

That was an area of ​​several hundred meters that had been carefully searched by the Japanese vanguard, but no enemy was detected.

The hidden firepower lurking in the collapsed earth and stone structures of various types erupted at the same time.

The Japanese troops advancing along the narrow dirt road in the center of the village were completely trapped in the middle.

At this moment, the main force of the Japanese army, more than 2000 Japanese soldiers, had completely entered the village.

Only the artillery and baggage troops hanging in the rear have not yet started to enter the village due to their slow speed...