Chapter 22

  Don't worry about food for now, as long as there are no more personnel, it's almost no problem until the autumn harvest comes.

  But wanting Li Tie to quietly stay there would be enough to suffocate him to death?

  After requesting permission from their leader, Li Tie took a portion of the men out for "training".

  Apart from a part of the Fox Team, about twenty people were also drawn from Teams One and Two. In addition to regular equipment such as guns, ammunition, crossbows, and blowpipes, Li Tie and his team had also brought some new-style weapons.

  So this time out, in addition to "tempering the troops", there was also a secret mission, that is, to test the power of new-style weapons and obtain some parameters for using new weapons.

  And this time their training location was obvious: Liu Town Railway Station.

  Choosing here is deliberate, first, Li Tie is familiar with this place, and can quickly get rid of the enemy when escaping. Secondly, there are many devils here, with strong combat effectiveness, but the arrival speed of reinforcements is slow. Thirdly, and most importantly, there may be a lot of supplies here, and if you're not careful, you might accidentally get some and become rich.

  After a day of rapid march, Li Tie and his men arrived at the outskirts of Liu Town.

  The town's vigilance is now stricter than before, the devils have set up checkpoints outside the town, and sandbags have been used to build fortifications outside the checkpoints. Inside, the devils are holding machine guns aimed at places they consider suspicious. All people entering or leaving Liu Town must undergo strict checks. Groups of devils often walk by in front of the fortifications.

  The whole willow town can hardly see a few puppet troops. It seems that the devils are really not confident in the combat effectiveness of the puppet troops, and they still have to rely on their own people in times of urgency.

  Found a place and got everything ready, first try out Xiao Wei's power.

  Li Tie took out a bunch of "Drilling Sky Monkey" firecrackers from his bag. These "Drilling Sky Monkey" firecrackers looked almost the same as those we set off during Chinese New Year, except that they were slightly thicker at the top, about the size of an adult's thumb, and slightly longer, and were made of iron. The rest was similar, also stuck to a thin wooden stick.

  Li Tie lit a "drilling heaven monkey", holding the end of a thin wooden stick, his head facing the enemy's machine gun fortifications.

  "Whoosh!" A loud noise, "Drilling Heaven Monkey" flew out flat, heading straight for the enemy machine gun. In an instant, it had drilled into the bottom of the enemy machine gun, and coincidentally, a devil was lying on a sack at that moment. This "Drilling Heaven Monkey" happened to drill into his arms, scaring the devil badly, who let out a loud "Ah!" and jumped up from the sack. Just as he jumped up, the "Drilling Heaven Monkey" exploded, instantly ripping open the devil's belly, covering the entire machine gun emplacement with filthy blood and intestines.

  A great start, hit the target at once, and got a good beginning.

  Li Tie and the others gained confidence, each holding one, taking advantage of the devils' slow reaction, Pink ignited, "Drilling Ape" happily whistling towards the devils' checkpoint. In just a few minutes, the devils who were showing off their might earlier almost didn't have anyone standing. Some were injured by the blast, rolling on the ground and howling, some were blown to death, meeting Heavenly Aunt Tianzhao on the spot. Anyway, from Li Tie igniting the first "Drilling Ape" until now, about three minutes had passed, and the devils hadn't fired a single shot.

  This iron version of the "Heavenly Monkey" was developed in an arsenal that originally produced firecrackers, based on Li Tie's request. Since the arsenal only made some simple weapons, Li Tie thought of the firecrackers he played with when he was a kid, those small "Heavenly Monkeys", flying high and exploding loudly, if they were to make the outer shell out of iron and fill it with military explosives, wouldn't that be a cool weapon? Under the hands of the firecracker makers, under Li Tie's guidance, the first military "Heavenly Monkey" was finally born in the Meng County Arsenal. The "Heavenly Monkey" is divided into two parts: the front part is cast from pig iron, loaded with high-explosive explosives, serving as the warhead, the back part is made of paper, loaded with black powder, serving as the propellant. In order to increase lethality, a large number of fragments were also added to the warhead, after all, this thing was too small, if there were too many fragments, it's likely that not much explosive could be loaded. After multiple tests, they initially reached their target.

  So Li Tie had people make a few more and bring them out to try. Although the characteristics of this weapon are that it uses less material, has low cost, but there are also drawbacks: its power is not great and it doesn't fly very far, at most only over a hundred meters. In this attack by Li Tie and his men, they immediately blew up the devils on the spot with the first shot, while the rest were mostly injured, none of them had broken arms or legs. To increase the power of the "Drilling Ape", Li Tie had people apply medicine to the outside of all the Drilling Apes, ensuring that even if it didn't blow them up on the spot, they wouldn't let them off easy.

  Similarly, inspired by modern firework shells, 16-shot firework bombs also appeared. Only instead of firing firework shells, they fired bombs. After modification, these bombs were launched from firework tubes and did not explode in the air like fireworks, but rather after landing. This was mainly to avoid wasting the bomb's explosion in mid-air, which would not harm the enemy but rather alert them. This time, Li Tie brought four of these 16-shot firework bombs.

  The explosion at the checkpoint finally attracted the devils in the station.

  A large number of devils rushed out of the train station, carrying rifles and running towards the inspection station.

  The checkpoint had been blown to smithereens, the Japanese wounded soldiers were wailing on the ground, and the Japanese began firing wildly in all directions. Some machine gunners also found advantageous positions, set up their guns and swept suspected areas with fire.

  The intense gunfire lasted for over ten minutes. The devils found that no enemy appeared, had the attacker already left?

  The devils cautiously entered the checkpoint, and what they saw was unbelievable. Apart from the devils who were dying all over the ground, the most shocking thing was the devils in the machine gun emplacement, lying on their backs with their bellies ripped open, blood and intestines splattered all over the place. The great Imperial Japanese Army had actually been disembowelled right at its own doorstep, and the machine guns in their hands hadn't even fired a single bullet - what kind of enemy was this? What kind of weapons were they equipped with?

  Just as the devils were in a state of confusion, they suddenly heard a dull "thud, thud, thud, thud..." sound, and then saw a small black dot flying towards them from the sky.

  "Plop, plop, plop..." The small black dots fell softly onto the feet of the devils, with a few landing on the heads of individual devils, hitting their steel helmets and stunning them, leaving them dazed and confused. The devils were even more baffled - what was going on? Why were iron pellets falling from the sky? And why were they emitting small puffs of smoke?

  "Ahh! It's... it's... it's a bomb!!!"

  A devil let out a miserable cry, and the words were so frightened that they couldn't be spoken. He picked it up to see what it was and thought of throwing it away. Who knew that as soon as the bomb left his hand, in a burst of flames, this devil's hand along with his arm turned into a bloody mist, and four or five devils around him also suffered, falling to the ground, their lives hanging by a thread.

  Almost at the same time, a burst of explosion occurred in the group of devils, and the devils were blown into clusters of bloody fog.

  The explosion stopped, and the surviving devils were stunned, the battlefield was silent, even the wounded devils were so scared that they forgot to scream.

  It's no wonder that it's a Japanese import. After nearly thirty seconds of being stunned, the commander of the oni suddenly came to his senses, drew out his command knife,

  "Kill him, give him..."

  He had already seen clearly the direction of those strange bombs that were fired earlier - there was still a faint smoke rising from there.

  The devils' machine gun bullets poured down like a storm on the place where Li Tie and others had just launched the bombs, cutting off a layer of small earth bags, and even smashing the base of Li Tie's bomb launchers into pieces that couldn't be recognized.

  Just now, the devils stopped firing, and Li Tie took advantage of the devils' research on what kind of weapon had beaten them to this point. He led everyone to fix the firework bombs in place, lit the fuse, and then led everyone to evacuate.

  Although Li Tie had anticipated the power of this weapon, he was still startled by its power.

  The entire battlefield was like it had been bombed with hand grenades, everywhere were corpses, everywhere were severed limbs, everywhere was polluted blood, and everywhere were miserable cries. This was only four boxes of sixteen rounds each, what if there were forty or even four hundred boxes? Those few hundred devils would probably all be finished off right here, and one could take down an entire company of devil soldiers without firing a single shot. And it would be done openly and honestly, not relying on any secret tricks.

  Li Tie led everyone to hide in a small ditch, the devils' machine gun bullets occasionally flew over their heads, hitting the stones far away, and sparks were shot out.

  Half a day later, the devils' gunfire stopped again, and the devils came searching around.

  Most of the devils went towards where the bomb was just fired, and a small part searched over to the ditch where the fox hid.

  The devils are getting closer and closer, Li Tie and his men can already hear the sound of the devils' footsteps in the small ditch.

  Li Tie gave everyone a signal with his eyes, tightly grasped the gun in his hand and opened the safety catch. The other team members understood, and followed suit, opening their safeties.

  "Bang!" Hearing that the devils had arrived at the edge of the small ditch, Li Tie led everyone to suddenly stand up and fired a burst of shots from his submachine gun at the approaching devils.

  The devils were knocked down one after another. Taking advantage of the fact that the devils in the distance had not yet arrived, Li Tie led everyone to run away quickly.

  The gunshot alerted the Japanese search party in the distance, and they all rushed towards this direction.

  The devil commander led the devils to rush to the place where the bomb was launched earlier. It was a small mound of earth, and the entire mound had been plowed by machine gun bullets several times. Except for finding a small amount of paper scraps, nothing else was found, not even any traces of someone hiding - of course not, Li Tie and his men were never hidden in this place, they just found it suitable for launching bombs. The bomb was set up, and the people had already slipped away. Who would stay there to be a target for machine guns? Li Tie didn't think he had practiced the bodyguard magic, becoming an indestructible body, besides, even if he had practiced, he wouldn't be there, would he? Bullets hitting his body would hurt so much! Wouldn't that be asking for trouble?

  Li Tie led everyone in a fighting retreat, gradually entering the mountainous area.