Chapter 46

  Two sappers entered the minefield with a mine detector. The mine detector did not react at all, and the sappers thought it was safe to continue forward. After a long time, no landmines were found.

  The devils are very depressed, why aren't there any landmines? One soldier is probing for mines while looking around, what's with the string on this big rock? This is not good, it's a landmine!!! The Eighth Route Army is so cunning, they actually used rocks to make landmines.

  The sapper carefully cut the tripwire of the landmine, and he let out a slight sigh of relief, thinking that it was safe now. After all, with the wire cut, what could still trigger the mine? Just as he was about to pick up the mine to show off to Itai, the mine suddenly exploded! Directly blowing the sapper into a bloody mist!

  Another sapper, who was secretly envying his good luck, stared in shock. He had seen his companion cut the tripwire, although he also saw something thin under this stone that looked like a spider web. Now thinking back, it might have been another tripwire as well! This mine was double-tripped! Cunning Eighth Route Army!

  Hmph, those devils don't even think about it, a landmine made by Little Li is no ordinary product.

  The remaining sappers continued to carefully sweep the entire minefield, hoping to find more landmines.

  Soon, he also found a landmine. He carefully cut the string on top and then carefully checked under the landmine to confirm there was no pull-string before picking it up. Then, along the way back to the mountain top, he showed the landmine he found to Itami.

  Ban Tian was also greatly distressed, these stones all over the mountains and fields, which ones are actually landmines? He had personally seen one of his own sappers blown to pieces.

  After thinking for half a day, he still didn't have any good ideas, so he had to order the sappers to continue working and try their best to clear a safe path through the minefield.

  The sapper again entered the minefield.

  Soon, he discovered another landmine, a similar stone-made landmine. The sapper thought to handle it as before, when he cut the pull-string on top and found the one below, cutting that too. But suddenly, he realized that the pull-string in his hand was only tied to a rock, with no firing mechanism above. In other words, there might be another landmine under this one.

  The sapper carefully swept away the floating soil below, and indeed, an iron mine appeared. This was a landmine that was almost identical to those found in other battlefields before, it was an iron-made landmine that could be detected with a mine detector.

  The sapper carefully took out the iron thunder, but just as he did, an unexpected accident occurred. The landmine in his hand did not explode, but the explosion that occurred from under his hands turned him into scattered atoms.

  As the saying goes, one cannot repeat mistakes again and again, but when it comes to this unreasonable card player Xiao Li, who is used to laying mines in military tactics, how can he only set up one or two landmines? At least three to five are needed. The little devil wants to clear the mines, but he has to consider whether he has a life left.

  Watching his two engineers die in front of him, while he himself was powerless. Banita's heart was chilled to the bone.

  But I couldn't go and clear the mines myself, I'm the highest commander of this troop, I have to be responsible for the whole troop.

  Just as Banta was worried, he saw the idle Imperial Guards beside him.

  These imperial troops are not very active in battle and are not particularly loyal to the imperial army. They have never made great efforts for the imperial army, so if they can clear a safe road for the imperial army, that's about it.

  Thinking of this, Itai beckoned to one of the puppet army soldiers with his finger. The soldier came to Itai's side trembling with fear.

  "Yours, go down, to the cave entrance over there."

  The face of this fake soldier turned white with fear and he stuttered as he spoke.

  "Too... too... too many of you, sir! I... I... won't be able to defuse the bombs!"

  "Baga, it's an honor for you to serve in the imperial army, if you don't go, die, die, die."

  As he spoke, he drew his samurai sword and made a move to slash at the fake soldiers.

  The fake soldier had no choice but to put on a long face and carefully move towards the thunder area with trepidation.

  Perhaps it was the luck of this fake soldier that was too good, when he came down from the top of the mountain, all the way to the flat house next to the cave base, and didn't even touch a landmine.

  He stood beside the flat house and gave a safe gesture towards the top of the mountain.

  The plank on the mountain top saw the false military soldiers passing through the minefield safely, and with great joy, ordered the troops to prepare for battle down the mountain.

  Just as he was about to let the devils go down, Itoda suddenly remembered the question of whether this puppet army was reliable or not. If it's not reliable, then these people will be left here to die. It's better to send some more puppet troops down instead.

  Thinking of this, he ordered a battalion of fake soldiers to open the way in front, and led the main force to follow up behind.

  A large contingent of fake troops entered the minefield and unfortunately triggered several landmines. After a series of explosions, an entire battalion was either injured or killed, leaving fewer than a dozen soldiers remaining. However, the minefield itself was also largely destroyed, with almost no mines left on this hillside.

  Itai felt a chill in his heart, fortunately it was this group of fake soldiers who entered the minefield first, if he had gone in first, then the one lying on the hillside would have been himself.

  Seeing the safety passage open, Itai waved his hand and directed the devils to rush towards the mountain cave base.

  The devils surrounded the entrance of the cave in a dense circle.

  First, a chubby little devil interpreter stood in front of the cave entrance and began shouting:

  "To those inside, you are surrounded, come out quickly and receive imperial army's lenient treatment!"

  "Come out, you've got nowhere to go. Surrender quickly! If you don't behave yourselves and the Imperial Army rushes in and captures all of you, it will be too late."

  No matter how loudly the fat foreigner shouted outside the cave, there was no movement or noise inside.

  It was pitch black and there was no sound at all, as if nobody had entered at all.

  The devils were enraged and ordered fire to be opened on the mountain cave.

  Machine guns and rifles fired together at the cave, tongues of flame flying towards the entrance, shattering the rocky cliff at the mouth of the cave into flying debris. Inside the cave, sparks were struck out in strings, yet there was no movement or sound from within. Not even a glimmer of firelight appeared.

  Ban Tian was puzzled, had the Eighth Route Army escaped from a mountain cave? But he hadn't noticed any exits or caves around here. Those cars couldn't just drive anywhere. Or were they intimidated by his own majestic aura? This thought only occurred to him once, because it was impossible, and he knew how great his own majestic aura was - it couldn't possibly scare off the Eighth Route Army, or else who would dare try to steal his cannons? But where had they gone?

  Let's go into the cave and see, old rules, fake army does the pioneering work.

  Although the old man was unwilling, he didn't dare say anything. A group of unlucky pseudo-soldiers became scapegoats again and were ordered to go into the cave to take a look.

  The pseudo-army entered the cave with a frightened heart, and it was pitch black inside, unable to see anything. One of the pseudo-soldiers suggested going out to fetch some torches or something to illuminate, but as soon as this suggestion was made, a burst of flames flashed, and a cluster of iron sand flew over with the wind after the flash. The two pseudo-soldiers at the front immediately became sieves, and dirty blood flowed out from all over, clearly unable to survive. And although the other pseudo-soldiers in the county were not fatal, almost everyone was injured, and no one could escape unscathed.

  A burst of wailing and howling immediately came from the cave. The cries of the wounded pseudo-army and the dying pseudo-army merged into one.

  Seeing the pseudo-army's first attack receive a strong blow from the Eighth Route, Itagaki not only didn't get angry, but even felt a little happy, because the Eighth Route hadn't escaped, and his own cannons and ammunition were still in the mountain cave, so relying on his own ability there was still hope to take it back.

  The command post again ordered the troops to fire at the cave entrance, this time not only with machine guns and rifles but also with grenade launchers throwing hand grenades into the cave.

  The intense bombardment lasted for nearly an hour, and a large area of the bluestone at the entrance to the cave was blasted into fragments. The entrance not only did not become larger but even became smaller, as a large amount of rubble and bodies of the fake troops piled up in front of it, blocking part of the entrance.

  The troops of the devils and puppet army regrouped again and charged towards the cave entrance.

  The devils and puppet troops rushed into the cave, and after a burst of flames, a scream came from inside.

  Some pseudo-soldiers with "experience" shouted loudly: "This is the Eighth Route Army's sweep cannon, each cannon takes a long time to load another cannon after firing, hurry up and charge!"

  The elephant responded with a loud roar, another muffled thunder, a ball of flames, and more fake devils let out mournful cries.

  Seeing that this kind of weapon is not fatal and there are not many, the devils forced the puppet army to continue charging into the cave.

  The pseudo-armies were rejoicing that the broom cannon had not fired again when suddenly, from deep within the mountain cave, five or six tongues of flame flew out and rushed towards the charging devils and pseudo-soldiers. The devils and pseudo-soldiers fell down row after row, and almost no one who entered the cave was able to come back alive.

  Let's talk about the Pingtian outside the cave. A group of devils and puppet troops rushed into the cave, followed by two dull sounds from inside the cave, then the howling of machine guns. Not long after, the machine guns stopped. The troops that entered the cave also fell silent. At first, there were still miserable cries from the puppet troops, but now even those cries had disappeared.

  Just as Bantian was thinking about this and that, a "corpse" rolled out of the cave.

  He was a fake soldier with nearly ten wounds all over his body. Although they were not very serious, they looked terrifying.

  "Taigong and his brothers who went inside were all killed by the Eighth Route Army, there were many machine guns and sweep cannons inside."

  "What? Where did the Eighth Route get so many weapons and machine guns?" Tatara was shocked, it seemed that getting back the armored car would be a bit difficult.