Chapter 33: Attacking Dongdaesin's Base Flying Web

  Liu Feng said: "Dongdaxin stronghold is 20 li away from Xixian Village stronghold, 30 li away from Feixiang County, 35 li away from Guangping County, and 30 li away from Donggaocun stronghold. That is to say, even if the devils have cars, it will take them at least one to two hours to rescue Dongdaxin. And we only need to capture the Dongdaxin stronghold within an hour. Of course, we can also send out small teams to intercept the devils' reinforcements from Feixiang, Donggaocun, Xixian Village and Guangping County, delaying their assistance to Dongdaxin."

  "Captain Lin said: "How can this be done? We only have forty people! How can we block the reinforcements of several enemy troops?"

  Liu Feng said, "I didn't say to block them, but to delay. This can be done completely. First, we can use landmines. Since the devils need to transport troops by car, they must advance along the highway, so we just need to bury some landmines on the highway."

  "Landmines? We don't have landmines in our hands."

  Liu Feng said: "We didn't capture a lot of explosives and bullets, did we? This can make many landmines. We can also make some anti-personnel bullet landmines."

  "Landmine bullets?" Captain Lin asked strangely.

  "The bullet mine is to put a bullet in a bamboo tube, nail the bamboo tube on a wooden board, use an iron nail to penetrate the bottom of the wooden board and the bamboo tube as a firing pin, then bury it in a landmine pit, and disguise it on top. When someone steps on the bullet mine, the iron nail pierces the bottom of the bullet and ignites it, causing the bullet to fire and penetrate the foot or even hit the lower body." Liu Feng explained.

  The bullet thunder was invented by the Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War, specifically to counter the US military. This thing is simple and low-cost, but the threat is not small. Liu Feng took it out in advance to deal with the devils.

  Captain Lin was very interested and asked for details, Liu Feng explained in detail.

  Captain Lin burst out laughing: "With bullet rain, you little devils think you can rescue Dong Daxin? Dream on!"

  Liu Feng said, "Yes, one person can carry several hundred bullets and set up 100 to 200 bullet traps in a day. If each direction along the highway is set with hundreds of bullet traps, the devils won't be able to walk through these tens of miles of road even if they take a whole day. Of course, when dealing with their cars, we must lay some explosive electric mines on the highway. In recent days, I have been specifically talking about landmines and the tactics for setting them up. Let every soldier understand just how powerful landmines can be."

  Chen Zhengwei was also delighted, ever since he received the telegram from the headquarters commander himself, Chen no longer seemed so pedantic. He felt that if they could really develop this team, then even if it meant slightly violating some discipline, it would be acceptable.

  Then, over the next few days, Liu Feng began to teach the soldiers a course on landmines, and required each soldier to learn how to manufacture simple landmines, lay them out, and use them. When they heard that this thing could cause heavy casualties among the devils, every soldier listened with great interest. Even Lin, the company commander, and Chen, the political commissar, thought Liu Feng was like a god of war, wondering how he knew so many things they had never even heard of.

  Liu Feng's daily lectures were recorded and organized by Chen Zhi-kui, then sent to the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

  The commander-in-chief and chief of staff were increasingly interested in Liu Feng, wanting to see what other miracles he could bring to the Eighth Route Army.

  On this day, Liu Feng felt that it was almost time, and ordered the six snipers to be divided into three small groups, bringing bullets and well-made small bamboo tubes wooden boards iron nails, as well as explosives electric wires detonators and igniters, setting off in three directions, respectively blocking the Xixian shop stronghold, Donggaocun stronghold and Feixiang County's devils.

  Liu Feng led the remaining personnel to the Dongdaxin stronghold.

  This time, Liu Feng did not plan to launch a night raid on Dongdaxin, as he wanted to train his troops and be able to fight both day and night. Of course, they set out from Houxicun at dusk, and by the second day before dawn, they had already laid out their deployment around the outskirts of Dongdaxin's stronghold.

  A mortar was still 500 meters away, three grenade launchers were at 250 meters, and three machine guns were at 200 meters. Lin and Chen led the other team members to disperse and hide in a place about 150 meters away. Liu Feng, as the only sniper, chose several sniping positions with open views and prepared his retreat route.

  Everyone has dug their own foxhole and made preparations.

  The Dongda Xincheng checkpoint was surrounded by a closed space with iron wire mesh more than two meters high, inside which there was a watchtower, several barracks, and two sandbagged machine gun forts defending the gate. Outside the iron wire mesh was a three-meter-deep trench, and at the entrance was a suspension bridge controlling the checkpoint's gate.

  Finally, when the eastern sky gradually began to show a fish belly white, a fake soldier came out to change shifts with a yawn. Two fake soldiers were talking and scolding near the machine gun fortifications when Liu Feng's gun fired.

  With a "crack", the head of a fake soldier suddenly burst open, splashing another fake soldier's face with red and white. The fake soldier who had just been talking to himself was shocked to see his comrade fall to the ground, and he didn't react in time to dodge. Liu Feng fired again without hesitation, and that fake soldier also had his head blown open, falling to the ground.

  Liu Feng's gunshot was the order, and with a "Boom" the unique sound of the howitzer rang out. One second later, flames burst out from the top of the gun tower. Zhang Damao shot even more accurately in daylight, another direct hit.

  The heavy machine gun on the top was blown into the air and scattered into pieces. The two fake soldiers above had not even pulled open the bolt of the heavy machine gun when they were also blown into the sky.

  As the Dongda Xingzuopu was a relatively large stronghold of the devils, the watchtower was built more solidly. After being hit by a mortar shell, it surprisingly did not collapse and only had its top layer blown flat.

  Inside the fort, chaos had erupted into a mess, and large numbers of puppet soldiers and Japanese troops poured out from the military camp. The Japanese inside the artillery tower had already begun firing at us through the shooting holes.

  "Boom, boom, boom!" The three hand grenades launched by the grenade launcher accurately landed in the midst of the enemy puppet soldiers rushing out of their barracks. Liu Feng and his men's 38 rifles and submachine guns fired together, with bullets pouring into the enemy-occupied stronghold like rain.

  The devils and puppet troops in the store were suddenly swept away by the fierce firepower of this shell and machine gun.

  Zhang Damao's mortar continued to fire shells at the artillery tower, and when it directly hit three shells, the artillery tower finally couldn't withstand such an attack and began to collapse. Immediately crushing many Japanese puppet soldiers around.