Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Chapter 569 Sparrow Raid War

After hearing this, Mo Hu nodded, and then led his team members to bury various mines on the road that the Japanese had to take to transport supplies.

The mines that the arsenal distributed to the guerrillas in various counties this time were not the land mines or stone mines that they had made before, but the most advanced and technologically advanced weapons currently available.

Especially the flat thing with the four words "Face the enemy this way" written on it. It looks like a brutal thing at first glance. This is also one of the reasons why the armed work team was able to ambush a squad of Japanese devils with the help of more than 200 militiamen who had never been on the battlefield.

When the technicians sent by their superiors tested a directional mine in front of all the armed work teams and other county leaders in Ping'an County, the power of the explosion stunned everyone present.

According to technical personnel, this directional mine contains 700 steel balls of different sizes and is loaded with nearly one and a half kilograms of high-performance explosives. Once detonated, it will be shot out in a fan-shaped shape at high speed. Within a range of 50 meters in front of the mine, no Japanese soldier will be able to escape.

This is a powerful weapon for position defense. Currently, the arsenal can produce about 50,000 of them a month. As long as a dozen or twenty of them are placed in front of the position, the effect after the explosion is unimaginable. It can only be said that it will allow our enemies to die peacefully. I guess the Japanese will even thank us.

After the mines were buried, everyone stood guard on the road, waiting for the arrival of the enemy's transport convoy.

In fact, there was another team like this, also led by the armed work team and ambushed on another road leading to the Japanese stronghold. As for who could encounter them, it all depended on luck.

At this time, the Japanese transport convoy was heading towards our nearby positions. Because our militia often targeted the Japanese transport convoys, Captain Sato stationed in Ping'an County could only order a large force to escort them, and supplies were also delivered to the surrounding strongholds once a month.

Today, the Japanese Watanabe Squad, together with a puppet army company, was in charge of the Majiahezi stronghold. They were escorting more than 20 large carts loaded with food, bacon, and various daily necessities, as well as a lot of ammunition. These were the things that the stronghold urgently needed.

As the equipment of our militia has been updated several times and their combat effectiveness has been improved, they are able to gain an advantage in small-scale battles in the wild, so they are not afraid of the Japanese sending troops to pursue them.

The favorite thing of the guerrillas near us was to run to the Japanese stronghold in the dead of night and shoot at the Japanese sentries with volley guns. It would be best if they could kill or wound one or two, but it didn't matter if they missed.

Given the nature of the Japanese, as long as we launched an attack, they would definitely shoot desperately, especially those light and heavy machine guns. In order to hide their inner fear, they would definitely hold the trigger.

After all, your life is your own. As long as you don't let anyone rush over, it doesn't matter even if you consume a lot of bullets.

This creates an interesting situation. Every time we fire a bullet, the enemy will consume at least seven or eight bullets, which turns it into a war of attrition.

We were poor in the past, and even our main forces were short of guns and bullets. We couldn’t even afford an eight-for-one exchange. We usually felt that there was not enough ammunition in combat, so how could we use it to do such a meaningless thing?

It was not until the establishment of our arsenal that certain conditions were met, especially the discovery of large quantities of high-quality iron and copper mines near the industrial zone, which ensured a supply of bullets. Even if they were consumed, the logistics department would receive corresponding replenishments.

So Kong Hao took the opportunity to propose this despicable tactic, one for eight, or even one for ten. The Japanese's ammunition reserves are not endless. As long as a large amount of enemy ammunition is consumed, it will reduce the Japanese's potential to launch a large-scale campaign.

After all, a lot of the Japanese ammunition was transported from the rear, and high-quality copper mines are not easy to find. As long as the bullet is fired, it is money.

At present, our annual bullet production is 80 million, and there is still a lot of room for growth. If we still use the eight-for-one tactic, the enemy will have to produce at least 640 million bullets. Even if all the Japanese soldiers work as laborers, they cannot produce so many bullets.

Of course, this is the most ideal state, which is impossible to achieve in reality. Moreover, when Kong Hao proposed this tactic, it caused a lot of discussion, with some agreeing and some opposing.

After multiple tests, we found that the effect was good, so we let the militia from all over the country implement this plan. Anyway, it wouldn't do us any harm.

For example, this time, the enemy at the Majiahezi stronghold requested for supplies of 9,000 bullets, 300 grenades, and 100 flares. As for us, we only consumed 600 bullets, plus 88 homemade grenades made in the base before.

Ever since our arsenal was able to mass-produce offensive and defensive grenades, the old grenades made of black powder have been disliked and handed over to local troops, but the guerrillas also looked down on them.

After all, some poor quality homemade grenades can only explode in two pieces when thrown. If you are lucky, you can injure an enemy, but if you are unlucky, you can only smoke the enemy's face.

Now that the militia's equipment has improved, they have started to choose their weapons. Some weapons that are not easy to use are no longer rare, such as this homemade grenade and the Japanese's turtle box pistol.

But we had made a lot of these black powder grenades before, and it was impossible to recycle and destroy them. In the end, they were all used by the guerrillas to attack enemy strongholds at night. After all, they were made of gunpowder, so it was nice to hear a noise.

As for why so few bullets were consumed, it was also a new tactic invented by our guerrillas when fighting the enemy.

The battles were all fought after dark, and the Japs couldn't detect our true situation anyway. Except for the volleys at the beginning which used real bullets, we could completely use firecrackers instead. We could just get a broken iron barrel and throw a string of 100-shot firecrackers into it, and there would be no problem in pretending to shoot from a light machine gun.

Anyway, our tactical goal is very simple. All we have to do is lure the enemy into firing. A string of firecrackers can be exchanged for a dozen or twenty bullets, which is a huge profit. It can also keep the enemy awake all night.

Once the Japanese in the stronghold can't stand it anymore and send troops to pursue us, if the enemy is large in number, we will just run away and go home to sleep; if the number is small, haha, then there is no need to be polite to the enemy, this is a military achievement that will come to our doorstep.

Captain Watanabe was also a veteran of the battlefield. He retired from the field army because of a minor injury. He could have returned to his homeland, but the Japanese guard unit in Shanxi Province suffered heavy casualties among its veterans, so he was promoted to a higher rank and stayed.

The combat strength of the enemy's garrison troops is not as strong as that of the field troops. Even if they have a limp, it will not affect them. On the contrary, they will be respected by other Japanese soldiers.

Just as the convoy was driving to the outskirts of our ambush position, Watanabe, who was worthy of being a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time, actually felt a sense of crisis in his heart.