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"If we charge forward and fight head-on, we'll probably play into the enemy's hands. They have a gunboat and a patrol boat escorting us. They have four Type 92 heavy machine guns and a mortar. There are also a large number of puppet troops on the other boats. We guerrillas are so small. If we charge forward blindly, we won't be enough to fill the gaps in the enemy's teeth."

"The most crucial thing is that the enemy's armored gunboats have very thick armor. Even the Czech light machine guns have little effect on them. Grenades can be a bit effective, but our people can't get close to them at all."

After Instructor Zhou finished speaking, he fell into deep thought. This was indeed a troublesome matter. If the Japanese continued to use gunboats for escort, our guerrillas really had no good solution.

Fighting head-on is the worst option and will basically have no effect. Even if all the people are killed, it is estimated that only minor damage will be done to the enemy. It is a bit stupid to do so.

At this moment, he suddenly thought of a good idea, so he smiled and said, "I heard from the elders in the village that during the Ming Dynasty, our country was able to use divine fire mines to attack the enemy, and even developed mines that could explode underwater."

"Here's my idea: we can make the powerful hand grenades our superiors gave us into mines and detonate them near the Japanese transport fleet. Even if we can't sink their armored gunboats, at least we can sink some of their wooden transport ships. This will deter the Japanese from transporting supplies en masse, and we'll have accomplished our mission."

After hearing this, Captain Shi nodded with deep emotion, then discussed the details with the instructor, and prepared to go ashore tomorrow to find a craftsman in this area to try it out.

At this time, a small boat came from the lake, saying that it was a liaison sent by the superiors.

"Xiao Hu, why are you here? Does your superior have any new tasks?"

"Captain Shi, Instructor Zhou, this is the letter Commander Sun asked me to bring to your guerrilla unit."

After he finished speaking, he took out a wrinkled letter from his underwear pocket and handed it to Instructor Zhou, mainly because Captain Shi could not read.

After Instructor Zhou took the letter and read it for a while, he smiled and said, "Xiaohu, go and rest for a while and have something to eat. I'll send someone to take you back later. Please tell the commander that we are determined to complete the mission."

Then he turned and said, "Captain, good news, very good news. The commander said in the letter that headquarters will send a small force with the latest weapons to help us deal with the enemy's water transport fleet."

"Let us go to this place the day after tomorrow to pick them up. I took a look and it's still a bit far from us. We need to set off early."

"There's not much use for us guerrillas staying on this island anyway, so we might as well go to the shore and rest up. Oh, and we still have a dozen cans of food saved. Why don't we take them out and give them to our comrades who have come from afar as snacks, and also give the guerrillas something good to eat."

Upon hearing this, Captain Shi immediately rolled his eyes and started to complain:

"Hey, instructor, you're just a nerd. For those of us who live in the lake all year round, that canned food must be a delicacy. We can't even get it if we want it normally."

"All the canned meat is distributed by the logistics department. I guess it's not uncommon for the team to eat it every day over there."

"I've also heard that large numbers of animals often appear in the rear base areas. Every time these animals appear, the soldiers can have a few greasy meals. It's a pity that we're overrun with Japanese invaders here, so we don't get to see this rare good thing at all."

"I think we should have the soldiers catch some fish from the lake and have a fish feast, so that we can properly entertain our comrades who have come from afar."

After hearing this, Instructor Zhou suddenly understood and said with a wry smile, "I once heard an old man in the village tell the idiom story of carving a boat to find a sword. Now it seems that I was overthinking it. Let's do as the captain says."

On the third day, Captain Shi led the main force of the guerrillas to meet up with the small team, while Instructor Zhou took the rest of the people to a village on the shore, prepared some food, and waited for the arrival of the small team.

The leader of this team is named Gu. They are from a special training base specially trained to carry out special escort missions.

Compared with special forces that can perform difficult tasks at any time and any place, escort forces like squads have shorter training time and consume fewer resources. They are basically based on the model of armed work teams and are an enhanced version of elite armed work teams.

Their main task is to escort personnel or supplies from behind enemy lines to the base, or to transport things produced in the base to other places.

Generally, the guards are composed of twelve people in a group, and more people can be added according to the importance of the mission. They are also well-equipped with Big Black Star pistols, Ma Sihuan rifles, submachine guns, Czech light machine guns, and even grenade launchers and mortars depending on the situation.

A small group can easily kill a Japanese combat squad, and even if we encounter a small squad of enemies, we can escape unscathed. This is the confidence we gain from special operations training.

This time the squadron was escorting the latest mines developed by the arsenal, so the number of people was intentionally a bit large, reaching three combat teams, a total of thirty-six people.

Speaking of this mine, it was specially requested to be developed by the head of the headquarters. The main purpose is to delay the enemy's transportation of supplies through inland rivers or lakes.

After all, water transportation has natural advantages over road and rail transportation. In addition to large transportation volume and low cost, it is also convenient and fast.

If we use rail transportation, we can send a small force to use explosives to blow up the enemy's railway. Even if the enemy can repair it quickly, it will delay them for a while.

Sometimes, even special explosives are not needed. Just one or two defensive grenades produced in the base can stop all the trains on a railway for a day or two. It is impossible for the Japanese to station troops on every track, and even if all the enemy soldiers are used, it would probably not be enough.

Or they could send a large force to directly remove all the rails from the railway, making it difficult for the Japanese to repair the corresponding railway for several months.

There were also a large number of railway guerrillas who specialized in operating along the enemy's railway lines, making the nearby Japanese soldiers suffer terribly.

As for the roads, it was even simpler. We just needed to send a large number of armed work teams to dig a hole on the road and bury a few mines. The Japanese convoy transporting supplies would have a lot of fun. Exchanging two mines for an enemy military truck would mean we would make a fortune no matter how you look at it.

The mines used by our armed work teams now are not filled with the original black powder, but the latest yellow explosives produced in the industrial zone. The power of one mine is enough to blow a truck into scrap metal, and there are a lot of them.

Even if we were discovered by the Japanese, the loss to us would not be too great. It would be enough to delay the enemy's convoy for more than an hour. Now it has evolved into a situation where the Japanese convoy must have a certain number of engineers escorting them before they dare to travel on the road, and the driving speed has also been greatly reduced.