Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

Then, a long and narrow shell with a tail flame was seen fired from the ambush position, accurately hitting the armored steel plate of the Japanese Type 89 tank, directly penetrating the steel plate, causing a huge explosion and blowing the entire head of the armored vehicle into pieces.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Guosheng and the soldiers who participated in the ambush were stunned. They did not expect that the Japanese armored vehicles that gave them a headache would be destroyed in an instant by an inconspicuous artillery shell. They were stunned on the spot.

After a shell was fired, the loader immediately inserted a new shell into the barrel, aimed at another one, and fired. In just two rounds, the 17 tanks or armored vehicles of the Japanese tank squadron were easily destroyed, leaving only thick flames to tell the story of what had just happened.

Zhu Guosheng reacted immediately with an excited look on his face. He immediately led his men out and surrounded the destroyed vehicles. He immediately organized people to put out the flames, check if there were any Japanese soldiers who had not been eliminated, captured them, and then led his men to dismantle the remaining debris and engine parts, buried the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, and evacuated the battlefield.

The whole process lasted less than half an hour, and only the strong smell of gunpowder remained in the air, telling of the fierceness of the battlefield just now.

At the same time that Zhu Guosheng destroyed the tank squadron, the 117th Regiment also entered the ambush circle of part of the 389th Brigade. After entering completely, Huang Hanjia gave a signal and the artillery began to fire shells along the calculated mudflats. A total of 10 rounds were fired, and 160 shells accurately hit the large Japanese force, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army and making the formation extremely chaotic.

Then, the soldiers on the top of the mountain began to throw grenades at the Japanese troops below, and then pulled the bolt to start shooting at the Japanese troops in chaos.

Since this section of road is almost the riverbed of a small river, it is covered with gravel and it is difficult for people and vehicles to pass through. After being ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, there are not many shelters around that can effectively block the attack of the Eighth Route Army. They can only rely on vehicles and quickly find cover to fight back.

At the same time, Naozo Nakano, the brigade commander who led the 117th Regiment, broke out in a cold sweat after realizing that he had been ambushed. He suddenly realized that he had hurriedly sent the tank squadron out to rescue because the cavalry battalion was attacked, and even put himself in danger.

Suddenly, he remembered the 79th Regiment of the 20th Division, which had also been ambushed by the Chinese army. The funny thing was that he was also laughing at the stupidity of the 79th Regiment at that time. He didn't expect that he would follow in the same fate as the 79th Regiment today. So he immediately ordered the telegraph operator to send a message to the division headquarters in Wu'an, telling the division commander Shimomoto Xiongya that he had been ambushed by a large number of Chinese troops and was also attacked by artillery battalion, and asked him to rush to rescue.

Afterwards, in order to prevent his troops from being divided and surrounded by the Chinese army, he immediately ordered the entire regiment to concentrate light and heavy firepower to counterattack the Chinese army from the periphery.

At the same time, the squadrons of the infantry covering the artillery battalion and the artillery squadrons directly under the regiment on the inner line immediately found the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions of the Chinese army opposite, and immediately launched a counterattack to destroy them.

When Huang Hanjia began to see the Japanese concentrating their firepower and artillery in preparation for a counterattack at the forward outpost, he immediately felt that an opportunity had come and immediately ordered the rocket launcher operators brought from the brigade headquarters to begin firing at the concentrated Japanese forces and artillery.

Just like the previous ambush on the tank squadron, the soldiers carrying rocket launchers on their shoulders pulled the triggers and fired ordinary shells at the dense crowd of Japanese troops, instantly destroying the Japanese machine gun squadron and artillery squadron.