Because the Japanese army reacted very quickly, there was not much time left for Wang Xiaoming to prepare. However, after years of arduous guerrilla career, Wang Xiaoming began to prepare after leaving the main force led by Liu Changshun.

Although due to time constraints, the deployment is not very sufficient. However, because many of the original fortifications of the Japanese army could be used, the link of building blocking fortifications was omitted. Before the arrival of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, the approximate preparations were also completed.

Wang Xiaoming seized the 500 pieces left by Liu Changshun from the Xingshan Fortress, and all the Japanese-style mines that were originally laid after the completion of the construction of the fortress were buried on the road from Xingshan Street to the front of Guanmenzuizi Mountain.

Even in order to increase the power of the mines, when laying them, Wang Xiaoming also tied grenades and bullets to the mines to increase the power of the explosion.

Wang Xiaoming, who had heard Yang Zhen give a lecture to the reconnaissance battalion, did not lay mines according to the usual practice, but planted them in front of his own position. Instead, it adopted the method of burying the false and the real, the real and the false, and began to lay it from the place where the highway entered the mountain. On the road, on both sides of the road, the places on the hills that are easy to walk on, he laid mines.

In addition to the mines, Wang Xiaoming was also a kilometer away from his main position, under the foot of a small hill, as the only slightly wider open land nearby, in Wang Xiaoming's view, it could be used as a staging place for the Japanese attack, and nearly two tons were laid, and electric detonators were installed, which could be detonated by a field telephone as a power source.

Yang Zhen was shocked by the explosion in the Wudaohezi Iron Mine, although Wang Xiaoming did not mention it, but he had heard of it. didn't fire a single shot, and only used some of the captured explosives to annihilate the thousands of puppet troops, which made Wang Xiaoming always fascinated. Although the terrain in front of him was not as dangerous as that of Wudaolingzi Iron Mine, it also made Wang Xiaoming feel that he could repeat the commander's tactics here.

Anyway, the Japanese army transported several tons of ammonium nitrate explosives in order to build the Xingshan fortress. Although it is not as powerful as military-standard TNT explosives, it is fortunate that there are sufficient quantities. It's not about making shells, it's enough to build a fortress with ammonium nitrate explosives. They also did not have strong fortifications, and they did not need to use the powerful but relatively expensive TNT that they had on hand.

Although the arrangement is a bit hasty. Especially in the absence of professional sappers, the interval between the points where the explosives are laid, the burial yield no one will calculate, after all, these require extremely specialized engineering knowledge. But the good thing is that the amount of explosives is sufficient.

Wang Xiaoming's painstaking arrangement was not in vain, and all the money that was not Lang Fei at all was used on the Third Cavalry Brigade that galloped all the way. Before the attack could be launched, the vanguard of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade suffered heavy casualties as soon as it entered the mountain.

The quality of the military highway built by the Japanese army is still good, and it took only half a day to arrive at Xingshan Street, which is far from the south of Xingshan Fortress, after crossing the Songhua River. After recovering Koyama Street, which had relatively good fortifications, without firing a single shot, Major General Naota Yoshi, who had been a little nervous along the way, relaxed.

In his opinion, perhaps the other side retreated because they were unable to defend the fortress after capturing it. Otherwise, according to military common sense, if you want to hold the Xingshan fortress from the south, you must definitely hold it, and the Xingshan Street, which is the outpost of the fortress, will not even have a ghost shadow except for the coal mines that have been blown up everywhere.

Before he could relax, Major General Naoda Yoshiko breathed a sigh of relief, and after entering the mountain, he found that his hard days had come. As soon as they entered the mountain, a cavalry squadron at the head fell into a mine formation, and most of the squadron was killed and injured by the mines that exploded everywhere.

Without firing a single shot, Naoda Yoshi, who lost most of the squadron, looked at the dead men and horses in one place, and his face instantly turned pale. At this moment, the troops that he had not had much on hand were almost one-sixth of them all at once. Looking at the vast mountains around him, Naoda Yoshi's heart gave birth to a strong sense of unease.

Sending cavalry, which is more suitable for plain assault operations, to fight mountain warfare, is to use one's own shortcomings to the opponent's strengths. Now that the other side has mines again, and he doesn't even have a single sapper on hand, I'm afraid the outcome of this battle will not be too good.

After several inquiries to Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru whether to wait for the arrival of the 104th Division, in the case of entering the mountains to no avail, Major General Naoda Yoshichi could only bite the bullet and order the troops to dismount and leave all the war horses on Xingshan Street. Everyone pulled out of formation and hiked into the mountains.

But what followed was not rosy. Although he voluntarily gave up his war horse and changed it to infantry. But the mines planted by the adversary are almost endless. There are on the road, on the hills on both sides of the road, and in the bushes on both sides of the road. There are even some tripping mines tied with grenades hanging in the bushes, inconspicuous places. It looks harmless, and if you walk in, you might blow up.

The most exaggerated is a Japanese soldier who is in a hurry to urinate and runs to the side of the road to pee. Despite caution, a tripping mine with a grenade planted in the grass on the side of the road stumbled. Not only was he blown up into the sky, but he also implicated several combat groups that were marching behind him. The shrapnel of the grenades that exploded in the air flew everywhere, and the Japanese soldiers were pierced into hedgehogs.

Fortunately, the formation was very open, although there were not many Japanese soldiers who won the lottery, and the marching speed was also very slow, but the overall casualties were reduced a lot. But even so, the soldiers who were killed and wounded by mines along the way, plus most of the squadron killed and injured when they first entered the mountain, were enough to make up one squadron.

Fortunately, after arriving at the front line of Guanmenzuizi Mountain, no one stepped on those strange and everywhere mines that were planted. Looking at Guanmenzuizi Mountain, which was less than a thousand meters away from him in a straight line, almost all the officers and men of the Third Cavalry Brigade who were about to go crazy after being tortured by the mines had a look of relief on their faces.

Almost all the officers and men of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade thought that it was better to be killed by a bullet than to be blown to pieces or maimed by a refueled mine that appeared at some unknown time. They are almost so strangely planted by these that they can even pee and scatter dangerous mines, and their torment is on the verge of collapse.

It's just that all the Japanese officers and men of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade didn't know that their opponent and the reconnaissance platoon under his opponent who planted these mines had learned less than 30% of the skill of their supreme commander.

If the opponent's supreme commander, who had learned how to arrange tricks and thunders decades later, would be able to reach Guanmenzuizi Mountain safely with such a small number of troops, it would be good.

You must know that the Chinese army, which had experienced the mine warfare in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the mine warfare honed by the Sino-Vietnamese border war in the 10-year border war, laid out the tactics of treacherous mines, and claimed to be the second, and absolutely no one dared to call it the first. Especially as Yang Zhen, who has specialized in special minelaying tactics, his unique skills are definitely the first in this world and this era.

If Yang Zhen saw these so-called treacherous thunder arrays arranged by Wang Xiaoming that were full of flaws in his eyes, he would have to scold him for embarrassing himself.

Hang the tripping mine in an inconspicuous place in the bushes, and do it with a little camouflage, which is also called a trick mine? After planting a mine on a hillside, it is not to say that a layer of fresh grass is covered on top of the mine to make some camouflage.

This is also the first attempt, the inexperienced Japanese army, replaced Yang Zhen himself will not even step on one. And a whole squadron of cavalry will be lost there?

Of course, Yang Zhen thought that Wang Xiaoming's deployment of this treacherous thunder array from the beginning of entering the mountain to the front line of Guanmenzuizi Mountain embarrassed him, and that was a later matter. But at this moment, for the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, who were still complete, from Naoda Yoshishi to the most ordinary soldiers below, they were all relieved.

Looking through the binoculars at Guanmenzuizi Mountain, which was less than a kilometer away from him, Major General Naoda Yoshishi knew that as long as he passed the mountain pass, he would be on the mountain line, the core position of his destination, the Xingshan Fortress. As long as you take the front line of the position, your task should be completed.

looked tired, in order to avoid winning the bid, because the skirmish line was very open, and the subordinates who were still arriving one after another. Major General Naoda Yoshichi could only find a slightly flat terrain and form a team first. The troops that walked in a mess, with the artillery still jumping in circles behind, let alone attacking, even defense was impossible.

However, for the sake of reliability, Major General Naoda Yoshichi did not immediately drive his troops to the flat ground, but after the arrival of the only artillery squadron carrying horses among the troops that had now been converted to infantry, he drove all the horses pulling the artillery up to the flat ground and ran a few laps on the flat ground. It was only after it was determined that there were no mines that they deployed their headquarters and troops there as a starting point for an attack.

It's just that Major General Naoda Yoshi, who was busy sorting out his troops, didn't know that there were indeed no mines here, and they were also outside the main fire range of Guanmenzuizi Mountain. And because there is a small hill across the mountain from Guanmenzuizi, the enemy's artillery fire is blocked, and it seems to be a safe place, but there are explosives buried underground that can blow up one of their brigades into the sky.

In fact, not far from him, even under the guard position he had arranged, Wang Xiaoming, who was holding a telescope to carefully observe his movements, watched him organize his troops, and a subtle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The platoon commander of the reconnaissance platoon, who was a little creepy by the sly on his lips and was holding a field phone used as an initiator, saw that most of the Japanese troops had already driven into the open field, so he asked softly: "Political commissar, is it possible to detonate?" ”

Wang Xiaoming, who was holding the binoculars, said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, the devils haven't all entered the open field yet." After a while, this time Lao Tzu is going to stew them all with a spoonful. It's a pity that there are only two squadrons and one artillery squadron, and there are fewer people. It would be nice to be a devil with a wing. ”

If Wang Xiaoming was a little dissatisfied, the reconnaissance platoon commander didn't know what to say. Two squadrons of Japanese troops are still too little? If you fight hard, you will fight a real battle. He didn't want to think that with his strength of only one battalion, plus those independent companies cobbled together by miscellaneous prisoners of war, with the existing equipment, it would be good to be able to eat one squadron of the other side.

He also thought that in the battle of Qunce Mountain, his side had an absolute advantage in artillery to cover it.

But since Wang Xiaoming, the commander, is not in a hurry, what kind of concern does he, a subordinate, have? The two of them waited here slowly, and all the Japanese troops who were still rushing to this side one after another entered the open field. It wasn't until Major General Naota Yoshi, who was sitting on a stone resting, stood up and stood in front of the assembled Japanese army, and it was just when he was giving a lecture that Wang Xiaoming waved his hand slowly.

After tons of explosives were detonated, the open field where a large number of Japanese troops had just been concentrated almost became hell on earth. When Major General Naoda Yoshichi was torn to pieces by the violent explosion, the only thought that stayed in his mind was: "Yaga, I still fell for the trick of the Shina people." ”

Major General Naoda Yoshichi and the main force of his 3rd Cavalry Brigade were all wiped out, and the squad and heavy machine gun squad that he had placed on the guard position on the hill had not yet recovered from the shock of the explosion before they were hidden at the foot of the hill, and the defenders suddenly appeared and swept through with submachine guns, killing and wounding embers. Wang Xiaoming almost wiped out the main force of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army with almost zero casualties.

Although as soon as he made a move, he cleanly solved the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army. However, after the 108th Wing, which arrived later, saw the stumps and severed arms at the scene of the explosion, instead of being frightened and retracting like the Fourth Division, they launched a thunderous and rainstorm-like attack like a retaliation, which made Wang Xiaoming really feel a huge pressure.