Chapter 104 Someone Is Going to Play a Tunnel War

"Ogawa-kun, I didn't hear what you just said!"

Wakiitajiro's tone was cold.

In fact, that expression is just: Brother gives you a chance to reorganize your language.

Who knows that there are people in this world who can be officials, and there are also those who cannot be officials.

The Japanese captain hesitated for a moment, but still resisted his superior's visible lust, no, anger, and bravely reported carefully: "Your Excellency, the Wing Commander, the Wing Artillery Squadron requested to stop the bombardment. The Chinese mortars have long been... ....”

Although he didn't explain it clearly, the general idea was: Brother, our current shelling is meaningless, don't you think the Chinese won't play with us anymore?

"Captain Ogawa, when did the wing headquarters need the artillery squadron for tactical guidance?" Wakiitajiro's face was so dark that he almost caught up with the fisherman major, and his tone was like the north wind in March in the cold winter, so cold that it could almost blow away the wind. Ice slag.

The Japanese captain lowered his head, but did not dare to say another word.

No matter how he doesn't know how to be an official, this person can still hear the eagerness of the captain to kill someone.

However, it was impossible to let him go, because he had a cannon, but it was almost out of ammunition.

"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, Captain Ogawa called half an hour ago to report that their artillery shell reserves are almost exhausted." Lieutenant Colonel Makino Jun, who was still on the side, helped to rescue this man.

"Then what is the baggage squadron of the wing headquarters doing? Didn't I order them to go to the division yesterday to speed up the transportation of critical baggage?" Jiro Wakibata somewhat knew the reason for this, so he simply directed his anger at the baggage squadron that was not present.

"They have set off at six o'clock. Judging from the time, it should be almost here." The Japanese lieutenant colonel, who has always been suppressed by Wakiitajiro and has a very low sense of presence, and can only be responsible for the logistics of baggage, reported quickly.

He knew that his immediate boss was on the verge of losing control, and he was unwilling to become a victim of his anger.

Jiro Wakita, who tried his best to suppress his anger, stopped talking, picked up the binoculars again and looked ahead for a while, then turned back to the Japanese captain who was still standing there with his head fixed and said:

"Captain Ogawa, I reiterate the military order of the wing headquarters. Before receiving the official order to stop bombardment, your mountain artillery must fire. If there are no shells, all the officers of your Ogawa team starting from Taixiang Ogawa and below will be stuffed into the cannon. , cum out!”

"Hi!" The Japanese captain lowered his head and stood at attention.

After Jiro Wakiba turned his back again and the lieutenant colonel waved slightly, the Japanese captain with a bitter look on his face quietly exited the wing.

It didn't matter that the wing commander was crazy. What mattered was how he had to spend this period of time when the artillery reserve was about to be exhausted and the baggage squadron had not yet arrived.

This was exactly what happened before Tang Dao woke up, so the officers and soldiers in the warehouse felt that the Japanese artillery bombardment had become weak. It was not that the Japanese artillery wanted to herd sheep, but that the landlords had no food left.

"Makino-kun, how is the digging of the underground tunnel that you ordered yesterday?" When the blind artillery squadron leader left, he put down the telescope in his hand and asked Wakita Jiro, whose face was so gloomy that it was almost dripping with water.

"Your Excellency, Captain, the soft soil layer in Songhu, China is thick, and it is necessary to dig deeper into the hard soil layer to ensure sufficient support and prevent collapse. However, because Songhu has abundant rain and too much water, the division engineer wing is thinking Way to drain water." The Japanese Lieutenant Colonel reported quickly.

"However, both tunnels have now been dug forward for more than 100 meters, and the entrances of the tunnels are tightly hidden in residential buildings and will never be discovered by the Chinese side."

"Yo Xi! Tell them for me that if this strategy succeeds, I will ask the division commander for their credit!" Hearing that the Engineer Regiment finally achieved something, Wakiitajiro's face finally looked better.

As the saying goes, three stooges are better than Zhuge Liang! This is the idea that the Japanese colonel discussed for a long time yesterday afternoon with a few fat grasshoppers on his vine.

Start digging a tunnel 600 meters away and keep digging until you reach the vicinity of the warehouse. Do not send troops to attack from the tunnel, otherwise they will be killed like a whack-a-mole.

Rather, the Chinese can use pre-planted explosives to blow up a building and bury an infantry squad, so why not treat them the same way they did?

The two tunnels don't need to be very close to the building, even if they are still about 20 meters apart. If 1,000 kilograms is not enough, then 2,000 kilograms will be used.

There is no need to work hard on the solid building of Sihang Warehouse and directly destroy its foundation. The stronger the construction on the ground of Sihang Warehouse, the heavier it is and the faster it will collapse.

As for the concession opposite, the Japanese colonel Ding Xiaohuahua, who was beaten to a black and bruised face by the Chinese defenders yesterday and was stabbed severely again at night, no longer cares so much. He only needs to ensure that his bullets and artillery shells do not hit him. Other air waves or flying stones are no longer controllable by him.

It has to be said that if it can be implemented smoothly according to the plan, this is an extremely vicious trick.

Not to mention that it can collapse the Sihang Warehouse building, I am afraid that the seismic waves generated by the explosion alone can kill half of the people on the first floor.

The biggest difficulty here is not the fear of being discovered by the Chinese, but the soft soil in Songhu that gives people a headache.

But now it seems that the excellent civil engineering skills of the Japanese engineers have overcome this biggest problem. It is strange that Jiro Wakiba is unhappy.

The Japanese Army at this time dared to claim to be the best in Asia, and it was not based on blind self-confidence. They had the most complete industrial system and military training system in Asia at that time. From equipment to various techniques and tactics, they were the best in the East.

Including the seemingly insignificant civil engineering operations, not only the Japanese professional engineers, but even the ordinary infantry, their performance on the battlefield was amazing.

If the battle that took place more than two years later, in which the red commander galloped on the battlefield and commanded nearly 10,000 troops to besiege hundreds of Japanese troops but still failed to do their best, did not fully reflect the strength of the Japanese civil engineering operations, then the battle of Songshan Fortress in the southwest jungle a few years later, even the arrogant Westerners were dumbfounded by the level of Japanese civil engineering operations.

The Chinese army had more than 15,000 troops, and the defending Japanese army had only 1,200 people, more than ten times the force comparison, and at that time, the Chinese army had far surpassed the Japanese army in heavy firepower, and there were bombers to help, which was much more disparate than the current Sino-Japanese comparison in the Battle of Sihang Warehouse.

But the final outcome made the Chinese generals shed tears. Although more than 1,200 Japanese soldiers in the fortress were wiped out and only one Japanese soldier survived by chance, the price paid by China was 6,000 casualties, and the casualty rate reached 38%, which would break any commander's heart.

The Japanese army during this period was absolutely China's most terrible opponent, no matter in terms of equipment, tactics or fighting will.

Otherwise, China would have paid countless sacrifices under the common hatred of the enemy and the whole nation's resistance to the war, and only then could it be regarded as shattering the Japanese army's theory of quick victory and dragging the war into a long stalemate. Relying on its vast territory and huge population base, it took nearly ten years to exhaust the entire Japanese war potential bit by bit.

Even this was the result of the strategic mistakes made by the Japanese high-level officials.

As a little butterfly Tang Dao from the future, this point is clearer than anyone in this era.

Facing such a terrible opponent, to become the winner of the final national defense war, the Chinese military and civilians do not know how heavy the price and suffering will be.

Just like the defense battle in front of them, the Japanese will never accept defeat.

However, it is just a matter of fighting back.

The Tang swords in the warehouse have already smelled the strong smell of conspiracy from the Japanese army through the gunpowder smoke from the weakened but still stubborn Japanese artillery.