Bright Sword: I took Li Yunlong to work in military industry

Chapter 371: Fire burned the camps, a raging fire!

The seven-member team completed the fire in three locations respectively. It only took a minute or two, and three fire lines stretching over a hundred meters appeared in the dark night.

The fire line surrounded the mountains and forests around the Japanese Tangjiabao ammunition depot from three directions.

The northwest wind is strong, the water content of trees in winter is low, and the resin content is very high. A four or five-meter-tall tree can often be ignited within a dozen seconds, and be engulfed by flames within three to five minutes and then burn fiercely.

After the seven-member team completed the ignition, they originally wanted to stay for a few minutes to observe the burning of the flame, but the development of the fire was really beyond their expectations.

After just a few dozen seconds, they felt the burning sensation brought by the high temperature generated by the raging fire and could not stay there for long.

The seven-man team quickly evacuated and ran quickly towards the foot of the mountain without looking back.

Ten minutes after the fire was lit, the fire had spread to a distance of several hundred meters. At this time, the Japanese soldiers in the firing points on the top of the mountain finally noticed something was wrong and began to shout loudly and blow warning whistles.

As one vantage point discovered the fire, other vantage points also discovered the fire and began to sound the alarm.

The sounds of the Japanese sentry posts came one after another. For a moment, the entire outer perimeter of Tangjiabao was on alert, as if the Chinese army was besieging from all directions.

In the ammunition depot fortress, Saburo Shimizu was still conveying Yoshio Shinozuka's requirements for their key units to several grassroots officers. Before he could say a few words, he heard loud whistles from all directions. The situation was very serious.

Almost in an instant, cold sweat broke out on Shimizu Saburo's forehead. This damn thing is really beyond his comprehension.

The sound of the warning whistles one after another made him a little nervous. At this moment, he remembered the fear of other brother units being dominated by the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment. Is he going to face the Independent Regiment head-on this time?

Although Shimizu Saburo was still fearless because of the solidity of the ammunition depot fortress, he could not stand the sound of the guard posts everywhere.

"what's the situation?"

Shimizu Saburo quickly calmed himself down and asked the sentry who had just returned from the fortress sentry post.

"Report to Captain Qingshui, there is a fire on the mountain outside our ammunition depot. The fire is very large. It has burned half of the mountain in just over ten minutes. Two firing points on the hillside have been surrounded by the fire.

The stronghold on the top of the mountain was also surrounded.

Just now the guard at the stronghold on the top of the mountain called and asked whether they should evacuate first or what to do?

If they don’t evacuate, they will burn to death.”

The Japanese soldier who had just withdrawn from his sentry post had a look of panic on his face, obviously he had witnessed the horrific fire with his own eyes.

"No, we can't retreat, even if we have to die on the commanding heights!"

The calm look was no longer on Shimizu Saburo's face. He shouted at the Japanese soldier in a serious tone, realizing the seriousness of the problem.

"This fire must have been set intentionally by the Chinese armed forces. Their purpose was to force our soldiers defending the commanding heights to withdraw. This is definitely not possible.

They must have ambushed us now. If we withdraw, we will be ambushed immediately."

Although Saburo Shimizu was a little lax in the previous defense, he was still very clear-headed when facing the enemy. He knew that he must not panic or retreat at will at this time.

"Arrange the reserve troops stationed in our arsenal to quickly follow the path behind the mountain to support the soldiers stationed on the commanding heights and help them cut out a firebreak first!"

Saburo Shimizu gave the order decisively.

"But......"

The squadron leader who received the order was a little hesitant. It would be a very dangerous task to cut the isolation belt at this time, and there might be an ambush of Chinese troops outside.

"No, but if you fail to complete this mission, our commanding heights will be lost, and the Chinese army will be able to easily attack our ammunition depot.

If the ammunition depot is lost, all of us will be dead in battle!"

Shimizu Saburo said with a serious expression.

"Hai!"

When the squadron leader heard this, he did not dare to hesitate any longer and immediately took his squadron to support the garrison troops at various commanding heights.

According to the nature of the Japanese army, this kind of extremely dangerous and technically easy job was usually assigned to the puppet army. However, due to the importance of the Tangjiabao ammunition depot, there were no puppet troops in the garrison, so the only option was to let the Japanese squadron leader lead his squadron to do this job.

All of this was seen by the Liangshan Battalion of the Independent Regiment who were ambushed outside the ammunition depot, but the monk and Wang Gensheng did not ambush the squadron of Japanese soldiers who were going to put out the fire as Shimizu Saburo had expected.

First, it was unnecessary, because the Japanese still underestimated the horror of the wildfire. Since it had burned to this extent, it was absolutely impossible to put out the fire without modern firefighting methods or mobilizing thousands of people to put out the fire in a short time. After the more than 200 Japanese soldiers in this squadron went there, they were most likely roasted alive by the wildfire.

Second, this was part of the monk's plan. He needed to lure out these devils to weaken the defense of the entire ammunition depot.

Originally, there were over a thousand Japanese soldiers stationed at the ammunition depot, and about 200 soldiers stationed at the outer firepower points. At this time, a squadron of more than 200 soldiers were sent out. Now, there were only more than 500 soldiers left inside the Japanese ammunition depot fortress, which had greatly reduced the Japanese's troop strength.

For the Liangshan Special Forces, the toughest nut to crack is the ammunition depot and fuel depot.

The Japs were not fools. All the trees within a 500-meter radius of the ammunition depot were cut down to prevent anyone from using fire attacks and to leave no hiding place for the attacking troops.

After the Japanese squadron came out of the fortress, the monk did not launch an attack immediately, he was waiting.

"Captain, should we start fighting now?"

Wang Gensheng was watching from the side, feeling a little anxious.

"hold on!"

The monk said grimly, holding a Gatling gun in his hand.

"What are you waiting for?"

"When the enemy's firepower bases on the top of the hills on both sides are surrounded by fire and they have no energy to care about us, we can start fighting."

After such a long period of training, the monk has completely grown into an excellent grassroots commander. He does not just work hard, but knows how to find the right opportunity and mobilize the entire team to find the most suitable opportunity to attack.

The Tangjiabao ammunition depot is located in the valley between two mountains. Powerful firepower is deployed on the tops of the two mountains to form a cross-fire field, which can eliminate any attacking enemy in the open space outside the ammunition depot.

Originally this plan was foolproof, but this time they encountered the Liangshan Special Detachment of the Independent Regiment.