Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 231 Methods of Setting Up Booby Mines

The reason for this arrangement was naturally to delay as much time as possible. While laying landmines on the main roads, Wang Gensheng also dispersed 10,000 pineapple grenades into the bushes and forests on both sides of the road to set up booby traps.

Although booby traps are somewhat similar to landmines, both of which can launch attacks when the enemy is unaware, their threat is far greater than that of landmines.

Ordinary landmines need to be buried underground to harm unsuspecting enemies; but this bomb can be cleverly disguised and hidden in any environment, making it difficult for the enemy to defend against.

It is the booby trap that emerged and became infamous during World War II, a name that aptly describes its cunning nature.

This type of bomb can cleverly disguise itself and hide in various environments, thus turning any type of bomb into a booby trap. As long as it fits the surrounding camouflaged environment, it becomes a genuine booby trap.

Since its primary method of killing enemies is deception, it can be meticulously crafted into items that the enemy desires and placed in areas where the enemy is likely to pass. Once the enemy falls for the deception, they will pay a heavy price due to their lack of vigilance.

They disguise themselves as things that the enemy is interested in, such as items or food that the enemy likes, to lure the enemy into a trap.

This type of booby trap is quite common. It lures the enemy by disguising itself as something of interest, such as a favorite item, food when hungry, or drinking water when thirsty. The ingenuity of this booby trap lies in the fact that once the enemy picks up or opens these disguised items, it will trigger the explosive fuse, causing massive damage without warning.

In addition to booby traps, there are also provocation booby traps that use humiliating slogans to provoke enemies, causing them to lose their minds and cause them to destroy things, thereby triggering hidden bombs.

These booby traps cleverly exploit the enemy's anger to achieve their destructive purpose. They are typically carefully placed along enemy routes, appearing as highly humiliating slogans. Once the enemy sees these slogans, their anger often clouds their judgment, causing them to impulsively tear them down. However, unbeknownst to them, these slogans conceal explosive fuses. When triggered, they cause violent explosions, resulting in severe casualties.

In addition to the inducement and stimulation types, there are also concealed booby traps, which are placed near objects that need to be moved and detonated when the enemy opens or closes them via a concealed bolt.

These booby traps are carefully placed near objects that need to be moved frequently, such as doors or shipping containers that are frequently opened and closed. Hidden within the openings and closing points of these objects are often highly concealed explosive pins. When the enemy enters or exits their fortifications and needs to open or close these doors, they inadvertently trigger the booby trap, causing an explosion.

In addition to the three types mentioned above, there are also anti-obstacle mines, which are usually placed near obstacles. When the enemy removes the obstacle, it triggers a pre-set bomb attack.

When the enemy is hampered by these obstacles during combat and has to clear them, these booby traps will launch an attack the instant they are doing their best to clear the obstacles, causing unexpected casualties.

These types of booby traps can be deployed not only individually, but also in combination.

However, regardless of how booby traps are set up, they are all one of these four types of booby traps.

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"Hey! Hey~ Setting up these grenades doesn't need to be so complicated. Look at mine, all you need to do is weigh it down with a slightly thicker piece of wood, and then cover it with some fallen leaves. Isn't that a trap?"

As Wang Gensheng spoke, he demonstrated. He first pulled out the safety pin on the grenade's clip, then placed the grenade on the ground, and then used a dry tree branch about the thickness of an arm to weigh down the safety pin.

In this way, if someone walks by and accidentally bumps into the dry branch that holds the grenade in place, the safety pin of the grenade will pop out, triggering the firing pin and causing the grenade to explode.

The only downside is that the delay of the Miguo pineapple grenade cannot be adjusted. The four-second delay allows observant and quick-reacting soldiers to easily escape, but it's a disaster for those who aren't observant enough.

But it won't work against soldiers who are observant and quick to react; a four-second delay is enough for them to run more than ten meters before lying down again.

Of course, this isn't the only method; there are many other ways to turn pineapple grenades into booby traps that are hidden in the shadows and difficult to defend against.

For example, it can be placed on a tree branch and wedged. As soon as the searcher touches the branch, the already unstable grenade will fall down, and the safety clip, no longer held in place by the branch, will pop open. This is a way to set up booby traps that is difficult to defend against.

Of course, booby traps placed on the ground can be weighed down not only with tree branches, but also with stones, or even with a piece of mud.

However, this is within the country after all. If such a large minefield is created, it will definitely be a troublesome matter to clean it up later.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng adopted a method of dividing the work into sections and contracting out the entire area.

That is, each squad of soldiers was assigned a plot of land, with some people responsible for recording the locations of booby traps and the rest responsible for placing them.

While this method may slow down the installation of booby traps, it makes them easier to clean up afterwards, preventing situations where they cannot be removed.

"Duan Peng, go and get some wooden signs with the words 'This is a minefield' written on them, so that the locals don't accidentally wander in."

Wang Gensheng wasn't worried that such a direct indication would cause Du Yuming to take a detour, after all, Du Yuming was currently being pursued by hundreds of thousands of men from the Third Field Army!
If he dares to take a detour, it will be at least 20 kilometers. Don't underestimate those 20 kilometers, unless all 300,000 men that Du Yuming is leading are cavalry or are all transported by trucks.

If everyone relied on their own two feet to travel, then twenty kilometers would be enough to take them most of the day. It's just a pity that most of the 300,000 people led by Du Yuming relied on their own two feet to travel.

Less than three hours after Wang Gensheng and his marines spent most of the day setting up the minefield, Du Yuming arrived with the main force at the minefield set up by Wang Gensheng.

"Si Ling, there's a sign ahead that says there's a minefield ahead. Should we get out of the car and check it?"

Du Yuming also had a headache after hearing the report about the minefield, and immediately waved his hand and said:

"Quickly send the engineers to scout and clear the mines!"

However, Wang Gensheng was not afraid at all when Du Yuming sent out engineers to detect mines, because the engineers' mine detectors were all magnetic detectors, and the landmines that Wang Gensheng obtained from the Third Field Army were not only metal landmines, but also clay landmines!

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the engineers' metal detectors.

These were landmines that even the Japanese devils couldn't handle, let alone Du Yuming's mine-clearing troops.

(End of this chapter)