Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 303 Unremovable Anti-Tank Mines
Smith frowned deeply at the sight, but there was nothing he could do; his worst fears had come true.

Smith didn't know how many landmines were on this highway or how long they stretched, but he could only wave his hand and send out demining soldiers again.

This time, the mine-clearing soldiers used an extended mine-clearing detector.

That's right, the mine-clearing soldiers in the US aren't stupid either, when they see a landmine that explodes from more than two meters away.

They immediately realized it was a tripwire mine, so they immediately thought of lengthening the detection rod to detect the mine.

This way, you don't have to worry about triggering a landmine trap before you've even detected a landmine and getting blown up.

However, the mine-clearing soldiers in the United States had a good plan, but in reality, things were not like that at all.

This is exactly what happened after the mine-clearing soldier detected the landmine with his detector; he immediately prepared to mark it.

However, after taking only two steps forward, he felt his foot slip as if he had stepped into a pit.

The minesweeper knew he had stepped into a tripwire-type pit, but before he could fall backward, the pineapple grenade, which was being used as a landmine and had no time-delay fuse, exploded.

The scattered shrapnel pierced through the several tens of centimeters of snow in an instant, severing the artery in the demining soldier's neck.

Under such conditions, with the carotid artery severed by shrapnel, there was clearly no way to save the patient.

It's important to know that the ability of human brain nerve cells to withstand oxygen deprivation varies from person to person, generally lasting about six minutes. This means that brain neurons can only survive for six minutes in an anaerobic state. When the carotid artery is severed, the blood pressure in the cerebral arteries immediately drops to zero. This means that the arterial blood in the brain cannot supply oxygen to the brain, and the brain immediately loses its oxygen supply. As a result, brain cells will die after six minutes. Brain death is true death, which is biological death.

It is clear that there are no conditions to reconnect blood vessels for treatment at present. After all, the carotid artery is not like the artery in the leg or arm, where a pressure band can be used to stop the bleeding. If the carotid artery is cut, even if a pressure band is used to stop the bleeding, it will cause the brain to fall into a state of hypoxia and then die immediately.

There's no way a person can live without hands or feet, but without a brain, they really can't survive.

Smith, who was watching from a distance, saw all of this. Seeing that the mine-clearing captain was about to send more mine-clearing soldiers up, Smith quickly stopped this suicidal act.

Then he said to the mine-clearing team leader:

“The enemy is clever and knows the mine-clearing process well, so going up like this is not to clear mines, but to their deaths. You should arrange for the mine-clearing soldiers to go around the slopes on both sides of the road for a while, and then enter the road to clear mines from front to back!”

It must be said that Smith was quite clever. He had already guessed that the tripwire traps of Wang Gensheng's tripwire mines were all facing one side, so he had the mine-clearing soldiers go around a section of the road and clear the mines from front to back, so that they would not trigger the traps.

Wang Gensheng would not lay landmines on the hillsides on both sides of the highway.

Smith's guess was correct; Wang Gensheng did not plant landmines on the hillsides on both sides of the road, but only on the road itself.

After all, Wang Gensheng was only trying to hinder Smith's tanks and troop transport trucks. If Smith dared to order the abandonment of tanks and cars, and the abandonment of heavy equipment to fight the reinforcements from Chaozhou with light equipment, Wang Gensheng would be more than happy to do so!

Wang Gensheng, who was observing all of this from a distant hillside with binoculars, showed no intention of stopping it.

After all, how could Wang Gensheng make such a basic mistake!

By pointing all the tripwires of the landmines to one side, aren't you leaving the enemy with an obvious and fatal weakness?

The mine-clearing soldier, who had taken a detour, quickly and cautiously began to probe with his detector. With the buzzing of the detector, he soon located a landmine buried by the roadside. He carefully dug away the thick snow on top, then removed a layer of loose soil, and found a pineapple grenade lying in the pit, its safety pin facing upwards and the safety pin already attached to the pull cord.

The mine-clearing soldier was not surprised to see that the mines were modified from hand grenades he had produced himself, because he also understood that a large amount of equipment abandoned during the retreat had fallen into the hands of the reinforcements.

They would inevitably be used against them, but what they didn't expect was that the reinforcements had already mastered how to modify hand grenades into landmines so quickly.

As the tripwire on the safety pin was released, the minesweeper took the landmine, which had been modified from a hand grenade.

Smith smiled as he watched the demining team successfully defuse a landmine, proving that his method was effective.

Subsequently, one after another, landmines modified from hand grenades were cleared by the mine-clearing soldiers, which naturally increased their confidence.

As the mine-clearing team continued, they quickly detected a unique landmine, and based on the intensity of the sound feedback detected by the mine detector, this landmine was a large one.

As the mine-clearing soldiers dug through the snow and loose soil, they discovered an anti-tank mine.

The mine-clearing soldiers were naturally very familiar with this anti-tank mine, because it was their own M1A1 anti-tank mine.

This anti-tank mine weighs 5.3 kilograms and has an explosive charge of 2.7 kilograms, making its explosive power quite considerable.

However, despite its immense explosive power, it is quite safe for infantry because the detonation requires a pressure of over 150 kilograms.

Therefore, it is generally fine for infantrymen to step on it, or even jump on it slightly.

Only tanks weighing tens of tons or heavy vehicles can trigger the explosion when they run over it; even light jeeps or motorcycles cannot trigger it.

Because he knew his anti-tank mines very well, this mine-clearing soldier was able to dismantle them quite casually.

After quickly clearing away the soil around the anti-tank mine, the mine-clearing soldier prepared to take it away.

However, just as the mine-clearing soldier picked up the anti-tank mine, he suddenly heard a "ding" sound.

Immediately afterward, the anti-tank mine in his hand suddenly exploded. If the mine, made from a pineapple grenade, exploded, it might leave the mine-clearing soldier with a whole body, or even, if he was lucky, the shrapnel might not have hit any vital organs and he might have survived.

However, the 5.3 kg anti-tank mine with a 2.7 kg explosive charge exploded at close range.

The fate of the mine-clearing soldiers was rather unfortunate. You have to understand that the explosive charge of a pineapple grenade is only 57 grams. That's equivalent to the explosive charge of 50 such grenades.

As the explosive charge increases, the explosion produces not only shrapnel but also shockwave damage.

This mine-clearing soldier who was supposed to defuse landmines has been completely wiped out.

Furthermore, several other mine-clearing soldiers who were a dozen meters away were also affected.

(End of this chapter)