Chapter Four Hundred and Twelve: Leave a Last Message

Landmines, the infantry's nightmare, this is not an exaggeration. If you knew you had to pass through a minefield, any infantryman would have nightmares.

When Gao Yang and his group received training in Israel, they were briefly introduced to knowledge about landmines, but they did not study in depth. It was impossible for them to think about demining, and when Gao Yang heard Sirte stepped on a mine, he immediately knew that it was an anti-infantry bounding mine.

Since the Germans invented the modern bounding mine in the 1930s, the very name has become every infantryman's nightmare. For infantry, especially for those at the vanguard, tanks, planes, cannons, rifles, and grenades put together posed less of a threat than one single, small bounding mine.

Step on it and it goes off—that's a pressure mine. Whoever steps on it is out of luck. But for a release mine, which doesn't go off when you step on it but does when you lift your foot off, that's a bounding mine.