Having seen the Eighth Route Army shift to defense on the spot before, he was still considering whether the cavalry squadron should wait for the infantry to arrive before launching an attack. Compared to them, the cavalry was better at raids and was not equipped with heavy weapons, making it difficult to suppress the Eighth Route Army's blocking firepower.
Now he doesn't think about it.
One aerial bomb killed an Eighth Route Army squad, and there were five aerial bombs on the plane overhead. They were all dropped, and half the company was destroyed.
There are more than a hundred cavalry squadrons under his command, but the opponent only has half of the infantry company that was damaged by the bombing. Morale is low. Even a fool who comes to command this battle can win.
"Shua..." he drew out his command sword, held it in front of his chest, and shouted an order.
"The whole cavalry squadron is here, ready to attack..."
"Shuashuashua..."
The sound of drawing knives soon sounded behind the squadron leader. More than a hundred cavalrymen all drew out their command knives and prepared for an assault.
"Buzz buzz..."
The roar of the aircraft engine became louder again, like an eagle discovering its prey, heading straight for the Eighth Route Army's blocking position.
"Woooooooooooo...boom..."
The aerial bomb that escaped from the fuselage hit the top of the hillside again with a scream, fire flying and thick smoke billowing, and several more soldiers were blown away in the explosion.
The captain of the Japanese cavalry squadron was so happy that he smiled with a smile on his face.
Five minutes later, the plane dropped a last-minute bomb.
As soon as the violent explosion sounded, the cavalry squadron leader pointed forward with the saber held on his chest, knocked the horse hard with both feet, held the reins of the horse tightly with his other hand, and shouted an order.
"Kill them all...annihilate the Eighth Route Army's returning reinforcements..."
More than a hundred cavalrymen instantly turned into more than a hundred hungry wolves smelling blood, waving their sabers, howling and charging forward.
The entire team was like an unstoppable torrent, picking up a lot of dust and heading straight to the top of the hillside.
The slope of the hillside is very low and the slope is gentle. The cavalry can kill from the bottom of the slope all the way to the top.
This is also a very important reason why the Japanese squadron leader decided to eliminate the Eighth Route Army return troops by himself.
"Kill me..."
The Japanese shouted and charged forward, manipulating their horses and waving their sabers. They made two slashing movements from time to time, showing off their powerful assault capabilities to the Eighth Route Army on the top of the slope, in an attempt to scare them with momentum and increase their chances of winning.
"Bang bang bang..."
Gunfire rang out at the top of the hillside at the same time, very chaotic, and there was only the sound of rifle shooting, not machine gun fire.
The Japanese squadron leader suddenly became excited, feeling that Amaterasu was blessing him and that God was on his side.
There are no machine guns on the top of the hillside. The air strike must have blown up all the machine guns equipped by the opponent.
Otherwise, at this time of life and death, the Eighth Route Army would have no reason to hide its firepower.
The more I thought about it, the more excited I became, and I yelled at the subordinates around me again: "The Eighth Route Army is finished, rush up and kill them all..."
"Bang bang bang..."
The sound of rifle shooting continued on the top of the slope, and the cavalry squadron began to suffer casualties. A few unlucky guys fell down on the assault road together with men and horses.
The squadron leader turned a blind eye and continued to attack forward with his saber raised.
As long as the Eighth Route Army is still alive on the top of the hillside and has weapons and ammunition, the attacking troops will suffer casualties, and no one can avoid this.
As long as the casualties are within control and do not affect the combat effectiveness of the cavalry squadron, it doesn't matter.
At this moment, the cavalry squadron was only fifty or sixty meters away from the top of the hill.
The cavalry's assault speed has been increased to the extreme. In a few seconds, they can rush to the top of the hillside and slaughter the Eighth Route Army above.
There was still only the sound of rifle fire on the top of the hillside, but no sound of machine gun fire.
Further forward, the machine guns equipped by the Eighth Route Army were blown up by planes.
The little worry in the squadron leader's heart disappeared instantly. He seemed to have seen the scene of the Eighth Route Army being hacked to death by him, and the corners of his mouth turned up involuntarily.
He decisively raised his saber and pointed the blade forward, heading straight towards an Eighth Route Army rifleman who was robbing him, intending to cut him in half with one blow.
"Da da da……"
the more you hope, the harder you fall.
The familiar sound of machine gun fire suddenly sounded on the top of the slope, and bullets flew over like a storm, airtight.
The cavalrymen rushing towards the front row were like autumn leaves sweeping away fallen leaves, and they were swept to the ground in an instant.
The neighing of war horses, the screams of soldiers, and the dull impact of corpses hitting the ground all immediately became loud.
The gunshots on the top of the hill were getting louder and louder.
"Da da da……"
A string of bullets swept towards the squadron leader. He quickly leaned down and pressed his body against the horse's back to reduce the area where he was hit.
The bullet flew close to his scalp and flew behind him. The other cavalryman reacted a little slower. Three bloody holes were drilled out of his chest in an instant. He and his horse fell on the assault road together, kicking up a lot of dust.
"Baga, we have been fooled. The Eighth Route Army wants to annihilate us... retreat quickly..." The squadron leader was scared and ordered with a look of fear on his face.
"The Eighth Route Army is equipped with at least ten machine guns. The blocking firepower is too strong for us to rush through. We must withdraw quickly..." the anxious squadron leader continued to order. He quickly pulled the reins and commanded the horse to nod and retreat.
What he didn't expect was that this retreat order fell into Yi Fei's trap.
The reason why the cavalry squadron was placed in front of us and fired was to keep them within the effective range of the machine gun for half a minute.
More than ten machine guns fire together, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition can be fired in half a minute.
Even if twenty bullets kill one cavalryman, this amount of time is enough for the fourth company to kill twenty or thirty more cavalrymen.
Before the machine guns entered the battle, the riflemen killed nearly ten cavalrymen one after another.
More than a dozen machine guns suddenly joined the battle, and their powerful firepower could kill twenty or thirty cavalrymen.
It took time for the cavalry to slow down and turn around. After the fourth company killed dozens more people, a cavalry squadron was wiped out.
The cavalry squadron leader was lucky and was not hit by a bullet until he turned around.
Both feet quickly knocked against the belly of the war horse, urging the horse to retreat faster.
The tense expression on his face slowly relaxed.
The war horse is very fast. As long as it starts running, it can rush out of the effective range of the machine gun in a few seconds and escape danger.
As a result, as soon as the horse under his crotch ran ten meters away, a stinging pain quickly spread from his back throughout his body.
His physical strength drained away rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, the squadron leader felt that he could no longer hold the reins of the war horse with his left hand.
The corpse of a killed war horse happened to be lying across the squadron leader's retreat path, and the war horse subconsciously jumped over the corpse.
The squadron leader no longer had the strength to hold the reins of the war horse and maintain his balance.
At the moment of the leap, the squadron leader quickly fell from his horse to the ground, and then lost consciousness.
"The bugler blows the charge horn, charge..."
Yi Fei got up from the ground with a light machine gun in his arms. With a roar, he rushed towards the remnants of the cavalry squadron. He pulled the trigger while rushing and beat a Japanese cavalry that was accelerating its retreat into a sieve...
An entire fully-equipped cavalry squadron had been completely defeated in just ten minutes from the beginning of the assault to the present, with less than ten cavalrymen lucky enough to escape the battlefield.
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