The gunfire produced by the horse rifle was very messy, and only fired more than thirty rounds of bullets, but it was enough to kill five or six Japanese soldiers in the artillery team equipped with self-defense rifles.
Screams sounded from the artillery position at the same time.
Dozens of Japanese gunners had never faced death at such a close range. They were already in a panic. Seeing someone around them being killed made them even more confused. If it weren't for the restraint of their superiors, they would have abandoned their equipment and evacuated their positions, becoming deserters.
"Comrades, kill me..."
The soldiers waved their sabers, like a group of tigers descending from the mountain, crashing into the artillery position with overwhelming force.
Several Japanese artillerymen who were not afraid of death were knocked over by their horses.
The horse's hoof stepped on them, instantly kicking their belly open. The scarlet internal organs were brought out by the horse's hoof, and were mashed to pieces. They were as bloody as they wanted.
"kill……"
A cavalryman roared and struck hard with the saber in his hand.
The little Japanese gunner beside him was frightened and froze on the spot, watching helplessly as the saber struck his neck...
The round head hit the ground like a ball and rolled a long way before stopping.
The headless neck quickly spurted blood, and then fell to the ground, turning into a headless corpse.
The cavalry dragged their bloody sabers and whizzed past the corpse. Without even looking at the other party, they immediately stared at another Japanese gunner not far away.
"The artillery team is finished..."
An expression of despair immediately flashed across the face of the Japanese squadron leader. If it weren't for the support of his subordinates, he would have been so frightened that he collapsed on the ground on the spot.
"Captain, there are cavalry coming towards us. The third team is in danger..." A cry of surprise brought the desperate Japanese squadron leader back to reality.
Looking up, he saw thirty cavalrymen charging towards the third team.
This is the cavalry platoon that just wiped out the remaining eight cavalry of the cavalry squadron.
The third team was marching quickly to the artillery position, and the Eighth Route Army cavalry platoon turned slightly and collided with them.
"Da da da……"
The three crooked guns equipped by the third team fired first, trying to block the cavalry offensive with machine gun fire.
Three or four cavalry companies, including men and horses, fell on the assault road, but it did not affect the cavalry platoon's offensive.
"Dispersed assault..."
After the platoon leader gave an order, the more than 30 cavalrymen who had gathered together immediately divided into three assault teams and formed a skirmish line to continue the assault.
The Japanese army is only equipped with three crooked guns. It can protect one side but not the other.
After losing nearly one cavalryman, the remaining twenty soldiers in the cavalry platoon slammed into the third team.
More than a dozen little devils were knocked to the ground alive by the war horses before they could take action.
The remaining dozens of Japanese soldiers raised their rifles with bayonets and tried to fight, but the Eighth Route Army cavalry did not give them this chance.
The saber slashed at them from a high position, taking away the lives of more than a dozen Japanese in an instant...
On the top of the slope, the appearance of the cavalry company made Yi Fei instantly excited.
He personally used a crooked gun to shoot at the Japanese attacking troops. While shooting, he gave orders: "The Japanese artillery and heavy machine gun teams are finished."
"Fire all concealed fire, and hit me hard with grenades."
"I want to hold off the Japanese attacking troops and buy time for the cavalry to raid the artillery and heavy machine gun positions."
As a result, before the bullets in the magazine were finished, the little Japanese who rushed to 70 or 80 meters away began to retreat, hoping to return to the artillery position to reinforce.
Yi Fei decisively got up from the ground, hung the light machine gun on his chest and used it as a submachine gun, and shouted: "Come out with me and hold back the Japanese attacking troops..."
"Kill... da da da..."
The sound of machine gun fire and the cry of killing sounded at the top of the hillside at the same time.
The remaining 70 or so soldiers of the Fourth Company followed suit. The machine gunner hung the light machine gun on his chest and used it as a submachine gun.
The rifleman charged forward with a 38-meter cover held flat, shooting while charging...
The suddenly dense rain of bullets once again took away the lives of twenty or thirty Japanese.
The first and second Japanese squads all launched an attack, totaling more than 110 people.
More than 20 people were killed and injured on the way to attack, and now another 20 or 30 people were killed. In the blink of an eye, more than half of them were killed or wounded.
Coupled with the tremendous pressure brought on them by the attack on the artillery position, the morale of the remaining dozens of Japanese soldiers suddenly dropped sharply and they lost their fighting spirit.
"Comrades, rush..."
"The Japanese artillery position is over, the little Japanese in front will definitely die..."
"Rush up and kill them immediately, otherwise all the benefits will be taken away by the cavalry company."
"I'll beat them all hard..."
"Don't stop the machine gun fire. Shoot wherever there are many Japs..."
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At the former enemy headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong, Chief of Staff Liu Sen rushed in with a happy face.
He raised the telegram in his hand and reported with a smile on his face: "Xiao Huang..."
"Wang Lin just sent good news: the 4th, 6th, and 8th companies of the Shunping Garrison Regiment, in cooperation with the cavalry troops, successfully eliminated the Japs who were chasing them, and more than 140 intact horses were captured."
"We also seized more than a dozen mortars, more than a dozen heavy machine guns, and a large number of rifle machine guns, and killed more than a thousand Japs."
"The Kwantung Army that raided Chenjiazhuang was killed by more than a thousand people before they even had a real fight with us."
"If the remaining three main companies also complete the mission successfully."
"The little devils' middle sweep force will lose another thousand people."
"This battle was fought so hard."
"Lead the Kwantung Army by the nose and destroy them however you want."
Speaking of this, Liu Sen looked at Huang Yu and his eyes suddenly became hot, and he asked expectantly: "Xiao Huang..."
"With one move, you killed two thousand elite members of the Kwantung Army, including five to six hundred cavalry."
"If you think about it carefully, can you use other methods to force the Japanese to divide their troops and try to kill another two to three thousand of them?"
"Tomorrow the Kwantung Army that reaches Chenjiazhuang will be reduced to eight or nine thousand men."
"The pressure on us to annihilate them will be much less."
"Kill two to three thousand people in the offensive and defensive battle."
"The main force will be dispatched together, and another five or six thousand people will be killed through encirclement and annihilation warfare. The Kwantung Army will be done with mopping up the troops in the middle."
The more Liu Sen talked, the more excited he became. He seemed to have seen the scene where the Japanese troops in the middle road were wiped out, and he was drooling with joy.
But this dream was quickly brought back to reality by Huang Yu.
He smiled bitterly and replied: "Chief of Staff..."
"Neji Okamura is the commander of the North China Front."
"Not only has rich combat experience, but he is also very cunning."
"We'll count it as good luck if we let him be fooled last time, and we will never let him be fooled a second time."
"Not to mention the two or three thousand little Japs, the central mopping up troops are on the march. It will be difficult for us to kill another thousand of them."
"Call Wang Lin back immediately."
"In the next blockade battle, we will fight if we can, and if we can't, we will abandon our positions. We must not compete with the Japs for attrition, let alone withstand their heavy artillery attacks and aircraft bombings."
"Our troops are limited and we must reserve enough troops to fight the devils decisively."
"Otherwise, we won't even have the teeth to swallow the fat meat Neji Okamura puts in our mouths."
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