"Boom boom boom..."
A violent explosion soon sounded behind the wing leader, and more than a dozen of his subordinates who were slower to react were directly submerged in the artillery fire.
He originally thought that the guard captain was too exaggerated, making him look like a deserter who was greedy for life and afraid of death.
I have to curse people subconsciously.
After turning his head and seeing the fire rising behind him, he swallowed back the words that had reached his lips.
If the guard captain hadn't reacted quickly and had someone drag him away immediately, he would have been drowned in the gunfire behind him.
While moving, he ordered: "Immediately suspend all remaining troops in the garrison to make sneak attacks on the Eighth Route Army's offensive troops, and immediately use reinforced squads as units to block the Eighth Route Army's offensive troops head-on."
"One strengthened squad can hold out for five minutes in front of the Eighth Route Army, and six squads can hold out for half an hour. The one, two, and two squadrons will have time to return to the base and reinforce us."
…………
At the Japanese and puppet army blockade three kilometers away from the battlefield, a reinforced squadron was marching towards the station.
A messenger suddenly rode up to catch up with them.
Two minutes later, the reinforced squadron suddenly turned around. The front team changed to the rear team, and the rear team changed to the front team, and went straight to the brigade headquarters.
Just after running less than 500 meters, I heard the sound of horse hooves behind me.
"Baga, it's the Eighth Route Army..." The squadron leader of the Japanese team exclaimed after glancing behind him.
After taking a look at the surrounding terrain, his suddenly pale face became even paler.
Quickly order: "The troops will move to defense on the spot."
"The cavalry assault is too fast, we will definitely not be able to outrun them."
"Hurry up and set up the light and heavy machine guns."
"Cavalry are afraid of machine guns."
"It's up to you whether you can stop the Eighth Route Army cavalry."
"Others fired freely."
"The war horse has a greater target, shoot the horse first if you shoot the man."
"Without the horses, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry troops will be greatly reduced, and we will be able to survive."
After finishing speaking, he continued to pass the order to the side: "You will ride on horseback to find the captain immediately."
"We are being targeted by the Eighth Route Army cavalry. They have at least one battalion and are requesting reinforcements..."
The Japanese army had just set up ten light and heavy machine guns, and hundreds of cavalry had already rushed three hundred meters away.
"Shoot..." the squadron leader drew out his command knife and ordered with a look of urgency.
It stands to reason that the opponent must rush to two hundred meters away and shoot to cause maximum damage to them.
But there were too many cavalry to attack them. If the troops fired earlier, they would be able to kill several Eighth Route Army troops earlier.
If you really put them two hundred meters away and then fire, even if you are equipped with ten light and heavy machine guns, you can't stop the continuous assault of hundreds of cavalry.
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
Violent gunfire suddenly rang out, and three or four cavalrymen and horses fell on the charging road, making several loud crashes.
But the cavalry who attacked them were not vegetarians either.
Seeing that machine gun fire was blocking the road ahead, they immediately moved toward the Japanese flank to outflank them.
The squadron leader's face turned paler.
The machine gun firepower in his hand was not much to begin with, and when concentrated together, he could barely block the cavalry offensive.
Now the Eighth Route Army cavalry launched an attack from all directions, and the only ten light and heavy machine guns on hand had to be dispersed.
There were only two or three machine guns in each direction.
With this little firepower, not to mention blocking the Eighth Route Army's fast-attacking cavalry, even the infantry might not be able to block it.
Despair is despair, the Japanese squadron leader will not wait for death in his position.
Now that I know that I can't escape the disaster in front of me, I will fight hard.
A ferocious expression appeared on his face, he held the command knife tightly with both hands, and shouted with a murderous look on his face: "Fight with the Eighth Route Army cavalry..."
"Cavalry company, charge with me..."
The cavalry battalion divided into four shouted at the same time. Some waved and cursed, some raised their horse rifles, and some held submachine guns, roaring and charging towards the Japanese circular position.
"Da da da……"
The light and heavy machine guns wounded in the circular position continued to fire, and the bullets flew towards the attacking troops in a fan shape. Some hit the horses, some hit the soldiers, and more bullets whizzed past the soldiers...
Soldiers continued to fall to the ground during the charge.
But the remaining cavalry were not affected at all and continued to charge forward with their weapons raised.
"Pa bang bang..."
When the distance between the two sides was still more than a hundred meters, the first few rows of cavalry pulled the triggers one after another and fired the bullets from the chambers of the horse rifles.
There were not many bullets, less than two hundred.
Because they were shooting from horseback, their accuracy was poor, and less than twenty Japanese were hit.
But there were several machine gunners among these Japs.
The four light and heavy machine guns named Zheng Huan instantly misfired.
The little Japanese assistant shooter on the side quickly moved away the machine gunner's body, trying to take over the light and heavy machine guns and continue shooting.
But no matter how fast they go, it still takes two or three seconds.
For the fast-running cavalry, two or three seconds is enough for them to charge forward thirty or forty meters.
By the time the Japanese deputy shooter picked up his pistol and was about to pull the trigger again, the distance between the enemy and ourselves had shortened to fifty or sixty meters.
A dozen soldiers armed with box cannons and submachine guns rushed to fight.
"Da da da... bang bang bang..."
Dense bullets intertwined and flew toward the Japanese machine gunners. Because of the close distance and high bullet density, their shooting accuracy was more than one level higher than that of horse rifles.
At least twenty Japs were beaten into fools, including the deputy shooter who had just received the machine gun and the machine gunner who had just narrowly escaped the attack of the horse rifle.
The squadron leader held the command knife in his hand and ran back and forth in the circular position. It was difficult not to attract attention.
A string of bullets swept across his chest, leaving three bloody holes.
Although he was ready to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army, he turned into a corpse before the official battle with the Eighth Route Army.
"kill……"
When the distance between the two sides was still twenty meters long, all the cavalrymen changed their weapons to sabers.
He kept his body as close to the horse's back as possible, held the saber flat in his hand, and with the blade ringing, he went straight to the target.
He raised the sword and lowered it. The huge inertia brought by the speed to the saber allowed him to easily cut off the Japanese enemy's Sanba Gai. The saber's speed remained unchanged and continued to break the opponent's neck, leaving a deep bloody mouth.
The blood gushes out like a fountain.
The Japanese also fell to the ground with despair on their faces.
After killing a Japs, the cavalryman was not affected at all and continued to charge forward while holding the curse that started to drip blood.
…………
The Japanese army led the remaining two squadrons of the brigade and other directly affiliated troops to a position less than one kilometer away from the battlefield.
After receiving the message for help from the messenger, he marched forward with his troops.
When he was still seven or eight hundred meters away from the battlefield, he witnessed with his own eyes the battle process of the Eighth Route Cavalry's assault on the Second Squadron.
I can't wait to fly to the battlefield to rescue them immediately.
But the cavalry assault was too fast.
A few hundred meters passed in an instant.
After running forward less than a hundred meters with the main force, hundreds of Eighth Route Army cavalry had already entered the Second Squadron's position from all directions.
A one-sided massacre began immediately.
Knowing that the Second Squadron was finished, the captain immediately felt a surge of hatred in his heart. He clenched his fists and gave orders to his subordinates behind him.
"The artillerymen immediately set up artillery and bombarded the Second Squadron's station. I want the Eighth Route Army cavalry to be buried with them."
Some people died, but not completely...
