The puppet company commander was furious after receiving the report. He quickly gathered the entire company and gave chase.
Of course, before setting off, he also sent someone to report the situation to the battalion commander. At this time, he did not think of asking the battalion commander for support, but that he had to report to the officer when the troops were mobilized on the battlefield.
In his opinion, even dozens of horse thieves cannot be the opponent of his 120 or so people, not to mention that the main force is nearby now. If they really encounter a tough situation, support will arrive soon.
Especially after just annihilating thousands of Nationalist troops (he didn't know that Liu Guitang's troops were just bandits in military uniforms.), the company commander was very excited at the moment. When he thought about it, who else on this grassland had the strength to do so? Confront Commander Li?
So when he saw that a squad of soldiers under his command had all turned into corpses, lying in a mess on the grassland, while in the distance there were a dozen people dressed as herdsmen running wildly on horseback, and a dozen war horses were led by them with ropes. When we were about to cross a high plateau, our lungs were about to explode.
The person who killed me and robbed me of my horse, you still want to run away?
He immediately waved his hand and said: "I'll charge you, leave no one alive, chop them all to death."
The officers and soldiers under him were naturally very angry, and they all howled and chased after him wildly.
At this time, the puppet company commander was so angry that he didn't realize that he didn't seem to hear any gunfire just now, so why were all nine of his men killed.
But he didn't have time to think about it. Just as a hundred or so of them howled and rushed up a small high ground in a chaotic manner, the sound suddenly stopped.
The puppet soldiers all stared dumbfounded at the high ground, and subconsciously reined in their horses.
I saw that below this high ground that just blocked my sight, about 100 meters away, there were more than two hundred people in colorful costumes, but at first glance they were soldiers of the army.
They lined up in two neat rows, one row kneeling on one knee, and the other row standing upright a few meters behind, but they all held rifles in their hands, and the black muzzles were all pointed towards them.
At this moment, time seemed to have suddenly stopped. One of them was heartbroken and was stunned for a moment.
The other side was silent and motionless, like wooden stakes standing on the grassland, with only a murderous aura filling the air above them. The war horses beside them were snoring uneasily, indicating that a killing was about to begin.
"Withdraw!" The puppet company commander didn't know that this was a trap at this time. Years of military experience told him that these people were not ordinary troops at all, but a murderous army that he had never seen before. They hadn't fired yet. That terrifying murderous aura had completely dispelled the energy and spirit of himself and his subordinates.
It's a pity that when they rushed to the high ground, due to inertia, they rushed forward dozens of meters before reining in the horses. Moreover, the formation was scattered and there was no time to make any adjustments. At this time, they had to turn the horses' heads and speed up to escape. , it’s too late.
What's even more pity is that their company commander guessed right. These are a group of murderers, a group of sharpshooters who are at a distance of about 100 meters and will never hit your ears if they hit you in the nose.
Because all the riflemen from the first and second teams of the mercenary regiment, including Zhou Wen and Gao Xiaoshan, are all here.
"Bump, bump, bump..."
The sound of dense volleys of gunfire suddenly and violently resounded through the sky.
Almost all the rifles fired at the same time, and the sound of the gunfire sounded like a platoon shooting, that is, everyone aimed in the same direction and fired together, using the density of bullets to make up for the lack of accuracy.
This was a common fighting method used by ordinary armies in the Republic of China, and was often used even by second-level armies with bandit origins.
Just because their weapons are crude and outdated, and the soldiers are not even well-trained and can shoot accurately, most of them don't know where the bullets are flying from dozens of meters away. There is nothing they can do.
But this is a mercenary group, an elite unit whose individual soldiers' quality far exceeds that of the Japanese army. How could they use such outdated and backward tactics?
Therefore, when the volley fired, the bullets seemed to have eyes, and they penetrated into the heads and bodies of these puppet cavalry one by one.
What's even more frightening is that the gunshots are so dense that it's as if there is no need to load bullets at all. They come in pieces and in rows, one after another, endless in the eyes and ears of the puppet soldiers.
Which puppet company commander was the first person to fall under his horse, just because it was Zhou Wen who killed him.
Zhou Wen, who had already noticed him with his super eyesight, only made him his first target.
Just before the puppet company commander fell off his horse and lost consciousness completely, the men around him also fell off their horses one after another.
At such a distance of a hundred meters, unless the target is hit hard, as long as Zhou Wen's gun rings 10 times, 10 people will inevitably fall to the ground and die, and this will happen within one minute without blinking an eye. of.
Of course, the outcome goes without saying. Not one of the 120 puppet troops slipped through the net. The puppet cavalry company, which had just joined the Japanese army with its boss for only a few months, was all turned into corpses.
The dead puppet company commander's previous judgment was very accurate. This was indeed a trap. It was the best plan that Zhou Wen and Chen Wanli could think of to defeat Li Shouxin in a hurry.
It turned out that after Zhou Wen and the others used telescopes to view this grand but not very exciting cavalry duel from a few kilometers apart, they decided to wait until Liu Guitang's entire army was defeated and then attack Li Shouxin's troops. Use fishing methods to mobilize to the mercenary group's preset positions to attack.
This is actually no solution.
Originally, the best time for the mercenary group to enter the battlefield was when Li Shouxin's troops began to scramble for prisoners. At this time, the enemy had just finished a battle and had relaxed mentally and physically. It was the right time to launch a surprise attack.
However, regardless of their combat effectiveness, Li Shouxin's troops were indeed too numerous.
Although hundreds of cavalry were lost in one battle, there were still more than 6,000 cavalry, and they were scattered in groups in the east and west, making the battlefield area too large and greatly weakening the mercenary group's most advantageous firepower density.
Moreover, this is on a vast and flat prairie, and the enemies are mostly cavalry. If Li Shouxin wants to run away when the situation is bad, the mercenary group will not be able to pursue him.
This will cause the mercenary group to drive away the enemy, but the enemy's strength will not suffer substantial losses. When they gather their troops again, they will also pose a threat to the mercenary group.
But now the mercenary group, which is eager to go home, has no time to spend time with the enemy here. What Zhou Wen has to do is to complete his victory in one battle.
It doesn’t mean that the enemy must be completely annihilated, but the enemy must be completely crippled in one go, so that they will not dare to come back to stroke the mercenary group’s tiger beard, which is considered a victory.
