Enemy information is constantly coming from all directions.
The military division marched more than twenty miles eastward early in the morning, leaving behind all the Japanese who came out to encircle them from the three directions of north, south, west, and Qixian County.
The lieutenant colonel in charge of this operation was so angry that he continued to pursue the enemy under the scorching sun with a large number of Japanese cavalry and infantry who surrounded them from the south without waiting for the troops from three directions to concentrate.
On the plains, the situation is very unfavorable for military divisions that are good at guerrilla warfare. It is very difficult to get rid of the pursuing Japanese!
The military division's first plan was to lure out the Japanese from the county town and surround the enemy with superior force on the plain. As a result, the Japanese used the county town as bait to set up a large encirclement.
They even drew a large group of troops from the front line where they were preparing to attack the national army, and completely eliminated the Eighth Route Army that had finally gathered together.
The military division's goal of destroying the Japanese railway line was achieved, but it also provoked enemies close to a regiment!
Without heavy firepower in positional warfare, with the combat capabilities of the Eighth Route Army, if you injure the enemy a hundred, you will injure yourself at least three hundred! Naturally, we can't do such a thing. We can only rely on our fast guerrilla legs to block and retreat all the way to the east.
The strange thing is that the Japanese are chasing very slowly!
Ma Liang was on the village road, curiously watching the soldiers from the military division behind him digging holes on the uneven road. The dense crowd was sweating profusely under the scorching sun. In a short time, a section of the road was covered with holes slightly larger than a fist. .
Then these soldiers walked some distance east and continued digging in another place.
"Hey, why are you digging this?" Ma Liang walked from the armored vehicle to the team digging the hole. He looked at a soldier who was directing the digging. He heard that the people next to him called him Platoon Leader Chen.
"Stop the Japanese cavalry charge!" Platoon leader Chen raised his head, grinned, and gave a friendly smile.
"Uh...are you going...to lay landmines?"
"Landmines? You really can think of it!" Platoon Leader Chen chuckled.
"It's less than a foot deep. Apart from laying landmines, I don't believe you can also be used as trappers!" Ma Liang was even more surprised. You wouldn't be digging and playing in the ground, right?
"Hey, you are right, it is used as a trap!" The platoon leader raised his hand to wipe the sweat.
"Hahaha... Ouch, are you trying to laugh me to death? It's such a big trap, even a mouse can't trap it, you guys..." Ma Liang always felt that something was weird, and he had to figure it out no matter what, so he deliberately laughed.
"You have been in the mountains for a long time, so you may not know. Well, let me ask you, how big do you think this pit is?"
"Don't be so pretentious, just let it go!" Ma Liang got very angry when he heard that he was a country bumpkin from the mountains.
"Have you ever ridden a horse?" The platoon leader didn't care at all.
"Of course I have ridden one!" Ma Liang replied bitterly.
"Then you know...how big a horse's hoof is?" The platoon leader winked and raised his head.
Ma Liang couldn't help but make a gesture, and his eyes lit up: "What do you mean..."
"That's right, if the Japanese war horse walks slowly on the ground, it will be fine. If he dares to charge, if he steps into the hole, at least half of his front hooves will be broken on the spot. Even if the other ones are not broken, most of his hooves will be sprained. !”
Ma Liang was stunned, he really learned a lot! It turns out that there is still a way to deal with cavalry, but in this vast plain, you only dig roads? Isn't this too ridiculous?
"That's not right. We only dig roads. Are all the Japanese fools? Don't they know how to get around through the ground?"
"Would you like to try a detour? The land by the river has turned into desert, so we have no choice but to send people to guard it. If they want to cross the river, they will have to take a detour, which will delay the fighter plane. As for the land in front of us, it has not rained for a long time. On the surface, it has not rained for a long time. The board had formed a shell early in the morning, but the soil under the shell was as loose as a cotton-padded jacket. A hole would be formed when a horse's hoof steps on it..."
"You mean, if the cavalry moves slowly, there's nothing we can do against him, right?" Ma Liang asked humbly.
"Hey, my purpose is to make them walk slowly and dig a few more ditches on the road. Their iron bastards can only lie down obediently and wait for others to fill up the ditch before they can move forward! In that case, they want to It’s a fucking dream to catch up with us! But it’s useless even if you know it, it won’t work in another place..."
village.
"...Old Lu, now I give you the independent group two choices. Either you find a place to hide in the north and wait for it to cross back to the mountain from the enemy-occupied area after dark, or you can go east with us and be surrounded by the Japanese." In the past, break through the Japanese cavalry defense line and enter the area south of the Wei River!" The division commander frowned and planned how to block and then break away from the Japanese.
Commander Lu gave a wry smile: "I understand what you mean. Now that the Japs are surrounded on all sides, you plan to lead the main force to continue eastward, attract the Japs behind you, let all departments break away in batches, and fight with the Japs until they reach the mountainous area of Western Shandong Province before getting rid of them. !am I right?"
"How I arrange it is none of your business. If you leave now, you can still retain most of the strength for the independent regiment. The enemy forces in the enemy-occupied area in the north are weak now. If you lead a regiment, I believe there should be no problem in returning to the mountain."
"Can you outrun the Japanese cavalry on two legs? With your arrangement like this..." Captain Lu understood that the commander was prepared to put himself in danger.
"Then what can we do? This time, we were probably plotted by the Japanese and some guys in the First War Zone!" The commander looked ugly.
"If our independent regiment leaves, I wonder if you, the division commander, can hold on to Luxi, are you not sure?" Captain Lu looked at the distribution of Japanese troops on the map.
"Do you think your independent regiment is the only one who can fight? I can't fight the Japanese in my district squad or county brigade?" The commander was angry.
Commander Zeng next to him suddenly said: "Commander, I don't think we need to divide our troops. Everyone may have mistakenly thought that the cavalry can run fast and we can't outrun them. However, the six-legged cavalry actually has a fatal weakness!"
The commander waved his hand: "I know what you are going to say. Even if we dig a hoof pit on the road, even if the cavalry is slow, the damn Japanese cavalry can still be converted into infantry. They have more people than us, and what the heck!"
"Commander, that's not what I'm talking about. In fact, many people don't know that in a real long-distance rapid march, the durability of cavalry is not as good as that of humans!"
"Wait...what did you say? The cavalry can't outrun us? How is that possible?" Commander Lu was stunned for a moment.
"Can't compete with people? You said that horses can't outrun people? Believe it or not, I'll beat you? The terrain is now conducive to the Japanese cavalry fighting, so the best way is to hold on until dark and retreat while spreading out the troops. In this case, we Thousands of people, at least half of them can rush out!" The staff officer next to him also agreed with Commander Zeng and directly presented the results of his discussion with the commander.
Commander Zeng turned to look at the staff officer: "You don't know this. We all know that cavalry can run fast on flat ground! When charging and outflanking on the battlefield, our infantry can't compete with him, so I , let me tell you in detail. To put it simply, there are actually two types of cavalry: those who fight on mounted horses and those who fight without mounted horses. This includes the basic tactics of our cavalry regiment, which is also to march and fight on horseback while dismounting."
"What do you mean?" Captain Lu asked doubtfully.
"Hey, to put it nicely, we are 'lancers', similar to Japanese motorized infantry. Let me explain to you more clearly, we are actually infantry on horseback. When soldiers are on the battlefield, they mainly lie down on the ground and shoot!" Zeng The group leader explained.
"Why is this happening?" Commander Lu asked again.
"The cavalry lines up and charges in front of intensive machine gun fire. They are just looking for death! When we are marching, we usually use horses to increase the speed and expand the range of activities. During battles, most of the time we give up charging on horses and dismount to fight on foot."
"That's not right. Then why did your cavalry achieve such great results this morning?" Commander Lu felt that Zeng was always beating around the bush and talking nonsense.
Commander Zeng gave a wry smile: "That's because you have a good subordinate. He attracted the Japanese machine guns to the front, and most of the attackers were puppet troops. You may not know that our cavalry company participating in the attack is here. In the battle, we lost two-thirds! More casualties than the Japanese!"
