The cavalry company survived.

Their last battle, if it starts, will definitely be the end of the army. Don't say that the morale is like a rainbow, even killing a group of pigs is enough to exhaust them to death.

Maybe it shouldn't be dead. Just as Babu Zabu was about to enjoy the pleasure of annihilating this "stubborn army", Luo Quanleg, who was watching, let out a miserable scream: "What is that! ”

Babu Zabu shuddered. Even in the face of the cavalry company, a fierce enemy that he had never encountered in his life, Qing Yu Shengmin was not so surprised, what made this Japanese general who boasted that "Mount Tai collapsed in front and remained unchanged" so forgetful? He picked up the binoculars, and the scene in front of him sent chills through his heart.

A large number of cavalry rushed here from a distance, like a rolling torrent. As light as ever, as strong as ever.

Babu Zabu and Qing Yu Shengmin looked at each other, and unnaturally thought of one thing: if this army was as capable of fighting as the cavalry company just now, where should they go?

Wang Wensheng, Li Debiao and others were about to run out of the war horses stopped, and the huge movement behind made these animals with some spirituality flick their tails a little uneasily. The surviving cavalry even looked at each other, and their faces suddenly glowed with joy, our people have arrived!

Yes, it was Tan Hai's special operations brigade that came.

Tan Hai's special operations brigade was able to receive reinforcements before Guo Songling's main force, and it happened that Zhang Hanqing knew the stain on the history of Babu Zabu, and also concluded that he would flow to the prairie he was familiar with, and Guo Songling's hands could only catch up with the only cavalry company, and the disparity in strength would make the first battle of the Guards Brigade unfavorable, so it was decided to send a special operations brigade that had not yet taken shape.

Guo Songling had already set off for a day, and even if it was common for the special operations team to march in a hurry, and Zhang Hanqing had also allocated cavalry to the officers and men of the special operations brigade, it would never be possible for the special operations brigade to catch up with the cavalry company in just two days. However, considering that the cavalry company was not pursuing lightly, but only because the vanguard of the Western Front anti-bandit army could not be too far away from the main force, the speed of the special operations brigade was still faster than that of the cavalry company.

If it weren't for the cavalry company's long-distance assault and detachment from the main force, the special operations brigade would definitely have caught up a hundred miles ago. After two days of rapid marching, Tan Hai judged that the cavalry company, which was the vanguard of the Western Route Army, should have rushed to the bank of the Huolin River, because the news from the mouth of the signal soldiers of the Western Route Army encountered along the way was that the large army was marching towards Huolin Gol, and according to the latest news, the cavalry company was about 100 kilometers away in front of the large army, and according to the distance, it should have reached the gathering point of the Western Route Army.

Zhang Hanqing gave him the idea that he would cruise in the middle reaches of the Huolin River, and if possible, take the opportunity to take Tuquan and hold on. In this way, the first line of defense can be built before Guo Songling's troops are in position.

However, the situation changed quickly, and in just one day, it was no longer meaningful to learn that the rebels had crossed the Huolin River and then seized Tuquan, but would prompt the rebels to flee faster to the depths of the Inner Mongolian grasslands.

More recently, a messenger from a cavalry company reported that the cavalry company was fighting with the enemy bandits with a weak attack, and Tan Hai immediately understood the plan of the friendly army: This is to exchange life for time!

Stopping the staff of the brigade headquarters from worrying about changing the order of the anti-bandit headquarters, Tan Hai immediately issued an order: "All the officers and soldiers of the special combat team, discard the baggage, leave only the weapons, and march to the small town of Tulie Maodu!" ”

There is no pulling down the distance. The two hours of the cavalry duel had already allowed the material warfare brigade to catch up.

It was at this critical moment that the cavalry company avoided the tragedy of the annihilation of the entire army.

Wang Wensheng, who was in a desperate situation, hugged and cried with Li Debiao and others, death, it is not terrible, but if you can live, no one will refuse, right? When they cry, isn't it nostalgia for their sacrificed comrades-in-arms?

The cavalry company here was glad to have escaped death, but the veteran Babu Zab also made a decision that was absolutely correct in theory for him, but completely wrong in fact, in view of the battlefield situation: to charge.

Babu Zab believed that his line of defense was wide and thin, and if this team was as fierce as the cavalry company, the opponent would be able to break through any of his defenses by twisting them into a rope. The morale of the cavalry company, which had already been knocked down, caused this seemingly outnumbered force to charge at once, and its own defense line would collapse on all fronts.

The number of the other party is a little more, but it is only three or five hundred, and in contrast, he still has a numerical advantage. Only by counter-charging can we win with superior numbers. In this way, as soon as the whistle sounded, thousands of bandits swung their swords and slashed towards the special operations team.

Tan Hai's troops are not good at fighting on horseback, and horses, for him, are just a means and carrier of transportation. The characteristics of the special operations brigade are that they are flexible in individual combat and that they have strong firepower.

Unlike the Guards Brigade and the 27th Division's Infantry Regiment, which had an additional machine gun company, the Special Operations Brigade did not have a machine gun company, but scattered machine guns in various squads. The traditional configuration of a regimental machine gun company is 6 machine guns. The special operations brigade has one per squad and 27 special operations brigades in one battalion, which is more than twice the size of the regular army.

However, the battalion units of the regular army can receive fire support from the mountain artillery of the regimental headquarters, and the special operations brigade does not have this treatment. Fortunately, the establishment of the special operations brigade is not for the purpose of attacking fortifications, so it does not matter under normal circumstances.

Now, a large number of enemy cavalry rushed in, and the time had come to demonstrate the firepower of the special operations brigade.

Under Tan Hai's command, the officers and men of the special operations brigade dismounted one after another to find a position to support. Twenty-seven machine guns were lined up every 50 meters, and the three layers behind the sudden burst echoed densely in front and back, and the long and short guns were mixed in between, waiting for the arrival of the bandits.

On the European battlefield, the configuration of heavy machine guns with ten frontal guns per kilometer was already surprising at that time, and the density of special operations brigades reached twice as much, and such firepower was the nemesis of intensive charges, especially against cavalry.

Rushing to the sky and grabbing the ground, the flag covers the sunset. Thousands of cavalry made the earthquake loud all over the sky. The bandit army was pressed and beaten by a series of surprise attacks by the cavalry company, and only now did they recover. The bandit army, which restored the original characteristics of the Mongolian knights, undoubtedly displayed the demeanor of the steppe athletes, and they marched from getting on their horses to sprinting in one go, with melodious movements and beautiful scenery.

"Fire!" With Tan Hai's order, twenty-seven machine guns spewed out tongues of fire at the same time. The first platoon was suppressed by fire, and two machine guns fired cross-fire; The second row intermittently looks for the opponent's strong offensive strength to reduce the pressure on the first row; The third row focuses on the rangers who have escaped the fire net. Suddenly, the defense line about half a mile long was in flames.

The men turned on their backs, screaming and neighing, and the bandits who rushed to the front were beaten into a sieve with their men and horses, and when they fell to the ground, they splashed up with puffs of dust. Some of the cavalry behind were caught off guard and blocked by dead horses and corpses, and some were tripped and not knocked down by machine guns, but were thrown and suffered heavy casualties.

On either side of the machine guns, the officers and men of the special operations brigade straightened up, and they raised their spears, as calmly as when they were shooting a target, and fired at the cavalry that crossed the machine-gun line. Due to the speed of the horses, many of the rebels had been killed, but they were still dragged forward by the Crazy Horse until they lay down with the men and horses.

Babu Zabu, who originally wanted to use the saber and the special operations team to fight on horseback, encountered an opponent who did not follow the conventional style of play, and the horse team suffered heavy casualties. The saber-wielding bandits were unable to penetrate the defense line of the special operations brigade, which consisted of dense firepower, and in an instant, there were at least more than 500 casualties.

The Babu Zabu bandits, who were still indulging in Genghis Khan's invincible iron cavalry, were stunned by the bloody facts, not knowing that with the spread of heavy machine guns in the army, the kind of dense charge in horizontal columns was no longer appropriate. Just a few days later, a major battle on the banks of the Somme in Europe killed more than 700,000 British and French troops at the hands of heavy machine guns, known as the "king of land warfare" in World War I.