East of Lingqiu City.

Explosions continued to sound inside and outside the city walls, earth-shattering!

Cavalry Captain Chuan Teng is a battlefield veteran who has fought against the Chinese army more than once!

But this was the first time he had not really fought with the Chinese army before he felt that the death crisis was constantly approaching him!

"Boom ......"

The explosion sounded again, this time less than fifty meters from their assembly place!

The violent explosion directly buzzed his ears, and the air wave rushed over, almost knocking him over!

Chuan Teng's face immediately turned white, and he felt that the death crisis was one step closer to him!

The power of the explosion was too great, and in his impression, except for aerial bombs, ordinary artillery shells could not produce such a great power at all!

It is conceivable that the fortifications of the city at this moment must be as tragic as hell on earth!

At the same time, I am also glad that I did not enter the position, otherwise I would have been bombed at this time!

"Sir: Command orders!" A staff officer from the headquarters rushed over just right!

"All the troops immediately evacuated the fortifications of the city, retreated in the direction of the ammunition depot, and fought street battles with the enemy with the ammunition depot as the center, and held out until dawn!"

"The troops at the head of the city retreat first, and the captain of the cavalry brigade gives up his horse and fights with infantry, and the palace covers behind!"

Chuan Tengmeng reacted for a moment, and then stared at the staff officer and asked, "Bage Yalu, are you sure that the order just now is not wrong!" ”

"Let our cavalry give up their horses and fight infantry, doesn't this make us die!"

"Without the horses, mobility, assault, all gone, can we still be called cavalry?"

The staff officer replied in the affirmative: "Sir, the order was given by His Excellency the Commander himself, and it must be true!" ”

"Not only you, but the cavalry captain in the west of the city will also be changed to infantry combat!"

After saying that, the staff officer ran in the direction of the ammunition depot without looking back!

The deputy captain heard the order just now, and immediately asked, "Sir, what should I do?" ”

"What else can I do? Execute the command! Chuan Teng replied helplessly!

The adjutant hesitated for a moment and reminded: "But without the war horse, our combat effectiveness will be weakened by at least thirty percent, and it is possible to make forty percent!" ”

"And we are armed with cavalry rifles, which have a shorter range than those equipped by the infantry, and are almost not armed with light and heavy machine guns! Dismount directly and change to infantry combat, and the firepower is definitely not the enemy's opponent! ”

A flash of struggle flashed across Chuan Teng's face, but it only lasted a few seconds before he made a decision!

"Don't say it, the commander's order must be carried out!"

"Before coming, there was an order from the superiors, and after entering Lingqiu City, we must obey the command unconditionally! If you don't dismount and fight, you will disobey military orders and will be engaged in military law! ”

"And the next thing the troops have to fight is street fighting, and the mobility and surprise nature of the cavalry are not needed at all!"

"Continuing to defend the war horse and fighting, not only will it not be beneficial, but it will also become a burden, allowing us to expose our targets and become the target of the Eighth Route Army's attack!

"Carry out the order: draw a squad out, escort all the horses to the ammunition depot, find two yards and lock them up!"

"The others stayed, covered the retreat of the troops, and began to move!"

More than 200 war horses are walking on the streets, and there is such a big movement, the devil can't hide it if he wants to!

As soon as they left the battlefield, these war horses were targeted by Sun Jiawu!

"Battalion commander, there are a total of twenty-six little devils escorting these war horses!" The guard platoon commander's eyes lit up and reported, as if these war horses were already in his pocket!

"So many war horses, enough to form two cavalry companies! This is the fat that has been brought to our mouths, and we must eat it! Sun Jiawu was also very fond of these war horses, and almost without hesitation he began to give orders!

"The troops will disperse immediately, the riflemen will focus on a little devil, and the machine gunner will be responsible for the two little devils, and then shoot together based on the sound of my gun, and strive to kill all the devils in one round of shooting, and grab this batch of war horses!"

"Yes, battalion commander......"

More than two dozen cavalrymen escorted around the herd of horses, and the formation was very scattered!

Sun Jiawu was lying on the courtyard wall, the box cannon was in his hand, and his eyes were directly locked on the captain of the devil squad and a military cao next to him!

After all the horses that stretched for nearly 100 meters entered the pocket formation, they decisively pulled the trigger!

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The gunshots rang out, and more than a dozen bullets did not pause, and all of them flew out of the barrel and flew towards the two devils in a fan shape!

Thirty meters of shooting distance, less than half a second, the bullet drilled several blood holes in them!

Then with wide eyes and a stunned expression of death, he was carried off the warhorse!

Chuan Teng didn't know that his war horse had changed hands!

Looking at the troops constantly tearing down the city fortifications, their faces can already be described as gloomy!

The battlefield is too tragic!

More than half of the troops of more than 200 people were killed and wounded after only a few rounds of shelling!

What's more, these withdrawn soldiers were all pale and demoralized, and there were even many of them with desperate expressions on their faces, like walking corpses, who did not have any confidence in the next battle!

Is this still the Imperial Army I know? Chuanteng asked this question in his heart more than once!

In his eyes, on the Chinese battlefield, the imperial army has always been invincible and invincible!

And what you see in front of you has nothing in common with what you imagined!

"Da Da Da ......"

A burst of gunfire pulled Chuan Teng back to reality, and then he saw a subordinate hurriedly running over: "Sir, the Eighth Route Army has occupied the city and is killing us!" ”

"Prepare for battle!" Chuan Teng decisively ordered!

More than 200 troops, taking the courtyards and houses on both sides of the street as positions, are ready for battle!

Chuan Teng held the command knife, half-squatted behind a courtyard wall, and looked out at the street from the shooting hole!

There's a light machine gun next to it!

His idea was very simple, when the Eighth Route Army came over, he would suddenly shoot, kill them, and give the Eighth Route Army a dismount to block them!

However, Chuan Teng waited for a long time, and there was no shadow of the Eighth Route Army on the street!

frowned, and turned his head to look at the subordinates who had just retreated: "What about the Eighth Route Army?" Didn't they kill me? Why hasn't it appeared yet! ”

The subordinates didn't know what was going on, and they looked at a loss!

But the Eighth Route Army's attack was seen with his own eyes, and there would never be a mistake, so he couldn't figure out what was going on!

"Dada...... Boom Boom Boom ......"

There was a sudden burst of gunfire and explosions in the nearby yard, and before Chuan Teng could react, a subordinate rushed over with panic!

"Sir, we are under attack, but the Eighth Route Army did not kill from the front, they came from behind us!"

"Nani? I clearly didn't see the Eighth Route Army attacking in front, why did they run behind us all of a sudden, could it be that the Eighth Route Army could fly, flying directly over our heads! Eight grid tooth road, can anyone tell me why! Chuan Teng stared at a pair of big eyes, and shouted with an incredible face!

As a cavalry captain, infantry combat is unfamiliar, let alone street battles that are difficult to encounter in ordinary times!

After receiving the task of covering the palace, he was not particularly proficient in street fighting, so he directly treated it as an ordinary blocking battle, and it was impossible not to lose! ()

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