Chapter 188: Cavalry Squad
In the eyes of Nanmu Shilong, the captain of the Nanmu Brigade of the cavalry wing, the people of a few hundred people are armed, and a cavalry squad can already afford them.
During this fourteen-year war, the Japanese cavalry was retained, and its role was obvious and powerful.
Each division has a separate cavalry wing, whose main role is not to fight in a targeted manner, but to act as a mobile force between the various wings.
There is no doubt that the Japanese soldiers were strong in combat, but their national strength was not enough to support them in fully mechanized facilities.
The Japanese army had a large number of trucks, but with the level of technology at that time, it was impossible to build trucks with large loads.
At that time, the Japanese truck weighed only about two tons at most, which could not meet the needs of transporting a large amount of materials, grain, grass and ammunition.
Therefore, in the formation above the wing level, there are separate transport brigades, which mostly use horse-drawn carriages.
Due to the inability to complete mechanized equipment, the mobility of the army is naturally poor, so it is equipped with cavalry, the main role is to be able to maneuver in time to help.
However, these Japanese cavalry, which were majestic on Chinese soil, were full of foreign appearance in front of the American and Russian troops; Before they surrendered, Maozi's army entered northeast China, and the Japanese cavalry could only wield their sabers to chop tanks, leaving strings of sparks and their own lives.
But right now, this cavalry squad has put tremendous pressure on the entire teenager.
The Japanese army's war horses focused on blood, mainly Arabian horses and French horses, and then there were Heton horses captured and bred in the previous Russo-Japanese War.
(There is also a claim that Mongolian horses are dominant, but this is not credible.) )
Once the momentum of these carefully trained horses rises, the infantry is powerless to resist, and those trench positions become decorations.
The terrain of Wudou Township is flat, and if it breaks through the fire point of the turret, the consequences will be unimaginable.
At this time, the Japanese cavalry squad had just stopped in a wooded area about ten miles from the valley.
Yamazaki had already noticed the valley when he was making his battle plan, and he knew that it was the best route to attack.
However, he did not despise these anti-Japanese forces, which were made up of ordinary people, as some Japanese commanders did.
On the contrary, if an army of several hundred people dares to occupy a township as a base in the midst of the "encirclement" of a large number of Japanese puppet troops, this alone must face up to the combat effectiveness of this contingent.
Tian Liuwa's first company and Dong Shishi's bomb platoon had been lying on the hillside for nearly two hours at this time; For camouflage, they all buried their bodies in the snow, and the bodies of some of the fighters were already frozen, but none of them moved.
It's just that everyone has the finger that pulls the trigger in their mouths; As long as this finger is not frozen, it will not delay the battle for a while.
The Japanese soldiers ran around the valley on horseback, and one of them rushed up the hill just a dozen meters away, and they didn't find anything unusual.
And thanks to the fact that it was dark, if it had been daytime, they would have been exposed.
The reason why Yamazaki wanted to set the time for the attack at night was mainly because he was afraid of the fire suppression of the two turrets.
After the soldiers in charge of the reconnaissance returned, Yamazaki gave the order to attack, and fifty or sixty war horses immediately raised their hooves and went straight to Goto Township.
The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and Tian Liuwa gritted her frozen "gurgling" teeth and roared in a low voice:
"Prepare for battle!"
"Click, click, click......"
As his words fell, the order was quickly reached the ears of every warrior, and the slight sound of pulling the bolt of the gun rang out on the hillside.
When it was almost time to enter the valley, Yamazaki was still a little uneasy, and deliberately ordered loudly:
"Speed up!"
But it's not useful.
From the moment the Japanese soldiers in charge of reconnaissance failed to discover that there was an ambush, it was doomed to the tragedy of this cavalry squad.
Dong Shiying saw a series of rapidly approaching black shadows in front of him, so he pulled out the safety pin of the grenade.
All the soldiers of the bomb throwing platoon did not need to wait for orders, and after seeing Dong Shishi's movements, they all followed suit.
Dong Shishi's eyes stared at the black shadows in the distance, and he counted silently in his heart, and when those black shadows were still a hundred or ten meters away from the valley, he suddenly knocked the grenade on the stone next to him, and then threw it out towards the valley.
For the next seven seconds, everyone was tormented by nervous waiting, for fear that the grenade would explode early or late.
It's a pity that Dong Shishi's prediction time was still slightly off, a little late, and only hit the seven or eight Japanese soldiers running at the back.
The shrapnel from the explosion did not cause much damage to the horses, only one unlucky horse was cut open in the stomach by a piece of shrapnel that did not follow the normal route, and its intestines fell out, and it was trampled on by the hind legs that followed him, and it was torn off alive.
The rest of the horses hit by shrapnel also fell to the ground, but their legs were basically blown off.
Tian Liuwa saw that the devil did not sound an explosion at the first time he entered the valley, and his heart sank at that time.
The slopes on either side of the valley were not too steep, and it was not too difficult for the cavalry to rush up.
The most important thing is that because there is not enough time to prepare, there are no obstacles set up on the hillside at all, and once the devils rush up, then they can only choose to fight hard.
The crisp sound of the light machine gun sounded, and the flames from the muzzle of the gun were even more enchanting in the dark night.
When he discovered that there was an ambush on both sides of the hillside, Yamazaki did not panic, but immediately ordered his soldiers to rush forward and enter hand-to-hand combat.
The only difference between hand-to-hand combat of cavalry and infantry and slaughter is that the people killed are not unarmed.
Tian Liuwa's only advantage was that the space on the hillside was relatively small, and the cavalry could not rush up.
But even so, it is definitely not a wise choice to stand on the ground and fight with the devil with a bayonet.
However, he had no other choice.
retreat, you will die; Fight, maybe live!
Although these cavalrymen also had guns, they did not shoot them at all, and they all crouched on their horses and drove their horses diagonally to the top of the hill.
Although Tian Liuwa led the soldiers to resist with all their might, they still could not completely stop the cavalry momentum, and soon someone rushed to the top of the hillside.
As soon as a soldier got up from the snow, the Japanese soldier's saber in his hand arrived.
"Poof!"
With a soft sound, the head flew up with half a shoulder, and the "bone lulu" rolled straight down the hillside.
The blood in the corpse's neck rose more than two feet high, and it shook in place twice before falling to the ground.
With a smug look on his face, the Japanese soldier once again raised his sword and rushed towards the other soldier......