Although Xiucai and their platoon found a few defense fortifications, the layout design was very unreasonable, the machine gun bunkers were too far away from each other to form mutual support, and the perforations were too large and did not have concealment protection.

Most of the fortifications cut corners, there was no steel reinforced cement, and they were directly buried with mud, how could such a bad fortification withstand the Japanese artillery fire?

I had no choice but to dig by myself, to demolish the houses within 400 meters of the front of the position, to clear the shooting boundary, and by the way, to use the wood and bricks of the houses to strengthen the fortifications.

However, the 7th Company of Sangou did not hold on to Hushu's order, but only guarded, and there was no need to build such strong fortifications, but it also had to resist the first round of light artillery attacks from the Japanese army.

Sangou also specially found a local who was familiar with Qinglong Mountain as a guide, so that when retreating, he could quickly find a shortcut, go north along the road, and return to Chunhua Town.

Thinking that the front troops of the Japanese army might be cavalry troops marching quickly, Sangou asked people to dig a lot of dense horse traps on the north side of Jurong Bridge, and covered them with floating soil and grass.

In addition, this time, the troops also reissued some mines left in the ammunition depot in Nanjing, and the three dogs called the third platoon of the Tienon fighters and followed them to plant the mines at the front of the Huxi Village position.

The 9th Division of the Japanese Army, which landed from Taihu Lake, marched northwest through Yixing, Liyang, and Lishui, and the search troops in front of it finally arrived at the front of Hushu on the afternoon of December 4, 1937, the 26th year of the Republic of China.

Sure enough, it was the Japanese cavalry, about a hundred horsemen, running along the road without hurry, running from a distance, Sangou and Tienon were inspecting the south of the bridge, do you want to build a new position? Suffering from too few soldiers on hand.

Fortunately, the three dogs were wearing peasant clothes outside, but at this time, it was urgent, and they had to go back to the north of the bridge and rush back to command the troops.

If the troops are south of the bridge, or just a few people, it doesn't matter, the farmer in peasant clothes; The forward troops of the Japanese army will not waste time searching and advancing to kill a few civilians, just hide.

The three dogs had no choice but to run back to the north of the bridge, perhaps because the Japanese army had hardly encountered strong resistance along the way, and they were bored after a long march, and when they saw a few peasants running away, they were interested, and chased after them from afar.

It's okay to play with the people in the lower branches, looking at the few people in front of them who fled in a panic, the Japanese cavalry was very happy, and chased after them with their whips.

Just as Sangou and Tienon and a few of them ran across the north of the bridge and jumped into the houses on the side, the devil's cavalry also chased after them in a whirlwind.

However, when crossing the bridge, the cunning devil, afraid of being ambushed, did not follow all the cavalry, but rode the first thirty or so on the bridge across the river, and the follow-up stopped at the south of the bridge, waiting for the result, and then passed.

There was no time to wait, and the three dogs shouted at the three squads of the third platoon with machine guns: machine guns hit the bridge!

Three Czech machine guns crossed from three different firing points and fired at the devil cavalry on the bridge deck, one by one, although the Czech machine gun recognized bullets, it was not very compatible with other rifle machine gun bullets.

But its power is very good in light machine guns, with a large warhead of 7.92, under the terrifying propulsion of a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute and a muzzle velocity of 800 m/s, all poured on the bridge deck.

Unlike the infantry, the devil cavalry can immediately lie on the ground, avoid the bullets, and have to quickly lie down on the straight and straight ocean horses, and they are all concentrated on the narrow bridge deck, unable to disperse immediately, and all of them have become live targets.

Poor Oriental horses, dozens of horses were beaten into blood sieves at once, and the devil lying on horseback was the same, several powerful machine gun bullets fired in succession, after hitting the devil's body, there were bursts of blood mist.

Then, because of the pressure in the body, the fresh blood pressure was taken out of the body, and blood arrows were flying in all directions. In particular, the crossfire from the side and front, the dense machine gun bullets, smashed the devil's body into several pieces, hitting the arms, legs and feet, which was equivalent to a rough amputation.

Suddenly, a group of people on the bridge turned over on their backs and cried wolves, and some horses couldn't stop because of the momentum, so they directly crossed the bridge railing, and fell into the winter river with the cavalry on their backs.

The rapid fire of the three machine guns for nearly a minute, and hundreds of bullets formed a hot steel, pouring on the bridge deck of dozens of meters, and most of the Japanese army's war horses and cavalry were not dead or crippled in just one minute, and the blood flowed all over the ground, flowing along the side and on the surface of the river, turning red.

Most of the Japanese cavalry on the other side of the river were stunned at once, and the commander of the devil's cavalry squadron shouted angrily: Mortar, knock out the machine gun of the soldier for me.

The cavalry units of the Japanese army are usually equipped with a little small-caliber assembled mortars, and a few devil cavalrymen, dismount and quickly load the mortars, and start to test the correction shells against the machine gun bunkers of the Three Dog troops.

As soon as Tinon saw it, he immediately ordered the machine gunner to withdraw to the next firing position with the machine gun, "Boom, boom, boom", and after a few sounds, the devil who reacted quickly, then sounded the crooked neck light machine gun, and began to suppress the position of the seven companies and three platoons on the other side of the river.

The sound of gunfire is an order, and the order that Sangou and Xiucai discussed before, the first and second platoons of the Seventh Company immediately rushed over from the two villages behind to support the third platoon at the bridgehead.

Seeing that the firepower of the soldiers on the other side of the river was suppressed, the devil soldiers here began to prepare to charge again, and all the remaining cavalry all held a short cavalry rifle in one hand and held the reins in the other, hitting the horse's belly with a spur, and rushed towards the bridge from a few hundred meters away.

The devil opened the riding rifle in his hand while ping pong, and rode his horse to charge; In the position of the seventh company and three platoons on the Sangou side, the machine guns were chased by mortar guns, and they did not dare to show their heads for too long, so they could only fire a few bursts.

In the entire platoon position, there are only a few spears left, and they are suppressed by the devil's light machine gun, and occasionally they show their heads and think sporadically, and the illusion created by the devil is just so capable.

If it weren't for the fierce machine-gun salvo at the beginning, the devil would have thought that the three-headed peasant army was a guerrilla-style peasant armament, because what they saw in the telescope was indeed wearing peasant clothing.

However, the amount of weapons thrown by these "peasants" as well as their combat qualities and fighting appearance are by no means ordinary guerrillas who run away at the first beat.

It is still necessary to face it cautiously, in the order issued by the cavalry commander of the devil, everyone should be careful, but in the eyes of the arrogant cavalry of the devil, these scattered rifle sounds are almost negligible.

Therefore, the devil was eager to make meritorious contributions, and on the other hand, he wanted to avenge the comrades who died after being attacked, and began to desperately accelerate the speed of the horses, and the horses in front of him had already rushed onto the bridge.