1135. The Japanese cavalry flanked the 3rd Battalion in a roundabout way

As soon as the position of the three platoons of the Eighth Company was lost, and the position near the bank of the Jinjiang River was immediately torn open by the Japanese cavalry troops. Huo Ran Wen ?? ww?w?. r?a?n?w?e?na`com

This area is vast and sparsely populated, there are not many garrison troops, and the eighth company is mainly used for mobile defense, but this eighth company, which originally wanted to attack and defend with the initiative, just ran into the cavalry unit of the devil.

An infantry company has no support from a favorable position, and in the face of a Japanese cavalry squadron, it is almost unstoppable, unless there is a very superior firepower.

The problem was that the Japanese cavalry avoided the real and fought the Eighth Company with a time difference and poor terrain, and the Eighth Company was very passive at this time and had to call the battalion headquarters to provide support.

At this time, the 74th Army received assistance from the United States, and the signal corps equipped with the company headquarters already had hand-cranked telephones, and immediately connected to the telephone of the battalion headquarters.

When Sangou heard the request for help from the Eighth Company, his head suddenly became big, what was the matter, the devil hit the weakest link of the third battalion so accurately, which shows the strength of the plainclothes detectives of the Japanese army.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and the cavalry of the Japanese army, which was close to a squadron, immediately broke through several cordons in succession, and the alarms from the front line were constantly sent to the battalion headquarters.

There was no choice but to send a machine gun company, which was originally a heavy unit for an infantry battalion, but Sangou has always used the machine gun company as a reserve.

As an important pillar of the battalion's firepower, it is indeed a pity and dangerous for them to defend a place, and it is very inconvenient to transfer, and it is impossible to maneuver quickly.

Later, Sangou wanted to go on like this, and the machine gun company must move quickly, as the fire support and reserve of the whole battalion, if it can't be fast, it will be difficult to support a certain company and a certain position.

For the best in China, it is almost impossible to move quickly and motorize cars, unless it is the kind of army coquettish of the Fifth Army built with the strength of the whole country.

Even if the 74th Army fights like this, it cannot motorize cars, not because there are not so many cars and motorcycles or gasoline, but because of the loss of air supremacy.

Even if the 74th Army was to replace all of them with cars, it was estimated that all the Japanese planes would be blown up within a few days, and no matter how fast the cars were, they would not be able to outrun the planes.

Besides, the middle ** has now destroyed all the roads in the front-line area, and if there are cars, it is equivalent to destroying themselves, and the roads are impassable, and the cars will become decorations.

Although the artillery battalion of the 51st Division was transported by a car brigade, it was also a combination of temporary and sudden, and it was only possible to make the trip with the great assistance of local villagers.

A division has become like this, not to mention an infantry battalion underneath, it is very unrealistic to think about cars and motorcycles, and Sangou didn't think about it this way.

Cars can't work, mules and horses can, in the past, when the Wanjialing siege and annihilation battle was fought, the 106th Division of the Japanese Army did not transport artillery ammunition through a large number of mules and horses.

Therefore, the third battalion applied to the regimental headquarters for the construction funds of the mule and horse brigade, and at the same time raised funds to form a mule and horse team, which was directly incorporated into the machine gun company.

This mule-horse team was loaded with heavy machine guns and mortars and ammunition boxes, which were on standby in wartime, and the machine guns and ammunition boxes of at least one machine gun platoon were not unloaded, as were the mortars and shell boxes of one gun platoon.

Therefore, Sangou immediately ordered the two mule-horse machine gun platoons to immediately go to Dayan Village in the Wugongling Defense Area to support the Eighth Company, and at present, the Japanese cavalry unit is almost arriving at Dayan Village in a roundabout way.

The target of the Japanese cavalry's raid this time is very clear, that is, Fengling Village, where the headquarters of the third battalion is located, facing the headquarters of the third battalion hiding behind the headless ridge, it is difficult for the Japanese army to break through the frontal defensive line, after all, there are three battalions of heavy troops guarding the favorable terrain.

However, the Japanese army sent cavalry units to raid all the way, and the follow-up infantry support units did not keep up, so such cavalry units could not go far and were also very dangerous.

Once you break into the heavy encirclement of the Chinese **, there is only one dead end, and the 51st Division, the elite unit of the Chinese **, will not be able to let you ride a hundred or so on a rampage as if you were in a no-man's land.

Therefore, the Japanese army wanted to use a small and big to send a cavalry squadron, and after breaking the weakest defense line of the three battalions in one fell swoop, they immediately made a detour from the flank and directly killed the middle ** front command headquarters, that is, the battalion headquarters of the third battalion.

As long as the battalion headquarters of the third battalion is eliminated and the command system is not available, the three companies of the three battalions on the front line can only fight on their own, so that the main infantry unit of the Japanese army will immediately start a large-scale onslaught, and it should be possible to reduce many setbacks.

Therefore, when Sangou heard the alarms of each line, he immediately knew very well the trajectory of the Japanese cavalry troops, and the purpose was very clear, that is, to pull out the tiger's teeth to pull out the tiger teeth of Sangou.

The bloodiness of the three dogs was stimulated at once, the dog's day, specifically for me, okay, come on, dog's day, so that you can come and go.

Sangou was also fully armed while mobilizing the troops, and the entire battalion headquarters also moved immediately, and he hadn't personally fought on the battlefield for a long time, and now the devil personally sent it to the door, so let's start fighting.

Before the three dogs could prepare for the meeting, in the direction of Dayan Village in front of them, there was a dense sound of heavy machine guns, mixed with the shelling of 50 mortars.

The two machine gun platoons transported by mules and horses met the Japanese cavalry on a narrow road before they arrived at Dayan Village, and the Japanese cavalry did come very quickly, and rushed through Dayan Village in a blink of an eye.

They will never fight along the way, and if the defense line is a little weaker, they will rush directly over, and if the resistance is strong, they will take a detour, so it is almost all the way to the wind.

The third battalion was already very weak on the left flank, and in addition to the rear of the various companies, there were almost no soldiers on guard, and all the troops were transferred to the front line.

Just when the Japanese cavalry squadron was in a no-man's land, it was suddenly blocked by an absolute firepower, and the heavy machine guns and mortars scattered the Japanese cavalry units at once.

The three battalions and two mule-horse machine gun platoons spotted the Japanese cavalry group galloping over outside the entrance of Dayan Village, immediately unloaded the machine guns and mortars, and assembled and fired on the spot.

This set of assembly, in weekday training, the soldiers of the machine gun company do not know how many times they have been intensively trained, even in the dark at night, they can quickly and skillfully disassemble and assemble it.

Therefore, when the Japanese cavalry was still about a minute away, the two heavy machine guns and three mortars had all been disassembled and assembled, and the first heavy machine gun was fired.

The heavy machine guns of Min 24 could not stop once they fired, and the 7.92 heavy pointed bullets, like red-hot steel, instantly hit the Japanese cavalry units that had entered the 500-meter range at a speed that was not visible to the naked eye.

The horses in front of them suffered such a blow that five or six horses fell down in a row, and the devils on them were constantly falling to the ground.

The cavalry at the rear also reacted quickly, and immediately dispersed to both sides, forming a cavalry straggler formation, extending out to both sides, while moving forward, but also to the middle ** machine gun unit to detour and overtake.

At this time, the mule and horse mortar platoon of the third battalion had already opened fire, but the effect was very insignificant, and it could only be exploded in the cavalry unit in a skirmish formation, and it was almost impossible to blow up the men and horses.