It was an encounter between the 2nd Company of the Independent Battalion and a cavalry squadron of the Devils. 【Reading.com】

Xu Rui did not attack Hai'an Town from the front in a daze, which is also reasonable, knowing that the devil has occupied Hai'an Town and ambushed heavy troops in the town, and the independent battalion will be stunned to crash into it, isn't that looking for death? Therefore, Xu Rui took a trick and led the 2nd Company to cut diagonally from the southwest direction of Hai'an Town.

Despite the haste of the change, Xu Rui had almost no time to conduct battlefield reconnaissance, but Xu Rui still relied on his keen battlefield D detection to find the only favorable condition, in the southwest of Hai'an Town, there is a large lake, the north, west, and east directions of the lake are all lush and green, and there are several small hills scattered in the forest.

Compared with the rest of the directions, the terrain to the southwest of Hai'an Town is significantly more complex.

Xu Rui's choice of this lake in the southwest as a breakthrough can be described as clever.

Now that the devil has taken the lead, he naturally hopes that the terrain will be more open and the battlefield will be as simple as possible.

The independent battalion has lost the opportunity, of course, because it hopes that the terrain will be as complex as possible, which is like two chess players playing against each other, the disadvantaged chess player will definitely create a robbery everywhere, try to disrupt the situation, and win in chaos, while the dominant chess player always hopes that the chess game can be more stable, so that the advantage can be turned into a victory.

And now, Xu Rui is the chess player who wants to mess up the chess game.

From a wooden bridge through the Manyang River, the terrain becomes open in front of you.

Losing the cover of the jungle and mountains, the surging devil cavalry on the opposite side immediately spotted the marching column of the 2nd Company.

After discovering the 2nd Company marching army, the devil cavalry on the opposite side immediately became excited, and the leading devil officer raised his saber and pressed forward, and the seventy or eighty ghost cavalry took out their sabers one after another, while screaming, while urging the war horse to cover the direction of the 2nd company.

The devil cavalry is different from the infantry, the devil infantry is silent when charging, and when the devil cavalry charges, it makes a roaring sound like a wolf pack, which is related to the devil's infantry tradition, in Japan's Warring States Period, the status of the ashigaru is very low, and the cavalry is mostly filled by samurai, and the status of the samurai is much higher than that of the samurai, and the gap between the two statuses has created a huge difference in the character of the battlefield.

The devil cavalry is arrogant and flamboyant, but the devil infantry is humble and restrained.

Of course, the humility and restraint of the devil infantry are only relative to the cavalry.

Amid the overwhelming sound of horses' hooves, about a squadron of seventy or eighty devil cavalry opened a charging formation with a width of more than 100 meters, and crushed the 2nd Company of the Independent Battalion like a sea of mountains.

The devil cavalry came in a monstrous manner, and the officers and men of the 2nd Company of the Independent Battalion were not slow to react at all.

As soon as Xu Rui raised his hand, more than 100 remnants of the soldiers dispersed, quickly building three lines of defense in the front and rear, and Xu Rui even arranged side S firepower on the left and right sides to protect the front of the position.

With the sound of horses' hooves like a tide, the devil cavalry quickly entered within a kilometer.

Seeing that the devil cavalry still did not slow down after entering the kilometer, but was still accelerating, the corners of Xu Rui's mouth immediately hooked up a cold smile, the cavalry of the little devil was really arrogant, it seems that the series of victories of the independent battalion in Wuxi, Baoxing, and Nantong before was still not enough for the proud devil cavalry to learn a lesson.

The veteran Leng Tiefeng couldn't help but say: "The cavalry of the little devil is really crazy, and he even wants to directly break our defensive line, and really thinks that our independent battalion is an army made of sand, and it will collapse at the touch of a button?" ”

The army made of sand is the evaluation of Tang Yulin's Fifth Army by the commander of the Devil's Kwantung Army, Honjo Shigeru, because in the Battle of Chengde, the Devil once used 128 cavalry to defeat the tens of thousands of troops of Tang Yulin's Army, and with cavalry alone, the Devil's Kwantung Army traveled thousands of miles in seven days, from the northeast to Shanhaiguan.

It's a pity that the independent battalion is not Tang Yuscale's sand army.

Leng Tiefeng turned his head and said to Xu Rui: "Old Xu, do you want to compete again?" ”

"Okay, but it's just one shot." Xu Rui smiled slightly and raised the 38 big cover in his hand.

Squinting slightly, the deafening sound of horses' hooves quickly faded from Xu Rui's thoughts, and the whole world was left with only himself, and the devil officer in front of him who was riding a horse and raising a sword, he couldn't see the rank of the devil officer clearly, but from the tweed military uniform on his body, he could know that he was at least a young man.

Leng Tiefeng folded a grass path from the side, folded the white floc on the grass path and threw it into the air, to calculate the wind speed with the help of the offset of the white floc, and then correct the ballistic deviation rate, but Xu Rui only relied on the strength of the breeze blowing on his face, he accurately judged the wind speed, and then corrected the ballistic deviation rate.

Then, Xu Rui's right index finger gently put on the trigger and pressed down gently.

At a certain moment, the butt of the jujube wood gun against Xu Rui's right shoulder shook slightly, followed by the sound of a horn, and at the moment when the gun sounded, a scorching bullet had already rotated at high speed, roaring towards the front, and after a delay of less than two seconds, in the field of vision ahead, the devil officer fell upside down from the horse.

"Holy!" Leng Tiefeng was obviously affected by Xu Rui, and he also pulled the trigger, but failed to hit the target.

Hitting a fixed target and a moving target are different after all, hitting a fixed target, the gap between Leng Tiefeng and Xu Rui is not obvious, but a dozen moving targets, especially the cavalry moving at high speed, the gap between the two people in marksmanship is immediately apparent, after all, Xu Rui's marksmanship is slightly better.

The death of the devil officer did not frighten the cavalry of the devil's brigade, but aroused their ferocity even more, seventy or eighty devil cavalry raised their sabers more and more, and the roaring shouts became louder and louder, and the war horses under their crotches also began the final sprint, which was as fast as lightning.

The devil cavalry was overwhelming, but the killing intent at the corner of Xu Rui's mouth became more and more intense.

Leng Tiefeng held the 38 big cover and fired another shot, this time he finally hit the target and knocked a devil cavalryman off the horse, but Xu Rui did not shoot again, but raised his right hand high and said coldly: "Machine gun...... Get ready! ”

"Click!"

"Click!"

"Click!"

The four machine gunners of the 2nd Company pulled the bolt at the same time to make the bolt in a firing state, and the four ammunition men who were squatting next to the machine gunner also hurriedly put the cartridge bucket or cartridge belt C into the bayonet of the crooked handle machine gun or the Type 92 heavy machine gun, and in the next moment, the muzzles of the four black DD machine guns were already pointing at the surging devil cavalry in front.

More than 40 remnants of the first line of defense also raised their 38 large covers one after another, pointing their guns forward.

In the overwhelming sound of horses' hooves, the devil cavalry quickly approached, 800 meters, 500 meters, 400 meters......

Xu Rui's right hand was still raised, it was as good as a mountain, and the forty-odd remnants around him were also as immobile as a mountain, only Leng Tiefeng was firing continuously, knocking down the devil cavalry one after another.

Suddenly, the devil cavalry had entered within three hundred meters and entered the effective S range of the crooked light machine gun!

In the next moment, Xu Rui's raised right hand fell heavily, and at the same time he shouted coldly: "Fire!" ”

At the sound of an order, a Type 92 heavy machine gun, three crooked light machine guns, and more than 40 38 large covers opened fierce fire at the same time, and the scorching bullets were like dense raindrops in an instant, violently splashing over, 300 meters ahead, and the devil cavalry in the front row screamed one after another, falling from the horseback.

Cavalry, once the king of the battlefield.

However, after entering the era of hot weapons, the cavalry is gradually declining, especially after the emergence of heavy machine guns, the cavalry has been reduced from the main force on the battlefield to a supporting role, and now although the armies of all countries in the world have retained the cavalry system, but the scene of frontal charge with cavalry as in the Middle Ages rarely appears.

Because in the face of heavy machine guns, a frontal charge of the cavalry was simply suicidal.

It only takes four machine guns to complete the bloody massacre of an entire cavalry division, and in Africa, the British once slaughtered more than 5,000 Zulu cavalry with four Maxim heavy machine guns.

Now the cavalry of all countries in the world are dragoons, the so-called dragoons, that is, when marching on horseback, dismounted like infantry during battle, the war horse of this era is more just a riding tool, of course, at some specific times, it will still use cavalry to charge head-on.

For example, now, the devil cavalry is trying to use the momentum of crushing everything when the cavalry charges head-on, and psychologically destroy the fighting will of the independent battalion, six years ago, they did this on the Rehe battlefield, and now, they want to replicate the glory of the Rehe battlefield to the East China battlefield.

However, unfortunately, this time the devil cavalry was no longer facing Tang Yulin's sand army.

When the infantry is no longer timid, when the infantry has machine gun firepower, no matter how powerful the cavalry is, it is scum!

Under the cover of the dense machine-gun fire of the 2nd company of the independent battalion, the devil cavalry in the front row continued to fall, and the originally dense and complete cavalry formation immediately became sparse, and the rear cavalry was forced to dodge to the left and right sides or jump into the air on horseback in order to avoid the front cavalry that fell to the ground, which made the entire cavalry formation even more chaotic.

Once the cavalry formation is disrupted, the powerful momentum that crushes everything will disappear in an instant.

There was no suspense in the final result, and the cavalry of a squadron lost more than fifty horsemen on the spot, and only less than forty horsemen were left to turn their horses' heads, and the queen retreated, and on the way to retreat, more than ten horsemen were killed or wounded, fell from their horses, and fell in a pool of blood struggling and wailing.

The devil cavalry paid a heavy price for their hubris.

Xu Rui raised his right hand again, pressed forward, and more than 40 remnants of the 2nd Company and 1st Platoon immediately jumped up from the ground, and stepped forward to clean up the battlefield with bayonets.