I just passed through the Wolf's Tooth Ridge and entered the Mao'er Peak Realm. Oshima Yoshimasa sat on horseback, his heart was also very anxious, the scouts in front had sent a message, the main force was less than forty miles away from the Qing army, and now the Qing army had entered the ambush range of the cavalry squadron, and was about to attack, it seems that his main force will also accelerate forward, otherwise, once the Qing army throws off the cavalry, it will be troublesome to annihilate it.

When Yoshimasa Oshima gave the order to advance at full speed, on a hillside not far from Mao'er Peak, Bagen and Zhang Yihu were holding monoculars to observe the movements of the Japanese army. At this time, the Japanese advance had already passed Mao'er Peak, and the two did not find the Japanese cavalry troops, so it seemed that Oshima Yoshimasa really sent the cavalry out to intercept the main force of the Qing army.

Zhang Yihu pointed to the Japanese artillery team and said: "Lao Ba, according to my meaning, we will first attack the artillery of the devils, they have no light weapons, and they are relatively close to us, we will charge, without waiting for them to react, cut indiscriminately, get rid of their gunners, and make their cannons blind, hehe." ”

Bagan grinned and shouted: "Everyone get on the horse, check the guns, fill me with bullets, hit the guns at a distance, cut me when I see a round when I get close, we just need a charge, don't fight, and retreat immediately before the devil reacts!" ”

"Follow me!" Bagen raised his scimitar and slapped the horse's buttocks, and the horse neighed and rushed towards the Japanese artillery like lightning, followed by about forty people who rushed down the hill.

At this time, the Japanese army, Oshima Yoshimasa had just given the order to march at full speed, and the formation had just begun, when suddenly there was a neighing sound of horses, and he was startled, and turned his head to look, and on the hillside not far away, a cavalry rushed towards the artillery team like lightning. Oshima Yoshimasa's face changed greatly, and he shouted: "Defend the formation, protect the artillery!" ”

It's just that the hillside is only a few hundred meters away from the Japanese army, and the cavalry rushed towards the Japanese army at full speed with the help of the terrain. In the blink of an eye, dozens of Japanese soldiers were cut to the ground, and the Japanese army was in chaos, so close to the distance, the Japanese soldiers were afraid of being injured by mistake, and they did not dare to shoot, so they only waved their bayonets to meet the battle.

How do you know that Bagen did not give the Japanese army a chance to fight at all, and directly led the team, broke through the Japanese army horizontally, beat the horse and whipped, and drove away. When the Japanese fully reacted and raised their guns to shoot, they couldn't even hit the shadow of the horses.

Oshima Yoshimasa was furious, raised his saber, and slashed at the small tree on the side, and the small tree broke in response. "Yaga! Yaga! "However, his own cavalry has already been sent out to contain the main force of the Qing army, so what is the decisive battle with the cavalry of the Qing army? I had to order the team to move forward, and at the same time order someone to sort out the data on artillery losses.

After a while, Seto Moto Yoshiosa came over and replied: "Your Excellency General, in this battle, 21 artillery members of our army were broken, 17 people were seriously injured, and more than 20 people were slightly injured to varying degrees, but there was no loss of equipment. ”

"Yaga!" Oshima Yoshimasa was furious, the loss of more than 30 artillery, even he was distressed, every artillery was cultivated by the empire at a huge cost, just a face-to-face with the enemy, and he didn't even see what the other party looked like, so he suffered such a loss, he was really unwilling.

At the same time that Oshima Yoshimasa was angry, there were bursts of artillery fire in the distance, Oshima Yoshimasa raised his head, looked into the distance, and gradually calmed down in his heart, he knew that this was the cavalry squadron that had begun to fight with the main force of the Qing army, and time could not be delayed. So, he roared angrily: "Leave a few people to take care of the seriously wounded, and the others will give me full speed ahead!" Burn the wind! ”

At this time, the main force led by Nie Shicheng had just walked to Shashiyu, and the team entered a large open field, and was moving forward, when the sound of artillery fire sounded in front, Nie Shicheng was shocked, and then a scout rushed over and said urgently: "Lord Junmen, the traces of the Japanese cavalry have been found in front, the number is at least five hundred, and the deputy middle battalion led by Commander Li has already fought with the enemy." ”

Nie Shicheng hurriedly asked, "How is the battle going?" ”

The scout replied: "The Japanese cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and the front is strong, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the deputy middle battalion to resist the charge of the cavalry." ”

Nie Shicheng said in a deep voice: "Go back and tell Li Gang, give me the cavalry that entangles the devil to death!" After the main force bypasses the Japanese cavalry, then slowly withdraw the troops, do not be reckless, and preserve the strength first. ”

The scout said yes and galloped away.

Nie Shicheng shouted: "The whole army listens to the order!" Bypass the battlefield ahead, advance at full speed, and shake off the resistance of the Japanese cavalry. ”

Li Gang, not far away, led the deputy middle battalion, at this time completely fell into a bitter battle, Li Gang followed Nie Shicheng to fight on the battlefield for a long time, knowing the power of the cavalry charge, just found the traces of the Japanese cavalry, he decisively changed the formation, put more than ten Green guns, placed on the outermost periphery, the second layer is all the elite soldiers with spears, originally the third layer was also arranging two teams of foreign spears, through a heavy formation to contain the Japanese cavalry in the formation, so that it was difficult for them to play the advantage of the charge, but they had not had time to fully deploy, The Japanese cavalry charged.

More than a dozen Grimm guns opened fire at the same time, spitting tongues of fire at the Japanese cavalry. However, the Japanese army's formation was scattered, and more than a dozen Green guns could not cover it at all, and in an instant, the Japanese cavalry rushed into the defensive position of the deputy middle battalion, and Li Gang, who was in the middle of the team, looked at the soldiers of the deputy middle battalion who fell to the ground one after another, his eyes were split, and he roared angrily: "Rush up to me, entangled them to the death, and can't let them rush out of our team, even if they all die here, they must be nailed here for me!" ”

It's easy to say, but it's too difficult to do, the deputy middle battalion has lost nearly one-third of its strength after the last blocking battle, and there are only less than eight hundred people, but the other party's cavalry has five hundred people, how can eight hundred infantry trap so many cavalry, fortunately, Li Gang has made arrangements in advance, otherwise just one charge, the personal guard battalion will have two or three hundred casualties, Rao is so, the deputy middle battalion is gradually becoming incapacitated. Li Gang was so anxious that the green tendons on his forehead jumped up, and with a roar of anger, he led only a dozen or so cavalry under his command to greet him, and the deputy commander Li Kun's face on the side changed greatly, and he wanted to stop Li Gang again, it was too late, Li Kun was so anxious that he stomped his feet and shouted: "Second sentry, rush up for me, protect the commander, and quickly cover him to withdraw!" ”

In just one face, the cavalry beside Li Gang was left with only Qin Daqi and another person, and Li Gang's shoulder was also slashed, and the other party's cavalry was too much to parry.

At this time, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers had already surrounded them. Li Gang still wanted to turn his horse and fight again, but Qin Daqi beside him took advantage of Li Gang's lack of attention, and slapped Li Gang's mount on the ass with a horizontal knife, and the mount swooped forward and rushed into the second outpost team. Qin Daqi shouted: "Hurry up and retreat with the pipe belt!" After that, he and another personal soldier rushed into the formation of the Japanese cavalry.

Li Gang's eyes widened so that the corners of his eyes were faintly bleeding, and he roared: "Daqi, Daqi!" When he tried to rush forward again, he was torn off his horse by the soldiers around him, hugged him tightly, and dragged him backwards......

The Japanese army in the small Ben Shan Mu watched the blocking Qing soldiers tightly entangled the cavalry, fighting to the death and not retreating, for a time the battle was stalemate, there was no half a day, it was really difficult to decide the winner, and his heart could not help but be anxious, this is not the main force of the Qing army after all, once the main force of the Qing army was thrown away, then I wanted to entangle them, but it was difficult. Thinking of this, Xiao Ben Shanmu shouted: "The first squadron has all retreated, leaving the battlefield and continuing to pursue the enemy's main force, be sure to entangle it!" The second squadron covered, and once the first squadron left the battlefield, the second squadron also quickly withdrew from the battlefield to pursue the enemy's main force! ”

At this time, the Japanese army had completely occupied the advantage, and in an instant, the cavalry of the first squadron had broken free from the battlefield, and did not clean up the team, and under the leadership of Xiaoben Shanmu, they pursued the main force of the Qing army.

The deputy lieutenant battalion was entangled by the second squadron, and it was difficult to get out for a while, so he could only watch the opposing cavalry roar away.