Chapter 728: A Torrent or a Moth
When Huo Xiaoshan was formulating the battle plan, he said, "Our plan is a plan to poke a honeycomb."
What happens when that kid pokes a hornet's nest? Will you stab a second time?
No, it won't!
Even the first time I stabbed it with a bamboo pole and ran away, so it was very likely that I would be stung by the wasp and have a blue nose and swollen face, and it was very likely that I would put myself in it!
Therefore, the bombing of the Japanese pontoon bridge by the battalion directly under the battalion this time is really the same as the child stabbing a hornet's nest.
The Japanese pontoon bridge was a hornet's nest, and the grenadier that shot more than 200 meters was the long bamboo pole.
And in order to prevent the frenzied hornets of the Japanese army from stinging, Huo Xiaoshan and they made five more horse-drawn carriages of the Japanese army when they came out.
The Japanese were also careless, and when they saw that they were surrounded by their own troops, they withdrew the squad escorting the carriage.
Huo Xiaoshan personally took the top soldiers disguised as the Japanese army, directly killed the five remaining Japanese soldiers, threw away the supplies, and unknowingly snatched the five carriages that were resting by the woods.
And Huo Xiaoshan really didn't use many soldiers to poke the hornet's nest this time, and there were no more than forty people even covering in total.
Why? Because he determines the number of people according to the number of carriages, the more people there are, the slower the horses will naturally run.
As long as the load of the carriage is small, it can run faster than a person.
Don't look at Shen Chong's anger because he didn't hit the devil, but Huo Xiaoshan said, this time it's really a hornet's nest, if you want to fight cleanly, you must obey orders.
And the development of the battle is really as Huo Xiaoshan expected,
At this point, the attack on the Japanese pontoon bridge began, and the scene of running to the reckless green mountains appeared.
And when Huo Xiaoshan and the others fled here, the pursuers behind also swarmed in.
The infantry came first, followed by the cavalry, who heard the news, and then there was an armored car behind them!
At this time, the commander of the Japanese army, Nobu Ishii, who had also heard the news, had already seen the Chinese soldiers wearing gray cloth clothes on the last carriage from the telescope.
Naturally, he also got the information that the main force of the Ninth Theater had been stationed on the front line of Qingshan, and he also wanted to understand why such a small group of Chinese troops dared to act so boldly.
After doing the disgusting thing of the Imperial Japanese Army, you want to escape back to your lair, how can there be such a good thing?!
"Order to speed up the pursuit, and must not let this force escape within the fire range of the opponent's position!"
The Japanese cavalry quickly overtook the infantry, and when they saw that the five wagons in front of them had slowed down, the Chinese soldiers jumped out of the wagons, and the men fled behind the hills in the transition between the plains and the green mountains.
"Charge, slash them alive!" The officers of the Japanese cavalry waved their sabers and shouted, so more than a hundred horses galloped.
Even though it has entered the era of hot weapons, cavalry is still a force to surprise on the battlefield.
There is no other reason, as long as the cavalry is allowed to rush to close range, then the infantry will be slaughtered, and the saber will surely roll off the head or cut the limbs everywhere!
If the distance of the infantry charge is fifty meters, it can withstand the damage brought by the opponent's fire and enter the white-knuckle battle.
So, how much is the cavalry?
One hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, even if a small part of the cavalry rushing up at full speed is shot off the horse by the opponent, then most of the remaining cavalry is the master of the battlefield fighting.
Obviously, the Chinese army on the other side also understands this truth.
So when the Japanese cavalry began to charge from a distance of 400 meters, their shooting began.
The light "bang" sound of rifle shooting, although the gunfire was dense, was not even a platoon of guns, as if it was just a messy shot without the command of an officer.
But this seemingly random shooting hurt the Japanese soldiers very much, because their marksmanship was very accurate!
At least in the eyes of the Japanese officer who commanded the attack, he had never seen a Chinese army shoot men and horses so accurately.
At a distance of 400 to 200 meters, he noticed that at least forty of his cavalrymen had fallen from their horses!
Because it hurts a lot, it makes me even more angry, because the other party's shooting is not intensive, so I have to rush up and slash them!
There are still 200 meters left, and the speed of the horses has soared to the extreme, give me ten seconds, and I will use my saber to avenge the knights of the Japanese Empire!
The Japanese officer lying tightly on horseback grabbed the reins with one hand and tightened the saber with the other, letting the sound of the wind blow in his ears, and letting his mount's slightly longer mane that had not yet had time to cut off his cheeks, the cavalry of the Imperial Japanese Army was so domineering!
But just as he led the team to rush into a distance of 200 meters, the gunfire on the opposite side suddenly rose an octave! Because the firepower has more than doubled!
Because not only did the rifle shooting double, but there were also nearly twenty Czech light machine guns and two Maxim heavy machine guns!
So on the way to charge for more than ten seconds, the Japanese cavalry threw the reins, the war horses and horses lost their front hooves, and the originally mighty and domineering torrent turned into a group of moths throwing themselves into the fire!
The Japanese cavalry officer knew that he had been deceived, and the other party first showed the enemy weakness, lured him to charge with all his strength, and when the horse ran up because he could not turn around because of inertia, there was a sudden attack!
Rushing into two hundred meters, of course, he could restrain his mount and withdraw from the battle, but no commander would give such an order.
Because, if you let the horse slow down and turn and then accelerate to escape, you will never be able to escape the opponent's firepower network, and there is only a dead end.
Now the only way to do this is to rush forward, no matter how many horses are left, and use a knife to smash the opponent's defense.
So grit your teeth and rush!
It is not known whether it was the luck or misfortune of the Japanese officer.
Luckily, he managed to storm into the camp of the Chinese army, but unfortunately, only nine cavalry were able to rush into the Chinese camp, and most of the rest fell into the fire trap carefully designed by the Chinese side from 0 to 200 meters.
But the Japanese commander had no time to repent of his carelessness, and as he rushed into the Chinese camp, his horse's hooves first overturned a light machine gun, and then the saber was raised to point at a Chinese officer who was wielding a heavy machine gun.
But just when he thought that he would be able to destroy this heavy gun, the head of the war horse under him exploded with a gunshot!
The blood and bone directly covered half of his face, and then the horse staggered forward.
At the moment when the Japanese officer fell off his horse, he saw with his still sightable right eye that behind the heavy machine gunner stood a Chinese soldier who could only be counted as a child, holding a rifle with a scope.
It was a sniper rifle capable of shooting bombs, and the Japanese officer had no idea at the last thought.
He could never tell whether he had been killed by bullets, or if the Chinese soldiers had been stabbed to death with bayonets, or if he had fallen to his death.
Ishii Shin in the telescope saw the process of his cavalry falling into the jade.
When his own cavalry rushed to a distance of two hundred meters, he saw the Chinese soldiers who suddenly raised their heads from behind the hills and raised their guns.
He sighed in his heart at that time, it was over, he knew that it was too late to say anything, and the end was just as he expected.
But at this time, as the wing commander, Ishii Shin helplessly found that he was a little embarrassed as a commander, calling the plane to bomb too late, and calling the artillery to come to support the artillery fire? But the artillery has not yet arrived, the other side is running too fast, and the artillery is still on the way.
In the current battle situation, except for the chariot that rushed up and the infantry, he really had no good way to attack for a while.
The only hope was that the armored car would break through the opponent's defenses, so he raised his binoculars and looked ahead again.
He saw that the stragglers of the other side had begun to retreat, and it was clear that this was to withdraw to the main position of the reckless green hills behind.
Not to be outdone, only two light machine guns were strafing the soldiers behind the armored vehicles.
The heavy machine guns on the armored vehicles expressed great indignation at the light machine guns that dared to despise themselves in such a way, so they rushed and fired "holes", so the light machine guns that dared to resist were dumb.
Instead, the infantry in the distance opened an angle and fired at the infantry behind the tank.
The opponent's marksmanship was very accurate, and the two heavy machine guns on the armored vehicle could not complete the suppression of the opponent's point fire that knocked down an infantry from time to time.
This must be the 74th Army of the Chinese Army, and it is indeed more powerful than other troops, Ishii Shin thought.
Ishii's 3rd Division had fought against the 74th Army in the Battle of Lanfeng, and the strength of the Chinese army forced him to resign.
At this time, Ishii Shin saw that the two machine-gun fire points of the Chinese army on the opposite side were firing again, but this time the firing position had run behind a slightly higher hill dozens of meters behind.
But the two firing points only rang out in less than a minute, and then they were dumb again, and the fire was obviously suppressed by the fire of the armored vehicles.
Ishii Shin saw his armored car rushing towards the hill and quickly climbed to the top of the hill, but then the accident happened, and he saw the armored car's ass pouting backwards, and he only saw the tracks and chassis of the armored car in the telescope, and then it was gone!
Fooled again!
Nobu Ishii felt bad, he faintly heard an explosion, and he saw black smoke rising from behind the mound.
He knew that the back of the hill must be set up like an anti-tank trench, it was a steep slope, and the tank climbed to the top of the hill but did not know that there was a deep ditch behind it, and it could not stop and fell directly!
"Order, withdraw!" Shin Ishii has gone from initial anger to helplessness.
He already has no cards to play in his hands, and he does not want to fight hard with the Chinese army without the support of aircraft, artillery and tanks.