"Shh......h My dear lightning, obediently don't make a sound, go back and I'll treat you to a carrot! ”

In the woods beside a country gravel road, young horsemen soothed their mounts, and a few rays of sunlight pierced through the dense foliage and shone on the sturdy and slippery bodies of the horses.

In the woods, dozens of other horses neighed from time to time, but the other cavalry didn't seem worried, and they each sorted out their weapons in their hands.

Long black riding boots, gray cavalry uniforms, flat-topped hats, and spears with pennants at the top, the group had a resounding name: Prussian Lancers.

Of the more than 10,000 German soldiers currently stationed in Qingdao, nearly 1,000 had previously served in cavalry units, and they had temporarily organized a light cavalry unit using horses they had collected and acquired, which was used exclusively for reconnaissance and maneuvering. This unit was different, all their horses and equipment were original German goods, and it was also the only standing cavalry unit in the Qingdao Concession, which usually played the role of guard patrol and master of ceremonies, and at this moment, they were waiting on the road to the main positions on the outskirts of Qingdao, hoping to catch a few big fish.

"Captain Schertz, Japanese troops are coming this way from the east!" The officer, who had been crouching at the edge of the woods and observing with binoculars, bowed down and ran into the woods, and the other soldiers mounted their horses and prepared to attack.

The dark-skinned officer did not rush to jump on horseback like his soldiers, but asked unhurriedly: "How many are there?" ”

"There are only a dozen of them, and they should be the vanguard reconnaissance troops! We can easily annihilate them! ”

Captain Schertz didn't speak, his brow furrowed.

Soon, the crisp sound of leather boots brushing on the gravel road sounded, and the cavalrymen clenched their spears in their hands. A small group of Japanese soldiers trotted all the way down the road in front of the woods, and the German knights all stared wide-eyed at the outside of the woods, and yellow figures flashed quickly, but Captain Schertz never gave the order to attack. It wasn't until the footsteps of the Japanese soldiers faded away that the cavalrymen's tense nerves relaxed slightly, and their slightly puzzled eyes were cast at their commanders.

"This fish is too small!" Schetz made a gesture to disprepare for battle, and the officer in charge of observation quickly ran back to the edge of the woods to continue observing.

"The Japanese advance reconnaissance team has passed, and it is estimated that the main force will come soon, and everyone will withdraw some more to the depths of the woods!" Hearing the commander's words, the cavalry pulled their horses and walked away from the road.

After about ten minutes, the officer who was in charge of observation outside ran back.

"Captain, this time it's a large force of the Japanese army, the number is ominous, at least more than a thousand!"

"What a big fish! It's a shark! Schertz laughed a little self-deprecatingly, the Japanese advance team of more than a dozen people just now was not enough to stuff his teeth, but this time he couldn't swallow it at all, "Everyone is optimistic about their war horses, don't make any noise!" Once discovered by the Japanese army, all of them immediately retreat! ”

The German cavalry were now about 500 meters from the road, and the dense trees provided them with good cover. Schertz crouched next to a large tree a little farther away, using binoculars to observe the situation outside.

As the sound of leather boots got closer and closer, several groups of Japanese soldiers entered the woods and dispersed to search, but perhaps because their vanguard had passed through here, or perhaps because the German main force had organized a defense 10 kilometers ahead, they were a little lax, and the Japanese soldiers did not go deep into the woods, but hastily searched the woods near the road and left.

After a while, groups of Japanese soldiers appeared on the road outside with neat and monotonous steps. With the rifles on their shoulders tilted at almost the same angle, and with the boxy backpacks and consistent pace, the army looked well-trained and well-organized.

Schertz was not interested in comparing the Japanese soldiers with the German Army, and he found that the Japanese soldiers in that unit had basically all rifles in their hands, and there was only one heavy machine gun in several groups of soldiers, and there was no artillery.

A gleam flashed in Schertz's eyes, and he remembered that even in the German army, the long marching column was led by infantry, and the wagons with cannons followed the infantry, and at the back were usually baggage wagons.

"There's no fish of the right size, just take a bite of the tail!" Recalling his life in Qingdao in the past few years, Schetz felt that he and this cavalry unit were almost deserted, and he could only practice spurring with a scarecrow in peacetime, and a strong desire for battle suddenly rose in his heart.

He walked quickly back to the middle of the cavalry, "Listen, everyone, after the Japanese infantry has passed, we will attack the tail of their artillery and baggage teams!" The 1st and 2nd squads were responsible for destroying the Japanese soldiers on alert by the baggage squad, and the third squad was responsible for destroying the artillery and baggage wagons, and everything had to be carried out within two minutes, and after two minutes, regardless of the outcome, they all withdrew into the woods. ”

"Got it!" The cavalry was all excited.

"But Captain, we don't have grenades or bombs, so how can we destroy those carriages?" When a soldier asked the question, Schertz frowned and began to pull out the contents of the bag on his horse's back.

"Dagger, no!"

Map ......

"Cookie ......"

"Flashlight, no!"

"Lighter ......"

Schertz's gaze rested on the lighter, the kerosene in it seemed to be the only thing that could burn here.

"I don't know what those Japanese soldiers have, but I don't think I saw a grenade!" A cavalryman muttered,

"Yes! The Japanese look poor, their military uniforms seem to be old and dirty, but fortunately they are short, so their bedding does not have to be made very large, and a lot of materials are saved! The other horseman had just answered, and Schertz suddenly grabbed his hand with great excitement.

"What did you just say?"

"Captain...... I didn't know that you were related to the Japanese, I just talked about it casually! ”

"No, you seem to have just talked about the ...... of the Japanese soldiers."

"Yes, Captain! I said their clothes were dirty and their bedding was short! The cavalryman looked a little dazed.

"By the way, we can set their clothes and backpacks on fire and stuff them inside the ammunition truck! As for the baggage carts, I think they will be easier to ignite! ”

Sure enough, after the Japanese infantry lined up, horses and mules appeared outside the woods with field guns one by one, and the artillerymen sat in front of the carriage and chatted leisurely.

"Prepare to attack!" Schertz turned on his horse, his cavalry like a knight in the Middle Ages, reins in one hand and spear in the other. The tip of the spear pointed straight to the sky, the small flag at the top fluttered with the galloping of the horses, the hooves of the horses made a dull sound on the land in the woods, the bodies of the cavalrymen jumped up and down with the horses, and when they were about to rush out of the woods, they began to tilt their spears towards the ground.

On the road outside the woods, the Japanese soldiers looked at the woods with some blank eyes, and some soldiers around them held their rifles in their hands, and a strange sound came from the woods, and it sounded closer and closer to them. When more than 60 Prussian lancers suddenly appeared like ghosts, the Japanese soldiers looked at the sharp spears and almost froze there.

There was only a little more than 20 meters from the woods to the gravel road, and many Japanese soldiers pulled the trigger of their rifles before they had time to aim, and the hurried bullets seemed to have no idea where the target was.

The German cavalry did not pause, they began to charge under the sparse gunfire of the Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers in front of them were so similar in color to the straw targets they usually trained, and there was no dodge, except for the slight difference in the texture of the spear when it penetrated their bodies. The spears in the hands of these knights could even penetrate the bodies of two or more Japanese soldiers sitting side by side in the carriage at once. It was not until the stabbed Japanese soldiers let out a heart-rending wail that the other Japanese soldiers woke up as if from a dream, and they began to lie on the carriage or crouch on the ground and shoot scatteredly, from time to time the German cavalry fell off their horses, and the other German cavalry turned around and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers who were shooting. The Japanese soldiers, barely sheltered, often did not have time to pull the bolt to fire the next bullet before they noticed that the tall cavalry had appeared in front of them.

In front of the German cavalry rushing out, dozens of corpses wearing yellow cloth military uniforms lay on the ground in more than a dozen carriages and the surrounding ground, and the German cavalry in charge of destruction jumped off their horses one after another, quickly took off the clothes and backpacks of the Japanese corpses on the ground, set them on fire and threw them on gun wagons and baggage trucks. At this time, the Japanese infantry not far away began to return to the artillery team, and the bullets that grazed by the German cavalry began to dense.

With a loud whistle, the cavalrymen retreated into the woods with their wounded companions, and the remaining Japanese soldiers either raised their guns to shoot at the departing cavalry, or began to extinguish the incendiary materials on the vehicles in a panic. Although Schertz's improvised solution was not very effective, two Japanese ammunition wagons were ignited, and as the cavalry retreated deep into the woods, a series of violent explosions were heard on the road.

During the battle, the German and Japanese casualties were not significant, Schertz lost 4 soldiers and 10 more were wounded, the Japanese lost a total of 47 artillery and infantry, and two ammunition trucks were destroyed.

In the evening of the next day, Schertz and more than 50 cavalrymen attacked a Japanese baggage team again, killing 23 Japanese soldiers, blowing up an ammunition truck, and burning 3 baggage trucks carrying supplies. By the end of September, the Japanese army had more than 60,000 Japanese troops on the battlefield, and at the same time, in order to obtain a large amount of food and labor, the Japanese army's oppression of the Chinese people began to intensify, and the Chinese people on the Shandong Peninsula were miserable, and the struggle against the atrocities of the Japanese army continued to appear.