Chapter 600: Cockscomb Mountain Cavalry Battle I
"Three companies and four platoons, the guard platoon went to the southern flank position to set up defenses, calm down, don't shoot indiscriminately; With this amount of troops, and it is also cavalry, they actually want to shake the Cockscomb Mountain, do they think this is an endless flat prairie? Haha——, it's a pipe dream! ”
Huang Bojie saw that the main force of the Japanese cavalry was coming, and he actually launched a charge directly without even taking a break, and he grinned in his heart.
What he was most afraid of before was that this cavalry was coming, just like the first group of cavalry.
- Choose to besiege rather than attack.
Then wait until the Japanese 19th Wing arrives and use infantry to attack, while the cavalry is on the periphery, responsible for setting up a guard.
In this way, the Japanese army will be divided into two relatively independent combat units that can not interfere with each other.
More than 1,300 infantry attacked Jiguan Mountain, while 400 cavalry, relying on their mobile superiority, blocked the surprise feints of the independent battalion on the periphery.
Then Shi Weiyuan's plan will be greatly discounted, and the second company will also passively fall into a dangerous battle to the death.
And if the Japanese army feels that the war is not going well and wants to retreat and escape, the important role of this cavalry will be even more prominent.
Although in this dense forest, steep and undulating old forest outside the pass, the Japanese cavalry units were tied hand and foot, unable to effectively develop the cavalry attack advantage.
However, relying on the course of the Jiujiang River and the flat grassy slopes 100 meters wide on both sides, the Japanese cavalry can concentrate their forces and carry out a rapid breakthrough attack.
The infantry of the independent battalion could hardly stop the escape of the Japanese army.
"Charge, charge!"
With the shouts of the Japanese cavalry officers, the 400 cavalry drove their horses with their legs and rifles in their hands, rushed to the foot of Jiguan Mountain, bypassed the big trees on the mountain, and rushed to the top of the mountain through the snow.
"Yu—"
The right front hoof of a war horse stepped deeply into a snow nest trap, and before the horse's hooves could be pulled out, the huge forward inertia of the war horse moved forward with the horse's legs, and the right hoof was fiercely snapped.
"Ahh
The war horse neighed and fell down the snow slope, then rolled down the hillside, and smashed heavily on a big tree, smashing the Japanese soldiers on the horse to the point of screaming miserably, and there was no life in the blink of an eye.
"Yaga! These cunning and shameless clear dogs! ”
"Boom!"
Second Lieutenant Toshio Murai, the leader of the Japanese Ninth Cavalry Squad next to him, was so angry that he shouted 'Wow Wow', only to feel that a huge explosion was suddenly heard in his ears, and a flame flickered in his eyes, and his body flew sideways.
Slammed into a large tree.
"It hurts!"
Toshio Murai, who was trapped in a monstrous pain, was unable to slide down from the trunk of the tree at the same time.
He was horrified to see that his war horse was completely destroyed in the belly of the bomb on the spot, and there was a huge crater below, and on the snow-white slopes around him, all the blood and internal organs were thrown on the shocking blood.
Moreover, what shocked Toshio Murai even more was that on the stirrup of the war horse that was about to fall, there was actually a bloodied broken leg hanging on it!
"Ah——, no!"
Realizing whose broken leg was, Toshio Murai screamed and slid down a tree, fluttering and rolling on the snowy slope. Waiting for death.
"There is a drought and thunder! There is a dry mine! ”
The Japanese cavalry who saw this scene roared in horror and drove their horses away from this bloody bomb nest, as if they could stay away from death.
"Boom!"
Another loud roar erupted on the northern hillside.
The three Japanese soldiers around the explosion site were beaten into a sieve by a dense array of iron nails, and they were covered in blood.
One of the Japanese soldiers was shot out of the skull and died on the spot without saying a word, while the other two were howling and rolling on the snow, dyeing the messy snow in a mottled red and white color.
"Charge, charge!"
At the foot of the mountain, Kimura yelled and ordered, "Destroy them!" ”
"Boom-"
"Boom-"
Two explosions came in succession, shocking the Japanese cavalry who were shocked by the impact on the hillside, because each explosion meant that at least one war horse and one imperial soldier had returned to the west.
This urging roar made the soldiers of the entire Japanese cavalry brigade and the war horses under their crotches commotion.
Because in the vast snow ahead, they don't know if it will be their turn next.
From the beginning of the Battle of Asan Battle, the cavalry of the First Army basically did not participate in any real battlefield hard battles except for being wiped out by Dongxian Ridge, Shun'an Station, and Jiangzuo on the other side of Hushan Mountain.
At this time, the huge and violent explosions one after another, as well as the red and white flesh that was thrown on the snow-white slopes, stimulated the vision and eardrums of soldiers and war horses.
The momentum of the Japanese cavalry weakened suddenly, and they began to take a small-angle and inclined charging route on the downhill slope of Cockscomb Mountain.
It's not like just now, it's almost a straight line of the ascending ridge.
"Baga, don't go around the mountain, attack in a straight line! You cowards! Rush forward, all dead, dead! ”
Seeing that his cavalry began to fight timidly, Kimura was so ashamed and angry that he scolded: "Those who are afraid of war will be shot!" ”
"Straight up, straight up! You bastards, brutes, pigs, idiots! ”
"Bang!"
Lieutenant Tadanobu Ono, the leader of the second cavalry squadron, angrily raised his gun and shot at a soldier in front of him who was deliberately grinding and fighting, although he missed, but he was so frightened that the soldier Cao was sweating profusely, and he roared with fear and pulled the reins of his horse and rushed to the mountain.
"Are you still the proud cavalry of the Empire?"
Kimura rode his horse parallel to the mountainside in a circle, spurring the Japanese soldiers on the slope above.
"Long live the Emperor, charge!"
"God bless my emperor, attack!"
"Long live the Empire!"
The Japanese officers on the hillside shouted various slogans to encourage the soldiers who had begun to show fear.
"Rush!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
Feeling that his timidity was seen by Shangguan, the ashamed Japanese cavalry straightened their horses' heads one after another, and charged towards the top of the mountain with a tragic roar.
"Hit!"
With Huang Bojie's order, the soldiers of the independent battalion around the top of the mountain, more than 330 consecutive Mauser guns were fired at the same time, causing a burst of sound in the heavens and the earth.
The Japanese war horses were the snow landslide, and the horse speed was relatively slow, and now they do not take the oblique line, but take the straight line to climb.
Riding on a war horse and high above the Japanese cavalry, for the anti-Japanese army at a height of 200 meters on the mountain, it is simply a group of live targets that can be encountered but cannot be found.
Except for most of the Japanese soldiers who entered the shooting blind spot because of the obscuration of trees, the rest of the seventy or eighty Japanese cavalry who were exposed were almost all pointed at two or three bursts of guns at the same time.
"Ahh
"Yu—"
A large number of Japanese soldiers and horses were shot and fell to the ground, fell down the hillside, and then slammed into the roots of the big trees below.
And what was worse was that when this group of Japanese cavalry was not shot and fell, or when the large longitudinal horses entered the shooting corner blocked by trees, the next group of Japanese soldiers ran out of the trees and were shot.
However, because of the straight line charge, the sound of dry thunder explosions that had just come and gone suddenly suddenly fell.
"Don't go straight, diagonal, diagonal! Baga, raise your gun and shoot back! ”
At the Jiguan Mountain position, it was not until 300 or so rifles of the independent battalion killed 30 or 40 Japanese cavalrymen that a group of Japanese officers reacted to the mistake of the order just now.
Hurriedly yelled to correct it, and asked the Japanese soldiers to re-ride their horses and walk diagonally.