Chapter 172: The Horse Bandits Attack

Since Chang Kaishen issued a reward order of 200,000 oceans to Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng's head has long been remembered by many people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info, especially the military commander Dai Li, this person is Chang Kaishen's loyal dog lackey, and his spies are all over the country.

Dai Li has been keeping an eye on Zhang Cheng's movements, but unfortunately Zhang Cheng has been in the midst of thousands of troops, which makes Dai Li unable to start. Finally, Zhang Cheng led a small army to leave the army, saying that he was going to inspect the various departments, and Dai Li immediately felt that the opportunity had come.

Through the news from the undercover agent who was planted in the inner line of the young column, Zhang Cheng's route to inspect the various departments was already in the hands of Dai Li. As a result, Dai Li ordered the spies hidden in Ordos to contact the horse bandits who had always been raging in the Ordos grassland, and raided Zhangcheng with a gust of wind to completely get rid of this red bandit who had repeatedly embarrassed the chairman of the Standing Committee.

There were 2,000 bandits in the first gust of wind of horse bandits, and when they heard that Lin Nan, a spy under Dai Li, had opened 200,000 oceans just to buy the head of Zhang Cheng, a gust of wind did not hesitate and decisively took over the business.

In recent months, the horse bandits have been pursued and suppressed by Li Yunlong's brigade, and the number of bandits has been reduced from more than 3,000 to 2,000 at the peak, and the business without capital is about to be unable to continue, and it can be said that they hate the Red Army to the core, and they heard that Zhang Cheng is the head of the Red Army, of course, they want to get rid of it as soon as possible, not to mention the reward of 200,000 oceans.

The further north Zhang Cheng went, the stronger the warning in his heart became. At this time, he had a premonition that the road ahead must be uneven, so he reminded the soldiers to be on guard and sent a platoon of cavalry to explore the road in front.

It is about 200 miles away from Ordos to Dalat Banner, and Dalat Banner faces Baotou across the river, which is the destination of Zhangcheng's trip.

Zhang Cheng led more than 100 people to brave the cold wind and march on the endless prairie. After leaving Ordos for about 100 miles, a burst of gunfire suddenly sounded in front, and Zhang Cheng knew that the cavalry platoon in front had encountered horse bandits, and the warning signs in his heart reached the highest peak.

Zhang Cheng didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered the guard company to seize the advantageous terrain and arrange a blocking position.

After more than ten minutes, only 15 people from the cavalry platoon, which had been exploring the road in front, had returned, and all of them were wearing colors, and the platoon commander reported that he had encountered a large force of horse bandits, and the preliminary judgment was that the enemy was about 2,000.

Later, Company Commander Wang of the guard company led his squad and platoon leaders to ask for help, asking Zhang Cheng to let the guard company stay to intercept the horse bandits, and Zhang Cheng and the cavalry platoon left first.

Zhang Cheng smiled and waved his hand at them, and said calmly: "Don't be nervous, I have a premonition that someone is ambushing us in front, and the cavalry battalion of the first division is hanging more than ten miles behind us, as long as the horse bandits appear, they can all be wiped out."

You go and tell the soldiers to respond calmly according to the tactics of the machine-gun cavalry that they have been trained before, we have no artillery, and we should pay attention to putting them close to fight, but the cavalry is very strong, once the fire is fired, do not save bullets, do not let them rush in front of us. Everyone held out for a while, and reinforcements from the cavalry battalion would soon arrive. ”

After listening to Zhang Cheng's words, Company Commander Wang quickly calmed down and began to arrange a blocking position.

According to the previous training of cavalry, Company Commander Wang built three firepower networks in view of the fact that the horse bandits were all cavalry, and the first firepower network gathered more than 10 light and heavy machine guns of the whole company, and this firepower network was the key to blocking the enemy, and once the enemy broke through the machine gun position, it would be over.

The second firepower network was composed of more than 30 soldiers with the most accurate marksmanship and the strongest throwing ability in the whole company, and the soldiers with accurate marksmanship were specially engaged in fighting horse bandits, and the fighters with strong throwing ability were specially engaged in throwing grenades, and as soon as the enemy approached the machine-gun position, they would greet the enemy with grenades.

The third firepower network consisted of all the soldiers armed with rifles, and Company Commander Wang quietly explained to them that if the battle situation was unfavorable, they would immediately ride on horseback and lead the commander to break through.

After the blocking position was arranged, Company Commander Wang invited Zhang Cheng to come and inspect it, and Zhang Cheng inspected it, expressed satisfaction with most of the fortifications, and of course pointed out some omissions, which Company Commander Wang corrected on the spot.

After everything was ready, the horse bandits in front had already begun to charge, Zhang Cheng carefully observed the horse bandits with a telescope, and found that there were indeed more than 2,000 horse bandits, all of them cavalry, coming and going like the wind, no wonder the first division had been stationed in Ordos for two or three months and had not exterminated them.

However, this time they took the initiative to come to the door, it was a dead end, the cavalry battalion was ten miles away, as long as a signal was issued, with the amazing speed of the cavalry, they could arrive in ten minutes.

In order to successfully eliminate this gang of horse bandits, Zhang Cheng decided to risk his own life, and when the enemy and us reached a stalemate stage, he would send signal flares, so that the cavalry battalion could trap the horse bandits behind and wipe out this group of horse bandits.

Zhang Cheng observed through the telescope and found that although the horse bandits were outnumbered, fortunately they were not regular cavalry troops, and there were no heavy weapons or many machine guns, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he put down the binoculars, picked up a modified rifle with a scope and took aim, although Zhang Cheng has rarely been on the battlefield in person since he became the commander of the Young Communist Division, but fortunately, the feeling of the blocker is still there, and the crosshair is still very accurate.

Within ten minutes, the horse bandits launched a tentative attack, and they probably found that the Red Army numbered only a little more than 100 people, so they underestimated the Red Army, and only about 500 people were mobilized for the tentative attack.

Click......

Five hundred men and horses galloped together, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the earth, and the enemy's momentum was still very fierce. The horse bandits were carrying rifles on their backs and holding sabers high, roaring all the way, menacing.

Zhang Cheng aimed at the leading bandit leader, and when he saw that the enemy had entered the 300-meter range marked by our army, he gently hooked the board machine, and only heard a "bang" sound, and the leading bandit leader fell off his horse.

As Zhang Cheng's gunfire rang out, more than a dozen machine guns on the first line of fire shook wildly without an order, and the dazzling tongues of fire continued to harvest the lives of the horse bandits.

The horse bandits in front were killed and wounded, but the horse bandits in the back could no longer stop the horses, so they could only rush forward regardless of it, in a vain attempt to rush into our army's position and vent again.

As the horse bandits continued to approach the position, the second and third lines of fire also began to exert their power, and grenades and bullets continued to knock the horse bandits in front of them to the ground, especially the soldiers who threw grenades, and the grenades were thrown far and accurately, blowing up the horse bandits on their backs.

Zhang Cheng also found the thrill of going to the battlefield, destroying an enemy with a bullet, winning the applause of the guard Xiao Lizi, and his worship of Zhang Cheng broke through the sky.

About 10 minutes later, the tentative attack of the horse bandits ended in a crushing defeat, with only a few dozen people fleeing back, and more than 400 people killed and wounded by our troops, with extremely heavy casualties.

The bandit leader thought that as long as a wave of charges injured dozens of people, he could break through the position of the Red Army, and after taking the head of Zhang Cheng, he could easily receive a reward of 200,000 oceans.

But he never expected that the automatic fire of the Red Army would be so ferocious, that he would be too light on the enemy.

The gust of anger still had a certain amount of military common sense, and he felt that he had committed a military taboo and used "refueling tactics" against the Red Army.

This time he learned his lesson, decided to take the whole army, including himself, and promised his subordinates that whoever could capture the head of the Red Army bandit would reward him with a thousand oceans.

Stimulated by a thousand oceans, 1,500 horse bandits seemed to have gone crazy, and everyone roared and rushed towards our position.