Chapter 144 Annihilation of the First Division IV

Seeing the red bandits in front of him fleeing in embarrassment, Xu Liangyu let out a sneer. If these red bandits can continue to maintain their formation, then the cavalry regiment will really not be able to eat them in the face of the dense formation of the red bandits.www.biquge.info

But it is obvious that the red bandits have taken the lead in breaking down psychologically, watching them run wolf one by one, and they really have some meaning of escaping. However, how can the southwestern horses compare to the Mongolian horses, as long as the cavalry goes to chase and kill on horseback, after killing a group of red bandits, the entire formation of the red bandits will immediately collapse, and then it is time to indulge in the harvest of the red bandits' heads.

The cavalry under Xu Liangyu originally controlled the speed and formation of the cavalry, kept the distance from the Red Army as much as possible, and mainly charged in groups. Now, with the change of banner, the cavalry on both flanks flanked flanked their horses and chased after the Red Army.

The speed of the Red Army's retreat was getting faster and faster, and at this time the formation was completely invisible, and they could only see them rushing straight towards the mountains and forests across the small dirt slopes on both sides.

Because the cavalry cautiously widened the distance between them and the red bandits, and the terrain was not very good, Xu Liangyu felt that this distance was really not good to catch up with the red bandits.

Thinking of this, Xu Liangyu ordered the team to continue to speed up, and be sure to catch up with the red bandit cavalry before they entered the mountains and forests. As soon as the order was issued, Xu Liangyu's cavalry immediately converged into a torrent of black pressure, and it seemed that it was about to catch up with the defeated Red Army.

The accuracy of shooting on the bumpy horses was really not flattering, Xu Liangyu's cavalry held their sabers high one by one, and the snowy blades danced out of the waning moon in the night sky, and they let out a loud shout, chasing the Red Army with their backs to them.

"Dada......"

At this critical moment, many bunkers made of tree branches and plants were suddenly opened on the ground of the small dirt slope, revealing heavy machine gun positions. One by one, the Red Army soldiers hanging on the branches and green leaves of the trees frantically shook their heavy machine guns, and the gloomy muzzles of the machine guns spewed tongues of fire, shooting wildly at Xu Liangyu's cavalry, who was charging thirty or forty meters away.

This is the combat tactic that Zhang Cheng came up with against the cavalry regiment of the 1st Division, which is not a new tactic, it has long been used by European military powers against cavalry in World War I, but it is this unfashionable tactic that has played a huge lethal role.

The machine gun array of the heavy fire battalion began to roar, and the dense bullets fired by more than a hundred heavy machine guns instantly formed a scythe of death, and the scythe swept over, sweeping the cavalry ranks with a huge firelight, and the charging formation of the enemy cavalry regiment suddenly appeared with a scene of people turning over on their backs.

Xu Liangyu didn't know what was going on at first, but when he saw his cavalry being swept down in pieces like wheat, Xu Liangyu finally knew that his cavalry regiment had been ambushed.

The cavalry in the rear had fully accelerated, and they almost subconsciously wanted to restrain their horses when they saw the scene of the people in front of them turning over on their backs, but many of the horses suddenly stood up with their hind hooves under the dual effect of the dense gunfire and the forced reining of the horses by their masters, and let out a terrible neigh.

The entire ranks of the enemy cavalry regiment immediately became chaotic, the cavalry in front was wantonly harvested their lives, and the cavalry in the back wanted to retreat but found that they could no longer stop the horses, and soon followed in the footsteps of the cavalry in front.

The charging team of the enemy cavalry regiment crashed into the fire net of the heavy machine guns, and the cavalry in the rear and the cavalry in the front were crowded together, becoming a good fixed target for the heavy machine guns. The heavy machine gunners did not have to take aim at all, they only had to constantly turn the muzzle of their guns, and the fan of fire formed by the deadly bullets was enough to cover the enemy's cavalry.

"Tuanzao, we are fooled...... An officer just shouted to Xu Liangyu, and then his entire body was swept off by a machine gun bullet, and bright blood sprayed Xu Liangyu's face.

Xu Liangyu was shocked, and a strong sense of fear occupied his entire mind, and he almost subconsciously shouted: "Withdraw!" Evacuate! ”

Xu Liangyu shouted as he turned his horse's head in the chaos and began to retreat. Before he gave the order to retreat, some of the cavalry had already begun to flee. In the rain of heavy machine guns, Xu Liangyu's cavalry unit was like a dying python that had been cut into several sections, and the entire formation completely collapsed.

However, when they turned back, they were shocked to find that the cavalry regiment of the Red Army had outflanked their rear, and a branch of Hessensen's rifle holes was aimed at them.

There was a heavy machine gun array in front and a cavalry surround in the back, Xu Liangyu suddenly despaired, but the pride of being a Whampoa soldier made him choose to launch a death charge against the opponent, and the standard-bearer of the cavalry regiment struggled to wave the blue sky and white sun flag.

"Charge!"

Xu Liangyu gave an order, and the remnants of his cavalry immediately urged his mounts to rush towards the cavalry of the Red Army.

However, Wang Hu didn't have the intention of competing with Xu Liangyu fairly, he coldly waved his hand down, and the cavalrymen's rifles suddenly rang out like gunshots, and Xu Liangyu's cavalry charge formation suddenly turned on his back.

After firing three rounds of gunfire in a row, the Red Army's horse hooves roared, and after the cavalry of the Red Army shot down the cavalry of the First Division, which was the most fierce, they immediately meandered forward without stopping, and unconsciously surrounded the remnants of Xu Liangyu's cavalry.

It didn't take long for the gallop of the Red Army cavalry to gradually stop. The Kuomintang cavalry, which was divided and encircled, was either cut off from their horses by the sabers of the Red Army, or obediently raised their hands and surrendered.

The remaining dozen or so Kuomintang cavalry, centered on Xu Liangyu, completely became the turtle in the urn of the Red Army. The encircled Kuomintang saw the Red Army soldiers put their sabers back into their scabbards, and took off their mounted rifles, and the muzzles of the black holes were once again aimed at the Kuomintang cavalry.

Desperate, Xu Liangyu raised his pistol and aimed it at his head to commit suicide with the belief of being loyal to Chang Kaishen, and with a "bang", a bullet broke the back of Xu Liangyu's hand, Xu Liangyu fell off the horse, and was just about to get up, but found that a Red Army cavalryman hung a saber around his neck.

With the capture of Xu Liangyu, the remaining cavalry of the enemy cavalry regiment raised their hands and surrendered to the Red Army. If you count from the beginning of the Red Army cavalry regiment to lure the enemy, the battle to annihilate Xu Liangyu's cavalry regiment lasted only thirty minutes.

Most of the cavalry of the first division was annihilated, and it took less than 20 minutes for the Red Army cavalry regiment to solve the last remnants of the enemy, and in the end, Xu Liangyu's cavalry regiment was either annihilated or captured, and none of them escaped the net.

Zhang Fengming breathed a long sigh of relief, he finally successfully completed the task assigned to him by Zhang Cheng. At this moment, the ground was full of wounded and dead, and the troops responsible for the finishing touches also appeared, including cavalry and infantry.

Everyone was chasing those horses, and military horses were too important for the Red Army. In fact, in the battle plan arranged by Zhang Cheng, the number of troops responsible for catching horses far exceeded the number of soldiers in the heavy firepower battalion that was responsible for the main combat mission.

Zhang Fengming completed the task of annihilating the enemy's cavalry regiment, and the second phase of the campaign to destroy Hu Zongnan's first division has been successfully concluded.