Qi Fengnian knew that the advantage of cavalry was speed and impact, and the advantage of his own battalion was strong firepower. If you want to destroy the devil cavalry brigade, you must shroud the devil in a fire net, otherwise, once the devil rushes into the position of his own troops, the joke will be big.

Now, the devil cavalry is about to arrive, and it is too late to build a strong position, if it directly hits the front of the devil cavalry, it cannot form an encirclement, and it cannot be annihilated in one fell swoop, the troops will be placed in the middle of the devil cavalry and the devil infantry in the city, in that case, the situation of the troops will be dangerous.

Qi Fengnian is determined to flank the devils, concentrate firepower to cripple the enemy, if there are remnants of devils, try to drive them into the city, and then build a blocking line to block the devil's breakthrough footsteps, and give him a door to beat the dog.

The night is a haven for sneak attackers.

At this time, it was about seven o'clock in the evening, and the city of Linqing had already been beaten into a pot of porridge, and the enemy and the enemy were staggered, fighting together. The Eighth Route Army was based on the tactics taught by Liu Yimin, using tunnels and courtyard passages that had been opened in advance, and concentrated on destroying the enemy courtyard by courtyard; According to the street fighting tactics of the infantry, the army used counterattacks to stabilize the battle line, strengthened the barricades, and developed firepower, trying to hold on for a while, and then waiting for an opportunity to retreat. No one expected that outside the south gate of Tucheng at this time, a battle between the infantry of the Eighth Route Army ambushing the cavalry of the Yue Army began.

Qi Fengnian's deployment was not complicated, and it was a typical way of fighting Liu Yimin's troops in concentrating their firepower to destroy the enemy. He concentrated the heavy machine guns and mortars of the fire support company and the heavy machine guns of the companies, and under his personal command, concentrated on the center of the enemy cavalry ranks. One, two, and three are lined up in a row, and they are ambushed on a canal weir 100 meters away on the east side of the road.

At this time, the various units of the instructors, due to the successive battles, the sufficient supply of weapons and equipment, and the allocation of light and heavy firepower were extremely fierce. For example, the first battalion of the Fifth Brigade of the Fifth Brigade of the Ministry of Qifeng Nian, light machine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, and submachine guns were all assigned to the infantry squad, and the rifle shooters were all brand-new 38 big covers, which were far and accurate, and the soldiers who received Liu Yimin's guidance all slightly modified the bullet warheads of the 38 big covers, and the lethality was greatly changed. The platoon has a fire support squad, the company has a fire support platoon, and the battalion has a fire support company. In addition to 60 mortars, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns, the fire support company also has a rocket launcher group that specializes in dealing with devil tanks and fortresses. The reason why Qi Fengnian dared to use infantry against cavalry on this plain relied on his firepower.

The devil cavalry came up, because the task was reinforcements, the cavalry ran very fast, and the flashlight light illuminated the dust raised by the war horses very clearly.

Qi Fengnian looked at the devil cavalry wearing a leather collar army coat, a leather military hat, leather boots, a four-four cavalry spear on his shoulder, and a three-two saber hanging behind the right side of the saddle, and muttered: "This devil cavalry is much wider than the infantry!" ”

After muttering, Qi Fengnian gave the order to prepare for battle. The fighters of the fire support company quickly mounted 60 mortars, grenadiers and heavy machine guns.

Seeing that the devil's cavalry brigade had marched to the bottom of his nose, if he didn't fight again, the devil's vanguard cavalry would soon be able to rush into Linqing City, and Qi Fengnian shouted fiercely, "Fight!" "The heavy machine guns, mortars, grenadiers of the fire support company opened fire.

As soon as the heavy machine guns rang out, the light machine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, submachine guns, and rifles of each company opened fire at the same time. The automatic fire is a surface strike, the rifle is a point strike, and the devil cavalry who are hurrying never dreamed that when they are about to reach the south gate of Tucheng and are about to join the large army, they will encounter such a fierce fire attack, and the war horses and soldiers will fall to the ground like dumplings.

The Luxi Plain is a flat river, which is very suitable for cavalry mobility, and the cavalry units in the army always have a feeling of superiority, in this attack, the cavalry of the army did not immediately scatter and flee for their lives, but under the leadership of the commander, they whistled and rushed to the position of the first battalion, trying to use speed to shorten the distance and rush into the position of the Eighth Route Army to fight. A few cavalrymen who fell off their horses and were injured because their horses were killed and relied on the corpses of their horses began to shoot at the ambush positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing that the cavalry of the army did not retreat but advanced, he smiled and ordered heavy firepower to concentrate on attacking the enemy's cavalry attack arrows, and resolutely destroy the enemy's will to fight.

The soldiers of the Yue Army were indeed brave, but bravery could not solve the problem, and the powerful firepower network turned any cavalry of the Yue Army who tried to attack the position of the Eighth Route Army into a sieve, even men and horses. Later, I don't know if it was because I was stupid or if the devil's head was opened, the devil cavalry stopped this suicide-like attack and began to retreat towards Linqing City. It's a pity that it's too late, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who eliminated the main force of the devil cavalry, actually picked up light machine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, submachine guns and rifles, and began to pursue the devil cavalry.

The battle did not last long, except for a small part of the cavalry of the Yue army fled to Linqing City or fled, the main force of the cavalry brigade of the Yue army was basically wiped out. Qi Fengnian ordered the soldiers to stop the pursuit and quickly clean up the battlefield, and then ordered the whole battalion to retreat 1,000 meters back, use the trenches, and build a field blocking position, preparing to block the devils who escaped from Linqing City.

After the troops were transferred to new positions, Qi Fengnian had time to report the battle situation to the regimental and brigade headquarters.

The demise of the cavalry brigade sounded the death knell of the Fourth Brigade of Reading Force. Seeing that his elite cavalry brigade had disappeared in a blink of an eye, Major General Kawamura Dong thought that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had arrived, so he immediately contracted his troops, assembled the personnel of the baggage brigade, the engineer brigade, and the brigade headquarters with the five incomplete infantry brigades, enriched the combat strength, designated the rear guard and the forward, and ordered the artillery brigade on Longshan outside the city to bombard the combat position of the ambush cavalry brigade of the Eighth Route Army with all its might, covering the main force of the brigade and regiment to break through.

After Hong Chaoyuan received the report of Qi Fengnian, he knew that the army was about to break through on a large scale, and while sending a report to Liu Yimin, reporting that the army was about to break through and urging the main force to speed up the action, he also informed all troops of the results of the annihilation of the Devil Cavalry Brigade by the first battalion of the 13th Regiment, and ordered all regiments to attack on all fronts, pounce on it, entangle the enemy, pursue the enemy, and be sure to eliminate the enemy around Linqing, and ordered the cavalry battalion that was hiding outside the city to immediately attack the Devil artillery position. Order Qi Fengnian to resolutely fight the block, and be sure to block the devil's breakthrough.

At this time, the main force of instructors led by Liu Yimin had already rushed to the surroundings of Linqing. After receiving Hong Chaoyuan's telegram, Liu Yimin immediately called back, ordering Hong Chaoyuan to let the devils break through the siege, and teach the Fifth Brigade to clear the remnants of the enemy in Linqing City, eliminate the enemy's rearguard troops, compress the devils from both wings, and force them to break through in the direction of Liaocheng in the southeast. The main force of the devil is solved by the main force of the division outside the city. At the same time, Liu Yimin ordered Hong Chaoyuan to fight steadily and steadily, and not to order the troops to attack as soon as he saw the devil break through, causing huge casualties.

Knowing that the main force had arrived, Hong Chaoyuan put his mind at ease, immediately adjusted his deployment, and ordered all regiments to compress from both flanks of the devils, pay attention to using the positions, control the rhythm of the attack, and make every effort to eliminate the rear guard of the devils. Inform that the main force has arrived, let the devil brigade break through, and there is a powerful corps of our army waiting for them outside the city.

Seeing that the Eighth Route Army in the city did not leave its position to carry out a large-scale attack, it only used the position to continue to fight for the courtyard with the imperial army, thinking that the counterattack just now was effective, and the Eighth Route Army was frightened by the bravery of the imperial army. Feeling that the time was ripe for a breakthrough, Kawamura Dong ordered the rearguard brigade to drag the main force of the Eighth Route Army and wave the main force to break through to the southeast.

The reason why Kawamura Dong ordered to break through to the southeast was because the ambush battle just now exposed the ambush position of the Eighth Route Army, and judging from the exchange of fire between the two sides, the ambush force of the Eighth Route Army did not have many troops, but only many machine guns. As long as the artillery brigade is ordered to concentrate artillery bombardment, it will certainly be able to inflict heavy losses on the ambush troops of the Eighth Route Army. In addition, Kawamura Dong, who is familiar with the 36 strategies and Sun Tzu's Art of War, believes that after the Eighth Route Army ambushes in the southeast, it will definitely shift its ambush position, and the danger factor in other directions is greater than that in the southeast.

As soon as the breakout order was reached, the main force of the devils went out of the city gate and broke through along the main road to the southeast Liaocheng. When he came out of the gate of Linqing City, Kawamura Dong looked back at the dark Linqing City at night, thinking about the fierce battle for a day, he abandoned the city and fled, and even the remains and wounded of the soldiers who stayed in the city could not be taken away, and he couldn't help but feel sad and shed a few tears.

Dong Kawamura didn't expect that he would cry in the future!

When he received the order from Hong Chaoyuan to attack the enemy's artillery position, Zhou Chunlin led the cavalry battalion of the Fifth Brigade to quietly move to the foot of Longshan under the cover of night.

After Zhou Chunlin fought a blocking battle in Liu Yuanzi, he blocked and attacked the devils all the way, and led the Fourth Brigade to Linqing City. After completing the task, since the cavalry was not suitable for holding the battle, Hong Chaoyuan ordered the cavalry battalion to hide and wait outside the city. After the street battle in Linqing City started, it was found that the devil's artillery position was built on Longshan, Zhou Chunlin wanted to lead the cavalry to raid the devil's artillery position several times, and asked for instructions several times, but Hong Chaoyuan stopped it on the grounds that the cavalry target was large during the day and the casualties of the forced attack were too large. Finally waited until it was dark, Zhou Chunlin knew that the opportunity had come, and did not wait for Hong Chaoyuan's order, so he asked the soldiers to wrap the horse's hooves in cloth, give the horses a horse to chew, and quietly touch the foot of Longshan with the team.

After receiving Hong Chaoyuan's order, Zhou Chunlin ordered the troops to get on their horses, drew their sabers and pointed at Longshan, and galloped towards the mountain.

This Longshan is actually a large mound of earth formed by the dredging of the canal every year, but it is said that it has accumulated over time to form a small hill. The Devil's Artillery Brigade took a fancy to the slightly higher terrain here, so it built an artillery position on the mountain, and erected all the mountain guns of a brigade on the mountain to provide artillery cover for the siege of the city.

At this time, the artillery of the Yue Army was shelling the combat area where the cavalry brigade was attacked, intending to use artillery fire to destroy the Eighth Route Army ambushing the cavalry brigade and clear the way for the main force to break through the encirclement smoothly.

After Zhou Chunlin led the cavalry battalion to gallop up Longshan, he saw that the artillery position of the devil was brightly lit, and the artillerymen were carrying out artillery bombardment, and the artillery was carrying out artillery bombardment, and the troops serving as guards were very few, and their attention was focused on the direction of Linqing City. Zhou Chunlin was overjoyed, and shouted loudly: "Cavalry battalion, kill!" "Command the troops to roll towards the devil's artillery position.

This cavalry combat is different from the infantry, and the tactics are even different.

The first company commander Han Yong is a native of Henan, and his father is a swordsman and has a good hand in knife skills. After his father was killed, 15-year-old Han Yongzheng defected to Liu Zhidan's Northwest Red Army with a Guanshan knife in his hand. In the battle against the sneak attack on Xi'an by the Jin Sui army, Han Yongzheng fought alone with a platoon of the Jin Sui army, and became a famous combat hero in the Red Army of northern Shaanxi, and the soldiers called him Han Mengzi. Later, Han Mengzi was sent by Liu Zhidan to study as a tutor, and he stayed in the tutor.

Han Mengzi once performed cavalry swordsmanship to the soldiers, that is, ten sorghums on the side of the road, he rode a horse and waved a knife, opened the bow left and right, cut it off one by one, and the knife was split on the stalk, which attracted the applause of the soldiers.

After hearing the battalion commander's order, Han Mengzi led a company to rush to the devil's guard unit first, machine guns and submachine guns were fired on the horses, and the soldiers were all armed with mounted guns, raising their guns to aim and shoot.

The first company was followed by the second company, all of which raised their sabers and killed the devil guard troops. The third company also raised the saber, but the difference was that the company commander led the war horse and killed the unarmed devil artillery.

The devil artillery received the order to retreat with the main force after carrying out this round of shelling, but they did not expect the killing god to come so suddenly, many people met the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army with their bare hands holding their sabers, and the result can be imagined, the ground is full of gurgling and rolling devil heads.

The ghost cried and the wolf howled, and the blood flowed like a river. The soldiers of the Reading Artillery Brigade, which is mixed into the 4th Brigade, are paying the price in blood for the heinous crimes they have committed since entering China.

The devil infantry in charge of the guard had just had time to turn their guns, and the bullets of the first company and the sabers of the second company arrived. The lucky devil is shot by a bullet; The unlucky devil was cut diagonally by the saber, and he couldn't leave a whole corpse when he died.

After a round of shooting, Han Mengzi circled the horse's head and saw that after a series of shots and a second company, the devil guard squadron was basically finished, so he inserted the pistol into the holster, took off the saber, raised it high, and roared: "One company, kill!" "I killed it again, and directly broke into the devil artillery group and began to kill. The soldiers also put their guns on their backs, raised their sabers, and followed the company commander to kill.

Due to the strict blockade of the news of the annihilation of the 21st Brigade and the Chahar Dispatch Corps within the army, devil soldiers like the 4th Brigade who had not been fighting in China for a long time did not know the power of the Eighth Route Army, and in their hearts, fighting in China was similar to tourism, and the Chinese [***] team generally began to flee when they were 200 miles away from the imperial army. By this time, these devil soldiers knew that the Chinese were not all slaughtered by others, and the middle [***] team did not all retreat when they heard the alarm, and their bullets could also kill the imperial army, and when their sabers were chopped down, they were still bloody with swords.

As soon as Han Mengzi killed a devil, there was a "hey" sound in his ears, and he didn't need to look at it to know that it was the sound made by the devil when he stabbed his war horse with a bayonet, and hurriedly circled the horse's head, and his feet were the stirrup, and the saber in his hand slashed down diagonally to the left front, splitting the devil who tried to sneak attack in half from left to right. After the split, Han Mengzi did not stop, and led a series of horses to sweep, leaving behind the corpses of devils wherever he passed.

As soon as Kawamura Dong and his main force rushed out of the city gate, he heard the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing from the artillery position, and knew that his artillery brigade had been attacked. Kawamura Dong was furious, feeling that the Eighth Route Army was too deceitful, and simply regarded the Fourth Brigade as a dried fish on the coast of Hokkaido, and he could dry it as he wanted, first the cavalry brigade, and now the reading artillery brigade, and then I don't know what new tricks there are!

The furious Major General Kawamura Dong decided to turn his troops and advance to attack Longshan, resolutely repelling the Eighth Route Army that was attacking the artillery, rescuing the Reading Artillery Brigade, and breaking through the siege together. Because in Kawamura Dong's consciousness, without the cover of artillery fire, this battle could not be fought again.

The devil's turn was much more than expected by the good year, and he hurriedly reported to the regiment headquarters and brigade headquarters.

At this time, not only did Kawamura Dong not expect, but Qi Fengnian also did not expect that outside Linqing City in the dark night, rows of armored cars and car lights suddenly lit up, heading towards the main force of the devil.

Seeing the headlights, Kawamura Dong was ecstatic, thinking that his reinforcements had arrived, because in the current land of China, in addition to the imperial army, where is there such a huge convoy. The soldiers were even more exaggerated, and many of them cried with joy, thinking that they had finally been saved. The signal soldiers hurriedly stood up, waved flags, and told the reinforcements in flag language that they were the Fourth Brigade of Reading Power and asked for the number of the reinforcements.

The convoy that came from a distance didn't seem to see the flag of the devil signal soldier, and the motor roared and pressed it directly.

It's closer, it's closer, the lights are shining, the distance is shortening. The soldiers were almost about to cheer. However, the other party has not responded to the flag language of the army. At first, Kawamura felt that the night was too dark, and the reinforcements were in tanks, armored vehicles and cars, so it was inconvenient to contact. But the more he looked at it, the more wrong it became, the reinforcements seemed to be coming directly to the center of his breakthrough team, why was this happening?

No one answered the question of Major General Kawamura Dong in his life, because the convoy that had arrived from afar had already formed a mecha combat attack formation while marching, and soon formed a mecha combat attack formation, with tanks and armored vehicles as the forerunner, roaring straight to the center of the retreating team of the 4th Mixed Brigade of Reading Power to carry out a surprise attack.

Seeing that the mecha battle formation formed by tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles had reached the firing distance, Major General Kawamura Dong wondered if he should order the troops to distance themselves from these mecha troops.

As soon as Kawamura Dong had time to shout, "They are the Eighth Route Army," a string of machine-gun bullets swept over, and the guards and soldiers around Major General Kawamura Dong were broken in two.

Major General Kawamura's mind was blank, and his eyes were staring at the night sky in astonishment, unable to speak for a long time.

(To be continued)