CHAPTER XXIV
Ji Jinbiao agreed, and immediately went to gather a hundred soldiers who were rushing to transport supplies, and Li San and Zhang Yayi also stood behind Hu Fei at the same time.
"Follow me!" Hu Fei didn't explain much, turned over and left with the spotted horse. Li San, Ji Jinbiao, and Zhang Yayi each got on their horses, and a hundred soldiers ran behind to follow. There were foot soldiers behind him, and Hu Fei deliberately controlled the speed of the horse. Otherwise, if the Spotted Horse had been allowed to run, the hundred soldiers behind him would have been wiped out.
It didn't take much to run forward, only about 20 minutes. There was a depression in front of it, and there was a small ditch in the depression. In the depression and on the edge of the ditch, a large herd of horses was gathered, and a small number of camels were mixed in with them, and the horses and camels together were estimated to be two or three hundred!
The warriors who arrived before them were stunned for a moment, and then a roar of cheer erupted and threw themselves at the horses and camels. When the horses and camels saw someone coming, they did not run, and those who should eat grass continued to drink water, and some even took the initiative to run towards the crowd. These horses are the mounts of the Independent Cavalry Brigade!
Hu Fei walked up to the herd and jumped off the Spotted Horse, walked over and grabbed the mane of the horse, touched the head of the camel, and the boredom in his heart was suddenly swept away!
I can't imagine that these animals escaped en masse when disaster struck! He didn't check the number just now, but it is estimated that the horses and camels that died in the stables were only a small part of them, and most of the cattle did not know how to break free from the rope and run here!
After checking and counting, the horses and camels in the depression added up to less than three hundred, and the number of dead in the barracks was about a hundred! How big is a hundred large animals, standing on a piece of that? How much is it worth to sell it at the market? Hu Fei still feels regretful when he thinks about it, but it is no longer the original grief and indignation.
Nearly 300 animals were recovered, and Hu Fei, who was in a better mood, immediately asked the soldiers to drive the horses back to the barracks, but not to the stables of the barracks, but to the gate of the barracks. There are still mountains of salvaged materials piled up at the entrance of the barracks, how can he take them away without these big animals?
When Hu Fei returned to the troop's hiding point with three hundred horses and several carts, both the officers and the soldiers were happy! From their hiding place, they could see that the barracks had been bombed, and they thought that all the horses and supplies were gone, but they didn't expect Hu Fei to take people out for a walk and bring back so many things!
Now their army is another cavalry!
General Peng Yubin, the commander-in-chief of the Honggertu front, sent a herald and ordered Hu Fei to lead the independent cavalry brigade to immediately attack the Japanese puppet army from the periphery, and respond to the Shen Han camp that held on to Honggertu!
Response? Of course, you have to respond! Even without Peng Yumin's order, Hu Fei would have to join the war! Hu Fei came to fight devils, not to mention that the devils had already killed more than 100 of his horses and killed and injured dozens of brothers, even if it was to avenge himself, he had to join the war!
Let the herald go back and restore his life, and the cavalry brigade will go into battle immediately! Then Hu Fei gathered the generals together and began to divide the troops. With a hundred horses missing, the mobility of the troops has been reduced, and now it is not enough to average one horse per person. The war horses have to be left to the main attack force, such as the medical team, the baggage team, etc., use those carts to pull the equipment and then follow up.
Hu Fei handed over the dragged troops to Liu Dong and Gou Tianxiao to be responsible; He himself led Li San, Ji Jinbiao, Xiong Wei, and the heroine Zhang Yayi, and led three hundred lightly armed cavalry to look for an opportunity to attack from the periphery of the Japanese puppet army!
Red Geltu Battlefield. The battalion commander, Shen Han, used his two and a half cavalry companies as infantry, defending them in a trench around the village. The puppet army's combat ability is not strong, and their marksmanship is not very good, but there are many of them! The attack of two or three hundred people is like Hailang, wave after wave without breaking!
Shen Han built fortifications here for more than a month, in addition to digging a trench around the village, he built eight pillboxes and several hidden forts in all sides of the village. These bunkers and bunkers are all equipped with machine guns, and he gave most of the machine gun companies to the bunkers!
The bombing of the devil plane and the subsequent shelling blew up his two bunkers, and when Wang Ying commanded the puppet army to start attacking, the remaining bunkers began to exert their power!
On the field, the puppet army rushed up in a dense line of skirmishers. The machine guns on several pillboxes opened fire at the same time, and the charging puppet army suddenly fell down like a large piece of wheat that had been cut down, and the rest was to turn around and run!
The enemy was repulsed! The fighters raised their arms and cheered! However, this cheer was only halfway out, and another wave of puppet troops began to charge again! The puppet army is like an endless fight, repelling wave after wave, endlessly!
I don't know if it's the puppet army that makes the fight smart? It's still the devil advisor behind who has come up with countermeasures, anyway, the lineup of the puppet army has changed from dense at the beginning to a thin pull later, and the distance between the puppet soldiers and people is getting bigger and bigger. At the beginning, several bunkers opened fire together, and the puppet soldiers let a large number of them fall down at one time, and later they could only put down a few unlucky people when they fired again!
Not only that, after the puppet army was beaten away for the third time, the Japanese puppet army used artillery again! The shells were thrown at our positions as if they didn't want money, some of them hit, and some of them exploded when they fell far away.
If Hu Fei were here, he could see at a glance that this was definitely not a devil's cannon! The devil's artillery is on target! can hit a good grenadier so off, except for the puppet army who has no fighting spirit, no one else will!
Two more pillboxes were knocked out with a grenadier and mortar, leaving only four pillboxes to guard the surroundings of Honggeltu!
The clever puppet army is not in a hurry to rush up, they crawl to the ground and shoot guns in this direction, firing grenadiers and mortars! This time, Shen Han's defenders suffered a loss! The number of people in the family is large, but the number of people on his side is small!
He could fire with a thousand rifles at the same time, and his side was full of calculations, including the local guard regiment of eighty Catholics in the village, plus one piece, only 300 rifles. How will this battle be fought? Only ten minutes into the opening of the two sides, the defenders suffered a huge number of casualties!
Shen Han saw that it was not good, and immediately ordered the soldiers to hide in the trench and not show their heads! Only two observers were left on each position, and the rest hid in the trenches to hide from bullets!
The puppet soldiers fired for a while, and found that there was no movement on the defenders' side, and the puppet soldiers were happy. They thought it was this round of shooting that wiped out the defenders of Honggertu! The puppet soldiers who were in a good mood picked up their rifles again, screamed and charged! When they were less than a hundred meters away from our position, the defenders in the trenches suddenly jumped up and fired face to face!
The puppet army suffered a lot of casualties this time, and at least more than 50 puppet soldiers died in front of the position of Honggertu.
Annoyed and angry, the devils organized an even larger attack after another artillery cover, and more than five hundred puppet troops took part in this charge!