The change in the morale of the troops did not make Li Zhilong relax in the slightest. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He knew very well that this change in the morale of the troops was entirely due to the money. When it comes to the battlefield and in the face of death, whether these changes can stand the test is another matter.

Soon, the battle began.

The Japanese army, which had the advantage of firepower, pressed the defenders to the death as soon as they came up, and kept attacking forward.

In a short period of time, a wing of Japanese troops rushed to a distance of more than 100 meters.

At this time, the shelling of the mountain artillery battalion finally saw results.

After more than 20 heavy machine guns were destroyed in a row, the Japanese suppressive fire immediately weakened. Dozens of heavy machine guns of the defenders immediately counterattacked, firing at the Japanese heavy machine guns.

Riflemen and light machine gunners use their speed to shoot bullets forward as fast as they can, killing and injuring the Japanese attacking troops.

However, there were too many Japanese attacking troops, and the bullets fired by the attacking troops were also dense and accurate.

In less than five minutes, the densely packed Japanese troops advanced more than 50 meters again.

And at this moment, the Japanese army of a wing only lost a brigade after a full battle.

At this time, both the Japanese troops on attack and the subordinates on the defense were doing the same action.

He took out a grenade and held it tightly in his hand, with a posture of pulling the string and throwing it at any time.

"It seems that this close-quarters fight is inevitable!" Xiao Bing, who was standing next to him, said with a heavy face.

Li Zhilong didn't speak, holding the binoculars and looking at the battlefield with a gloomy face.

Soon, the enemy and the enemy began to throw grenades at each other, and the violent explosion of grenades immediately sounded on the battlefield. At the same time, the thick smoke from the grenade explosion also shrouded the battlefield for the first time.

At this time, Li Zhilong had no other solution than to watch the battlefield from afar.

At this moment, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out on both sides of the battlefield.

Before Li Zhilong could figure out what was going on, he saw the Japanese troops attacking on both flanks of the battlefield, and under the dense firepower, they were swept to the ground in pieces.

Xiao Bing on the side was also shocked, but his reaction speed was very fast.

As soon as the cavalry division appeared, he excitedly shouted: "It's cavalry, our cavalry, they still have sabers around their waists." Commander, our reinforced cavalry division has finally arrived! ”

"The position has finally been stabilized by the whole division!" Li Zhilong's tense heart finally relaxed, and he sighed with emotion after a long sigh.

The sudden attack on both flanks not only caught the Japanese army by surprise, but also caused a large number of casualties to the Japanese army.

As a cavalryman, in order to ensure the speed of the charge, heavy machine guns were rarely equipped.

But the light machine gun, which is light and powerful in firepower, is equipped with a lot.

Nearly 100 light machine guns of the whole division fired together, and the dense firepower was no less than dozens of heavy machine guns.

Under such intensive firepower, in just one minute, the Japanese army fell nearly 1,000 people.

The attacking force was an infantry wing, which had been killed and wounded by the blocking troops in front of nearly 1,000 people, and now it had been killed and wounded by the cavalry division, and both sides threw grenades at each other and lost hundreds more. At this time, there were less than 1,000 Japanese troops who could still move in front of the battle.

saw that his subordinates had been surrounded on three sides, and people around him were constantly shot and fell to the ground.

The wing commander, who was protected by the guards, was sure that with the existing forces at hand and the current battle situation, he would definitely not be able to take the position in front of him.

In that case, then why let your subordinates die here in vain?

After some hesitation, the wing commander decisively gave the order to retreat.

The chief of staff of the Japanese army stood on a small high ground less than 200 meters away from the battlefield and stared at the battlefield, and when he saw that the new round of attack had ended in failure and had lost more than 2,000 soldiers in vain, the chief of staff, whose hopes were once again shattered, could not help but curse.

"Yaga, we almost won! Why should their reinforcements come at this time, can't they come a few minutes late? ”

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, I have seen that the reinforcements are a cavalry division that is following and pursuing us, with a total strength of only 4,000 men, and almost no heavy machine guns are equipped. As long as we keep attacking, we will definitely be able to break through their defenses! A division commander said with a face full of unwillingness.

"Yo Xi, you're right, as long as there are no heavy machine guns and artillery, no matter how many troops they come, they won't be able to stop us!" The chief of staff, who had rekindled hope, said with an arrogant face.

When it was over, he ordered very decisively: "Send another wing up and continue the attack." This time, increasing the heavy machine gun fire to six squadrons, I don't believe that nearly a hundred heavy machine guns firing together could not break through their defenses. ”

"Hey!" The division commander replied very cheerfully.

But the division commander did not leave immediately, but said with a hesitant face: "There is no problem with the infantry, but five squadrons of heavy machine guns at a time is already the limit!" “

"Nani?" The chief of staff asked rhetorically with a pair of puzzled eyes.

The division commander hurriedly replied: "The battlefield is so big, and the number of heavy machine guns is too large to play a role in dispersing the artillery fire of the Liaodong Army!" “

The chief of staff immediately understood, and ordered: "Then five squadrons of heavy machine guns!" Order the troops to attack immediately, without giving the defenders time to prepare. ”

When the Japanese army began to move, Wu Xin, the commander of the cavalry division, had already found Li Zhilong.

Before there was time to greet each other, a new round of Japanese attacks began.

Seeing Li Zhilong's worried face, he didn't know how to speak. Wu Xin, the commander of the cavalry division, immediately said: "Commander Li, the commander said before I set off, and our cavalry division will listen to you when you arrive at your defense area." If there is any task you give an order, our cavalry division will not be ambiguous......"

"Thank you, Master Wu!" Li Zhilong said with a grateful face.

After a short hesitation, he said directly: "Now there are less than 4,000 defenders on the position, of which Lao Maozi captures 3,000. Because the losses of the troops are too great, the three Russian regiments, that is, the remaining 3,000 old Maozi on the battlefield, have already appeared unstable. Keep them on hold, no one knows if they will collapse directly on the battlefield! “

"I mean, the cavalry division replaced them and continued to hold on!"

"As for them, immediately go to the back and build a new blocking position. If this line of defense is really undefended, we have a second line of defense that we can continue to hold! “

"Also, in order to strengthen the firepower, I also left all the light and heavy machine guns of several regiments to the cavalry division!"

If it was only reinforced by 4,000 infantry of the cavalry division, the Japanese army really did not need to be afraid, and a maximum of two rounds of attack on the size of a wing could consume the cavalry division almost as much.

But the Japanese forgot that the cavalry division not only came more than 4,000 riflemen, but also nearly 100 light machine guns.

With so many light machine guns on the defensive, the blocking fire of the cavalry division has far exceeded the offensive firepower of the five heavy machine gun squadrons of the Japanese army.

Even if the Liaodong Army did not have a mountain artillery battalion, one or two hundred light and heavy machine guns could suppress the fire of the Japanese heavy machine guns.

What's more, the Liaodong Army also has a mountain artillery battalion, which constantly consumes the limited heavy machine guns of the Japanese army.

As soon as the battle began, a picture appeared that made the chief of staff of the Japanese army unbelievable.

Although he had five heavy machine gun squadrons on the battlefield, only five or sixty heavy machine guns of four heavy machine gun squadrons could maintain fire at most under the attack of the mountain artillery battalion of the Liaodong Army.

Now, with nearly 100 light machine guns of the cavalry division joining the battle, the cavalry division can use one heavy machine gun and two light machine guns to stare at the Japanese army and counterattack.

Three-on-one, the ultimate sought-after of the Japanese army is that no matter how well-trained it is, it is not an opponent.

As soon as the powerful firepower of the cavalry division was exposed, dozens of Japanese heavy machine guns were fired one after another.

Even if there was no direct mute fire, heavy machine gun fire became intermittent.

Of course, this is just the beginning.

The attacking unit of a wing, relying on the light machine guns and rifles in their hands, continued to attack without fear of death, even though the heavy machine gun fire behind them had become intermittent.

Soon, they rushed to the best range of light machine guns at a distance of two hundred meters.

The division commander Wu Xin did not hesitate at all, and decisively ordered the remaining nearly 100 light machine guns in the position to open fire.

At this time, the light machine guns of the Japanese army attacking with the team also immediately counterattacked.

But because they were held in their arms, the shooting intensive reading was not high. And because the cavalry divisions were all hiding behind the positions, the firing targets were small. In addition, the number of light machine guns they are equipped with is not comparable to that of cavalry divisions.

As soon as the cavalry division's nearly 100 light machine guns aimed at them opened fire, the Japanese troops who rushed to the front were swept to the ground by bullets.

At this time, although the Japanese army was still advancing, they had to pay a huge price for every step they took forward.

Starting from two hundred meters, the entire offensive road was almost covered with a layer of corpses.

By the time they finally rushed to the front of the battle, an infantry wing had already lost nearly a thousand people.

At this time, the thousands of riflemen who had long been preparing for the cavalry division also fired.

More than 4,000 rounds of bullets flew out in a round of guns, which could kill and injure at least more than 100 Japanese soldiers. Coupled with the harvesting of strings of bullets from light machine guns, the further the Japanese army fed forward, the greater the casualties.

The chief of staff of the Japanese army, who had been paying attention to the battlefield, frowned and scolded again: "Baga, what the hell is going on, why is the defender's firepower suddenly so strong!" ”

"Light machine guns, the increase is light machine gun firepower, it must be brought by the cavalry of the Liaodong Army!" A division commander holding a telescope, with a gloomy face, replied in a heavy tone.

After putting down the binoculars, he immediately reminded the chief of staff: "The firepower of the defenders is too strong, and the troops will not be able to rush up at all." ”

"That's it! Let the attacking troops withdraw immediately, the original method cannot be used, and a new method must be found! The chief of staff let out a sigh full of helplessness, and then ordered decisively.

The order of the chief of staff to retreat was timely, but the machine-gun fire of the cavalry division was not vegetarian.

Light machine guns, heavy machine guns, chased the Japanese attacking troops, and did not stop until the opponent retreated to three or four hundred meters away.

At this moment, there were more than 3,000 Japanese troops in an infantry wing, and there were not even 1,000 people who successfully retreated.

Looking at the past, the ground between 50 and 300 meters in front of the battle was already covered with a layer of Japanese corpses.

At a position of 50 meters to more than 100 meters, the corpses left by the Japanese army can already be described as layered on top of each other.

As for the heavy machine guns of the five squadrons, even if the retreat was timely, that would have lost almost two squadrons.

Faced with this result, the chief of staff of the Japanese army had no other way than to cry without tears! (To be continued.) )