Seeing that several regiment commanders focused their eyes on themselves, the cavalry division commander quickly decided: "Continue to pursue, the fat that has bitten into the mouth must not be allowed to slip away so easily!" ”

"All the cavalry divisions dismounted, brought weapons and ammunition and continued to pursue the Japanese with me!"

"There are several regiments of our troops in front, and they will not watch the Japanese slip away. www.biquge.info As long as we hurry up, we will definitely be able to drag more than 40,000 Japanese troops here! ”

Before the Japanese army began to retreat, Li Zhilong received an order to leave the Japanese army at all costs.

Because the Japanese army brought a large number of baggage and artillery, it was necessary to repair a section of the official road before it could advance a section.

Li Zhilong, who only brought an infantry regiment, a mountain artillery battalion, and three Russian regiments, rushed to the front of the Japanese army very easily by small road.

At the same time, every move of the Japanese army did not escape Li Zhilong's eyes.

The Japanese army abandoned artillery and advanced lightly, and as soon as the news reached Li Zhilong's ears, Li Zhilong knew that a big battle was inevitable.

Although he had less than 10,000 men in his hands, the Japanese army that drove towards him had more than 30,000 or nearly 40,000 elites.

But Li Zhilong was not afraid at all.

Because, the Japanese army had no artillery, and even ammunition was limited.

And he himself had a mountain artillery battalion and plenty of ammunition.

Although a mountain artillery battalion could not inflict too much casualties on tens of thousands of Japanese troops, it was still easy to do it because the heavy machine guns that allowed the Japanese troops to provide fire cover during the battle could not fire normally.

In battle, there is no artillery, and there is no heavy machine gun to provide fire cover, so they just send more troops to attack themselves, and they do not worry about it.

Thinking of this, Li Zhilong decisively ordered: "The whole army is ready for battle, in an hour, the Japanese army will come!" ”

A squadron of heavy machine guns provided fire cover, an infantry brigade attacked, and the time-pressed Japanese launched a group-sized attack as soon as they came up.

However, under the suppression of more than a dozen mountain guns in the mountain artillery battalion, covered by only two rounds of artillery fire, a heavy machine gun squadron was finished.

The infantry, which lost the cover of heavy machine guns, had only the fate of being slaughtered in front of the Liaodong Army.

In less than ten minutes, the Japanese attack on the size of a brigade failed, and only one squadron of infantry escaped in the end.

"Baga, we must find a way to solve the enemy's artillery threat, otherwise, no matter how many attacking troops arrive on the battlefield, they will be slaughtered!" The commander of a division shouted very sensibly.

"There is only one solution!" The chief of staff replied after thinking about it.

"What's the solution?" The division commander subconsciously asked.

"The Liaodong Army rushed to us all the way, and there must not be a lot of heavy equipment that they could bring. Not surprisingly, this Liaodong Army blocking force is likely to only have this one battalion of mountain artillery! The chief of staff explained thoughtfully.

"More than a dozen mountain artillery, in such a large battlefield, absolutely cannot take care of the full spectrum. If we go up two, or even three, four heavy machine-gun squadrons at once. All heavy machine guns were dispersed. ”

"Even if the limited mountain artillery of the Liaodong Army fires, it can only deal with a dozen of our heavy machine guns at a time, and as for the results, it would be good to be able to destroy our four or five heavy machine guns."

"When the time comes, the heavy machine guns that were not targeted by the mountain artillery battalion of the Liaodong Army will continue to fire to provide fire cover for the infantry."

"Targeted by the mountain artillery of the Liaodong Army but not destroyed, immediately move to a new position and continue shooting!"

"In this way, on the battlefield, our attacking troops will always have dozens of heavy machine guns to provide fire cover."

"Of course, in this way, our heavy machine gun losses must be large. However, it seems to me that we have three divisions with several hundred heavy machine guns, and as long as nothing happens, they can definitely withstand the trenches. ”

"But the Liaodong army couldn't stand it, they hurried to us to stop us, and they must not have many troops. As long as our attack is fierce enough to inflict a lot of damage on them, we will definitely be able to break through the Liaodong Army's interception in a very short time! ”

There was a blockade in front and a chasing soldier in the back, and the chief of staff of the Japanese army did not dare to waste a single moment.

At once, he decided to dispatch three heavy machine gun squadrons and two infantry brigades to launch a new round of attacks on the Liaodong Army.

Every move of the Japanese army did not escape Li Zhilong's eyes.

As soon as dozens of Japanese heavy machine guns fired 300 meters away, Li Zhilong ordered the mountain artillery battalion to open fire.

However, in the face of the scattered heavy machine-gun positions of the Japanese army, the shelling effect of the mountain artillery battalion was not very good. Dozens of heavy machine guns, completely dispersed from 300 meters away, and twenty or thirty from beginning to end, continuously fired bullets at their positions.

"The Japanese army is too cunning, knowing that we don't have many artillery, so they use so many heavy machine guns to suppress us at one time!" Li Zhilong, who saw the battle situation, frowned, and said to himself with a solemn face.

Xiao Bing, the chief of staff next to him, also frowned, looked at the Japanese army getting closer and closer in front of the formation, and immediately asked Li Zhilong: "Division commander, the enemy is about to be charged, so we can only let the brothers shoot at the enemy, otherwise the Japanese army will rush into our position!" ”

Li Zhilong, who was frowning, decisively decided: "Shoot, the heavy machine gun shoots at the Japanese heavy machine gun, and if the firepower is not enough, the light machine gun is also added." The infantry held off the Japanese infantry and killed them with the most intensive firepower! ”

"In addition, inform the Russian regiment behind to be ready for battle. As soon as the front could not be resisted, the Russian regiment went up to assist our division in defense. In a word, no matter how big today's losses are, we must block these tens of thousands of Japanese troops here, and this is an order given to us by the commander himself. ”

A regiment of the Liaodong Army was armed with only twenty heavy machine guns.

The Japanese attacking troops were shot with more than 30 heavy machine guns from beginning to end.

Therefore, after the Fourth Division fired, not only did it not suppress the Japanese army, but it was suppressed by the Japanese army.

Twenty machine gunners with heavy machine guns, round after round.

An infantry of more than 2,000 people, as long as they stick out their heads to shoot, can immediately launch a barrage of heavy machine gun bullets.

If you are lucky, you can dodge, and if you are unlucky, you will be directly beaten into a hornet's nest full of bloody holes.

Soon, the defenders of one regiment of the Fourth Division lost more than 100 men, which was more than the loss of a brigade of the Japanese army that had just been repulsed.

"Let all the heavy machine guns and light machine guns of the Russian regiment enter the position to participate in the defense, I don't believe it, forty heavy machine guns can't suppress more than thirty heavy machine guns of the Japanese army!" Li Zhilong, who had a gloomy face, ordered decisively.

After receiving light and heavy machine gun reinforcements, the Japanese heavy machine gun fire was finally suppressed.

But by this time, two brigades of Japanese troops had already rushed to a hundred meters in front of the formation.

The dense Japanese troops, some with rifles and some with light machine guns, continued to rush forward while shooting bullets forward. (To be continued.) )