But even if this is the case, Huang Haitao is not particularly worried, because only 6 of the heavy machine guns of the second battalion are used in the frontal attack, and the remaining 12 are enough to protect their flanks and rear, if the enemy dares to come, let them taste the power, and the lethality of the heavy machine guns when defending is much stronger than when attacking!

But this scene did not appear, the damned cavalry captain actually led his troops away very shamefully, it turned out that he had already guessed that the second battalion would not take out all the hole cards at the beginning, and planned to wait for the opponent's attack to be frustrated and forced to attack with all his strength before attacking from the flank, who knew that the other party would suddenly defeat the army he left as a disguise......

What does this mean? It shows that the enemy's strength is far beyond our expectations, and even if we throw all our troops into it, we will not want to complete the mission. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn that case, why let the precious cavalry of the imperial kingdom make meaningless sacrifices? After the cavalry captain figured out this, he decisively gave up the task assigned by the division commander, and he was not afraid that Yamazawa Shizugo would use military law, the casualties of the cavalry brigade were almost one-third, and under normal circumstances, he should have completely lost the ability to attack, such a sacrifice was enough to explain to the above, if Yamazawa Jinggo insisted on holding on, hehe, the tradition of the fourth division would teach him to be a man......

Sure enough, as the cavalry captain expected, although Yamazawa Shizugo's face was darkened, he didn't dare to be too harsh after all, and could only keep urging his subordinates to speed up the march like a howl.

The cavalry captain was secretly amused by this, but he also thought of a question from this, and his face showed surprise, "No, those Chinese should have set off early this morning, and after many battles and long marches, there was almost no chance to rest in between, how could they still walk so fast now?" ”

Shizugo Yamazawa thought about this question soon after, and his surprise was even greater, and in order to catch up with the enemy, he did not hesitate to leave the slow artillery behind, and then risked letting the various infantry brigades pursue on their own, almost increasing the speed to the extreme, and even so, he still did not catch up with the enemy. You must know that the marching ability of the Fourth Division is among the best in the Japanese Army, and the enemy's marching mileage is almost three times that of theirs, which is too exaggerated, right?

In fact, the most exaggerated thing is not the physical strength (of course, the physical strength is also excellent), but the hardships and hard work of these fishermen's children. Chinese people are already hard-working, especially Shandong people; Among the various occupations, fishermen are more hard-working than most people because of their irregular life and extremely harsh environment, and only miners for many years can compare. It is precisely because of this that even if they generally have the bad habit of being free and loose, as long as they have a long period of rigorous training, they can still become the top elite soldiers.

In fact, most of their physical strength is on the verge of exhaustion, but their tenacious willpower supports them to squeeze out the last bit of physical strength, and they have never lost this long-distance running race.

However, Huang Haitao was still very glad in his heart that the cavalry brigade of the Fourth Division did not fight with all his might, otherwise even if he won, the number of wounded in the second battalion would definitely increase to the extent that there would not be enough manpower to take care of him......

However, even if there are still a sufficient number of healthy officers and soldiers to support them, or even take turns to carry wounded comrades to keep up with the team, they will definitely have to consume more physical strength, and in the second half of the night, Huang Haitao found that the speed of the troops' march has slowed down significantly, and no matter how they mobilize, they can no longer make everyone's steps bigger......

Fortunately, at this time, the second battalion had already come to the beach, although he couldn't distinguish the sea surface in the middle of the night, but with the experience of living on the beach since he was a child, Huang Haitao was completely sure that he should only be two or three miles away from the coast.

"We can't move forward any further, otherwise as soon as the tide rises in the morning, we will drown in the sea." , Huang Haitao decisively ordered the whole battalion to stop and rest, and replenish food and water by the way.

The reason why it is not to build a position on the spot, because it is impossible to see the terrain in the distance only by moonlight lighting, it is difficult for Huang Haitao to find an area suitable for the position, in order to avoid wasting his physical strength in vain, Huang Haitao decided to wait until dawn first, anyway, the opponent's artillery cannot come so fast, and the devil without artillery, even if there are many of them, at least it is not difficult to defend, after all, they have heavy machine guns and grenades, two sharp weapons, and the former is also equipped with a stainless steel shield that is enough to block round-headed bullets at close range, Dealing with a possible attack by one or two infantry brigades, it can be easily repelled without positional support, and the projectile of round-headed bullets is not lethal at all anyway.

Knowing that the Chinese army had finally stopped, Shizugo Yamazawa was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the troops to speed up and catch up with the second battalion, but the fourth division was also tired and hot, and it was a little better when there was a target before, but now that he knew that the enemy had stopped, he softened his feet......

As a result, it was not until about three o'clock that an infantry brigade finally pursued within a mile of the second battalion, but they did not attack immediately, but chose to stop and rest, and the same was true of the troops that followed one after another.

If the enemy only has one infantry brigade to attack, he can just seize the opportunity and use the advantage of heavy machine guns in defense to kill hundreds of people first, which can not only hit the morale of the devils, but also boost his own confidence, but the enemy is actually very calm, and he has to wait for the large army to catch up before launching an all-out attack, which is not easy to deal with......

"Fortunately, it's almost dawn." , Huang Haitao looked at the faint appearance of a little fish belly white on the eastern horizon/sea level, and his mood settled down slightly. Another thing that pleased him was that during this short rest time, his subordinates were very quiet, which showed that they made full use of this time to recover their physical strength and spirit as much as possible, and because of the unique way of life of the fishermen of the old society, they often fell asleep and woke up easily, so they were able to make better use of the gap between marching and fighting.

Although Huang Haitao has not led the second battalion for a long time, because he is also from the same background, he knows this very well and makes full use of this advantage. After more than two hours of adjustment, Huang Haitao now believes that his subordinates must at least be more energetic than the other party, even if they ran more miles in one day and one night...... (To be continued.) )