[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 746: The First Test (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Kuancheng. Blocking position on the eastern slope. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Machine gunner Li Ergou stared nervously at the machine gun's crosshairs, and the open nose already indicated that the machine gun was now at a critical point and could fire at any time.

Li Ergou is a native of eastern Hebei and has been in the army for less than a year, and he remembers very well that he joined the army in September last year, and the place where he joined the army was Chengde. Like all the poor people in this era, Li Ergou also has bitter tears.

The exploitation of the landlord and the oppression of the devil forced Li Ergou's family to a dead end, when the local lord bully wanted to rob Li Ergou's sister to pay off the rent, Li Ergou, the largest peasant representative in China, resisted, when he was armed with a kitchen knife to cover his sister's escape, but unfortunately he was caught by the military police of the little devil who rushed in, and was put on death row as Tubalu on the charge of "colluding with the Communist Party".

But at this time, the troops of the Suicha Military Region attacked Chengde, and after Li Ergou's sister escaped, she did everything possible to find the local guerrillas in Chengde and prepare to rescue her younger brother.

After Li Ergou was rescued, he soon joined the Eighth Route Army with the support of his sister, and his sister Li Daya also joined the Eighth Route Army medical team and became a nurse in the Eighth Route Army Field Hospital.

After joining the army, Li Ergou was really respected, and even changed his name, and the name was given to him by the brigade commander himself, called Li Aiguo, but familiar people still like to call him Li Ergou.

Although Li Ergou joined the army for less than a year, but because he himself is extremely talented in machine guns and mortars, he can often play a role that cannot be ignored in the battle, so soon Li Ergou was promoted to the second squad leader of the first platoon of the machine gun company, and soon after he was awarded a personal second-class merit.

At this time, Li Ergou was already a platoon leader and machine gunner of the machine gun company, and was actively striving to join the party. This time, the Sharp Knife Battalion was ordered by the superior to block the cavalry unit of the Japanese raid on Chengde in Kuancheng, and as the most powerful anti-aircraft machine gun company of the 10th Brigade, it was also transferred to the Sharp Knife Battalion to assist in the operation, so Li Ergou also followed the troops to Kuancheng.

"Platoon commander, the devil's cavalry is coming up, what should we do now?" Warrior Chen Erwa asked a little nervously.

"What to do! Cold! Our first platoon was defending the first line of trenches, so we were the first troops to engage in fire with the Japanese army, and we were eating meat, and the remaining second, third, and fourth platoons were eating our leftovers. ”

Then Li Ergou said to the soldiers behind him: "Comrades, the brigade commander said that when this battle is over, we can return to Sui to rest and recuperate, and then Commander Ma Zheng will teach us a lesson, don't you want to meet our Commander Han for a long time, since you want to see those things to fight this battle, so none of you can give me a critical time to drop the chain." Wait a while and listen to my orders, you can just shoot when I shoot, do you know? ”

"Got it!" The fighters replied in unison.

There were thirty-four soldiers in a platoon, three anti-aircraft machine guns and two Type 92 heavy machine guns, and in order to win this battle, Jiang Hao was able to press his old book. Although there were only about 700 men in the Sharp Knife Battalion, except for the necessary snipers and ammunition men, the rest were machine gunners.

Jiang Hao knew that it was not possible to deal with the rifle of the cavalry troops, and at the speed of the cavalry, the rifle would be charged by the cavalry before the machine gun was fired. But when it comes to close combat, cavalry is synonymous with strength, let alone one infantry, even three infantry are not necessarily an opponent of cavalry. Therefore, against the cavalry, it is necessary to use machine guns with powerful firepower, especially heavy machine guns with great lethality.

Major General Shigeji Takeda also knew that his cavalry group had already exposed its target, and it didn't mean much to hide it anymore, so as soon as he came up, he ordered the troops to come to a brigade-level charge. Although the cavalry brigade has only more than 300 people compared to the establishment of more than 1,000 infantry brigades, the momentum displayed by the charge of more than 300 people is not inferior to the charge of more than 1,000 infantry, and even surpasses it.

Seeing the Japanese cavalry rushing over with a cavalry gun in hand, Li Ergou's heart suddenly calmed down, and he counted silently: "One thousand meters ........ eight hundred meters...... 600 meters ......"

When the Japanese cavalry was still 500 meters away from the blocking position, Li Ergou decisively gave the order to fire, only to see that he quickly pulled the trigger himself, and shouted loudly: "Fire, hit me hard, fire ......."

The impact of the cavalry was terrifying, but the cavalry's moving target was large, and the density was large enough when the group charged, so as soon as the guns of the Sharp Knife Battalion rang out, a large number of horses fell to the ground immediately.

Running at such a high speed, once you fall, the consequences are unimaginable. Not to mention that the huge inertia is likely to hurt the knight on the horse, and more importantly, it is often the cavalry at the front who falls, once they fall, the cavalry behind will not have time to stop, so the cavalry who falls to the ground, whether it is a war horse or a knight, is dead.

The first line of defense was very narrow, less than 100 meters long from north to south, on both sides were hills unsuitable for cavalry charges, and only a fairly wide valley road in the middle, so a company of more than ten light and heavy machine guns could completely seal the entire road.

Moreover, in order to deal with the cavalry charging at high speed, the soldiers of the first company also dug a trench two meters wide and two meters deep at a distance of 300 meters and 200 meters from the position, and the Japanese cavalry could not jump this trench under any circumstances.

Sure enough, although the machine gun fire was very fierce, but the cavalry group was not easy to deal with, and after the first batch of forty or fifty knights were killed, the second group of cavalry of the Japanese army was less than 400 meters away from the position of the first company, and at this rate, the Japanese army only needed to lose one or two hundred cavalry to rush into the defensive position of the first company.

At that time, under the saber of the cavalry, it would be better for the fighters with machine guns to take a burning stick, after all, no matter how powerful the fighters were, it was impossible to put bayonets on the heavy machine guns.

But soon the Japanese cavalry encountered a test, when the high-speed charging Japanese cavalry gradually approached the first trench, because the trench camouflaged better, some of the above cover completely confused the Japanese army, when the first war horse screamed and planted into the "horse trap", then a large number of war horses fell into the trap of a company.

This kind of trap pit is Jiang Hao according to the ancient war to build the camp to prevent the enemy from breaking into the camp and use the trap pit changes, in addition to the simple pit, there are also a large number of sharpened bamboo thorns in it, as long as the horse and the knight fall, the result is self-evident, the sharp bamboo thorn can instantly pierce the war horse, and the knight can not survive.

Moreover, the biggest advantage of cavalry is speed, once the speed advantage of cavalry is leveled, then the combat effectiveness of cavalry will be greatly reduced, and even inferior to infantry.

This time, a total of more than 40 devil cavalry fell into the trap pit, and at the same time, they collided with dozens of war horses due to the sudden deceleration, and the speed of the Japanese cavalry suddenly changed from high-speed charge to stagnation, and the speed advantage was suddenly gone. Once stopped, the Japanese cavalry suddenly became a live target, and Li Ergou seized the opportunity to order the troops to open fire.

"Dada......"

"Dada......"

The first attack of the Japanese cavalry group was quickly repulsed, and this time the Japanese lost a total of more than 140 people, and the cavalry wing responsible for the attack now had only half of the number left, so it can be said that the losses were heavy.

Major General Shigeji Takeda watched the whole process of the battle between the two sides through a telescope, and he sighed and said: "Shaoga, our cavalry group really deserves to be the most elite troops of the Japanese Empire, although they failed to take the position of the Chinese army this time, but they did not flinch in the face of such powerful firepower, and fought very well. However, the machine guns of the Chinese troops are not easy to pack, okay, let the cavalry wing of the 110th Division go up. ”

"Hay!"

....... (To be continued.) )