The cavalry regiment needs to make every effort to prevent the surprise attack of the Japanese puppet cavalry, and the only thing that the rebels can use for a frontal attack is only a mere infantry regiment of about 2,000 people, even if the Japanese army is disrupted by artillery bombardment, after all, there are still 20,000 people, and they are all elite veterans, not 20,000 pigs!

In addition, if the rebel army wants to attack the Japanese camp, it must first send out its troops, so that the Japanese army will inevitably be prepared for artillery in advance, the effect of the artillery bombardment will be at least halved, and the resistance that may be encountered when attacking the camp will inevitably be stronger.

After such calculations, there is really no certainty of victory in a direct attack on the Japanese camp, so why take unnecessary risks when a steady attack can ensure a complete victory?

"What if the Japanese army escapes?" , Yuan Wang and the others once had such worries, but after receiving the report that the Japanese army began to withdraw from the camp, the cavalry regiment that had been prepared for a long time immediately prepared to dispel their doubts.

The Japanese army was mainly infantry, and unless it entered the mountains, it could not get rid of the pure cavalry troops to follow, and when its own army rations were insufficient, if the 3rd Division entered the mountains and forests where supplies were scarce, it would be tantamount to suicide. If there were only a few dozen people, they could still rely on hunting to fill their stomachs after entering the mountains, but the Third Division now has more than 20,000 people!

"I see!" , Yuan Shikai suddenly figured out the overall strategy of the rebel army, as long as the cavalry regiment has been following, the third division will not dare to divide the troops, and if it is divided, it will be easy to be broken by each of them, and if the troops are not divided, they will not be able to get food, and the third division can only starve to death

Wang Shizhen also understood, licked his lips and said, "In other words, the Japanese army will either die in battle or starve to death, there is no other choice, no matter what, they are all dead!" Perhaps, it is precisely because the Datong Party has the certainty of victory that they dare to play casually like that? ”

The two did not fully understand the actual situation of the cavalry regiment, and it was inevitable that they would make wrong judgments, but the basic conclusion was not wrong, and realizing that the cavalry regiment would definitely succeed in this way, Yuan Shikai suddenly moved in his heart and had an idea that he thought was wonderful.

"What? Mr. Yuan is also going with us? Hearing Yuan Shikai's request, Commander Zhang couldn't help but be surprised, and then immediately refused, "But we are cavalry." ”

Yuan Shikai had already prepared, he said confidently, "Yuan thinks that his equestrian skills are good, although his subordinates are mainly infantry, but the cavalry also has three battalions of thousands of people, and will never drag your regiment back, you still take us with you, maybe we can still use it?" A regiment of 2,000 people to chase more than 20,000 Japanese troops is still uneasy after all! ”

Commander Zhang thought about it after hearing this, and finally nodded in agreement, on the one hand, he didn't want to offend Yuan Shikai needlessly, on the other hand, his cavalry regiment would definitely be expanded into a brigade in the near future, and those cavalry in the Fengtian Qing army must be an important source of soldiers, since it will be a family anyway, it is also a good thing to bring it to familiarize itself with it first.

Then perhaps inspired by it, Commander Zhang asked Yuan Shikai to summon some more officers and soldiers who could ride horses although they were not cavalry, of course, the more elite among them, and they were also incorporated into their own team and taken away, so as not to be wasted by the progressive troops when they were reorganized.

As for the batch of puppet cavalry who came to vote, Regiment Commander Zhang did not directly incorporate them, most of them were from banner people, but secondary, the key is that Li Hui clearly stipulated that anyone who had acted for the foreign army invading China, even if it was only passively coerced in the past, would need to go through a period of labor and ideological transformation before they could be trusted, and Regiment Commander Zhang did not want to violate this ban. As for whether those puppet cavalry will regret their decision, that's their own business

After listening to Commander Zhang's request, Yuan Shikai was a little puzzled for a while, "They can ride horses well, but now where do we have extra war horses for them to ride?" ”

Head Zhang replied with a smile, "It's okay, it's okay, you can take a carriage without a horse, anyway, we have to take a lot of carriages on the road this time, and there is no problem with carrying a thousand people." And we don't bring cannons this time, the carts are all horses for both use, and if you remove the harness, you will be a war horse."

Although the Chinese heavy horse-drawn 75 Miss could also walk like a fly, but considering the difficulty of crossing the bridge (two horses plus a gun carriage had four or five tons), Commander Zhang still gave it up rationally, and only brought a much lighter, Tianma can pull a machine gun carriage and a machine gun carriage, anyway, the Japanese army has no artillery to use now, these two weapons are strong enough.

Yuan Shikai had noticed the ingenious machine gun carriage and machine gun carriage before, which to a certain extent combined the powerful firepower of machine guns and machine guns with the speed of cavalry, as long as the opponent did not have a large number of artillery, the cavalry regiment equipped with these two sharp weapons was almost invincible on open and flat terrain. But after all, it is only a weapon that is more conducive to defense than offense, and now the pursuit of the Japanese army actually has to bring them, which can't help but make Yuan Shikai frown slightly, "Although the requirements for the terrain of these two carriages are not as high as those of gun carriages, compared with horseback riding, the gap is still not small, if the Japanese army runs to the area where those carriages can't go, how can we chase?" ”

"It doesn't matter, I've read a lot of information before I came to the Northeast, and now even the territory of Mukden is far from being fully developed, and most of the areas where carriages can't pass are uninhabited, especially east of the Liaohe River, if the Japanese really run in, the end is not much better than going into the mountains." Commander Zhang was not worried at all, and replied with a confident smile, "And the Japanese army itself has a baggage car, and when they give up all the vehicles, they are already not far from death, right?" ”

In fact, the main purpose of Commander Zhang bringing these two special carriages was to make up for the lack of his own field combat capability, if he only let the horses carry some machine guns, once he was suddenly attacked by the Japanese cavalry in the case of poor line of sight, it was likely that he would not have time to build a position at all, and could only rely on rifles to meet the enemy, and the losses would be great.

The advantage of the machine-gun carriage is that it can be fired and fired after being easily fixed, which is equivalent to a moving machine-gun position, and even if the Japanese army is cavalry, if they dare to come to sneak attack, they will only crash to death on the iron plate.

As for the machine gun carriages, in addition to similar functions, they can also be used for fortification, 37mm blasting shells can not deal with the previous fortified camps, but replaced by temporary camps and hastily dug hiding pits, the maximum rate of fire of 37mm machine guns can reach 400 rounds per minute The slaughter efficiency is higher than that of the 75 miss. And its maximum range of up to several kilometers can make the Japanese army beaten in vain but unable to fight back, even if it is a real iron army, the morale can be exhausted sooner or later, not to mention that it is only the Japanese army that has not even begun to promote the spirit of bushido? (To be continued.) )