Feeling the bullets constantly flying overhead, Okada didn't dare to stand up and shout loudly, he could only turn his head and look resentfully at his subordinates abandoning him, but soon he showed a sudden look, and his eyes revealed a little pity, "No wonder they didn't directly build a position in the narrowest position, but set it up a little further back, it turned out to be this purpose"

As the rebels' heavy machine guns began to raise their muzzles for extended fire, Okada's speculation was quickly confirmed, although the fleeing Japanese cavalry tried their best to spread out their formation to reduce the chance of being hit, but the terrain of the Isthmus of Jinzhou greatly hindered this, and when they finally escaped to the "neck" position, the enemy's machine gun fire intensity also rose to its peak, and it was possible to escape after a few dozen steps, but only a few lucky ones were able to escape in the end

Although he once had the idea of gloating because of resentment, Okada couldn't help but shed tears of sadness when he really saw the unit he brought out being slaughtered under the machine-gun fire net, "My Third Cavalry Brigade is all finished!" ”

"What kind of weapon is that? It sounds like a (hand-cranked) machine gun, but what machine gun can last so long? And its accuracy and rate of fire are also frighteningly high", and the heavy machine gun fire made Okada even more impressed, so that the enemy came out of the position to clean up the battlefield, and he did not dare to take the opportunity to escape, but just blended into the pile of dead people and pretended to be dead without moving

But what Okada didn't expect was that the rebels had always had a fine tradition of stabbing each "corpse" again when cleaning the battlefield, squinting and seeing a rebel soldier raise his rifle upside down and about to plunge it into his abdomen, Okada couldn't hold it anymore, and hurriedly rolled over a lazy donkey, and then saw the officers and soldiers of the rebel army raising their guns and aiming them at themselves

Okada seemed to have the courage to fight with the other party, but the previous process of playing dead had worn out most of his courage, and the different uniforms of the rebel army and the Qing army gave him an excuse to convince himself, "It doesn't look like the Qing army, we are fighting an unexpected enemy?" I can't die, I must find out who they are, and then go back and report to His Excellency the division commander! ”

Capturing a Japanese cavalry captain alive did not make the mood of the commander of the uprising regiment much better, according to the regulations, the merit of capturing an officer alive is not much higher than that of capturing ordinary soldiers, and the value of a cavalry captain with less than a regiment of troops under his command is equivalent to that of a dozen ordinary soldiers, which is far from satisfying his greed

Even if a cavalry brigade of the Japanese Army was expanded after the outbreak of the war, the strength of the army was only about 1,000 people, and after deducting the casualties and wounded and sick attrition in the past few months, Okada brought in less than 600 people, and he had not been able to wipe them all out. You must know that their regiment has destroyed more than 10,000 enemies since the beginning of the army, and it took less than ten days to calculate

Although Li Hui's notice in advance explained the difference between the Japanese army and the Qing army, because the Third Cavalry Brigade was suddenly defeated by those dozens of machine guns and did not appear much stronger than the Qing army he had seen before, the regiment commander naturally regarded it as a weak brigade that was vulnerable to attack.

The regiment leader named Sun Degong turned out to be a talented man, and after failing to take the exam a few times, he fell into a fit of anger and started the calculation of "killing people and setting fire to be recruited", but before the team developed and attracted the attention of the government, it was first targeted by the Flying Tiger Army that suddenly appeared

Because there were no major bad deeds before, and it was rare to be literate and calculating, the Flying Tiger Army also gave Sun Degong a platoon commander position after merging this bandit army. Then, what even Sun Degong himself didn't expect was that he would be promoted all the way after that, and now he is already the head of a group.

If this guy wants to say that his military talent is actually average, why is he promoted so quickly? To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than the word meritorious service, although the biochemical soldiers have high technical and tactical quality and sufficient leadership, they are generally very cautious in fighting, and Sun Degong is simply a gambler, even if the enemy's strength on paper is far stronger than his own, this guy will "fight first"

It just so happened that the Qing army was really unsuccessful, and Sun Degong's military adventures were repeatedly successful, which attracted Li Hui's attention, in order to avoid the overly cautious style of the biochemical army officers from forming a bad tradition in the rebel army, he gave this alternative an exceptional promotion, otherwise even if Sun Degong met the requirements for promotion, he would have to go through the procedures and other vacancies, and now he is a battalion commander.

However, what Li Hui didn't know was that Sun Degong was not actually adventurous, he was just fame-minded and wanted to be a big official, and at the same time he was very self-aware, and understood that he was not as good as any other officer of the same level in terms of business level, and even many subordinates, and even some company commanders were better than him, and if he wanted to continue to be promoted, he could only continue to make meritorious contributions, and he had to make great contributions, so he was extremely enthusiastic about this. This guy is usually very cautious, but as long as he thinks of meritorious service, he is more courageous than anyone else

Before Sun Degong came to Lushun, he heard a good news, the rebel army will soon be further expanded, a large number of new infantry brigades will be formed, and there may be more than 20,000 infantry divisions in the future.

But what disappointed him was that although the Japanese army came, they only sent a few hundred people, which was not enough for him to stuff his teeth!

Sun Degong looked at the dejected Captain Okada and other Japanese prisoners of war, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and he was about to ask the military judge to interrogate them so that the brutes who had committed crimes against Chinese civilians would not escape punishment, but he suddenly remembered a copy of the enemy situation information printed above before coming to Lushun

"The commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, Katsura Taro, can only be regarded as a second-rate grade in the Japanese Army in terms of military talent, but it is not comparable to the Qing army's wretchedness, and it cannot be expected to win with one annihilation or even without a fight as easily as it did against the Qing army. But he is prone to losing his mind when he is angry, maybe this shortcoming can be exploited", Sun Degong thought of this, and his face couldn't help but show a sad smile

After ordering all the captives to be tied up, Sun Degong glanced at them with a smile, and suddenly said with a fierce face, "Come on, cut off all their noses and ears for me!" (To be continued.) )