Chapter Seventy-One: Stray Bullets
The devil is very tough, but Gao Quan's interspersed detachment is stronger than the devil! And this interspersed detachment, in the face of the devil's brigade, completely occupied a local numerical advantage. Not counting the rear army led by the old thief, just Gao Quan's middle army and Zhao Ziming's front army, these people add up, there are nearly 3,000 people, and the devils are only about 400 people, even if these devils can fight again, it is impossible to take advantage of them in hand-to-hand combat.
That is, more than half an hour, this encounter ended with the victory of our army and the destruction of all devils. The interspersed detachment is composed of the elite of the units directly under the division headquarters, and its combat ability is generally a grade stronger than that of the troops below, and the opponent is the sixth division, Gao Quan has already given an order, and when facing the enemy, there will be no one alive! Therefore, after this battle, the devil's brigade, at least the captain of the brigade, down to the gang health officer, did not have a single survivor.
"Keep going!" Gao Quan wanted to continue to move forward, but this time he couldn't move forward. As soon as his order to march was exported, a signal soldier came to report that Chen Shengshou's troops had been attacked by the devil cavalry troops, and now they were in a bitter battle!
Old thief! Gao Quan chuckled in his heart, he had been fighting with devils on the battlefield just now, and he really didn't pay attention to the situation behind him. The news is reported now, is it that the devil cavalry has already come up?
"How long has Battalion Commander Chen been fighting with the devil cavalry?"
"It's been almost half an hour. Just now, Shizuo has been fighting with the devils, and Battalion Commander Chen didn't ask for support, so we didn't report it for the time being. "There is another sentence that the communication soldier didn't say, he was afraid that as soon as he reported himself, he would divide Gao Quan's heart, so that the division could not concentrate when fighting with the devil on the battlefield, in case something went wrong, it would be too late for him to wipe his neck!
Of course, Gao Quan can't blame other people's communication soldiers, even himself, when he was fighting, he completely forgot the existence of the old thief's broken army. Fortunately, depending on the situation, there is nothing wrong with it now. Gao Quan immediately ordered the herald to pass the order, and the special service battalion was one company and two companies, and immediately went to support the old thief's broken rear troops!
The old thief's broken troops are indeed in trouble. It was none other than the old thief himself who caused the trouble.
The 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Devils was ordered by the brigade commander Mitsuru Ushijima to come here to find the troublesome Chinese troops. Shiro Inaba assigned two cavalry brigades to the Ushijima detachment, among which the 1st Cavalry Brigade led by Kono Mitsuo Shaoza was placed in the 23rd Wing by General Ushijima.
As a result, this indisputable Kono Shaozo actually led his brigade of cavalry and fell into an ambush by the Chinese, so that a brigade, more than 300 elite cavalry of the imperial army, could return safely, not even twenty people, and the first cavalry brigade was basically completely annihilated.
The remaining Second Cavalry Brigade was originally arranged by General Ushijima to the periphery of the rear army to serve as reconnaissance and vigilance. This situation happened in front of him, and Ushijima was full of anger and sent the only mobile force he had at hand.
The devil cavalry unit of the Sixth Division is actually very strong in combat. The reason why the 1st Cavalry Brigade led by Mitsuo Kono was ambushed by the 500th Division was because the troops of the 500th Division had calculated intentionally and unintentionally, so that the 1st Cavalry Brigade fell into the trap of being hit from both sides. The current Second Cavalry Brigade attacked the old thief's broken troops from the front and in a dignified manner.
The devil cavalry made full use of the advantage of the fast speed of the cavalry, formed several cavalry formations, and charged our rear guard troops from multiple directions. There are no positions, no bunkers, and the only things you can use are stones and trees. In this clearing, the old thief's battalion fought with the devil's second cavalry brigade.
The devil's cavalry marksmanship is very accurate, and often a single charge can cause a lot of casualties to our soldiers. And the bullets fired by our soldiers were due to the speed of the opponent's war horse, and they did not cause much damage to the devil.
If the two sides continue to stalemate like this, it will be nothing, at least, with these soldiers of the first battalion, it is always no problem to hold on until Gao Quan's large army wins, and fight with the devils. Who knew that just when the two armies were in a stalemate, a stray bullet did the devil a great favor.
Since Gao Quan led the front army and the middle army, they went to the front to fight with the devil's brigade to fight bayonets, and the old thief led his broken rear troops were on guard while chasing the large army in front. The devil cavalry suddenly rushed up, and the soldiers had no time to dig trenches and repair bunkers, the only thing they could do was to find some nearby objects to hide.
The old thief found a big rock and hid it behind it with his guards and heralds. Fortunately, this is close to the mountains, and large and small stones can be seen everywhere, if it is placed on the river beach, the infantry under the old thief may be even more difficult to deal with the cavalry.
The old thief hid behind the rock, thinking about who to send to inform the master of what was happening, and shot at the devil from the side of the stone. The old thief's marksmanship is really good, so he took a box cannon, fired five shots in a row, and killed four devils, and the guards next to him were full of envy.
"Xiao Niu, you go and inform Company Commander Zhao and Company Commander Liu, so that the soldiers must be hidden, the devil cavalry can't come, don't panic. Gazi, usually you are the most clever, now you go to ......" Halfway through the words, the voice stopped abruptly!
The herald Maverick turned his face in surprise, but saw the battalion commander holding his shoulder with one hand, his teeth clenched, his face was as pale as paper, and the place on his shoulder was already showing a piece of red, which turned out to be a bullet!
"Battalion commander!" The guard screamed and pounced, tore the bandages, bandaged the wounds, and hurriedly dealt with the injuries, his eyes glancing around suspiciously. The big rock where a few of them are hiding is at least two or three people high, I'm afraid it will weigh tens of thousands of catties, and it is too spacious for a few people to hide behind, how could the devil's bullet hit the battalion commander through the stone?
Not only did the guards and heralds not understand, but even the wounded themselves thought that God had played a joke on him. Just now, he just stretched out his hand outside the stone and fired two random shots in the direction of the devil, and when he assigned tasks to the two people around him, his hand had already been taken back! The old thief can say with certainty that when he was shot, there was absolutely no part of his body exposed outside the stone, not even a hair! Can you get shot just like this? The truth is, he did get shot!
The old thief is a veteran of the battlefield, and he has seen a lot of all kinds of strange things. Hiding behind a rock and getting shot, nothing unusual. The devil cavalry fired guns indiscriminately in this direction, and they didn't know which stray bullet would turn around and hit themselves, but they didn't expect that they would be so unlucky!