Chapter One Thousand and Fifty-Two: Praying Mantis Catches Cicadas (Ask for Subscription!) )
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It's no wonder that Kujiro Tanaka is so excited, after all, it's not the same now. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoIf it is left at the beginning of the war in 37, let alone encircling and annihilating a cavalry division in China, even if it is a group army in China, it will not have much impact.
However, as the war has moved step by step in the direction of protracted warfare, China's armed forces at all levels have also changed, and they have become more and more difficult to deal with as they learn and grow in the war.
In particular, the Eighth Route Army led by Yan'an, due to their limited conditions and harsh living environment, has created a tenacious will to fight among the troops under their command.
From the beginning of the war to the present, the Japanese army has encircled and suppressed the Eighth Route Army, and has also achieved considerable results, and the defeated Eighth Route Army troops are numerous. However, if we talk about the units of the Eighth Route Army that have been completely annihilated by the formation, there are also quite a few units at the battalion and company level, or even at the platoon level, and almost no regiments have been completely annihilated, let alone the entire division.
Coupled with the expansion of Ma Zheng's division's achievements, the value of the entire army has suddenly doubled, and the base camp has updated a high bounty two days ago, whether it is a regular army or a militia, a platoon commander's head is worth 20 yen, a company commander is 50 yen, a battalion commander is 200 yen, a regiment commander is 1,000 yen, and a division commander is 10,000 yen, and Ma Zheng himself is worth 1 million yen, plus a hereditary viscount, and it doesn't matter whether he lives or dies.
What is the concept of 1 million yen, when Japan started the war against the United States, it was 100 US dollars for 426 yen, and the salary of a skilled technician is only a few tens of yen a month, and 1 million yen is equivalent to the salary of a Japanese skilled worker for several lifetimes.
Let's not talk about the amount of this bounty, anyway, as long as it is an ordinary soldier who has served in the military in China and returned home safely, that one is not a rich man, let alone those officers, any officer above the rank of major general, who does not have a fortune of hundreds of thousands of yen, and many people even make a huge fortune of one million yen in just a few years. If that person doesn't make any money, he's embarrassed to say hello to his friends and colleagues when he goes out.
So for the vast majority of officers, the bounty is secondary, and what really attracts them is the title of nobility. Don't look at it as just a hereditary viscount, but the attraction is still fatal.
You must know that Japan still has a high opinion of these false titles, no matter how high your status is, if you don't have a knighthood to take, then you will never be able to truly integrate into high society. Now that most of the officers of the Japanese army have money, they are pursuing more of these virtual things.
Although Ma Zheng himself can't be done this time, if he can completely annihilate a cavalry division under Ma Zheng, and even take Rehe, then he doesn't dare to say anything else, and the military rank can be guaranteed to be upgraded by one level.
Thinking of this, Tanaka Kujiro's heart was about to jump out, and when he thought of the "Your Excellency General" in the future, Tanaka Kujiro was excited, and he couldn't wait to change into the coveted general's uniform now.
Closer, less than two kilometers away from Temur's Fourth Cavalry Regiment, Tanaka Kujiro shouted: "Speed up the charge and kill all the Chinese cavalry on the opposite side!" ”
"Kill the enemy and give..."
"Kill the enemy and give..."
Temur was not a vegetarian either, he came prepared. Knowing that his troops were far inferior to the Japanese army in terms of numbers and horses, he was not prepared to fight the Japanese army to the death.
Because of this, before the Japanese army came, Temur brought his troops to a gentle slope, although this gentle slope was not high from the flat land, but it still put the fourth regiment in an absolute geographical advantage, and the Japanese army that charged the fourth regiment was at a disadvantage at this time.
To be honest, Temur is really bottomless about this operation, although the Fourth Cavalry Regiment fought against the Japanese puppet army before, but most of them were battles at the battalion and company level, and battles at the regimental level were rare, not to mention that now they are against more than 20,000 Japanese troops.
There are so many cavalry duels, no matter what era it is placed in, it is definitely a classic, and it is also a great battle.
Most of the horses of the Japanese cavalry were excellent horses imported from West Asia or Europe, while most of the horses of the 4th Cavalry Regiment were local horses on the Mongolian Plateau, which were inferior in terms of running speed and size. However, the Mongolian horse is superior to its long endurance, and the Japanese war horse, although it is strong in combat, is not suitable for long-distance running.
Therefore, the tactics formulated by Temur were specifically designed to deal with the Japanese cavalry horses, he first concentrated all the troops on the side of the gentle slope, and placed the light machine gun battalion equipped with the cavalry division horizontally at the front of the troops, and ordered the machine gunners to open fire as soon as the Japanese cavalry entered the color range.
In order to be able to complete this mission, Ma Deshengte has handed over the only infantry battalion equipped with assault rifles around him to Temur, plus the light machine guns equipped by the 4th Cavalry Regiment, and more than 600 automatic firepower in Temur's hands this time.
The firepower network composed of 600 assault rifles and light machine guns is amazing, only to see the Japanese puppet cavalry on the charge road continue to fall and fall again, and a short distance of a few hundred meters is a line of death, especially at the node of two hundred meters, the picture seems to be fixed at the point of two hundred meters, as long as the Japanese puppet army dares to cross this line of defense, it will be solved by the machine gunners of Temur's department at the first time.
Lieutenant General Tanaka Kujiro, who was also a tactician, saw that the frontal charge suffered heavy casualties, and immediately ordered the banner soldiers to give a turning order to the charging troops, ordering the main force to immediately turn to both sides of the Chinese cavalry position, leaving only a part of the puppet army to continue to attack the frontal position.
Tanaka Kujiro's calculations were very loud, but Temur and the others were not slow to react, and while the Japanese cavalry turned, the troops of the 4th Cavalry Regiment launched a charge towards the frontal battlefield with the least Japanese defense.
On the front is the puppet Manchukuo Defense Army, that is, the puppet army of the two dogs in the mouth of the Guannai troops. Although the puppet army is a puppet army, the puppet army in the northeast and the puppet army in the Guannai are two different things. The puppet army in the northeast is strictly controlled by the Japanese army, so it is far stronger than the puppet army in the Guannai in terms of "loyalty" and combat effectiveness, and it is even more difficult to deal with to put it bluntly.
The Japanese puppet army attacking head-on was mainly dominated by the puppet army, so Temur soon tore a hole under the siege of the cavalry units of the puppet army. After the opening was torn open, the four regiments rushed out of the Japanese encirclement like tigers descending from the mountain, and rushed towards another prepared gentle slope
The Japanese cavalry swarmed after them without Tanaka Kujiro's orders, and as before, the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Regiment stood at the front of the gentle slope, with its extremely strong nose already open, waiting for the Japanese charge.
Although this tactic seemed like a scoundrel, it was very practical, and the Japanese lost five or six hundred men in the two rounds of charge, while the fourth regiment lost no more than fifty or sixty men, and the angry Lieutenant General Kujiro Tanaka shouted.
"Murakami-kun, your troops should also move, I want to hear the news of the annihilation of the Chinese cavalry in two hours, do you have any confidence?" Kujiro Tanaka asked aloud.
"Yes, Your Excellency Commander, just watch, our Ninth Cavalry Brigade will let the people know what a real knight is." Taro Murakami yelled.
"Yo Xi, then you can go quickly!"
"Hay!"
I have to say that there are indeed many groups with strong combat effectiveness in this era, and in terms of combat effectiveness, the Nazi soldiers in Europe are definitely the first in the world. From a spiritual point of view, although the French and the Yankees are talking about the Tao in terms of fighting theory, they are really afraid of death when they want to see life and death, and their psychological quality is not good, and they are simply unable to fight the Nazis to the death when their troops and weapons and ammunition are equal.
The second is the Mongolian cavalry, but the ancient Mongolian cavalry is powerful, but they have not undergone very strict integrated training, some are still slaves, and the battlefield is all about collective charge, and do not pay attention to the training of individual qualities. Now Ma Zheng has unified the training of Mongolian knights with excellent cavalry potential, so they will burst out with combat effectiveness stronger than ordinary cavalry units.
The Japanese army in this era was also a miracle in itself, with a small country being able to become the only one in the whole of Asia to maintain its territorial integrity under the pressure of the Western powers, and the first Asian country to have overseas colonies, little Japan did have its advantages.
And when it comes to life and death, the Japanese are very arrogant, and they have a little bit of momentum that looks at death as home, which is really difficult to deal with. The cavalry of the Japanese army is such a typical representative, they have superb riding skills and accurate marksmanship, and there are almost no opponents before the rise of Ma Zheng's department, so that a large number of Mongolian princes and his herdsmen became obedient people of the Japanese, and a puppet regime spanning most of Suiyuan and Chahar was established in the northern grasslands.