"Nani, cavalry, where did the cavalry come from," the squad leader looked in disbelief in the direction of the vice-captain's finger.

"Ah Baga, cavalry, how can this be. Quick, order the soldiers to enter the position immediately, machine guns, quickly, transfer all the machine guns quickly" Seeing the cavalry battalion that was rapidly approaching him, the squad leader was immediately stunned, and ordered in a hurry.

However, he didn't know that a distance of 500 meters would take less than a minute for a cavalry to quickly assault. Seeing the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army rushing in front of him in an instant, the order of the squad leader not only did not play an effective role. It also plunged the soldiers who had already entered the position into chaos, listening to the sound of horses' hooves and feeling the earth that was constantly shaking. Looking at the sword formation composed of sabers from the cavalry battalion reflecting the cold light, the soldiers were completely confused.

However, under the suppression of some military officers, there was no phenomenon of retreat.

As the cavalry battalion entered the range of the little devil machine guns, sporadic gunfire began to sound on the defensive positions of the infantry squad, and the only three light machine guns began to fire at the cavalry battalion under the order of the squad leader.

However, after the soldiers experienced the total annihilation of the puppet army, after the first charge training. has become unusually sophisticated, and is no longer a new recruit egg who has just entered the battlefield. Hearing the gunfire of the devil returning fire, the soldiers immediately bowed down and lay tightly on the back of their horses. At the same time, the fighters in front began to pick up horse rifles on their backs, held the gun in one hand and began to return fire from range.

And just like that, under the skillful tactical maneuvers of the fighters, as well as the blows of the fighters with long-range fire. In less than a minute, the entire cavalry battalion rushed in front of the Yue army, and the cavalry battalion only paid the price of one squad of casualties.

"Comrades, kill all these little devils for me, kill" Seeing the dozens of little devils in front of him, his faces showed horror. Battalion commander Wang Kai seized the opportunity, shouted loudly, and pulled out his saber. Suddenly, countless sword lights flashed in the fast-running cavalry battalion, and hundreds of sabers with cold light were raised above their heads by the warriors, and the sharp blades were all aimed at the little devil in front of them.

"Ahh It was also the battalion commander Wang Kai who cut the first knife of the cavalry battalion. A little devil at the forefront of the defensive position of the army squad fell in a pool of blood screaming, and his bloody head flew far away before falling to the ground.

"The warriors of the Bagaya Road Empire, the time has come to dedicate yourself to the appearance of His Majesty the Emperor, kill and give" to see the tragic scene in front of you, especially the round head on the ground. Although the captain of the army was also frightened and his face turned pale, he still endured the fear in his heart, raised the command knife in his hand, and was the first to rush to the rapidly approaching cavalry battalion.

"Kill to" dozens of soldiers who did not want to die, followed closely behind the squad leader with bayonets, and launched a suicidal charge towards Xu Bing's cavalry battalion.

"The second company is outflanked on the left flank, the third company is outflanked, the right flank is outflanked, the first company and the fourth company are rushing with me" Looking at the dozens of little devils who wanted to rush over by themselves, Wang Kai's mouth showed a hint of a smile, and he ordered the flag soldiers beside him, turned around and rushed into the team of little devils.

The battalion commander of the "killing" battalion rode a war horse and kept running among the little devils. At the same time, he kept shouting in his mouth, and kept waving the saber in his hand at the little devil who was speeding in front of him. Anyway, once the sword flashes in front of him, then there must be a little devil's head cut off by himself.

At this time, Wang Kai and the soldiers behind him were completely red-eyed, and even he didn't know how many little devils' heads had been cut off. Anyway, a bloody saber is impenetrable in his hands, and as long as the little devils who approach him are all corpses. In the end, where Wang Kai killed, when the little devils saw him, they all avoided him.

Finally, in less than half a minute, almost a little devil from an infantry squad in front of him was cut down by the soldiers. Look at the bloody battlefield behind him and the dozens of headless corpses lying on the ground. While looking at the two cavalry companies outflanked from the small devil's artillery position, they were already in place. As the battalion commander, Wang Kai did not hesitate.

"Comrades, the artillery position of the little devils has been surrounded by our cavalry battalion, kill me, kill all the little devils" Wang Kai roared loudly, brandished the bloody saber in his hand, and once again took the lead in rushing into the artillery position of the Yue Army, which had fallen into chaos at this time.

Facing the cavalry swarming from all directions, facing the sword formations that glowed with cold light that were rapidly approaching him. The hundreds of artillerymen on the position were completely panicked, and all of them showed frightened expressions. You must know that the several hundred artillery personnel of the artillery brigade have always been pampered and treated well in peacetime, and they are also superior to others in the troops. These people have basically never actually been on the battlefield, and they have only undergone the most basic training, and even the infantry light weapons are only partially equipped with personnel.

Facing the murderous cavalry battalion, I saw a sabre dripping with blood, and I thought of the scene when the defense of a squad just now was shattered. At this time, the artilleryman's eyes were scared, still afraid.

Finally, some of the soldiers could not bear the pain of being beheaded, and no longer paid attention to the shouts of the commanders around them. Dropping the weapon he had just gotten in his hand, he screamed and fled to the rear of the position. With the first, there is the second. In an instant, by the commanders of all levels of artillery, a defensive line that had just been established, which was already very weak, completely collapsed because of the rout of the soldiers. In the end, even those military officers and lieutenants joined the ranks of those who fled.

However, by this time the cavalry battalion had surrounded the entire artillery position on three sides. They had no way to escape, but to scurry between the cannons.

"Kill" Finally, the cavalry battalion surrounded from all sides rushed into the artillery position of the little devils. Hundreds of cavalrymen galloped back and forth on a position no more than 100 meters long and tens of meters wide. One by one, the panicked little devils were mercilessly beheaded off by the soldiers. A devil rifle that tried to stab his horse was cut off by the soldiers calmly. The sound of metal colliding, the screams of little devils, and the neighing of war horses weaved a beautiful symphony on the artillery positions of the Japanese army.

And at this time, the two infantry battalions that had been closely following the cavalry battalion also rushed to the battlefield. Of course, they did not enter the artillery position, which was bogged down in a fight, but quickly detoured back to the two flanks of the artillery position, and began to build strong fortifications, ready to meet the reinforcements of the little devils.

At the same time, there were also some soldiers who stood at the edge of the position, constantly shooting those little devils who were lucky enough to escape the swords of the cavalry battalion.

Finally, a few minutes passed, and the battlefield slowly became quiet. Looking at the dozens of little devil artillerymen kneeling on the ground trembling in front of him, Wang Kai, as the battalion commander, really couldn't do it. Because, in the eyes of these little devils, I see their fear, their fear.

In this way, under the deterrence of the strong combat power of the soldiers of the cavalry battalion, the reading division captured the prisoners for the first time in history. However, these captives were all technical arms such as artillery, and they also made a great contribution to the later development of the reading division. Of course, that's all for later.

"A company, escort all these little devil prisoners to the general headquarters and hand them over to the commander. The rest of the men immediately cleaned up the battlefield and prepared to withdraw from their positions." Seeing the corpses all over the ground and the land that had been stained red with blood, Wang Kai knew that he had successfully completed the task assigned to him by the command. Immediately ordered.

"Yes, battalion commander" Several company commanders took the order, and once again dispersed with their respective troops to the devil's artillery position with a radius of less than one square kilometer. Begin cleaning up the battlefield, searching for survivors on the battlefield, and collecting the remains of fallen comrades. The whole process went in an orderly manner. Soon, the results of the battle were counted in Wang Kai's hands.

This raid completely removed the little devil's artillery brigade from the formation of the Sakata Wing. All 493 artillery men, together with a squad of 54 infantrymen, were killed under the swords of the cavalry battalion, and 35 little devil artillerymen were captured. Among them, the capture of a brigade and two squadrons of all the equipment and countless ammunition of the army, it can be said that the results of the battle are rich. Of course, the cavalry battalion, which was the main attacking force in this campaign, also paid a heavy price.

Due to the raid on the Imp infantry squad, the Imp launched a suicidal counterattack. Countless fighters fell to the bombs of the imp suicide attacks. After statistics. In total, more than one company of the cavalry battalion was lost in this battle. A total of 130 fighters, along with their horses, were killed on the battlefield, and 24 soldiers were seriously wounded and could not return to the cavalry unit. Wang Kai rode on his war horse, stepped on the ground that had been stained red with blood, watched the corpses of the soldiers being collected, and finally gave the order to withdraw the army.

The cavalry battalion took the remains of their fallen comrades, and the wounded comrades left the artillery positions of the little devils and ended their mission. However, this does not mean that there will be no more battles on the positions of the little devil artillery. You must know that at this time, on the two flanks of the artillery position, the first thing to react was the wing headquarters of the Japanese army.

When he heard the sound of horses' hooves, Sakata Daisa, the commander of the army, began to pay attention to his artillery position. When I saw that the cavalry of the brigade was like half of a whirlwind, rushing into my artillery position, I wanted to sweep half of the leaves in the autumn wind and quickly destroy my artillery brigade. Sakata Daisa, who was the seat of the wing commander, immediately realized the danger of losing the artillery brigade.

Therefore, regardless of the opposition of the commander of the third brigade around him, he withdrew the strength of a squadron from the small number of troops around the wing headquarters, strengthened a large number of light and heavy machine guns with automatic firepower, and reinforced the artillery positions that were engaged in fierce fighting.

By the time the army assembled and set out, more than ten minutes had already passed. And in these ten minutes, it was enough for the cavalry battalion to wipe out hundreds of artillery on the artillery positions with almost no men and combat effectiveness. By the time the reinforcements of a reinforced squadron of the little devils left the wing headquarters, the artillery positions had already changed hands. When the reinforcements of a squadron of the little devils arrived with a large number of heavy machine guns and other heavy weapons, the cavalry battalion, which had just flaunted its might on the artillery position, had quietly retreated. But two infantry battalions and an artillery battery were left behind to make the little devils fearful.

And when the artillery position saponin cavalry battalion sneak attacked, the captain of the second brigade, who was commanding the reunion of his brigade under the high ground, was the first to discover the situation by virtue of the advantage of the terrain. However, seeing that the artillery positions were attacked, he could only do it in a hurry.

Because at this time, the two squadrons in his hands were fighting fiercely with the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain, and there were only two machine gun squadrons of more than 200 imperial troops around him, and it was simply delusional for them to deal with the elite cavalry units of the Eighth Route Army. However, the group commander also knew that if the artillery position was lost, then he and his wing would completely lose fire support, and eventually become a lamb to be slaughtered by the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing the cavalry units of the Eighth Route Army rushing into the artillery position, the captain did not dare to slack off. Several squadrons of cavalry comrades, who were fighting fiercely at the front, were immediately ordered to retreat and prepare to reinforce the artillery positions. However, the situation is not as simple as he imagined.

Before the cavalry battalion launched a raid, in order to ensure the smooth raid of the cavalry battalion. Liu Hua specially gave an order to the first battalion that was sticking to the high ground in the name of the headquarters. In the process of the little devil's next attack, he did not seek to defeat the Yue army quickly, but to stick to him as much as possible and put them in a dilemma.

Of course, the battalion that held the position resolutely obeyed the orders of the headquarters, and the little devil put it in front of him before concentrating all his firepower and firing together, and the little devil pressed the narrow area 50 to 200 meters in front of his position. At the same time, in order to prevent the little devils from retreating, the battalion headquarters concentrated all the grenadiers and mortars to fire fiercely at the front of the position 150 meters away, and used artillery fire to build a separation zone behind the early army.

In this way, it added a lot of trouble to the retreat of the army. In Xu Bin's words, it is okay to retreat, but you must pay a sufficient price. So, in this kind of situation where there is an impermeable rain of bullets above the head and raindrops of shells behind you. Although the commander of the front line of the army received the order of the captain to retreat, he was really helpless.

In the end, under the compulsory order of the captain, the army left a large number of corpses, and more importantly, it took more than ten minutes to withdraw from the high ground less than 500 meters away. Seeing that there were only more than 300 troops left in front of him, the captain wanted to cry without tears. Together with the 3rd Brigade that rushed over, plus two medium machine gun squadrons, they gathered 800 troops, took the initiative to abandon the high ground in front of them, and killed the artillery positions that were slowly becoming quieter.

And the 3rd Division and 1st Regiment, which were protecting the artillery positions, were seizing the time to build fortifications at this time. Trench bunkers are slowly taking shape. A very light and heavy machine gun was mounted on the predetermined position. The fighters are also gearing up, ready to give the little devils who came to reinforce a head-on blow.

And when the cavalry battalion had just retreated, the commander of the artillery company who rushed to the artillery position was indeed ecstatic. Because in front of him were neatly placed two rows of a total of 18 mountain cannons, you know, this kind of cannon is what he dreamed of.

And what made him even more happy to arrive was the countless shells on the position. It turned out that when the Sakata Wing sent troops, Major General Katsuzo Kitamura, who was the commander of the Major General's Brigade, believed that the battle to encircle and annihilate the Eighth Route Army would be a protracted battle that would take a long time. Therefore, in order to keep the Bantian Wing from worrying about ammunition, Baoding County has stored countless materials and ammunition. The entire wing carried ample ammunition, and even more so the artillery brigade, which carried more than 10 base shells in total.

Although the fighting has continued to this day, the army has fired a lot of shells. However, in the ammunition area of the artillery position, the artillery company commander still saw no less than several thousand rounds of various shells.

"Comrades, this time the little devil has sent us so many shells, let's not be polite. Listen to me, immediately rebuild the artillery position, and divide nine cannons for me. When the battle starts, as long as the little devils show their heads, we will use the cannonballs they have made themselves to greet them and prepare a steel lunch for them. Did you hear it? When the time comes, whoever shoots out fewer shells will be removed from his post and let him be a logistics soldier. The artillery company commander yelled at the more than a hundred soldiers behind him.

"Yes, company commander" Immediately, the fighters began to act.

But. Since the artillery position at this time was completely stained red with the blood of the devils, it had become muddy during the constant stampede of the cavalry battalion. In the end, with the help of the soldiers of the two infantry companies transferred by the regimental commander, the artillery company only turned the muzzles of 10 cannons, but these were enough for the little devil to drink a pot.

Just when the soldiers were making pre-battle preparations, they first felt that reinforcements from the headquarters of the army wing on the battlefield had appeared in the soldiers' field of vision. The strength of a reinforced squadron stopped at a distance of 400 meters from the positions of the fighters, a dozen reinforced heavy machine guns began to build positions, and the infantry of a squadron began to form an attack formation under the command of the squadron leader.

"Report to Company Commander Wang, the regiment commander orders the artillery to open fire immediately and carry out indiscriminate artillery bombardment of the assembly area of the Yue Army," just as the artillery company commander began to adjust the involvement of Zhu Yuan, the communicator next to the regiment commander ran in front of him and ordered.

"Okay, go back and tell the regiment commander that the artillery company must let the little devil taste his own shells, so that he can rest assured" After the artillery company commander finished speaking, he began to order the 5 cannons behind him to start adjusting the firing Zhu Yuan. In less than a minute, the soldiers who were already very familiar with the mountain artillery in front of them adjusted Zhu Yuan, and the muzzles of the black holes slowly rose, aiming at the assembly place of the Yue army about 800 meters away from them.

(To be continued)