Two-legged ones can't run four-legged!

I don't know when, this sentence is almost the general consensus of the military circles all over the world, whether it is in the era of cold weapons or light weapons, it seems that the infantry meets the cavalry, and only the part of being chased and beaten and chased and killed.

But in fact?

The cavalry may have started with the monk Lingeqin and the twist army, and after the arrival of the breech gun era, the fate of the king of cavalry land warfare was ended.

The biggest advantage of a horse for a person is the instantaneous sprint, which is a sprint advantage, not a long-distance race. If the time is short, a person cannot run as well as a horse, but if it is a long time, a horse is not as good as a person. And the biggest reason for this is that people have the support of will when they are on the march. And the horse running is purely forced, and the horse will not be swayed by the will of man.

The textbook of the Whampoa Military Academy mentions that the will of the infantry is better than the four hooves of the cavalry!

When the Qing army surrounded the main force of the Sixth Division in 18 miles, the 13th and 14th regiments quietly drove out of Xi'an, and rushed towards the Meridian Ridge at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu in the mountains and forests.

The Meridian Ridge lies at the junction of Shaanxi and Gansu, stretching for six or seven hundred miles from north to south. The Meridian Mountains are densely forested and sparsely populated, and more than a dozen passes are the key points of transportation in Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.

However, two days earlier, when the two units of the 13th and 14th regiments appeared at Meridian Ridge, the mountain pass changed hands after several rounds of artillery bombardment and the same bayonet charges under the cover of machine guns and artillery. The Guangfu officers and men stationed at the pass carefully prepared a multi-layered defensive network composed of machine guns, deer rocks, and mortars for the Manchu rout, and waited for the arrival of the enemy every day.

In the mountains and forests of Meridian Ridge, a group of scouts with submachine guns are moving in the mountains and forests, and a kilometer behind them, there are also one or two sentry guards, this is to prevent the whole reconnaissance squad from being wiped out and no one wants to see the end, once they are attacked by the enemy, they will shoot signal flares, so that the rear is prepared, take off their submachine guns from their shoulders Song Mingzhe silently walked under a tree and leaned on the rough trunk of the tree panting heavily, and the sweat of the bean was not down from his forehead from time to time, Around him, most of the fighters were panting and drinking like him, and they had been away from their positions for two days, and for the past two days they had been searching for the remnants of the enemy.

The Qing army was defeated, but after three days' effort, Lu Hongtao took advantage of the chaos, lit grain and grass, and forced back the troops to surround the eighteen miles, intending to "annihilate" the 300,000 Qing troops of the Sixth Division, and the camp collapsed in an instant. ”

Thinking of the atrocities reported by the company commander when the rout army sacked the countryside, Song Mingzhe cursed hatefully in his heart, and at this moment, he suddenly straightened up, tilted his head sideways, and pricked up his ears.

"Click......

"Boom!"

Faintly, there was a continuous burst of gunfire coming from the valley southeast of the woods.

That's right, it's the sound of gunfire!

"Prepare for battle!"

As he ran in the direction where the gunshots came, Song Mingzhe turned his head and shouted at his brother who was resting beside him.

The warriors who were lying on the ground lazily. As soon as they heard the squad leader's shout, and then heard the guns in the air, they immediately jumped up and followed the squad leader and ran towards the southeast.

"Listen carefully to the sound of gunshots."

"It's really the sound of gunfire coming from the southeast, this gunfire is dense enough, is it possible that we have found a large army of Qing soldiers?"

Zhao Youqian listened attentively, and his face showed some joy.

"Let's go and make sure, this gunshot seems a bit weird, maybe it's going on over there?"

Song Mingzhe continued to run towards the southeast as he spoke.

Zhao Youqian made a "go" gesture to several soldiers behind him, and then rushed straight towards the southeast of the mountain, and when they crossed a mountain, the gunfire was still very dense.

"Click......

As the gunfire became clearer and clearer, Song Mingzhe and his party had come to the top of the mountain, and the deafening shouts of killing came from the valley, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves.

"Heavy prepare, I'll go up and take a look!"

When Song Mingzhe was still more than ten meters away from the top of the mountain, he stopped and stopped the brothers in the class, and ordered softly.

Zhao Youqian didn't say anything, just nodded.

After bending down slightly, under the cover of weeds, Song Mingzhe quickly climbed towards the top of the mountain, and almost without any strength, he came to the top of the mountain, and rushed forward to prostrate on the top of the mountain, and the sight of his eyes happened to be able to see the situation on the other side of the mountain, and in the next second, he was completely stunned.

Shock!

In addition to the shock, more than surprise!

Song Mingzhe felt that he had seen the most unforgettable scene in his life, so much so that he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Cavalry!

He led his brother's cavalry to search for this Meridian Ridge, and this would have appeared in front of him so vividly, in this valley, which was no more than a kilometer or two wide, it was completely shrouded in flying dust.

A large expanse of cavalry in the valley was wielding sabers that glowed in the sun, and carrying heavy rifles galloping back and forth on the battlefield. Their horse teams were orderly and distinct, and the ranks were distinct, each row of eight people and eight horses were riding in the noisy dust, and the mighty charge, thousands of war horses galloped across the thousands of swords, and the swords were staggered, and from Song Mingzhe's position, the reflection of the saber was reflected, and he could almost see the battle going on in the valley.

Despite the glaring lights, he could see the striking tricolor clearly.

Is it our cavalry?

Surprised, Song Mingzhe pressed and did not expect to meet the cavalry of the Guangfu Army here, and at this time they were wielding sabers and tearing and killing the Qing cavalry in the valley, and from a distance they kept shooting at the enemy in front of them with their pistols, and the enemies who fell to the ground from time to time seemed to confirm their accurate horse shooting skills.

The surging momentum and unstoppable impact are enough to strike fear into the hearts of any enemy who stands in their way. After listening to the local people say what the "Hezhou Horse Team" is awesome, Song Mingzhe has imagined more than once, what is the Hezhou Horse Team like? Imagined the cavalry charging so that he could be calmer on the battlefield he was about to be, so that he could kill the damn bastards.

And the battle of cavalry against cavalry was being staged in the valley in front of him, but when his blood was boiling, he had some fear in his heart for no reason, and he could fully imagine that if these cavalry rushed towards him, he might be scared to pee his pants.

At this time, in the valley, the 1st Cavalry Division of the Liberation Army, which initially relied on captured horses and sabers to build up a cavalry unit, which would ride on horseback and shoot with wooden butts against the shoulder, when replacing the pistol with a magazine of bullets, the Hezhou horse team was already close at hand, and the guns had just been released, and the front row of cavalrymen had already drawn their swords, which were Chasik cavalry knives captured from the Cossack cavalry.

When they drew their sabers, the cavalry in the back row still followed the queue and pulled the trigger, in this valley, there was no room for maneuver of large troops, they chased for two days, and finally ran to the front of the 20,000 Hezhou cavalry, the reason why this is so is because their division commander intends to use the "saber to sabre" battle to end the history of "Han people without cavalry".

"Kill!"

Ma Anliang, who was riding on horseback, seemed to have regained his martial courage after fleeing from the eighteen miles of the desert, and the thousands of cavalry of the Guangfu Army in front of him, the pursuit along the way was like a nightmare that followed the Hezhou horse team, on the plain, they swept around the horse team, constantly hitting the horse team from afar with foreign guns, and did not give them a chance to contact at all.

From the first day of encountering this Han cavalry, Ma Anliang was looking forward to a duel with a saber like now, the cavalry of the Guangfu Army was only a few thousand, but he had 20,000 people, even a bite could bite them to cripple.

"The Prophet is watching you in heaven with his eyes!"

In that roar, two Hongfeng, one large and one small, collided in the valley, and Song Mingzhe and others standing on the top of the mountain could clearly see that the brothers of the First Cavalry Division, at the moment of impact, the formation that seemed to form the horns of the bull expanded to the other side of the valley, and the two sharp knives marched at high speed from the two wings of the Hezhou horse team with pistols, and the bull head hit out the horse team that was much larger than them, and behind the bull head, there was a horse team of about a thousand horses, standing motionless with a knife.

"That's the reserves!"

Song Mingzhe said lightly, picked up the monoculars and looked at the rear of the reserve, but saw that there were balls of artillery flames rising from time to time, thinking that it was the cavalry artillery team of the cavalry division, and the cavalry artillery team was constantly firing shells at the middle and rear of the Qing army and the reserves.

"Squad leader, do you think his team looks like a cow? I dare to see, the commander of the First Cavalry Division, Yu, must be from a cattle herding background! The head of the ox is against the rack, the horns are desperately thorning from both sides, the sirloin of the ox is waiting there, and the tail of the ox is sweeping the flies! ”

Although Zhao Youqian's description sounds a bit rough, it is very appropriate to describe the battle in the valley.

In the valley as far as the eye can see, there are countless corpses of people and war horses scattered in it, and occasionally some war horses that have lost their owners are mourning and screaming in the dead corpses. Billowing smoke rose in the valley, rising straight into the air, from the top of the mountain, now it seems that the first cavalry division has occupied the peak, his two horns have been killed to the waist of the Qing army, every time the Qing army wants to rush to the left and right of this horn, the cavalry of the first cavalry division with guns drove back with pistols, compared to the rifles of the Qing army, the power of the pistol may not be great, but at close range, the power of thousands of pistols is almost no less than hundreds of heavy machine guns.

"Good!"

Yu Zhucheng, who had been observing the situation on the battlefield with a telescope, nodded heavily, a slight smile appeared on his face, this valley was carefully prepared by him for the Hezhou horse team, and even the deployment of this cavalry was the buffalo formation that he carefully prepared.

"Division commander, Zhao Pengda of the first regiment is in a hurry!"

"Let Zhao Pengda come out of the cage with such a fierce horse, and let him tear this horse team apart from the middle!"

After receiving the order, Zhao Pengda then threw the order to the orderly soldier on the horse beside him, and at the same time drew the saber from the right side of the saddle, and the bright saber handed over a white light under the reflection of the sun.

"Brothers, ride a division! Forward"

The original ox loin moved at this moment at the beginning, their speed was not fast, if it was a charge, it was better to say that it was a rapid march, this is the most basic common sense, until the moment of receiving the enemy is must not sprint, must save horsepower, the most well-trained war horse, also only one charge horsepower.

Just when he was only a hundred meters away from the main battlefield, the Chasik cavalry knife in Zhao Pengda's right hand had already turned into a part of his arm, and his arm tilted sharply into the sky.

"Hooray......

The cavalrymen of the 1st Cavalry Regiment shouted at the same time with this order, this is a habit they learned from the Cossack cavalry, the addition of this new force only tilted the scales in favor of the 1st Cavalry Division, and the horse team, which was already exhausted, was divided into two sections at the moment when the new force rushed into the battlefield, although they charged with sabers, but when they met the enemy, they often attacked with short guns, and only when they were close to them, the sabers would collide in the air.

The fierce battle between the two sides had come to an end in the evening, and after nearly an hour of fierce fighting, the few remaining Qing troops had fallen into the sea of cavalry, and Song Mingzhe was still shocked by the layers of sabers shining with cold light on the mountain.

"Our cavalry won!"

When Zhao Youqian spoke, his voice was a little astringent.

"I'm a thief, this ...... The dog said, why don't we have cavalry in the Sixth Division. ”

Song Mingzhe nodded silently, if there is a cavalry, he will definitely be a cavalryman, he can't be a cavalry in this life, and he will be a cavalry in the next life, thinking so in his heart, his footsteps walked down the mountain.

Just as Song Mingzhe and a group of people walked down the mountain, the battle in the distance on the opposite side finally ended, and the remaining cavalry warriors rode across the battlefield, searching for wounded comrades and undead enemies on the battlefield strewn with dead corpses.

And there is a group of sporadic cavalry holding thousands of captives are playing something there, Song Mingzhe in the distance saw a few soldiers riding horses and driving more than a dozen captives into a circle with sabers, and then a fast horse in the distance rushed over, when there were still dozens of meters away from the circle, suddenly a grenade flew out of the hands of the cavalry on horseback, and the next moment the grenade blew up the dozen captives to death, and there were also some soldiers who dispersed the captives, and after they ran for a while, they rode horses again, Wielding a saber and slashing those people like a watermelon.

And many more lined up the captives, put their guns to their heads, and executed them insensitively, accompanied by the execution of the captives, and the valley reverberated only laughter, the kind of laughter that came out of the throats of the warriors after the victory.

For them, this is nothing more than post-war entertainment or a consolation for the death of their comrades! When Song Mingzhe and his party were greeted by the identified cavalry, several cavalrymen standing on the side of the slope, an officer with a pistol, seemed to comfort the wounded lying on the ground, and then the officer he saw bowed to a wounded man and then took out his pistol.

Gunshot!

Suddenly, a crisp gunshot rang out, and the sound of gunfire echoed through the valley.

Song Mingzhe and Zhao Youqian and their entourage looked at this scene in surprise, on the ground in front of the officer, there were more than 30 wounded people, those people were still wearing the military uniforms of the Liberation Army, these people were all seriously wounded with broken hands and broken arms, he ...... What is he doing?

The officer bowed and shot as if he had accomplished something, his mouth still muttering something.

This scene made Song Mingzhe, Zhao Youqian and his entourage angry while being surprised by the creed of "deep brotherhood and never abandonment", and their eyes suddenly turned red.

"Dog, you bastard!"

While scolding, Song Mingzhe Zhao Youqian and a dozen scouts rushed towards the officer, but when they rushed forward, several horses suddenly rushed over and crossed in front of them.

"This is a family affair of the First Riding Division!"

The ensign on horseback seemed to have some tears in his eyes as he spoke.

"I ...... I'm going to report to you, sir! You're killing your own people, he'...... They are by no means deserters! ”

And then the shots rang out again, and with each shot, the second lieutenant on horseback seemed to tremble on his shoulders.

"Tell him,"

The ensign's painful expression became fierce at this moment, and he looked back at his comrades beside him and shouted fiercely.

"Is there a deserter in the 1st Cavalry Division!"

"Nope!"

"Are there any wounded prisoners in the 1st Cavalry Division!"

"Nope!"

In an instant, Song Mingzhe was stunned, and he vaguely understood why all this was.

"Supplement...... Let's make up for it! ”

The wounded man, with a broken leg, gasped at the officer who had walked in front of him, and the officer bowed deeply, then bent down and picked up the wounded man with his hands.

"Let's go!"

"Long live the first division!"

In the last howl of the wounded, the shots rang out! The dead wounded fell from the officer's arms and fell to the ground, and after a while, the officer stood up, and Song Mingzhe, Zhao Youqian and others heard their conversation, and they watched the officer standing there, saluting the wounded on the ground, and the standard military salute lasted for several minutes!

The major seemed to see the strangers, and as he looked at them, he had a bleak wry smile on his face.

"Outside the pass, the first cavalry division, there is not a single wounded prisoner, there was no in the past, there will be no now, and there will be no in the future!"

"Ride a division!"

"Hooray!"

In the bare, charred valley destroyed by the war, Song Mingzhe saw the officer's lonely, slender back and drooping head in a gray military hat.

A soldier led his horse to him. He got on his horse and galloped away without looking back at his cavalry. And not far away, there seemed to be cavalry waiting for him.

"Ride a division!"

"Hooray!"

The horsemen on horseback, galloping across the thick pillars of smoke, accompanied by the shouts of the officer, raised their sabers and repeated the slogan over and over again.

"Riding a Division ......"

Song Mingzhe, who was muttering, was stunned by what he saw and heard, and he kept muttering for a long time.

"This ...... This is not outside the gates, not outside the gates! They...... They can still be saved...... And save it......"

(To be continued)