Chapter 130: The Battle of Xiangtangpu (9)

"Chief of Staff, I didn't expect that our Commander Wang also asked for reinforcements, Chief of Staff, what do you think? Liu Hua, who had finished reading the telegram, looked at the chief of staff in front of him with a smile and said

After listening to Liu Hua's words, the chief of staff also smiled, "Yes, commander, but the commander of the third regiment really fought very hard." After all, it is not easy to fight against a brigade of devils with heavy weapons with the strength of two battalions, and it is not easy to hold out until now. This time we captured so much ammunition. I think we will transport a batch of past, and now the materials and ammunition on the highway are in the process of being transferred, and we still need at least four hours of time! The chief of staff said.

"Hehe, Chief of Staff, don't bother with the idea of this batch of ammunition, I have this batch of ammunition useful. However, Chief of Staff, you have not noticed that until now, we still have two units that have not been used! Liu Hua reminded with a smile.

"Commander, you're right, Commander, don't you say that I forgot, the cavalry battalion has been assembled in the mountain pass, and the strength of a squadron of the special brigade has already been assembled Commander, I'll go and give orders." After speaking, without waiting for Liu Hua to react, he hurriedly walked in the direction of the radio station.

Soon an order from the headquarters was handed over to the two commanders, "Order, the cavalry battalion will covertly raid the reinforcements in the direction of the devil's county, and the first squadron of the special brigade will immediately covertly attack the artillery position of the devil's reinforcements."

The two troops, who had received the order, quickly headed for their destination. Since this mission is the first mission since the establishment of the special brigade, Liu Xiaogang, as the captain of the special brigade, is particularly concerned, and in order to ensure the success of this mission, Liu Xiaogang personally came to the first squadron to command.

Liu Xiaogang took all the troops of a squadron and slowly touched the artillery position of the devil. Because the army was reorganized once in Zhangjiazhuang. So now a squadron is divided into three squads, each squad is divided into three action groups, each action group has a heavy fireman, two riflemen, a fighter who is good at close combat, a sniper, plus a team leader, a total of six fighters, each equipped with a short gun. One action group after another formed a sharp triangular formation, slowly touching the devil's artillery position

With the help of the cover of the mountains, the first squadron slowly approached less than 50 meters away from the devil's artillery position, and at this time the composition of the devil's position could be clearly seen. A total of six mountain guns were neatly lined up on the position, and there were eight mortars erected on one side of the mountain guns, all of which were scattered and piled up behind the cannons, and the soldiers kept moving forward. Around the devil's artillery position, from time to time, shells fell, kicking up a piece of dirt, no need to think about it, this must be its own mountain artillery company to suppress the devil's artillery

"Report to Captain Liu, after reconnaissance, the devil left a total of half a squad of infantry to protect the artillery position, including three light machine guns, 36 combat personnel attacked, and all the remaining personnel were artillery, most of them were not equipped with infantry weapons, a total of more than 120 people"

The leader of the first squadron reported the details of the reconnaissance to Liu Xiaogang, the captain next to him. "Well, there are so many shells, it's a pity that they exploded, I want to capture these cannons, you see if it's possible." Liu Xiaogang looked at the squadron leader next to him and asked.

"Captain, the strength of the enemy and us is 3:1, although the enemy's strength is a lot, but there are dozens of infantry with combat effectiveness, as long as the main force of the devil is not reinforced, we can completely solve this more than 100 devils in a very short time." The squadron leader replied confidently.

"Okay, after the battle starts for a while, all the snipers must knock out the devil's light machine gun when the first shot sounds, and then snipe all the devil's dozens of infantry in the first time, all the light machine guns in the squadron listen to my orders, and all the devil's light machine guns are knocked out after they are fired, as much as possible to kill and injure the devil's artillery personnel, riflemen to supplement the fire gap of the light machine gun, kill and injure the devil who missed, remember not to entangle with the devil more, use the gun if you can use the gun, I don't want the devil alive" After several years of training, Liu Xiaogang has become more and more like an excellent special operations commander, and at this moment, the cavalry battalion has quietly moved behind the devil brigade. The battalion commander Wang Hu quietly climbed to the top of the mountain with the guards, and observed the deployment of the troops of the Devil Brigade Headquarters. It turned out that in order to cover the continuous charge of his own people, the captain of the devil almost transferred all the heavy machine guns to the first line to maintain the continuous surname of the first-line firepower, but in this way, it led to the lack of heavy weapons in the brigade headquarters, you must know that only one heavy machine gun was left in the rear of the entire army for vigilance, in the face of such a good opportunity, of course Wang Hu, the commander of the cavalry battalion, would not let go, Wang Hu, Liu Xiaogang, the two quickly contacted each other. and sent a telegram to the regimental commander Wang Nanhu in the defensive position, hoping that the artillery company and all the infantry could give some cooperation. Less than a minute after the telegram was sent, Commander Wang's reply arrived.

The order was very simple, the artillery company would carry out artillery bombardment of the enemy's artillery positions and brigade headquarters in five minutes, and the infantry would launch a counterattack at any time according to the enemy's situation, so as to seize an opportunity to completely repel the attack of the devils.

The cavalry battalion, which received the telegram, immediately prepared for battle with the 1st Special Squadron. The soldiers were loaded with machine guns and rifles, and the cavalrymen were on their horses, wiping the sabers in their hands and loading the rifles in their hands with a bullet.

Five minutes passed quickly. The whistling sound of "woo" shells across the sky reached the ears of the fighters. In an instant, a violent explosion sounded from the artillery position of the devil and the brigade headquarters.

Under the cover of the sound of explosions, 9 snipers seized this favorable moment and fired bullets from their rifles together. Under the shroud of the sound of shell explosions, the devil did not notice that nine of his own soldiers had fallen under the enemy's guns, and still continued to do their own work nervously, patrolling back and forth.

With the explosion of the second round of shells, the fighters fired nine rounds again. At this time, a devil finally discovered the abnormality behind him, and just picked up the rifle behind his back and prepared to load it for alert, but it was too late. While the remaining infantry was ready to fire warning shots, the snipers had already loaded their rifles in the shortest possible time.

"Bang bang" A sparse burst of gunfire rang out, and before the infantrymen who had just picked up their rifles could react, they fell under the guns of the fighters with reluctance. At this time, the gunfire had completely alarmed the soldiers on the artillery positions of the devils. Looking at the devil artillery who were ready to find weapons to fight back, Liu Xiaogang didn't need to hide himself.

"Fight" Liu Xiaogang shouted loudly at the soldiers around him, and in an instant, nine soldiers with crooked light machine guns suddenly stood up in the grass behind the devil's artillery position, nine light machine guns happily spit out bullets, and riflemen and snipers knelt on one leg, looking for devils who might pose a threat to machine gunners on the battlefield, and shot one by one.

This sneak attack battle led by the first squadron was won without a little suspense, in the face of the first squadron armed to the teeth and well-equipped, the devils of more than 100 people completely became the target of slaughter, after the soldiers paid the price of a few minor injuries, the artillery position could no longer see a living devil, and in time there was only one breath left, and the soldiers would give them a heart-cold with bayonets.

"Immediately seize the advantageous terrain and build fortifications to prevent the enemy from counterattacking." Seeing the soldiers neatly solve the battle, the captain Liu Xiaogang nodded, very satisfied with the performance of his soldiers. But thinking that the devil still has a large number of troops, and he may want to counterattack the artillery position at any time, he immediately reacted, protected the artillery position, and planted bombs on the artillery position to deal with the occasional need.

Just as the sneak attack of the 1st squadron began, the cavalry battalion also attacked. Under the cover of the sound of shell explosions, the devil did not seem to notice the cavalry of a battalion that was getting closer and closer behind him. However, as the speed of the horse increased, the sound of the horse's hooves became louder and louder, gradually evolving into a roar like thunder. Finally, this roar caught the attention of the devil.

The devils who noticed that the earth was shaking looked behind the sound one after another, and they didn't know if they didn't see it, and they were startled when they saw it. I saw a black line in the distance slowly trying to get closer, and I didn't need to think about it to know that it was a cavalry, and it was a cavalry of at least a few hundred people, and slowly some devils showed a timid look.

"Baga, it's cavalry, how can there be cavalry in the [***] team,. Quick, quickly organize the fortifications and hold back the cavalry of the China. The hands of the captain of the devil brigade holding the binoculars also began to tremble with the shaking earth.

As a mid-level officer in the Empire, the captain has a deep understanding of cavalry. Especially in field battles, for infantry without heavy weapons, cavalry is simply the nemesis of infantry. In the face of the cavalry, the infantry prepared the lamb to the slaughter. But as the captain of the elite imperial army, although he was flustered, he didn't show it, and he didn't know the fortifications calmly.

But when the captain saw the only heavy machine gun in the brigade headquarters, he immediately regretted why he didn't leave a few more heavy machine guns to defend. "Quick, quick, order the first squadron on the front line, and a small squad of heavy machine guns to return to help immediately." The captain ordered anxiously, and a trace of cold sweat began to appear on his forehead.

The devil's tactics of wanting to transfer troops were right, but the cavalry battalion commander Wang Hu did not give the devils too much time, and when the army of the devil's brigade headquarters began to assemble and build fortifications, the speed of the cavalry battalion had reached the fastest, and the distance was only less than 1,000 meters.

(To be continued)