Chapter 109: The Cavalry Shows Might
The squadron leader of the 1st Squadron of the Army was a wild militarist, but he had a wealth of combat experience, and he was a man who had gone from a soldier to his present position by relying entirely on his exploits.
When he saw that his brigade's baggage, artillery and other technical units were ambushed, and when he looked at the firepower of the ambushed imperial army, the squadron leader immediately guessed that the squadron wanted these weapons and ammunition, and if he hit the muzzle, it would undoubtedly increase the results of the squadron, so the squadron leader wisely chose to retreat, look for a strong terrain, and stick to the reinforcements, because he knew that with the firepower of his squadron and the ammunition on his body, it was absolutely no problem to hold on for a day without heavy weapons. When he received the order from the captain to retreat and wait for reinforcements, the squadron leader became even more confident. Through observation, the squadron leader found a village in front of him, because looking around, only this village was the highest, so this village became the best position for the squadron leader to hold onto.
The squadron leader quickly gathered his team and advanced towards the Gongjiazhuang attack. Gao Yuan, the commander of the second regiment, was guarding a slope in front of Gongjiazhuang, and on the slope, the strength of a battalion was lying in the trench in turn, Gao Yuan looked at the strength of a squadron of 250 people of the army, in no order, lined up to attack Gongjiazhuang, and immediately felt that his first-line strength was insufficient, but at this time, it seemed to be too late, and the strength of a squadron of devils had already reached the bottom of the hillside, and it would soon enter the range of his firepower.
Looking at the sparse offensive formation of the devils, Gao Yuan gave up the heavy-weapon mortars behind the position, because he knew that in this formation of the devils, his own round of mortars could not give the devils a certain lethality at all, at most it was a waste of shells.
"Order the first battalion, after the devils enter the range of fire, immediately start to return fire, must not let the army approach 100 meters in front of the position, let the second battalion immediately rush to the back of the position of the first battalion to standby."
"Da 3..."The 4 heavy machine guns on the position of the first battalion opened fire, but the effect was not very good. Only a few devils were hit, and the remaining devils quickly fell down after hearing the sound of heavy machine guns, and began to return fire with the rifles in their hands. 300 meters distance. For the elite devils, it is their best range, at this distance, they can hit the fighters of the first battalion on the position very well, and for the Chinese soldiers, 300 meters is already difficult to accurately hit the target. This was the gap, and soon, a battalion began to suffer casualties. And the devils seem to have fallen only a few.
"You can't shoot like this, so the fighters will suffer a big loss." The political commissar next to him immediately reminded when he saw the battlefield situation. But as the regiment commander Gao Yuan is also very anxious, but he can't find a feasible way, artillery bombardment, will affect the vision of the soldiers, not only can not kill the devils, but also indirectly help the devils, charge, not to mention, 300 meters away, I don't know how many soldiers will fall, now can only rely on the advantage of more people. Slowly consume the devil's ammunition and troops.
Thinking of this, the head of the regiment, Gao Yuan, shook his head helplessly. "Let the warriors pay attention to concealment,"
Similarly, Liu Hua, who was standing at the headquarters and observing the battlefield, also saw this situation, "Damn, the little devil is really cunning enough." Liu Hua scolded viciously.
"Brigade commander, now is not the time to scold your mother, if you delay for one more minute, the soldiers of the second regiment will have more casualties, brigade commander, let the cavalry go up." Guan Xiangying, the political commissar next to him, immediately reminded.
The reason why the political commissar believed so much in the power of the cavalry was because the results of the first company of the cavalry battalion just now gave him enough confidence, before the battle began, the first company of the cavalry battalion was ordered to destroy the cavalry squad of the devils, in order to be able to achieve the power of the surprise attack, the commander of the first company hid the entire cavalry company in Gongjiazhuang, where the devils had just passed, and waited for the cavalry of the devils to come and die.
Sure enough, after the battle began, the devil's cavalry squad quickly turned its horse's head and rushed to the bottom of the yellow cliff that had just passed, trying to use the advantage of its cavalry raid to rescue the trapped imperial soldiers. Otherwise, after going back, the cavalry squad leader will definitely go to the military court, after all, it was his unfavorable reconnaissance that caused the main force of the imperial army to be surrounded by Chinese soldiers.
The commander of a company, who had been staring at the forty-odd devil cavalry squad through the telescope, immediately ordered his cavalry company to prepare for battle after seeing the devil turn his horse's head, and looked at the cavalry squad galloping over, "One thousand meters, finally the best attack distance." Rush. The cavalry company commander took the lead, and was the first to rush out of Gongjiazhuang, holding the saber in his hand, and rushing towards the devils not far away.
Similarly, the devil's cavalry squad also spotted a cavalry that suddenly rushed out of the village, more than twice as many as themselves. "Baga, you fell for the trick of China." The captain of the devil's cavalry squad scolded loudly, but at this time, the distance between the two armies was only about 500 meters, and it was only a matter of a few seconds for the two galloping cavalry, the devil wanted to retreat, but there was no chance to turn at all, in an instant, the two charging cavalry collided together, and all that remained was the sound of horses' hooves, the snort of the saber cutting into the flesh, and in a few seconds, the cavalry company had rushed past the place where the two armies collided just now, at this time, there were corpses lying everywhere in that place, there were eight route army and devils, Dozens of war horses stood alone in the open field, and the air was filled with a hint of blood.
First of all, the first company, which lost a total of 9 soldiers, and then look at the cavalry squad of the devils, now there are less than ten cavalry left on the war horses and confronting the soldiers of the first company. "Rush." The first company launched a charge again, the two armies collided again, the sound of metal colliding with each other, the neighing of horses sounded again, this time, the first company with the death of 3 soldiers, in exchange for the remaining devil cavalry.
Looking at the dozens of war horses in front of him, the commander of a company quickly ordered a squad of troops to be left to clean up the battlefield, and the remaining soldiers immediately gathered at the headquarters to wait for orders.
It was precisely when he saw such a result that the political commissar was excited, knowing the power of the cavalry against the cavalry, and what the current political commissar wanted to see was the power of the cavalry attacking the infantry.
"Order, the first and second companies of the cavalry will immediately move behind the devil squadron, the specific position will be determined by the battalion commander himself, and after arriving at the position, he will immediately launch a charge, and he must give me at least half of the devil's head in the first round of charge." Then, Liu Hua ordered, "Send a report to Commander Gao, saying that in about ten minutes, the cavalry battalion will charge the devil's infantry squadron, please cooperate in time." After saying the order, Liu Hua picked up the binoculars again and observed the final battle.
At this time, the soldiers of the first battalion had already suffered a lot of casualties, and almost as soon as the soldiers showed their heads, they would be attacked by the army, especially the casualties of the machine gunners. The soldiers were in a hurry, and the regiment commander Gao Yuan was even more anxious, and it was here that a telegram from the brigade commander for emergency came.
"Ordered the soldiers not to show their heads as much as possible, and after holding out for 10 minutes, we will win in only ten minutes, and the brigade commander sent a cavalry battalion to charge from behind the devil." After reading the telegram, Gao Yuan excitedly said to the political commissar next to him.
Ten minutes passed quickly, and Wang Hu, the commander of the cavalry battalion, came to a place that he had already been optimistic about, starting from here to the devil's position, only less than 1,000 meters away, and the cavalry could arrive in less than half a minute, and here can play a surprising effect, because there is a low mountain beam in front of this and the devil's position, but it does not affect the cavalry's charge.
"The first company outflanked and charged to the left, and the second company outflanked and charged to the right, and immediately began to attack" After issuing the order, the battalion commander Zhang Hu jumped on his war horse and followed the company to rush towards the devil's position.
"Rumble..."It seems that the whole earth is ringing, and the power of 200 war horses charging together is still very shocking, and the commander of the second regiment who was guarding the position, when he heard the voice, his face suddenly became relaxed, "Comrades, the cavalry battalion has begun to charge, everyone is ready to prevent the devil and dog from jumping off the wall in a hurry." The regiment commander immediately reminded.
At this time, the leader of the devil squadron was uncomfortable, and when he heard the roar of the war horse, the first thing that came to his mind was that the reinforcements from the empire had arrived. But when he turned his head, this wish was immediately shattered, and the two cavalry behind him were slanted towards his two wings, looking at this posture, it was to surround all his squadrons, and the squadron leader knew that without the support of heavy weapons, the infantry faced the cavalry, and there was no way except to be slaughtered.
"Immediately dispatch a squad to the rear to set up defenses and stop the attack of the Chinese cavalry." The squadron leader, who saw that he only had two squads left, immediately ordered, although he knew that this squad would not be able to complete this task at all, but as an excellent commander, he still had to delay the attack time of China as much as possible.
However, when mobilizing a team, is it possible, when facing the position of the second regiment, the devils may be able to dodge the bullets of the Eighth Route Army, but when you turn around to deal with the cavalry, there is no way for your body to hide, and those devils who turned around were hit by the heavy machine guns on the position and lay on the ground.
Seeing such a situation, the devil no longer dared to show his head, and many people began to pray for the blessing of "Amaterasu". However, what the devil didn't expect at this time was that they were now on the land of China, and the "Amaterasu God" would take care of them, and the cavalry battalion was like two sharp swords, inserted into the two wings of the devil, waved the saber, and the head of a devil rolled off his neck. The two cavalry were like two long dragons, and after finishing the devils on both wings, they immediately turned their horses' heads, inserted them into the middle, and kept shuttling back and forth on the devils' positions.
"The political commissar of the brigade command, looking at the scene in front of him, began to tremble with his hands holding binoculars." Oh my god, I really didn't expect that the invincible devil infantry would be slaughtered in front of the cavalry. Today I finally saw the power of cavalry. ”
"Political commissar, we have a little luck in this battle, you must know that the devil has no heavy firepower, if the devil has an emergency stop heavy machine gun, I don't dare to die, the cavalry battalion will be sent out. Okay, it's over, it's time for us to go back. After listening to the political commissar's exclamation, brigade commander Liu Hua immediately replied with a smile.
(To be continued)