The sudden rain of bullets on both sides of the road dealt a devastating blow to the Japanese cavalry.

The combat rate of fire of a crooked light machine gun is generally about 200 to 300 rounds a minute, and because the front of the devil cavalry was intercepted, the formation became relatively crowded, and the guerrillas who guided the ambush did not need to aim at all.

The rate of fire reached about 350 rounds, and on average, a light machine gun could fire 40 or 50 rounds per second, while the ambush troops had more than 100 light and heavy machine guns.

At least half a minute had passed since they opened fire after the planted explosives rang out, and with two rounds of fire from hundreds of riflemen, the ambush had poured at least 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the crowd of devil cavalry.

The bullets were dense like raindrops, and the devil cavalry suddenly screamed again and again, and a group of people turned on their backs, and countless devil cavalry couldn't dodge, and they were beaten into a hornet's nest by even people and horses.

There is also the grenade that keeps flying down, which is even worse for the devil cavalry.

Due to the extremely fast running speed, the devils in front were ambushed and shot and fell from their horses, and the ones behind exploded in under the huge inertia, and they were crowded on the official road that was not too wide.

In a hurry, there was no way to turn around and escape, and occasionally a few devil cavalrymen brandished sabers to rush over the earthen hills on both sides, and they were also shot into blood sieves by the dense fire, or the flesh and blood were blown up by the thrown grenades.

This kind of ambush battle became a completely one-sided slaughter, and after more than five minutes of continuous firing and nearly 100,000 rounds of ammunition, there were less than 100 devil cavalry still standing on the official road.

However, before the hundreds of devil cavalry turned around and fled, with Qiao Youhua's order, an impassioned charge had already sounded on the earthen hill on one side.

"Comrades, rush! Don't run away with a little devil! With a scarface face, Zheng Yunshan took the lead in jumping up with a light machine gun, leading more than 700 dragon tooth officers and soldiers to rush down from the earthen hill.

The corpses everywhere blocked the escape path of the devil cavalry, and Scarface led dozens of soldiers with light machine guns to detour back to the rear of the devils, cutting off their retreat, and surrounded the remnants of these devil cavalry on all sides.

Under the fierce strafing, the more than 100 devil cavalry and horses were quickly wiped out.

The entire battlefield stopped with the sound of gunfire, and there was no devil cavalry who could stand.

A thick smell of blood permeated the air, and many of the guerrillas who had begun to clean up the battlefield almost vomited.

Because the scene was so tragic, there were corpses of devil cavalry and dead horses that had been beaten into a hornet's nest everywhere, and human blood and horse blood were mixed together, almost staining the land red.

"Okay, just clean up the battlefield, the devil's infantry may be on the way, and the troops will retreat immediately! Scar went to inform Zhao Youde and Sun Dahai that the feint was over, and immediately evacuated the battle and transferred! Qiao Youhua lit a cigarette to block out the disgusting smell of blood.

"Yes!" Scarface and the others agreed with a bang and quickly took the order.

Half an hour later, when the Japanese captain arrived with an infantry brigade, he saw only the corpses of men and horses everywhere, as if they were a corpse collection team.

After a while, a second lieutenant who led people to check the situation came to the senior lieutenant officer with a solemn expression, bowed his head and said, "Sir, it seems that the cavalry brigade has been wiped out, what should we do next?" ”

"Immediately report to Chief Sakai that the cavalry brigade was ambushed by the Shina people and all the troops were annihilated, and the earth eight roads lost their traces again, and our department is making every effort to search and suppress them!" The Japanese captain said with a dark face.

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In Shimen County, when the battle report came back, Sakai Fa, who was almost drunk, was furious, and he was so angry that he almost slashed the devil who came to report with a single sword.

In the end, it was the two devil captains who stopped the tragedy in time.

"Attack them all at once, and find this cunning earth road for me at any cost, and wipe them all out! Exterminate! Sakai, who had recovered a little more of his senses, roared angrily.

"But sir, at present, we only have 3,000 troops in our hands, Kimura has taken a brigade, and the remaining troops will be stationed to guard Luquan and Shimen respectively, if they all attack, the garrison of Luquan and Shimen will be insufficient, and it is likely to be captured by the cunning Shina army again!" A Japanese captain persuaded with a look of embarrassment.

"Immediately send a telegram to Ichiro Kato, and ask him to transfer all the combat units belonging to my 13th Brigade to me, I will go all out to encircle and suppress this Tubalu, and go quickly!" Sakai roared.

"Hay!" The two devil officers did not dare to slack off, and immediately received the order.

That night, Kato Ichiro was forced to transfer another 2,000 combat troops from the Feiyunling front line to Sakai Fa, because both of them were now grasshoppers on the same rope, and although he was a little reluctant, he did not dare to refuse Sakai Fa, who was in anger.

What's more, the encirclement and suppression of this sudden guerrilla force of the Eighth Route Army was still an order from the North China Front Army Headquarters, and Sakai Law was equivalent to holding Shang Fang's sword, and he could not tolerate his disagreement.

After receiving reinforcements, Sakai immediately ordered the 2,000 Japanese troops to set out from Luquan and search and advance in the direction of Erdaogouzi.

At the same time, a brigade was sent out around him, leaving only one brigade to guard the two county towns of Luquan and Shimen.

Rendezvous with the infantry brigade sent out last night, totaling more than 4,000 people, advanced from the two directions of Luquan and Shimen towards the vicinity of Erdaogouzi.

The intention was to encircle and annihilate Qiao Youhua's guerrilla force within the range of Erdaogouzi.

However, Qiao Youhua led his troops to march eastward from Erdaogouzi long before the Japanese army's 2,000 reinforcements arrived from Feiyunling, bypassing Liugou Town, and coming to the northeast of Luquan, and had already jumped out of the blockade and encirclement of the devils.

In a temporary hiding woods, Sun Dahai nibbled on a piece of cold steamed buns, came to Qiao Youhua and asked, "Chief, what should we do next?" Is it another ambush battle for little devils? ”

If they still had some doubts about Qiao Youhua's command ability before, then now Sun Dahai is throwing himself to the ground with Qiao Youhua's admiration, and now Qiao Youhua says that no matter where he fights, even if it is a place where he must die, he will definitely not frown.

"Ambush? No! Qiao Youhua shook his head and said: "The devil will definitely be annoyed and angry if he suffers a big loss tonight, and he will send a large number of troops to encircle and suppress us, I guess there must not be many troops left behind in Luquan, so we can attack Luquan again now!" However, before that, we still got in touch with Political Commissar Guo first, and asked her to entrust the underground party intelligence network of our Eighth Route Army to help us confirm the approximate strength of the Japanese army in Xialuquan. ”