Kuroda knew very well what devastating the loss of the position on the southern front would bring to the entire battle situation, so he sent several senior officers, including the chief of staff of the wing, to the base camp at the foot of the mountain to organize troops to launch a counterattack, and the battle line must be stabilized!

The artillery position was in a mess, the heavy artillery was blown up, fortunately there were still two infantry guns that could be used, and at this time the artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route was over, not for a while, but without shells!

In one breath, Yang made all the cannons pour down the cannonballs, and his idea was to use these limited cannonballs to cause the devil the greatest panic and eliminate as much vitality as possible, even if these cannons did not enter the battle in vain.

At the military district repair office on the side of the military camp town, Zhou Donggua promised to fully support Yang Bangzi and their battle, but the ammunition consumption in the past few days is too large, and all the workers are producing in 24-hour shifts, that is, they can barely supply Yang Bangzi and their ammunition needs, and the shells will not be able to make so many for a while and a half.

It's also unrealistic to rely on capture, the little devil's ammunition consumption is much more than that of the Eighth Route Army, and the Kuroda Wing has relied on ground and air supplies several times, otherwise they would have run out of ammunition and food long ago.

This valley must not be lost, after retreating to the mountain, the planes will come to drop supplies, but there is no place to cast, whether to go or defend has not yet made the most difficult decision, from which point of view, this valley can not be discarded casually.

The captain of the Kuroda wing also gave an order, ordering all the cavalry of the cavalry wing to kill their horses! In this case, it would be good if people could escape from the valley, and the horses in the ravine were useless, rather than falling into the hands of the eight roads. It's better to solve it on the spot.

I threw away all the baggage and everything. People are sustained by air supplies. Horse feed has long been gone, the most important thing is that these horses are useless to keep, and the horses have become a burden by drilling ravines and climbing mountain beams.

Alas, the little devil is also a human being, and he gets along with these war horses day and night, and his feelings are also very deep, but everyone understands the orders of the joint captain. In this situation, it is also a sin to keep war horses, people can't eat and drink, these war horses usually eat pure grain, and there is no grass to pad in this barren mountains and mountains, and more than a thousand war horses are hungry and bite each other's manes.

The devils can't get started, the war horses have long been human, and they went south from the prairie together in high spirits, and they thought they could do miraculous feats, but they didn't expect that the merit had not yet been established, and now they have to go on a different path!

Kuroda was also forced to give this order. As long as the cavalry has a war horse by its side, it will always be unable to put down its frame and use it as an infantryman. In this mountain battle, the cavalry can't charge and can't outflank in a roundabout way, and the horses in the slopes and ravines can't climb up, if you want to force the cavalry under your command who are still on the same line as the infantry to force out their combat effectiveness, you have to cut off their spiritual sustenance!

The cavalry couldn't get down, and the infantry had already launched an attack on the eighth road on the platform in the south, Kuroda looked at these subordinates who were holding their mounts and shed tears, and gave a ruthless order, squad to squad, squadron to squadron, brigade to brigade, exchange horses! If you don't have a war horse that you can slaughter with your own hands!

Not to mention, it's true, it's not the horse that is like a brother on weekdays, and he can kill more or less in his heart! These cavalrymen also knew that it was impossible to take the big road for the upcoming breakthrough, and these war horses would have to be slaughtered sooner or later, leaving the horses behind, and they would have to become the trophies of the Eighth Road.

An order was given, the wailing of the horses, and the cries of the devils also rose, all of them were good at riding horses, and the hearts of the horses that ran down with a saber pressed the horses to the ground, and looked at the horses that had not yet been killed by their own hands in front of them, thinking that their horses were also bleeding at the moment and were about to swallow the last breath, and the crying ones were sad!

The more than a thousand horses were indeed well-trained horses, and they had been hungry for two days, and had not lost their minds and discipline like those who were hungry, and although the horses felt that the atmosphere was not quite right, none of them broke free from the reins and tried to escape, and stood by the side of the cavalry one by one, until a knife was stabbed in the heart, and none of them broke free from the dying struggle.

The horse also understands that this is indeed to the point of exhaustion, usually these people who are friendly with themselves, crying so sadly stabbing their own knives, it is really impossible to go back to the prairie together, yes, the blue sky and white clouds on the prairie, the green grass and yellow flowers can no longer be seen, and a wail echoes in the valley.

Kuroda also set an example, he brought his big black horse, a pure-blooded Arabian horse, with a black body and a white hair on his four hooves, nicknamed "Snow Treading Without a Trace", which Kuroda bought at a great price and won the championship in Japanese equestrian competitions.

He took out the two apples that he had kept uneaten from his pocket, fed them to Treading Snow Without a Trace, took the grate in the horseman's hand and combed it up and down on the horse, and combed it back and forth, took out his pistol, handed it to the adjutant, and waved his hand, which meant to lead the horse to a place where he could not see it.

When the gunshot rang out, Kuroda's heart was like a string breaking, and the tears didn't fall after enduring it for a long time, and he was so aggrieved in his stomach that he pulled out his war knife at once, not his royal saber inlaid with gold and silver, but a temporarily equipped war knife, roaring at the cavalry who killed their beloved horses on the hillside, and let these cavalry vent their anger on the eight roads!

How unreasonable, it's not that we Chinese invite you devils and your Malays to come to China, just come, just stay in the grassland and wait for the end of World War II, and look down on other infantry, you have to come to the mountains and eight roads in the northwest of Hebei to fight the male and female, now it's good, the male and female have not yet come out after the most decisive decision, their own horses are gone!

Now you want to transfer the hatred to the eight roads, what are you doing as the eight roads to bully? After a few days of hard fighting, the Eighth Route and local troops of the 11th Division, which suffered countless casualties, were already red-eyed! Now that you have finally taken the southern position of Kuroda United, can you easily return it to the devil?

Around this small plateau that is more than 200 meters long from east to west and no more than forty or fifty meters wide from north to south, the devils concentrated all the light and heavy weapons that could be gathered, and organized seven attacks before dawn, the least one was the scale of more than 200 people, and the last one was also the largest one, which was a group charge of more than 600 people!

The old blind man had already sent the last reserve unit to the top, but soon it was reported on the terrace that a platoon of reserves had gone up, and most of it had been lost in just one wave of fighting!

The people of the three battalions were all thrown on this platform, and the old blind man now had his own three guards left around him, and then there were the cooking squads, the communication squad, and these people in the battalion headquarters, and there were less than twenty people in the battalion headquarters, and the old blind man organized these people, and there was no need to say anything, everyone understood that it was time to go up to the top of themselves, and those with weapons would leave with guns, and those without weapons would look for them on the spot, and those who didn't have them would grab a few grenades, anyway, there were no guns of the master on the platform.

After Yang Bangzi commanded the artillery bombardment on the high ground on the west side, he let the artillery company withdraw, and he saw the scene of the devil in the valley mobilizing his troops to prepare for a counterattack and the cavalry gathering together to kill the horse, and he also understood that this devil was indeed going to fight hard, this war horse was like his mother-in-law to the cavalry, who didn't kill his wife well!

Therefore, he is still mentally prepared for the devil's upcoming counterattack on Yang Bangzi, that is, he and the old blind man reminded that don't put too many people on the platform, it is enough to deploy about a platoon of troops at a time, and the reserves are all placed on the slope behind the platform, and they can support it at any time.

But the battle was so cruel, he still didn't expect it, the devil's group charge Yang Stick has experienced a few times, and that time was not so shocking, the little devils are indeed crazy! The commonly used tactics of 200-meter fire blockade and 100-meter assault were completely abandoned, and several rows were formed from the slope under the platform, and hundreds of people rushed up like this with rifles with bayonets on them! (To be continued......)