Chapter 321: Salt Pond Bloodshed (2)

This is an ancient castle built by the soldiers of the border who don't know what age, after the erosion and carving of the wind and sand of the years, only the wall of the wall is as high as Zhangyu, and the lookout holes and arrow buttresses on the wall are still mostly intact.

Perhaps to defend against the raids of the cavalry from the Mongolian plateau, Tuweizi occupies the only high ground in this area, and there are specially built anti-cavalry facilities outside the wall.

After the joint exploration team withdrew into the earthen enclosure, the expedition team members were placed in a relatively safe place, and more than 300 soldiers went up to the wall, relying on arrow stacks and lookout holes, and waited for the battle.

The horse bandit cavalry rushed to the wall, found that it could not be crossed, and was so anxious that they turned the horses around, only to the east of Tuweizi, there was an entrance, and under the shouting of a bandit leader, the horse bandits swarmed in the direction of the walled gate.

Suddenly, the bullets shot on the wall, more than 300 soldiers, scattered to the four walls, can not form a dense firepower at all, although the bullets shot are very sparse, the accuracy is very high, it is a point shot in the accurate shooting, after each gunshot, there is a horse bandit turned over and fell off the horse, planted to the ground.

After a burst of guns, the horse bandits who came to their senses, knowing that the terrain was unfavorable to the cavalry, beat their horses out of the range of fire, and all concentrated at the gate of the stockade, wanting to take advantage of the speed advantage of the cavalry to attack Tuweizi in one fell swoop.

Under the command of a bandit leader, about 300 horse bandits, shouting wildly to beat the horses like flying, the sabers in their hands were raised, and a tyrannical torrent launched an attack towards the gate of Tuweizi, and the yellow dust raised by the horses' hooves was rolling, and the momentum was violent.

The cavalry's charge speed was amazing, a distance of several hundred meters, and it rushed in the blink of an eye, and suddenly, at the gate of Tuweizi, a dense rain of bullets was shot, and the fire was fierce and concentrated, which was different from the sparse shooting on the wall.

The horse bandits who rushed to the front were swept by an iron broom, and they fell to the ground with men and horses.

The two detachment commanders had very rich combat experience, and they saw that this gate was the only weak point, and that time was pressing, and there was no time to set up barricades, so they transferred all the only eight light machine guns to the gate of the wall, and together with the shell guns, they formed the only fire strike point, and as long as they could hold the gate of the wall, they could stalemate with the horse bandits, and then ask the division commander for reinforcements.

The tactics they adopted were undoubtedly very correct, the horse bandits in the first shock wave were immediately disrupted by the rhythm of the charge, and the horse bandits behind saw that things were not good, so they reined in their horses, turned their horses, and ran back.

The horse bandits in front were not so easy, they could no longer contain the momentum of the charge, they could only brave the rain of bullets, continue to charge, more than a hundred horse bandits, corpses in the wilderness, only more than ten horsemen rushed into the earthen fence, and then, the gate of the village was flooded by shrapnel from the grenade explosion.

The horse bandits who rushed in, without follow-up troops, became lone soldiers, these horse bandits showed their fierce nature, shouted wildly and brandished their sabers, and rushed towards the unarmed Professor Ouyang.

The soldiers of the special operations detachment jumped down from the wall, knocked the horse bandits under the horses, rolled into a ball on the ground, and fought each other in short combat, these horse bandits had no advantage at all, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten corpses of horse bandits were lying on the yellow sand in different shapes, and the war horses that had lost their owners stood in place in a daze.

The smoke of the grenade explosion dissipated, and the corpses and dead horses at the door of Tuweizi were exposed to the afternoon sun filled with yellow sand, and the strong northwest wind of the Loess Plateau could not blow the strong smell of blood.

The horse bandits of the first shock wave, after losing one-third of their troops, hurriedly retreated, they did not expect that these scattered teams in civilian clothes would have such strong firepower, and they suffered a big loss if they were careless.

The horse bandits adjusted their tactics, used light and heavy machine guns to suppress firepower, and organized several charges in a row, all of which were repulsed, leaving hundreds of corpses of horse bandits on the salt-alkali flats.

Several attacks by horse bandits were repulsed, and the fighters of the special operations detachment also suffered heavy casualties, with more than 30 casualties and more than 70 wounded, and the unit lost almost one-third of its combat effectiveness.

The entrance of Tuweizi was soaked with blood, which shows how fierce the battle for the gate of Tuweizi just now was, mainly because of the heavy machine guns of the horse bandits, which caused the greatest damage to the soldiers.

Later, the horse bandits organized several small-scale attacks from all sides, and now the horse bandits could not take advantage, and long-distance accurate shooting was the specialty of the fighters of the special operations detachment; as soon as the horse bandits showed their heads, they were sure to eat a flying bullet, and their heads bloomed at that time.

The two sides have formed a stalemate for the time being, but the situation is extremely unfavorable to the joint exploration team, they are holding on to a Jedi, and if there are no reinforcements, when their bullets run out, they can only be slaughtered by horse bandits.

The bandits, who were no longer attacking, concentrated all their light and heavy machine guns, aimed at a wall, and opened heavy fire, and the dense bullets, like high-pressure water washing the sand, peeled off the wall layer by layer.

Soon a big gap was made, the horse bandits divided into two directions, launched a ferocious attack, the soldiers of the special operations detachment, under tremendous pressure, the battle entered a white-hot state, several times, the horse bandits had already attacked Tuweizi, but were beaten out by the soldiers who were more fierce than them.

After the fierce battle, both sides were exhausted, the horse bandits lost four or five hundred men, and the soldiers of the special operations detachment also suffered a total of more than 200 casualties, of which 123 were killed in battle, and two-thirds of the troops were killed or wounded.

The two special operations squad leaders witnessed the heroic sacrifice of their own soldiers, and their hearts were numb with pain, these soldiers were all carefully selected and selected from a hundred miles of good soldiers, and they could play a greater role on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, but they died in the unknown salt-alkali flats of the Loess Plateau.

They witnessed a soldier who had been slashed with more than a dozen stabs on his body, and before he fell, he pulled a grenade on his body and died along with six or seven horse bandits.

What a good soldier, just like this, the person is gone, only remember his name, the special operations detachment, since its formation, when has it suffered such a big loss, in the northeast, in the environment of hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army soldiers, the special operations detachment has never suffered such a large casualty.

The two detachment commanders, their hearts were torn apart, and the soldiers followed the division commander and the detachment commander from the distant white mountains and black waters to the land of North China, and did not sacrifice in the hands of the Japanese, but they were robbed of their young lives by these horse bandits who had lost their conscience, and when they saw the detachment commander, how to explain to him.

The telegram asking for help has been sent, and the division commander has sent troops to rush here, and it will take a certain amount of time, so he can only grit his teeth and wait hard, and before the reinforcements arrive, he will never let the horse bandits step into the earth weizi half a step, even if all the special operations detachments are killed, they must support until the moment when the reinforcements arrive.

Strictly speaking, the horse bandits who surrounded the joint exploration team were not professional horse bandits in the pure sense, and the leader was called Ma Chaozong, who was the cousin of Ma Hongkui, a warlord in Ningxia, and a brigade commander among the five horses in the northwest.

The troops he led, whose full name was the Ningdong Security Brigade, were stationed on the front line of the Great Wall outside Ningxia, in the vicinity of Andingbao and Liuyangbao, guarding the east gate of Ningxia for his uncle.

Because the emperor is far away, Ma Hongkui rarely cares about coming here, and Ma Chaozong has become the emperor of the soil in this area, taking off his military uniform from time to time, playing a role such as a horse bandit, robbing houses, attacking passing merchants, and secretly making black money.

Then, it turned into a regular army of the Ningdong Security Brigade, under the banner of suppressing bandits, sending bandits everywhere to donate, reaping benefits inside and out, and exterminating themselves, isn't that a big joke?

After coming and going, the business travel in this area of Yanchi was gradually cut off, and everyone would rather take other routes than pass through here, Ma Chaozong cut off the financial route, and he had not slaughtered a fat sheep for a long time, and his anxious eyes were on fire.

The 500 or so people of the joint exploration team, when they entered the Yanchi area, they were targeted by Ma Chaozong's spies, judging from the clothing of these people, they knew that they were from the city, and they were much better than the poor bones in the countryside.

Especially the dozen or so young and beautiful girls, with white and tender faces, with such a foreign smell all over their bodies, they are much more pleasing than the local country girls, and several secret agents have followed the joint exploration team for a few days and figured out their rules of action.

Fly to report Ma Chaozong, Ma Chaozong was overjoyed when he heard it, he hadn't opened foreign meat for a long time, his hands were itching, five hundred people, each person was five hundred oceans, how much was that?

In front of Ma Chaozong's eyes, the ocean of white flowers was jumping, and he immediately ordered a strong regiment of more than 1,800 horses, and under the leadership of the secret agent, he killed the wild camp of the exploration team overnight.

When the Red Army marched west the year before last, he participated in the five horses in the northwest, gathered all his strength, and besieged the main force of the Red Army in the area of Gaotai and Xichang Yingzi.

After breaking up the Red Army's Western Route Army, Ma Chaozong led his troops to search for the lost Red Army soldiers along the way, and he captured a lot of them, including many female Red Army soldiers, and the end was very tragic.

In addition to being occupied by Ma Jiajun officers at all levels, some were sold to other places, and some were rewarded to Ma Jiajun soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the Red Army.

If Ouyang taught them and returned to Dingbian according to the original plan, Ma Chaozong would be in vain, even if he had the courage, he would not dare to attack Dingbian County.

According to Ma Chaozong's estimate, this group of unarmed city people, when they came to his territory, it was a great gift from Allah to himself, but it was disrespectful, as soon as the gun rang out, he waited to tie people up, and he specially instructed his subordinates to bring more hemp rope.

How do you know, as soon as the war started, it was like this, and more than 500 brothers were damaged, and not even a single broken enclosure was knocked down, and it encountered a hard ballast?

He scolded a few spies, but he didn't see that these people were armed guards? If the other party comes to reinforcements, more than 1,000 people and horses, I am afraid that there are not many people who can run back, this place is not too far from the communist bandits, and they march on horseback, and they will arrive in half a day.

Ma Chaozong ordered all the people to attack, this time, be sure to take Tuweizi, when Tang Qiu arrived from them, it was the most fierce attack of the horse bandits, and the most critical moment of the Tuweizi shape.

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