64. Cavalry charge
In the distance, the enemy regrouped. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info looked at their tight formation, and an attack was imminent.
As the saying goes, there are 10,000 people, and there is no shore!
Although there are not so many cavalry of the Mongolian princes, there is a large area of black pressure, even a veteran like Yu Chenggang feels frightened.
"Strengthen the first platoon of the machine gun company to the second company, and look at the enemy's posture, it is about to break through from their position."
On the periphery of the first group's position, there are also three serpentine barbed wire, separated from each other by about 20 meters, which have been rigidly fixed with wooden stakes. The few openings deliberately set aside are exactly where the machine-gun fire crosses. But these iron hoops can really stop the wolf-like cavalry?
Yu Chenggang shook his head unconfidently.
"Let's get ready."
The Red Army's field regulations stipulated that in the event of fighting at the station, all units must obey the orders of their commanders, except for those performing special tasks. Therefore, the infantry battalion was temporarily under the command of the first regiment, but it is a pity that the artillery battalion did not follow, otherwise the results of the bombardment of the enemy's positions now would not be small.
"Prepare the mortar battery for battle, and as soon as the cavalry is in range, bombard it with all its might."
The support artillery of the regiment was four 82 mortars, and their range was 2.8 thousand meters, and now the enemy's camp was far beyond the range.
When Cheng Gang was assigned the task, the regimental chief of staff whispered:
"Commander, the enemy is attacking!"
In the telescope, seven or eight thousand war horses are slowly moving, they are like the waves of death, slowly pressing towards themselves. The air seemed to freeze, and it wasn't until there was a stinging pain in my lungs that I realized I had forgotten to breathe.
"Four thousand five hundred meters!"
The artillery observer shouted loudly.
"Boom!"
The horses had already begun to trot, and their iron hooves landed on the grass with a muffled thunderous sound. Even from a distance, you can feel the earth trembling beneath you.
"Three thousand two hundred meters!"
"Mortar battery, four guns, aimed at area nine. Five rapid fires, ready, put! ”
"Boom!"
The explosions sent up a dusk of smoke that shrouded the accelerating cavalry in the center, making it impossible to observe how much of a battle had been achieved, and even observers could not tell the distance.
"Seven hundred meters!"
Soon, the figure of a cavalryman rushed out of the gunsmoke, and countless war horses appeared behind him in an instant.
"Six hundred meters!"
"Five hundred meters!"
"Da-da-da-da."
The heavy machine gun was the first to spew out a long tongue of fire, and the war horse running in front immediately stood up, and streams of bloody arrows came out of their bodies one after another.
"Bang!"
After a few seconds, it was knocked to the ground by the warhorse behind it, and was quickly trampled into mud by one hoof.
"Da Da Da!"
The shooter didn't even look at it, he just swung the gun from side to side, and countless people fell with each passing pass. At this moment, the machine gun seems to be a paintbrush in the hands of the Grim Reaper, and the work is the sketch full of death in front of him.
The rest of the cavalry was still pouring in like a tide, and it was impossible for them to stop, otherwise they would be ruthlessly trampled by the iron hooves behind them.
"One hundred meters!"
"Eighty meters!"
"Seventy meters!"
The horse thief, who had led the way, finally rushed in front of the enemy. Now as long as you break through these iron circles, the next thing is merciless slaughter.
"Kill!"
The horse thieves drew their sabers one after another, and then let out a hysterical roar. Under their strong spur, the speed of the war horse has reached the fastest.
The person who rushed to the front had already seen the faces of those southern barbarians. It turned out to be a group of dolls without beards, and looking at their frightened expressions, a hideous smile appeared on his face.
"Drive!"
He pulled the reins fiercely, and the war horse under his crotch jumped over the barbed wire in an instant.
"Boom"
Who knew that the body actually stopped in mid-air, and when I looked back, I realized that it was the horse's legs that were hung by barbs on the iron ring. The thief saw that the momentum was not right, and immediately withdrew his foot from the stirrup. At the moment when the war horse fell to the ground, his body rolled on the ground a few times, and he unloaded all his strength.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
But before he could stand up, he was shot seven or eight times, and the horse thief quickly fell to the ground and did not move.
After a few moments, a "wall" had already appeared behind him. Countless war horses were hung by barbed wire and could not move at all. And the people who followed behind were too late to avoid it, so they had to close their eyes and bump into it!
"Brush lala"
The continuous impact made the wooden stakes holding the barbed wire unable to withstand the tremendous force, and were pulled out one by one. Now the whole barbed wire fence has been pulled for a long time, but it has not been broken.
"Drive!"
The cavalry behind continued to charge upward, and the horses stepped on dead or undead bodies and crossed the blockade. But what appeared in front of him was actually the second barbed wire! The horse has lost speed, and it is impossible to jump again.
"Drive!"
The horse team instantly divided into two teams, left and right, trying to find a gap in the demonic tentacles.
"Da-da-da-da."
The enemy cavalry that was striking horizontally became the best target, and there was no need to even aim at such a distance, as long as the trigger was pulled and the muzzle of the gun was swung to the left and right.
"Drive, drive, wow, wow!"
The cavalry let out all sorts of shouts, trying to get the horses up again. It's just that a strong wind appeared on his side in an instant, and before he could figure out what it was, he found that his body was broken.
"Ahh
"Yikes!"
With a scream, the cavalry kept falling off their horses. Some of them had their hands broken, some of their bodies were cut in two, and some of their heads were directly shot.
A thick layer of corpses quickly poured on the ground, and the blood sprayed made the air extremely viscous.
"Quick, there's a gap over there, quick!"
After countless deaths, a hole more than two feet wide finally appeared in the stretch of barbed wire, and countless cavalry swarmed over in an instant.
As long as you rush inside, you must break those southern barbarians into pieces!
"Da Da Da!"
The damn heavy machine guns began to strafe again, and the dense formation was pierced by bullets in an instant, and the people in front were knocked to the ground, and the people behind were still frantically crowding over, and soon there was a high wall of corpses here.
"Woooooo
The sound of the bull's horn seems to come from hell. What is surprising is that it is actually a retreat.
"Withdraw, withdraw!"
The horse thieves roared loudly.
The "corpse wall" in front of him was already six or seven feet high, and the war horse couldn't cross it at all without accelerating. The weapons of these southern barbarians are too good, war horses without speed, they are the best targets in front of their machine guns.
Looking at the cavalry that retreated like a tide, Yu Chenggang said coldly:
"Let the infantry battalion prepare to attack!"
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Only after checking the information today did we find that before 1927, there were 60mm mortars in China, and the Shanghai Arsenal and the Shandong Arsenal produced them.
This Baidu encyclopedia is also scribbled, what 60mm mortars only appeared in 31 years, for this reason I also found the 1928 "Shanghai Arsenal Ten Months Factory Affairs Report", which is also recorded.
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