The Japanese wing commander originally wanted to urgently order Nara Shaosa, who was two or three miles away from him, not to withdraw all of the attack, but only to divide a part of his troops to return to help; But when it was too late, the soldiers of the opposite branch swept over like mad tigers, and they dumbled the machine guns that were buried under the cars, and killed them from the left and right sides of several cars that were stacked in a square. Kosuke Otsuka was so frightened that he could no longer restrain the troops attacking Kawaguchi, and ordered Lieutenant Mizuno to command the two machine guns mounted on the ground to open fire.

Xia Lianshan, the commander of the cavalry company of the Eighth Route Army, also did not have the energy to watch the movements of Hekou Village, and several of his brave subordinates had just rushed forward to the position of the truck and used * to solve the Japanese machine-gun fire point, and the rest jumped up, rushed through the truck barrier, and chased the fleeing Japanese commanders.

At this time, Xia Lianshan no longer simply wanted to encircle Wei to save Zhao, but was bent on taking the command center of the Japanese army tonight. The forty or so soldiers of the cavalry company also ran fast on the ground, shooting bullets as they ran. It was not until the Japanese suddenly fired their machine guns again that their pursuit momentum was stopped. Rao, this strange army has also crushed the headquarters located here and an artillery position consisting of two Type 92 infantry guns.

In the village of Kawaguchi, the frightened Nara Shaosa used a walkie-talkie to desperately contact his wing commander, and at the same time led the people to withdraw from the village like a tide, and hurriedly turned back to kill his own flank. He thought: Could it be that a large number of reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army have arrived? In the past, Nara Shaoza had heard from the wing commander that there was suspected that a main brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army was cruising nearby, but it never appeared since.

From the telescope, Nara Shaosa could see that a force that was obviously the strength of the Chinese army captured the truck where the wing commander was sitting tonight, and the wing commander Dazuo himself should have retreated to the area where the Mongolian army had launched the offensive and was organizing resistance on the spot. Nara ordered a full-speed assault to be made sure to reach the battlefield before the Shina soldiers succeeded.

Several soldiers of the cavalry company of the second battalion of the forest division who rushed to the front were swept away by the rain of machine guns and bullets of the Japanese army, and fell heavily on the frozen ground. Seeing this, the commanders and fighters behind, including Xia Lianshan, hurriedly lay down, lay on the ground and fired back with a pony pistol, and someone threw it forward*, but it was too far away to work.

"Company commander, the little devil has been reinforced!"

In the middle of the shooting, the soldiers of the cavalry company suddenly spotted the Japanese puppet army withdrawing from the direction of Kawaguchi Village, and swept towards it like a tide. It was only at this time that Xia Lianshan fully observed the situation on the battlefield, and he was pleased to realize that Xiao Junping's plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao had been completed, and this surprise attack launched by himself with a small force of dozens of men and horses finally attracted the main force of the Japanese puppet army - the deputy battalion commander and Li Tianlin should be able to retreat!

"What should the company commander do? We're almost surrounded! ”

The soldiers of the cavalry company also noticed the change in the target of the Japanese puppet army's attack, and now, it was no longer possible to annihilate the people of the Japanese command on the opposite side in one fell swoop, on the contrary, it was time for them to consider retreating.

However, the two Japanese Type 96 machine guns, which were less than 100 feet apart on the opposite side, were mounted on the ground and fired wildly, almost completely suppressing the movements of the cavalry company. Xia Lianshan, who was lying on the ground, decisively turned his head and shouted: Climb back, be fast!

The soldiers were a little puzzled at first, Xia Lianshan immediately commanded a few people around him to crawl back, and the people who were pushed behind immediately understood, dozens of people formed a formation, and began to quickly climb backwards in the direction of their dismount. The Japanese machine-gun bullets rained over their heads.

The two infantry squadrons under the command of Nara Shaoza were getting closer and closer, and the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army in the southeast was also riding towards here. Xia Lianshan loudly urged his subordinates to retreat quickly, they retreated to the position of the Japanese trucks, and under the cover of the truck body, the men of the cavalry company got up from the ground one after another and ran towards the war horses not far away; After Xia Lianshan ran away from the truck, he didn't forget to throw one* at each of the two of them, but unfortunately they didn't blow up the gasoline tank.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers who had come from Hekou Village had already discovered the horses of the cavalry company of the Eighth Route Army at the forefront, and also saw the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army rushing into the horses, finding their respective mounts and turning over their horses. The bullets from the Japanese Type 38 rifle immediately chased after them, hitting several famous horses in an instant. Xia Lianshan shouted wildly: Retreat! Fall back! He turned Matoule to the north where Fengdian was located, and urged the war horse.

The cavalry company has no other direction to choose from at the moment - their east is the crowd of Japanese infantry swarming, the south is the cavalry formation of the puppet Mongolian army, although there is no enemy army in the west for the time being, but that direction is the Tongpu railway and highway, as well as Wencheng, all of which are heavily garrisoned by the Japanese army, and the terrain is flat, and the cavalry's oversized target after dawn can not find any place to hide. Xia Lianshan thought that there was only the direction of Fengdian, so he could temporarily retreat to the north foot of Guanmen Mountain, and then detour from the north foot to see if he could find other mountain passes to enter Guanmen Mountain.

Xia Lianshan still took the lead, leading the men and horses of the cavalry company to urge the team and start galloping. At this moment, on their right side, the bullets were coming straight up like flying locusts, and from time to time people were shot and fell violently. Xia Lianshan turned around on the horseback and shouted, urging the cavalry to follow, but at this moment, a bullet flying from the right side shot into Xia Lianshan's shoulder with a pop, and the cavalry company commander only felt a sharp pain, and then the whole half of his body felt numb, and he almost jolted off the horse, he hurriedly put his head on the side of the horse's head, wrapped his uninjured left arm around the horse's neck, and let it gallop.

In the end, 26 cavalrymen rushed out of the Japanese interception fire and ran away in the direction of Fengdian County.

Xia Lianshan was running wildly on the back of his horse, while thinking urgently, after they ran six or seven miles, he gradually slowed down the speed of the horses, and finally stopped, and more than twenty horsemen and horses stood quietly on the wasteland, listening to the movement behind.

But nothing happened.

It seems that the Japanese puppet army did not bother to chase after this cavalry of the second battalion of the Lin Division, perhaps, they turned around again and began to attack Hekou Village again. I hope that the deputy battalion commander and Li Tianlin have already taken this opportunity to withdraw into the mountain pass - it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the two Type 92 heavy machine guns hidden in the strong fortifications will make the attackers taste the bitterness!

Xia Lianshan endured the pain and began to count the number of survivors at the moment, and when the count was completed, his heart began to ache more intensely than the shoulder injury: Twenty-six! The entire cavalry company lost two-thirds of its own, and the cavalry company commander wanted to cry without tears.

"Company commander, where are we going?"

One of the horsemen asked, his voice muttering in the cold wind, with a faint cry. Xia Lianshan glanced at him and remembered his name: this is a warrior who has just turned twenty years old. But the company commander didn't answer for a while, because he was still hesitating, since the enemy didn't come to chase after him, should he go back again? In case there is still fierce fighting in the estuary village, I can help myself.

But the gradually brightening sky finally dispelled this idea for Xia Lianshan: without the cover of night, the cavalry in the wilderness would become the target of the Japanese army at any time. Go around to the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain and try to find the entrance to the mountain. In addition, Xia Lianshan suddenly thought of it, there is Fengdian County in that direction, and there is a family of my sister Xia Lihe who has not heard from her in the city! Although he knew that the county seat was occupied by the Japanese army and it was difficult to find an opportunity to enter the city, his heart still warmed up.

They rested for a while and set off towards the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain.

Xia Lianshan sent three cavalrymen forward, and he followed far behind with other men and horses. After all, this is the road to Fengdian, which is an enemy-occupied area, and it is not to be ventured.

But they didn't encounter the enemy troops sent out by Fengdian, but they had a meeting with the special service company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army!

The cavalrymen were on horseback, and their field of vision was much higher than that of the walkers, and the two spearmen of the 391st Regiment Special Service Company had already entered their field of vision far away, but the cavalrymen did not have binoculars and could not see the clothes of the two men clearly; On the contrary, it was the two spearheads of the special service company who saw the oncoming horsemen, wearing uniform uniforms. The two spies immediately lay down behind a large tuft of withered yellow weeds in the wasteland, and one of them took out his shell gun, waited for the other three horses to get closer, and raised his hand to fire a warning shot at the dawn sky.

The three people of the cavalry company of the second battalion of the forest division were startled by the sound of the gunshot, and immediately thought that there were Japanese puppet troops cruising ahead. Xia Lianshan, who was behind, with more than 20 people, quickly rushed up with his horse, and after asking about the situation, he immediately ordered battle preparations.

Xia Lianshan had no dealings with the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, and it was not clear that the regiment had infiltrated the Great Elm Mountain after being expelled by the Japanese army from Fengdian; It is even more unclear that Deputy Battalion Commander Wu Zijian had just established friendly ties with the 391st Regiment. So at this time, in his mind, he was figuring out the identity of the gunner, and there was no concept of the national army and the central army at all: either Japanese devils or traitors!

"Company commander, there are not many of them, we can rush over!" The platoon leader of the surviving cavalry company whispered to Xia Lianshan's side. Xia Lianshan hesitated for a moment, did not adopt, but sent six warriors on foot to tentatively outflank him from both wings.

Click-ta-ta!

On the opponent's temporary position, a burst of gunfire suddenly rang out. The cavalry company soldiers who were lying on the ground were forced back, and they returned fire with pony guns.

But the burst of gunfire suddenly stunned Xia Lianshan: What a familiar gunshot! Isn't that a flower machine!?

The so-called flower mechanism of the cavalry company commander is exactly the affectionate name of the commanders and fighters of the Red Army for the German Bergman*, and in the past in the 5th company of the second battalion, there were at least six or seven such flower organs!

Xia Lianshan felt that something was wrong, in his impression, neither the Japanese army nor the puppet army were equipped with this kind of *. Who's coming from the other side?!