At this time, the situation on the battlefield is becoming clearer.

The more than 50 cavalry puppet Mongolian troops who rushed into Hekou Village and the village faced annihilation under the internal and external attacks of the cavalry platoon commanded by Xia Lianshan and a platoon reinforced by Li Tianlin; Xia Lianshan's people used the cover of the courtyard walls, houses, and firewood stacks in the village to shoot at close range the puppet Mongolian troops riding on Mongolian horses, and the platoon sent by Li Tianlin was completely trapped in the village and was ruthlessly strangled.

If it weren't for the light machine guns of the Eighth Route Army's position desperately suppressed, the cavalry would have rushed into the village, and at the critical moment, Li Tianlin personally led a platoon, including a Czech-style machine gun, to pounce on the side from the side, disrupting the shock formation of the puppet Mongolian army.

As a result, the confrontation at the forefront became a contest between the platoon commanded by Wu Zijian and the rear team of the puppet Mongolian army two miles away.

The four Taisho 11-type machine guns that Du Dongqiang ordered to shoot on the ground were spread out in a line and fired non-stop, forming a powerful firepower network in the open field; The platoon led by Wu Zijian did not have a machine gun, so he had to lie down on the spot and use a rifle to return fire.

Seeing that under the cover of the crooked machine guns, the puppet Mongolian army attacked the cavalry company in the middle of the village, and more than half of the men and horses fled back, and the pace of Li Tianlin's pursuit was also blocked; When the duck in his mouth was about to fly, where was Wu Zijian willing to eat such a deflated, he immediately transferred the gunner Zhao Yejiao and his mortar team.

The Republic of China Type 20 82 mortar, after disassembly, there are only three parts, the barrel, the bracket and the base, and three people can be transported by manpower; Add in the shell-transporters, and five or six people can form an artillery group. Yesterday at Hongxing Gorge in Guanmen Mountain, Wu Zijian had already set up an artillery group with Zhao Yejiao as the core; I didn't think of it being fried and sold, and it came in handy the next day.

"Xiao Zhao, do you see the machine gun position on the other side?"

Wu Zijian had retreated to Zhao Yejiao's side a few feet away at this moment, where there was a bulging earthen bag, and Zhao Yejiao was ordering the mortar to be placed behind the side of the earthen bag to assemble. Mortars are curved guns, which can not only hang targets behind enemy concealment, but also set up gun emplacements behind their own concealment.

"Deputy battalion commander, I saw it, will I hit the machine gun position?" Zhao Yejiao was multitasking, while personally participating in the assembly of the mortar (the other two people were not familiar with the artillery, so they could only assist), and on the other hand, he aimed his eyes at the machine gun position of the pseudo-Mongolian army that Wu Zijian said: "Do you want to face the cavalry queue of the dog day again and bomb the two guys!?" ”

Wu Zijian was startled, and slapped the cotton hat on the head of the new artillery team leader: "What nonsense!" Don't hit horses! ”

Du Dongqiang, the cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army, once again learned the power of the Eighth Route Army. Different from the time in the north of Jin, this eight-way is well-equipped, not to mention the heavy machine gun positions on the mountain pass, and there are also light machine guns in the village, even the rifles used by the soldiers have a long range, and it seems that there are many 38 big covers used by the imperial army!

Fortunately, his four Taisho 11 styles were also very competitive, and the bullets were swept out in pieces, which finally suppressed the momentum of the Eighth Route Army's counteroffensive. Du Dongqiang looked at the opposite side with a telescope, and after the reinforcement of troops, the total number of people was two or three hundred, and half of the company he sent to attack the head of the village had been intercepted and slaughtered in the village, and the company that attacked the middle of the village dropped twenty or thirty corpses; The original advantage in strength is gone, so it's better to put oil on the soles of your feet as soon as possible.

"Boom!"

A cannonball that suddenly fell from the sky exploded in Du Dongqiang's cavalry queue, and several people and horses were blown away, and the queue, which was barely maintained, suddenly became a mess.

It was the first shell fired by the mortar of the Eighth Route Army position opposite, and as a result, the artillery Zhao Yejiao was immediately reprimanded by the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian:

"You bastard! Told you not to fight horses, not to fight horses! Hit it in machine-gun positions, machine-gun positions! ”

When Zhao Yejiao was in the 14th Army of the Central Army, he was a mortar battalion, and he used the current 82 mortar that imitated the French model; Later, during the Battle of Xinkou, the Japanese army dispatched a mixed brigade mainly composed of chariots, and the units of the national army's positional anti-aircraft artillery (chariot defensive artillery specializing in tanks and armored vehicles) suffered great sacrifices, and Zhao Yejiao was temporarily transferred to a combat anti-aircraft artillery battalion, where he was wounded and left the line of fire.

After a few months of not touching the cannon, Zhao Yejiao also felt rusty at the moment, so that the first shot was not calibrated. Mortars differed from flat-fire guns in that they did not have optical sighting devices and relied entirely on visual observation and estimation: the artilleryman stood behind the barrel of the gun, stretched out one hand forward, raised his thumb to the sky, facing the target ready to strike, and aimed with his eyes wide on the side of the thumb and the other eye closed; After aiming, the thumb is motionless, the eyes that were originally aimed are closed, and the eyes that were closed are opened; As a result, between the target and the thumb, there is a visual distance shift, this distance, in the mind of the artilleryman, has its own meaning, by calculating this distance, combined with the weight of the mortar shell used, the firing range, to adjust the muzzle elevation angle, and then fire.

Experienced artillerymen, with this primitive method of sighting, can hit the target with a very accurate degree of accuracy no less than using a flat-firing gun. Zhao Yejiao had been training in the artillery unit for a long time, and the 14 th Army was also a descendant of Chairman Chiang, so it was well-equipped and had abundant ammunition, and the artillery shells that were fired during weekday training were even more than the artillery shell reserves of some miscellaneous armies. Therefore, after missing the first shot, Zhao Yejiao withstood the pressure of the deputy battalion commander's jumping foot reprimand, re-aimed, and refilled with a bullet, and as a result, this shell really hit the edge of the puppet Mongolian army's machine gun position two miles away.

In Wu Zijian's telescope vision, he clearly saw that the rest of the machine gun shooters were so frightened that they got up from the ground and ran, and two of them even threw their crooked handles in place. The machine-gun positions of the puppet Mongolian army are dumb fired! The opportunity could not be lost, Wu Zijian gave an order, and the troops of the two platoons jumped up and covered the opposite side.

Du Dongqiang knew that the general trend had gone, so he had to give the order to retreat, and the cavalry turned their horses and fled in the direction of the Tongpu Railway. They did not dare to follow the road at the foot of Guanmen Mountain to return to Fengdian, because they were afraid that there would be a large number of Eighth Roads there; The puppet Mongolian army from Suiyuan and northern Jin was extremely unfamiliar with the terrain of this place, but fortunately, the guide was always there, and took them straight to Wencheng, preparing to go to Wencheng first, and then return to Fengdian far away.

Of course, the footboards of the infantry could not outrun the horse's hooves of the cavalry, and from Wu Zijian's charge, the two platoons of the 5th Company pursued the enemy farther and farther, until they saw that there was no hope of catching up, and then they stopped panting.

Almost at the same time, the battle in Hekou Village also subsided, and the puppet Mongolian cavalry that broke into the village, and the last remaining dozen cavalry chose to raise their hands and surrender when they saw that the situation was not good.

The battle of the village of Kawaguchi is over.

cleaned up the battlefield, seized 52 corpses of puppet Mongolian soldiers, and captured 13 others; Forty Mongolian horses were gathered; Three crooked machine guns (Taisho Type 11 light machine guns), 71 pony guns (Type 38 mounted guns), and 65 sabers were seized.

The Mongol horses followed the herd, and many of the horses that had fallen from their masters still ran away with the surviving puppet Mongolian cavalry, which resulted in the Eighth Route Army capturing only forty horses; One of the crooked machine guns was damaged by Zhao Yejiao's*, and the other two were intact, and eight full loads* were also captured from the two shooters who were killed and wounded.

Six men were killed in the 5th Company, including a platoon commander defending the middle of the village; Twenty-nine people were wounded, including deputy company commander Xia Lianshan who was grazed by a bullet in the shoulder.

Soon after the end of the battle, Feng Changzhi, the battalion commander stationed in Xiping, hurried with the 6th Company at the speed of a rapid march after receiving an urgent report. The battalion commander and deputy battalion commander of the second battalion met twice in two days, but the significance of the meeting was very different.

While inspecting the battlefield and listening to Wu Zijian and Xia Lianshan's narration, Feng Changzhi's brows tightened. What he thought about at the moment was, what should I do next? Can the 5th Company continue to be stationed in Hekou Village? This military uniform resembles the puppet Mongolian cavalry of the Kwantung Army, why did it suddenly go out from Fengdian to the western foot of Guanmen Mountain? Now they have fled, but will they make a comeback?

"Old Feng, it's really a coincidence," Wu Zijian obviously didn't think about it so much, and said happily: "Since we arrived in Jinzhongnan, we have fought a total of two battles, and all of them are cavalry!" There was a fight with Little Japan in Dawangyu, and when they arrived at Guanmen Mountain, they fought with the traitor puppet army. Now, our cavalry company, from horses to equipment, is almost complete! ”

"Old Wu, before I came, the instructor was very annoyed and asked me to find out, how could the enemy come to the door?" Feng Changzhi said worriedly: "According to the intelligence that Lianshan reconnoitred in Fengdian County before, you are fighting the puppet army cavalry regiment stationed in Fengdian today, so next, will the Japanese army in Fengdian be dispatched?" ”

Wu Zijian was actually secretly thinking about how likely it was that the puppet cavalry that had run away would lead the Japanese army back to take revenge. But when he heard the battalion commander mention Liu Shu's attitude, Wu Zijian didn't care:

"Old Feng, the instructor is used to being cautious; What's actually scary? What about the Japanese troops in Fengdian? Our forest division and our second battalion, are we still doing it face-to-face with Japanese devils?! ”

"You have to tell me the truth," Feng Changzhi ignored the incitement of his old comrade-in-arms, approached his face and asked, "Did you take the initiative to provoke the enemy troops in Fengdian?" This group of puppet cavalry, did they really come to the door by themselves?! ”