The speed of the enemy cavalry seemed to be very fast, and Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th company, ordered the whole platoon to retreat quickly, and at the same time all the guns were loaded, and once the opponent appeared within the firing range, they opened fire. The platoon he led was out to observe, and the terrain under his feet at the moment was not suitable for blocking operations, so the only way to do this was to fight and retreat and return to the preset blocking position as soon as possible.

"Company commander, I heard that the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army can't help fighting, is it really them who came from the front?"

A young soldier in the platoon asked Wei Xin beside him excitedly as he ran.

"Don't be underestimated! After all, we haven't even fought against their cavalry, even if they can't help fighting, but in such an open area, it must be that the cavalry charge is more advantageous! ”

Wei Xin, who replied, actually regretted it a little: he had known that the enemy army would send cavalry to charge in the first formation, and the momentum was so fierce, he should not have taken this platoon forward to such a distance from the preset position!

"Company commander, look, the enemy is showing up!"

Following the direction of a warrior's shout, everyone could see the black-pressed cavalry group in the distance, and in the moonlight that disappeared at midnight, the cavalry group was like a big bird flying against the wasteland.

The commander of the 7th company quickly estimated the distance between them, and blurted out a plan for opening fire to cover the evacuation that he had already thought of during the run just now. He arranged the three squads of the whole platoon into three echelons, the first squad immediately lay down on the spot, the second shift and the third squad continued to run backwards, and after running out of ten zhang, the second shift lay down on the spot, and after ten zhang, the third shift lay down on the spot.

Wei Xin stayed at the forefront of the squad to personally command. Looking at the group of cavalry that was getting closer and closer, he told his warriors to aim at the horses, which were large and easy to shoot, and once the horses were shot, they would overturn the cavalry on the horses.

Bang!

The commander of the 7th company was half-kneeling on the ground, and the pony gun in his hand was the first to fire, and a horse galloping in the front row neighed, rolled and fell to the ground, and then took down two nearby war horses in succession.

The sound of gunfire is an order, a squad of more than a dozen rifles fired in an instant, in the face of the densely running, defenseless cavalry group, these dozen rifles are very lethal, rushing to the front of the cavalry fell in a short time, the cavalry behind hurriedly reined in the footsteps, the whole cavalry group in chaos.

Wei Xin's side did not hesitate, and ordered the first class to retreat, and soon, they passed by the second and third classes quietly, and lay down again more than ten zhang away behind the third class. And Wei Xin had already stayed in the formation of the second class at this time.

It was the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army led by Du Dongqiang himself.

Before the departure of Fengdian County, the wing commander Otsuka Dazuo only explained two points to Du Dongqiang: first, the Zhina Army was attacking near Lingshi County on the Tongpu Railway Line, and the brigade headquarters judged that it might be the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, and ordered the Fengdian garrison to send troops to attack its rear road; Second, the entire cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army set out as the first to take the route of the western foot of Guanmen Mountain, and along the way to guard against the movement of the Eighth Route Army's garrison.

As for how to guard against the garrison of the Eighth Route Army at the foot of Guanmen Mountain, Dazuo did not bother to count it carefully; Dazuo's temper was very short tonight, and Du Dongqiang had no way of knowing that it was because he had just been reprimanded by the brigade commander Major General by phone. Dazuo himself will personally lead a squadron of infantry of the Imperial Army, and follow the cavalry in a chariot, presumably he has specific tricks to deal with the camp of the Eighth Route Army.

However, to the surprise of the commander of the cavalry of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army, his wing commander Dazuo not only did not have any specific tricks to deal with the camp of the Eighth Route Army, but also did not even consider the possibility of the Eighth Route Army carrying out an interception halfway. In Kosuke Otsuka's view, the so-called base area of the Eighth Route Army at the foot of Guanmen Mountain has not yet recovered after the last devastating blow; Moreover, he was far from expecting that the battle that was taking place on the Tongpu Railway at this moment would be a joint action of the Central Army and the Eighth Route Army.

After the initial panic, the front team of the cavalry of the Mongolian army gradually restored order, and the commander of the first cavalry battalion held a telescope to observe the direction of the guns in front of him, and vaguely saw that some people were fleeing - that was obviously the shooter just now - the light was too dark to see the other party's clothes, it seemed that their numbers were not large, and judging from the sound of gunfire, it was undoubtedly a military rifle.

Du Dongqiang, who got the above report in the rear team, spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm on his horse, and said with a curse: This area is a horse and a flat river, who dares to intercept the cavalry after eating a leopard? Give me chase!

The regiment commander spoke, and the commander of the first cavalry battalion had no choice but to order to move forward again, but he couldn't help muttering in his heart: A horse Pingchuan is indeed true, the ambushers are not covered, and the cavalry is not also exposed to the guns of others?! However, the military order could not be violated, and the cavalry quickly urged the formation forward, but changed the appearance of galloping horses just now to a cautious search posture.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Another burst of cold guns fired, the shooters were still from the lying ground, still military rifles, and the cavalry of the Mongolian army was knocked down several more in the blink of an eye. But this time they were on guard, and the cavalrymen of the front team immediately began to return fire with their rifles in their hands on their horses.

Of course, it was the second squad commanded by Wei Xin who fired this cold shot, and they were about thirty zhang away from the cavalry front of the puppet Mongolian army at that time; After firing the platoon gun, the commander of the 7th company did the same, and ordered the second squad to get up and run backwards, until the third squad and the first squad were lying on their stomachs to set up an ambush again; In this way, the third class became the forefront, and Wei Xin continued to stay in the third class to command.

After the start of the third shift, a complete wave of retreat cover was declared, and a new wave began again. In this way, Wei Xin led the three squads to retreat to the preset position in this alternate cover.

When the contest between blocking and pursuing was halfway through, the cavalry front team of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army finally realized the truth: the number of blockers was actually Liaoliao, and the firepower was almost the same rifle! The commander of the 1st Cavalry Battalion, who had a false alarm, was annoyed and angry, and he also became emboldened, and he ordered the center to continue to advance steadily, and at the same time sent two cavalry platoons, one left and one right, to go around and outflank the bold ambushers.

After discovering this intention of the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, the company commander of the Eighth Route Army also hurriedly began to change the formation, changing from echelon retreat to arranging the finished characters at the mercy of three squads, respectively blocking the cavalry that attacked from the left, middle and right directions, still fighting and retreating; However, the pace of its retreat has slowed down as a result. The cavalry on the opposite side became more and more rampant, and most of them had already seen that there were only a few dozen men fighting with rifles in the wasteland, and they were determined to gather and annihilate them in one fell swoop, relying on the advantage of their own hundreds of horsemen.

"They're eight-way! Hit me hard!! Don't let any of them go!! ”

Jumping out and shouting was the regiment commander Du Dongqiang, who was originally sitting in the rear team, he saw that the situation was favorable to his side, and just now he also drove his horse to the front team, so he clearly saw the military uniform worn by the pursued person from the telescope, and recognized the identity of the opponent's Eighth Route Army - his own cavalry regiment fought with the local Eighth Route several times, and suffered a lot of losses.

The standard armament of the cavalry of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army was a Japanese-made Type 38 cavalry lance, and each cavalry battalion was reinforced with two Taisho Type 11 light machine guns. At this time, although their light machine guns had not yet come in handy, the firepower of hundreds of cavalry guns had formed an increasingly dense rain of bullets, which was poured on the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side.

Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th Company of the Eighth Route Army, felt frightened, and now he also confirmed from the other party's clothing that the person who came was the cavalry regiment of the puppet Mongolian army. In the past, the comrades-in-arms of the 5th and 6th companies of the 2nd Battalion and the cavalry company had described to him the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, but now he only had a platoon of infantry in hand, the weapons were all rifles, and he lacked favorable terrain for cover, and the situation became very serious in the face of the impact of cavalry more than ten times his superiority.

"There are still three or four miles to go, everyone gritted their teeth and stood up!"

While firing at the enemy cavalry at a fast speed with a pony pistol, Wei Xin yelled to cheer up his subordinates. The pony pistol in his hand is actually exactly the same as the weapon used by the enemy on the opposite side, and the pony pistol is the nickname given to the 38-type cavalry gun by the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army. Relying on the fact that there were quite a dozen soldiers with good marksmanship in the whole platoon, and frequently shot down the puppet Mongolian cavalry rushing in front, forcing the other party to be afraid and not dare to press too far forward, the platoon led by Wei Xin was saved from being crushed and killed by the cavalry at close range.

However, many of the fighters were still swept away by the rain of bullets, or fell to the ground, or staggered and could not keep up with the rapid retreat of their own team. The commander of the 7th company saw painfully that the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army chasing after him was hunting these lone comrades-in-arms, and some even cruelly trampled on horses and stabbed them with sabers. But such a critical battle situation made him powerless to help him, and he could only lead his surviving subordinates to resist desperately, fight and retreat.

Just when Wei Xin himself was almost desperate - he was even ready to take out the soft whip iron lock and short knife he carried with him, and fight hand-to-hand combat with the puppet Mongolian cavalry who were getting closer and closer! - Behind them slammed a force of reinforcements: the deputy commander of the 7th Company arrived panting with a squad of soldiers.

The deputy commander of the 7th Company, who had been directing the main force of the company to ambush in the preset position, had already received information from the people sent back from the front by the company commander, and learned that the enemy's cavalry brigade had appeared, and immediately ordered the whole company to prepare for battle. He thought that Wei Xin would soon return to the position with the platoon that had gone out to reconnoitre, but they were slow to appear; It wasn't until the increasingly intense gunfire sounded faintly in front that the deputy company commander realized that the situation was not good: the company commander and they might have been entangled by the enemy cavalry!

He decisively handed over the command of the position to the instructor of the 7th Company, and he ordered a squad of troops to quickly run in the direction of the gunshots. Although there were not many people in one squad, the deputy company commander wisely brought a Czech light machine gun, which was also the only Czech one in the 7th Company. As it turned out later, it was this Czech style that saved the lives of the company commander and one of the main platoons!

The crisp sound of machine gun fire that suddenly broke out in the night sky couldn't help but surprise and delight Wei Xin, and also made the puppet Mongolian cavalrymen who were hit and not hit by machine gun bullets panic, and they couldn't figure out where the Eighth Route Army got machine guns for a while. Wei Xin looked at his deputy company commander, and only had time to shout: Good come! At this moment, the mind of the commander of the Eighth Route Army was full of the scene of his comrades being chased and killed just now, and he roared with grief in his mouth, and strode forward while holding a gun.

Seeing that he didn't know what was going on, the deputy company commander saw that he had no time to dissuade him, so he had to shout: Protect the company commander, rush!

This small force of dozens of people in the wasteland instantly launched an amazing counter-charge.