"Stop fighting! This line of defense is very important for us and our allies," Qin Zhongxiao waved his hand to his chief of staff with some impatience: "Once the Japanese puppet army in Fengdian breaks through here, it will completely strangle our retreat, and I must personally guard it to rest assured." ”

At this moment, Zhang Hong, the chief of staff, also had a not very good feeling - the enemy's reinforcements in the direction of Fengdian were coming out too quickly, at least for the moment, the heavy artillery of the 391st Regiment had not yet withdrawn to safety, let alone the Eighth Route Army and the company of the 391st Regiment that were far behind in the direction of the railway line.

"Line up in line on the spot and find cover!" Zhang Hong no longer argued with the regimental seat, turned his head and began to arrange the second battalion and six companies to build a defensive line. However, it was only then that he realized that it was too difficult to find cover in this bare wasteland.

Qin Zhongxiao obviously thought of a piece with the chief of staff at this time, he stepped on the thawed ground with his feet wearing leather riding boots, shook his head and said, "Now it's time to understand that the work of the Eighth Route Army is not easy to do, right?" Besieging the city to send reinforcements, our regiment is the attacking side, and there is no need to consider the problem of position; But after the blockade was broken, the Eighth Route Army was the defender, and there were no decent fortifications, how could this battle be fought? ”

Zhang Hong didn't answer this question, but suddenly suggested: "Tuanzao, do you want to consider leaving the second Makqin heavy machine gun here?" ”

Qin Zhongxiao agreed without thinking about it: Indeed, it is difficult to imagine that it is difficult to imagine a blocking attack under such inferior terrain conditions without heavy machine guns. A total of two Maxims were brought out tonight, which had never had a chance to be put into use in the offensive battle, but when it came to the current defensive blocking stage, they had to be taken out one after another, and from this point of view alone, the next battle was not optimistic.

When the two supreme commanders of the 391st Regiment personally led the 2nd Battalion 6 to hurriedly arrange the last line of defense, the main force of the 2nd Battalion in front of them had already re-engaged with the incoming enemy.

The cavalry of the Mongolian Army, which was repulsed by the main force of the second battalion in the encounter just now, did not take long to make a comeback. The cavalry commander Du Dongqiang reported the enemy situation in front to the wing commander Dazuo in the back through the walkie-talkie, and Kosuke Otsuka, who was sitting in the truck and was being harassed by the side of the Eighth Route Army, unceremoniously ordered Du Dongqiang to attack forward with all his might, otherwise military law would be engaged! Otsuka took it for granted that what appeared in front of the cavalry should be another blocking line set up by the Shina Army in advance, but he didn't expect that this was actually the main force of the Central Army that was quickly returning to the division from the Nantongpu railway line.

Du Dongqiang didn't care about the sacredness of the Zhina Army that suddenly appeared in front of him, but the word "engaged in military law" made him shudder, and the scene of a company commander under his command being shot by the Japanese is still vivid.

Thinking of these, the commander of the cavalry of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army was heartbroken: after all, it is a death, rather than letting the Japanese die, it is better to fight with the Chinese army, and maybe win life! He ordered that the two existing cavalry battalions be organized into two phalanxes, front and rear, separated by half a mile from each other; The front line is the first to charge, and if it encounters strong resistance, it immediately turns its horse head to the left and right and retreats, and the rear line immediately charges from the center. And so on, always maintaining the momentum of the assault formed on the front.

This is one of the combat tactics taught to the Mongolian Xinjiang Army by the instructors of the Kwantung Army Cavalry Group of the Japanese as early as Suiyuan.

The main force of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment encountered this continuous impact of the cavalry on the opposite side at this moment. The 2nd Battalion of the Central Army, which had never fought with a large group of cavalry in the plains, was beaten a little dazed for a while, and they did not expect that when the cavalry army, which was about to collapse just now, came back again, the momentum would suddenly become so strong. The cavalry who rushed to the forefront in turn, the bullets fired from the cavalry guns in their hands caused a lot of casualties to the defending central officers and soldiers, and the second battalion commander even had a feeling of seeing a ghost, as if the cavalry on the opposite side was gushing and killing inexhaustibly.

If it were daytime, they would probably see clearly the rotation of the enemy's cavalry after a few rounds, so as to find a flaw and deal with it; However, at this moment, it was late at night, and the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army took turns to charge with the cover of the vast night, and it had a huge bluffing momentum.

On the barely sheltered line of the 2nd Battalion, three Czech light machine guns fired wildly in the direction of the sound of horseshoe concussion, all the barrels of which were already hot. The soldiers who were prostrate or half-crouched in the wilderness were also firing their rifles with all their might. The officers and men could not figure out how many thousands of troops and horses were coming from the opposite side, so they could only open fire and open fire with one thought.

Just as the battle between the two sides was heating up, the adjutant of the regimental headquarters of the 391st Regiment, armed with a Makqin heavy machine gun, arrived panting.

The adjutant and his entourage stumbled over the fierce gunfire, and the few horses and carts dispatched by the Central Army tonight were mainly used to tow and tow the four heavy guns and ammunition. The second battalion commander, who was sweating and anxious from the fight, was so excited that he almost cried when he learned that the regimental seat had finally transferred a Makqin to him - if he continued to fight like this, his two companies might not be able to support it!

"Stand up, hurry up, and give me a hard sweep of these shits!"

However, almost at the same time as the defenders brought in the heavy machine guns, reinforcements also appeared behind the Mongolian army, which were three Type 94 trucks full of Japanese troops, who had just escaped the flank attack of the Eighth Route Army and galloped along the line of cavalry.

The 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade tried its best to still not stop the three trucks rushing to the front.

Wei Xin, the commander of the 7th Company, knew that his comrade-in-arms Wang Shuanglong was leading a platoon of the 6th Company to bite the Japanese army tightly from behind. So, he mobilized his three platoons, two of which were flanking left and right, and the third was directly interspersed with the front of the Japanese truck fleet. In his opinion, this trick of breaking away from the frontal blocking position and using the four-way follow-up attack could not completely block the enemy from the defensive line, but at least it could play a role in slowing down the movement of the Japanese convoy.

However, he was wrong.

After the Japanese soldiers who got out of the car had just repelled the approaching enemy, they immediately assembled and re-boarded the car, and the convoy immediately started. Otsuka ordered machine guns to be mounted on the front and sides of each truck, and if he found someone approaching the convoy, he would kill all of them. As long as the vehicle itself is not damaged, it will rush forward at full speed, and it is strictly forbidden to stop and fight with the Chinese army.

It was precisely because of this background that the platoon in front of Wei Xin's 7th Company was instantly overwhelmed by the roaring truck front team: the cab roof of the first Type 94 truck actually set up two light machine guns, and under the bright illumination of the two headlights at the front of the car, nearly 30 commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army who had just been blocked in front of the convoy were almost all exposed to the field of vision of the Japanese shooters, and the machine guns condescendingly poured out a rain of bullets, mercilessly hitting more than a dozen people. The rest of the warriors instinctively chose to dodge to both sides under the sudden and fierce blows and collisions. The first truck roared past, and the heavy wheels even ran over several fallen soldiers! Immediately afterwards, the second and third vehicles came one after another and broke through one after another.

Wei Xin, who was holding the Czech-style fire on the side of the convoy, was almost desperate when he saw this scene, and the platoon that followed him was also shooting desperately like a mad tiger when he saw this, and he stepped forward to approach the convoy regardless of concealment. Everyone knows in their hearts that once the convoy is allowed to rush at full speed in the case of the failure of the blockade in front, the people on both sides can only sigh with their backs!

But at this critical juncture, an astonishing scene happened, the fourth Japanese truck was waiting to follow the footsteps of the three vehicles in front of him, and a soldier who had just been hit head-on by a machine gun and fell to the ground, exerted his last force on the side of the fourth truck to pull the * in his hand! Boom, boom, boom, the first was an explosion, and the second was * detonated the truck's gasoline tank, and a bright and dazzling fireball suddenly rose in the night sky, and the huge body was also overturned by the violent air wave, and it rolled over to the wasteland. At the same time, the fifth truck, which was closely behind, was caught off guard, and despite the driver's sudden braking, it crashed headlong into the body of the fourth vehicle, and the front cover of the engine immediately caught fire and began to burn.

This sudden change finally stopped the momentum of the Japanese convoy rushing all the way forward. On the fourth overturned truck, only a few survivors of the Japanese army, who had suffered heavy casualties, struggled to climb out; The people in the cab of the fifth car pulled the door and fled, while the Japanese soldiers in the car jumped out of the car in a panic. Affected by this, the entire Japanese convoy had to be forced to stop again. The machine guns in the hands of Wei Xin and another 7th company shooter immediately lost no time in beckoning. The grief-stricken commander of the 7th Company had no way of knowing who his comrade-in-arms was who had just made a desperate sound* and died with the Japanese truck—he must be remembered for his first credit after the battle—and now he just wanted to seize the last fighter plane that his comrades had bought with their lives, and desperately drag the enemy's reinforcements.

He did it. However, he and his comrades-in-arms were only able to attack the convoy behind the fifth vehicle, while the three trucks passing in front had already shaken off the attack and moved in the direction of the cavalry assault of the puppet Mongolian army. Loaded with more than one infantry squad and several light machine guns, the three trucks galloped all the way to the battlefield where the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army and the main force of the second battalion of the Central Army were in full swing, and immediately entered the ranks of the attack.

The balance of the two sides on this battlefield began to tilt.