The rout of the puppet Mongolian army is really collapse-style. The two machine guns were blown up almost under the noses of the cavalry, and this situation had appeared in the past when they clashed with the Eighth Route Army at the foot of Guanmen Mountain: at that time, it was their regiment commander Du Dongqiang who personally commanded the operation, and the machine guns and positions were blown up by the mortars of the Eighth Route Army. Now, that nightmare has reappeared. At this point, Mr. Du also became more and more convinced that it was the regular army that exchanged fire with him, and in the telescope he had clearly seen the mountain artillery that bombarded his position, and the accurate hit of a few shells added a powerful footnote to his judgment - no civilian armed force can operate the standard military mountain artillery so skillfully!

Du Dongqiang knew that he couldn't restrain his fleeing subordinates at all, so he simply took the lead in turning his horse's head and galloped in the direction of Fengdian City. Just now, when he was talking to the captain of the Otsuka Wing, he was told that he must hold the temporary position and that the reinforcements of the Imperial Army would leave the city immediately. At this time, Du Dongqiang was fleeing for his life, while praying that the imperial army could arrive quickly to support the rout. His prayers finally worked, and as soon as he ran a few miles away, a convoy of trucks with sun flags appeared in view.

It was a squadron of infantry led by Nomura Shaosa, some of them in four trucks, and the other part followed behind the trucks, following from a distance. Since Du Dongqiang saw the front of the truck, he hurriedly turned around and ordered his cavalry to get out of the way and run towards the wasteland on both sides of the road. The captain of the Japanese army, Nomura Shaosa, was sitting in the cab of the first truck at the moment, and found the cavalry of the Mongolian army rushing over from a distance, and he couldn't help but curse: he knew that it should be this group of Mongolian cavalry that could not resist the enemy and was the first to break and flee.

Nomura immediately ordered the driver to stop, and he had to find out what was causing the Mongol cavalry to be so overwhelmed. And Du Dongqiang's horse ran all the way to the front of his car, and before Nomura jumped out of the cab, Du Dongqiang reported in a panic: "Shaozuo, it's not good!" The enemy had mountain artillery and beat us badly. Their artillery was very accurate. Two of my machine guns, one in front of the other, were blown up into the sky! ”

Hearing that the enemy's mountain artillery had opened fire, Nomura was afraid that his precious car would be shelled, so he hurriedly ordered everyone to get out of the car, and then the truck did not turn around, reversed on the spot and drove back to safety. The second of the trucks, with a 92 infantry gun on wheels, was hung in the back, which was immediately removed and pushed to the side of the road. The two mortars belonging to the infantry squadron also quickly moved off the carriages and began to be erected. The four trucks carried only one squadron of the infantry squadron, and the rest of the positions were given to the artillery of the artillery squadron, ammunition boxes, and two 92 heavy machine guns reinforced by the machine gun squadron directly under the brigade.

The puppet Mongols were cavalry, and they ran fast on horseback, leaving their pursuers far away. So until this time, Nomura Shaoza did not see the shadow of the pursuers. But he didn't dare to slack off, after all, the other two teams under his command were running and following the truck, and it would take some time to arrive. He ordered Du Dongqiang and all the cavalry of the Mongolian army to dismount and arrange the first line of defense on both sides of the highway in situ, and behind the defense line of the Mongolian army, Nomura ordered to set up a 92-step gun and two mortars, and formed the second line of defense together with the infantry squad.

On the road, the commander of a battalion of the 391st Regiment commanded three companies, divided into three waves and pursued forward. However, the horses of the puppet Mongolian army ran too fast, and the more they pursued, the farther and farther they became, and even turned into small black spots in their sight. The commander of the first battalion ignored this, he kept in mind the task given to him by the regiment, that is, to rush to the mountain pass at full speed at the western foot of the Great Elm Mountain, even if he could not catch up with the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army before reaching the mountain pass. From time to time, he turned back, instigating his soldiers to move forward, while watching the Krupp mountain gun that was far behind, and the men of the machine gun company were pushing the two wheels of the mountain gun and running desperately. The commander of the first battalion couldn't help but grin: This mountain cannon really works! He commanded his subordinates to attack for a long time, but he did not capture the machine gun position of the traitor cavalry, but when he arrived at the muzzle of the mountain artillery, he immediately lost his grounds!

Unexpectedly, just as he was laughing happily, suddenly a sharp whistle sounded in the air, and immediately after, a cannonball exploded in the pursuing team! The commander of the first battalion was startled, and before he could figure out what was going on, two more shells came at him, one from the left and one from the right, one of which hit the side of the road, and the other still hit his team. The officers and men of the well-trained battalion ran down the road one after another, scattering and lying down; The commander of the first battalion took off his binoculars and looked forward, only to find that on both sides of the highway directly ahead, there were dense defensive fronts; The cannon came from the defensive line. Moreover, this time, the first battalion commander clearly saw in his telescope that in addition to the cavalry wearing the pseudo-Mongolian army uniform just now, there were also Japanese soldiers wearing yellow coats. Obviously, the cannon was fired from the hands of the Japanese soldiers.

"Damn, the Japanese have reinforcements, report to the regiment quickly. Krupp, hurry up and shoot back! The commander of the first battalion yelled angrily. Without him to speak, the commander of the machine gun company who personally commanded the mountain artillery had already ordered to stop and use the binoculars to observe when the first shell of the enemy exploded; As soon as the opponent's first round of shells was finished, he saw the formation: it was the Japanese army's 92 infantry guns, as well as mortars, and the sound should be 97 type.

"Aim, reload!" The commander of the machine gun company decisively gave the order. However, this time he was a step too late, and just now he only cared about following the ass of the first battalion, burying his head in the front and hurrying forward, until he was shelled, and then temporarily stopped the operation, and it was such a fatal slow step that brought a catastrophe to the Krupp mountain artillery.

In the defense line of Nomura Shaosa on the opposite side, the leader of the artillery squad who was waiting in place soon discovered the Krupp Mountain Cannon following the pursuers. He was in charge of a 92 infantry gun of the artillery squad, and the two mortars were not under his command. Therefore, after the 92 rifle had fired the first shell at the pursuing team, he immediately ordered the gunner to switch to Krupp, who was aiming at the behemoth; Through his binoculars, the people around Krupp were also stopping, moving quickly. As a result, the squad leader of the Japanese artillery squad took the lead in firing the artillery, and the first shot hit directly in front of the mountain artillery position, and the shock wave set off by the shell not only blasted away several other artillery of the opposing side, but also blew up the body of the mountain gun and fell diagonally in the middle of the road. The second shot swept over the head of the mountain cannon and smashed into the road behind, blasting the road into a huge crater.

The commander of the first battalion of the 391st Regiment was almost stunned, the Krupp mountain artillery that he had worshiped as a god just now was hit by the enemy's artillery fire in an instant, and the commander of the machine gun company himself was blown up and fell to the side of the road.

The commander of the first battalion, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, knew very well in his heart that once the infantry was suppressed by the enemy's artillery fire in this unobstructed road and wilderness, the next thing would be a merciless bombardment, and it would be useless to lie down and hide no matter how you lay down. At this moment, only by desperately launching a charge, shortening the distance with the enemy, and causing the range of the opponent's artillery fire to fail, can we win life! Thinking of this, he didn't care about the fate of the commander of the Krupp mountain artillery and machine gun company, and the Mauser * in his hand raised and shouted:

"All the battalions, rush me!"

The officers and men of the 1st Battalion, who had also been on the battlefield for a long time, understood this, and immediately jumped up from their lying position and launched a whirlwind charge forward. The commander of the first battalion expected that this was a life-and-death game, and that if he could not quickly approach the enemy position, the casualties would be terrible, so he issued an order that all three companies of more than a dozen Czech light machine guns should concentrate on the front line and strive to rush to the forefront.

At the beginning of the charge, there were still Japanese infantry guns, mortars, and grenadier shells that exploded one after another in the ranks of the first battalion, but the officers and men of the first battalion marched forward bravely, and made full use of the width of the wasteland on both sides of the road ahead, greatly dispersed the formation, and effectively reduced the lethality of the shells. As the enemy defense line approached step by step, the rain of bullets from machine guns and rifles also shot into the enemy formation to kill and damage, which made the puppet Mongolian army in front of the defense panic first, witnessing the black pressure charging team composed of more than 300 people going forward and one after another, their psychological defense line collapsed again, when the first guy finally got up desperately and turned around and fled, the other puppet Mongolian officers and soldiers on the defense line instantly set off a huge wave of escape.

The second line of defense of the Japanese army, which was less than three or five zhang away, was caught off guard by the sudden surging rout tide of the puppet Mongolian army, and the defense line was suddenly messy, and the captain Nomura Shaosa roared angrily, and even pulled out his saber and ordered the deserters to turn back immediately; However, the forward of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army seized this golden opportunity, tried his best to speed up and run, and rushed to within ten zhang in one fell swoop! The Japanese artillery and grenadiers all failed, and the Chinese rained down 7.92 mm bullets (author's note: the rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns of the Central Army of the Nationalist Army were unified into 7.92 mm caliber) caused the blood of the Japanese puppet officers and men to burst out.

Seeing that the two improvised defensive lines were about to be paralyzed, the Japanese captain in desperation issued an order to retreat, and at this moment he had no time to sanction the rout of the Mongolian cavalry, so he turned to concentrate on commanding the only Japanese infantry squad to fight and retreat, covering the artillery equipment and 92 heavy machine guns to retreat to the truck area behind. At the same time, people were urgently sent to urge the other two infantry squads that were arriving on foot. However, at the moment, he and the Chinese army are obviously unbalanced in terms of numbers, and even if those two squads join the battle later, they are still at a disadvantage.

"Call Fengdian and ask Wing Commander Dazuo to send reinforcements immediately!"

Nomura Shaosa hurriedly ordered the signal soldiers with walkie-talkies on their backs - the enemy army in front of them, which was chasing more and more fiercely, was not only well-equipped, but also tactically sophisticated, and the combat power was fierce, and the messy civilian clothes they wore were not enough to hide the essence of this was an elite professional army! It seems that both himself and the wing commander sitting in the county seat at this time have been deceived, so that they only sent a squadron out of the city to meet the Mongolian army because they were too light on the enemy. What was urgently needed now was not to allow the pursuers to approach any further, and he noticed that the soldiers of the Chinese army were already charging and firing, and they were pulling out their bayonets from their waists and inserting them into the muzzles of their rifles. Apparently, their commander is giving the order to carry out a white-knuckle battle! The Japanese Shaozo is not afraid to fight bayonets, but at the moment his subordinates are too few!