readx;? The night was getting deeper and deeper, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the vision was getting more and more blurred, but the hearts of the people were getting tighter and tighter: everyone knew that an ambush would break out at any time - although they had fought many battles and vicious battles, they had never ambushed thousands of cavalry in such a peaceful place. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Relying on infantry alone, against cavalry on the plains, there is almost no chance of victory in the same situation, unless you have plenty of artillery and machine guns: the Central Red Army on this plain will not suffer less from the enemy's cavalry...... Fortunately, they are now at a high ambush point, although the terrain is not particularly high, and this also makes everyone feel a lot more at ease.

In the rain curtain, the sight is polar, the hearing is not good, and the enemy does not know each other. To put it mildly, at this time, as long as the enemy cavalry slowed down and did not make a sound, even if they passed through the valley of Yanzikou, the people of the Red Seventeenth Division would not be able to find out.

However, just as later generations described Lao Chiang's Ministry of Defense and the executors below, a group of geniuses formulated a perfect combat deployment, but a group of fools carried it out. It must be said that the enemy made a most basic fatal mistake.

When Division Commander Liu Yongjiang saw such a rain curtain, his brows furrowed deeply, but just as he was considering whether to send a few people to quietly touch the valley so that the enemy cavalry could be notified by a code when they passed through the valley, suddenly, less than 50 meters in front of Yanzikou, more than a dozen torches were suddenly lit. Liu Yongjiang was surprised and delighted: he was happy that the enemy took the initiative to expose, and what surprised him was what the enemy wanted?

Soon, the enemy unveiled the answer for Liu Yongjiang.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

I saw that more than a dozen enemy cavalrymen with torches slowly entered the mouth of the swallow, and then, they were not in a hurry to pass through, but looked around while slowly advancing, and shot around from time to time. Occasionally, there is a strange cry of "yo~!".

Liu Yongjiang had so much experience in combat command, and when he saw this situation, he actually grinned with his teeth: The enemy was also stupid, and he thought that Lao Tzu couldn't see that this was their pathfinder, so he wanted to find out if there was an ambush at Yanzikou. Damn, this little trick has long been outdated, and there are still people using it. However, this also illustrates a situation where the enemy's main forces are not far from here, and moreover, the main forces will definitely pass through here...... Thinking of this, Liu Yongjiang grinned.

Although there were several thousand people lying in ambush here, Liu Yongjiang was not at all worried that the soldiers would be exposed or take the initiative to shoot: First, under the rain curtain, unless you were like a beacon in the dark like a beacon like a group of fools below, they would not be able to see you; second, an order had already been given that everything should be based on signal flares, and he believed that the well-disciplined Red Army officers and men would not miss their guns; third, the Red Army commanders who were able to go this far were basically brought up by veterans, that is to say, they were all experienced in combat, so who would not be able to see these pathfinders of the enemy？

However, can the enemy's pathfinder really be stupid?

"No! there is an ambush, drop the torches and retreat!"

Suddenly, someone in the enemy cavalry shouted in horror. Immediately, the torches were discarded and quickly extinguished, while the sound of horses' hooves sounded rapidly, and gradually disappeared at the entrance of the swallow's mouth.

To tell the truth, when the enemy shouted, Liu Yongjiang's heart suddenly rose to his throat: he was worried that the enemy had really discovered the ambush, and he was also worried that the enemy was scam and spying. But in either case, as long as one soldier is fooled and opens fire in a hurry, then the entire ambush plan will be wasted.

However, it turned out that the discipline of the Red Army was strict, and no one fired a shot.

Immediately, Liu Yongjiang immediately sent two warriors with ropes to go down from the entrance of Yanzikou to the valley to ambush and observe--as soon as a large force of enemy cavalry was found, immediately pull the rope, and the person holding the other end of the rope would know the situation. At the same time, he sent additional scout cavalry here to expand the warning range at both ends of Yanzikou, afraid that the enemy would bypass and he did not know it, in that case, it would be a big joke to be attacked by the enemy with a counter-sneak attack.

In everyone's imagination, the enemy's main force would have to be a mile or two away from this place in order to prevent our infantry from rushing out of the swallow's mouth to attack. But what everyone didn't expect was that the enemy's main force stayed more than a hundred meters outside the mouth of the swallow. And, when the Pathfinder Stone came back without incident, they sprang into action.

The two warriors descended from the mouth of the valley to the bottom of the valley, and waited less than a minute before they saw a troop of cavalry pass in front of them. The two of them were startled, and one of them was about to pull the rope tied to his body, but fortunately, the other was experienced, and thought of the division commander's special explanation: Even if you two can't be sure whether it is the main force of the enemy cavalry, then give you two a hard way - counting. When a hundred enemy cavalry are counted, if you still can't see the tail of the enemy cavalry, pull the rope again.

So, they counted silently in their hearts: the enemy was basically a row of three, letting the horses move forward, pulling the reins in one hand and holding a rifle in the other, vigilantly and silently advancing.

"One hundred!" The slightly more experienced warrior counted to a hundred, touched the man beside him, and whispered in his ear, "I've counted a hundred enemy cavalry, you?" The man turned his head and nodded solemnly. Then, both of them looked behind the enemy cavalry at the same time, and sure enough, they could not see the tail. Suddenly, the two of them pulled the rope on their bodies with great joy.

Pulled the rope a few times, paused, and sure enough, the rope was also being pulled backwards from above. After knowing that the signal had been received above, the two hurriedly untied the rope on their bodies, and then slowly crawled backwards until they reached the edge of the valley, and then they hugged their heads and waited for the signal flare to appear.

But after waiting for more than a minute, there was no signal flare, and both of them were anxious, but they were helpless: they wanted to remind their comrades above loudly, but they were afraid that they would alarm the enemy;

The soldiers above had already received the signal, but they were in a hurry, and Liu Yongjiang was even more anxious than all of them. It's just that Liu Yongjiang, as the commander-in-chief of this battle, did not show this kind of anxiety, but he silently counted in his heart -- he asked the two soldiers to count a hundred enemy cavalry, in fact, not to start fighting immediately, but as a reminder, because he knew that if he wanted to hurt the enemy, the enemy cavalry would not dare to use the Red Army as a tail to monitor it, and at the very least, half of the enemy's strength would be destroyed in this battle. If this effect is not achieved, it will be tantamount to startling the snake, and the enemy will not only continue to follow, but will also be more cautious, and then it will be the biggest trouble, not to mention, the enemy cavalry division will be coming.

The east and west ends of the swallow's mouth are about 320 meters long, the widest parts of the left and right sides are about 60 meters, and the east (frontal) entrance of the swallow's mouth is about 30 meters wide -- the reason why we have to put the 51st regiment and a whole regiment of men and horses here is not only because it can close the door and fight the dogs with a single wall, but more importantly, to prevent the enemy outside from rushing in to meet the enemy in the valley -- the valley is so big that it cannot accommodate thousands of cavalry at all. There is no connection between the front and back, so you can't break the middle of it, and you can only hit the front of it.

At the western exit of the swallow's mouth, the width is only more than ten meters. The reason why there are only more than 200 people here, including the machine gun company and the assault company, is not only because the machine gun company has strong firepower, but also because a large amount of hay has been piled up on both sides. When the time comes, simply throw the lit hay down, use the line of fire to stop the cavalry from breaking through, and condescendingly inflict heavy blows on the enemy cavalry in the valley with cannonballs and heavy machine guns. Moreover, even if it rains heavily and extinguishes the fire line, everyone can still sit on the high places at both ends, and as long as they throw the grenade down, they can easily kill as many enemy cavalry as they come.

The reason why a regiment was deployed on each side was because although the firepower of the 17th Division was considered strong in the Second Front Army, it was nothing compared to the enemy's firepower, especially the lack of machine guns and artillery, which were powerful weapons. In addition, the terrain at these two ends is only a slope, which is not at all close to the steepness, and the number of guns can only make up for the lack of heavy weapon firepower: if the deployed firepower is weak, the enemy can completely rely on the speed of horses to rush up the slope, and at that time, not to mention that the enemy can slip away, it is not bad if the enemy does not get a recoil kill.

From the moment Liu Yongjiang received the report that the enemy cavalry had entered the valley, he counted silently in his heart with a calm face. When the count reached a hundred, it was estimated that at least half of the enemy cavalry had entered the valley. Pick up the flare gun yourself and pull the trigger at the sky.

"Smack!"

Shots rang out, and a flare shot into the sky, drawing a shining arc in the sky before disappearing into the darkness. But with its appearance, the Yanzikou ambush officially began.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

"Bang, bang, bang......"

"Da! da! da......"

"Wow!Wow!Wow......"

Box guns, rifles, light and heavy machine guns rang out.

"Oh no!" ambushed ......"

"There is an ambush, withdraw quickly......"

"Ahh

"Help......

Almost at the same moment as the shots rang out, the enemy also cried out in terror.

However, with the sound of gunshots, the bullets shuttled through the space in the rainy night, and the silver-white luster cut bullet marks in the air, weaving a messy net, and the enemies who hit the head of the rats pierced, the startled horses neighed, and all kinds of terrible screams and hoarse roars were mixed together, making the already panicked scene more and more messy.

The bullets were eating flesh, flying like the devil's sickle, leaving behind pieces of blood in their pass, taking away the lives of the original ones; the terrible screams showed that one enemy after another had fallen, wounded, killed, or frightened; whether it was the screams and screams of the enemies or the roar of the commander, they did not attract sympathy and pity, but more bullets hitting him. No one can see anyone on such a rainy night, and everyone is completely following the sound: the louder you scream, the more "care" you will get.

To tell the truth, in this night rain, if it is only the regular cavalry of the enemy cavalry, it may be possible to organize a counterattack, after all, they are well-trained, and they have been running in for a long time, and no one can see anyone in the rainy night, even if there are casualties, but the place is not small, and they can still call their subordinates to come over. But they shouldn't have gathered all those horse bandits and rogues and temporarily incorporated them into their own team, so that it seems that the team has grown, but in fact it is like a rabble, and it is okay to fight a good fight, but once they encounter resistance, they can only add chaos to them.

Therefore, from the moment the gunfire rang out, to the final annihilation, not to mention the temporary organization to fight back, even the subordinates wanted to protect the commander, but they were also rushed by these rabble.

And when the cannon of the cannon company sounded, everything was a foregone conclusion......