Chapter 3: The Tough Devil

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The guard company desperately repelled the first round of attacks of the Japanese cavalry squadron, and killed and wounded nearly twenty cavalrymen.

In order to catch up with the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which was continuing to retreat, the Japanese squadron leader immediately changed his tactics.

The two squads stayed here to continue to destroy the rear troops of the Eighth Route Army and dragged them here. Then he ordered a cavalry squad with minimal losses to continue the pursuit, bypassing the blocking position of the guard company, and trying to find a way to slow down the retreat of the divisional headquarters of the First Army.

The guard company that killed and wounded nearly 20 devil cavalry paid a huge price of more than 40 casualties at this time.

This is also the result of the little devil cavalry squadron only being equipped with two crooked light machine guns, and they don't want to fight hard with the guard company here, after all, Yang Chengwu is their real target.

If the Japanese army rushed forward regardless of casualties, the guard company would definitely not be able to stop it.

Therefore, in the face of the Japanese cavalry divided into troops, the guard company, which suffered heavy losses and was short of ammunition, had no choice but to stare dryly.

A standard cavalry squad had more than thirty cavalry, and twenty-eight cavalry after some losses from the attack just now.

In less than ten minutes, these arrogant cavalry entered Wang Ping's field of vision.

Seeing the formation of the devil cavalry dragging nearly fifty meters, like a torrent rushing towards him, Wang Ping's face immediately showed a look of regret.

The formation of the Japanese army is too sparse, even if the few cluster grenades they deploy are all volleys, the results that can be achieved will not be too big.

If you had just placed some obstacles on the official road when you had deployed the cluster grenades, slowing down the cavalry and making their pursuit formation more concentrated, the results that a few cluster grenades could achieve would have been amazing.

However, it was too late to say anything now, and they could only watch the devil cavalry rush into the treacherous thunder array they had prepared for them.

Wang Ping stared at the battlefield with a pair of eyes, and the devil cavalry had no defense, and rushed directly into the treacherous thunder array.

Because the grenade had a delay of a few seconds, the first cluster grenade did not explode immediately after being pulled out of the lead.

It was only after the cavalry at the front touched all the cluster grenade fuses that a dozen cavalrymen scattered in front of and behind the entire thunder array that a violent explosion sounded on the battlefield.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The first cluster grenade exploded in the air, immediately forming nearly 100 fragments of grenade fragments scattered in all directions.

With the explosion point as the center, the front and rear five or six meters of pipes were all covered by these fragments, and three devil cavalrymen fell on the official road with screams on the spot.

A ghost cavalry who followed closely behind, perhaps because he was caught off guard, the galloping war horse crashed directly into the corpse of the war horse in front of him, and then fell to the ground, and then seriously injured the cavalry on his back.

At the same time, several other cluster grenades exploded one after another, and in the violent explosion, each cluster grenade killed and injured two to four devil cavalrymen.

When the smoke of the treacherous thunder array cleared, the remaining still alive devil cavalry completely stopped. The official road with a thunder formation that was no more than thirty meters long fell fourteen devil cavalry and the same number of war horses.

Faced with this result, all the recruits around Wang Ping cast a look of admiration at Wang Ping.

At first, they didn't believe much in Wang Ping, who was a literary crepe, and they didn't believe that he could lead everyone to block the Japanese cavalry, and some people were even ready to die with the devil here.

But after the explosion just now, everyone showed an impressive expression to Wang Ping, and they had the confidence to block the devil.

Successfully destroying fourteen cavalry without losing a single soldier is such a result, and no one here can do it. But Wang Ping did it.

After seeing the changes on everyone's faces, Wang Ping, who had already established his prestige, immediately ordered: "We have the advantage of terrain, as long as the devil is not stupid, he will dismount and attack us." It's easy to say otherwise, but the machine gun is a nuisance. The whole platoon has no good marksmanship, and it is specially staring at the devils and shooting with machine guns. ā€

The three squad leaders immediately focused their eyes on the platoon commander Zeng's whole body.

Zeng Quan replied: "My marksmanship is okay, and I am guaranteed to hit the target within 150 meters." ā€

"One hundred and fifty meters is enough!" Wang Ping replied with a satisfied face.

Soon, an idea appeared in Wang Ping's mind, and he ordered several squad and platoon leaders: "Our advantage is that there are many people, and the advantage of the devil is that the firepower is fierce and the marksmanship is accurate." Therefore, when shooting against devils, it must be us who suffers. ā€

Zeng Quan, who was the platoon commander during the Red Army, immediately reacted: "Staff Officer Wang, you plan to fight with the devil in close combat, hand-to-hand combat!" ā€

"No!" Wang Ping shook his head and replied.

"We're not a devil's opponent in hand-to-hand combat, don't forget that you're bringing new recruits."

Speaking of this, Wang Ping directly ordered: "Let's fight like this, shoot first to attract the devils to dismount and attack us." Then I hid it all for me, and when the devil came closer, I greeted him with a grenade. The grenade is thrown farther than the grenade equipped by the devil, plus we have the advantage of terrain, throwing the grenade is definitely a loss for the devil. ā€

"After starting to throw grenades, the platoon commander Zeng and the three squad leaders opened fire, the platoon commander Zeng stared at the devil machine gunners to fight, and the three squad leaders stared at the rest of the devil riflemen to fight."

"Nearly thirty grenades, plus you shooting at the same time, I don't believe that you can't clean up the remaining fourteen devil cavalry."

"If there are any fish that slip through the net, the barge gun in my hand is not vegetarian. Ten rounds of bullets at close range to eliminate two or three devils is no problem. ā€

Soon, a burst of gunfire rang out on the mountain beams, there were rifles, shotguns, and even powder guns, crackling, very scary.

But because the distance was too far, except for Zeng Quan, who hit a devil in the thigh, the others did not achieve any results.

In the face of heavy casualties, the little devil who was holding back his anger in his belly, as if he had found a target to vent, quickly lay on the ground and fired bullets at the mountain beam. In particular, the cavalry squad was equipped with a crooked light machine gun, and when it was put to the ground, it fired a dense array of bullets at the mountain beam.

Although he repeatedly explained that he hid after firing the gun, the Japanese army's marksmanship was not vegetarian.

But recruits are recruits after all, and the Japanese army's reaction speed is far faster than Wang Ping imagined.

Five or six recruits, who were a beat slower, were directly hit by bullets and fell to the ground.

This is not the end, the bullets fired by the Japanese soldiers from the crooked light machine guns, as if they have eyes, flew over their heads close to the top of the mountain beam.

A confrontation that took the initiative not only did not eliminate a single devil, but also lost several people himself. Wang Ping had a new understanding of the combat effectiveness of devils, and then with a solemn face, he told the remaining 20 brothers under his command to hide and not be hit by the Japanese army again.

After the Eighth Route Army that attacked them became shrinking turtles, the cavalry squad that lost more than half of them did not intend to let them go.

More than a dozen devils who planned to take revenge immediately abandoned their horses, and under the cover of the machine guns behind them, they rushed to the mountain beam with rifles.

Soon, the twelve devils rushed to the bottom of the mountain beam, and it was less than forty meters away from the top of the mountain beam where Wang Ping was lurking.