Chapter 1417 Hunting Cavalry
The platoon leader's orders were issued one by one.
"Hurry up, the heavy machine gun team guards the front!"
"Three light machine gun teams protect the flanks!"
"Support the firepower group, automatic firepower group hurry up!"
Hearing the platoon leader's call, Gouwa quickly stepped forward.
Although Gouwa is not equipped with a Thomson submachine gun but a Galand rifle, his Galand is a modified Galand rifle produced by Yinjiang Arsenal.
The Galand of Yinjiang Arsenal is a fully automatic rifle with a magazine capacity of 20 rounds.
Although the improved Galand rifle has less firepower continuity than Thomson, its range, shooting accuracy and lethality are much better than Thomson, and are deeply loved by frontline officers and soldiers.
At the order of the platoon leader, the only Bronning air-cooled heavy machine gun in the platoon and three Bronning light machine guns quickly added up in front of the position. The six Thomson submachine guns and three Galan rifles of the fire support team also added together, and even the mortar team set up two mortars behind the position.
In addition, the remaining 70 officers and soldiers in the platoon were also divided into three groups, each holding up the rifles in his hands.
However, the weapons of these more than 70 officers and soldiers were only formal rifles, and the equipment of the Rong 1st Division was still a little worse.
The organization of the Rong 1st Division is similar to the three detachments of the former coastal defense corps. They all focus on combat troops and light auxiliary troops, so each platoon has more than 100 combat personnel.
More than a hundred combatants were divided into three rows in front and back. The front row was in a lying position, the second row was in a kneeling position, and the last row was in a standing position, which was quite similar to the three-stage shooting in the musket era.
Not to mention, three-stage shooting is the most effective against cavalry!
The Rong 1st Division had systematically practiced the tactics of fighting cavalry before, and the result proved that this tactic was very effective.
The Gouwa and his team had just formed a three-stage formation, and the sound of horse hooves sounded in the night sky ahead, and then the ground under their feet began to tremble slightly.
That posture seemed like a flood was surging.
Gouwa subconsciously looked up and saw that the field ahead was pitch black and could not see anything.
But the rumbling sound in my ears became louder and louder, and the trembling on the ground under my feet became stronger and stronger, and it felt like an earthquake.
The enemy is not visible, but the oppressiveness is coming.
The goat felt like a big stone was pressed on his chest and couldn't breathe.
Even veterans will inevitably feel nervous when facing such a scene.
However, the difference between veterans and new recruits is that although veterans will be nervous, they will not panic.
Taking a deep breath, Gouwa quickly calmed down and held the Galand rifle in his hand tightly.
After a while, the sound of horse hooves became louder and closer. The platoon leader suddenly shouted: "Flag!"
Accompanied by the roar of the platoon leader, three mortar teams that had been prepared had launched three flares at the same time. With the squeaking whistle, three dazzling bright light instantly illuminated the area within a radius of more than ten miles.
With the strong light like daylight, Gouwa saw at a glance that the black Japanese cavalry were sweeping over from the tide ahead, less than five hundred meters away from them.
"Stay calm! Listen to my orders!"
"Stay steady, keep it steady!"
"Stay calm, don't be Fang!"
The platoon leader's command continued to sound.
Gouwa's right index finger was pressed on the trigger, and he endured it and did not pull it down.
In the blink of an eye, the Japanese cavalry were only three hundred meters away from their defensive formation!
More than 300 meters, for the cavalry, it only takes ten seconds, and it arrives in a flash!
The platoon leader's right hand finally fell down fiercely, and hissed: "Let's fire, fire..."
Gouwa pressed the trigger hard, and the rifle stock that was pressed against his right shoulder shocked violently. Then a dazzling tongue of flame ejected from the muzzle of the Galand rifle.
The next moment, the sound of gunfire filled my ears.
In an instant, more than a dozen dazzling tongues of flames were like the whip of death, storming violently towards the torrent of the Japanese cavalry sweeping in front of them.
"Xilulu..."
The sad neigh of the war horses soared into the sky.
In the field of vision, the Japanese cavalry charged forward like a tide fell down in rows. The situation was like a rolling hurricane wave hitting the reefs on the coast. The reefs were fine, but the hurricane waves broke in an instant.
The platoon leader did not stop, and the goat pulled the trigger and did not release it. A magazine was quickly finished.
Looking forward again, I saw that all the Japanese cavalry who had rushed over just now had fallen in a pool of blood. Only a dozen Japanese cavalry who were decisively detoured from the wings of the position.
However, the battle was not over, because the second row of cavalry of the Japanese rushed over again soon.
"Everything is..." The platoon leader's command resounded throughout the wilderness, "Change magazines, change magazines! Hurry up!"
Gouwa quickly knelt down and got up, took out a magazine from his bag on his waist, first knocked heavily on the steel helmet, and all the missing bullets were honoured, and then filled the magazine into the rifle chamber.
After changing the magazine, the goat fell to the ground immediately.
"Everything is there, shooting, shooting..." The platoon leader's command sounded again.
Gouwa and more than 100 officers and soldiers in the row pulled the trigger at the same time. Amid the gunfire, the Japanese cavalry rushing in front fell down row after row.
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Less than three miles ahead.
Bei Dian Er put down the telescope in his hand, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.
The orderly soldiers accompanying him looked at their corps captain with extremely shocked eyes, feeling unbelievable that the corps captain, who was born in a noble and always proud, would actually tremble because of fear? No.
However, these orderly soldiers were wrong. Beidian Er was not because of fear, but because of shock.
To be honest, with the update and iteration of weapons, pure cavalry has long since withdrawn from the stage of history, and now almost no country has regarded cavalry as an independent group of troops.
However, Japanese officers from aristocratic origins like Beidian Er are still struggling against the current.
These Japanese officers stubbornly believed that with their superb riding skills and fearless will, cavalry can still become a daunting decisive force on the battlefield!
Just now, when both sides had just encountered each other, Beidian Er was extremely firmly convinced that as long as their guard cavalry regiment set up a cavalry formation and charged towards the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang would collapse in an instant after seeing their cavalry formation, just like ice and snow poured by boiling water.
However, the final result was completely beyond Beidian II's expectations.
Faced with the charge of the Guards Cavalry Regiment, the National Army remained unmoved!
Chapter completed!