The Japanese responded very quickly to the battle, and two of the six light machine guns equipped by the reinforcements soon joined the battle.
The ammunition was spraying flames at the cavalry company as if it was free, trying to block them in the way. The remaining four light machine guns were also quickly moving towards the cavalry company's attack direction, hoping to join the battle as quickly as possible.
But the cavalry company is not a vegetarian either.
Before the light machine gun equipped by the Japanese opened fire, the team was extremely scattered on the offensive road.
The offensive firepower was so weak that most of the bullets they fired did not know where to fly, and only a handful of bullets hit the target.
As the cavalry company became more and more dispersed, even if all six light machine guns joined the battle, the results would not be much better.
What's more important is that the Bai Lai cavalry who attacked from their flank actually began to outflank them, avoiding the interception firepower of the Japanese army, and went directly towards the retreating troops of more than a hundred people.
The cavalry assault speed is very fast. Even if they detour a few hundred meters on the battlefield, it only takes tens of seconds. In an instant, they can rush to the vicinity of the Japanese retreating troops.
The Japanese machine gun team blocking the cavalry company wanted to move its position and stand in front of the cavalry company again, but it might not be possible for them to get through in two minutes.
The squadron leader of the Japanese reinforcements quickly turned bitter and regretted his decision to retreat.
If you don't retreat and stay with the machine gunners, no matter which direction the Eighth Route Cavalry detours to launch an attack, they will be blocked by three light machine guns at the same time. Even if they can't block it, they can still kill the opponent and take off a layer of skin.
After leaving the machine gunner behind, he led the main force of the squadron back to Baoding. It looked like a strong man had cut off his arm, but he was able to save most of the main force, but in fact he exposed a group of riflemen without machine gun cover to the cavalry.
Because the machine gunners were separated by more than 100 meters between everyone, it was too late to temporarily dispatch them to return reinforcements. They could only rely on more than 100 rifles to resist dozens of cavalry.
However, the cavalry assault speed is too fast, and the rifle cannot aim at all. It can only shoot randomly at the approximate target, and at the same time speed up its own shooting speed, trying to increase the hit rate through the density of firepower, kill more Eighth Route Cavalry, and try to block them.
Halfway down the road.
This method is indeed useful, but the effect is limited.
The cavalry assault was so fast that they were in front of them in the blink of an eye.
After all, the rifle is a single-shot rifle. No matter how fast they fire, just over ten seconds is only enough for each of them to shoot out two or three bullets.
"Rumble... kill..."
Dozens of cavalrymen running at high speed slammed into the Japanese retreating troops. The team of more than a hundred people was instantly turned into a mess, with corpses and screaming wounded everywhere...
At the top of the east wall of Baoding City, the Japanese captain was observing the battle situation with a telescope, looking for opportunities for artillery fire.
But the Eighth Route Cavalry's assault speed was too fast...
It takes at least half a minute for a mortar to take aim and fire. By the time the shells are fired, the cavalry will have already disappeared...
Therefore, it is a waste of ammunition for our artillery shells to attack a group of cavalry who have no fixed direction of attack.
Therefore, the battalion commander never gave the order to fire.
It wasn't until the Eighth Route Cavalry collided with the reinforcements that the captain realized that his opportunity had come and hurriedly ordered.
"The artillery immediately fired at the reinforcements. This is our only chance to attack the Eighth Route Cavalry. Hurry..."
"But sir... there are all our own people there..." Xiao Ke from the artillery squadron quickly reminded him as he didn't want to end up killing one of his own people.
But the captain seemed not to hear it and insisted on the order: "Execute the order..."
"What are you still doing? Fire right away... This is our only chance to use artillery fire to kill the Eighth Route Cavalry from a long distance. If you miss it, it's gone. Hurry up and fire..."
"The reinforcements have been blocked outside the city by the Eighth Route Cavalry. Even if we don't fire, they will be completely destroyed. The Eighth Route Cavalry's casualties in the battle are very small."
"In this case, it's better to use their death to fulfill us..."
"Take advantage of the opportunity for the Eighth Route Cavalry to charge them and use artillery shells to consume a large number of their troops, instead of being massacred by the Eighth Route Cavalry on the battlefield. There is no point in dying!"
The artillery squadron leader understood this and quickly called for his subordinates to fire...
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Japanese Army Baoding Garrison Headquarters.
"Ding ding, ding, ding..." the phone suddenly rang, instantly attracting everyone's attention, including the Major General's brigade leader.
The telephone soldier reacted quickly. He grabbed the phone as soon as the ringtone rang, and then his face became serious.
After listening for less than half a minute, he covered the microphone and reported: "Your Excellency, Commander..."
"Something happened to the reinforcements!"
"It's impossible..." The deputy chief of staff, who encouraged the brigade commander to send troops to attack, couldn't understand the result the most. He stared back with a pair of big eyes and asked with disbelief on his face.
"Their attack is foolproof and there is absolutely no chance of anything going wrong."
"Is it because the city defense troops in the east of the city failed to respond to them on time, and the artillery troops failed to provide them with artillery support in time, and they attacked and intercepted the Eighth Route Army's reinforcements from a long distance..."
After listening to the deputy chief of staff's question, even the major general brigade commander showed a puzzled expression, feeling that there must be something wrong with the city defense troops in the east of the city, otherwise nothing would happen to the reinforcements!
The caller didn't talk nonsense and directly stated the most fundamental reason why the reinforcements had an accident: "None of them..."
"It's because the Eighth Route Army that intercepted the reinforcements was a cavalry force..."
"The reinforcements were no match at all. They didn't even stop them from attacking once."
"The troops responsible for the response at the top of the city have been looking for opportunities to use artillery fire to reinforce them from a distance, but the cavalry assault speed was too fast, and they never found the opportunity."
"Although the artillery was successfully fired when the Eighth Route Cavalry and the reinforcements were fighting together, there was no way for the reinforcements to successfully enter the city. We could only find a way to kill one more Eighth Route Cavalry so that the reinforcements would not be massacred by the Eighth Route Cavalry."
When he heard the word cavalry, the deputy chief of staff reacted suddenly, and then his face turned pale, and at the same time he understood how he was defeated.
Despite all his calculations, he never expected that the Eighth Route Army would dispatch cavalry to intercept and kill him.
As reported by the city defense troops in the east of the city, the cavalry raids and transfers were extremely fast. With an unobstructed view of the outside of the city, their battlefields could be everywhere.
Without fixed raids and marching routes, the artillery troops would not be able to lock them in advance, and therefore they would not be able to bomb them.
If you shoot after the cavalry troops, it will have no effect except wasting the shells.
The chief of staff was particularly relieved. When the brigade commander heard the deputy chief of staff's suggestion, he firmly opposed it, but it had no effect.
Now that the attacking troops had an accident, all this proved that his persistence was right.
But he didn't take the opportunity to laugh at his deputy.
Because the final order to send out the attack troops was given by the brigade commander, taunting his deputy is equivalent to taunting the brigade commander, which will definitely anger him and in turn make him angry.
