Zhang Dashan was so happy that he could hardly close his mouth...
As an excellent cavalry commander, no one here understands the great role of submachine guns in cavalry shooting better than him.
Previously, the independent regiment only had a dozen submachine guns. The cavalry company had just been formed and had not yet achieved any results. No matter how thick-skinned he was, he would not dare to pursue those submachine guns.
After the independent regiment was equipped with more and more submachine guns, he began to have the idea of applying to the regiment leader for submachine guns.
However, the cavalry company still did not have combat effectiveness, let alone achieved any results. Zhang Dashan was still embarrassed to snatch the guns from several battalion commanders.
Now the cavalry company has formed a combat effectiveness and has killed a large number of Japanese and puppet troops in enemy-occupied areas. It is now qualified to compete with several main battalion commanders.
On the way back, he had decided that when he saw Kong Jie this time, he would tell the cavalry company about applying for equipment of submachine guns.
As a result, before he could speak, Huang Yu had already put forward the idea first, and asked the regiment leader to grant him sixteen submachine guns.
When cavalry shoots against each other, they mainly rely on bullet density to kill the opponent.
Submachine guns are powerful and have strong firepower. One submachine gun can shoot out twenty or thirty rounds of bullets in a short period of time.
As long as the shot is not deflected, a blind cat can kill a mouse, twenty or thirty bullets can kill two or three enemies, and sixteen submachine guns can kill thirty or forty Japanese by firing together.
Coupled with the results achieved by the horse rifle, half of the cavalry squadron was wiped out by the two sides before they came into contact...
If the troops rush forward to fight with the remaining Japanese soldiers, they will definitely be able to pursue the victory and kill their opponents at the minimum cost.
As soon as Kong Jie helped the cavalry company to solve the submachine gun gap, Zhang Dashan vowed: "Please rest assured, commander, if the regiment headquarters can really equip the cavalry company with sixteen submachine guns, when we face the Japanese cavalry again in the future, as long as the opponent does not exceed
A cavalry squadron and a cavalry company are 100% sure to kill them!"
"If the opponent is two cavalry squadrons, the cavalry company has a 60% chance of defeating them."
Huang Yu continued to report: "In addition to war horses and weapons and ammunition, we also killed and wounded more than a hundred mules, horses and war horses in the firefight. Time was limited, so we only cut back the legs of the horses with the most meat, but there were also twenty to thirty thousand
A pound of horse meat!”
"I suggest that each company's cooking squad be distributed to make dried meat overnight, and then distribute it as dry food to the soldiers after the counter-mopping operation begins, so as to ensure that everyone can eat meat while marching and fighting."
"This is a good idea, I agree!" Li Wensheng was the first to stand up in support.
"In the past, the dry food we only had when marching and fighting was steamed buns and flatbreads, which could only satisfy our hunger..."
"If you can eat some dried horse meat with salt, it will not only taste better, but also nutritious..."
"It's impossible to eat all the tens of thousands of kilograms of meat at once. It's best to use firewood to dry it into dried meat!"
Huang Yu continued: "Captain, you just said that the little devil is looking for the cavalry company everywhere like crazy... Can we take advantage of this momentum and advance the plan to eliminate the Japanese cavalry unit by a few days!"
"Excluding the two squadrons killed by the cavalry company, there are still about a thousand people in the Japanese cavalry regiment..."
"In case our action fails to swallow up the cavalry regiment, we can still find a way to make up for it after the counter-mopping up begins..."
"The Japanese cavalry regiment still has more than a thousand horses. No matter how careful the ambush troops are, they will kill hundreds of them... One horse has more than 200 kilograms of horse meat, and four to five hundred horses add up to more than 100,000 horses.
catty……"
"Our mission is to quickly raid Jinzhong. It is impossible to march with so much horse meat. It would be too wasteful to throw it away..."
"If we act in advance, we can process horse meat into jerky..."
"Three or four kilograms of horse meat make one kilogram of jerky... More than one hundred thousand kilograms of horsemeat seems like a lot, but it only costs forty or fifty thousand kilograms of dried meat... Each soldier will share some as dry food, and the baggage team will bring some more.
No need to throw it away and waste it!”
This proposal was related to the layout of the independent regiment. Kong Jie did not answer immediately. He thought about it for a long time before asking Zhang Dashan: "After the cavalry company adds new horses, how long will it take to restore its combat effectiveness?"
"Three days!" Zhang Dashan was very confident in the combat effectiveness of the cavalry company, so he thought for a moment and blurted out his answer!
"Then we will act in advance...kill the Japanese cavalry regiment first, to give a good start to the subsequent counter-mopping up, and at the same time combat the arrogance of the Japanese and puppet troops in mopping up the troops!" Kong Jie finally made the decision.
"I placed the battlefield for the ambush of the cavalry regiment far away near Hejiazhuang...it is close to the Japanese and puppet army blockade, and the terrain is flat, which is very suitable for cavalry assault..."
"Wherever the cavalry company runs, the Japanese cavalry unit will definitely pursue it without any worries..."
"As long as they enter the pocket formation, they will be unable to escape!"
"The cavalry company immediately dispatched a platoon of troops to move around the Majiachuan stronghold. First, build up momentum and make the Japanese mistakenly think that the cavalry company is lurking there!"
"The remaining troops of the cavalry company seize the time to reorganize... When all the Japanese cavalry units reach the Majiachuan stronghold, they will all be dispatched to bring the Japanese into the pocket formation as planned!"
At the headquarters of the Japanese Fourth Mixed Brigade in Yangquan, Major General Miyazawa was very agitated.
He opened a large net and waited for the independent regiment's cavalry company to fall into the trap... They seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, and no trace of their movements could be found.
If the cavalry company of the Independent Regiment cannot be killed as soon as possible, many troops will definitely be killed by them after the big sweep begins.
Enough imperial troops of the Fourth Mixed Brigade have died at the hands of the cavalry company, and no more can be added.
There was no trace of the cavalry company in the occupied area. Major General Miyazawa suspected that they had taken advantage and fled, and had returned to the base area.
Immediately ordered the frontline sweep troops to search for traces of the cavalry company.
"General, we found it... There are signs of cavalry activities around the Majiachuan stronghold... Your judgment is correct. The cavalry company, like other Eighth Route Army troops, took advantage of us and ran away, and has returned to the base!" Harada, center left!
He hurried into the war room to report.
"Yoshi..." Major General Miyazawa immediately showed a long-lost smile on his face.
He quickly walked to the edge of the sand table and found the Majiachuan stronghold. After looking at it for a while, he analyzed: "The Eighth Route Army really knows how to pick places!
"The terrain around Majiachuan is mainly plains, which is very suitable for cavalry raids..."
"If an infantry squadron encounters them outside the stronghold and rushes to fight, the cavalry company can annihilate us with just one surprise attack!"
"But they forget that we have more cavalry than they do..."
"Order: All cavalry regiments are dispatched... Be sure to get to Majiachuan as quickly as possible, find and then destroy the Eighth Route Army cavalry company!"
Kuroki Daizuo is the captain of the cavalry regiment, an arrogant and conceited officer.
Subconsciously, I feel that the cavalry unit is superior. Although there are only more than a thousand cavalry under its command, and its strength is only one-third of the infantry regiment, it never takes the captain of the infantry regiment seriously.
After learning that the infantry was killed by two reinforced squadrons in two battles by the independent regiment's cavalry company, he not only mocked them in front of Major General Miyazawa, but also boasted that the cavalry regiment could kill the independent regiment's cavalry company in just one battle.
As a result, less than three days after saying these words, Okamura Shaozuo slapped him in the face.
Not only did the two cavalry squadrons fail to annihilate their opponents, they were almost killed by their opponents and the whole army was completely destroyed.
Kuroki Dazuo felt that the Independent Regiment Cavalry Company had embarrassed him, and secretly vowed in his heart: He must find them and eliminate them with his own hands...
The result was the opposite.
The Independent Regiment did not pick up the fight and let their well-prepared punch hit the cotton, getting nothing...
The hatred towards the cavalry company in my heart deepened a lot.
At the last moment, the cavalry company appeared.
After receiving the order to attack Majiachuan, Kuroki Dazuo did not set off immediately. Instead, he found a map and observed the terrain to first find out whether there was a suitable place to ambush the cavalry.
If there are, those places are forbidden areas for the cavalry regiment, and you cannot break into them under any circumstances.
"Captain...the terrain around Majiachuan is flat, which is very suitable for cavalry assault. There is not even a hill in the surrounding area. It is almost impossible for the Eighth Route Army to set up an ambush to attack us there!" The captain of the First Cavalry Brigade analyzed!
"There really is no place for an ambush in this area..." Kuroki Daizuo said with deep approval.
"As long as we find traces of the independent regiment's cavalry company, the troops can pursue it unscrupulously..."
"But there is one thing that everyone must be careful about!"
"The cavalry company's combat effectiveness is very strong. The total strength is likely to exceed two hundred people. It is fully capable of eating up one of our cavalry squadrons in a short period of time..."
"So everyone must split up into two infantry squadrons to find the cavalry company!"
"After discovering the target, don't act rashly, find a way to hold them back, and then contact the surrounding cavalry units..."
"Our chance to annihilate the entire cavalry company is probably only this one. We must gather enough cavalry to deliver a fatal blow!"
"Rumble..." the sound of horse hooves soon sounded in the Majiachuan stronghold.
It only took Kuroki Daizuo two days to assemble the entire cavalry regiment here. Two squadrons formed a group and dispersed to search for the cavalry companies.
The Chenjiayu Independent Regiment was stationed, and Kong Jie was organizing the last military meeting before the war.
Chief of Staff Li Wensheng, assault company commander Huang Yu, cavalry company commander Zhang Dashan, several main battalion commanders...all gathered around two large tables made of eight immortal tables.
On the table is a sketch of the Hejiazhuang ambush position...
The only path that the Japanese must pass runs through the entire map. Two trenches were dug side by side more than 100 meters on both sides of the road. A four- to five-meter-wide horse trap was also dug between the trenches and the road... It was filled with chopped logs.
A barb...
The front and rear ends of the road are cut off by two trenches.
But in order to allow the cavalry to enter the pocket formation smoothly, no trenches were dug within a radius of 10 to 20 meters on both sides of the road and the road...
In order to prevent the cavalry regiment from breaking out of the pocket formation...
Two rows of trenches were dug everywhere near the breach!
Twenty or thirty meters in front of the trench, there was also a horse trap four to five meters wide.
As long as the cavalry regiment rushes into the pocket formation, they will be trapped here by two semicircular horse traps, unable to advance or retreat until they are eliminated.
"Comrades...this is the pocket formation where we ambush the Japanese cavalry regiment..." Kong Jie pointed to the map and introduced it with satisfaction!
"The two main battalions spent six days digging it out in the dark..."
"The real position is much more complicated than what everyone sees on the drawings..."
"The trenches and horse traps... are all covered with straw mats and wooden boards, camouflaged with thatch and soil... Unless the little devils forcefully walk up, no one will notice that there are trenches and horse traps here!"
