The scene in front of Zhang Dashan was both expected and unexpected.
He thought that the submachine gun would cause thirty or forty casualties to the Japanese, but he did not expect that the following cavalry would be blocked by the bodies in front of them. Not only did they knock over several cavalry, but they also disrupted their assault formation and affected their assault speed...
He didn't miss this perfect opportunity to take advantage of your illness and kill you.
Quickly replace the submachine gun in his hand with a saber, put his body on horseback, and move the blade forward. He stares at a Japanese soldier and rushes towards him...
"Kill..." Zhang Dashan roared, and the saber in his hand was slashed forward. The sharp blade easily cut through the little Japanese military uniform beside him, leaving a deep incision on his body, and blood flowed down his body.
The saber flew out, and the little devil fell off his horse at the same time and was carried to the ground.
"Baga... kill me..." A Japanese soldier seven or eight meters away happened to see Zhang Dashan killing people. He cursed and came towards him with his saber raised.
"Bangdang..."
Zhang Dashan raised his sword to block, and with a crisp metal collision, the Japanese saber came to a halt two inches away from his body.
At this moment, the platoon commanders following Zhang Dashan took action.
Before the enemy confiscated the knife and his attention was still on the company commander, he took action decisively...
The light of the sword flashed away, and then you saw a gash in the devil's stomach with the saber, and his intestines and blood flowed out...
"Comrades... kill me..."
Zhang Dashan raised his command knife again and continued to charge forward, taking the lead and rushing to the front of the team. After killing the second Japanese, there was no one in front...
The first round of battle between the cavalry company and the Japanese only lasted four or five seconds and ended...
Both parties ran forward for two to three hundred meters and then turned around and stopped!
There were seventy or eighty ownerless horses standing at the place where the fight just happened. The ground was covered with corpses of both sides, and many corpses were trampled into pulp, bloody...
After deducting those who were killed by horse rifles before, more than half of the Japs in the two cavalry squadrons have been killed and there are still about a hundred people left...
The cavalry company also paid a heavy price in the battle, and two entire cavalry platoons were wiped out.
If the regiment commander hadn't strengthened the cavalry company with sixteen submachine guns, not only would the Japanese have lost thirty or forty casualties in the attack just now, but the cavalry company would also have suffered one more platoon of casualties...
This result was also something the Japanese did not expect!
They have always felt that their combat power is invincible in the world, and the two sides are head-to-head, and the Independent Regiment Cavalry Company can never be their opponent.
As a result, after the battle, the cavalry brigade suffered more casualties than its opponent.
Takahashi Shaozuo rubbed his eyes several times before he believed this fact, and then he lost the courage to continue fighting.
"Captain, come on... The Imperial Army of Japan only has the courage to die in battle, and there are no cowards who can avoid fighting..." A squadron leader under his command was already red-eyed, raising his saber and shouting.
"The Eighth Route Army relied on the fact that the firepower of submachine guns was greater than that of horse rifles. They used submachine guns to attack us at close range and took advantage of the weapons..."
"If the cavalry really fight head-on, we can definitely defeat them easily!"
"If we charge again, we will definitely be able to kill them."
"You also know that the Eighth Route Army is equipped with submachine guns... In the fight just now, more than one of our soldiers were killed and injured by submachine guns. If we continue to fight, more soldiers will definitely be killed by submachine guns!"
"There is only one squadron left in the army. If more than one squadron is killed by submachine guns, how can we fight them face to face?"
"Everyone stands still... As long as the Eighth Route Army does not take the initiative to launch an attack, we will stop here and not attack. We will just keep an eye on them from a distance... and then we will fight them decisively after the main force of the alliance arrives."
Seeing that the Japanese army no longer took the initiative to provoke war, Zhang Dashan was so happy that he could hardly close his mouth.
The cavalry company has already lost two platoons. If it continues to fight, it will definitely lose another platoon. This is an outcome he never wants to see.
The little Japanese, who had lost more than half of his troops, suddenly chose to stand still, which was exactly what he wanted.
Just wait until most of the Japs in the Cavalry Regiment are here, and then the Cavalry Company can retreat!
Based on Zhang Dashan's understanding of the Japs, the cavalry regiment would cling to him and lead them into a pocket formation based on the squadron he had just killed.
Ten minutes later, four cavalry squadrons arrived here one after another.
Looking at the bloody battlefield and the cavalry squadron that lost more than half, the two leading captains all had serious faces and immediately went to Takahashi Shaozuo to inquire about the situation of the battle.
After another ten minutes, Kuroki Daizuo personally led the remaining four cavalry squadrons to the battlefield, and then separated four cavalry squadrons to outflank the two wings of the cavalry company.
Of course, Zhang Dashan would not let the Japanese get what they wanted, and issued the retreat order without hesitation...
"Pursue immediately...kill the cavalry company at all costs!" Kuroki Daizuo ordered through gritted teeth.
The four outflanking cavalry squadrons were the first to catch up, and the remaining five cavalry squadrons followed behind.
Kuroki Daizuo and several battalion captains were running in the middle of the team, all showing firm expressions that they would not give up until the cavalry company was killed.
"Report to the head of the regiment...the cavalry company and the little devils are coming towards us!" the scout hurried to Kong Jie to report.
"How many people are there in the Japs...have they brought all their cavalry regiments here..." Kong Jie asked quickly.
"You can't see the end at a glance... There's a huge crowd on the road... They're all cavalry..." the investigator replied.
"The Japanese cavalry unit must be here...inform the troops to prepare for battle. No one can expose the target in advance before seeing the signal flare!" Kong Jie's face already showed an excited smile of victory, looking forward to the order.
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After saying that, I raised my binoculars and looked towards the end of the road...
The headquarters where he was located, two kilometers away from the ambush battlefield, was a large mound of dirt twenty to thirty meters high. Standing here, he could overlook the entire battlefield from a high position.
But because this mound is bare, without even a tree, it is impossible to hide soldiers, and it is far away from the road, so it will definitely not attract the attention of the Japanese.
When Kong Jie chose this place to deploy his pocket formation, he designated it as the former enemy headquarters!
"Commander, the cavalry company has appeared..."
On the road four kilometers away, more than a hundred cavalry came towards the pocket formation in a mighty manner, going very fast...
Four to five hundred meters behind, more than four hundred Japanese cavalry were in hot pursuit.
More than a hundred meters behind is the main force of the Japanese cavalry regiment. More than 500 cavalry are mighty and unstoppable...
A total of more than a thousand cavalrymen advanced quickly along the road, covering two kilometers in just a few minutes...
Kong Jie became more and more excited as he watched. The cavalry did not leave the road, which meant that the trenches and horse traps on both sides of the road were not exposed. The independent regiment's chance of winning this battle increased by 10 to 20%.
Although Kuroki Ozuo is very arrogant, he has very rich combat experience, and his vigilance on the battlefield has long been ingrained in his bones.
While pursuing, observe the surrounding terrain and order the troops to stop at any time.
Seeing that the terrain on both sides of the road was flat, not even a barren slope, only a small mound of dirt standing a few kilometers away, bare, with almost no possibility of hiding soldiers, the little worry in my heart disappeared instantly, and the pursuit became more unscrupulous
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"Kill me..." The Japanese cavalry charged more and more fiercely, intending to continue to shorten the distance between the two armies, catch up with the cavalry company within half an hour, and kill them.
Little did they know that they had already crashed into the pocket formation prepared for them by the independent regiment.
The independent regiment's former enemy headquarters and observation posts constantly summarized the latest battle conditions on the front line in front of Kong Jie.
"Report to the leader, the Japanese vanguard troops have entered the pocket formation!"
"Commander... all the more than 400 cavalrymen in front of the Japs Cavalry Regiment have entered the pocket formation!"
"Commander, the main follow-up troops of the cavalry regiment have begun to enter the pocket formation..."
"Half of the main force of the Cavalry Regiment has already entered the pocket formation..."
"Report to the head of the regiment that all Japanese cavalry units have entered the pocket formation..."
"Captain, the cavalry company has rushed out of the pocket formation..."
"Send the signal and start attacking..." Kong Jie seized the opportunity and ordered...
"Bang bang bang..." Three signal bombs were launched into the sky at the same time. All the little Japs who were chasing the cavalry company saw it. Suddenly, a circular trench appeared around them, surrounding them in the middle.
A row of heads emerged from the trenches at the same time. Countless light and heavy machine guns were set up and opened fire on the cavalry regiment on the road.
The most terrifying thing is the Eighth Route Army standing in front of the Japanese...
Although the road has not been dug, two trenches have appeared on both sides of the road more than 20 meters away.
Each section of the trench was equipped with two heavy machine guns and more than ten light machine guns...
More than twenty light and heavy machine guns suddenly opened fire, and the dense rain of bullets instantly formed an iron wall on the road. No matter how fast the Japanese charged, they could not move forward.
"Kill me..."
The four squadrons in front of the cavalry regiment were unwilling to fail and continued to attack forward while stepping on the corpses of the killed cavalry...
But no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't move forward, and only dozens of corpses were added.
"The blocking firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too strong, and it is all concentrated on the highway. We can't rush through..." a brigade captain of the forward troops ordered.
"The troops immediately dispersed and attacked from both wings... As long as we opened a hole in the Eighth Route Army's defense line, we could turn defeat into victory and kill them all!"
"Kill me..." The Japanese are already fighting like crazy. The more people die, the more ferocious the attack...
Each one of them was like crazy, holding the reins of the war horse in one hand and the saber in the other, rushing forward with all their strength...
At this moment, a "rumbling..." crashing sound suddenly sounded in front of the Japanese.
The front row of cavalry disappeared instantly and disappeared from the sight of the Japanese captain...
"What's going on...what happened to the troops in front!" the captain asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Horse trap...Sir...the Eighth Route Army dug a horse trap in front of us...the war horses can't jump over it!" shouted a squadron leader.
He was the most ferocious in the charge just now, always charging at the front of the team. In the blink of an eye, he seemed to be a different person. He ran to the captain and reported with a panic look on his face.
"Da da da... dong dong dong..."
The light and heavy machine guns on the Independent Regiment's position continued to fire, and continued to shoot the little Japanese in the encirclement across the horse trap. Someone fell down almost every second...
By this time, more than half of the four forward cavalry squadrons had suffered casualties.
