The tenth company is equipped with six crooked handles and can defend a position more than 200 meters long.
In order to prevent the Japanese from breaking out from other places and catching himself off guard, he arranged two machine guns to cover the flanks of the troops, and the remaining four machine guns were all blocked in front of the horse trap that the Japanese had just filled.
Facing the little Japs who rushed over like crazy, the barrels of the four machine guns were almost red from being shot, but they still couldn't stop the cavalry that was approaching quickly...
"Kill me..."
Several Japanese cavalrymen had already rushed to the ambush position, raising their sabers high and charging towards the nearest machine gun position at very fast speeds.
"Comrades, if you fight with the little devils, you will stop them even to the death. Kill..."
After the machine gunner fired the last bullet in the magazine, he stood up from the bunker, held the crooked handle and hit a cavalryman with all his strength.
The riflemen on the side raised their rifles with bayonets at the same time, and quickly stabbed at the horses rushing toward them...
Unfortunately, except for one soldier who succeeded, all the bayonets thrust out by the other soldiers were blocked by their sabers. Before they could carry out the second round of thrusts, the sharp sabers had already struck them...
Several Japanese cavalrymen crossed the trench and fought their way out of the pocket formation...
The cavalry behind them rushed here one after another, trying to expand the breakthrough and cover the regiment leader Kuroki Daizuo to fight out of the pocket formation.
Guan Shanbei jumped to his feet in a hurry. Seeing that the Japanese had breached the defense line, he wanted to rush over and block the breach himself.
But every position along the entire blockade has reached a critical point. If you leave here to reinforce other places, the truth under your feet will probably be torn apart. It is equivalent to tearing down the east wall to repair the west wall, which makes no sense.
, I can only pray in my heart that the reinforcements will come over quickly and help me block the gap.
"Rumble, rumble..." The sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded behind the blockade. It was like thunder and deafening. It was definitely not coming from the few Japanese cavalry who had just broken out.
Guan Shanbei subconsciously turned his head...
More than a hundred cavalrymen from the cavalry company brandished their sabers and charged towards the gap in the blockade...
The speed is very fast, and in the blink of an eye, several Japanese cavalrymen who have just broken out of the encirclement are drowned...
"Comrades, the reinforcements are coming... Beat them all hard, stop the little Japs at all costs... Shoot..." Guan Shanbei's morale was greatly boosted, and he ordered while firing.
After killing several Japanese who broke out, the cavalry company was divided into two. Most of the soldiers were riding on war horses, holding sabers in hand, and were ready...
A small number of soldiers jumped off their horses, rushed into the position with submachine guns and rifles, and blocked the gap that the Japanese had just opened.
"Baga... we almost stood out... The cavalry company of the Independent Regiment came at the wrong time!" Kuroki Daizuo's mood at this moment was like riding a roller coaster.
I was still excited just now, seeing the hope of successfully breaking out of the pocket formation.
Hope was dashed in an instant, and a breakthrough that the troops finally managed to open was blocked by the cavalry company.
This scene almost made him vomit blood.
Staring with a pair of red eyes, he ordered: "Don't stop the troops, continue to attack forward!"
"The cavalry company of the Independent Regiment is not equipped with heavy weapons. Horse rifles alone will definitely not be able to stop us. Everyone still has a chance to break out..."
"The Imperial Army of Japan only has warriors who died in battle, and no cowards who were defeated... We will die on the charge... Kill them!"
Kuroki Daizuo's order was particularly confusing.
In an instant, the fanaticism and primitive animality of his subordinates were aroused. Under the stimulation of the bushido spirit, they completely lost their minds and turned into killing machines that could only move forward and never retreat!
Cavalrymen kept crashing into the blockade and perished together with the soldiers of the 10th Company, leaving a gaping hole for the following cavalrymen.
The soldiers of the 10th Company were also furious. If the rifle machine gun bullets could not stop the cavalry, they used grenades...
Looking at the oncoming Japanese cavalry, he did not hesitate to pull off the grenade on his body and died together with the oncoming Japanese.
The sound of gunshots and explosions soon rang out on the defense line...
When the Tenth Company suffered too many casualties and was about to be unable to hold on, the reserve team finally arrived at the position...
The addition of more than a hundred fresh troops immediately stabilized the dangerous line of defense and drove the Japanese back to the pocket formation...
"Captain, the reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army are coming, and we have no chance to rush out!" A somewhat rational squadron leader ran to Kuroki Daizuo and reported.
"Continue to attack..." Kuroki Daizuo ordered after looking at the less than a hundred cavalry around him.
"The Imperial Army of the Japanese Empire only has warriors who died in battle, and no cowards who retreated...Kill them!"
The squadron leader instantly understood Kuroki Daizuo's true thoughts.
The cavalry regiment was completely lost, and the remaining cavalry was no longer enough to support them in finding a breakout point. Instead of retreating to the pocket formation and being killed by the Eighth Route Army's light and heavy machine guns from a long distance, it was better to continue to charge forward and die on the charge.
If you are lucky enough, you can kill a few Eighth Route Army soldiers before you die to give yourself a back-up...
The squadron leader returned to the battlefield, raised his saber high, and rushed forward without hesitation...
Until the body was smashed into pieces by machine gun bullets, and the man and the horse were smashed to the ground...
"Kill me..."
Kuroki Dazuo also started to attack, raised his saber, and roared towards the Eighth Route Army defense line...
At the Eighth Route Military Headquarters, Brigadier Chen rushed into the war room and reported excitedly: "Boss, division commander... the independent regiment has won!"
"Comrade Kong Jie just sent good news. They successfully eliminated the Japanese cavalry regiment on the predetermined battlefield, killing more than 900 cavalrymen below the regimental commander... In addition to the hundreds of cavalry killed by the cavalry company when luring the enemy... The Japanese Cavalry Regiment
All the more than a thousand Japs left have been wiped out!"
"Give me the telegram quickly!" After hearing this, the boss grabbed the telegram from Brigadier Chen's hand and said while reading it.
"Kong Jie fought well in this battle... Not only did it surprise me, but the little devil will definitely be scared too..."
"Why is there no specific battle process here!"
"Now that the battle is over, there is no question of us intervening in command... You should send a telegram to Kong Jie immediately and ask him to send a summary of the battle immediately. I want to see it!"
"To annihilate a Japanese cavalry regiment in one battle has no precedent in our Eighth Route Army. We must sum up the combat experience and promote some good tactics from it to the entire army!"
"No need to send a telegram, Kong Jie will come to the headquarters tonight!" Brigadier Chen shook his head and replied.
"Before the battle began, they expected that at most four to five hundred horses would be killed or injured in this battle. However, the Japanese resisted too hard and launched a suicide attack on the independent regiment before they died. As a result, only two cavalry regiments were left.
More than a hundred horses were intact. The remaining seven to eight hundred horses were all killed and can only be eaten as meat!"
"The troops are about to carry out counter-mopping operations. They can still process tens of thousands of kilograms of horse meat by themselves. Now more than two hundred thousand kilograms of horse meat have arrived. Even if it is all made into dried meat, they cannot digest it."
"Kong Jie decided to send a batch of horse meat and trophies overnight to support the headquarters' anti-mopping up..."
“If the boss has any questions, it’s not too late to ask them after we meet!”
At the headquarters of the Japanese Fourth Mixed Brigade in Yangquan, Major General Miyazawa, as usual, stared at the sand table to study the mopping up plan whenever he had free time, looking for loopholes in it.
Today was no exception. After lunch, I called a few staff officers to go over the mopping up plan for the fourth time.
"There seems to be a loophole here!" Major General Miyazawa suddenly pointed to a point on the sand table and analyzed it!
"Intelligence shows that both the 386th Brigade and the Independent Regiment have a powerful artillery unit... If they concentrate all their artillery to bombard the mopping up troops here, and the main force attacks frontally, it will be easy to break out of our encirclement, then we will be completely wiped out.
Or the goal of severely damaging the Independent Regiment will not be achieved!"
"Report to General... The terrain here is very unsuitable for artillery and tank maneuvers. We can only arrange an infantry brigade..." A staff officer stood up and explained.
"If the Eighth Route Army concentrates all its artillery fire to break out of the encirclement from here, it will indeed be able to break out of the encirclement in a short time!"
"But we have prepared a big pocket for the Eighth Route Army for this loophole..."
"After the sweep begins, the cavalry regiment will always be active nearby!"
"Guarantee how many people the Eighth Route Army breaks out of, and how many people the cavalry regiment kills outside!"
Major General Miyazawa understood clearly: "You want the cavalry regiment to cooperate in combat, and design this loophole into a trap..."
"The general is wise!" the combat staff nodded and admitted: "If the Eighth Route Army is fooled, our process of severely damaging or completely annihilating the Eighth Route Army will definitely speed up a lot..."
"We have conducted many rehearsals. With the combat effectiveness of the cavalry unit, as long as the number of Eighth Route Army soldiers that break out does not exceed 5,000, the cavalry unit can kill them. At the very least, it can hold them back and buy time for the surrounding imperial troops to come and encircle them.
them!"
Major General Miyazawa nodded, indicating that he approved the plan, and then suddenly asked: "Speaking of the Cavalry Regiment, we haven't contacted each other for a long time..."
"Harada-kun, send a telegram to Kuroki Daizuo immediately and ask them how they are progressing and whether they have killed the Independent Regiment Cavalry Company."
Before the chief of staff moved, he saw the communications officer running towards them in a hurry: "Your Excellency, the cavalry regiment has an urgent call..."
"They were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army. Please let us immediately coordinate the aviation force to cover their breakout. The faster the better..."
Major General Miyazawa felt that this was the biggest joke he had heard today.
The cavalry regiment is the enemy of the infantry.
In his opinion, even a brigade of the Eighth Route Army could not threaten the safety of the cavalry regiment.
And the communications staff officer in front of him actually told him that something was wrong with the cavalry regiment... How is this possible!
It wasn't until the communications staff handed him the rescue telegram, which clearly recorded the specific location where the cavalry regiment was ambushed, that he believed that something had really happened to the cavalry regiment.
Quickly rush to the desk and personally call the aviation force to coordinate aircraft support for the cavalry wing!
After finishing my work, I was not in the mood to continue the deduction. I paced back and forth in the room with my hands behind my back, looking very anxious.
After waiting for less than twenty minutes, I found the chief of staff and asked: "Harada-kun, do you have the latest news about the cavalry regiment?"
Harada shook his head and replied: "Not yet..."
"After receiving the rescue telegram, the radio contact between us was interrupted!"
"Our operators have been calling, and I believe there will be good news soon. Please rest assured, sir!"
Major General Miyazawa had a sullen face and said nothing, but the bad feeling in his heart was getting stronger and stronger.
The most powerful thing about the cavalry regiment is its assault capability. If it is trapped in a pocket formation by the Eighth Route Army and cannot bring out its assault capability, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry regiment will be reduced by at least half.
If horses were abandoned and replaced by infantry to fight the Eighth Route Army, the combat effectiveness of the entire cavalry regiment would be worse than that of an infantry brigade.
Because they want cannons but not cannons, heavy machine guns but not heavy machine guns... they even have very few light machine guns, and their infantry firepower cannot even match that of many Eighth Route Army troops.
