Immediately afterwards, Zhao Gang also quickly mobilized the soldiers.
"My order is for all soldiers to cover their mouths and noses with towels, take off their leggings and cover their faces."
Towels and garlic are essential items for soldiers during combat to prevent Japanese poison gas. Not to mention leggings, every soldier has them wrapped around their calves.
Li Yunlong also shouted loudly: "We must take good care of the wounded, our new regiment will never leave a single brother behind!"
"There are also heavy machine guns, machine guns, rocket launchers and mortars. I must have them!"
"We must not fall into the hands of the devil!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded loudly while covering their mouths and noses with towels.
That is to say, the weather has been sunny for a period of time, and the sun has dried up the grass in the entire basin, the land is dry and hard, and a puff of dust will fly up whenever you stamp your feet.
If it rains or snows in winter, Li Yunlong has no choice but to run around and be beaten passively, as Zhao Gang said.
Zhao Gang also had to admire Li Yunlong, a guy who didn't go to school but had quite creative thinking.
"Lao Li, your mind works really fast." Zhao Gang said, "You can't even catch a car."
"What do you think?" Li Yunlong tied the towel to the back of his head and snorted, "I have been in the army for so many years, and I have experienced at least a hundred battles. After beating old Chiang Kai-shek and beating the little Japanese, if I had no skills, I would have gone to meet the Lord of Hell.
Already."
"In ancient times, we, Lao Li, were not only comparable to Crouching Dragon and Phoenix, but they were also great generals who could lead an army."
Zhao Gang immediately laughed and said, "You said you were fat, and you still got into trouble with me?"
Then, Zhao Gang turned around and said to guard Xiao Li: "Give me Barrett."
"Political commissar," Xiao Li said, "let me carry it, I can handle it."
Barrett weighs nearly 30 kilograms, and it is not easy to carry it while running.
"You talk so much nonsense." Zhao Gang stared, "Give it to me if you ask me to, and be careful I'll hit you."
"Oh!" Xiao Li secretly thought that this intellectual was quite ruthless. He followed the leader's bad example and beat and cursed others at every turn.
Zhao Gang took Barrett and carried it on his shoulders.
After laughing, Li Yunlong said: "Old Zhao, that's right, you have to curse when you command the troops."
"You cultural people usually say this when you command troops to attack the mountain. First battalion commander, please organize your troops to attack the mountain. If you can't take it down, I will punish you."
"Such soft words will affect the combat effectiveness of the troops."
"If you want to say so, first battalion commander, take down that hilltop for me. Grandma, if you can't take it off, I'll chop it up for you."
"Listen to this, it's very encouraging. When the troops heard this, they immediately howled."
"Brother, after all, I have eaten salt for two more years than you. You are right to listen to me."
"That's you." Zhao Gang said, "You are so anxious, and you are still in the mood to joke."
Having said that, Zhao Gang felt that Li Yunlong's words had some truth to them.
But it's not enough to be full of foul language like Li Yunlong. You have to find a balance between these two points, Zhao Gang thought for a while.
At the end of the entire team, the artillery shell boxes and bullet boxes originally carried on the military horses were unloaded and handed over to the soldiers to carry.
Fortunately, the heaviest ammunition box only weighs fifty kilograms. Two soldiers are responsible for one ammunition box, so it is not a big problem to take turns carrying it.
Sun Desheng frowned and said to the commander of the third battalion: "Old Chen, our cavalry battalion has all gone to the front to raise ashes. What should we do with these lightly wounded people?"
Previously, in addition to ammunition boxes, the backs of military horses also carried dozens of lightly wounded soldiers.
"How many people are lightly injured?"
Chen Dugu asked: "You can ask the regiment leader to apply for the horses from the Sharp Sword Squadron to be brought over. Those soldiers in the Sharp Sword Squadron are all very fast, so let them run away."
Because the number of troops and horses was sufficient before, Li Yunlong considered that emergencies might occur at any time, so he did not assign tasks to the troops and horses of the Sharp Sword Squadron.
But now that the horses of the cavalry battalion have a mission, these lightly wounded soldiers can no longer ride on horseback.
There are stretchers to carry the seriously injured, but there are not enough stretchers at the moment. It is okay for these lightly injured to walk slowly, but it is definitely not possible for them to run.
Several snorts of military horses rang in the ears of Sun Desheng and Chen Dagu. When they looked back, it was Lu Yingjun who took the initiative to lead all the military horses over with his sword detachment.
Lu Yingjun said: "Two battalion commanders, please quickly let the wounded mount their horses?"
Sun Desheng shook his head: "You only have 33 horses, but I have more than 50 wounded here, and there are not enough horses."
Chen Dugu said: "Then, can't it be enough for your cavalry camp to have more than twenty horses?"
"Don't waste that time." Lu Yingjun waved his hand like a cattail leaf fan, "The remaining 20 wounded people will be handed over to our sharp sword squad."
Lu Yingjun knew clearly that if the twenty-odd army horses were to be deployed, more than 200 meters of frontal width would be lost, and the new regiment would be more dangerous.
"Leave it to you?" Sun Desheng was stunned, "What do you do?"
"Easy to handle!" Lu Yingjun turned to the members of the Sharp Sword Team and shouted, "Brothers, carry the wounded!"
"Our new group will never leave a brother behind!"
As Wei Dayong spoke, he ran over behind Lu Yingjun and carried a wounded soldier on his back.
Behind him, Duan Peng, Wang Gensheng, Li Changshun, Cao Jinwang, Wang Xikui and other team members rushed forward to carry a wounded person on their backs.
When the soldiers nearby saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel their noses sore, and a strange feeling arose in their hearts.
This is comradeship. At the critical moment of life and death, never abandon and never give up!
"Captain Lu, your sharp sword detachment is all good!" Chen Dugu said upon seeing this, "But there are still 20 kilometers ahead. It's not enough to exhaust your body. I'll pick 30 strong ones from the third battalion.
I’ll rotate with you.”
"Okay!" Lu Yingjun didn't refuse. Even if he were a superman, it would be difficult for him to run more than 20 kilometers carrying more than 100 kilograms of stuff.
After resting here for about 10 minutes, the soldiers' physical strength has basically recovered.
By this time the cavalry battalion was ready.
"Cavalry battalion, mount up!" Sun Desheng gave the order, and a long and rough howl rose into the sky: "Cavalry is ten meters apart, run for me!"
More than 200 soldiers from the cavalry battalion got on their horses one after another. The war horses felt the will of their masters and began to run with their legs.
Because the cavalry battalion did not come even once, there were only more than 200 horses. Otherwise, the cavalry battalion could have created a dust mist 3 kilometers wide.
With the horses running under the cavalry battalion soldiers, the horse's hooves can raise a cloud of dust mist as they run quickly. Coupled with the broom tied to the horse, the amount of dust mist is doubled in an instant.
As the cavalry passed through the ranks and then quickly dispersed, the dust quickly rose and soon became black.
"Come on!" Li Yunlong yelled.
The soldiers, who covered their mouths, noses and cheeks, leaving only a pair of eyes outside, immediately rushed into the dust and mist, and then quickly dispersed.
The visibility suddenly became very low in the dust and fog, but you would not lose your way by following the sound of horse hooves and the horse's hoofprints on the ground.
Of course, the so-called dispersal is not based on each soldier as a unit, but as a squad unit, so that we can support each other and prevent soldiers from falling behind.
Each machine gun is pulled by a mule. The machine gun weighs only more than 150 kilograms, so it is effortless for the mule to pull it.
Some equipment, such as heavy machine guns, were carried by soldiers in turns. The 60mm mortars and rocket launchers were even lighter. As for the infantry guns and field artillery, they were not brought at all this time.
By the time the Jaap pilots at high altitude noticed the abnormality and pulled the control stick to dive down, it was already too late. The new group had already disappeared into the dust and fog that blocked the sky and the sun.
Looking down from a high altitude, a 2-kilometer-wide dust mist rises, with a front-to-back length of more than 1 kilometer, and it is still growing.
Looking from top to bottom, there are no people on the Eighth Road at all, and 2 kilometers times 1 kilometer is 2 million square meters. The Eighth Road with less than 2,000 people is scattered in such a large area.
Even if you can drop bombs and dive bomb now, it's still a lottery, and the probability of winning is very low.
The order of these Japanese soldiers was to cooperate with the cavalry to harass the Eighth Route Army and slow down their escape speed. Therefore, when the Eighth Route Army stalled, they did not swoop down to strafe or bomb.
The Eighth Route Air Defense Firepower Network is too powerful.
With the financial resources and logistical capabilities of the Japanese army, these Japanese pilots did not dare to waste aerial bombs at will.
As a result, these Japanese pilots lowered their flying altitude and headed straight for the frontmost Eighth Route Army cavalry.
As long as these Eighth Route Cavalry are killed, they can be prevented from creating dust mist.
Without the dust and mist, these eight-roaders would not be able to run around unscrupulously.
Da da da…
Seven Japanese planes swooped down toward the seven soldiers of the cavalry battalion. Flames erupted from both wings of the planes, and the bullets fired splashed muddy mist half a meter high on the ground.
The cavalry soldiers heard the sound one after another and turned their heads to look, knowing that the Japanese plane was coming towards them.
"Wuhu!"
The soldiers shouted and turned their horses around.
Facing the strafing of the Japanese planes, running towards or against the direction of the Japanese fighter planes is seeking death. You must run sideways and in the tangent direction of the plane's dive trajectory.
It is absolutely impossible for humans to run faster on the ground than a fighter jet can adjust its shooting angle in the air.
But there is a chance of running at a war horse's speed, because a war horse can reach a speed of more than 60 kilometers per hour when running at full speed.
As long as you see the enemy swooping down towards you, you should immediately turn the direction of the horse's running, and you will have a chance to avoid the enemy's plane's swooping fire.
This round of Japanese swooping fire only hit two cavalrymen. One cavalry soldier was hit in the shoulder by a machine gun and fell off his horse. The hind legs of another war horse were broken and the soldier was thrown off.
However, after these Japanese fighter jets were pulled up, they made a somersault and dived down again.
This time it was a direct dive and strafing attack.
"Spread out, spread out!" Sun Desheng yelled immediately.
The cavalry soldiers facing the Japanese plane immediately turned their horses and ran towards the tangent line of the Japanese plane.
This time, the dive machine gun fire did not hit the cavalry, but the frustrated Japanese dropped several aerial bombs, and several cavalry were knocked off their horses by the air wave of the explosion.
However, there are more than 200 cavalrymen in the cavalry battalion, so they can completely withstand this loss.
In the fierce air-to-ground pursuit battle, the Japanese aircraft's ammunition was also rapidly consumed.
