Finally, with the efforts of the artillery personnel, the piles of artillery shells behind them slowly began to decrease... In less than ten minutes, the last artillery shell, under the control of a gunner, flew towards the Japanese army.
The position swore that the entire artillery bombardment of the artillery regiment had ended successfully... However, after ten minutes of shelling, almost every one of the nearly a thousand soldiers of the artillery regiment had their faces smoked into black ghosts. At the same time, every soldier,
They were all sweating profusely from the repeated shelling.
However, at this moment, there was no extra time for these artillerymen to take any rest. Just when the last shell fired from the artillery position, the entire artillery regiment, under the command of regiment commander Zhou Zhigang, began to
They quickly moved the more than 30 artillery pieces in position... because they knew that if they didn't hurry up, each of the artillery pieces in front of them would probably be destroyed by the little Japanese.
However, just as the soldiers quickly dismantled the artillery pieces, which were still warm, the Japanese cavalry regiment, as everyone planned before the war, responded to the order of the division commander, Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara.
, quickly assembled. At the same time, following the roaring sound of artillery, they rushed towards the Eighth Route Army's artillery position. In an attempt to eliminate the Eighth Route Army artillery units that dared to bombard the Japanese Imperial Army Artillery Regiment a few kilometers away...
The momentum of nearly a thousand little Japanese cavalry galloping across the battlefield was very shocking. Less than ten minutes after the artillery regiment opened fire, in addition to the rumbling sound of artillery that kept ringing behind them, the independent soldier who stood firm on the position
The soldiers of the Second Regiment and First Battalion could feel the earth trembling slightly... Soon, a huge roar came from far to near, from outside the mountain pass, and slowly reached everyone's ears...
"Battal Commander, it must be the little devil's cavalry. The little devil's cavalry regiment is here..." Hearing the huge roar and feeling the trembling of the earth... the instructor beside the battalion commander quickly reminded. However, after listening to himself
After being reminded, the first battalion commander did not seem too nervous, but slowly raised the telescope in his hand and looked directly in front of the position.
Finally, as the roar became louder and louder, the figure of the Imp slowly appeared in the telescope of the first battalion... Nearly a thousand fast-running Imp cavalry, waving the sabers in their hands, like a gust of wind.
Just like that, he quickly rushed towards the mountain pass where his battalion was holding...
In less than a minute, the neighing of war horses was heard directly opposite the blocking position. Nearly a thousand little devils, in order to enable their cavalry to exert their maximum power in the parliament's attack...
In everyone's shocked eyes, under the command of the captain, they stopped uniformly at a position almost one thousand meters away from the position... At the same time, nearly a thousand cavalry, at the moment of stopping, quickly
After taking a picture of the cavalry attack formation...suddenly, four huge cavalry attack formations appeared in front of the soldiers.
"Shush..." Seeing the Japanese cavalry's display of prowess in front of them, although most of the soldiers guarding the position have undergone certain practical training, there are still many soldiers who can't help but shout
There were bursts of sighs... What's more, some timid recruits began to tremble with their hands holding rifles...
"Comrades, don't be afraid. There are 500 landmines laid out in front of us. As long as the Japs dare to launch an attack, I will make it impossible for them to come back... All machine gunners are ready for battle. The Japs cavalry will not come close."
The obstacles we have prepared for them must not be opened fire..." Looking at the soldiers in the trenches, the battalion commander quickly encouraged loudly... At the same time, he ordered the instructors around him to start shuttling back and forth in the trenches, and the instructors at all levels
With the cooperation of others, we encouraged the soldiers and restored their morale.
Finally, under the comfort of the instructors and company instructors at all levels, the panicked recruits finally slowly relaxed their nervous hearts. They held the weapons in their hands tightly with both hands and blinked their eyes.
Looking unblinkingly at the Japanese cavalry regiment a thousand meters away, there were nearly a thousand little Japanese... However, the battalion commander could still see a trace of nervousness in their hearts from their eyes.
And when the entire first battalion, more than 400 soldiers looked at the Japanese cavalry regiment without blinking, Lieutenant Colonel Yasuda Kaneto, captain of the Little Japanese Cavalry Regiment, was also riding on his own horse, and among several squadron leaders
Surrounded by others, he came to the forefront of the entire cavalry regiment. He held up the telescope in his hand and observed the terrain in front of him and the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army...
"Your Excellency, Captain, according to the terrain in front of us, after passing this mountain pass, we will reach the enemy's artillery position. As long as we rush through the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, our cavalry regiment can go on a killing spree on the Eighth Route Army's artillery position and wipe out all
The Eighth Route Army, to avenge the imperial warriors who were just crushed in the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire..." Looking at the silent captain Yasuda beside him, the captain of the 2nd Cavalry Squadron put down his telescope and said with contempt on his face...
"Well, what you said is very correct. However, in front of us, there is only one road for our cavalry regiment to pass. However, this passage has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army... I don't know if you have any good ideas.
Break through the Eighth Route Army's blocking position and rush into their artillery position." Regarding the suggestion of the squadron leader of the second squadron, the commander did not make any suggestions. Instead, he asked coldly to the other squadron captains around him...
"Hi, Your Excellency, Captain of the Regiment. Through observation, the Eighth Route Army in front of us only has one battalion at most. And the combat effectiveness of one of our cavalry regiments is equivalent to that of a reorganized division of the Chinese *** Corps. Therefore, I think
, we don’t need to worry at all. We only need to send out a squadron of cavalry, which will definitely be able to easily deal with the Eighth Route Army in front of us. Therefore, I humbly volunteered my request to lead all the officers and soldiers of the first squadron to serve as the vanguard of the entire cavalry regiment and eliminate them.
The Eighth Route Army in front of us..." Just as the commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Yasuda, finished speaking, the commander of the 1st Squadron replied with confidence. At the same time, a pair of eyes were filled with contempt for the 1st Battalion of the Duer Regiment opposite.
"Yo Xi, since you are so confident, the task of destroying the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side will be left to you. Now I order the First Squadron to immediately launch a charge against the current Eighth Route Army and open a breakthrough for the main force of the regiment in the shortest possible time.
At the same time, destroy the Eighth Route Army troops in front of you." The commander of the first squadron did not have any doubts about the bold words of the squadron leader, because he fully believed in the combat effectiveness of his cavalry unit and ordered loudly.
"Hi, thank you for your support, Captain. I will definitely live up to your high expectations in this humble position. I will seize the positions of the Eighth Route Army and chop off the heads of all the Eighth Route Army with the sabers in our hands..." The captain of the first squadron who got the mission was excited.
At the same time, he promised loudly to the superior in front of him. Because, in his eyes, it was very easy to eliminate hundreds of Eighth Route Army soldiers on the opposite side.
As the commander of the squadron, Lieutenant Colonel Yasuda, issued the order, the first squadron, which had already formed an offensive formation, included more than a hundred little Japanese cavalry. Immediately, under the command of the squadron leader, they slowly walked out of the entire squadron's camp.
.Stopped at a position almost 900 meters away from the 1st Battalion blocking position.
"Warriors, show your sabers and let the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side know that the Great Communist Empire is invincible. Use the blood and brains of the Eighth Route Army to avenge the soldiers who were just shattered in the artillery fire...Long live the Great Communist Empire,
Long live His Majesty the Emperor...Kill them..." Looking at the more than a hundred energetic cavalry in front of him, the squadron leader ordered loudly. At the same time, the first one took out his curse words and drove his horses to the whole place.
The forefront of the cavalry squadron...
"Long live the Great Empire... Long live His Majesty the Emperor... Kill me..." After a thundering roar, more than a hundred sabers emitting cold light appeared in the hands of these little devils... The shining sabers,
Immediately, a dazzling array of knives formed on the Japanese army's position...Under the reflection of the sun, the soldiers could hardly open their eyes...
"Order all machine gunners to prepare for battle... When you hear the order, fire immediately. Remember, the best way to deal with cavalry is to shoot the men first and the horses... Don't lose the entire position just for those few horses..."
Looking at the Japanese sword array that was glowing coldly, the first battalion commander knew that the first round of the Japs' attack had begun.
Sure enough, just when the battalion commander's order was passed down, more than a hundred little Japanese cavalry who had been motionless just now, under the personal leadership of the squadron leader, urged the horses under their crotches and began to trot...
"Rumble, rumble..." As the hoofbeats of the war horses became louder and louder, the charging speed of more than a hundred cavalry became faster and faster... Just when more than a hundred cavalry were still 500 meters away from the position.
After several hundred meters of accelerating charge, the speed of the entire cavalry squadron has reached its fastest...
Looking at the Little Japanese cavalry getting closer and closer, listening to the thunderous roar, and feeling the cold light from the Little Japanese sword array... the soldiers on the position became frightened again... However, at this moment, the battalion commander,
He didn't say a word. Because he knew that in a few seconds, as long as the Japs rushed into the minefield he had carefully prepared for them, the morale of the soldiers would be restored with the huge casualties of the Japs cavalry.
….
However, just for a few seconds while the first battalion commander was lost in thought, more than a hundred Japanese cavalry had already rushed over a hundred meters and arrived at the minefield that the soldiers had laid out for them with artillery shells... And at this moment
, almost every soldier on the battlefield stared with his big eyes, waiting to see the little devil's show...
"Boom..." Suddenly, a huge explosion exploded in the middle of the Japanese cavalry squadron. A mine deployed with artillery shells exploded under the trampling of horse hooves. With the explosion of the artillery shells, the dense offensive formation just now,
A huge hole was immediately blown up. Several cavalrymen and their horses fell into a pool of blood in an instant...
"Boom, boom, boom..." Just as the soldiers were admiring the effect of the shell explosion just now, another explosion came one after another, reaching the ears of the soldiers on the position... As a series of explosions sounded,
The dozens of little Japanese cavalry charging at the front, without any doubt, immediately disappeared into the smoke caused by the explosion of the artillery shells...
"Baga... it's a mine, hurry up, retreat immediately..." I saw the dozens of cavalry charging at the front, and in a burst of dense explosions, the whole army was wiped out in less than a few seconds. The leader of the team
The captain of the first squadron immediately reacted from the excitement just now, quickly waved the saber in his hand, and shouted loudly at the soldiers behind him...
However, in this thunderous roar, how many of the little devils with red eyes who have already rushed can hear the orders of their squadron leaders? More importantly, even if the little devils can hear the orders, the fast-running war horses
, it is also impossible to change the direction of the charge in an instant and bring back the cavalry on his back...
"Ah... Baga, don't..." Amidst the calls of the Japanese squadron leader, one after another, the little Japanese cavalry quickly passed over the corpses of the horse soldiers on the ground and rushed into the mine array... However, let
These excited little devils were disappointed that instead of getting any reward for their charge, they received huge landmines buried in the ground that kept exploding...
However, a total of 500 artillery shells must be deployed in an area fifty meters wide and several hundred meters long. It is conceivable that the density of landmines is not very large... As a series of continuous explosions sounded, the Little Japanese Cavalry finally rushed forward.
After passing the 50-meter-wide minefield. However, this 50-meter distance is indeed covered with the corpses of little Japanese war horses and soldiers... It can be said that this road is less than 10 meters wide and 50 meters long.
The distance was almost bought with the blood of the little devil...
And in the end, after stepping on the corpses of soldiers and war horses, the little devils rushed through the mine array, and there were only less than a squad of forty cavalry left... And as the squadron leader of the entire cavalry squadron, he didn't know that he was just unlucky.
Or something, miraculously he was not killed by the explosion, but followed the remaining thirty cavalrymen and rushed through the mine array.
"Baga... the cunning Eighth Route Army... warriors, now we have passed through the Eighth Route Army's minefields, and there is no longer any obstacle in front of us... Now I will lead you, rush into the Eighth Route Army's position, and use the weapons in our hands to
Use your saber to chop off their heads and avenge the newly shattered imperial army... kill them all..." Looking at the road paved with the corpses of his soldiers and horses behind him, the Japanese squadron leader who had already killed him could not help but feel a burst of physical pain.
...After seeing the Eighth Route Army position that was already close at hand, he no longer hesitated and gave the order to continue the attack to the only remaining cavalry around him.
"Kill them..." Although the more than thirty little Japs were in the mine formation just now, their faces were red with anger because of the huge casualties of their comrades. However, after all, the number of them left was too small. Although every
The little devils shouted their slogans with all their strength. However, such shouts of killing were simply incomparable to the roar of war horses galloping past.
However, what disappointed these little devils who planned to take revenge was that although they broke through the minefields arranged by the Eighth Route Army, they also stepped into the trap area carefully prepared by the soldiers for these little devils... Then
When the speed of the cavalry charge was once again increased to its optimal state, the hoofs of the war horses had unknowingly stepped into a circular pit with a depth of half a meter and a diameter of less than half a foot.
Among them... the horses that stepped into the traps neighed miserably. The horses that were trapped in the pits had their legs broken, and then fell heavily to the ground.
As for the little devil cavalry on horseback, under the influence of huge inertia, he was thrown several meters away without hesitation. He fell heavily to the ground. The final result was no surprise, even if he died immediately.
, will also be seriously injured and completely lose combat effectiveness.
As the last war horse of the Japanese First Cavalry Squadron fell heavily to the ground less than 200 meters away from the blocking position, the entire battlefield immediately fell into silence. On the entire blocking position, four people
More than a hundred soldiers looked at the scene in front of them in stunned silence. They couldn't believe their eyes... Because, before he fired a bullet, the little devil, a cavalry squadron and more than a hundred elite cavalry, were carefully shooting at him.
The entire army was wiped out in front of the blocking position set up...
"Long live...Long live..." It didn't matter who took the lead. After a short silence, the entire blocking position immediately erupted into the excited roars of the soldiers. Even the recruits who were still full of panic and trembling just now,
They were all immersed in the great joy of victory, holding up the rifles in their hands and roaring in their hearts...
Completely opposite to the high morale on the defender's position, the position of the Little Japs Cavalry Regiment... The remaining more than 700 Little Japs in the entire cavalry regiment were all stunned to see the bodies of their comrades in front of them... They
I also couldn't believe my eyes. The imperial cavalry unit, which had always been invincible, had not even reached the Eighth Route Army's position. Under various blows, the entire army was destroyed, without even touching a hair of the Eighth Route Army.
arrive.
"Baga...how is it possible...impossible, absolutely impossible. These are more than a hundred excellent cavalry, a whole squadron of cavalry, how could they all be broken into pieces so easily? Absolutely impossible..." was also stunned...
Lieutenant Colonel Yasuda, the captain of the cavalry regiment, held up his binoculars and looked at the corpses of soldiers and horses that fell on the charge road, and muttered to himself over and over to the squadron commanders around him.