People who have never experienced being stabbed with a knife in the midst of thousands of horses will never know what it feels like.
There are sharp blades and roaring horses on both sides, and your ears are filled with the rumbling sound of horse hooves. There is no room for any other sound. You have no time to search for any enemies. All you know is, holding the knife,
The enemy in your field of vision passes by, and then, there is a bloody light rising into the sky.
You don't need to put in much effort at all. The kinetic energy and huge inertia of the horse's high-speed running are enough for your saber to split through any hard object.
If the enemy is right in front and your knife can't reach it, it's easier to just bump into it. The horse's strong forelimbs plus the thousands of kilograms of kinetic energy it carries can knock anyone into comminuted fractures all over his body.
This is how Liu Lang feels now. Even if he is the best in the three armies in terms of military strength, he is confident that if he is under the horse, no one among the 1,600 cavalry here can be his top three generals.
However, when the cavalry charged, Liu Lang discovered that this was not a battlefield to show off personal force at all.
The cavalry relies on the whole body. Everyone is shoulder to shoulder, and the horses are next to the horses. They are like a wall. A wall composed of horseshoes and blades will destroy all resistance along the way.
If he faced this group of cavalry, Liu Lang's first thought would be to escape, to any place where he could escape the attack range of this terrifying group of cavalry.
Even if he is given a machine gun, Liu Lang has no confidence that he can survive in this terrible battlefield. Even if you kill one, ten, or even dozens of them, it will still be like a row of cavalry rushing towards him in a big wave.
It will eventually overwhelm you.
Facing such an attack, how desperate must Liu Lang feel in his heart? It was hard for Liu Lang to imagine how magnificent it was when tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of cavalry charged in ancient times.
As the attacker, Liu Lang had this idea, let alone the Japanese troops of the 8th Division who were attacked.
No one knows what was going through the mind of Major General Terube Tanibe at the division headquarters at the main position when the first platoon of cavalry rushed over with thundering hooves.
Tanibe Terube, who was stunned for a while, pushed away the guards who rushed up to try to take him away, and issued the last order in his life. Perhaps, it should be regarded as two orders: "Order the officers and soldiers of the entire division to break out of the encirclement on their own, and order the escort."
The flag soldiers burned the division flag."
Then, Tanibe Terube pulled out his command sword, held the sword in both hands, pointed the blade forward, and pointed at the Chinese cavalry, which was only three hundred meters away from him and was rushing towards here at high speed.
Liu Lang's evaluation of Tanibe Terube was still not accurate enough. The Chief of Staff of the 8th Division, who had always been suppressed by Liu Lang and seemed a little too cautious and restrained, showed at the last moment of his life, whether it was the stupidity of a mantis trying to block the car.
No matter how desperate he was to seek his own death, he did not flee in embarrassment after all. Instead, he showed the responsibility of a general in an army.
Since he ordered the entire army to break out on their own, he naturally admitted the fact that the Eighth Division had been defeated. Breaking out on his own is completely different from retreating. The latter is an organized retreat. Although retreat is not considered a defeat, the former
It is almost synonymous with defeat. You can escape as many as you can.
From the time the cavalry appeared to the order to break out on their own, it only took a few dozen seconds. Terube Tanibe, who was cautious by nature, may have made a decisive decision for the first time in his life.
Yes, ever since he heard the thunderous sound of horse hooves and then saw a black line jumping out on the horizon, the stunned Tanibe Terube knew that he had been fooled.
The Chinese's frontal blockade was to attract the few remaining main forces of his Eighth Division, and the flank attack was just a feint to make him believe that their target was the weak flank of the position. However, they actually
Unconventionally, the focus of the attack was placed on the rear of the position.
Moreover, it was not infantry, but cavalry. The terrifying cavalry charged into the battle.
If it were in the past, let alone the mere two thousand cavalry, even if there were twenty thousand, the Eighth Division would have killed all of them in front of the position without being able to advance an inch.
But now, he did not have a firepower network composed of hundreds of machine guns, nor did he lay a barbed wire fence in front of the position. Those baggage had long been exhausted in several fierce battles with the Great Wall Regiment.
The Eighth Division now only has rifles, machine guns, and a few bullets, and these are still fighting fiercely with thousands of Chinese at the front.
The nearly 4,000 people on the front could no longer turn back. It only took one minute for the cavalry to rush across a distance of one thousand meters, but it took three minutes for them to return to the trench 600 meters away.
The infantry, who were attacked from both sides and without the protection of trenches, faced the swords raised by the cavalry and could only be slaughtered.
Therefore, Terube Tanibe issued an order with unprecedented decisiveness for the entire division to break out of the encirclement on its own.
Then, he raised his command sword towards the galloping cavalry.
Perhaps he wanted to maintain the dignity of the Japanese Empire's major general, or perhaps he wanted to buy a little time for his soldiers to retreat.
But no matter what, a person who dares to face the swords of thousands of cavalry and raise his last weapon is worthy of respect, even if he is an enemy.
However, for the cavalrymen who were running wildly, they could not see the shining general star on Terube Tanibe's shoulders, nor the sharp blade raised by Terube Tanibe. They only saw the enemy, dressed in yellow.
Enemies in military uniforms, no matter whether you resist or not, they will always strike down with one strike.
Tanibe Terube's command sword is very sharp, and it shines with a cold light in the dim light of dawn. However, in front of a saber that carries thousands of kilograms of kinetic energy, a sharp knife is actually not as effective as a mace.
, only a loud "clang" sound was heard. The first person they met, Terube Tanibe's major general-level command sword was cut off by a cavalryman who ran past him at high speed. The cavalryman did not stop and continued to rush forward at high speed.
Immediately after, another cavalryman swung his saber, and a blood line gradually extended downward from the center of the brave Japanese major general's forehead. The fierce light and despair in his eyes gradually dimmed until they were lifeless.
As blood spurted out, the body of the Japanese major general fell on his back.
Tanibe Iroshi died.
A Japanese major general who was supposed to be promoted to a Japanese army general a few years later died at the blade of an ordinary Chinese cavalry more than ten years early.
Until after the war, no one knew who killed the Japanese commander. Because everyone was waving their knives mechanically, slashing at every enemy in sight, anyone wearing a yellow military uniform.
, are all enemies.
Who would remember whether the epaulettes on his shoulders were major general or private? No one has that time.
The two teams of cavalry did not stop at the main position at all. They increased their horse speed to the extreme again and rushed towards the Japanese troops who were already in chaos on the front position.
Perhaps only they themselves know the misery of the Japanese troops on the frontal battlefield.
They rushed too far.
It was only a hundred meters away from the Chinese position, and the nearest was even only fifty meters. However, under the desperate resistance of the Chinese, these fifty meters were like a chasm, which could only be looked at but not penetrated.
If you can't get in, you'll have to retreat.
But when the cavalry rushes from behind, it is impossible to retreat.
Turn around and raise your guns to fight the Chinese cavalry?
Are the bullets of the Chinese in the back useless? Without the suppression of the grenade, the result of leaving the back with dozens of machine guns and two thousand people's bullets will definitely not be much better than the cavalry's horseshoes, or even worse.
Bad.
Therefore, if some people want to enter, they can avoid the terrifying horse hooves and blades of the cavalry by entering the trenches. Others want to retreat, as long as they set up their machine guns and shoot at the cavalry, there is still a chance of survival.
However, the siren on the main position transmitted the message that the entire army had broken out, which plunged the already confused Japanese army into complete chaos.
The cavalry did not leave more time for the Japanese army who faced a choice. In just one minute, the cavalry crossed the trenches of the Japanese main position and rushed onto the front battlefield.
What greeted them were only the desperate eyes of the Japanese army and the bayonets in their hands that had never been so weak.
In a close encounter with the high-speed cavalry, any resistance from the infantry would be in vain.