"Ah...Baga...Ah..." Soon, the screams and curses of his subordinates reached the ears of the squadron leader. Even the squadron leader was driven by a wave of hot air and almost fell off his horse.
Come down.
Although the squadron leader did not fall to the ground in the end, as a veteran, he clearly felt that his thigh was hit by the grenade fragments.
While the stinging sensation continued to come from the thigh wound, large streams of hot blood also continued to flow from the muzzle of the gun.
"Baga, I've been shot!" the squadron leader frowned and shouted loudly.
However, when he looked around, even though the thick smoke blocked most of his field of vision, he could still vaguely see that a dozen of his subordinates were gone and fell to the ground around them along with their horses.
"Hurry up and fight back with grenades!" the heartbroken squadron leader shouted with thoughts of revenge.
He pulled out a grenade hanging from his waist, fired it, and then threw it towards the Eighth Route Army position.
Seven or eight Japanese soldiers who reacted quickly also threw out grenades.
However, Wang Ping's reaction speed was faster. When the Japs threw grenades, more grenades in the second round had already been directed towards the Japs by the soldiers.
"Boom!" A violent explosion sounded simultaneously among the Eighth Route Army defense line and more than 20 Japanese cavalry.
More than a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers were blown over, and three others were blown out of their bunkers and died.
The Japanese cavalry, especially the Japanese squadron leader, were not so lucky this time.
A grenade exploded directly above his head. In the violent explosion, five or six pieces of hot shrapnel penetrated directly into his body. Although the squadron leader endured the pain all over his body and held on to the reins of the war horse, the rapidly disappearing physical strength still made him feel uncomfortable.
He fell to the ground.
This time, more than a dozen cavalrymen, including the squadron leader, were frightened to death.
There were less than ten Japanese soldiers left who were completely shrouded in fear and at a loss what to do.
Because their squadron leader and squad leader were all dead. Moreover, the thick smoke also blocked their sight, making them unable to see each other clearly.
This fear of the unknown is the most despairing.
Just when they were at a loss, Wang Ping had already fired the third grenade at them with anger.
Seven or eight Japanese soldiers, with faces full of fear and no time to react, were killed in a series of explosions.
"Bageya Road, my first squadron!" The Japanese captain supervising the battle behind him instantly turned into an angry lion and cursed loudly.
The two remaining squadron leaders beside them couldn't help but take a breath of cold air at this time.
Unexpectedly, what seemed like an attack that was sure to win would turn into this situation.
More than a hundred cavalrymen were completely wiped out without even rushing past the Eighth Route Army position.
After a brief shock, the captain of the second squadron analyzed with a calm face: "Your Excellency, captain, we have all underestimated the enemy. We did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would have such a strong will to fight. We did not expect that they would be equipped with four machine guns. If we had been there in advance,
Be prepared and you will definitely defeat them!"
The captain of the 3rd Squadron said: "With a strong frontal attack and outflanking from both wings, we can disperse the Eighth Route Army's machine gun firepower!"
"After the troops reach a hundred meters in front of the formation, use horse rifles to kill as many of them as possible!"
"After rushing to 50 meters, we threw the grenade directly at the Eighth Route Army's defense line. Our warriors, riding on war horses, have a strong inertia advantage and can throw the grenade directly to 50 meters away. But the Eighth Route Army guarding the defense line cannot do this.
One point. As long as we throw grenades in advance, the Eighth Route Army will only be passively beaten!"
"Your Excellency Captain, I humbly suggest that we launch another attack to avenge the death of the First Squadron!"
The captain's face looked much better, his face sank, and he made a decisive decision: "We must avenge the First Squadron. And the General will not allow us to abandon the infantry and retreat on our own!"
"Besides, the reputation of the Imperial Japanese Army's cavalry cannot be buried in our hands!"
"The 2nd Squadron attacked from the front, and the 1st and 2nd squadrons of the 3rd Squadron covered the attack on both sides, distracting the Eighth Route Army's blocking firepower. This time, I must take down the Eighth Route Army's defense line, kill them all, and avenge the warriors of the 1st Squadron!"
"Hi!" the two squadron leaders replied loudly, with very enthusiastic expressions on their faces.
Soon, nearly two hundred Japanese cavalry were ready for battle.
Wang Ping is also arranging combat missions.
Because the frontal width of the position is only more than 60 meters, Wang Ping only deployed an infantry company here except for the heavy machine guns and machine gunners hiding behind the bunkers.
In the battle just now, although a Japanese cavalry squadron was killed by machine gun fire, the infantry company also suffered heavy losses. Two of the four machine guns were blown up by the grenades thrown by the Japs, and more than fifty soldiers were also used by the Japs.
Horses were killed with rifles and grenades, and almost half of the troops were lost.
"The fourth company will withdraw as a reserve, and the fifth company will go up. This time the Japanese will definitely concentrate all their main forces to attack our position, so the heavy machine guns we prepared for them will also participate in the battle. As long as they rush to the front of the formation, one hundred and fifty
meters, all the heavy machine guns were set up and fired, letting the Japanese know that their cavalry is not invincible in front of our independent regiment!" After hearing Zhang Yunshan's report on the casualties of the Fourth Company, Wang Ping immediately made a decision.
Then he continued to add: "No surprise, after this attack is over, there will definitely be many Japanese who will flee for their lives when they see the situation is bad. Contact the Chief of Staff immediately to seal the gap. This time I will wipe out the Japanese cavalry brigade!"
"Finally, I want to remind everyone that although heavy machine guns are the nemesis of the cavalry, we cannot underestimate the enemy. After receiving the order to fire, do not save ammunition for me. The firepower of all heavy machine guns cannot be interrupted unless the Japanese are completely wiped out or
Get out of range!”
At this time, everyone no longer doubted whether Wang Ping could completely annihilate the Japanese army on the flat bottom.
An infantry company with strengthened machine guns can kill a Japanese cavalry squadron, not to mention that the regiment leader still has more than a dozen heavy machine guns hidden in his hand, which is a deadly weapon against the cavalry!
Therefore, after Wang Ping issued the order, several of his subordinates did not say a word and directly carried out the order with expressions of expectation and enthusiasm.
"Rumble..." Soon, the deafening sound of horse hooves sounded on the battlefield.
I saw that the Japanese army dispatched nearly two hundred cavalry at once, and there were less than forty cavalry left behind to supervise the battle.
Everyone on the Eighth Route Army defense line cast a look of genuine admiration at Wang Ping.
Because, so far, the development of the entire battle has been inferred by Wang Ping.
"Everyone is here, be ready for battle, light and heavy machine guns, fire in sequence according to the predetermined battle plan!" When the Japanese army was still three to four hundred meters away, Wang Ping's expression had returned from excitement to the seriousness before the battle, and then he looked majestic.
