Three hundred meters away, there was no movement on the independent regiment's defense line!
Two hundred meters away, four machine guns fired. Two fired from the opposite side, blocking the second squadron, and the other two fired from both wings of the defense line, blocking the attacking Japanese cavalry on both wings.
"Yo Xi, the blocking firepower of the Eighth Route Army has been dispersed. Warriors, continue to speed up, rush up and destroy them!" The squadron leader who personally participated in the attack shouted arrogantly while holding up his command knife.
In his understanding, although two machine guns can cause considerable casualties to the attacking cavalry, these casualties are absolutely negligible for a cavalry squadron.
Therefore, the squadron leader did not take the two machine guns seriously at all and commanded the troops to rush forward without hesitation.
The Japanese cavalry with powerful assault capabilities indeed had arrogant capital.
In less than ten seconds, they advanced fifty meters and only lost seven or eight cavalry.
Compared with the first squadron where the whole army was wiped out just now, the casualties were less than half.
Under this situation, the squadron leader became more confident in this attack. While continuing to rush forward, he drew out the horse rifle hanging on the horse's back, raised it with one hand, and was ready to wait for the troops to rush to a hundred meters in front of the Eighth Route Army formation.
Just shoot.
Wang Ping also began to give orders at this time: "Prepare heavy machine guns!"
As soon as he finished speaking, more than a dozen heavy machine guns were lifted and set up on the bunker that had been piled with sandbags.
Wang Ping did not hesitate and continued to order: "Shoot and kill the little Japanese cavalry!"
The Japanese squadron leader was very arrogant, but his eyes were always fixed on the Eighth Route Army on the defensive line. This was because he had to adjust the troops' attack method and firing time at any time based on the distance of the next charge.
Therefore, as soon as a dozen heavy machine guns were carried out by the Eighth Route Army, the squadron leader saw them.
Then my heart skipped a beat and my face instantly turned pale!
"Baga, we were fooled. The Eighth Route Army actually hid so many heavy machine guns!"
As a veteran cavalryman who has been in the army for seven or eight years, the squadron leader knows better than anyone else what the cavalry is afraid of.
As Wang Ping said, on the Chinese battlefield, cavalry is the nemesis of infantry. However, as long as the infantry is equipped with a sufficient number of light and heavy machine guns, the infantry can also become the nemesis of the cavalry.
More than a dozen heavy machine guns appeared on the Eighth Route Army's defense line. Not to mention that they only had one squadron of cavalry. Even if they had a cavalry brigade, they would only be massacred in the face of so many heavy machine guns.
At this time, the squadron leader's first subconscious reaction was to retreat, and then he shouted with a face full of panic: "Retreat quickly, retreat back, the Eighth Route Army has heavy machine guns, there is no way we can rush over, retreat immediately!"
"Da da da..." Before he could finish his words, the sound of intensive machine gun fire reached the squadron leader's ears.
A picture that made him feel desperate also appeared in front of him.
A dozen thick and hot tongues of fire were like death scythes, quickly harvesting the lives of the men around them.
In the blink of an eye, more than thirty cavalry warriors were beaten into a hornet's nest, and both men and horses fell down on the charging road.
"Retreat, retreat quickly!" the heartbroken squadron leader shouted loudly.
More than a dozen heavy machine guns fired together, and the dense bullets formed a steel storm directly in front of them.
Under such circumstances, it would be very difficult for more than a hundred cavalry not only to reach the independent regiment's position, but also to advance one step forward.
Therefore, as long as the Japanese are still alive on the battlefield, they will know without the squadron leader’s reminder that continuing to attack will lead to death.
So they turned their horses around and wanted to retreat.
But a problem arises. Their charging speed has reached its extreme. If they want to turn around in this situation, they must make a large circle in front of the independent regiment's position.
However, under the fire of so many heavy machine guns, several cavalrymen were killed for every second they delayed on the battlefield. By the time they made a large circle in front of the formation and could retreat, there were not many cavalrymen left in the first place.
A lot of people will definitely be lost.
However, if they don't do this, they will be killed here and the whole army will be destroyed.
At this moment, the Japs who were still alive made the decision to retreat one after another, and then began to retreat in the face of the bullets fired from the heavy machine guns.
When they finally turned around on the battlefield and prepared to retreat, nearly two hundred cavalrymen were dead and injured, and less than eighty were left.
The heavy casualties cast a layer of invisibility on the faces of every living Japanese, but their misfortune was not over.
At this time, they were still 150 meters in front of the formation. Not only heavy machine guns but also light machine guns could easily kill them. As long as they did not leave the range of the heavy machine guns for one second, the flying bullets could kill them.
Beat it into a hornet's nest.
"Retreat quickly, hurry up, don't stop!" the squadron leader who was not killed shouted anxiously.
More than seventy Japanese soldiers did not want to die here, and kept urging their horses to leave here as soon as possible.
At the Independent Regiment's position more than a hundred meters away, everyone was shocked by the powerful power of more than a dozen heavy machine guns firing together.
The Japanese cavalry, which was usually invincible, collapsed under the attack of heavy machine guns.
Seeing that the Japanese army wanted to retreat, everyone certainly didn't want them to leave like this.
"Comrade, shoot over there quickly. There are several Japanese cavalry there. We must not let them escape!" The rifleman next to a heavy machine gun saw that the Japanese had escaped from the range of the rifle and immediately acted as an observer. Look.
When several Japanese soldiers gathered together and fled for their lives, they immediately called for heavy machine gunners to shoot.
"Don't worry, the effective range of the heavy machine gun is more than 500 meters, and none of these Japs can escape!" the machine gunner said with confidence, and then turned the gun and swept towards them.
"Da da da..." A string of machine gun bullets swept past, and a total of five Japanese soldiers were all killed after they only fled back twenty or thirty meters.
"Over there, there are three Japanese cavalry over there!" The observer pointed at the three Japanese cavalry in another direction and greeted them.
The heavy machine gunners lived up to expectations, killing them on the way to retreat in an instant with a burst of bullets.
Amidst the intensive machine gun fire, the independent regiment became more and more excited as they fought, and their morale became higher and higher.
The defeated little devils continued to reduce their numbers. The surviving cavalry officers and soldiers all had expressions of despair, and kept urging their horses to speed up, praying that the bullets flying around them would not hit them.
The expression on the face of the captain of the cavalry brigade supervising the battle was like the ever-changing weather, changing several times in just a few seconds.
From the initial excitement to shock, and then from shock to now despair.
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