Chapter two hundred and ninety-two difficult opponents
"Baga, it's an enemy shelling! Guard troops, protect His Excellency Colonel immediately!" As soon as Kato sat up, an exclamation sounded outside the tent.
Then four or five guards rushed in, some carrying clothes and some carrying equipment, and then without any explanation, they set themselves up and walked outside the tent.
Soon, the group arrived at the war room.
"Reporting to the commander, the Eighth Route Army used at least fifteen mortars to sneak attack us. Their artillery position is 1.5 kilometers southeast of the station. I have ordered the artillery to counterattack immediately. Should the cavalry squadron take the initiative to attack us and cooperate with the artillery to attack us?
These cunning sneakers!"
The Eighth Route Army dared to make a sneak attack against such a tight defense. This was a complete slap in the face and did not give oneself any face.
As the senior commander of the Imperial Army who had just taken over, Colonel Kato immediately became angry and ordered without saying a word: "The cavalry is not going to attack now. We will wait and see how the artillery counterattacks!"
"Hi!" the staff officer on duty replied immediately.
"Boom, boom, boom...wuwuwu..." When explosions continued to sound at the transfer station, a scream of artillery shells suddenly sounded above their heads.
The artillery staff officer of the command headquarters immediately explained: "Sir, our artillery has begun to counterattack and is conducting test firings!"
"Boom!" Soon, several explosions came from not far away.
From this time on, no shells exploded when they hit the transfer station.
While everyone else had happy smiles on their faces, Colonel Kato's face turned gloomy.
"Baga, the Eighth Route Army is so cunning. They must have moved as soon as they saw us starting to counterattack!"
Sure enough, after the two artillery squadrons based on the station fired a round of artillery shells at the Eighth Route Army artillery position that had just been measured, it didn't take long for the screams of the artillery shells streaking across the sky to reach Colonel Kato's ears again.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Then a series of violent explosions were heard at the transfer station.
Soon, an officer rushed in: "Sir, the artillery position was shelled by the Eighth Route Army, and we are organizing a counterattack!"
"Bage Ya Road, the artillery guerrilla warfare is going on at this time, the Eighth Route Army is using mortars to fight guerrillas with us!" Colonel Kato reacted immediately, and then shouted angrily.
The artillery staff officer next to him immediately reminded: "Sir, do you want to order the remaining artillery units to join the battle and counterattack the Eighth Route Army artillery!"
"No, it's useless!" Colonel Kato replied, shaking his head.
"They are equipped with mortars and can move very quickly. We can't lock them at all. No matter how many artillery fires we fire, we can't hit them!"
The staff officer on duty immediately added: "Sir, we can only let the cavalry attack!"
"We have a strength advantage, and this is a plain. The cavalry can quickly find them and destroy them!"
"The only thing we have to worry about is that the independent regiment has deployed a large number of infantry around their artillery, and even prepared traps for our attacking cavalry units, just waiting for our cavalry to die!"
"Bagaya Road, the independent regiment is really a formidable opponent. No wonder the brigade commander has been defeated by them many times!" Colonel Kato cursed for a while, and then began to give orders.
"There is a large amount of weapons and ammunition stored in the transfer station. Once it is detonated by the independent regiment with artillery fire, the consequences will be disastrous. Therefore, I can't control that much. No matter what the cost, I must prevent the independent regiment from continuing to fire on us!"
"The cavalry squadron on duty will attack immediately, find the artillery unit of the independent regiment, and kill them!"
"In order to protect the cavalry, two infantry squadrons, one and two, of the first infantry brigade and the first regiment of the Imperial Association Army, under the unified command of the captain of the first brigade, set out immediately to follow the cavalry squadron and eliminate the Eighth Route Army that was sneak-attacking us around the transfer station!
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"Hi!" Several staff officers immediately rushed out of the war room and began to give orders.
"Rumble..." Not long after, the sound of thundering horse hooves was heard at the transfer station.
More than a hundred cavalry took less than half a minute to assemble, then rushed out of the transfer station and charged towards the artillery position of the Independent Regiment.
Subsequently, more than a thousand puppet troops also rushed out of the transfer station and followed the cavalry towards the battlefield.
"Chief of Staff, it's the cavalry. The Japanese sent cavalry to attack us!" On the pitch-black battlefield, his eyes were of little use. Zeng Quan frowned and listened with his ears to various sounds coming from the direction of the Japanese transfer station.
, when issuing battle orders through these voices, Zhang Qing, who was assisting him in directing the battle, suddenly reminded him.
"I heard, the strength is about one squadron!" Zeng Quan nodded and replied.
However, there was no worry on his face, instead there was a hint of expectation from the bottom of his heart, and then he ordered with a fanatical expression.
"This is simply fat meat served to our mouths! Battalion Commander Zhang, I plan to eat this cavalry!"
"The heavy machine gun company intercepts them head-on, and when the Japanese cavalry rushes in, they will use machine guns to fire at them. The guard company has strong firepower, and will outflank them on both sides, trying to annihilate them all!"
Zhang Qing immediately replied: "I agree, I will arrange it right away!"
One and a half kilometers, for the infantry, takes more than ten minutes to walk, but for the cavalry, they can rush over in two minutes against the sky.
As soon as the nine heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun company were deployed, more than a hundred Japanese cavalry rushed over.
Because there were no torches in the heavy machine gun company position, the Japanese army did not know that there was an Eighth Route Army blocking position in front of them, so they still waved their sabers and continued to charge forward as before.
"Shoot!" Zeng Quan, who personally directed the ambush, ordered decisively.
"Click, click, click!" A total of nine heavy machine guns opened fire immediately. The blocking position, which had been pitch dark just a moment ago, suddenly erupted into nine tongues of flames lined up in a row.
The Japanese who charged quickly were startled at first, but before they could react, screams rang out from the front of the team.
Dozens of cavalrymen, including men and horses, were instantly beaten into a hornet's nest and fell down on the charge road.
"Baga, it's an ambush from the Eighth Route Army. Move and retreat quickly. Don't rush forward!" The cavalry knows very well what the cavalry is most afraid of. With so many heavy machine guns in front of them and firing at full strength, they can't rush through even if they are beaten with iron. They can only move quickly.
Retreat, as many people as you can withdraw.
"Shoot, keep shooting, the little Japs want cannons, kill them all!" Zeng Quan could see the Japs' purpose at a glance, and while admiring the Japs commander's cleverness and decision-making, he ordered with confidence.
"The heavy machine gun has a long range. Even if they retreat, we can chase them!"
"Send a signal to the guards. The Japanese are about to escape. Attack immediately!"
There were about a hundred Japanese soldiers who were very anxious to retreat. However, many soldiers were still being beaten to death.
Soldiers kept falling off their horses with screams, or they fell to the ground together with their horses.
However, in the dark battlefield, the heavy machine gun company soldiers could only shoot blindly in the direction of the Japanese cavalry. Therefore, many Japanese cavalry avoided shooting, and then retreated crazily, fighting with the heavy machine guns coming from behind.
Bullet racing.
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