"Captain, the little Japs are retreating!" the second company commander shouted after catching up with the relocating commander.
"There is no one on the city wall. If they don't take the opportunity to occupy the city wall, why are they retreating?" The leader didn't understand what the Japanese were doing.
He turned around and returned to the city, hoping to get some clues.
There were less than two hundred people left in the attacking force. They turned back and fired at the city head while retreating in an orderly manner.
At the heavy machine gun position a few hundred meters away, the explosions continued. All six heavy machine guns ceased fire and seemed to be moving.
"Rumble..."
A new round of explosions came over, and in the splashing fire, a retreating heavy machine gun team was instantly enveloped in gunpowder smoke.
The regiment leader suddenly reacted and shouted with regret: "No, we made a miscalculation. The artillery was exposed too early."
"The Japanese must have been frightened by the number of our artillery pieces. They were afraid that there was a conspiracy in the city, and then they retreated."
The political commissar rushed over after hearing the news. Seeing the attacking troops retreating further and further away, he asked anxiously: "If the Japanese don't attack, the cavalry battalion will have no chance to attack them from behind."
"If the Japanese were really frightened by more than a dozen mortars, they would definitely suspend the attack and wait for another group to come over."
"When they join forces and continue to attack the city, we will definitely be no match."
The group leader frowned deeper and deeper, racking his brains to think of a solution.
One idea after another flashed through his mind, and then he rejected it.
Suddenly, the cavalry battalion hidden in the woods was dispatched.
The three cavalry companies were divided into two groups, fighting all the way to the artillery position and all the way to the Japanese offensive position, very fast.
The regiment leader immediately reacted: "No, the cavalry battalion commander Zhou also noticed that the battle situation has changed, and he is preparing to launch an attack in advance."
"This is our only chance to defeat the little devil."
"Order the artillery to continue firing after moving, aiming at the Japanese offensive positions, preventing them from establishing a defensive line, and covering the cavalry assault."
"All the remaining heavy machine guns of the entire regiment went to the top of the city and strafed the Japanese retreating troops and their offensive positions."
"Open the city gate, kill two or three companies in succession, hold back the retreating Japanese and puppet troops, and reduce the combat pressure on the cavalry battalion."
After issuing several orders in succession, the leader's tense nerves relaxed, but his frown did not relax.
Even if I hold back the Japs' retreating troops, they will still have an infantry squadron, a guard, an artillery squadron, an infantry artillery squad, and more than one company of puppet troops in the offensive position. The total number is more than 500 people, and the strength is twice that of the cavalry battalion.
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Whether the cavalry battalion can win or not, no one knows.
Crouching behind the battlements, looking through the shooting holes, he stared at the battlefield without blinking.
The Japanese had already noticed the cavalry rushing from behind, and after a brief panic, they began to set up a defensive line.
All the light machine guns equipped in the offensive position were set up on the temporary defense line, preparing to attack the cavalry battalion head-on.
There were still two to three hundred meters left before the cavalry battalion would engage in battle with the Japanese. The regimental commander seemed to have seen countless cavalrymen being killed by machine gun bullets.
Staring at the battlefield, he shouted anxiously: "Why haven't the artillery fired yet?"
"Immediately bombard the Japanese army assembly area and ignore the Japanese counterattack."
"A cavalry company rushed towards the Japanese artillery position. As long as the Japanese defense line is disrupted and the cavalry rushes over, the Japanese artillery unit will definitely be finished. Maybe all the infantry will be killed as well."
"Hurry up and fire the heavy machine guns. Three heavy machine guns will shoot at the Japanese retreating troops. Cover the second and third companies to fight back. The other heavy machine guns will shoot at the Japanese offensive positions, making them unable to concentrate on dealing with the cavalry battalion."
"Da da da……"
While waiting anxiously, the heavy machine gun finally joined the battle.
The heavy machine gun company of the independent regiment and the firepower company of the cavalry battalion, a total of thirteen heavy machine guns roared at the same time.
The effective range of more than one thousand meters allows the heavy machine gun bullets to have huge lethality after flying to the Japanese offensive position.
On the line of defense blocking the cavalry battalion, many Japanese soldiers were squatting on the ground, with their backs to the Laishui city wall.
Heavy machine gun bullets swept past, and these backs were like living targets, being hit one after another.
At the last moment, artillery also joined the battle.
The offensive position is different from the artillery position. It is very large and full of little devils. As long as the artillery shells hit it, there will be results.
More than a dozen artillery shells exploded on the position, and the Japanese's improvised defense line immediately became chaotic.
"Fight like this. The artillery continues to fire, and the heavy machine guns don't stop. The more chaotic the Japanese are, the better it will be for the cavalry battalion." The regiment leader punched the battlements and shouted excitedly.
The Japanese captain was thrown to the ground by his subordinates. He successfully avoided the shells and bullets flying towards him, but he was not in a good mood at all and his face became increasingly pale.
The roaring hooves of the cavalry became louder and louder, but the troops were turned into a mess under the attack of mortars and heavy machine guns.
If you can't concentrate your firepower to block the incoming cavalry, everyone here will be massacred by the cavalry.
"Don't mess around on the Bagh Ya Road...the machine gunners are ready for battle and must block the cavalry." The captain shouted at the top of his lungs.
"Boom boom boom..."
The command was instantly drowned out by the explosion as soon as it was spoken. Few people heard it. Not only did the chaos not stop, it also intensified further.
They were the attacking party. Before the war, no one could have imagined that the Independent Regiment would have a conspiracy.
Apart from a few machine gun positions stacked with sandbags, Noda's offensive position did not have a single bunker.
The troops were completely exposed on the surface and had no way to hide. Faced with the hail of shells one after another, it was impossible to avoid chaos.
"Captain, the Eighth Route Army has come out of the city!" a subordinate rushed over to report.
The closed city gate had been opened, and countless Eighth Route Army troops poured out from the city gate hole, carrying guns and launching a counter-attack on the retreating troops, firing while charging.
The captain immediately understood what his opponent meant and shouted with a look of despair: "The Independent Regiment wants to hold back the retreating troops and prevent them from joining us."
By the time the subordinates reported, the cavalry had already reached less than 300 meters from the attacking position.
Several light machine guns counterattacked under artillery fire.
More than two hundred meters away, cavalrymen and their horses continued to fall on the road, but their assault speed was too fast. The surviving cavalrymen were not affected at all and continued to attack forward over the corpses.
The deputy captain lying next to him was anxious. He didn't want to die yet, so he shouted quickly.
"Sir, the independent regiment's artillery fire is too fierce, and we have no position to defend. The troops are attacked from both sides and cannot block them with all their strength. We will definitely not be able to stop the cavalry rushing over."
"Instead of waiting to be massacred here, it is better to divide the troops to break out, withdraw to the east of the county, join the feign attack troops to occupy a high ground, and wait for reinforcements. That way the troops will definitely have a greater chance of survival."
The captain agreed with this proposal and decisively ordered: "The third squadron and the fourth squadron will alternately cover the retreat. The other troops will follow me first and retreat to the east of the county."
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