Judging from the training intensity and the physical strength of the war horses, the cavalry battalion of the garrison regiment is no match for the Japanese.
But they have two advantages: troops and firepower.
When the two sides were still 70 to 80 meters apart, the horse rifles equipped by the Japanese army only fired a burst of messy and sparse bullets. Then the horse rifles were replaced with sabers, preparing to launch a final assault on the oncoming cavalry.
The cavalry battalion did not change or fire, but continued to maintain its formation and charge forward.
If there was no cover of night, the Japanese would definitely see a scene that would frighten and frighten them.
The front row of cavalry either held submachine guns or box cannons, and the cavalry at the back all held horse rifles with one hand. The Japanese cavalry rushed closer and closer. They only waited for an order to rain down bullets on their opponents.
"Bah bah... da da da..."
Battalion Commander Zhou Wu was the first to fire. The box cannon in his hand was like a small machine gun. The bullets flew out of the barrel and flew in a fan shape towards the little Japanese fifty meters away.
The three Japanese soldiers at the front of the assault formation seemed to have hit a wall and fell instantly after being shot.
Because his feet were still hooked in the stirrups, he was dragged by the horse for more than ten meters before he slowly stopped.
Those who were not killed on the spot by the bullets fired by Zhou Wu would have been dragged to death by the war horse that was once on his crotch.
The soldiers next to him were not to be outdone, firing continuously with submachine guns, box cannons, and horse rifles.
It only took three seconds to fire at least 500 rounds of bullets at the Japanese.
The cavalry assault formation is often an inverted triangle, and the formation is very dense, just like a sharp blade piercing the enemy's heart.
The devil is no exception.
The cavalry at the front of the inverted triangle, because they directly face the enemy and are responsible for tearing a hole in the enemy's defense line, are often the most elite soldiers in the entire army.
But no matter how powerful they are, they are still made of flesh and blood.
It may be possible to defeat one against three, or even one against five, by fighting with a saber, but it will not work if you fall in front of a bullet.
The bullets flew past, taking away their lives like wheat.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of Japanese soldiers at the front of the team fell off their horses. Some cavalry horses were also hit, and both men and horses fell to the ground.
The team was suddenly attacked by such fierce firepower. The soldiers in front were shot one after another and fell off their horses. The cavalry behind them thought something was wrong.
Subconsciously tightening the reins, I want the war horse to run slower, so as not to be hit head-on and die without knowing how. That would be a huge loss.
Just for a moment, the enemy's attack speed slowed down.
The cavalry battalion doesn't care about this.
Killing you while you are sick is the best tactic to defeat your opponent.
Led by Zhou Wu, after firing the bullets in the gun chamber, he quickly inserted the weapon into the holster, drew out the saber, held it tightly in his hand, and then pressed his whole body against the horse's back, killing as fast as he could.
Devil.
The double strength advantage suddenly became a four times advantage in firepower because many Japanese were killed by the melee firepower of the cavalry battalion.
No matter how unbearable the cavalry battalion is, four cavalrymen can defeat the Japanese with just one cavalryman...
On the ambush battlefield, the garrison's ambush battle against the Japanese reinforcements came to its final moment.
At least half of the fifty personnel carriers were destroyed.
Along the convoy, there were craters with a depth of more than two meters everywhere.
The corpses of Japanese soldiers fell around the crater in various postures.
The Japanese captain who was commanding the reinforcements was hit in the back by a string of heavy machine gun bullets. When the attacking troops found him, he had already died!
"Captain, the little devils in the encirclement are gone, we have won!" Hong Linfeng ran over to report with a smile on his face.
"I did some statistics and found that there are still 18 troop carriers on the road that can move, and all the others have been destroyed."
"Due to the extensive use of thunder cannons, more than half of the weapons equipped by the Japanese were destroyed, but there is no need to feel too sad. I took a quick look and found that most of them can be repaired after being sent to the arsenal."
"The loss of troops is completely within our tolerance."
"No more than 300 people will be killed, and no more than 100 people will be seriously injured."
Li Hao replied with satisfaction: "This is a good start."
"Without this infantry brigade, there will be fewer Japanese and puppet troops in the city, and our siege pressure will also be drastically reduced in the future."
"Chief of Staff, please immediately arrange for troops to clean the battlefield. Before dawn, all participating troops and captured troops will enter the mountain."
"The next step will be to see how the Japanese army moves. If they don't move after dawn, tomorrow night we will follow Operation Plan No. 1 to sweep away all the Japanese troops deployed outside the city, turn Datong into an isolated city, and finally concentrate all our forces to attack Datong."
At five o'clock in the morning, the night covering Datong City began to slowly disappear.
A bit of fish belly white has appeared in the eastern sky, and you can tell at a glance that today will be a good day.
But no one in the Japanese military command was in the mood to welcome such good weather.
At around two o'clock in the morning, the radio communication between the headquarters and the reinforcements was interrupted.
At four o'clock in the morning, contact with the coal mine was lost.
Because the cavalry brigade did not carry a radio, no one was sent to contact the headquarters since it left the city.
Although there is no clear information proving that something happened to them, anyone with some common sense can see that if something happened to the reinforcements and the coal mine, they must be in trouble.
The brigade leader has a bad temper and would have started cursing people long ago.
But today I was surprised. Faced with bad news one after another, I surprisingly didn’t get angry and curse.
Standing next to the sand table, neither speaking nor moving, just staring at it, no one knows what they are thinking of writing?
It was definitely not an option for the headquarters to continue with such a stalemate. The chief of staff mustered up the courage to ask: "General, it's almost dawn and we haven't contacted the coal mine and reinforcements yet. Do you want to send someone out to have a look? No matter what the result is, we must find out."
What happened outside the city last night?"
The brigade commander raised his head and ordered: "Then why are you still standing there? Send someone out of the city immediately."
"The battle last night was too abnormal. It was by no means a simple round-up of reinforcements. There must be some conspiracy that we don't know about. We must find out all of them."
"Intelligence agencies are also taking action."
"Why did the Eighth Route Army operating in Datong become so powerful? Why didn't I receive any information about this?"
"I believe that the intelligence agency will never make such a low-level mistake. There must be something we don't know about."
"Send all the information I want before noon, otherwise military law will be imposed."
An hour later, none of the scouts sent out by Datong came back.
No one came back two hours later, it was as if these people had disappeared out of thin air.
Scout cavalry are the most powerful elites in every unit. Under normal circumstances, they can cover a round trip of more than ten kilometers in just one hour.
The coal mine is less than fifteen kilometers away from Datong City. Two hours have passed and no news has come back. Those scouts who left the city must have been in trouble.
The chief of staff couldn't wait any longer. Although there were still more than three hours left before the time specified by the brigade commander, he still hurried over to report.
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