Explosions kept ringing inside and outside the city walls, earth-shattering!
Cavalry Captain Chuan Teng is a battlefield veteran who has fought against the Chinese army more than once!
But this was the first time that he felt that the death crisis was approaching him before he actually fought with the Chinese army!
"Rumble..."
The explosion sounded again, this time less than fifty meters away from their gathering place!
The violent explosion made his ears buzz, and the air wave rushed towards him, almost overturning him!
Chuan Teng's face immediately turned pale, and he felt that the crisis of death was one step closer to him!
The power of the explosion was too great. In his impression, except for aerial bombs, it was impossible for ordinary artillery shells to produce such power!
It is conceivable that the city fortifications at this moment must be as tragic as hell on earth!
At the same time, I am very glad that I did not enter the position, otherwise I would be the one who was bombed at this time!
"Sir: Order from the headquarters!" A staff officer from the headquarters rushed over!
"All troops immediately evacuate the city defenses, retreat towards the ammunition depot, and engage in street fighting with the enemy around the ammunition depot until dawn!"
"The troops at the top of the city will retreat first. The cavalry captain abandons his horses and switches to infantry fighting. Stay behind and cover!"
Chuan Teng took a moment to react, and then he stared at the staff officer and asked: "Bage Yalu, are you sure the order just now was correct?"
"If we cavalry give up their horses and switch to infantry fighting, aren't we going to die!"
"Without the war horses, mobility and assault capability are all gone. Can we still call ourselves cavalry?"
The staff officer replied with certainty: "Sir, the order was given by the Commander himself, it must be correct!"
"Not only you, but also the cavalry captain in the west of the city must switch to infantry fighting!"
After saying that, the staff officer ran towards the ammunition depot without even looking back!
The deputy captain heard the order just now and immediately asked: "Sir, what should I do?"
"What else can we do? Execute the order!" Chuan Teng replied helplessly!
The adjutant hesitated and reminded: "But without the war horses, our combat effectiveness will be reduced by at least 30%, maybe even 40%!"
"Moreover, we are all equipped with cavalry rifles, which have a shorter range than rifles equipped by infantry, and we are almost not equipped with light and heavy machine guns! If we just dismount and switch to infantry combat, our firepower will definitely not be a match for the enemy!"
A flash of struggle flashed across Chuan Teng's face, but it only lasted a few seconds before he made a decision!
"Stop talking, the commander's orders must be carried out!"
"There was an order from our superiors before we came here. After entering Lingqiu City, we must obey the command unconditionally! If we don't dismount and fight, we will be disobeying the military order and will be punished by military law!"
"And what the troops are going to fight next is street fighting, so the mobility and assault capabilities of the cavalry are of no use at all!"
"Continuing to fight with our war horses will not only be of no benefit, but will also become a burden, exposing our target and becoming the target of the Eighth Route Army's attack!
"Execute the order: draw a small team out, escort all the war horses to the ammunition depot, and find two yards to lock them up!"
"The others stay, cover the retreat of the troops, and start taking action!"
More than two hundred war horses were walking on the streets. It was such a big movement that the Japanese couldn't hide it even if they wanted to!
As soon as they left the battlefield, these war horses were targeted by Sun Jiawu!
"Battal Commander, there are a total of twenty-six little devils escorting these horses!" the guard platoon leader reported with his eyes shining, as if these horses were already in his pocket!
"There are so many war horses, enough to form two cavalry companies! This is fat meat delivered to our mouths, we must eat it!" Sun Jiawu was also jealous of these war horses, and started giving orders without hesitation!
"The troops will be dispersed immediately. Two riflemen will focus on one Japs, and the machine gunner will be responsible for two Japs. Then they will fire together based on the sound of my gun. Try to kill all the Japs in one shot and seize these war horses!"
"Yes, battalion commander..."
More than twenty cavalrymen escorted the horses, and the formation was very scattered!
Sun Jiawu was lying on the wall of the courtyard, holding the box cannon in his hand, and directly fixed his eyes on the Japanese squad leader and a sergeant next to him!
After all the horses that stretch for nearly a hundred meters enter the pocket formation, pull the trigger decisively!
"Pa bang bang..."
The gunfire rang out, and more than a dozen bullets flew out of the barrel without stopping, flying towards the two Japanese in a fan shape!
At a shooting distance of thirty meters, in less than half a second, the bullets drilled several bloody holes in their bodies!
Then he got off the horse with wide eyes and an expression of shock.
Chuan Teng didn't know that his horse had changed hands!
Looking at the troops who were constantly tearing down the city defense fortifications, their expressions could already be described as gloomy!
The battlefield is so brutal!
More than half of the troops of more than 200 people suffered casualties after just a few rounds of artillery shells!
What's more important is that all the soldiers who withdrew were pale and demoralized, and many even had expressions of despair on their faces, like walking zombies, without any confidence in the coming battle!
Is this still the Imperial Army he knows? Chuan Teng asked this question in his mind more than once!
In his eyes, on the Chinese battlefield, the imperial army has always been invincible and unrivaled!
But what I saw in front of me had nothing in common with what I imagined!
"Da da da……"
A burst of gunfire brought Chuan Teng back to reality, and then he saw a subordinate running over in a hurry: "Sir, the Eighth Route Army has occupied the city and is coming towards us!"
"Get ready to fight!" Chuan Teng ordered decisively!
More than two hundred troops took up positions in the yards and houses on both sides of the street and were ready!
Chuan Teng held the command knife, half-crouched behind a courtyard wall, and looked out at the street from the shooting hole!
There is a light machine gun next to it!
His idea was very simple. After the Eighth Route Army came over, he would suddenly shoot them, kill them, and give the Eighth Route Army a disincentive to stop them!
However, Chuan Teng waited for a long time, but no sign of the Eighth Route Army appeared on the street!
He frowned and turned to look at his subordinates who had just retreated: "Where is the Eighth Route Army? Didn't they come over to kill them? Why haven't they shown up yet?"
The subordinates didn’t know what was going on and looked at a loss!
But he saw the Eighth Route Army's attack with his own eyes, and there was no mistake about it, so he couldn't figure out what was going on!
"Da da da... boom boom boom..."
Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire and explosions in a nearby yard. Before Chuan Teng could react, one of his subordinates rushed over in panic!
"Sir, we are under attack, but the Eighth Route Army did not come from the front, they came from behind us!"
"Nani? You clearly didn't see the Eighth Route Army attacking from the front, so why did it suddenly run behind us? Could it be that the Eighth Route Army can fly and flew directly over our heads! Bageya Road, who can tell me the reason!" Chuan
Teng stared with big eyes and shouted in disbelief!
As a cavalry captain, I am not familiar with infantry combat, let alone street fighting that is hard to come across in ordinary times!
After receiving the task of covering from the rear, he was not particularly proficient in street fighting, so he directly treated it as an ordinary blocking battle. It was impossible not to lose!