The open terrain to the east of Macheng is very conducive to cavalry charges. The cavalry behind Ma Tou and the others are charging faster and faster, and the rumbling horseshoes are getting louder and louder, which makes people's eardrums hurt and their scalps numb. "Mother" is running.
Yu Shuigen looked back, and saw that the cavalry chasing after him had raised their sharp sabers. The sharp blades reflected in the morning sun emitted a dazzling cold light, causing the world to be filled with fear, and Yu Shuigen paralyzed.
Sitting on the floor, my crotch became hot and I urinated and became incontinent.
"We can't run anymore. If we keep running, none of us will survive." Panting, Ma Tou suddenly stopped and looked around, eagerly looking for a place to hide and fight. All of Ma Tou's soldiers were
Silly there, only a few veterans who were familiar with Ma Tou remained calm. "Follow me." Ma Tou moved, and the soldiers behind him followed him to a ditch not far away on the left.
Strictly speaking, the ditch that Ma Tou found was not a ravine. It was actually just a shallow ditch formed after rain washed the ground. It definitely could not provide enough cover for Ma Tou and the others. At most, it was better than Ma Tou and the others lying on the ground and watching.
It's safer. "What the hell are you doing standing still? Load the bullets." Ma Tou took out the bullet bridge from the bullet bag and shouted to the men who were following him. As he spoke, the cavalry in his sight was already very close.
It was so close that Ma Tou could clearly see the rider on the horse.
"These are not fucking Japanese soldiers." Seeing the black jackets of the riders on the horses, the pony heads in the ditch were a little stunned. Seeing that there were more than 70 riders in the horse team, there was no one wearing a Japanese military uniform.
Ma Tou's eyes were filled with the black costumes of the riders. Ma Tou was not the only one who came to his senses. Yu Shuigen, who was pulled into the ditch by his companions, was the first to react among the remaining people.
"Squad leader, it's not a Japanese soldier. Look, it's not a Japanese soldier." Yu Shuigen was overjoyed when he woke up. Just as he was about to sit up straight, he was slapped by Ma Tou who was lying next to him.
Yu Shuigen, who had been slapped by Ma Tou, fell crookedly in the ditch. Ma Tou, who glared at him fiercely, took out a grenade from his waist and held it in his hand. Even if the oncoming cavalry was not a Japanese soldier,
, but they are not good people, as you can tell by looking at the sabers they wave in their hands.
"If you don't want to die, load the bullets for me and take out the grenades." Ma Tou shouted, pulling the bolt of the gun and pointing the muzzle at the cavalry rushing forward. His soldiers also immediately picked up their rifles and were ready to wave them.
The cavalrymen with sabers entered the range of the rifles. Ma Tou shouted and pulled the trigger, and the soldiers around him also opened fire at the same time. The hot bullets that were thrown out of the barrels shot past, and the horses at the front of the cavalry were instantly
He screamed and fell to the ground, and the rider on the horse was also thrown to the ground.
Ma Tou held his rifle and fired continuously, while yelling at the soldiers around him: "What are you still staring at? Shoot wherever you are. Make sure you fire at the horse." Ma Tou is illiterate, and he doesn't know how to read.
He knew that he should shoot horses first before shooting people, but he knew that the targets of horses were far greater than the riders on horseback. Compared with the inaccurate marksmanship of his soldiers, Ma Tou was more willing to shoot at those horses.
Yu Shuigen, who was lying in the ditch, picked up Han Yangzao at his feet and pulled the trigger. Yu Shuigen was stunned. In this moment, the cavalry had already rushed up like the wind. Yu Shuigen
When the rifle fired, the rider closest to him was only a dozen meters away. The short distance allowed Yu Shuigen to clearly see the expression on the other person's face. "Grenade, throw the grenade." He saw the cavalry moving away from him.
It was getting closer and closer, and a sad smile appeared on Ma Tou's face. He no longer expected that people like him could escape. He only thought that the explosion of the grenade would be heard by the patrols outside the city.
"Boom" and "boom", seven or eight grenades thrown almost at the same time exploded in the horse team. The horses that were overturned by the air waves and shrapnel fell down with a neigh. The riders on the horses were already killed when the explosion occurred.
The body was hit by shrapnel and fell off the horse, or the horse fell to the ground together with the horse under his crotch, and was engulfed in the thick smoke of the explosion. Ma Tou and the others only threw seven or eight grenades, and Yu Shuigen and others
Several soldiers were dumbfounded and did not throw the grenades like Ma Tou and the others. When they were preparing to throw the grenades, the cavalry rushing out of the smoke had already appeared in front of them.
A rider on horseback slashed at Yu Shuigen's neck with his saber at an angle. With the speed of the horse's sprint, the rider wielding the saber didn't need to exert any force at all. The sharp, gleaming saber could easily cut off a person's neck.
Yu Shuigen, who had half straightened up and was about to drop the bomb, wanted to hide, but his body was so soft that he couldn't obey his orders. He could only watch helplessly as the opponent's saber slashed towards him, and "poof" Yu Shuigen's neck felt hot.
The saber, which brought a drop of blood, had already passed over his neck.
Yu Shuigen's body still maintained an upturned posture, but most of his neck had been cut open by the saber. The cervical arteries and throat were almost completely cut off, leaving only the cervical vertebrae still barely supporting his head. Time passed.
Ma Tou's eyes seemed to be still. He watched helplessly as Yu Shuigen's body spun and fell into the ditch. The blood spurting from Yu Shuigen's neck instantly dyed the soil beneath him red.
Yu Shuigen, whose neck was cut in half by the saber, did not die immediately. Yu Shuigen, who was lying in the ditch, opened and closed his mouth silently, and blood foam began to gush out from the wound on his neck.
His mouth was closed, and he really wanted to say a few words to Ma Tou one last time, but because his throat had been cut, he could only open his mouth but could not make any sound. As the twitching of Yu Shuigen's limbs became smaller and smaller,
His eyes began to wander, until his hands and feet stopped twitching, and Yu Shuigen finally took his last breath.
Ma Tou, who had escaped the first round of close attacks by the cavalry, lay down next to Shui Gen. Being stimulated by the salty blood splashing on his face, Ma Tou pulled out the gun from his waist and roared at the top of his lungs while raising the gun.
They fired continuously at the riders who were slashing with knives. The grenades thrown by Ma Tou and the others just now were not completely ineffective. The dozen horses that were knocked to the ground by the explosion of the grenades became an obstacle to the cavalry. The seemingly powerful ones
The cavalry team had been cut into two by the horses lying on the ground. The number of riders who rushed to Ma Tou and the others and slashed them with swords was only a dozen. The remaining riders were blocked on the side of the dead horses.
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"Da da da da da da" Ma Tou emptied the magazines of two shell guns in succession before he could knock down the dozen riders who were slashing them with swords from their horses, but the dozen soldiers under him
Now there are only 7 people left. "Shoot, shoot, don't stop. The patrol will definitely hear the explosion just now. We just need to hold on until reinforcements arrive and shoot as many of their horses as possible."
Even Ma Tou himself didn't believe the words he shouted, but the situation was such that they could not escape and had no choice but to fight to the death.
, the remaining 7 people are all veterans who have experienced bloody battles. As veterans, they have seen too much killing and blood. Ma Tou secretly bit his lips. Even if he died, he would have to face the enemy directly. 7 people
Facing more than a hundred cavalry, although Ma Tou and the others showed no fear, this was destined to be a battle with great disparity in strength. Facing the rushing cavalry, even Ma Tou, who was determined to fight to the death, could not help but stiffen.
body.
Facing the cavalry that had already rushed in front of him, Ma Tou threw out the last grenade on his waist and shouted, "Brothers, fight with them." "Fight, fight," the last few remaining
The veteran responded with a hoarse voice and threw a grenade. A series of fireballs rose up in front of the ditch and swallowed up more than a dozen of the opponent's horses into the flames. The horse team had not revealed their identities since they appeared. The riders on the horses waved their sabers.
When charging or chopping, they didn't shout like Ma Tou and the others, so Ma Tou and the others who had fought against the cavalry still didn't know who these guys were.
Before the thermal weapons were deployed in large numbers in the army, the cavalry had always been the king on the battlefield. Faced with the powerful high-speed movement and impact of the cavalry, it was difficult for the infantry on the battlefield to withstand the impact of the cavalry. The emergence of thermal weapons, especially machine guns
The emergence of the cavalry changed the dominant position of the cavalry on the battlefield. Facing the dense rain of bullets from machine guns, the huge cavalry was almost helpless. Even if the riders on the horses were not hit, as long as the horses under their crotches were hit,
When the bullet fell, the cavalry lost the mobility they relied on and the powerful impact compared to the infantry.
Ma Tou also wished he had a machine gun at hand, but he didn't. All he had was a Mauser rifle and a bayonet. After all the grenades were thrown out, Ma Tou and the others were left with only rifles and bayonets."
"Pa" "Pa" Finally, a rider from the horse team on the opposite side dismounted and started shooting with Ma Tou. As more and more people from the other side joined in the shooting, only three people were left around Ma Tou.
The gunfire rang out, the sharp saber was swung down, and blood spurted out with the blade. Ma Tou and his three soldiers fell one after another. Ma Tou, who had a piece of flesh cut off from his shoulder by the saber, fell on his back in the ditch.
Inside, his eyes were staring at the sky unwillingly, and the horse's hooves as big as the mouth of a bowl had fallen. Ma Tou knew that this was his last look at this familiar world.
"Yang Sang, I am very disappointed with the combat effectiveness of your men. Only one squad of Chinese soldiers blocked the charge of one of your cavalry. It's too bad. If such combat effectiveness were in our imperial army, I'm afraid
Even the heavy troops who cook on the fire are better than them." Hero Araki, who had untied the cloth on his face, put down the telescope in his hand, then looked back at Yang Tianlei, who was riding a horse from behind.