The brigade's cavalry regiment has just been expanded.
The original brigade cavalry battalion was expanded into a brigade cavalry regiment.
Although the new recruits to the brigade cavalry regiment are not new recruits, they are elite infantrymen selected from various units who can ride horses.
But for these new cavalry, the training time is short, and it is the first time to fight against the Japanese on horseback.
At this time, party members must stand up and set an example and take the lead for the soldiers.
"Zhang Jinwen is here!" As soon as Zhou Chunyu, the commander of the cavalry, finished speaking, political commissar Zhang Jinwen drew out the Yunlong sword and was the first to stand beside the commander.
The party members shouted, drew their swords, shouted their names, and stood at the front of the team.
Seeing this scene, the ordinary cavalry soldiers all roared and drew out their Yunlong swords.
The words "Kill the Japanese and destroy the bandits" are engraved on the Yunlong sword. The sharp blade reflects a bright cold light, which chills the skin!
The cavalry companies of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment drew out their Yunlong sabers one after another and stared at the Japanese opposite with a ferocious smile.
These are cavalry warriors with rich combat experience. They don't need to do any pre-war mobilization at all. They only need an order and they will never flinch even if they fight to the last man!
Sun Desheng on the right glanced at Zhou Chunyu in the middle. Their eyes converged. Sun Desheng winked at him and Zhou Chunyu nodded slightly.
Then the two men shouted almost simultaneously: "Machine gunners, prepare!"
Although the cavalry battalion is equipped with M1 carbine, it is more suitable for fighting when chasing or being chased.
In a big confrontation like this, the machine gunner will first use the machine gun to sweep the shuttle, and the cavalry saber will be used to chop and slash, which will be more effective.
If you shoot a few times with a rifle, the enemy's horses will have already sprinted up. If you urge the horses to charge towards the enemy at this time, you will suffer a lot in the confrontation.
As the two shouted loudly, the Eighth Route Army cavalry queue automatically moved out of the way, and the Eighth Route Army machine gunners, submachine gunners and rocket launcher soldiers hiding behind urged the horses to move forward.
The black muzzle and barrel were pointed at the Japanese enemy on the opposite side.
Almost at the same time, some changes occurred in the Japanese formation, and the Japanese cavalry holding crooked light machine guns also appeared in the field of vision.
The 13th Japanese Cavalry Regiment is affiliated to the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Army in Mongolia. It fought against Fu Zuoyi's Sui Army in Inner Mongolia and has rich combat experience.
The Japanese cavalry did not even take the Eighth Route Cavalry seriously. In their opinion, the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Cavalry was definitely not as good as Fu Zuoyi's cavalry troops.
Both sides are very insidious, and both want to use light machine guns to hit the other side before starting to hedge.
The 13th Japanese Cavalry Regiment has 4 cavalry squadrons, 1 machine gun squadron (8 heavy machine guns), and 1 cavalry artillery squadron (3 mountain cannons, 4 rapid-fire cannons).
But in the current situation, the Japanese's machine gun squadron and cavalry artillery squadron cannot be deployed at all.
It's just that the Japanese made a miscalculation. The Eighth Route Army had many more machine guns than the Japanese imagined.
The cavalry battalion of the new regiment has a total of 6 cavalry companies, equipped with machine guns and submachine guns, a total of 4 light machine guns.
The total number of machine guns in the brigade's cavalry regiment and the other two cavalry companies also has more than 0 light machine guns.
The Eighth Route Army cavalry has more than 100 light machine guns and submachine guns in total, and only one bazooka rocket launcher.
The total number of light machine guns in the Japanese Cavalry Regiment is less than 30, and the firepower of both sides is not at the same order of magnitude.
Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was equipped with so many light machine guns and submachine guns, the Japanese were obviously a little panicked.
But it was obviously too late to panic at this time, because intensive gunfire had already started.
Ta da da, da da, da da da...
Boom boom boom…
Although the Japs Cavalry's position is outside the effective range of the submachine gun, within the maximum range, the submachine gun bullets are still very lethal.
Holding a light machine gun on horseback and firing, the muzzle of the gun would jump a lot, but with the Japanese standing in a row, there was no need to aim at all.
The first target of many machine gunners and submachine gunners on the Eighth Route Army side was the Japanese machine gunners they aimed at.
As the two sides exchanged fire, the first to be shot and fell off their horses was the machine gunners of both sides.
However, the Eighth Route Army had more machine gunners and submachine gunners. Without the machine gunners, the Japanese could only stand and be shot.
A dense rain of bullets poured over, and the Japanese fell down in pieces.
Especially the right wing, which was facing off against the cavalry battalion of the New Regiment, was almost filled with bullets and turned into a vacuum.
After the Japanese commander's passionate speech, he retreated behind the queue and quietly ordered the Japanese machine gunners to come forward.
However, the whole process of the machine gunners on both sides shooting at each other only lasted a few seconds, and almost a quarter of the Japanese cavalry fell.
"Nani?"
Seeing this, the Japanese commander Yoshio Nishizawa was shocked and angry.
He really didn't expect that the Eighth Route Cavalry would be equipped with so many light machine guns and submachine guns.
We really can't blame Nishizawa Yongxiong for this, because he and his cavalry regiment had just been transferred from Inner Mongolia, and his impression of the Eighth Route Army was still from a few years ago.
The First Army Headquarters did not remind him.
There is also very little information about the Eighth Route Cavalry.
This was caught off guard, and the cavalry regiment suffered a heavy loss.
"Order!" Nishizawa Yongxiong raised his left command sword high and shouted sternly: "Cavalry regiment, attack!"
The Japanese cavalry immediately mobilized their horses, raised their Type 32 cavalry swords, and rushed towards the Eighth Route Cavalry.
And the iron current of the Eighth Route Cavalry also surged towards the Japanese Cavalry like a storm.
The cavalry from both sides suddenly collided within a few seconds.
"kill!"
Sun Desheng took the lead and faced a Japanese cavalry head on.
With his nimble movements, he avoided the chop of a Japanese cavalryman, and with the powerful inertia of his horse's sprint, Sun Desheng swung the Yunlong sword in his hand.
The Japs cavalry had rich combat experience. They ducked sideways on horseback, but the tip of the knife still scratched the Japs' belly.
The sharp saber immediately cut open the devil's belly, and blood spurted out.
The Japanese man screamed and spun around, falling off his horse and falling to the ground. In an instant, he was trampled by the horse's hooves for more than ten times, and then he completely stopped moving.
Sun Desheng continued to urge his horse forward, and met another Japanese cavalry head on.
"Kill!" Sun Desheng made a sharp slashing motion.
He and the Japanese cavalry swung their swords at the same time, but because the blade was lighter and thinner, Sun Desheng's movements were faster.
While the saber was still in the air, the Japanese cavalryman felt his eyes blurred, and immediately he was flying up, and the whole world was spinning irregularly.
But the big head of the Japanese cavalry flew up.
Sun Desheng chopped off the heads of the Japanese cavalry with one knife and continued to charge forward, looking for prey.
In the flash of cold light, one after another sharp sabers were slashed in the air, and in the flash of blood, one after another Japanese or Eighth Route Army soldiers were chopped off their horses.
Hand-to-hand combat between cavalry and cavalry is as cruel as infantry.
What is at stake is the soldier's will, courage, and fighting skills.
It has to be said that the will and courage of this Japanese cavalry unit are first-class, and their combat skills are also very rich.
However, they were far inferior to the Eighth Route Cavalry in terms of strength and equipment. In addition, nearly a quarter of the cavalry were shot and killed, so the first charge fell short.
Sun Desheng killed another Japanese cavalryman, and the front suddenly became clear, and no more Japanese could be seen.
After the first wave of fighting, the cavalry on both sides quickly distanced themselves. At this time, the positions of the cavalry on both sides were already out of position.
"Go back!" Sun Desheng pulled the reins, turned the horse's head and raised the Yunlong saber again, "Kill!"
The Eighth Route Army cavalry who had completed a charge reined in their reins and urged their horses to turn around, reorganized their formation, and then brandished their Yunlong sabers and charged towards the Japanese cavalry again.
At this time, only half of the Japanese cavalry was left, but the will and courage of the Japanese cavalry were not affected at all.
Under the leadership of the Japanese commander Yoshio Nishizawa, they turned their horses and fought back towards the Eighth Route Cavalry.
The clanging sound of sabers soon started again, and as the blades flashed, the Japanese cavalry and the Eighth Route Army cavalry were chopped off their horses.
This time, the Eighth Route Army cavalry still made more money and lost less. The Japanese cavalry had the upper hand, and more Japanese soldiers were cut off their horses than the Eighth Route Army.
At the end of the second charge, the Japanese commander Yufu Nishizawa saw that only a quarter of his own cavalry was left. He turned around and looked again, and saw that the Eighth Route Cavalry was still a large area of darkness.
With two more charges at most, the 13th Cavalry Regiment would definitely be wiped out.
"Baga!" Yuxiong Nishizawa cursed angrily, "Turn to Yangquan!"
At that moment, Nishizawa Yongxiong and the Japanese cavalry immediately mobilized their horses and bolted towards Yangquan.
"Go back!" When Sun Desheng reined in his horse and turned around again, preparing for the third charge, he saw the Japanese cavalry running into the distance without looking back.
"Can even a Japanese be a coward?" Sun Desheng said in a disdainful tone, and then shouted loudly, "Chase!"
Sun Desheng took the lead and chased the Japanese.
"kill!"
The soldiers followed Sun Desheng, speeding up their horses one after another, then inserted the Yunlong sword into the scabbard and took off the M1 carbine from the back.
The cavalry regiment of the brigade and the other two cavalry companies moved two beats slower than the cavalry battalion of the new regiment, and they all followed the cavalry battalion and chased the Japanese.
Sun Desheng also raised his M1 carbine, aimed at the Japanese, and fired two shots in succession.
Snap! Snap!
After two gunshots, a Japanese soldier 100 meters ahead screamed and fell off his horse.
This m1 carbine, which was customized for the cavalry battalion of the New 1st Regiment through the system, is light in weight, has a short barrel, and is very powerful. Its rate of fire is ten times faster than the Japanese Type 44 rifle.
And Sun Desheng's marksmanship was at the level of a sharpshooter, and his shots were almost flawless even on horseback moving at high speed.
In his hand, this gun fired like a light machine gun.
One of them pushed the Type 44 rifle into the chamber, turned around and prepared to aim the gun. The next moment, he was hit in the abdomen by an incoming bullet, and fell off his horse with a scream.
Beside Sun Desheng, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion raised their guns and fired.
The continuous firepower suppressed the Japanese cavalry and was unable to fight back.
The cavalry battalion, cavalry regiment and cavalry company pursued them for more than 0 kilometers, and were only more than 10 kilometers away from Yangquan. However, it was already dark by this time, and they encountered the Japanese infantry who came to help.
The cavalry battalion then let go of the Japanese and returned. During the pursuit, the cavalry battalion used carbines to kill more than 100 Japanese cavalrymen.
After this battle, more than 1,300 Japanese cavalrymen of the 13th Cavalry Regiment were left, and only about 300 Japanese cavalrymen were left, who fled back to Yangquan in embarrassment.
After the Japanese cavalry returned to Yangquan, captain Nishizawa Yongxiong cursed and led his troops back to Inner Mongolia. He left overnight and vowed never to come to Shanxi again.