Kuroshima Morita's face became extremely ugly, and his lungs were about to burst with anger.
The Black Island Cavalry Regiment has more than 1,300 cavalry, but now there are less than 500 cavalry left.
Among them are the communications team and the Guards with more than 150 cavalry, the disabled 2nd Cavalry Squadron with more than 150 cavalry, and the cavalry artillery squadron with 200 cavalry.
Most of the Black Island Cavalry Regiment has been lost.
Tsuneo Suzuki raised the telescope on his chest and took in a panoramic view of the hillside with just one glance.
"Captain, it seems that the Eighth Route Army is not planning to leave. The heavy machine guns are still in place and are confronting us." Tsuneo Suzuki put down the telescope and said, "Let's call General Shinozuka for the aviation troops to come over and blow up the Eighth Route Army's machine gun position."
"Call the aviation force?" Kurojima Morita frowned, "Do we have to rely on the aviation force to wash away the shame of the Kurojima Cavalry Regiment?"
"But the machine gun firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce." Suzuki Tsuneo said, "Our cavalry can't charge forward at all."
"Shut up!" Kuroshima Morita said angrily, "Suzuki-kun, do you want me to become a joke in the imperial military circles?"
Tsuneo Suzuki paused quickly: "Hi!"
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At the same time, a new regiment was on the machine gun position.
Li Yunlong looked at the war horses and the corpses of Japanese soldiers on the ground, and his mentality and emotions were stable.
He even struck a match and lit a Laodao cigarette. After taking a puff, he held it between his right index and middle fingers.
"Did you see that?" Li Yunlong said loudly to the soldiers, "What the hell are you elites? I am fighting elites."
"More than 80 light and heavy machine guns are placed on a defense line less than 400 meters away. No matter how many Japanese cavalry come, they won't be able to use them!"
"Hurry up and replenish me with ammunition. Fill up the bullet chain, magazine and bullet plate for me!"
The soldiers raised their heads and looked at the slaughterhouse-like battlefield, grinning widely.
This battle was so exciting. Each man fired a machine gun and watched the Japanese cavalry fall crazily under the rain of bullets. I have to say that it was not very satisfying.
Although the shooting is very enjoyable, the consumption of machine gun ammunition is also extremely shocking.
Li Yunlong alone used the Maxim heavy machine gun to knock out three bullet chains, one of which contained 300 rounds of machine gun ammunition, and Li Yunlong took over after the machine gunner fought for a while. In other words, one Maxim gun fired at least
1,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition were consumed.
In just a short period of time, more than 80 light and heavy machine guns fired at least 70,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition. This consumption is simply astonishing!
At present, only Li Yunlong in the entire Eighth Route Army can afford to fight such a wealthy battle, not even the brigade commander.
Because except for the New Regiment, these regiments of the 386 Brigade, even the two main regiments 771 and 772, do not have much ammunition, let alone the New Second Regiment and the independent regiment which are the backbone regiments.
Of course, if the Japanese cavalry were to charge like this again, the New Second Regiment would not be able to withstand it, because Li Yunlong only prepared 200,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition.
However, fortunately, this guy has already killed the main force of the Black Island Cavalry Regiment, and there are not many Japanese cavalry left.
The Black Island Cavalry Regiment is at most capable of organizing and launching such a charge.
Political commissar Zhao Gang came to Li Yunlong with a sniper rifle and said: "Old Li, the Japanese haven't left yet."
"I saw it." Li Yunlong put down the telescope and said, "This old devil from Heidao must be waiting for the artillery from behind to come up and reorganize the attack."
"Then what should we do now?" Zhao Gang said, "Should we retreat?"
"Retreat?" Li Yunlong said, "Heidao still has about 300 cavalry around him. As soon as we retreat, the old devil Heidao will definitely come up. The 300 cavalry in our hands may not be the opponent of the devil's cavalry, and they may be defeated by then.
It’s us who are the ones.”
"But once the Japanese artillery comes up," Zhao Gang said, "our machine gun position will become a living target."
"Who said that?" Li Yunlong pursed his lips toward Wang Chengzhu's mortar position, "Is my artillery company a living wage?"
In this battle, Li Yunlong did not bring out the 75 field gun, but all 16 mortars and the Type 92 infantry gun were brought out.
When the Japanese cavalry had just attacked, Li Yunlong never ordered the artillery fire. He was just waiting for the Japanese to set up a mortar position.
"I'm sorry, my concern makes me confused." Zhao Gang smiled apologetically, "I forgot about our artillery company."
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About ten minutes later, the Black Island Regiment Cavalry Artillery Squadron arrived belatedly.
There is nothing that can be done about this. In addition to carrying people, the horses of the cavalry artillery squadron also have to carry artillery shell boxes and mortars.
The cavalry artillery squadron is equipped with eight Type 97 90mm mortars, also known as small steel cannons.
Compared with the M2 light mortar equipped by the New Regiment, the Type 97 mortar is more powerful, but also bulkier, with the entire gun weighing 172.5 kilograms.
"Captain!" Masao Yano, the commander of the cavalry artillery squadron, galloped up to Kuroshima Morita and paused.
Looking at the hillside ahead, there were corpses of Japanese cavalry and horses lying all over the place, and I couldn't help but be stunned.
Kuroshima Morita couldn't wait a moment longer: "Yano-kun, you came just in time. Please build an artillery position immediately and blow up the machine gun positions on the eighth route for me."
"Hi!" Masao Yano picked up the telescope and observed it for a while, then nodded quickly.
Returning to the position of the cavalry artillery squadron, Masao Yano immediately rode back to the position of the cavalry artillery squadron and waved: "Hey Gu, build a mortar position immediately!"
The Japs in the cavalry artillery squadron quickly dismounted and began to build a mortar position. The gunners unloaded the shell boxes from the military horses.
The Type 97 mortar is divided into three parts: a square base plate, a tripod mount and a barrel. It takes about 3 minutes to construct.
Since the Japanese mortar position was behind the Japanese cavalry formation, the observation gunner of the artillery company of the New Regiment did not see the location of the Japanese artillery position.
Eight Type 97 mortars were lined up in a row, and the firing units had been adjusted. The Japanese artillerymen held mortar shells in their hands, waiting for the test firing order.
"Wait a minute!" Kuroshima Morita rode over and shouted, "Use chemical bombs!"
"Nani?" Yano Masao and the artillerymen all looked at Kuroshima Morita in shock.
In combat, the Japanese army generally used poison gas bombs as their trump card. It was a weapon that was used to turn the tables after being defeated. It was very rare to launch poison gas bombs as soon as they came up.
There are mainly four types of poison gas bombs used by the Japanese military: green bombs, red bombs, yellow bombs, and tea bombs.
Green bombs, commonly known as tear gas bombs, are the least powerful and harmful gas bombs.
Red bombs, which release poisonous gas that strongly irritates respiratory organs, are commonly known as sneeze bombs.
Yellow bombs are erosive gas bombs that can cause ulcers to the skin and mucous membranes after use.
Tea bombs contain highly toxic poisonous gas that will directly cause heart failure and death in people who inhale the poisonous gas.
In real history, Brigadier Chen was poisoned by the Japanese twice.
In response to the Japanese army's poison gas bomb tactics, the Eighth Route Army had specialized chemical defense cadres who continuously organized soldiers to conduct anti-gas training and prepared anti-gas equipment to the best of their ability.
For example, every Eighth Route Army soldier must have towels and garlic during combat.
"Baga, why are you still standing there?" Kuroshima Morita frowned.
Kuroshima Morita was also beaten badly by the Eighth Route Army.
Even if artillery fire is used to plow the machine gun positions of the Eighth Route Army, ordinary artillery shells can destroy some of the machine gun fire points of the Eighth Route Army, but they cannot destroy all of them.
Even if the Japanese cavalry could charge into the Eighth Route Army's position, the casualties would certainly not be small. The Black Island Cavalry Regiment had already lost most of its cavalry, and no more cavalry could be lost.
But using poison gas bombs is different, it can directly make all eight groups lose their combat effectiveness instantly.
Not only can the cavalry go directly to harvest the heads of eight people, but they can also capture a large number of machine guns and bullets.
"Hi!" Masao Yano quickly nodded to Kuroshima Morita, then turned to the artillerymen and said, "Change chemical bombs, haha!"
The Japanese artilleryman immediately unloaded the ammunition box engraved with the skull mark from the horse, carried the ammunition box and placed it behind the mortar.
The Japanese deputy gunner immediately put the original mortar shells into the ammunition box, pried open the ammunition box containing the poison gas bombs, and took the poison gas bombs out of the ammunition box.
After a while, all gun positions were ready.
"Fire!" As the flag order soldier suddenly put down the small flag in his hand, the Japanese gunner put the gas bomb in his hand into the barrel.
With a muffled sound of tom tom, the gas bomb rushed out of the gun barrel and flew into the air, arcing across the sky, and smashed into the new group of machine gun positions with a sharp whistling sound.
At the same time, on the artillery position of the New Regiment, listening to the scream of artillery shells flying through the air, Li Yunlong shouted: "Conceal, defend against artillery!"
The soldiers immediately lay down on the spot to defend against the artillery. The reason why the soldiers were not afraid was because they could not withstand a few shells, and their own mortars would retaliate against the Japanese artillery positions.
The next moment, mortar shells landed on the machine gun positions of the new regiment and exploded with bang bang bang.
Contrary to the soldiers' expectations, what fell was not a mortar shell.
When he saw the spreading red gas, Li Yunlong's expression changed and he shouted loudly: "It's poisonous gas, please put on a gas mask!"
Following his order, the soldiers of the new regiment reacted instantly. The hundreds of people who were originally lying on the ground all reached for the gas masks beside them.
It is not a homemade gas mask made with wet towels and garlic, but a gas mask seized from the Japanese, which has excellent anti-gas effect.
Needless to say, veterans, the whole process of putting on gas masks was calm and comfortable. The recruits did not panic much and put on the gas masks in an orderly manner. There was no case of soldiers snatching the gas masks.
As for how to deal with the Japanese firing gas bombs, they had practiced this set of actions countless times.
Very familiar.
Only a few dozen soldiers at the impact point of the poison gas bombs inhaled a small amount of poison gas, and the vast majority of the soldiers did not inhale poison gas.
The Japanese artillery fired red bombs this time, and only inhaled a small amount of poisonous gas. Although it was not fatal, it could make people vomit, have difficulty breathing, and lose their ability to fight.
When the second wave of gas bombs fell and exploded, all the soldiers had put on gas masks.
Through the transparent mirror of the gas mask, they watched the red poisonous gas spreading on the machine gun position. However, the soldiers were not afraid at all. Instead, they were a little excited.
We have machine guns to greet the Japanese cavalry, and we have gas masks when the Japanese fire gas bombs.