The Japanese troops were getting closer and closer, but when they were about to enter the shooting range, they suddenly stopped! This sudden change made Lei Jiandong a little anxious. He held up his binoculars and carefully observed the opponent's movements!
At this time, Zenzaburo Hamamoto, the commander of the 16th Regiment of the Japanese Army, was sitting on the ocean horse, holding a telescope and observing Lijianao Village!
From the map, he had already known that the small village in this place was called Lijianao, and that it had an important geographical location and guarded a stone bridge. To cross the river, the only way was through that stone bridge!
Everyone was very calm along the way. Hamamoto Zenzaburo originally had no suspicion, but Lei Jiandong took away all the dogs in the village in order to avoid being discovered by the Japanese. As a result, the village was completely silent!
Zenzaburo Hamamoto was suspicious by nature, so he felt very uneasy about this dead village, so he ordered the team to stop and not move forward yet!
At this time, Captain Kojima of the 1st Squadron, who was transferred from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment for support, rode his horse to his side. After raising his head and looking at the village, he said, "Captain, I think there seems to be something abnormal in the village!"
"Kojima-kun, have you noticed it too?" Although Hamamoto Zenzaburo has a higher military rank than Kojima, Kojima belongs to the cavalry unit and is not under his rule, so Hamamoto Zenzaburo still has to be polite!
"Look, there is no sound in the village, and there are not even dogs barking. It is so quiet as if no one lives in it. This is very abnormal!" Xiaodao nodded, then raised his finger and pointed at the village. At this point, he stretched out his hand to pat.
He patted the war horse's head and said, "Besides, my war horse is also restless. It must be feeling something!"
Xiaodao knew that the intuition of animals was much more sensitive than that of humans. The war horse must have sensed some abnormal aura, and that's why it became restless!
Zenzaburo Hamamoto heard this and frowned. He asked Kojima in a low voice, "Kojima-kun, what do you think we should do?"
"First conduct an artillery bombardment, and then my cavalry squadron will make a tentative charge and go into the village to check it out!" Kojima put forward his own suggestion!
He has great confidence in his cavalry troops. Using the high speed of the team, he can quickly escape from the battle even if the opponent is ambushed!
After hearing this, Zenzaburo Hamamoto thought for a while, and then agreed to Kojima's suggestion, "Okay, then let Naomoto-kun of the Field Artillery Regiment conduct a shelling of the village!"
In the middle and rear of the Japanese army, there is a squadron of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment of the Kwantung Army. There are a total of 4 field guns, 8 92 infantry guns, and grenades!
After receiving the commander's order, the Japanese artillery troops immediately loaded the shells and began the first round of shelling!
The shells roared, shaking the ground. One shell after another fell into the village, causing the houses to collapse. There were ruins everywhere, as well as large and small craters!
The small village with only a few dozen households was reduced to ruins in the blink of an eye. Under the fierce Japanese artillery fire, the thin adobe wall could not withstand the power of explosives!
Hiding in the trenches dug in advance, Lei Jiandong lowered his head and prostrated, waiting for the bombardment to pass. He was extremely depressed, mainly because he never expected that the Japanese would be so vigilant, and they would be bombarded with artillery fire when they entered the village.
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Fortunately, the fortifications and bunkers in the village were built based on the original buildings. The Japanese artillery fire had no target at all and was just a tentative bombardment, so their artillery fire basically did no harm to the soldiers.
The Japanese bombardment lasted for ten minutes and then slowly stopped!
Listening to the sound of artillery gradually weakening, Lei Jiandong raised his head, shook the dirt off his head and body, couldn't help but cursed, and then looked outside, "The enemy's shelling has stopped, I guess they will send troops soon."
People enter the village, but they don’t know which team the Japanese will send into the village."
Based on the characteristics of the Japs, Lei Jiandong estimated that he was probably a Japs cavalry, so he ordered some diamond-shaped angle irons to be sprinkled on the roads in the village, preparing to make the Japs cavalry suffer!
As the bombardment stopped and the smoke had not yet cleared, the Japanese cavalry troops, under the command of Squadron Leader Kojima, had already gathered at the front of the team.
Standing upright, Kojima is dressed in a cavalry uniform, holding the reins of his war horse with his left hand, looking at the village not far away that is still smoking! Behind him, there are hundreds of Japanese soldiers riding war horses with sabers at their waists.
cavalry!
In the village of Lijianao, many thatched houses were ignited by the explosion of Japanese artillery shells. The flames on them crackled loudly. From time to time, some houses could not hold up and collapsed, but no sound was heard in the village!
Staring at the silent street, Captain Kojima took a deep breath, then raised his hand and pulled out the saber from his waist, raised it in front of him, yelled and took the lead and rushed out, "Charge!"
Horse hooves rumbled, trampling on the land of Liaodong, raising dust that covered the sky. Hundreds of sturdy war horses rushed towards Lijianao Village like a gust of wind. The sharp sabers reflected the dazzling coldness under the flames burning in the village.
Mang!
"charge!"
"charge!"
"charge!"
It has to be said that the pressure caused by the cavalry charge is indeed very shocking. Just a few hundred people charging together gave people a shocking feeling!
If there were tens of thousands of people charging, it would feel like the earth was shattering!
Zenzaburo Hamamoto held the command sword in his hand and sat astride the ocean horse. He looked calmly at the Japanese cavalry who were launching the charge, waiting for their results!
Seeing the Japanese cavalry rushing into the village like a whirlwind, galloping forward along the flat streets without encountering any obstacles, Hamamoto Zenzaburo breathed a long sigh of relief.
Suddenly, Kojima, who was rushing at the front, suddenly lifted the reins in his hand, and then the horse suddenly raised its front legs, turned its body in mid-air, and then suddenly stopped!
Although he stopped, the other cavalrymen following him were not so lucky. They rushed past the captain of the island squadron, and then felt the legs of the war horse tremble violently under their crotches, and followed closely.
He fell to the ground with a somersault and threw the unsuspecting Japanese cavalryman far away!
Some Japanese cavalrymen who were lucky enough to escape the rhombus angle iron were startled and were about to slow down, but at this moment, they suddenly felt themselves flying up, flying higher and higher, and then they saw a man on horseback.
The back is familiar, but the head on the neck is not seen.
"Stop!" Kojima looked at the corpses of Japanese cavalrymen whose heads flew into the sky strangely and slumped down from their horses, so he gave the order with a livid face.