Major General Zuo Majiu, who was determined to fight to the death, led the last remaining cavalry from two cavalry regiments, which had been reduced to two cavalry squadrons, to the front. He raised his sharp saber and was slowly pressing forward desperately. The anti-alliance troops rushed over.
His meaning is very obvious. I can't break out anyway. Compared with the tanks pressing up from the other three directions, the anti-alliance troops pressing forward are still infantry. Our cavalry can't beat the tanks, but they can beat you. I still have a lot of confidence in the infantry.
As long as I break through your firepower network and rush into your position, the whole army will be wiped out. I can also take your infantry as my backing. This is a plain terrain. The cavalry will be massacred against the tanks, but with the impact of the cavalry, I will be able to deal with you. The infantry is massacre.
The most important thing is that in Zuoma Jiujiu's view, I am closer to your infantry position than your tank is to mine. The tank moves faster, but my cavalry is within a short distance. The speed is not much slower than yours. As long as I get mixed up with your infantry, your tanks can only watch from the side and cannot participate in the battle.
As long as you are unable to participate in the battle, your protection and mobility, as well as your machine guns and artillery, will all be useless. This gives me a chance to bite off a piece of your flesh. But this Major General Zuoma, The idea was quite good, but Mu Changqiu in front of him was not prepared to give him a chance to succeed.
Mu Changqiu, who had been dealing with the Japanese army for many years during the Anti-Japanese War, had no idea about the Japanese army's habit of charging to the death at every turn. The infantry he was pressing against were Not only was the speed of action very slow, but he also never left the protection of the fire net behind him.
In fact, if the major general Zuoma Jiujiu completely disperses the remaining subordinates, rides alone, and finds a gap to break out from the direction of the tanks, it may not be possible that no one can break out. After all, the infantry in Mu Changqiu's hands is now very limited, and except for the front, tanks are still the main force in other directions.
Especially the troops pressing up from the two wings, there were almost no infantry, and they were all tanks. In order to block the Japanese cavalry from breaking out, the distance between these tanks was not very close. In addition, in order to prevent accidental injuries, the tanks were not very close. It was impossible to fire artillery when the Japanese troops were besieging and breaking through.
The machine guns on the tanks are all on the front. Once the Japanese cavalry bypasses the tank in front of them, unless the turret or the body is rotated, it will be difficult for the machine gun fire to form a crossfire and completely block their breakout channel. This gives the Japanese cavalry , completely destroying the chance of breakout.
But at this time, he had been completely dazzled by the fact that the war situation had quickly turned into an unfavorable one in a short period of time. All he could think about was fighting to the death and serving the country for seven lives. As a major general, Zuo Jianjiu had already thought of this. In his mind, he could only think of fighting to the death. , and strive to kill as many anti-Union infantry as possible.
This was not the first time that Major General Zuoma had made a mistake in this battle. From the very beginning of the encounter with the flank attack force led by Mu Changqiu, he made a very serious mistake. The Japanese Fourth Cavalry Brigade all There is nothing wrong with the cavalry, but although this cavalry brigade has not forgotten the skill of horseback riding, it is no longer light cavalry fighting with the enemy's cavalry, but lancers who ride to meet the enemy and dismount to fight.
If he had dismounted and fought immediately after contacting Mu Changqiu's troops, the outcome might not have been so bad. Even if he was fighting in the plains, his four Type 94 rapid-fire cannons would be almost a pile of waste, but according to the Japanese army The consistent style of using infantry to deal with tanks may not necessarily lead to the defeat of two cavalry regiments in such a short period of time.
Perhaps considering that the firepower of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was too dense, approaching with infantry would only cause greater casualties. Perhaps facing the tank assault of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he lacked sufficient anti-tank firepower in his hands. After the plan to mix the Union tank clusters together and prevent the tanks from exerting their own firepower failed, they still planned to use the impact of their cavalry to deal with the infantry first, and then find ways to deal with the anti-Union tanks.
Therefore, this man is still determined to use the light cavalry tactics that are more conducive to immediate killing. After all, no matter how fast the dismounted battle is, it cannot be as fast as the cavalry's surprise attack. This is also in the plain area around Guisui. The impact of cavalry on infantry is still very strong.
But he forgot that the advancement speed of the infantry was indeed not as fast as that of his cavalry, but the infantry's target was small and its combat flexibility was far beyond what the cavalry could compare with. The most important thing was the infantry's tactical use. It is much more flexible than the cavalry. Even if it is faced with the tanks rushing up from the counterattack, it is not impossible to have the ability to fight while defending at the same time.
Looking at the remaining Japanese troops in the final charge with sabers in the telescope, Mu Changqiu, who was extremely calm, not only showed no expression, but instead showed a sarcastic sneer at the corner of his mouth, as if what he saw in front of him was not a group of Japanese troops. Cavalry, but a feast that has been cooked.
Mu Changqiu didn't think that he had four twin-mounted 14mm machine guns, four twin-mounted twin 23mm anti-aircraft guns, plus a large number of general-purpose machine guns and 12mm anti-aircraft machine guns, as well as one for the entire army. The firepower network composed of automatic rifles was the only cavalry left under Zuoma Jiuhe's command and could easily break through.
He had not worried about his two cavalry regiments at the beginning, but now faced with the remnants of less than two cavalry squadrons, he had nothing to worry about. He had incomparable confidence in his troops and equipment. His confidence, let alone the two cavalry squadrons, was doubled, and he did not believe that his opponent could break through his firepower network.
Mu Changqiu's self-confidence was not unreasonable. Even though he was a cavalryman, he tried his best to make a loose charge within the limited combat width, but Zuo Jianjiu's desperate struggle could not bring him what he wanted. As a result, under the intense crossfire, his desperate charge was no better than death.
Although his cavalry tried to break through the opponent's position at maximum speed, his remaining subordinates, no matter how they urged their mounts to make the final sprint, could not even touch the edge of his opponent's position, and were defeated. The men and horses were beaten into briquettes, and even more so, they were beaten into two pieces by the opponent's small-caliber artillery that fired extremely fast.
At such a close distance, the crossfire of twin 23mm anti-aircraft cannons and 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns is definitely the most deadly for any charging force. The 13mm anti-aircraft artillery shells can even cut the Japanese cavalry in two, including men and horses, while still maintaining penetrating power and looking for the next unlucky person.
Behind him, the group of anti-alliance tanks that were catching up had even stopped firing their machine guns in order to avoid accidentally injuring their own people. They relied on the impact of the tanks to rush back and forth on the battlefield to crush his rearguard troops. The cavalrymen were knocked down one by one by the tanks and then crushed into mud by the heavy tracks.
Under attack from all sides, Zuoma Hisato's last desperate charge passed away quietly without even striking a single float. And this Major General Zuoma Hisato, three minutes after the final attack was launched, had not yet When his horse picked up speed, a 14mm machine gun bullet opened a large skylight in his chest.
Just like his subordinates who were either beaten into a pile of stumps or crushed into pulp, his wish to serve the country for seven lives was realized, but this guy's purebred Arabian horse mount , but luckily escaped and became the only survivor of this battle and the only prisoner of war.
After the last gunshot, Mu Changqiu put down the telescope in his hand and glanced coldly at the battlefield filled with mutilated corpses of men and horses. However, he did not even clean the battlefield and sent someone to lead the special prisoner of war away. After they came back, they turned all their troops on the spot and rushed towards Guisui City behind them.
As for the remaining Japanese troops who were fighting fiercely with the Thirteenth Regiment, he didn't even pay attention to it. He had already eliminated the main force of the Japanese army. If the remaining squadrons of Japanese troops cooperated with a tank company, ten If the leader of the third regiment still can't solve the problem, then his leader should be replaced.
Mu Changqiu, who was under Guisui City, neatly eliminated the fourth cavalry brigade of the Japanese army in Guisui. At this moment, on the wall of Guisui City, Lieutenant General Nishihara Yice, commander of the cavalry group of the Japanese Mongolian garrison, who had been watching the battle, He also put down the telescope in his hand almost at the same time. Facing the tragic battle situation, he was speechless for a long time and could not calm down for a long time.
He personally attended the contact operational meeting between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army at the end of last year. He was quite disapproving of the importance that the then commander of the North China Front Army, General Okamura Neiji, placed on this army. In his opinion, the cavalry group in his hands was It is indestructible.
Especially after the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, which was originally assigned to the command of the Twelfth Army, returned to its establishment, his self-confidence more than doubled. In his eyes, let alone those Tuba Roads in Daqingshan that were short of guns and ammunition. It doesn't matter what kind of resistance alliance has defeated the powerful Kwantung Army repeatedly.
His cavalry group will win the final victory no matter how tough the opponent is. It has a strong style left over from the Battle of Heitaigou during the Russo-Japanese War. His cavalry is fearless, which is why he is so powerful. The main reason why the Anti-Japanese Alliance chose to take the initiative after they had broken into the suburbs of Guisui.
At this moment, his intestines were about to turn green. What he regretted most now was why he sent the fourth cavalry brigade to abandon the strong city and risk an attack. The result was that the entire army was destroyed. In this battle, he almost lost all his efforts to defend Guisui. How long can the main force and the remaining remaining troops be able to hold on under such a powerful attack from the opponent?
The city fortifications are strong, the city walls are tall and thick, so what? These fortifications all need people to hold on to. Without the necessary troops to hold on, even if they are built on strong fortifications, they will have no effect, not to mention the current situation. The opponent is not the enemy in the Hetao area that lacks heavy equipment.
The tactics are fierce and cunning, and the equipment is more advanced than I imagined. Their tanks are so strong that they can't even be destroyed by 75mm field artillery shells at close range. What kind of army is this? The whole suit, coupled with the advanced and powerful weapons and equipment, caused a cold wind to hit Nishihara Issaku's back.
What makes him regret even more now is why he disobeyed the order of the commander of the North China Front Army, did not abandon Baotou, and concentrated all his troops to defend Guisui. Now after the fourth cavalry brigade was completely destroyed, he was the company defending The defenders of Guisui were unable to gather enough numbers.
Now that the entire Fourth Cavalry Brigade has been wiped out, and the main force of the First Brigade is far away in Baotou and Guyang, he has no troops to mobilize. He knows immediately that this is basically an empty city plan. I am afraid that Guisui City cannot be defended. The only difference is the length of time left to hold on.