After Major General Katayama Saburo made up his mind to retreat, he did not panic at all. In order to cover his actions, before retreating, he concentrated almost all the troops on hand and launched a beautiful counterattack against Tao Jingfei in front of him. [.Com text
] After forcefully repelling Tao Jingfei's left wing for nearly a mile, he forced Tao Jingfei to temporarily stop counterattack, adjust his deployment and then turn around to the south.
"What, the main force of the Japs has escaped?" After hearing the report below, Du Kaishan, who was about to turn around and fight eastward after completing the encirclement and annihilation of his current Japanese squadron, was surprised. He did not expect that the resistance was so tenacious before.
Japanese soldiers actually escaped?
Shozaburo Katayama ran away like this, leaving Du Kaishan aside who was preparing to give him a fatal blow. Tao Jingfei, who was counterattacking frontally, was tightly entangled by the tail-cutting troops left by the Japanese army, and could only watch helplessly.
Watching Shozaburo Katayama running wildly and heading south.
It's just that although Major General Saburo Katayama played a trick on Du Kaishan and Tao Jingfei and left them alone, the retreat was still not smooth. After learning that the big fish in his hand was going to run away, Yang Zhen immediately organized his own
The cavalry battalion, which had not participated in the battle, was sent out.
Since completing the training, I have been itching for a long time because I have not participated in the war. The former Northwest Army cavalry platoon leader who was captured when his horse was blown up by a Japanese plane during the Xuzhou breakout battle is now the cavalry battalion directly under the Jidong Military Region.
After the commander Yu Wenchi received the order, without saying a word, he led his cavalry battalion in pursuit.
Although Katayama Shozaburo started early, fighting in plain areas, two-legged infantry could not outrun four-legged horses. Before Katayama Shozaburo could reach the front line of Wazitun, Yuwenchi's cavalry chased him.
came up. The cavalry company that had been harassing the retreating Japanese troops also launched an attack on them.
Katayama Shozaburo, who was attacked from both sides, looked at the large number of cavalrymen who were killing him, but did not panic. Because he knew that there was a group with two infantrymen personally commanded by the commander of the Fourth Division, Sawada Shigeru, at the Renjiangkou line not far from here.
One brigade each of the brigade, cavalry, and artillery is stationed in order to respond to the second division at any time. As long as he reaches the front line of Lianjiangkou, he will be saved.
Major General Saburo Katayama left Koji Yabiki to command a squadron of troops to withstand the cavalry attack, while he led the rest of the troops to urgently seek help from Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru who was on the line at Renjiangkou at this time, and immediately sent the rest
The troops shrank to a high ground and resisted desperately.
He knew very well that in a plain area, if an infantry without heavy weapons competes with a large group of cavalry, whether it is a breakout or a retreat, it is seeking death. The two-legged infantry cannot outrun the highly mobile cavalry in any case.
Once it catches up, it doesn't take more than one charge to overwhelm its own troops. The Fourth Division has a cavalry brigade on the front line of Lianjiangkou. As long as they can catch up, they will be saved.
Looking at the approaching Yabiki Koji, Yu Wenze showed a contemptuous smile. He raised the Soviet-style cavalry sword in his hand and pointed at the two men behind him who were carrying identical submachine guns. They also raised the Soviet-style saber cavalry and said:
"Brothers, today is the first time our cavalry battalion opens. If we can't defeat these little devils, how can we face our infantry brothers? Come on, let's show the little devils what the Chinese cavalry is."
After the words fell, Yu Wenze and his horsemen rushed out first. Behind him, the cavalry, mainly composed of cadres from the Anti-Union Second Route Army cavalry, also rushed forward without showing any signs of weakness. A few hundred meters away, on the war horse
Running at full speed, they arrived in the blink of an eye. The Japanese army only had time to fire two or three shots, and Yu Wenze's cavalry had already charged forward, either waving their sabers or carrying submachine guns.
After all, it was a veteran division of the Japanese army. When they saw that the cavalry charging towards them had already rushed in front of them, they did not show a trace of panic. They all drew up their bayonets and moved closer together to form a dense formation, with a pair of bayonets deployed.
The formation prepares for hand-to-hand combat.
Although Yabiki Koji has never been a cavalry, he also knows that if he fights alone in the plains, he can only be chopped alive with sabers one by one. The only way is for everyone to lean together, shrink like a hedgehog, and use
Rifles with good bayonets can replace the long spears used in ancient infantry and cavalry battles, and use the tactics used by the ancients to deal with cavalry to fight opponents.
Seeing the Japanese troops huddled together and rushing to less than thirty meters away from the Japanese bayonet array, Yu Wenze did not rush over. Instead, he drew a circle with his horse's reins outside the Japanese bayonet array.
After bypassing the front bayonet array formed by the Japanese army, Yu Wenze took out his speed machine and fired a burst of shots. He shouted to the brothers behind him: "Don't fight with the Japanese. The Japanese formation is too dense.
If you try hard, we will suffer a loss."
"Stay with the first company, and let's give them a stalking fight. Use grenades when they are far away from the outside, and use submachine guns when they are close. Be careful to keep a distance and don't accidentally hurt them. Disperse them first, and then launch a charge. The second company
Bypass them and go after the main force of the Japs. Join the Third Company, and this time we will kill the Japs in one fell swoop."
Upon hearing his order, the cavalrymen under his command turned their horses one after another, organized in squads and platoons, and fought quickly outside the Japanese bayonet array from time to time. After avoiding the front of the Japanese bayonet array, these cavalrymen or
Either take out a grenade and shoot wildly, or pick up a submachine gun and shoot wildly.
His adjustment of tactics caused Yabiki Koji to suffer. In order to deal with Yu Wenze's charge, the Japanese troops who had gathered together were constantly knocked down by submachine gun bullets from all directions. Yang Zhen equipped the cavalry with all the grenades
They are all imitation Soviet F1 grenades.
Although the lethality of these self-imitation grenades is lower than the original ones with a lethality of up to 40 meters due to the reduced charge. However, the number of fragments produced after the explosion has greatly increased.
Against such a dense formation formed by the Japanese army, the killing power of this grenade is astonishing. A grenade falling into the Japanese army can blow up and kill more than a dozen people, or even more. Coupled with the intensively swept submachine guns, the speed
The machine bullets defeated the Japanese army. Without much effort, Yabiki Koji could no longer bear the cost of casualties if the hedgehogs continued to gather together.
Although he was well aware of his opponent's extremely immoral and unsamurai tactics, Yabiki Koji had to break up the dense formation that he had formed to resist the cavalry charge. If he didn't break up again,
, under the attack of the opponent's submachine guns and the rain of grenades, within ten minutes, there were only a few people left in his own troops.
Seeing that the Japanese army's formation was disrupted by him, Yu Wenze, who knew it was time to charge, held the speed machine in one hand and the saber in the other hand. He clamped the horse under him tightly with his legs and shouted: "Cavalry battalion, attack."
Finally, without waiting for the words to fall, he had already taken the lead and rushed into the Japanese army. With the speed machine in his left hand and the saber in his right hand, he rushed back and forth among the Japanese army that was in disarray. He shot from far away with a gun and used a knife from close by.
cut.
Beside him, his men showed no sign of weakness. They used their sabers to quickly kill the Japanese soldiers. These cavalrymen did not fight head-on with the Japanese soldiers. They first used submachine guns to attack the cavalrymen and then rushed up, risking their lives to gather together.
After the Japanese soldiers were dispersed again in small groups of three or four, they slowly chopped off the heads of the Japanese soldiers one by one with the saber in their hands.
This can hardly be called a battle. It can be said to be a one-sided and unilateral massacre. Under the repeated attacks of the cavalry, the Japanese army, which was almost unable to fight back, was cut in half like a vegetable and a melon.
All of them were killed within an hour. The second Major Yabiki was beheaded by Yu Wenze himself.
After neatly killing the remaining Japanese troops and delaying his own squadron, Yu Wenze took the remaining company without hesitation and chased in the direction of the main force. When he arrived, he was only surrounded by his two companies.
On a small high ground, Major General Katayama Shosaburo led the remnants of his troops, and they caught up with the main force besieging Katayama Shosaburo. Under the command of instructor Qu Xiangdong, they used the cavalry battalion's four 60mm mortars and six heavy
With machine gun fire cover, they launched a charge against the Japanese troops on the high hill.
Yu Wenze, who was still far from being killed before, saw this, rolled up his sleeves and was about to join the battle. However, he did not want to be grabbed by Qu Xiangdong, who refused to let him join the battle and asked him to direct him on the spot. When the two of them were fighting
, a cavalryman hurried over and said: "Battal commander, instructor, we found a large number of Japanese cavalry directly south of us, rushing towards the battlefield. Their strength is roughly estimated to be around a brigade."
After hearing the report, the two people immediately stopped arguing. After looking at each other, Qu Xiangdong spoke first: "Batalion Commander, you command here, I will take the first company to have a look. Remember, if you still violate the headquarters' orders, you will be thrown away."
I don’t care about your command position. If you go down to kill them privately, I will report the truth to the headquarters after the war."
As soon as Qu Xiangdong said this, Yu Wenze, who had just ignored him and almost fell out with Qu Xiangdong, immediately withered. After all, Qu Xiangdong was an old political worker transferred from Guan Nei, and he had an extremely accurate vision, and he caught him immediately
Yu Wenze’s weakness.
When the cavalry battalion was about to go into battle, Yang Zhen repeatedly warned Yu Wenze that he would never allow him to abandon his command position and fight on the front line just for his own pleasure. In addition to repeatedly emphasizing his order to Yu Wenze, Yang Zhen also explained
Qu Xiangdong must keep a close eye on this guy. If Yu Wenze disobeys orders, he will be severely punished after the war.
Seeing that Yu Wenze didn't become honest until he heard that he was going to report to the headquarters, Qu Xiangdong was not very relieved and told Deputy Battalion Commander Zhang Guixian to keep an eye on him. If Zhang Xiangui intended to cover up, just let him know, and he would definitely
After giving the most severe punishment, he led a company to meet the Japanese cavalry.
After Qu Xiangdong left, Yu Wenze dragged Zhang Xiangui reluctantly and said, "Brother, give me some face. The height of the high ground occupied by the little devil is less than 30 meters, and the slope is not big. We can charge up there with just one charge.
, I’ll go up and fight for a while, as long as you don’t tell the truth, by the time the instructor comes back, we’re done here and he won’t find anything.”
Looking at Yu Wenze, who was a little restless and scratching his head anxiously, he was born in the Fifth Army of the Anti-Alliance Army and served as a cavalry squad leader in the old Northeast Army. Zhang Xiangui, a very kind-hearted man, smiled and said: "Batalion Commander, the instructor is right. You are the highest ranking person in our battalion."
Commander, you charge forward, what will happen to the troops if something goes wrong?"
"You are the commander, and your position should be at your command post, directing the entire battalion in combat, rather than going to the front line to rush and kill yourself. Besides, you also saw the instructor's tone when he left. If I really let you go
, if he knew about it, I would be miserable."
Having said this, Zhang Xiangui smiled honestly and said: "Battal Commander, the Japs here are only more than one squadron in strength. Even if you go up there, you won't be able to survive. Just now you didn't hear that there was a Jap over there.
A cavalry brigade? Don’t worry, there will come a time when you can kill to your heart’s content.”
"Now if you disobey the headquarters' orders and go to the battlefield privately, if the headquarters finds out, they will transfer you back to the rear. Then you will lose a big thing because of the small things. I know you don't care about your official position, but right now our
The war gets bigger and bigger, and from now on it will be you."
Hearing Zhang Xiangui's persuasion, Yu Wenze scratched his head and said: "Old Zhang, you don't know, I haven't ridden my horse to kill the Japanese for more than a year, and my hands are always itchy. I finally waited for this opportunity, and saw that the Japanese could not be killed.
, It’s simply too disturbing. ***, if my big leopard and pinto horse hadn’t been blown up by the Japs’ plane and I was knocked unconscious, how could I have been so cowardly and taken as a prisoner?”
"When I see these little sons of bitches, I think of my big leopard and pinto horse. That is a fine Hequ horse, not only with strong sprinting power, but also with great intelligence. How can it be used on the battlefield?
He saved my life once, and I am like a relative. My mother did not die on the battlefield, but she died under the Japs’ plane. I was so tired that I suffered so much in their prisoner-of-war camp.”
"Old Zhang, you are from the Anti-Japanese War and have never been in a prisoner-of-war camp of the Japs. You don't know that the Japs don't regard us captured people as human beings at all. If the wounded fall into their hands, almost none of them can
Those who survived. When the new recruits came, a group of prisoners of war were randomly pulled out from the prisoner-of-war camp and given to the new recruits to practice assassination and build up their courage."
"When those Japanese officers are happy, they use prisoners of war to practice sword skills. When they are not happy, they will kill the prisoners alive to discourage them. They say hell is scary, but we have never seen it with our own eyes. But the prisoner-of-war camp of the little Japanese is not suitable for us middlemen*
*For humans, it is even more terrifying than hell. Of the more than 300 of my brothers who were captured, now I am the only one left. They were either tortured to death or picked on with bayonets by little Japs."
"But seeing these little devils right in front of me, and being unable to personally go into battle to avenge those brothers who died innocently in their hands, as well as my big leopard and flower horse, I felt extremely aggrieved. I really wanted to be stabbed.
Only by cutting these Japanese soldiers alive can I relieve the hatred in my heart."
After saying these words, he thought of his beloved horse, of his brothers who died innocently under Japanese bayonets in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, and of the suffering he suffered there. Yu Wenze stared at Gao Gang with his red eyes.
The last remnants of the Japanese Second Division were on the ground, clutching the saber in their hands.
Looking at Yu Wenze, whose eyes were red, Zhang Xiangui was about to persuade him. However, he did not expect that before he could say anything, he was interrupted by a report from a cavalry correspondent who hurried over to the southeast.
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After hearing the report from this cavalry correspondent, Qu Xiangdong had encountered the Japanese cavalry brigade heading north from Lianjiangkou and a fierce battle had begun. He knew that something must have happened to Qu Xiangdong, otherwise that stubborn guy would definitely not have sent someone to ask for help.
Without the slightest hesitation, Yu Wenze said to Zhang Xiangui: "Old Zhang, it seems that the instructor is in trouble. He only has a cavalry company, and the strength is too thin. The Japanese have a cavalry brigade."
"In this way, I will leave you a company. You don't have to rush to eat them. Just keep an eye on these little devils and don't let them escape. According to the time, the main force is expected to arrive soon. Since they are infantry, they will be handed over to
The infantry will deal with it. I will take the second company and a platoon from the heavy machine gun company to pick up the instructor."
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