After Liu Zheliang led the 2nd Xue Division and the successor troops of the 3rd Xue Division to Gao'an, he left the 9th Xue Brigade to defend Gao'an, and then led other troops to the big town. After arriving in the big town, he asked other troops of the 3rd Xue Division to They all went to chase Bai Liusu, while he stayed in the big town with the Second School Division, preparing to wait for the arrival of the main force here.
Liu Zheliang made this arrangement out of selfish motives. He hoped that his division could join the main force in the battle to siege the 33rd Division. However, before the main force could wait, just after four o'clock, the reconnaissance post in front sent back news that there was an attack. Japanese cavalry troops were heading towards big towns.
"How many people."
"We don't dare to get too close. It is estimated that there are about 2,000 people."
The number of cavalry units in a regiment of the Japanese army is between 2,000 and 3,000. The advantage of the cavalry is speed, and the plains are the place where they can best exert their combat power. This is why Amazu Jutaro did not allow them to accompany the large army to attack the Lion Gate. ,
"Two thousand people." Liu Zheliang was so happy that he said to the people around him: "Commander Bai just got a big deal. This group of cavalry should be here for revenge. It's great. If nothing else happens, we can also take advantage of it." Eat alone." Everyone on the left and right laughed. Liu Zheliang led his troops out of the big town, with the tank regiment as the leader, the armor regiment following, the artillery regiment behind, and four of the six infantry regiments were selected to pass through from the left and right. Prepare to encircle the 33rd Cavalry Regiment on three sides.
Liu Zheliang had just put the tank regiment and armored regiment on standby. One thousand meters ahead, the sound of horse hooves sounded, and the Japanese reconnaissance cavalry arrived.
Unlike Iida Masao who rushed into the ambush set by Bai Liusu in a daze, Watanabe Kentaro met Inoue Tianmei who ran away from the big town on the way. Under the latter's reminder, he knew that the person who appeared in the big town was a student. The most elite chariot unit in the army, so he behaved much more cautiously. He successively arranged two groups of reconnaissance cavalry in front of the large army. One of the reconnaissance cavalry also brought a mortar.
Kentaro Watanabe planned it very well. Mortars can not only be used to test whether there are ambushes in the front, but also can use gunfire to warn large troops in the rear when enemy conditions are discovered. This trick was purely invented by Watanabe. In the past, China and Japan No one on both sides had ever used it before, so it was completely beyond the expectations of Liu Zheliang and others. Watanabe's fantastic idea almost made him the first Japanese soldier to kill a lieutenant general-level officer in the Xuebing Army. People, when Liu Zheliang was standing outside the armored vehicle to report the situation to Ouyang Yun, two Japanese soldiers just leveled the ground and stuffed a grenade into the barrel. This shocked all the students of the Second Academic Division. An accident broke out in a cold sweat. Liu Zheliang had just reported important information to the commander-in-chief on You Xiaolian. A grenade whizzed down on him. At that time, if the guards around him hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, six people would have pounced on him almost at the same time. She fell on him and protected him tightly. Even if Liu Zheliang didn't die, at least there would be a few parts missing from his body.
"The master's seat has been blown up." A student shouted. The next moment, he was slapped unconscious by an officer next to him: "You bastard, where are you cursing the master's seat? Isn't the master's seat good?"
Ordinary soldiers don't understand strategy, and they don't know that their painful shouting may plunge the army into chaos. Fortunately, the officer reacted quickly, and the slap woke him up immediately.
In order to protect Liu Zheliang, four of the six guards who protected him died, and one was seriously injured and one was slightly injured. After the sound of the gunfire, the surrounding students rushed up and were busy rescuing people. If they were left on the ground, In Maili, Ouyang Yun's voice came out,
"I'm fine." Liu Zheliang was helped up by the cadets. He took a sad look at his dead brothers, picked up the microphone, pressed the send button and said calmly: "Commander-in-Chief, I am Zheliang. We encountered a group of Japanese cavalry in the east of Xincheng, numbering about two thousand, and we prepared to ambush them, but the ambush failed because the Japanese seemed to have discovered us."
"Where's Tassel."
"She should have arrived in Anyi."
"How many people are there in the big city now?"
"Our second division is here."
"It's up to you. Remember, we must not let the 33rd Division break through. Get in touch with Feng Lanshan as soon as possible. It may take us three hours to get to the battlefield. If they can't hold on, you can apply a little pressure first. .”
"Yes, Zheliang understands."
When the artillery fired from the front, Wu Xiangjing, the commander of the artillery regiment of the 2nd Xuexi Division behind him, immediately became extremely nervous. He used a walkie-talkie to ask Zhang Changyi, the commander of the 6th Xuexue Brigade, whether to launch a retaliatory artillery bombardment, saying that they had locked the position of the Japanese artillery, and Zhang Changyi was in charge of the command. The armored regiment was not very far away from Liu Zheliang. He had already judged that the grenade that had just wounded the teacher's seat was a grenade, so he said to Wu Xiangjing: "Don't be in a hurry to fire, wait until I figure out the situation." Then he got off the car and found him. Liu Zheliang, asked him for instructions on the next course of action,
The Japanese army fired such a shot, and then there was no movement. This made Liu Zheliang and others very puzzled. They never thought that this was a tentative shelling by the Japanese army. They were hesitating whether to launch an attack immediately. The reconnaissance post in front After returning, Dai Delu, commander of the division's direct reconnaissance battalion, reported to Liu Zheliang that the Japanese army's main force was only two kilometers away from here, and the Japanese reconnaissance cavalry seemed to have discovered something and was returning to the main force at this time.
"Without further ado, let's attack, Lao Dai. Tell Commander Wu the location of the Japanese army and ask him to fire a round of rapid fire."
"yes!"
"Inoue-kun, there are only two regiments, right?" Kentaro Watanabe asked Inoue Tamaki in the middle of the formation of the 33rd Cavalry Regiment.
The latter nodded and asked: "Sir, do you really want to challenge the Chinese chariots with cavalry?"
"yes."
"However, our army's existing bullets cannot penetrate the armor of China's tanks."
Watanabe sneered: "Inoue, you are scared out of your wits by the Chinese. I admit that the Chinese tanks are indeed more advanced than ours. The empire has fallen behind in this regard, but this does not mean that we There's nothing you can do about them. Chariots also need people to drive them. Therefore, the most important thing about an army's combat effectiveness is the quality of its soldiers. Well, as long as the driver is killed, it doesn't matter how powerful the chariot is."
Inoue touched his nose and thought to himself without saying anything: "It sounds nice, but there are no targeted weapons. How can you kill the people in the tank?"
As if he knew what he was thinking, Watanabe pointed behind him and said, "Just wait and see, I will give you a long experience today and let you see how the warriors of our 33rd Cavalry Regiment use their flesh and blood to fight." Defeat the Chinese chariots."
It was so dark that Inoue couldn't tell what kind of secret weapon Watanabe had prepared. When he thought about it, fighting a chariot with flesh and blood would be the same as dying. However, Watanabe acted so confident that he couldn't help but be suspicious. ,