Chapter 2113 Tactics for Dealing with Cavalry
It was bright, and there was a Japanese cavalry galloping.
Yes, it was a cavalry. It was called a cavalry when there were many horses together.
What annoyed Chu Tian and his men was that they could see clearly from the high ground that the cavalry did not move along the road but was heading in their direction!
"The Japanese must have received the news. Our main force is in front." Chu Tian muttered in a low voice, and then said to Wu Duo: "Our people guard this high ground, and your people go to that village."
"Why do we have to go to that village?" Wu Duo was puzzled.
"The two points take care of each other. There are many Japanese cavalry. Do we have to let them all be encircled?" Chu Tian said.
Wu Duo looked back at the village behind the high ground. It was only more than 100 meters away from the high ground, and there seemed to be dozens of households.
"You can fight as you like in that village. The people have already driven us away." Chu Tian said.
"Tell our people to go to that village." Wu Duo said to his soldiers, and then he really went to that village.
Chu Tian and Wu Duo had the same idea. There was already a grudge between the two sides. Instead of being together, it would be better for each of them to guard a point.
With the help of Shang Zhenying to Wu Duo's company before, Wu Duo could not just watch Chu Tian and his men fight with the Japanese cavalry without helping.
When he found that there were many Japanese cavalry, Chu Tian knew that they could not run away now.
The terrain in this area is open, and there are not many places to hide. If the Japanese cavalry finds them, it will catch up with them in a matter of minutes.
Since the Japanese cavalry rushed to this high ground, it means that they know that there is a large force of the Northeast Army in front.
Although the cavalry is fierce, most of the time they play the role of surprise attack and will never launch a positional attack on the large group of infantry.
The reason is that even if the firepower of the Chinese army is weak, it still has Maxim heavy machine guns.
And the Maxim heavy machine gun is the nemesis of the cavalry.
There is a saying that since the Maxim heavy machine gun appeared in this world, the nomadic people have started singing and dancing!
This is a bit confusing and needs to be explained.
Before the invention of the Maxim heavy machine gun, the nomadic peoples could travel the world with their fast horses and golden swords.
But when the Maxim heavy machine gun was set up and the bullets began to fire endlessly, how many cavalrymen were enough for it to slaughter? Then it would be a life-reaping machine!
Of course, one of the reasons is that the Maxim heavy machine gun is water-cooled. As long as there is water, the barrel can be cooled continuously, unlike the Czech light machine gun, which has to replace the barrel after firing a few bursts, otherwise the barrel will turn red and it will be useless!
It will never be like all the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns, which are air-cooled. The barrel is made like a radiator to cool down by increasing the contact area with the air, and the firing rate is not fast. Once it is fired, it is like an old hen laying eggs, and it can only "cluck" and "cluck". The firing rate cannot be fast, so the Japanese took a unique approach to use the Type 92 heavy machine gun mainly for short bursts and precise shooting.
Well, it is precisely because of the existence of the Maxim heavy machine gun that the nomadic cavalry can no longer play the game of thousands of cavalry crossing the plain. The nomadic people have no support anymore, so don’t they have to sing and dance to show that they are harmless?
This kind of thing, to put it bluntly, is still strength. Only with the strength of the Maxim will the cavalry be useless.
That’s why the Japanese cavalry will come here to seize this commanding height, instead of using the cavalry to launch a group charge against Zhao Tieying’s regiment that is no different from suicide.
The Japanese don’t have any good strategists at the strategic level, but they are much smarter than most of the national army at the tactical level. They also know that they have to pick the soft persimmons!
The sound of horse hooves is like hundreds of drums beating at the same time. This time, the Japanese cavalry made a bigger noise than the cavalry they had encountered since Chu Tian and his team fought against the devils!
Correspondingly, the snow blocks dug up by the horse hooves were so many that Chu Tian and his team could now see a line of black, red or white horses in front, and a snow fog behind!
"There are so many little devils. Be prepared. Don't let them rush here. Let them rush over from both sides." Chu Tian said loudly.
When Chu Tian said this, the eyes of the veterans lit up. They suddenly realized the wisdom of Chu Tian letting Wu Duo's company go to the village behind to defend.
As long as the Japanese cavalry charged towards them, their firepower was strong enough. The Japanese cavalry would surely split to both sides like a rushing water flow, and then rush over the high ground by inertia. In that case, they would be close to the village behind the high ground, but they would be hit by Wu Duo's company again.
If Wu Duo's gang was smart enough, they could definitely climb up the house!
What is the advantage of cavalry? Isn't it like a tiger entering a flock of sheep when charging into the infantry formation? Using horses to hit or chopping with knives, as for shooting, it is definitely not possible.
But as long as Wu Duo and his men climbed up the house, no matter how fierce the Japanese cavalry was, what could they do? No matter how tall and strong the Japanese horses were, they could not knock over the houses, even the straw houses!
No matter how sharp the Japanese cavalry sabers are, what good can they do? They are not using the long spears of the cold weapon era, and their sabers cannot reach the people on the roof when they are on horseback!
"Will Chen Hanwen and his men shoot first? Or, will the Japanese find them first?" Qian Chuan'er asked with some concern.
Since it was already light, they could see the forest on their right from this high ground, which was about 600 to 700 meters away from them.
The forest is not small, but the problem is that it is winter now. There are bare trees and less snow in the forest, but there must be footprints of people on the snow outside the forest.
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And now the direction of the Japanese cavalry attack is exactly between the high ground where they are and the forest.
What Qian Chuan'er said is of course reasonable, and the others are a little worried.
But at this moment, the Japanese horses that were running in groups suddenly stopped!
It can be said that the combat quality of this Japanese cavalry is really good. They stopped suddenly, and stopped so neatly and in unison!
And when those horses stopped, there was no new snow fog rising, and the original snow fog fell again, so there was a black cavalry in the white snow field.
Although it is still more than 400 meters away from the high ground, it is cavalry after all, which still gives the people on the high ground enough sense of oppression!
"Damn it!" Ma Tianfang suddenly cursed, "I really admire Zhao Tieying. He should be called Zhao Tietu. When he sees the Japanese coming, he runs faster than a rabbit!"
Ma Tianfang's curse is of course reasonable.
God knows what Zhao Tieying is planning. At least now the troops can no longer be seen on the other side of the road, and the gunfire has stopped.
But now is not the time to curse Zhao Tieying. Chu Tian, who has picked up the telescope, looked for a while and suddenly shouted: "The Japanese found the footprints into the woods. Everyone shoot at the Japanese army, they attract them!"