Chapter 2163 Cavalry Experience
When Liu Keqiang, Qian Chuan'er and the others followed Fang Zheng and other cavalrymen to see the scene of the confrontation between the enemy and us, their heartbeats accelerated.
There were more than 60 Japanese cavalrymen in the distance, and only more than 40 on the Eighth Route Army side.
The enemy and us were confronting each other at a distance of three or four hundred meters.
For both sides, the situation was the same.
The war horses kicked their huge hooves and even dug up the soil on the ground, and snorted loudly, so white breath came out of the nostrils of the horses.
The soldiers on the horses held the reins in one hand and raised their sabers in the other hand. The sabers stood in the sunset, flashing a cold light.
Who would have thought that in such an era of hot weapons, there would be a kind of cold weapon battle.
Perhaps this cold weapon battle could not catch up with the noisy and lively charge of hot weapons on the battlefield, but it had a kind of solemnity that seemed to be condensed between heaven and earth.
Fang Zheng was not in a hurry to join his company. He still looked at Liu Keqiang, Qian Chuan'er and others with some worry.
There is no doubt that Liu Keqiang, Qian Chuan'er and others understood the meaning of Fang Zheng's eyes.
Although Liu Keqiang, Qian Chuan'er and others had never seen cavalry fighting each other, they could imagine that this kind of fighting would be more tragic than hand-to-hand combat between infantry.
A saber chopped down, a person's arm would be removed, and the person would fall off the horse!
And after a person falls off the horse, not to mention the enemy's cavalry, even the riders on his own side would not care.
Then the huge iron hoof of the warhorse would step on it, who cares whether you are a good person who is stepped on and spit out a mouthful of old blood, or you are directly stepped on and your stomach is broken and intestines flow out!
"Will shooting at the little devils on horseback not be embarrassing for your cavalry?" Liu Keqiang suddenly asked.
When Liu Keqiang said this, Qian Chuan'er and all of them said "Yes" in their hearts!
When they first came here, they really wanted to experience being a cavalryman, but that was just an experience. They really didn't plan to fight the Japanese army face to face like this.
Besides, how to fight? Two groups of cavalrymen are slashing at each other, so they need sabers. Among them, only one soldier named Liu Quanyou brought a saber.
And the saber was always hanging on the Japanese warhorse. It is estimated that he forgot to take it off.
But when they first came, Liu Keqiang and Qian Chuan'er both puffed out their chests and said they would come, but now they don't say they will charge up. Isn't this a bit embarrassing?
And they can't just watch the fun by the side. They will definitely shoot.
But two groups of cavalrymen are slashing there, but they are shooting by the side. Will it be an unfair victory?
This is why they looked at Fang Zheng and felt a little guilty.
When Fang Zheng saw that the expressions of the people from Shang Zhenying were similar, he also figured out their thoughts.
"When you were fighting with the Japanese with bayonets, didn't the Japanese set up machine guns?" This was Fang Zheng's answer.
Then Fang Zheng didn't wait for them to answer but said to his soldiers: "Let's go! We can't let the Japanese underestimate us!"
For a moment, Liu Keqiang and Qian Chuan'er looked at each other, and when they didn't know what to do, Liu Quanyou, who was in their group, had already urged his horse to follow Fang Zheng and his men forward.
"Hey, Liu Quanyou, what are you doing?" Wu Ziqi shouted.
"I have to go, I have a saber, and I dream of being a cavalryman!" Liu Quanyou answered while drawing his saber on the horse without looking back.
But this time, before Liu Keqiang and Qian Chuan'er could say anything, the Japanese soldiers on the other side suddenly let out a jackal-like roar.
Liu Keqiang, Qian Chuan'er and others saw that the Japanese soldiers urged their horses, and the sabers in their hands were all raised.
The saber shone with a cold light in the sunset, just like the light emitted by the bayonet of their infantry when they were fighting hand-to-hand with the Japanese army!
War horses also have an acceleration process. It was only a moment before the Japanese war horse ran wildly.
So the Japanese offensive was like beating a drum, as if the Eighth Route Army cavalry would be defeated in an instant.
"Why are you still standing there? Get off the horse and shoot!" Liu Keqiang shouted.
Just now Fang Zheng had indirectly answered their doubts. Fang Zheng said that you infantrymen would not shoot before fighting with bayonets?
In fact, Shang Zhenying did not fight with the Japanese army with bayonets very often. Not to mention whether they were strong in hand-to-hand combat, they had box guns in their hands. When they were in close combat with the Japanese army, they directly used the rapid-fire advantage of the box guns to suppress the Japanese bayonets.
They could avoid hand-to-hand combat and absolutely avoided it because they could not afford to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of their own in that kind of battle!
However, this does not mean that they did not know about the hand-to-hand combat between the enemy and us.
It is said that the Japanese devils have the spirit of Bushido, but in fact, before the hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army will also play tricks!
Pull out the rack, put the bayonet forward, and confront the Chinese army, but when the Chinese army thought they were going to fight hand-to-hand, the Japanese machine gunner hiding on the side pulled the trigger first!
Soldiers are cunning.
Of course, when adrenaline drives people crazy, they lose their reason and fight hand-to-hand. But many times, in order to survive, both the enemy and us will do everything possible.
You die, I live, this is the irrefutable truth!
Liu Keqiang, Qian Chuan'er and their group also had fifteen or sixteen people, all of them were veterans. They jumped up from their horses and naturally would not neglect it. They loaded their rifles and pulled the trigger at the Japanese army.
Veterans are veterans. They don't care how vicious the enemy is. They only believe in the guns in their hands.
When the gunshots rang out, some Japanese soldiers who were galloping on their horses fell off their horses, and some were knocked over with their horses.
It was just a cavalry charge, which was like spilled water. How could it be recovered?
The Japanese army continued to ride forward, and at this time, Liu Keqiang, Qian Chuan'er and others who reacted quickly only had time to fire another shot, and the rest of the Japanese army had already collided with the Eighth Route Army cavalry galloping in the opposite direction.
When the war horses crossed, soldiers from both sides fell off their horses.
And this kind of confrontation would never be like the ancient cold weapon era, where the enemy and us fought on horses.
There was no so-called 300-round battle at all, it was just a face-to-face encounter!
At the moment when the horses of the enemy and ours crossed, they either chopped the other down, or were chopped down, or passed by and rushed to the next target.
So after the enemy and ours collided and fell, they crossed each other.
No mistake, one sentence, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!
It happened that the Japanese soldiers saw a group of Chinese soldiers shooting at them, and they felt that they had suffered a loss, so they rushed forward and rushed towards Liu Keqiang and Qian Chuan'er.
If this group of Japanese soldiers met other Chinese troops, perhaps they could take advantage, rushing and bumping, and the infantry would definitely suffer.
But the problem was that the Japanese cavalry faced these veterans of Shang Zhenying.
Seeing that more than 20 Japanese cavalrymen were rushing towards them, the war horses that Qian Chuan'er and his men had seized all cried out in a sparse manner, and even because Qian Chuan'er and his men had let go of the reins, the war horses ran away.
But Qian Chuan'er and his men didn't care about this? At the moment when the enemy and our cavalry were fighting, they threw away their rifles and replaced them with the box guns they carried on their bodies!
You little devils are cavalry, so what? No matter how fast your horse is, it is not as fast as the bullets of the box gun!
What's more, most of Qian Chuan'er and his men used 20-shot box guns, and they fired short bursts, and all of them were shot at the heads of running horses!
The veterans have experience in this kind of thing. The penetration of the box gun is limited. If the bullet hits the horse's legs or chest, it may not be able to knock the horse down.
If the horse goes crazy and passes through, won't they be trampled into meat paste?
The tall horses of the Japanese army run very fast, and God knows how many seconds it will take within a hundred meters.
So, in this moment of collision, the more than 20 Japanese cavalrymen who rushed forward fell down one after another, and the Japanese cavalrymen who were not shot behind them pulled the reins and passed their companions in front.
And with just this leap, a horse carrying the Japanese cavalry had already arrived in front of Qian Chuan'er and his men!
"Pa pa pa", "Pa pa pa", "Pa pa pa"
In the blink of an eye, God knows how many bullets Qian Chuan'er and his men fired. Anyway, when the last batch of Japanese war horses fell, the Japanese cavalryman who fell off the horse directly hit Wu Ziqi who was unable to dodge.
And the Japanese war horse that was almost beaten into a sieve fell on Wang Xiaodan's body!
There were no Japanese war horses standing, but how could the battle be over at this point?
And what about the Japanese soldiers who fell off the horses after the Japanese war horses were knocked down but got up again?
Liu Keqiang and Qian Chuan'er all used box guns and replenished their guns in time. When the cavalrymen of the Eighth Route Army turned their horses around and ran to them, the battle was over.
The war horses and the bodies of the Japanese soldiers were piled up together.
The Japanese soldiers were dead, but the war horses were still struggling.
The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army reined in their horses and quietly looked at the veterans of Shang Zhenying, while the veterans of Shang Zhenying also looked at the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
After a moment of silence, Qian Chuaner suddenly saw Liu Quanyou was also among the cavalry, holding the saber in his hand, and there were red bloodstains on the saber.
Qian Chuaner suddenly laughed, and he asked loudly: "Liu Quanyou! How is the cavalry?"
"It's so fucking fun, I chopped one alive!" Liu Quanyou answered excitedly.
Liu Quanyou, an ordinary soldier in Shang Zhenying, usually speaks in a low voice.
He is also very thin and looks plain. He is the kind of passerby who meets on the street, and no one will pay special attention to him.
But at this time, he actually exudes a high fighting spirit, and the look in his eyes is no longer excitement, but excitement!
You can't judge a person by his appearance, and you can't measure the sea by a bucket.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, who would have thought that Liu Quanyou had such a passionate side?
Perhaps every Chinese soldier who dared to resist aggression has the warlike gene passed down from their ancestors to fight against the sky, the earth, and the enemy.
If you give me a chance, I can also become a god of war!