Chapter 168 White Horse? He Will Never Come Back

After dealing with the beasts that chased out of the airport, the New Second Regiment began to retreat in an orderly manner according to the original arrangement.

In order to carry out this mission, the comrades brought a large amount of weapons and ammunition when they came to Taiyuan, which affected the normal marching speed for a time.

After a fairly fierce battle, everyone marched lightly and it took almost half a day to reach the defense area of ​​the New 10th Brigade and the Third Death Column.

"Captain, more than a hundred Japanese cavalry came out from the direction of Taiyuan City. It is expected that they will enter the woods in ten minutes. No trucks or three-wheeled vehicles have been seen yet."

The platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon responsible for the rear said with a portable communicator.

After hearing this news, Li Yunlong almost laughed out loud. The density of the woods used by the New Second Regiment for concealment in the past few days is very high. Some areas cannot get the sun at noon and are lush and green.

The biggest advantage of cavalry is strong mobility. No matter who they fight, speed is the most important. This means that there must be no obstacles in the combat area, otherwise the horse cannot fully accelerate.

And the horse is not stupid. It will not hit the tree. But where the horse can pass, people may be swept down.

If the Japanese cavalry dared to pass through the woods, they would be dead the moment they came out.

If they had to take a detour, it would take at least half an hour. By then, let alone chasing, I'm afraid they wouldn't even see a hair of Li Yunlong.

"Only a hundred cavalry? Is Shinozuka Yoshio crazy?"

"Is this old Japanese crazy? Xiao Rizi saw the submachine guns and mortars, and he dared to send pure cavalry to chase us?"

At this point, Captain Li seemed to have thought of something interesting. He turned around and pointed his right index finger at the woods, then said domineeringly:

"Since they are here to die, we must help the devils! White horses? Humph? They will never come back!"

Confused, Wei Dayong asked embarrassedly: "Captain, how do you know that the devil cavalry is white horses? Did you see it?"

"Go away, Qu Yi doesn't even know! I've told you so many times to read more, why don't you listen! Learn more from me!"

In fact, Shinozuka Yoshio also wanted to send more people to pursue, but he currently has few troops available. After the battles in Yuci and Liao County started, he had already sent a regiment of soldiers to support.

As the headquarters of the First Army, Taiyuan must leave at least two battalions for defense.

Originally, this old devil wanted to rely on mobile forces to follow the "Jinsui Army" and then find opportunities to cooperate with the strongholds along the way to kill the enemy.

But the casualties at the airport made him dizzy, and the blind loyalty of his subordinates led to the current situation.

Next is the ambush time.

Although with the firepower of the third battalion and the artillery company, it is completely possible to eat up the Japanese cavalry head-on, after all, a large number of submachine guns are known as cavalry killers.

But ambush warfare is a tactic engraved in the bones of all Eighth Route Army soldiers, and there is no need to make a fuss about things that can be easily done.

Under the order of Li Da, everyone left some traces without intention. This will neither let the Japanese cavalry lose track nor make them suspicious.

This time in Taiyuan to perform the mission, the new second regiment did enough homework. Not only did it take into account various unexpected factors, but it also prepared corresponding measures and plans, and the cavalry was naturally included.

In order to deal with the pursuit of the cavalry, Li Da specially got a few bags of chili powder. Fortunately, Lao Xi not only loves to eat vinegar, but also has no objection to chili.

For this little thing, he ran to two villages and used a full ten pounds of pork. This will be his secret weapon against the enemy.

Fifteen minutes later, the Japanese cavalry came out of the woods in a panic. Judging from their panic, they should have suffered a lot.

Shinozuka Yoshio gave a death order, requiring this cavalry squadron to bite the fleeing "Jinsui Army".

And according to the shells and the time of the battle, the number of the enemy should not be large. So these 134 Japanese soldiers, knowing that the terrain was unfavorable to them, still followed the footprints and went into the woods.

When the captain of the Japanese cavalry squadron was about to observe the situation outside the woods, Le Zhengdou detonated the explosive pack buried in advance.

The Japanese soldiers riding on the war horses didn't even react, and they were blown to pieces without any defense.

Several huge explosions directly killed more than a dozen Japanese soldiers and military horses, and the broken limbs of people and horses flew everywhere.

Then a group of gray-white powder mist spread in the vicinity, and soon enveloped all the cavalry.

These powder mists were choking and spicy, floating in the eyes of people and horses, and the people and horses screamed. They sneezed one after another, and their faces were covered with snot and tears.

Coincidentally, the wind direction at this time was northwest wind.

The horses of the day were very smart. They tried to rush out of the area against the wind. The Japanese on horseback could only squint their eyes and try to control the panicked horses.

Since the day the new second regiment was established, the soldiers have never had a hard life.

With submachine guns and sufficient bullets in hand, the previous tactics of bringing the cavalry close to fight is simply impossible to use.

The two sides were nearly 700 meters apart. When seeing the Japanese war horses rushing forward uncontrollably, the commander Li ordered the battle to begin!

"Six hundred meters! Machine gun group fire!"

"Zhu Zi! Fire for me!"

The current distance is not yet the effective range of MAS-36, so there is no need to blindly shoot and expose the distribution of firepower.

Six light machine guns extended from the temporary trenches. With the engineer shovel, the soldiers' earthwork speed doubled. They could do the work that took half an hour in the past in ten minutes.

However, this level of firepower caused limited damage to the Japanese cavalry, and only a dozen enemies fell from their horses.

"Four hundred meters! Shoot with rifles!"

With more than a hundred rifles, the firepower of the New Second Regiment had already stagnated the momentum of the Japanese cavalry's "charge", but their position did not allow them to retreat.

The Japanese squadron leader barely got rid of the influence of the pepper and saw the wolf-like enemy in front of him.

In this situation, he was ruthless and pulled out his 32-year cavalry saber and began to charge seriously, trying to rush to the position of the New Second Regiment and kill.

Behind him, his subordinates also followed their squadron leader closely, and no one showed cowardice.

"It's dark, load the card!"

The cavalry sprinted very fast. Even after the trek, the horsepower was insufficient, and the distance of 200 meters only took 15 seconds. But when there were still 200 meters away from the New Second Regiment, only half of the soldiers were left.

"Submachine gun! Everyone open fire!"

Now it is within the effective range of MAS-38, not to mention that the Japanese are still advancing, and the distance between the two sides is constantly shortening.

Seeing that the Japanese are about to approach the position, Li Da led the soldiers to slightly lean out of the temporary shelter.

They didn't care about the bullets fired by the enemy. After all, they couldn't open their eyes completely, and how could they shoot accurately on horseback.

The French metal storm completely tore the enemy's body.

No cavalry can rush to the well-prepared and powerful infantry when they are out of number and lose the speed advantage.

Dozens of Japanese soldiers fell to the ground. After firing three submachine gun magazines, only one horse came to the position of the new second regiment alone.

After the battle, Li Da walked out of the temporary trench. He led the horse that was standing there a little bit at a loss, and then said to the soldiers:

"Clean up the battlefield! If you don't have enough bullets, pick up a musket! You can also take two crooked handles!"

"We will retreat in three minutes! Quick, quick, quick!"

On the way back, the New Second Regiment took a side road and carefully came to the defense zone of the friendly forces, without encountering any devils along the way.

On September 24, through the national spy network and intelligence organization, the news that Taiyuan Airport was bombarded by the "Jinsui Army" spread throughout the country.

This news is more exciting than the second phase of the Hundred Regiments Campaign launched by the Eighth Route Army. After all, most of the high-level officials of the fruit preserves knew that the commander of the Second War Zone had an ambiguous attitude towards Xiao Ri.

Not only the bald head, but even the Seventh Route and the Commander Wei felt that the sun was rising from the west.

Please guess the name of the next chapter, players of Steel 4.