In the night, Kotaro Taketo commanded the devil cavalry to gallop north, and after more than 40 minutes, they finally reached the road less than a few hundred meters south of the valley where Zhang Dabiao and the others ambushed their position.

"Stop!"

Kotaro Taketo shouted and ordered the devil cavalry to stop advancing.

At this time, Captain Yuya Nakatani, who was following closely on the side, stepped forward and said, "Sir, what's wrong?" ”。

"Nakatani-kun, take a look. It looks like a small valley in front of it! Kotaro Taketo raised his horsewhip, pointed to the small valley in front of him, and said in a condensed voice.

Nakatani leisurely raised the binoculars, and under the light of the stars, it was difficult to observe, "Sir, it's a valley, but it's not big!" ”

After thinking about it, Kotaro Taketo waved his hand and shouted to the staff officer of the army: "Hurry up, map!" ”。

When the confidential staff officer accompanying the army unfolded the map he was carrying, the two old devils, Kotaro Taketo and Yuya Nakatani, dismounted one after another, and looked at the illuminated military map under the light of the torches.

"From the map, we are now in front of a valley about eighteen miles north of the Xilamulun River. It's a small valley with a length of about a kilometer from north to south! But the terrain is precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack! Once there is an ambush, it will be troublesome. ”

Looking at the map, Kotaro Taketo said in a condensed voice, as an old devil who is familiar with the battlefield, Kotaro Taketo knew from the actual terrain and the signs on the map for the first time that the small valley not far in front of him had a killing opportunity.

The moon is dark and the wind is high on the night of killing, especially this kind of terrain, which is very unfavorable for the cavalry!

What's more, the two thousand cavalry commanded by Kotaro Taketo were temporary mixed cavalry units, some of which were from signal soldiers, and their own combat capabilities were not strong. The cavalry core that he Kotaro Taketo was able to master at will was only more than 300 people, and the rest were a temporary cavalry unit temporarily drawn from Jianping, Xindian, Fuxin and other places around Chifeng.

The strength of this cavalry can be imagined, once it falls into an ambush, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not suffer heavy casualties.

As soon as he thought of this, Kotaro Taketo's heart suddenly became heavy.

However, his adjutant Nakatani Yuya didn't know what Taketo Kotaro was thinking at this time, so he just said in a condensed voice: "Sir, Your Excellency the General strictly ordered us to speed up our speed and go north to reinforce the Imperial Army troops in Linxi to hold the city. It's already night, and if the enemy has an ambush here, they will have a meeting, right? It is better to send a hundred horsemen into the valley first, and as the vanguard of the march northward, if there is an enemy ambush, it will inevitably open fire. ”。

"Your suggestion is good! The 1st Cavalry Squadron was ordered to go up and, after entering the valley, to carry out intensive artillery bombardment of the hills and woods on both sides! Scout with maximum artillery fire and see if there is an enemy ambush! Kotaro Taketo thought about it, and finally ordered.

"Hai, sir!" The devil herald waiting on the side paused heavily when he heard this, and then gave the order to the commander of the devil's first cavalry squadron in the team.

In less than a minute, I saw more than 100 devil cavalry from the first cavalry squadron of Kotaro Taketo rushing from the front of the team to the front.

In less than half a minute, this devil cavalry had already entered the valley.

At night, the woods and mountains on both sides of the small valley are dead silent. Under the spring breeze, the mountain woods on both sides of the small valley are leafy, and under the cover of the night, everywhere is dark.

After the more than 100 devil cavalry who entered the small valley went all the way to the middle of the valley, under the command of the cavalry squadron leader, more than 10 devil cavalrymen immediately dismounted, strengthened several machine guns and several mortars to conduct fire reconnaissance on both sides of the valley.

"Boom, boom! Boom Boom! ”

"Dada, dada!!!"

...... Clouds

After nearly two minutes of reconnaissance with machine gun and mortar fire, the woods on both sides of the valley were blown up and the ground was shaken, and the fire continued!

But then there was no fire reconnaissance, and the valley fell into dead silence.

"Looks like there are no enemy troops ambushing here! Continue north and quickly pass through the valley! The leader of the devil cavalry squadron sneered, at this time, Li Yunlong's troops were storming the county seat of Linxi, how could it be possible to set up an ambush in a small valley so far south of the county seat?

You must know that they are all a temporary cavalry unit, and Li Yunlong could not have known that they would go north so quickly. Therefore, it is not at all possible to set up an ambush here.

"Hay! Sir! ”

The devil cavalry of the First Cavalry Squadron of the devils responded one by one, and the murderous and arrogant horses went north.

At this time, Zhang Dabiao, who was almost reimbursed by the artillery reconnaissance of the little devils, raised his head from a place on the left side of the valley, watched the devil cavalry below the small valley put away the weapons of fire reconnaissance, turned over and continued to ride north, scolding in a low voice.

"Made, this devil is quite cautious! Pass the order, wait for the devil cavalry army to come in, and give me a hard beating! Zhang Dabiao sneered as he looked coldly at the small group of devils in the valley and continued to move north.

"Understood, battalion commander." A herald replied.

And after Kotaro Taketo's 1st Cavalry Squadron sent in to conduct a test successfully passed through the small valley, Kotaro Taketo contacted Kotaro Taketo by radio on the north side of the exit of the valley.

"Sir, the 1st Cavalry Squadron has successfully moved north and out of the valley! The artillery reconnaissance did not detect any enemy ambushes. After receiving the report, Yuya Nakatani reported to Kotaro Taketo.

Kotaro Taketo's eyes were grim, "Yo Xi, pass the order and quickly pass through the valley." Attention, maintain a combat posture at all times! ”

"Hai, sir!" Then the devil heralds responded one after another, and then passed the order.

With the first squadron of the tentative cavalry having passed smoothly, Kotaro Taketo breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, it is best not to ambush the soldiers. Because if the enemy set up a blocking position here, just setting up a blocking position at the mouth of the valley on the south side of the valley, it would be difficult for the 2,000 devil cavalry under his command to kill it.

And right now, it is estimated that Li Yunlong is storming the county seat of Linxi in the command post department, but he didn't expect that he Taketo Kotaro would command two thousand cavalry to go north so quickly.

"Haha, Li Yunlong, you are going to die this time!" After Kotaro Taketo entered the valley, he looked at the dead silence of the woods in the mountains on both sides, and thought with a smile in his heart.

It's just that, suddenly, a whistling sound came harshly.

Kotaro Taketo didn't know why, but when he raised his head and looked at it, he was suddenly terrified.

I saw that in the mountains and woods on both sides of the valley, suddenly cannonballs whistled and carried a long tail flame, shelling the valley below.

"Eight grid tooth road, there is an ambush, retreat quickly!" Kotaro Taketo was terrified, at this time, everyone knew that this was an enemy mortar shelling!

When Kotaro Taketo roared, all the devil cavalry was heading north, and the sound of horses' hooves covered the roar of Kotaro Taketo.

It's just that all the devil cavalry was already unaware, and when Wang Chengzhu commanded the artillery to shoot out dense shells and exploded in the ranks of the Japanese cavalry, the devil cavalry knew that there was an enemy attack.

But it was too late at this time, and the dense firepower was fired down the valley, and the devil cavalry cried and shouted for his mother.