Chapter 492: All in vain
Anyone who has never experienced slashing with a knife in the galloping of thousands of horses will never know what it is like.
On both sides are snow-bright blades and racing horses, and your ears are full of rumbling horses' hooves, and there is no room for any other sounds, and you don't have time to search for any enemies, you just know, with a knife, you sweep past the enemy in your field of vision, and then, it is the blood light that soars into the sky.
It doesn't take much effort on your part at all, the kinetic energy and huge inertia of the horse running at high speed are enough for your saber to split through any hard object.
If the enemy is directly in front of you and your knife can't reach it, it's even simpler, crash into it, the horse's strong forelimbs plus the thousands of pounds of kinetic energy it carries can knock anyone into a crushing fracture of the whole body.
Liu Lang feels this way now. Even if he bravely crowns the three armies by force, he has self-confidence, if he is under the horse, the 1,600 cavalry here, no one is the general of the three under him.
However, when the cavalry rushed up, Liu Lang found that this was not a battlefield to show personal force at all.
The cavalry, relying on the whole, everyone side by side, horse by horse, is like a wall, a wall composed of horses' hooves and blades, destroying all resistance along the road, all.
If he faced this group of cavalry, Liu Lang's first thought was to flee, to flee anywhere he could escape from the attack range of this group of terrifying cavalry.
Even if he was given a machine gun, Liu Lang was completely unconfident that he would survive this terrible battlefield, even if you killed one, ten, or even dozens of them, the cavalry that was like a row of big waves would still drown you after all.
In the face of such an attack, what kind of despair should be in the heart? It was difficult for Liu Lang to imagine what kind of magnificence it was when tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of cavalry charged in ancient times.
As an attacker, Liu Lang had this kind of thought, not to mention the Japanese army of the Eighth Division that was attacked.
No one knew what was going on in the mind of His Excellency Major General Tanibe, who was at the headquarters of the main position division, when the first platoon of horsemen rushed over.
The half-stunned Tanibe Teru pushed away the guards who rushed up to take him away, and gave the last order in his life, perhaps, it should be regarded as two orders: "Order the officers and men of the division and regiment to break through on their own, and order the flag guards to burn the divisional flags." ”
Then, Tanibe Terube drew his command knife, held it in both hands, and pointed it forward, pointing at the Chinese cavalry, which was only three hundred meters away from him, and was rushing towards him at high speed.
Liu Lang's evaluation of Gu Bei is still not accurate enough, the chief of staff of the Eighth Division, who has been suppressed by Liu Lang and seems to be a little cautious and overly restrained, showed at the last moment of his life, whether it was the stupidity of blocking the car with his mantis arm or the desperation of killing himself, but he did not flee in embarrassment after all, but showed the responsibility of a general of the first army.
Since he ordered the whole army to break out on its own, he naturally admitted the fact that the Eighth Division had been defeated. Breaking through on your own is completely different from retreating, the latter is an organized retreat, although retreat is not defeated, but the former is almost synonymous with rout, and you can run as much as you can.
From the appearance of the cavalry to the issuance of the order to break through on their own, it was only a few tens of seconds, and the cautious Tanibe Terube may have made a decisive decision for the first time in his life.
Yes, since he heard the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and then saw a black line jumping on the horizon, Tanibe Terubei, who was stunned, knew that he had been fooled.
The Chinese were trying to attract the few remaining main forces of his Eighth Division, and the flank attack was only a false shot to convince him that their target was the flank of the weak position, but they unconventionally put the focus of the attack on the rear of the position.
Moreover, not infantry, it turned out to be cavalry, terrible cavalry charged.
If it were in the past, not to mention the 2,000 cavalry, even if there were 20,000, the Eighth Division would be able to make them all die in front of the position without an inch.
But now, he did not have a network of hundreds of machine guns, nor did he lay barbed wire in front of the position, and those baggage had long been exhausted in several fierce battles with the Great Wall Regiment.
The Eighth Division now has only rifles and machine guns, as well as a few bullets, and these are still fighting thousands of Chinese in the front.
The nearly 4,000 men in front could not turn back, and it only took a minute for the cavalry to rush through a distance of a thousand meters, but it took three minutes for them to return to the trench six hundred meters away.
The infantry, who was attacked on the back and had no cover from the trenches, were only slaughtered in the face of the blades raised by the cavalry.
Therefore, with unprecedented decisiveness, Tanibe Terube issued the order for the whole division to break out on its own.
Then, he raised his command knife towards the rushing cavalry.
Perhaps, he wanted to maintain the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Major General, or perhaps, he wanted to buy his soldiers a little time to retreat.
But in any case, a man who dares to raise his last weapon in the face of the blades of thousands of cavalry deserves respect, even if he is an enemy.
However, for the cavalrymen who were running wildly, they couldn't see the shining star on Tanibe Terubei's shoulders in their eyes, nor could they see the snow-bright blade raised by Tanibe Terubei, they only had enemies in their eyes, enemies in yellow uniforms, whether you resisted or not, they were all swinging with a sword.
Tanbe Terubei's command knife is very sharp, and it flashes in the faint light of dawn, but in front of the saber carrying thousands of catties of kinetic energy, a sharp knife is actually not as effective as a mace, only to hear a loud sound of "bell", the first to shine on the face, Tanbe Terubei's major general-level command knife was broken by a cavalryman running at high speed in front of him. The cavalry did not stop and continued to charge forward at high speed.
Immediately after, it was the saber of another cavalryman, the brave Japanese major general was in the middle of his forehead, a blood line gradually extended downward, and the fierce light and despair in his eyes gradually dimmed until he was godless.
At the same time as the blood gushed out, the body of the Japanese major general fell on his back.
Tanibe is twice as good as he is killed.
A Japanese major general who was supposed to be promoted to a Japanese army general a few years later died at the hands of an ordinary Chinese cavalryman more than ten years ahead of schedule.
Until after the war, it was not known who killed the Japanese commander. Because everyone is mechanically wielding the knife in their hand, slashing at every enemy in every vision, and anyone wearing a yellow uniform is an enemy.
And who will remember whether the epaulettes on his shoulders were major generals or privates? No one has that time.
The two groups of cavalry did not stop at all on the main position, and they increased the speed of their horses to the extreme, and rushed towards the Japanese troops who were already in disarray on the frontal position.
The sorrow of the Japanese troops on the frontal battlefield may only be known to them.
They rushed too far ahead.
It was only 100 meters away from the Chinese position, and the nearest was even only 50 meters, but these 50 meters, under the desperate resistance of the Chinese, were like a graben, which could only be watched but not entered.
If you can't enter, it's a big deal to retreat.
But when the cavalry rushed from behind, it was impossible to retreat.
Turning around and fighting with the Chinese cavalry?
The bullets of the Chinese behind are vegetarian again? Without the suppression of grenadiers, the result of leaving the back for dozens of machine guns and two thousand guns would definitely not be much better than the horse's hooves of the cavalry, and even worse.
Therefore, some people want to enter, as long as they enter the trenches, they can avoid the terrible hooves and blades of the cavalry, and some people want to retreat, as long as they set up machine guns and shoot at the cavalry, there is no chance of survival.
However, the sirens on the main position carried the message that the whole army had broken through, which made the Japanese army, which was already very confused, fall into complete chaos.
The cavalry did not give the Japanese troops more time to choose, but in a minute, the cavalry that crossed the trenches of the Japanese main position rushed into the frontal battle.
They were greeted only by the desperate eyes of the Japanese soldiers and the bayonets in their hands that had never been so weak.
In close contact with the high-speed sprinting cavalry, any resistance of the infantry was in vain.