199. An unexpected victory over the Japanese cavalry
Niu Gu, who was on the third line of defense, also knew that the cavalry team of devils was coming in front, and immediately called all the riflemen and machine gunners to rush to the first line of defense, support the 4th platoon, and kill all the bullets on their bodies, and everyone else prepared grenades.
At the same time, three groups of grenadiers from the other three platoons were called to shoot out all the 16 grenades they were carrying, and there was no one left.
Taking advantage of this fleeting opportunity, the mortars of the three dogs, completely ignoring the fact that the enemy's mortars had already paid attention to themselves, opened fire at full speed, and the shells continued to bloom among the horses.
Coupled with the grenade grenades, the horses couldn't stand it anymore and began to scatter and retreat, but the devil commander who supervised the battle behind continued to urge the cavalry to move forward and rush forward again.
The commander of the cavalry naturally knew that the key to victory or defeat was in these few seconds, and if he rushed over, he won, and if he didn't rush over, if he retreated, the loss would be even greater.
Therefore, he kept shouting and urging the cavalry to rush forward, and the devil cavalry used the spurs on the heel of his riding boots to stab the stomach of the mount fiercely, and the whip in his hand continued to whip the horse's buttocks.
The war horse was so stabbed that it screamed, and it was so painful that it ignored the guns and shells in front of it, and began to rush forward desperately; I was about to rush into the 30-meter area.
You can see the devil cavalry on horseback possessed, holding the horse's neck with one hand, and drawing the saber with the right hand, ready for the final charge and slashing.
The Japanese are small, so they spent decades introducing a large number of pure-blooded Arabian horses, Anglo-Norman and other fine horse breeds, and bred the oceanic horses that meet the standards of European war horses.
The standard of war horses equipped by the Japanese cavalry units is 160 centimeters on average, and among the horses in the world, they are all tall horses, which makes up for the shortcomings of the small size of the Japanese.
At that time, the Japanese were indeed not tall, and there were not many soldiers who could exceed 1.6 meters, most of them were between 1.5 and 1.6 meters tall; Therefore, the Chinese used to call the Japanese pirates the Japanese pirates, and now they call the devils Little Japan, all because they are small.
Although the Chinese soldiers are a little taller, probably between 1.6 and 1.7 meters at most, what is the use, most of them are malnourished bean sprouts, and they fight with the small Japanese soldiers, and they can't take advantage of it at all, and they can't beat others.
During the war, the daily supply of Japanese soldiers was: 650 grams of polished rice (1.3 catties), 200 grams of refined wheat (4 taels), 150 grams of canned meat, 100 grams of dried vegetables, 20 grams of soy sauce, 10 grams of salt, and 15 grams of sugar.
In addition to these, they also carry snacks, including toffee, fruit candy, caramel sugar, chocolate, jelly, persimmons, canned fruit, biscuits, and more.
Looking at Chinese soldiers on the other hand, in the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935), the Ministry of Military Affairs formulated the army's wartime food standards: 1.5 catties of rice per person per day, 4 taels of canned meat, 2 taels of dried vegetables, 2 taels of pickles, 3 yuan of salt, and 4 yuan of soy sauce.
I'll go, it's really so good, then the soldier will be thin into bean sprouts? This is just the standard, at that time, there was serious corruption in the national army, and the soldiers of the national army could only eat two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, that is to say, only 6 taels of food a day.
The food situation in wartime can only be described as "miserable", and the emergency food in wartime is generally multigrain flatbread and fried noodles. A flatbread or a pinch of fried noodles, along with the pickles you bring with you, is a meal.
Usually, the cooking class goes out to buy vegetables, eats vegetables when they buy greens, eats radishes when they buy radishes, and if they can't buy anything, they use pickles to make a pot of soup, and everyone eats a spoonful of improvise.
It's still good, in wartime tensions, in most cases there are not even pickles, just salted rice. The three dogs belong to the first division, and the staple food does not exceed 9 taels (450 grams) per day, and it is still mandatory in wartime.
Why is it so good to eat here, mainly because of the rice, pork, fruits and vegetables sent by Shanghai citizens, so that the rice can be full.
After coming out, I listened to Niu Gu and they said that their first-class division was just full enough and couldn't let go of eating, and there were few meat dishes, of course, it was much better than other third-rate troops, but some miscellaneous troops such as the Jin line, the Yunnan line, the Gui line, and the Yue line ate a little better.
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I really don't know how the Japanese cavalry, which is less than 1.6 meters tall, climbed a war horse that is 1.6 meters high? Could it be that the war horses were trained to kneel down, let the Japanese cavalry go up, and get up again?
Definitely not, as I said earlier, although the Japanese soldiers are short, they have a lot of strength, and they rely on the strength of the whole body to get on the horse, but it is even more unbearable to see the thin Chinese soldiers on the tall horses.
The Japanese army opposite Sangou is the 11th Division, which has a cavalry wing under its direct jurisdiction, and normally there should be two or three cavalry squadrons, with a total of four or five hundred cavalry people.
The devil's mortar was already the second correction bullet not far from Sangou, and Sangou had no choice but to ask someone to move the mortar to transfer, and it was estimated that he would first transfer into the tunnel, watching the formation of the devil's cavalry over.
Just as everyone was about to retreat, the front strikers of the devil's cavalry team suddenly fell in batches, and the war horses behind couldn't stop the car, and stepped on the fallen people and horses in front, and there was chaos.
God-given opportunity, Niu Gu beckoned everyone to throw all the grenades at the cavalry team that had entered the thirty-meter area, and then used all the rifle machine gun bullets in his hands, not looking at the target, just shooting at the horses.
Sangou took the mortar team to the third line of defense, and when he reached the mouth of the tunnel, he looked back, and when he didn't leave, he immediately set up a mortar, and fired a good shell into the chaotic herd.
At this moment, the devil's cavalry suffered heavy losses, most of the horses were killed and wounded, and the cavalry was even more so, either killed and blown up, or trampled to death by horses. Only a few cavalrymen in the rear and on the flanks saw that the situation was not good, and immediately retreated backwards.
Why did the devil cavalry pounce on a large number of people in a thirty-meter area so strangely? Could it be the power of the Buddha's blessing? Definitely not, when the three dogs were cleaning the battlefield, they found that most of the front legs of the dead and wounded war horses in front of them were broken.
Everyone remembered the hole that the three dogs asked everyone to dig before, a small hole the size of a fist, more than half a meter deep, a galloping war horse, as long as the front foot once stepped into the hole, the strong inertia and impact force will definitely break the horse's feet.
Everyone almost forgot about the trapped horse holes they dug before, and grass grew at many of the holes, and there was water in them, so they didn't notice it much, and Sangou once again admired Lao Hei in his heart.
These are all taught by the old black, and the three dogs are just in case, so they asked everyone to dig some, but they didn't expect everyone to dig and dig, and they dug a lot of loaches, and they dug a lot of such holes in the thirty-meter area.
At first, I knew that this was anti-horse, and even if I knew, I wouldn't have dug so much, thanks to those loaches, everyone wanted to improve their food so much.