Yes, what Liu Tuanzuo wants to slaughter this time is the Japanese army that far surpasses the Yuan Yihonggang Special Attack Team, and it is the 20th Cavalry Wing directly under the 28th Division.

There are 452 people.

As the first unit of the 20th Division to rush to the Niangziguan Theater as the vanguard of pre-war reconnaissance, although it knew that it was entering the defense area of tens of thousands of Chinese troops, it still broke away from the infantry wing and artillery unit that followed up for nearly 15 miles.

Although the cavalry wing directly under the Japanese division is a wing, it is different from the infantry wing, which often has thousands of people, and is also different from the cavalry wing that formed an independent army, with four cavalry squadrons and one machine gun squadron, with 452 personnel, more than 500 horses, and is equipped with 6 heavy machine guns, 24 light machine guns, and 24 grenadiers.

Although the personnel are not as large as one infantry brigade, they are at least half as large as half of the infantry brigade in terms of firepower. Even, more than a regiment of the ordinary national army. You must know that if a local warlord unit like the Sichuan Army, without Liu Lang's help, a company would only have one light machine gun, a heavy machine gun, and the entire regiment would only have two or three guns, and the artillery would be even more dreaming.

To put it bluntly, the cavalry wing directly under the division of the Japanese army, except for the rifle on each person's back is different from the 38 type cavalry gun and the 38 big cover of the infantry, plus an extra saber, the rest is actually no different from the infantry.

The role of the cavalry wing is to use its super mobility, which can be used as both a reconnaissance unit and a mobile support combat unit, and when they dismount, their combat effectiveness is no different from that of infantry.

However, such a unit with extremely strong mobility and infantry combat capability, despite the fact that it has only half an infantry brigade of less than 500 troops, its strength is not below that of a Chinese brigade. In the Pingjin Operation, the 28th Cavalry Wing of the 20th Division also had a glorious record of defeating more than 2,000 Chinese regiments head-on, and its own casualties were only a dozen or so.

The lack of soldiers was soon replenished by the reserve cavalry of the reserve division, and the 28th Cavalry Wing, which entered the Niangziguan theater, was at full strength, and was not afraid of the Chinese troops who were deployed along the Taihang Mountains to copy their rear roads. On the contrary, they still can't ask for it.

In fact, the idea of the 28th Cavalry Wing was not wrong, although from a distance they saw a large group of Japanese cavalry passing from miles away, and even swaggered close to reconnoitre, but the Chinese generals on the defense line could only resist the urge to pull their troops out of the defense line to teach this group of arrogant devils a lesson.

They are now on the defensive, relying on the geographical advantage of the mountains to defend, if they leave the position and run to copy the rear road of the Japanese cavalry, only to be copied by the Japanese infantry who follow up, it will not only lose their heads, but may also lead to the entire defense line being broken through.

This is the sorrow of the Chinese army and the sorrow of the whole of China. With just over 400 Japanese invaders, they can run rampant in front of tens of thousands of troops.

But, it can't be helped. They had no artillery, and they could not stop the Japanese with aircraft and artillery in the field. The only thing they can rely on is the mountains of their own land.

The 28th Cavalry Wing, which reconnoitred all the way and went all the way to the main position of Niangzi Pass, telegraphed the reconnaissance information to the division headquarters, and arrived at the old pass position behind the side of Niangzi Pass at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which was about the same time as Liu Lang's estimate.

According to common sense, their combat mission has been completed, and they can return to Jingcheng County, which is the base for the 20th Division to attack Niangziguan, for repairs and wait for a new combat mission.

However, while scouting the Chinese defenders' position, they accidentally found the bodies of 15 compatriots hanging from a tree.

The 12 corpses were hung by the neck by ropes, hanging from trees like dried salted fish, swaying gently in the mountain breeze. Whether it is a military cao or a second lieutenant, the appearance after the death in the battle is almost the same, pale and stiff, and the miserable white dead fish eyes that are almost squeezed out of the eye sockets by the rope seem to tell their unwillingness.

Three other bodies were packed in sacks because they had been blown into several pieces by the shelling, and the bloodied sacks were covered with flies and emitted a disgusting smell of disgusting organs.

"Yaga! The people of China are all dead, dead! Wing Commander Okazaki Shoichi Nakasa of the 28th Cavalry Wing pulled out his command knife and angrily slashed a small tree as thick as a child's arm beside him.

Of course, Okazaki Shoichi didn't know these fifteen people who were hanging, but he knew who they were, and they must be the special attack team led by Yoshihiro Minamoto who infiltrated the Chinese defense zone a few days ago.

Looking for the traces of the special assault team, especially Minamoto Yoshihiro, it is necessary to find him and bring him back.

Regarding the so-called special attack team set up by the division and composed of martial arts masters on the island, Okazaki Shoichi disdains it. "No matter how good your martial arts are, you can knock them down with one shot", on the battlefield, it doesn't matter how high you jump or how fast the knife comes out, if you want to kill, you rely on firepower. If the 6 heavy machine guns of his 28th Cavalry Wing were fired at full fire, the special assault team would be able to kill as many people as possible.

But disdain for the special attack team does not mean that he dares to underestimate Yuan Yihonggang. As a middle-class nobleman in Kyoto, he knew the influence of the Gen family in Japanese politics and the imperial army, and it was definitely a giant second only to the imperial family.

has already died a second son, if he loses his eldest son again, thinking with his ass, Okazaki Shoichi also knows that the commander of the division, His Excellency Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo, is full of helplessness. If one is not good, the career of His Excellency the Lieutenant General will end here.

Now, seeing the bodies of fifteen members of the special attack team in this place, Okazaki Shoichi already knew that the special attack team must have been discovered by the Chinese. The only thing that made him feel relieved was that among the corpses of these fifteen people, there was no Yuan Yihonggang.

However, what made Okazaki Shoichi unbearable was that the Chinese were so bold to hang the corpses of the Imperial Army here, which was undoubtedly a provocation to the Empire, a provocation to the 28th Cavalry Wing.

"Collect the remains of the warriors, Asada Shaosa, order the whole army to dismount, the 4th Squadron is responsible for keeping an eye on the horses of the wing, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Squadrons and the Machine Gun Squadron will follow me to the position of the Shina people." Looking at the Chinese position composed of walls and sandbags erected on the hill in the distance, Okazaki suppressed his anger and coldly ordered.

"Your Excellency Okazaki, please think twice, the task of our army is to reconnoiter the deployment of the forces of the Chinese people, and there is no military order to attack the positions of the Chinese people." Okazaki Shoichi, a Japanese officer with a Shaozo collar badge beside him, hurriedly advised.

As the deputy of the 28th Wing, Asada Unzan has always been known for his caution, and he is more of an outlier in the arrogant 28th Cavalry Wing, so he can't be surprised by Wing Commander Okazaki Masaichi. It can be seen from the fact that he called Asada Yunshan's official position without politely calling him a king.

Therefore, when the vice president of the wing next to him once again said that he disagreed with him, Okazaki Shoichi's anger finally couldn't be suppressed. His eyes became calm, and he sneered: "Asada Shaoza, don't use military orders to pressure me, Your Excellency the division commander's military order is to deal with it yourself if you encounter enemy troops." Now, you tell me, when the remains of fifteen imperial warriors are hung in front of my 28th Wing in such a grand manner, is it considered a war letter? Did I violate the military order by attacking these bold and unbelievable Shina people? Also, has Asada Shaozo forgotten that four years ago, before the 128 cavalry of our empire arrived at the city gate, the defenders of Chengde in China fled in despair? Could it be that the 452 Imperial warriors of my 28th Cavalry Wing are worse than them? Or, are you Asada Shaosa afraid of the muzzle of the Shina man's gun? If this is the case, in the name of the commander of the 28th Cavalry Wing, I allow you to return with a small squad of troops to report to His Excellency the Division Commander on the current state of the battle. ”

"Hey, I don't dare, and I resolutely carry out the orders of His Excellency the Wing Commander." In the face of the question of the co-captain who was not angry but was more serious than one sentence, Asada Yunshan could only obediently put his feet together and listen to the teachings.

He was well aware of the stubborn temperament of his wing commander, and if he was provoked, although Okazaki Shoichi Nakasa could not do anything to him here, it was not impossible to suppress or even drive him out of the 28th Cavalry Wing in every possible way.

As a small nobleman, Asada Yunshan, who relied on his outstanding performance in the military academy and the appreciation of a certain big man to climb to this position, this is by no means acceptable to him. Kicked out of this aristocratic circle, it will not be easy for him to come in again.

Although he still felt that it was a little inappropriate for Okazaki Shoichi to start attacking the position of the Shina people now, Asada Yunshan could only choose to accept it. He is just a kind of lieutenant of the wing, making suggestions, but only the captain of the wing makes decisions.

Okazaki Masa, who had been spraying his deputy for a long time, saw that the deputy who graduated from the Imperial Army University finally relented, and the anger that had been accumulated for a long time finally subsided a lot, nodded, and tried to make his tone calmer: "Very good, Asada Shaosa, I will also consider your proposal, I am responsible for commanding the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd squadrons to cooperate with the machine gun squadron to fight in front, you lead the 4th squadron to meet three miles behind the position, if there is no result within an hour, I will lead the wing to retreat and wait for the infantry who are as slow as a turtle to come." ”

"Hey!" Asada Yunshan held his saber and respectfully bowed his head to receive the order.

In his heart, he sighed secretly, Okazaki Shoichi's words were very good, what to answer and what to try to attack for an hour and then retreated.

But judging from the order to leave only one cavalry squadron as a reserve, his idea was to use the main force to the fullest, and strive to capture the position of the Chinese within this hour.

It's just that the people who dared to hang the bodies of the imperial warriors from a tree to demonstrate to them were really that easy to deal with?

The mountain wind blew suddenly, and a Japanese corpse that had not yet been dismantled swayed slightly with the wind, and a pair of miserable white dead fish eyes just looked at Asada Yunshan, who raised his head a little dazed.

Asada Yunshan's back suddenly burst out with a layer of white sweat.