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Almost at the same time that Chu Xiongfei, the commander of the 99th Army Cavalry Battalion, was facing a choice, Chen Shanhe took two battalions of officers and soldiers from Xinma Bridge to Jinjiazhuang by car!

The military trucks used to carry the officers and men of the 536th Regiment were all old goods, and they were moving very slowly. www.biquge.info The garrison of the 536th Regiment was farther north than the garrison of the 99th Army Cavalry Battalion, so Chen Shanhe's troops arrived relatively late.

In fact, the best choice for this kind of short-distance run in pursuit of speed is still a war horse. But there are also advantages to riding in a car: first, it doesn't require any technology; Secondly, it saves physical strength more than marching on horseback.

Jinjiazhuang is less than two kilometers away from the battlefield where the cavalry battalion and the Japanese cavalry are fighting. Chen Shanhe learned from the returning reconnaissance cavalry that Chu Xiongfei's cavalry battalion had reached a life-and-death juncture, and it was about to be unable to support it.

If Chen Shanhe brought the entire strength of the 536th Regiment, or replaced the twenty "improvised armored vehicles" with real combat vehicles, then Chen Shanhe would definitely not hesitate to order his troops to rush forward immediately to destroy the Japanese cavalry brigade.

But the reality is that Chen Shanhe only brought two battalions, and all of them were infantry!

As for how much role those 20 improvised armored vehicles could play in front of the Japanese cavalry, Chen Shanhe had no bottom in his heart.......

The combat mission assigned to Chen Shanhe by the command of the group army was to prevent this Japanese cavalry brigade from approaching the main force of the 116th Division besieging the 99th Wing. With Chen Shanhe's current military strength, it is not difficult to rescue Chu Xiongfei's cavalry battalion, but it is not easy to complete the blocking task issued by the group army headquarters!

In the final analysis, it's because of the class of troops. Since they were attacking the Japanese cavalry with infantry, if Chen Shanhe's two infantry battalions could not directly surround the Japanese cavalry, then the Japanese cavalry would definitely rely on their speed advantage to throw off the 536th regiment!

It is simply unrealistic to expect the infantry to outrun the war horses under the crotch of the Japanese cavalry with two legs! Although the four-wheeled military truck can compete with the Japanese army's war horses in a long-distance race, the truck's requirements for the road are relatively high! As soon as the Japanese cavalry chose to stay away from the main road, the military trucks of the 536th Regiment were completely useless!

Once such a situation occurs, Chen Shanhe really can't think of any good way to deal with it!

Therefore, if the 536th Regiment wants to prevent a single Japanese cavalry from escaping, it threatens the combat units of the 116th Wing! Then you can only tie your pockets in advance!

In any case, with more than 1,000 infantry to besiege the Japanese cavalry brigade, this battle is definitely not easy to fight! Chen Shanhe sighed at his bad luck, it seemed that the tasks he had received all along were hard stubble, and he had never been able to complete them easily!

At this time, the front wheel of the truck suddenly rolled into a bulge on the road, and the entire cab jumped upward, and Chen Shanhe's head hit the roof of the car.

Grandma's! Even this broken road bullied Lao Tzu! Chen Shanhe angrily opened the window glass and shouted at the herald standing on the pedal of the cab:

"Pass my orders! Immediately after the 1 battalion arrived at the combat area, got out of the car and seized the hillside and commanding heights on the side of the road! Suppress the machine-gun fire of the Japanese army! Four infantry companies of the 2 battalion fought in military vehicles! Follow the armored car from both ends of the road to the middle! Pay attention to the use of vacant military vehicles to separate the Japanese cavalry from our infantry, so that we can take advantage of our large number of automatic weapons! ”

Time is pressing, Chen Shanhe only has time to come up with such a simple tactic, as for whether it works or not, it is still necessary to see on the battlefield......

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Jiang Zaibin lowered his voice and asked Chu Xiongfei whether the cavalry battalion would accept the challenge of the Japanese. Chu Xiongfei's eyes were always staring at the Japanese cavalry opposite him, he didn't look back at Jiang Zaibin, but just asked coldly:

"Can you believe the words of the little devil?"

Jiang Zaibin licked his chapped lips with his tongue and smiled. In fact, he had long known that Chu Xiongfei would make such a choice. The reason why Jiang Zaibin still asked this question was to let the Japanese cavalry on the opposite side temporarily stop moving, take the opportunity to collect the scattered officers and soldiers of the cavalry battalion, and then discuss with the battalion commander Chu Xiongfei what to do next.

Jiang Zaibin rode his horse to the opposite side of Chu Xiongfei, deliberately pointed his back at the muzzle of the devil's gun, and then pretended to have an argument with Chu Xiongfei, in fact, the two of them took advantage of the gap between loud speeches to quickly exchange each other's thoughts.

Chu Xiongfei's cavalry battalion now has seventy or eighty officers and soldiers left, and at least half of them are colored, which means that the casualty rate of the officers and soldiers of the 99th Army cavalry battalion in this cavalry battle is close to ninety!

In comparison, the losses of the Japanese cavalry were much smaller. The number of casualties of the devils was about 150, mainly caused by the high-speed charge of the 99th Army cavalry battalion at the beginning and the close-range fire of the Mauser pistol, and the indiscriminate shelling carried out by the Japanese army before also reaped the lives of many Japanese cavalry! .

And the Chinese cavalry was mostly lost under the machine guns and sabers of the Japanese army!

The cold numbers completely exposed the gap between the Chinese cavalry and the Japanese cavalry! The damage inflicted by the Chinese cavalry on the Japanese cavalry mainly relied on advanced weapons and surprise tactics, while the comprehensive suppression of the Chinese cavalry by the Japanese cavalry relied on their solid horse skills!

As far as the one-handed saber technique, the main training subject of the cavalry in their daily life, is concerned. In cavalry combat, the cavalry holds the reins in their left hand and wields a saber in their right hand, and then cooperates with the horse, riding a horse and holding a knife in one hand at a speed to slash the target. Chu Xiongfei's cavalry had done this kind of training hundreds of times on the training ground, while those Japanese cavalry on the opposite side had done this kind of contact thousands of times!

The difference between a thousand and a hundred, when manifested on the battlefield, is life and death!

When the horses galloped past, the Japanese cavalry, who had swung their sabers thousands of times, survived, while the Chinese cavalry, who had swung their sabers hundreds of times, closed their eyes!

If there is still a chance to return to the 99th Army alive, Chu Xiongfei must take his cavalry on the training ground to repeat the one-handed saber technique tens of thousands of times, and then take them to the battlefield to exchange sweat for the blood of the Japanese!

"Camp, have you noticed, these Japanese cavalry don't carry much heavy equipment! Ammunition is even more limited! We might as well concentrate the last of our forces and take out their baggage cavalry! In this way, even if they rush in front of the 99th Division, they will not be able to exert much combat effectiveness! How? ”

Jiang Zaibin said as he motioned Chu Xiongfei with his eyes to pay attention to the ammunition box on the Japanese cavalry. Unlike other arms, the ammunition box of the Japanese cavalry was carried cross-shoulder, and the number of cavalry rifle bullets in it was generally thirty rounds, which was indeed a pitiful few. If there is no ammunition, the weapons in the hands of these Japanese cavalrymen will become decorations, and Jiang Zaibin hit the idea on the ammunition of the Japanese, which is a smart idea.

However, Jiang Zaibin did not know that shortly after the outbreak of the September 18 Incident, in order to solve the problem of low ammunition and ensure the ammunition carrying capacity of the cavalry during long-distance marching, the Japanese cavalry specially referred to the British and French cavalry equipment to develop a "neck cartridge belt" that could be tied around the horse's neck. Chu Xiongfei just glanced at it in a hurry, and found this kind of "neck elastic belt" on the necks of several Japanese war horses.

As for the baggage cavalry mentioned by Jiang Zaibin, it was under the key protection of the Japanese cavalry! Chu Xiongfei did not think that it would be easier to take out these baggage cavalry than the commander of the Japanese cavalry!

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