7.40 Contests on the Tip of the Knife (2)

The encounter between the 99th Army Cavalry Battalion and the 17th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army was like a drama......

Initially, neither side was aware of the other's existence. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Ono Ryozo Nakasa chose to pass through the foot of the hill on the east side of the new platform, while Chu Xiongfei thought that the Japanese army would pounce from the plain on the west side of the new platform, so the more than 1,000 cavalry on both sides formed two long dragons, all the way from north to south, all the way from south to north and continued to gallop.

The entire new platform was tightly surrounded by the cavalry of the brigade, and the people in the village were so frightened by these killing gods on horses that they hid at home, closed the door of the house, and didn't even dare to go out!

If the situation continues to develop like this, the 99th Army Cavalry Battalion and the 17th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army will pass by, and the bloody battle between Chu Xiongfei and Ono Ryozo Nakasa will no longer exist.

The person who finally broke the peace is called Ji Chunsheng, 21 years old this year, a native of the country.

Since last autumn, a large number of outsiders will go to Henan through Xintaizi every day, and Ji Chunsheng heard from these outsiders that Xiao Dongyang, who occupied the northeast a few years ago, has returned, and the government has mobilized millions of troops in the north and south to work hard! But it still doesn't seem to be able to beat people.

Rural people don't care about national affairs, they care more about whether the crops in their fields are growing well. The things that these outsiders get together all day long to talk about are no different from the stories of the Three Kingdoms told by the storyteller in the town's teahouse! Whether it is Peking or Shanghai, Ji Chunsheng has never been there, and he doesn't want to go!

The farthest place Ji Chunsheng has ever been to in his life is Bengbu City on the other side of the Huai River, and he doesn't think there's anything good there! A scalper only sells for 20 yuan in Xintai, but it costs 50 yuan when it arrives in Bengbu! Even the meat buns on the street dared to sell for five cents each, Ji Chunsheng really wanted to spit on the face of the bun shop guy at that time!

Bullying rednecks? Lao Tzu also ate more than a dozen dishes of the landlord's big banquet noodles in the village! At that time, the gift money was only five cents!

Why are the buns in the city so expensive? Could it be that the bun filling is made of dragon meat?

So in Ji Chunsheng's heart, it's not a big deal to lose Beiping and Shanghai! Isn't it just where the two meat buns are sold more expensive?

At the end of the 37th year, there were more and more outsiders at the door of Ji Chunsheng's house day by day, and many people in the village made a fortune by selling food to passers-by, and Ji Chunsheng also wanted to sell five cents a bun to these city people, but because there was too much land in the house, and he couldn't take care of the manpower, he had to give up.

Since the beginning of winter, there have been bosses to come to the village to pull strong men, the strong labor of Xintaizi is now very little, because there is no labor force that can go to the ground, the landlord can only cheap Ji Chunsheng, his family now planted several times more land than in the autumn, Ji Chunsheng did not expect that the war could give him such benefits, so no matter what a few relatives of his family who ran back from the city said, Ji Chunsheng refused to leave Xintaizi to Henan, he wanted to serve the land in his hand well, and beat more food in the coming year, maybe he could say that he had a daughter-in-law......

At the time of Layue, Xiao Dongyang had already reached Nanjing, and I heard that the big officials in the government had gone to Wuhan, and now the one guarding the city of Nanjing was a general named Huang Haoran.

There is a reason why Ji Chunsheng can remember the name of this general, in those days, the people who escaped from the south always gritted their teeth when they talked about Xiao Dongyang, and when they mentioned the government, they would become thumping their chests, and only when talking about the general Huang, those people would change their attitude, like talking about the gods in the temple!

Throughout the winter, Ji Chunsheng listened to the story of General Huang beating Xiao Dongyang, and sometimes he even felt that General Huang was like Zhao Zilong in the Three Kingdoms, with the courage of ten thousand people! Since it was such a victorious general guarding Nanjing, Ji Chunsheng was even less worried! He poured on the kang every day and counted the harvest of the coming year, if he wasn't really busy, Ji Chunsheng really wanted to buy all the remaining land in the village that no one planted!

But as soon as the New Year passed, everything went wrong! First, there were more passers-by who spoke with northern accents, and then the landlords in the village dragged their wives and ran away. Gradually, the villagers of Xintaizi also began to move westward, and after that, the banks of the Huai River began to fight, firing guns and cannons all day long! It's scary! So Ji Chunsheng was also a little unsure!

Listening to Mr. Zhang from the private school next door, Xiao Dongyang in the south has already crossed the Huai River, and the north has reached Yanzhou, and Xintaizi is now considered the front line! Cao Laoji and Badaji were stationed in the army, and the one who led the troops was the general Huang who guarded Nanjing.

Ji Chunsheng couldn't help but ask Mr. Zhang at that time, didn't he say that General Huang was invincible and beat Xiao Dongyang to the ground? Why are others now north of the Huai River? So who is guarding Nanjing now? Is it a change to a general who can fight better than General Huang?

Listening to Ji Chunsheng's question, Mr. Zhang's eyes widened wider than a bull's eye! Then he said a lot of things that Ji Chunsheng didn't understand, and finally Mr. Zhang told Ji Chunsheng that Nanjing City had been lost! Xiao Dongyang killed all the more than 100,000 people in Nanjing City, and those Dongyang people not only drank human blood and ate human flesh, but also stripped off the skin of the dead as clothes to wear!

What Mr. Zhang said was conclusive, and Ji Chunsheng couldn't help but believe it, he felt that the sky was falling at that time!

Ji Chunsheng also wanted to run, but he really couldn't give up the land that he had been waiting for for most of the year! From the day he walked out of Mr. Zhang's house, what Ji Chunsheng was thinking about on the kang became when Xiao Dongyang would hit the new platform.

This morning, when Ji Chunsheng went to the ground, he saw many soldiers with iron hats rushing to the south, he was very frightened, and hurriedly ran home. By noon, Ji Chunsheng walked out of the village again, and this time, what he saw was a blood-red plaster flag!

Ji Chunsheng knew that the plaster flag represented Xiao Dongyang, and in the past half a year, countless people had already told him about it, so Ji Chunsheng hurriedly ran home and hid, and then kept begging the Bodhisattva to bless him not to let these little Dongyang come into the village to drink his blood and eat his flesh.

Maybe the Bodhisattva manifested his spirit, and Xiao Dongyang really didn't enter the village! Later, Ji Chunsheng had the courage to run to the east of the village to take a look, but this time he saw a lot of little Dongyang riding horses!

Where did Ji Chunsheng see the scene of hundreds of war horses galloping at the same time, and in a panic, he ran directly from the east of the village to the west of the village, and as a result, he collided head-on with the cavalry battalion of the 99th Army!

My God! It's a little Toyo on a horse again! This time.... Dead! Seeing that he finally got out of the tiger's den and entered the wolf's den, Ji Chunsheng simply stood in place and closed his eyes, waiting for his death!

Jiang Zaibin, the commander of the first cavalry company, pulled the reins in his hand in time, and his war horse swept past Ji Chunsheng at once! After completing the deceleration, Jiang Zaibin pulled his horse back, and then shouted loudly: "You don't want to die? What is running blindly? ”

Ji Chunsheng, who suddenly rushed out of the village, also surprised the cavalry battalion, they didn't understand why this ordinary man plunged into the galloping horse team of the cavalry battalion! If it weren't for Chu Xiongfei's brutal training that made the cavalry's reaction very fast, I'm afraid Ji Chunsheng would have been trampled into pulp on the spot!

Hey!? How can Xiao Toyo speak Chinese?

Ji Chunsheng slowly opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was a military master with an iron hat!

Ji Chunsheng recognized this black iron hat! These horseback riders are not Little Toyo! It's an escape!

"The military master spares his life! The military master spares his life! I thought you were the same Orientals you just had! ”

After speaking, Ji Chunsheng plopped and knelt on the ground!

Jiang Zaibin heard Ji Chunsheng say that he had just seen the Japanese, and his heart suddenly sank! Hurriedly asked, "Where did you meet the Japanese?" Say it! ”

"East... East... East! ”

Jiang Zaibin's attitude made Ji Chunsheng a little flustered, and he became a little stuttering when he spoke.

"Don't panic, big brother, you speak slowly... How many Japanese are there in the east of the village? What do you see? ”

When he said this, Jiang Zaibin had already turned over and dismounted and walked in front of Ji Chunsheng to help Ji Chunsheng, Jiang Zaibin tried his best to suppress the anxiety in his heart and asked the question tactfully.

"There are a lot of them, and they can't see the end at a glance, all of them are riding big horses, and they are hitting the east side of the village!"

That's right! That must be Ryozo Ono's 17th Cavalry Brigade! Jiang Zaibin immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, and then sent someone to find the battalion commander Chu Xiongfei.

After the cavalry battalion of the 99th Army stood still, the sound of war horses galloping from the east of Xintaizi became clearly visible, and the officers and soldiers of the cavalry battalion clenched the weapons in their hands one after another, and their hearts began to beat wildly!

It's time to fight the Japanese cavalry!

After Chu Xiongfei arrived, he asked Ji Chunsheng some things, especially whether there were any commanding heights and hillsides on the way forward of the Japanese cavalry, and he planned to make good use of the geographical advantages.

Ji Chunsheng is worthy of being a local who has been in Xintaizi for more than 20 years, and he can be said to be well aware of the terrain around Xintaizi, Ji Chunsheng told Chu Xiongfei that there is indeed such a small hill in front, and the terrain is higher than the main road that the Japanese cavalry is taking now, and it can be rushed over by a short road, and Chu Xiongfei's cavalry can rush directly to the main road from the hillside.

Chu Xiongfei immediately made a decision and ordered the rear team of the cavalry battalion to change to the front team and go directly to the front of the Japanese cavalry, and the first company commander Jiang Zaibin and Ji Chunsheng rode together to lead the way in front.

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The order given to Lieutenant General Ryozo Ono by the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Ryozo Ono, was to catch up with the 116th Infantry Wing of Fudashi Ota at all costs, and ordered the 116th Wing to withdraw. If Ryozo Ono arrived, Tokita Fudasa, who had already fallen into the encirclement of the 25th Army, would have changed the task of the 17th Cavalry Brigade to attack from behind the Chinese troops attacking the 116th Wing, and fight a way out for the 116th Wing!

Ono was almost certain that his 17th Cavalry Brigade would face the latter. The bad habits of the army, Ono Ryozo Nakasa knows too well!

"Your Excellency, Captain! The terrain here is a bit quirky! Should we go the other way? ”

Akino was one of the three squadron leaders under Ryozo Ono Nakasa, and Akino noticed that some hills and hills were beginning to appear on both sides of the road ahead, and such terrain was easy to be ambushed, so he suggested a diversion.

"Akino Shaosa, we have no time to waste, you should trust your war horse! Even if you really encounter an ambush by the Shina people, the Anglo-Norman horse under your crotch will take you out of the encirclement! ”

The Japanese cavalry basically used Anglo-Norman horses, and the standard height of cavalry horses (the vertical distance between the horse's shoulder blades and front hooves) was 153 cm, and the weight was about 460 kg.

Military horses are an important weapon in the Japanese Army second only to firearms, and they are living weapons! The two central pillars of the Japanese Army's division and regimental formation are men and horses.

In the Japanese cavalry units, the number of war horses was far more than the number of cavalry, and the Japanese cavalry brigade had only one military doctor, but two veterinarians. The cavalry quarters were manned only at night. The stables were guarded all day. Every morning when they got up, the cavalrymen went to the stables to bring out their horses to groom and feed them breakfast. If the horses are not fed, the cavalry will not be able to eat breakfast! During the battle, the cavalry ate cold rice balls, but the horses were fed dried concentrated feed! That is to say, in the cavalry troops, horses are more expensive than human spirits.

Ono Ryozo Nakasa's answer made Akino Shaosa immediately close his mouth. Military horses are like companions to cavalrymen, and Akino Shaosa has never doubted his partner!

"Your Excellency, Captain! The Chinese cavalry was spotted not far ahead! ”

Hearing that the avant-garde troops had discovered the Chinese cavalry, Ono Ryozo Nakasa immediately grabbed the binoculars on his chest, and when he saw the dozen panicked figures, Ono Ryozo Nakasa showed a disdainful expression!

These people on horseback can also be considered cavalry? Ono Ryozo Nakasa didn't see a decent piece of cavalry equipment on them at all! Those extremely exaggerated red saddles must be a product of the Manchu era, right? And the rifles on the backs of those people turned out to be German Mausers with long poles! Can such a weapon be used in cavalry combat? To put it bluntly, these people are nothing more than infantry on horseback!

Saddles, cavalry spears and sabers are known as the three treasures of cavalry, Japan has long completed the stylization of cavalry equipment, and these Chinese cavalry are still in the primitive stage!

As early as the early Meiji era, the Japanese Army purchased the cavalry saddles of the French light cavalry and the Hungarian saddles for the training and construction of cavalry units, and later developed the classic "30-year-style military saddle". This cavalry saddle, suitable for the short stature of the Orientals, was widely praised among the Japanese cavalry sent to Northeast China for its convenience of long-distance riding. The Japanese cavalry, which used this cavalry saddle, did not gain the upper hand in the few encounters with the Russian Cossack cavalry. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan improved the 30-year-old cavalry saddle and developed the 14-year-old cavalry saddle.

Now the 17th Cavalry Brigade uses this one-four-year cavalry saddle, which is at least a few decades more advanced than the saddle used by the Chinese cavalry!

As for the cavalry guns, the 17th Cavalry Brigade has an absolute advantage! Since the cavalry on horseback required flexible movement of the front, back, left and right. The Japanese Army shortened the Type 38 rifle to make the Type 38 cavalry rifle. The Type 38 cavalry rifle became the standard equipment of the Japanese cavalry after the Russo-Japanese War. This rifle can be hung on the saddle, easy to carry, and very simple to use in battle, while the Chinese cavalry, due to the long length of the Mauser rifle, they can only carry the rifle behind their backs, and take it off from behind when fighting, which is not only slow and difficult to operate, the only advantage is that it can be used as a spear after loading the bayonet!

"Can't you just give me a few decent opponents? It's so boring to have such an overwhelming battle! Akino Shaosa, you lead a cavalry squad to destroy those Shina people! We have to tell the people that it's not horses that are cavalry! ”

"Hay!"

Akino Shaosa, who received the order, rushed out with a cavalry squad, and their appearance was obviously to frighten the Chinese cavalry below the hillside, perhaps panicked, these Chinese cavalry actually did not flee along the road down the hillside, but chose to run up the hillside on horseback!

Ono closed his eyes hypocritically, as if to tell his men that he would watch an impending massacre.

"Surround it! Tear these chinas apart with a saber! ”

Akino Shaozo on the war horse was very loud, he had already seen that these Chinese cavalry were far from their opponents, when Akino Shaozo attacked, most of these Chinese cavalry chose to flee, even if they raised their rifles to fight back, none of them hit!

Akino Shaoza liked such prey very much, and he wanted to show his cruelty and cold-bloodedness in front of thousands of officers and soldiers of the 17th Cavalry Brigade! These Chinese cavalry are the most suitable "props"!

Gradually, Akino Shaozo and his prey got closer and closer, and the speed advantage of the Anglo-Norman horse was undoubtedly revealed! Xue Liang's saber was raised, and in the next second, Akino Shaosa will let these sabers taste blood!

The Chinese cavalry on Mongolian horses fled to the top of the hillside, and then disappeared from Akino Shaosa's field of vision, Akino Shaozo was not worried that the Chinese cavalry would use this condescending distance to accelerate the sprint Please his cavalry squad, compared to the short Mongolian horses, the Anglo-Norman horse is obviously more suitable for high-speed sprints!

If the commander of the Chinese cavalry from the very beginning intended to flee with this method, it only shows that the opponent of Akino Shaoza was stupid! These laymen! They themselves have forced themselves to a dead end!

"Accelerate! Rush up! Let's put an end to this farce! ”

Akino Shaozo urged the war horse under his crotch to climb the small hill, and he was ready to use a more heroic posture to gallop down with his cavalry squad to harvest human lives, but what caught Akino Shaoza's eye was at least 500 Chinese cavalry with rifles aimed at him!

After a volley of gunshots, the earth began to shake! Ono Ryozo Nakasa couldn't believe his eyes, he saw the Japanese cavalry on the hillside planting their horses one by one, and then the Chinese cavalry of the brigade swept down like a tide!

When Ono Ryozo Nakasa saw a burly Chinese officer riding a war horse past Akino Shaosa, he brandished a big knife and slashed at it! Akino Shaosa's head flew into the air, and then landed in the middle of the cavalry of the brigade and disappeared! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )