Lu Jiang's hand holding the knife was already trembling, and his arm was also injured, and he was slashed by a Japanese wing commander in the process of charging just now.

"Lao Lu, you're injured, does it matter?" Xu Shiguo, political commissar of the Fourth Division, asked nervously.

Lu Jiang took the gauze handed over by the health center, tied a dead knot on his arm, and then said, "It's nothing." I was bitten by a mosquito, and I couldn't get in the way. Lao Xu has suffered heavy casualties among our troops, and even if a large army comes like this, our fourth division will be finished, and we have to find a way. ”

Xu Shiguo said: "Don't think about it, there is no trick in the cavalry duel, we haven't been in contact with the first division for two hours, I think as long as they don't get kicked in the head by a donkey, they will know that we must be in trouble, at most half an hour The army will come, let's continue to rush and kill." ”

"Lao Xu, what you said makes sense, okay, the whole cavalry division, launch an attack on the enemy"

"Offense"

Seeing that although the Chinese cavalry suffered heavy losses, they did not have the slightest timidity, the troops were still neat, and the momentum was even higher, at this time they took the initiative to launch a counter-charge against the imperial army. Lieutenant General Tajiro, commander of the Japanese cavalry, said to Takeda Tengichiro, chief of staff of the 98th Cavalry Division, on the side: "This group of Chinese cavalry is a real warrior and a respectable opponent. Takeda-kun will treat real opponents, and we must show the true combat strength of our Imperial Japanese Army and crush the enemy's will to fight with our katana."

"Your Excellency, please rest assured. There are less than 8,000 cavalry left, and in the past half an hour, the Imperial Army has eliminated at least 3,000 cavalry, our Imperial Japanese Army is invincible, our cavalry group is invincible, and the cavalry group is attacking."

The cavalry of both sides collided again, and at this time only the saber could prove who was the real warrior, the steel knife was flying, the blood was flowing, everything seemed to be frozen here, and the soldiers kept falling. There were Japanese troops and soldiers of the 4th Cavalry Division, and it seemed that time and space had been reversed here, back to tens or even hundreds of years ago, and there was no sound of gunfire, except for the sonorous sound of sabers colliding, only the sound of people and horses neighing.

This is a duel of cold weapons, a duel between Chinese sabers and Japanese katanas, and a duel of soldiers' will to fight. Lu Jiang cut off the head of a Japanese soldier with a knife, and stabbed the saber into the chest of a Japanese soldier who rushed towards him. Just as Lu Jiang drew his saber and continued to fight, a Japanese Nakasa rushed towards Lu Jiang with two young saga, and the gorgeous knife of Nakasa had already slashed towards Lu Jiang.

The guard platoon beside Lu Jiang had already been dispersed, and at this critical moment, Xu Shiguo cut off the body of the Japanese soldier in front of him with a knife, and then took out the shell gun behind him and shot it at the head of the Japanese soldier.

The Japanese soldier fell down and fell off his horse. Lu Jiang seized the opportunity and also drew his war knife, and slashed at the Japanese soldier Shaozuo on the left. The Japanese soldier Shaozo was also an expert, and he quickly lowered his head and bent down to stick his body on the horse's back, narrowly avoiding Lu Jiang's fatal knife.

Soon the two sides staggered, and the entangled troops began to separate to the side. The two sides stopped two hundred meters away and continued to confront each other.

Lu Jiang calmed his chest for a moment as he gasped violently, and then looked around at the soldiers beside him. Then he gasped and asked, "Lao Xu, how many people are left now?" ”

Xu Shiguo was also a little gasped, the battle just now had seriously depleted his physical strength, and looked at the troops like Lu Jiang, and then said: "Now the establishment is disrupted, I can't count it, but there are at least more than 7,000 people, although the little devils are numerous, but we are gathered together, the battlefield is so big, their strength advantage can't be brought into play, although our casualties are much larger than theirs, but the little devils want to destroy our four divisions in a short period of time is still far away." ”

"I'm not worried about the annihilation of our four divisions, but I'm worried that even if we win this battle, the four divisions will be greatly damaged, so we must minimize the casualties of our troops."

"Well, let's not talk about it, let's keep rushing, we're tired of the little devils now, it's much easier for them to come up in the first division, let's rush and kill, it's been a long time since I've had such a fun fight."

Lu Jiang laughed and said: "It's enjoyable, I fucking say that you Xu Shiguo is like a scholar, his mother was excited as soon as he went to the battlefield, but Lao Tzu chirped like a political commissar to persuade you, good, comrades, our big army is on the way here, and when our big army comes, this dog's Japanese cavalry group is a scum, what we have to do now is to drag this group of dogs, we must not let them escape, comrades, attack the enemy",

With Lu Jiang's saber pointing, the soldiers of the Fourth Cavalry Division once again rushed towards the Japanese cavalry troops like a tide.

The Japanese side was not ambiguous, and with the red and blue flags waved a few times in the hands of the flag soldiers, the Japanese cavalry roared "wow, yes", and rushed towards the fourth cavalry division.

Repeating the previous steps again, the neighing of the horses, the roars of the soldiers, the fear of the soldiers dying and the sonorous sound of the swords colliding once again played a murderous battle song on the battlefield.

This is already the eighth charge this afternoon, and the physical strength of both sides has reached the limit, the frequency of the warriors wielding their sabers has slowed down significantly, and the speed of the war horses has also decreased, and some war horses even fell on the way to run, and then never got up.

At this time, the superiority of the Japanese army began to be highlighted, and after the horses could not run, the form of the entire battlefield became a large number of Japanese cavalry fighting around the four divisions, and the four divisions did not stand out from the left and right.

At this critical moment, the sound of a hurried war horse running suddenly sounded on the west side of the battlefield. Both Lu Jiang and Tian Jilang were taken aback by the sudden intervention, but then Lu Jiang became excited, because the people who came were wearing the standard military uniforms of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the dark green camouflage uniforms highlighted the majesty of the troops on the prairie.

Lieutenant General Tian Jiro was shocked and angry, how could the reinforcements of the Chinese army appear on the battlefield so quickly, the intelligence department did not say that the main force of the Chinese cavalry force had not already returned to Xilinhot, how could it suddenly appear on the battlefield. Immediately, Tajiro realized that this might be a trap for the Chinese army, a trap for him and the entire Japanese cavalry group, and the encircled Shina cavalry division was the bait that Yin* they took the bait.

Hunting geese all day long was finally pecked by geese today, and Tajiro knew that he had capsized in the gutter this time. However, Tian Jiro was also a bachelor enough, and he immediately ordered the 9th and 12th Cavalry Divisions of the Imperial Allied Army, and the 23rd Cavalry Wing of the 98th Cavalry Division of the Kwantung Army to immediately step forward and hold back the reinforcements of the Chinese cavalry, and the remaining troops immediately fled to Zarut.

Lieutenant General Tian Jiro fought wishful thinking, but Aurege had long expected that the Japanese might escape, so he ordered Tong Jiayong to lead two cavalry divisions to the front to cut off their rear route.

Tian Jiro led more than 8,000 cavalry to flee more than ten miles quickly, and saw that the Chinese army did not pursue, but concentrated on besieging the cavalry divisions of the puppet Manchukuo Defense Army. Tajiro breathed a sigh of relief, he knew better than anyone the consequences of being surrounded by Chinese troops, and it seemed that the Chinese troops were coming specifically at his cavalry group this time.

Although two cavalry divisions of the Imperial Allied Army have been lost now, the main force of the Imperial Army's cavalry has not lost much, which is not a major injury to vitality, and if it is compared with the casualties of the Chinese cavalry, it can only be said to be a tie, anyway, in Tian Jiro's eyes, the Imperial Allied Army is not a real army, let alone an elite army. It is not painful to lose much, what Japan has lost is only some outdated weapons and ammunition, and most of those weapons and ammunition are captured from the Chinese battlefield, as long as the real elite of the Imperial Japanese Army escapes, nothing else matters.

But Tajiro hadn't been happy for a few minutes when the sound of a huge cavalry charge came from ahead. Tian Jilang was stunned when he saw it, only to see a large number of cavalry appear a thousand meters in front of him, it seemed that there were probably tens of thousands of people, and the military uniform on this cavalry was obviously the extremely strange military uniform of Han Yunhua's department.

It's obviously impossible to turn around and escape at such a short distance, only by rushing over can there be any hope of survival, although Tian Jiro hasn't heard the phrase "the brave wins" when they meet on a narrow road, but he still understands the truth. Looking at the Chinese cavalry that was getting closer and closer, Tian Jiro roared angrily: "Warriors, charge, for the sake of the Great Japanese Empire, for His Majesty the Emperor, and even more for this holy war, charge"

Tong Jiayong's mood at this time is indescribable in words, and his heart is about to jump out when he sees the Japanese cavalry charging towards them. Aolige and Shen Yuquan and Commander Shen arranged for so long that they even did not hesitate to use Shen Yuquan and the entire Fourth Cavalry Division as bait. But in the end, it was he Tong Jiayong who was cheaper, and he knew that this must be the main force of the Japanese cavalry when he looked at the Japanese cavalry in front of him.

You must know that the Japanese army only formed a cavalry group in the North China battlefield, with a total strength of only more than 15,000 people, and it was also served by the military region. But it is different in the Northeast, the terrain in the Northeast is dangerous, although there is a large part of the plains, but more of them are those deep mountains and dense forests, which are the paradise of Chinese rebels, and most of the anti-Japanese people live in the depths of the dense forests, and only come out when they fight. ,

In the vast forests and snowfields, not to mention motor trucks and tanks, even motorcycles are difficult to pass, so at this time the cavalry is extremely important, so the Japanese army has formed 4 cavalry divisions in the entire northeast region, with a total strength of more than 50,000 people, so each loss is no less than breaking an arm of the Japanese army.

This time, in order to completely solve the Chinese army in Suidong and to combat the "arrogant" arrogance of Han Yunhua's troops, the Japanese army mobilized a total of three cavalry divisions and six puppet cavalry divisions, with a total strength of about 88,000 cavalry and a wing of infantry to attack Saibei. Now the Suidong Army Sub-district has received definite information, the Japanese army has attacked Zalut Banner, Balinzuo Banner and other places on the one hand, and the other way is to bypass Huolin Gol and go straight to Xilinhot, in addition to about 100,000 infantry coming straight to Jidong, the Kwantung Army this time wants to completely advance the front to the territory controlled by the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Now, if the Japanese army is completely annihilated, then there will be a major loophole in the rear of the Japanese army, and how this battle will be fought will be decided by Shen Yuquan, so whether this battle is fought well depends on whether the cavalry group of the Inner Mongolia Military Region can completely annihilate the cavalry of the Japanese army.

At this time, not only was most of the Japanese army surrounded, but even because the Japanese army had always been in danger of letting the puppet army be cannon fodder, the Japanese puppet army was directly divided and surrounded.

At the end of the two-hour battle, the vast majority of the remaining cavalry was annihilated, except for some small units of the Japanese army that scattered and fled. The Suidong Military Subdivision of the Inner Mongolia Military Region completely annihilated the 98th Division of the Japanese Army, the 9th and 12th Divisions of the Cavalry of the puppet Manchukuo National Defense Army, annihilated 12,000 Japanese troops and more than 23,000 puppet troops, of which about 14,000 puppet troops surrendered on the battlefield. But it's a pity that when cleaning the battlefield, I didn't find Lieutenant General Tajiro, the commander of the Japanese cavalry, and I think the old guy took advantage of the chaos to escape.

Of course, this battle was not an easy battle for the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the cavalry group of the Suidong Army Division lost more than 6,000 elites in this battle, and the loss was not an ordinary soldier, but a real warrior who had undergone strict training and had also killed devils on the battlefield. More than half of these 6,000 people are from the Fourth Cavalry Division, and now in terms of combat effectiveness, the Fourth Cavalry Division can be regarded as a serious injury, one-third of the veterans were killed in battle, and one-third of the veterans were injured, which made Lu Jiang very annoyed, but he was helpless.

After the total annihilation of the Japanese cavalry, the battle in Saibei did not end, but only took a turn. After the battle, Aurege ordered the troops to clean up the battlefield and gather the ownerless war horses, and on the other hand, he sent a report to Shen Yuquan in Xilinhot and Han Yunhua on the Shandong front.

When he received the telegram from Aurege, Shen Yuquan was doing a sand table deduction with a group of staff officers at the military sub-division headquarters, and after reading the telegram, Shen Yuquan was overjoyed and ordered Aurege's headquarters to rest immediately and wait for new orders. At the same time, Li Dingguo's troops were ordered to assemble immediately and attack Tongliao and other places where the Japanese defense was empty.

In addition, Shen Yuquan also received news that two days ago, the herdsmen of Xinzari Sumu, more than 200 miles away from Xilinhot, found traces of a large number of Japanese cavalry passing by, and many Sumu and Gacha along the road were washed in blood.

Shen Yuquan is a scheming person, he knows that the Japanese cavalry group is coming at him this time, although Xilinhot is the largest city on the Xilin Gol grassland, but there is no perfect city fortifications, and even the city wall is a very short earthen wall. Not to mention heavy artillery, even the 60 or 80 caliber mortars usually carried by the little devil cavalry will collapse if they can't withstand a few shots, and the trick of relying on strong city fortifications to confront the Japanese cavalry is not much use here, if the Japanese cavalry comes, the troops have no other way than to fight a field battle with the Japanese army.

"Old Ma, have all the troops been assembled?" Shen Yuquan asked Ma Hao, director of logistics and director of the political department of the military sub-district, on the side.

Ma Hao was transferred to Saibei just two months ago, and was previously the deputy director of the logistics department of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army. Ma Hao raised his head and said: "Five cavalry divisions, two infantry divisions and a guard regiment have all been assembled, but the combat effectiveness commander of these troops also knows that the two infantry divisions are not to mention, not to mention that they are within the twentieth, they are already infantry divisions in their forties, and we don't know how many are in the battle, and it will not be satisfactory to think about it." And the five cavalry divisions and the two infantry divisions are not too similar, they are all new units that have just been formed, and they dare not say that they will win the battle against the puppet army, let alone fight against the elite cavalry of the Japanese army. Now the most effective unit in our military division is the guard regiment, which was left in Xilinhot by Commander Han Yunhua before, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and it is definitely a first-class main force regiment in the 120th Division, and the number is indeed quite large, and 3,200 people are definitely enough for a little devil to drink a pot. ”,

"Have you heard clearly about the strength of the Japanese army, how many troops do they have, and who is the commander?" Shen Yuquan asked again.

Ma Hao said: "Commander, our military subdivision has just been formed, and there is no intelligence system of its own at all, and all the information has to be provided by the tribes where Aurege is located and the intelligence department of the military region, and we only know that the Japanese army has about 50,000 troops in Xilinhot this time, of which about 26,000 are Japanese soldiers, and the rest are puppet troops, as for who the commander is, what the military rank is, age, personality, etc. ”

"Hey, that's the only way, this is also something that can't be helped, who made our intelligence system itself have a relatively weak intelligence collection ability, plus most of the little devils are transferred from the northeast region, we don't know much about the situation over there, it's good to be able to find out how many troops the little devils have." Then Shen Yuquan said: "Old Ma, I just discussed with the staff officers, thinking that it is not a matter for so many troops to stay in the small city of Xilinhot, it is easy to be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army, and it will not benefit the whole war at all, so we have always thought that it is better to transfer the cavalry troops outside the city, if necessary, they will be transferred to participate in the battle, and if there is no need, they will stay outside the city, what do you think?" ”

Ma Hao thought for a while and said: "That's a good idea, so Commander, I and the infantry stay in the city, relying on the favorable terrain and those newly built fortifications in the city to resist the attack of the Japanese army, how about you take the cavalry troops out of the city?" ”

"No, you lead the troops out of the city, I stay in the city with the infantry, on the one hand, I am better at infantry command, on the other hand, the Japanese army must have an eyeliner in this Xilinhot city, if I go out of the city, then the Japanese army will chase after the cavalry, or it is better for me to stay in the city, okay, don't say it, old horse, I know what you mean, but how can we communists affect the whole battle for our own safety, go, carry out the order"

Ma Hao knew that Shen Yuquan was determined to take risks alone, and he knew very well that even if he said that he would not have any results, so after saying "take care", he turned around and walked out of the ...... headquarters.