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At this time, the garrison regiment that held its position also moved.

Although the garrison regiment was a group of recruits, the officers, including the regimental commander, had been on the battlefield.

Therefore, as soon as the two battalions of the cavalry regiment launched an attack and the Japanese army adjusted its deployment, the regiment commander was keenly aware that a fighter belonging to the garrison regiment appeared.

Seeing that the Japanese army was aiming all their limited machine-gun fire at the cavalry regiment, the commander of the garrison immediately ordered the light and heavy machine gunners on the position to condescendingly concentrate their firepower and specialize in hitting the light machine guns that posed the greatest threat to the cavalry.

The Japanese machine gunners, who had been able to shoot continuously, rained down on them with bullets. In order to survive, they could only continue to shoot at the cavalry while diverting the machine-gun fire point.

Even so, there were Japanese machine gunners who were constantly hit by bullets. After all, the garrison has prepared twelve heavy machine guns to shoot at them, and under the cover of your overwhelming dense firepower, it is not that they can transfer if they want to.

As a result, the firepower of the Japanese cavalry was reduced by more than half.

The cavalrymen who were on the attack immediately seized the opportunity and quickly put their rifles into their holsters after firing a round of bullets at the Japanese with their horse rifles. Then he drew his saber and raised it high above his head, and the blade forward, screaming and rushing towards the Japanese army.

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, our first brigade is finished." The Wing Captain closed his eyes in pain.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Liaodong Army had been killed together with the remnants of the First Brigade, the Wing Commander immediately ordered: "A few hundred remnants of the First Brigade must not be the ultimate goal of the cavalry of the Liaodong Army, otherwise they would not have dispatched so many cavalry at one time." ”

"Order the second brigade to prepare immediately, and if the cavalry of the Liaodong Army launches a surprise attack on us, resolutely counterattack and destroy them."

Because the wing commander was prepared in time, two battalions of the cavalry regiment retreated after destroying several hundred Japanese troops.

Despite the loss of a brigade, the Japanese wing commander did not give up the idea of continuing the offensive.

In his opinion, the reason why the attack just now failed was because he did not know enough about the defenders, and he did not expect that the defenders still had cavalry. If it weren't for the participation of these cavalry, the attack just now would not have failed.

Thinking of this, the wing commander immediately ordered the second brigade to continue the attack.

In order to prevent a sneak attack by the Liaodong Army, the wing commander specially reinforced twice the number of light machine guns.

In this way, if the cavalry of the Liaodong Army still wants to surprise the attacking troops sent by themselves, then the cavalry of the Liaodong Army must be prepared to bear huge casualties.

Not much different from the first attack, less than two minutes into the attack, all the heavy machine guns that provided cover for fire were silent.

The infantry brigade, which was attacking forward with bullets, finally rushed to a position 100 meters in front of the formation after losing nearly half of its troops, and lay on the ground to fire at the defenders.

At this time, it was clear to everyone that the casualties of the defenders of the position were getting bigger and bigger.

In this case, if the situation is not controlled, it will not be long before the defenders on the position will collapse.

The cavalry commander also saw the bad situation, although he knew that the Japanese army had specially equipped ten more light machine guns to deal with the cavalry. But in order to hold the position, the regiment commander could only bite the bullet and order two cavalry battalions to attack.

Of course, no matter how stupid the cavalry commander was, he was not stupid enough to let the cavalry hit the muzzle of the Liaodong Army. As soon as the cavalry attack order was issued, the regiment commander ordered the artillery to open fire immediately, even if it could not blow up the light machine guns equipped by the Japanese army, it would be impossible for the light machine guns to continue firing, so as to reduce the pressure of the cavalry attack.

As soon as the cavalry appeared, the remaining 400 Japanese troops on the battlefield began to adjust their deployment.

Twenty light machine guns were quickly transferred to the flanks of the battlefield, ready to meet the cavalry units of the Liaodong Army.

As the cavalry rushed faster and faster, the Japanese machine gunners with light machine guns in their hands became more and more nervous, and they looked like they could shoot at any time.

At this time, the mortar fired.

Ten mortars were divided into two, all aimed at the Japanese light machine gun positions.

In the face of shells falling from the sky, the Japanese machine gunners had to hold light machine guns and start to move in order to avoid gun destruction and death.

In the middle of this, the machine gunner, who reacted a little slower, was undoubtedly blown to the ground along with the machine gun.

At this time, although the raindrops of shells continued to explode around them, in order to block the approaching cavalry, the Japanese machine gunners, who had just moved to the new position, had to take advantage of the short shelling interval of a few seconds to quickly shoot bullets at the cavalry.

As a result, ten light machine guns in one direction did not bring out the power of even five light machine guns.

And as the battle continued, there were also hapless machine gunners who were hit by shells.

After fighting like this for a second or two, he lost nearly a company of cavalry again, and finally killed the Japanese army.

The Japanese machine gunners who were in the front were cut into corpses by the saber with a face full of incredulity and fear.

Then, the cavalry with their sabers in high hand entered the battlefield where there were still three or four hundred Japanese troops and slaughtered them completely.

After losing two infantry brigades in a row, the unconvinced Japanese wing commander finally stopped.

As for the cavalry regiments and garrison regiments on the positions, despite the heavy losses. But the cavalry commander was no longer afraid of the next attack of the Japanese army.

The cavalry regiment captured a total of 25 light machine guns in two successive assaults. The Japanese army had less than ten light machine guns left, and their heavy machine guns would be destroyed by mortar as soon as they were fired.

In terms of firepower, the Japanese troops, with two infantry brigades left, were no longer comparable to the defenders.

As long as the two brigades had no other reinforcements, and only relied on ten mortars, twelve heavy machine guns, and twenty or thirty light machine guns in their hands, the regiment commander was confident that he would only rely on defense to block the Japanese attack without taking the initiative to attack.

Just when the cavalry commander couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, he didn't expect that although the Japanese wing commander put on a defensive posture, he would not continue to attack. However, he sent a large number of heralds to report to the commander of the division behind him and ask for support.

The main force of the division behind was already less than five miles away from the battlefield. As for the main force of the Fourth Division, which Li Zhilong personally returned to help, it is still 20 miles away. Even if Li Zhilong hurried up, it would take an hour behind the Japanese army to rush back to his position.

There were less than 2,000 cavalry regiments and garrison regiments left, and they had just rested for less than half an hour in the trenches when the scream of a string of shells across the sky sounded over the battlefield. Subsequently, a violent explosion sounded at the position.

Seven or eight soldiers were caught off guard and were blown to the ground before they could make any preparations.

"Shelling, it's not good, it's the main forces of the Japanese army coming up. All of them went into the defensive artillery holes to avoid shelling. The guard company of the cavalry regiment left a squad to monitor the Japanese army, and fasted into the anti-artillery hole, which was only a test shot by the Japanese army just now. The cavalry commander's face changed and he ordered loudly.

When the commander of the Japanese division received a report from the advance guard wing asking for help, the reconnaissance unit also sent him the news that the main force of the Liaodong Army would return to its position in two hours at most.

Once the main force of the Liaodong Army, which was equipped with heavy artillery, returned to its position, it would become very difficult to take Donggang by itself, and the commander of the Japanese division knew this very well.

Therefore, the division commander immediately ordered the field artillery wing to speed up the march, look for positions three miles ahead, and build artillery positions.

In this arrangement, as long as the infantry arrives on the battlefield, the artillery does not need to be prepared to provide fire cover for the infantry. (To be continued.) )