The entire cavalry battalion formed a sharp angle formation, and quickly rushed towards the devil's brigade headquarters, a distance of less than a thousand meters, for the fast-running cavalry, it didn't take much time to arrive. At 500 meters, the only heavy machine gun in the devil's brigade headquarters has been fired, in the face of the only scarce firepower, Wang Hu did not take it to heart, the soldiers of the entire cavalry battalion did not underestimate the enemy, they all put their bodies on the horse's back as much as possible, reducing their own bullet area, although there were horses around him from time to time were hit, with the roar and the wailing of the war horses fell to the ground, but it did not affect the offensive formation of the troops, the troops were still like a sharp knife, slowly stabbing towards the devil's brigade headquarters.

It was only 300 meters, the devil's light machine guns and rifles opened fire one after another, and the cavalry battalion fell more than a dozen soldiers in an instant, "hitting" the cavalry battalion commander shouted loudly. However, in the roar of the horse's hooves, this roar was basically drowned out, but the quality of the soldiers' usual training was still reflected, and they all lay on the back of the war horse, holding the morals tightly with one hand to control the speed of the war horse, and holding the horse rifle tightly in the other hand, calmly aiming at the devil on the opposite side, completely ignoring the bullets that kept flying around them. The soldiers of the cavalry battalion got the order, and they fired a bullet from their rifles, and suddenly, the devils in the fortifications were swept away by the rain of bullets that rushed to their faces, and after the bullets were "killed", the soldiers did not stop long, put on their rifles, drew their sabers, raised them and howled and rushed towards the devil's position. Suddenly, the entire cavalry battalion was full of swords, and under the pressure of this momentum, the devils also began to retreat. "Kill" the cavalry battalion commander Wang Hu raised the saber in his hand and slashed at a devil with a stunned face in front of him, the first to rush into the devil's defensive circle, slowly, more and more cavalry rushed in, in the face of the invincible cavalry soldiers, the entire devil's brigade headquarters immediately became a pot of porridge, the entire brigade headquarters was full of cavalry running with sabers high, slashing at the devils around him from time to time, bringing up a piece of blood

At this time, the entire cavalry battalion was like a sharp knife inserted into the devil's position. As the sharp knives gradually deepened, the entire devil's brigade was swept in, and the soldiers slashed back and forth.

Just when the soldiers were slashing and killing, those fleeing devils could no longer see their usual ferocity, and they dodged the sabers of the warriors one by one. In front of the tall cavalry, they were just targets to be slaughtered, and after a rain of blood, the cavalry battalion passed through the devil's brigade headquarters at a certain price, and inserted itself behind the attacking devil.

The Devil's Brigade Headquarters was only less than a kilometer away from the first-line position, but there was a mountain beam between the two positions, so the first squadron that the Devil came to reinforce did not notice the abnormality in front, and the brigade headquarters that he rescued had been completely wiped out. In this way, the cavalry battalion was created with an opportunity to annihilate the enemy again.

Maybe it was because Wang Hu's luck was too good, just when the cavalry battalion passed through the Devil's Brigade Headquarters and was preparing to raid the army on the front line, a squadron of the Devil's reinforcements also happened to go to the bottom of the mountain beam, and the two sides collided on the mountain beam. This was followed by another one-sided massacre.

In the face of the devils of an unprepared squadron, the cavalry battalion had no scruples and shouted loudly. The soldiers scrambled to rush into the formation of the Japanese army. The machine gun squad, which frightened the cavalry the most, died even worse, and in the face of the rushing cavalry, the heavy machine gunners were cut to pieces by the incoming sabers before they could put their machine guns on the ground, and they fell in a pool of blood.

And the devil's infantry squadron, in the face of the sudden cavalry, although one by one howled and raised the bayonets in their hands to rush towards the soldiers, but what was the use, in the face of the running war horses, in the face of the high cavalry, these bayonets were cut into two pieces by the cavalry soldiers with guns and men before they touched the war horses.

More than a hundred devils were not enough for the soldiers to solve it with one person and one sword, and those cavalry who came later, looking at the corpses of devils all over the ground, could only complain that their horses were too slow and did not cut these murderous devils. I hope that next time, I can run faster and try to cut off the heads of two devils

Although more than a hundred devils did not take much time for the cavalry battalion, in this short period of time, the devils of the two remaining squadrons on the devil's front line had completely discovered the situation behind them, and these few minutes were enough for well-trained devils to arrange a tight fire blockade line in the rear.

In order to prevent the cavalry from breaking through the blockade line in their rear, after the discussion of the two squadron leaders, six of the remaining eight heavy machine guns on the front line were deployed on the position, and a squadron of troops was deployed along the line for defense. However, although the defense behind the devils is very tight, for the devils who have already lost a squadron, their strength is not much.

After the strength of a squadron was transferred to the rear to block the cavalry, the devils had less than one squadron of troops left, and there was no way to launch a new round of attacks, so they retreated one after another and built fortifications.

The devil calmly blocked the line of ignorance, and the cavalry battalion of the first squadron of the devil did not rest, did not even clean the battlefield, and continued to attack with the soldiers who were not injured. Looking at a defensive position behind the devil, Wang Hu didn't care too much, and still kept accelerating. Suddenly, a violent rain of bullets swept towards his cavalry battalion, and more than a dozen cavalrymen at the front fell off their horses one after another. Wang Hu, who reacted, shouted loudly. However, the cavalry could not be as fast and fast as the infantry, and retreated when they said they were retreating.

With the first gunshot of the devil, the soldiers fell one after another under the dense strafing of the devil's four heavy machine guns. "Quickly, stop the assault, divide the troops into two ways, and scatter and surround them." Looking at the cavalry battalion that kept falling to the ground, the battalion commander Wang Hu shouted loudly with red eyes.

Finally, after paying nearly half a company's casualties, the cavalry battalion began to split in two and outflank the devil's flanks.

Of course, everything under the mountain did not escape the eyes of Commander Wang Nanhu, who watched the devils gradually surrounded by the cavalry battalion, and the galloping cavalry fired a few shots at the devil's position from time to time. Wang Nanhu knew that this group of devils no longer posed any threat to him, and the only thing they could do now was to rely on the dense firepower in their hands to hold on and wait for help

"Communicator, immediately go down to find Battalion Commander Wang, and tell him that this group of devils is very strong in combat, and now the soldiers are very tired, there is a lack of ammunition, we have no ability to destroy them, and even if there is, we will pay a heavy price, so we can only surround this group of devils without fighting, if they dare to break through, use cavalry in the field to solve it." Wang Nanhu looked at the tired soldiers behind him and said decisively.

Soon, the entire Xiangtangpu battlefield fell into silence, and for the next few hours, the two reinforcements did not move, neither withdrew nor attacked, but only built fortifications on the spot.

In the end, the ammunition and materials on the battlefield were carried out, and even the cars that were damaged by the shells were dismantled and transported back to the base area, as for the remaining intact cars. Under the personal guidance of Liu Hua and others, the soldiers completely dismantled the five cars and prepared to form the first automobile transport team of the Reading Force Brigade after returning to the base area

Looking at the battlefield swept away by the soldiers, Liu Hua, as the commander, was very satisfied. Looking at the sky that had slowly darkened, Liu Hua said to the chief of staff next to him: "Chief of staff, it's time to end, it's been a day of fighting, the casualties of the soldiers must be very large, give an order!" ”

"Yes, Commander." Although Li Qing, as the chief of staff, was also very tired at this time, he still gave a quiet military salute to the young commander in front of him, answered loudly, and walked to the radio station behind.

The battalions that received the order retreated one after another, except for the cavalry battalion that was still running back and forth, bluffing, all the soldiers took advantage of the night to slowly leave the battlefield of Xiangtangpu after a day of fighting

Because the troops carried a large amount of supplies at this time, coupled with the constant patrols of devil planes, the marching speed of the troops was very slow, only less than a hundred miles away, and the Reading Brigade walked for several days, and finally, the troops slowly entered the Pingding area, and the base area was getting closer and closer.

The further you go, the more militia members are on patrol, and from time to time you can see civilians greeting the troops. It seems that great achievements have been made in the construction of the base area! Liu Hua sighed secretly.

Due to the advance contact from the radio station, Guan Xiangying, the political commissar who stayed in the base area, knew that the troops had won an unprecedented victory after the battle. After learning that the commander had entered the base area, he brought the party, government, and military leaders of the base area overnight to greet him, accompanied by the deputy chief of general staff of Zuo Quan, who was sent by the General Headquarters

After meeting with everyone, I looked at the tired faces of the cadres and soldiers. After discussions, Commander Liu Hua, Political Commissar Guan Xiangying, Chief of Staff Zuo Quan, and others decided to hold the upcoming "Xiangtangpu Battle Summary Meeting" on the evening of the next day. Then they arranged camps for the cadres and soldiers who came back from the expedition, arranged food, and in this way, Liu Hua worked all night until 4 o'clock in the morning of the next day. Commander Liu Huacai hurriedly ate something to rest

In this way, the commander slept until 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, when he was woken up by Guan Xiangying, the political commissar who came in a hurry. At the same time, this dinner was also to celebrate the victory of this battle, and also to tell everyone the news that the chief of staff of Zuo Quan had come to our revolutionary base in eastern Jindong

Liu Hua, who was woken up, didn't feel too tired at this time, in his previous life, he had a strict schedule as a military cadet, as long as he gave himself a certain amount of time to rest, the energy he consumed would recover immediately, plus he came here to fight again and again, and he already had this habit.

After hurriedly dressing and washing his face, Liu Hua followed his political commissar to the cooking class.

(To be continued)