Chapter 183: The Battle of Guisui (3)
Determined to die and struggle, Major General Zuo Ma was the last remnant of the cavalry squadron from two cavalry wings around him, which had been drastically reduced to two cavalry squadrons. Raising the bright saber, he rushed towards the anti-union troops that were slowly pressing on the front.
His meaning is obvious, and I can't get out anyway. Compared with the tanks that pressed up from the other three directions, the anti-coalition forces that pressed on the front were still infantry. My cavalry can't beat tanks, but I'm still very sure about hitting your infantry.
As long as I break through your firepower and rush into your position, the whole army will be destroyed, and I can also pull your infantry as a backing. This is the plain terrain, and the cavalry against the tanks is slaughtered. But with the shock of cavalry, against your infantry is slaughter.
The most important thing is that in the eyes of the left ma, I am closer to your infantry position than your tank is to my position. The speed of the tanks is fast, but the speed of my cavalry in a short distance is not much slower than yours. As long as I mingle with your infantry, your tanks will only be able to watch from the sidelines and will not be able to participate in the battle.
As long as you can't fight, your protection and mobility, your machine guns and artillery, will all be useless, and this will give me a chance to bite off a piece of your flesh. It's just that this Zuo Jian has been a major general for a long time, and his thoughts are quite good, but Mu Changqiu, who is facing him, is not ready to give him a chance to succeed at all.
Who is Mu Changqiu? As early as the time of the Anti-Japanese Federation, I dealt with these Japanese soldiers for many years. Do you not know anything about the habit of these Japanese soldiers who come up and charge to the death at every turn? The infantry he pressed on head-on not only moved slowly, but also never left the protection of the fire net behind him.
In fact, if this left-hand major general is long-lived, the remaining remaining subordinates will be completely dispersed. In the form of a single horse, looking for a gap to break through from the direction of the tank pressing, it may not be true that one person can't rush out. After all, the infantry in Mu Changqiu's hands is now very limited, and the rest of the directions are still dominated by tanks except for the front.
In particular, the forces pressed up on both flanks were hardly infantry, all of them were tanks. In order to block the breakthrough of the Japanese cavalry in front of them, the distance between these tanks was not very close. In addition, in order to prevent accidental injury, it was impossible to open artillery fire when encircling these Japanese troops to break through.
The machine guns on the tank are all in the front, once the Japanese cavalry bypasses the tank in front of them, unless the turret or hull is turned, it is difficult for the machine gun fire to form a cross-fire boundary, completely blocking their breakthrough channel. This gave the Japanese cavalry a chance to completely break up and break through.
But at this time, he was completely carried away by the rapid reversal of the unfavorable battle situation in a short period of time, and his mind was full of a decisive battle, and Zuo Jianjiu, a major general who served the country for seven lives, had long been unable to think of this. In his mind, he could only fight to the death, trying to kill and injure as many anti-coalition infantry as possible.
This is not the first time he has made a mistake in this battle. From the very beginning of the encounter with the flank attack force led by Mu Changqiu, a rather strict mistake was made. There is nothing wrong with the fact that the Fourth Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army is cavalry, but although this cavalry brigade has not forgotten its kung fu on horseback, it is no longer a light cavalry fighting with the enemy's cavalry, but a lancer who meets the enemy on horseback and dismounts to fight.
If he had dismounted and fought immediately after making contact with Mu Changqiu's troops, the outcome would not necessarily have been so bad. Even if he was fighting in the plains, his four Type 94 rapid-fire guns were almost a pile of waste. However, according to the usual style of the Japanese army, using infantry against tanks did not necessarily lead to the collapse of two cavalry wings in such a short period of time.
Perhaps considering that the firepower in the face of the resistance is too dense and approaching in the way of infantry, the casualties can only be greater. Perhaps in the face of the tank assault of the Anti-United Nations, he lacked sufficient anti-tank firepower in his hands, and after mixing with the anti-United Nations tank cluster, the tank's plan to make it impossible to exert its own firepower failed. He still plans to use the shock power of his cavalry to deal with the infantry first, and is trying to find a way to deal with the tanks of the Anti-Union.
Therefore, this old man is still determined to use the light cavalry tactics that are more conducive to immediate slashing to the end. After all, dismount to fight, no matter how fast the progress is, it is impossible for the cavalry to raid quickly. It is also located in the plain area around Guisui, and the impact of cavalry on infantry is still very strong.
But he forgot that the infantry did not advance as fast as his cavalry. However, the infantry's goals are small and the flexibility of combat is far from being comparable to that of cavalry. The most important thing is that the tactical use of infantry is far more flexible than that of cavalry. Even in the face of the tanks rushing up by the Anti-United Nations, it is not without the ability to fight a war by taking a defensive and assaulting at the same time.
Looking at the remnants of the Japanese army holding a saber in the telescope and making the final charge, Mu Changqiu, who was unusually calm, not only did not have any expression, but the corners of his mouth showed a sneer. It was as if what he was seeing was not a group of Japanese cavalry, but a feast that had already been cooked.
Mu Changqiu did not think that he had four twin-mounted 14-mm machine guns, four twin-mounted twin-23mm anti-aircraft guns, plus a large number of general-purpose machine guns and 12-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, as well as an automatic rifle composed of all soldiers. It is the only remaining cavalry under the long man of Zuo Ma, which can be easily broken through.
At the beginning, he had two cavalry wings, and he was not worried. Now that there were less than two cavalry squadrons left, he had nothing to worry about. He has great confidence in his troops and equipment. Not to mention two cavalry squadrons, even if they are doubled, he does not believe that the opponent can break through his own firepower network.
Mu Changqiu's self-confidence is not unreasonable. Despite being cavalry, they also took a loose charge in the limited combat width as much as possible. But Zuo Ma's dying struggle for a long time did not bring him the results he wanted. Under the dense crossfire, his decisive charge was no better than sending him to death.
His cavalry, albeit with maximum horse speed, tried to break through the opponent's position. But his remaining men, no matter how much they urged his mounts to make the final charge, did not even touch the edge of his opponent's position, and were beaten into honeycomb coal by the men and horses. What's more, they were beaten in two by the opponent's small-caliber artillery, which had an extremely fast rate of fire, even with men and horses.
At such a close distance, the crossfire of twin batteries of twenty-three-mm anti-aircraft guns, combined with fourteen-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, was absolutely the deadliest for any charging unit. A flat-firing 23-millimeter anti-aircraft shell can still maintain its penetrating power even after breaking the Japanese cavalry in two with men and horses, looking for the next unlucky.
And behind him, the anti-union tank group that caught up, in order to avoid accidentally injuring their own people, even the machine guns stopped firing. Relying on the impact of the tank, rampage back and forth on the battlefield to crush his rearguard troops. The cavalry behind him were knocked down by tanks one by one, and then crushed into mud by heavy tracks.
Under the attack from all sides, Zuo Jian Jiu was the last dying charge, and he passed away quietly without even a single blow. Three minutes after the final assault was launched, a fourteen-millimeter machine gun bullet opened a large skylight in his chest.
Like his subordinates who were either beaten into a pile of stumps and severed arms, or crushed into pulp, he fulfilled his wish to serve the country in seven lives. It's just that this guy's mount on a purebred Arabian horse escaped by luck and became the only survivor of this battle and the only prisoner of war.
After the last gunshot fell, Mu Changqiu put down the binoculars in his hand and coldly glanced at the battlefield full of mutilated corpses of people and horses, but he didn't even clean the battlefield. After sending someone to bring back the special prisoner of war, he turned all his troops on the spot and killed Guisui City behind him.
As for the remnants of the Japanese troops who were fighting fiercely with the 13th Regiment, he didn't even bother with them. The main force of the Japanese army has been eliminated on his side, and the remaining squadrons of Japanese troops, if the commander of the 13th Regiment cannot solve it with the cooperation of a tank company, then his regiment commander should be replaced.
Mu Changqiu, who was under Guisui City, cleanly solved the Fourth Brigade of the main cavalry of the Guisui Japanese army. And at this moment, on the city wall of Guisui, Lieutenant General Nishihara Kazuce, the commander of the cavalry group of the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia and Xinjiang, also put down the telescope in his hand almost at the same time, and was speechless for a long time in the face of a tragic battle situation, and did not slow down his strength for a long time.
He personally attended the joint operational meeting between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army at the end of last year, but he was quite unimpressed with the importance that General Okamura Ninji, then commander of the North China Front Army, attached to this army. In his opinion, the cavalry group in his hands was invincible.
Especially after the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, which was originally allocated to the command of the 12th Army, was rebuilt, his self-confidence more than doubled. In his eyes, not to mention the lack of guns and ammunition in Daqingshan, it doesn't matter what kind of resistance the alliance has repeatedly defeated the powerful Kwantung Army.
His cavalry swarm, no matter how tough the opponent, will also achieve ultimate victory. With the strong style left over from the Battle of Heitaigou during the Russo-Japanese War, his cavalry was fearless. This is also the main reason why he chose to take the initiative after the Anti-Japanese Federation broke into the suburbs of Guisui.
At this moment, his intestines are about to repent, and what he regrets most now is why he sent the Fourth Cavalry Brigade to abandon the fortified city and take the risk of attacking, but the result was that the whole army was destroyed. In this battle, he almost lost the main force of the defense of Guisui, and the remaining remnants of the army, under such a powerful attack of the opponent, how long can he hold out?
What can be done if the fortifications are strong and the walls are tall and thick? These fortifications need to be defended. Without the necessary troops, even a strong fortification would be of no use. What's more, the current opponent is not the enemy army in the Hetao area, which lacks heavy equipment.
The tactics are fierce and cunning, and the equipment is more advanced than you imagined. Their tanks were so strong that they couldn't even be destroyed by 75-millimeter field artillery shells at close range. What kind of army is this? It is a combination of ferocity and cunning. Coupled with advanced and powerful weapons and equipment, the cold wind is blowing on Nishihara's back.
And what he regrets even more now is why he disobeyed the order of the commander of the North China Front Army in the first place, did not give up Baotou, and concentrated all his forces on defense and returned to Sui. Now that the 4th Cavalry Brigade has been wiped out, he can't even make up a sufficient number of defenders to defend Guisui.
Now the Fourth Cavalry Brigade has been completely wiped out, and the main force of the First Brigade is far away on the front line of Baotou and Guyang. He had no soldiers in his hands, and he knew it clearly at the first time. Now this Guisui City, which has basically sung the empty city plan, I am afraid that it will not be able to hold it. The only difference is the length of time you have left to yourself.