A certain cavalry regiment of the enemy was stationed, and the regiment commander was eating, when suddenly a messenger ran in: "Report to the regiment commander, the food supply depot of our regiment has been attacked by the communist army, and the defenders call for help." ”

The enemy regiment commander hurriedly got up and came to the phone of the regiment headquarters and asked the company commander on the phone: "Don't panic, how many people are there in the communist army?" What troops? Let's go through the situation. ”

The enemy company commander on the phone said: "Regiment commander, there are probably hundreds of communist troops, many of them are wearing steel helmets, and now they have surrounded us, I estimate that these communist troops are coming for our food, if you come late, we will be finished." ”

The commander of the enemy regiment who put down the phone thought in circles in the command headquarters: The main force of the communist army is in the area of Huanxian, and I have not heard that there are other Eighth Route troops in this area, there are hundreds of people and a large number of steel helmets, it seems that this is the communist army unit that ambushed our fourth regiment last time.

To go or not to go, if you don't go to the grain, it's all over, it's too difficult to raise grain in this ** Longdong area, the people have been red by the Communist Party, and you can't get a grain of grain from the hands of the local people, these grains are brought from Ningxia, which is the lifeblood of the army.

If you go for reinforcements, will you be able to defeat this communist army? Last time, the Fourth Regiment suffered a big loss because it was caught off guard by the communist troops who were ambushed on both sides because of its march in Chuandao, and more than 1,000 people only ran out of more than 100 people.

We are a regiment of cavalry, with more than 1,200 people, and we can't defeat this communist army of several hundred people in the plains? Knowing that the grain station was besieged by hundreds of communist troops but not daring to save it would be too cowardly, if other troops knew that they were the regiment commander, how could they be? Even if you let Shangfeng know, you won't let yourself go.

Thinking of this, the commander of the enemy regiment shouted the whole regiment to assemble, and in twenty minutes the enemy's cavalry regiment was assembled.

The commander of the enemy regiment shouted at the front of the ranks: "Brothers, there is a small group of communist troops attacking our grain station, and the brothers guarding the grain station are waiting for us to rescue them.

The enemy's cavalry streamed out from the garrison, and the enemy soldiers in the ranks inquired about each other's news, and some asked: "Where did the communist troops come from?" When there was news, the spirit said, "Do you know about the last time the four regiments were killed?" I heard that the one who surrounded the grain station was the communist army. ”

The surrounding soldiers asked with fear on their faces: "My eyelids jumped when I heard you say this, this communist army is too powerful, can we go today?" Why didn't the regiment commander bring the other regiments over and go with him? ”

The soldier who spoke first said, "Are you stupid? The other regiments all live in Qingyang City, and there is only one of our regiments outside the city, and when they arrive at the Communist Army, they will run away early, and then there will be a Communist army of several hundred people, can our regiment commander be embarrassed to ask for reinforcements? ”

The cavalry of a regiment ran up and made a loud sound, the horses' hooves rumbled on the ground, and the soldiers of the special service company knew that it was the enemy's large army that came without a sentry report.

Feeling that the enemy had entered the effective range of the rifle at 400 meters, Li Yong ordered the soldiers with rifles in their hands to open fire, and the characteristic of fighting cavalry was that it could not be put too close, and it was best to kill a large number of people at a long distance, so as to avoid the cavalry rushing to the front with speed.

With Li Yong's order, hundreds of rifles opened fire in unison, and Li Yong ran back and forth in the trench to tell the soldiers that the enemy would hit them with rifles when they entered the firing range, and that they could shoot at the large group of men and horses without aiming too carefully.

In fact, fire at 400 meters, there is nothing to aim, the speed of the horse is very fast, far away, it is useless to aim, the best way is to increase the rate of fire of the rifle, use the random gun to kill as much as possible, the old rifle in the hands of the soldiers does not have a semi-automatic shooting function, each shot must be manually pushed and loaded.

Seeing that Li Yong asked everyone not to aim too carefully, it was not easy to do, just shoot at the brigade indiscriminately, the new soldiers didn't feel anything, this order is easy to execute, like Li Jiangguo and Zhang Jinsong and other old soldiers sighed: Hey, I didn't expect our Eighth Road to be so rich, I really haven't fought a battle before that I didn't shoot without aiming, and this time I saw it with the company commander.

Li Yong then told the light machine gun not to fire less than 100 meters, and the submachine gun not to fire less than 50 meters.

Then he ran to the second line of trenches to tell the machine gun platoon of Wei Gang, and the enemy came into range of one hundred and fifty meters with heavy machine gun fire, and opened fire with rifles before entering this distance.

The enemy cavalry who was running was beaten down dozens of times by the spy company, and the enemy in front quickly retreated and reported to the enemy's regimental commander that there was an ambush of communist troops in front.

The regiment commander looked at an officer next to him with a telescope and said, "It seems that there can be hundreds of people, but this formation is not very good, and we can be blocked with two trenches?" The communist army underestimated us too much. ”

The enemy officer replied: "Regiment commander, we must not be careless, this communist army is not easy to deal with, I estimate that the communist army has other methods that have not yet been used, should we use a company to try it?" ”

The enemy's regiment commander nodded and shouted: "Company commander, take you to charge for a while." ”

As soon as the enemy's regimental commander finished speaking, a company of Kuomintang cavalrymen brandished their sabers and rushed towards the position of the special service company with a shout.

Li Yong knew that it was the enemy's tentative charge, and when he saw that the enemy had entered within 400 meters, he immediately ordered the troops to open fire, and the volley of several hundred rifles was fired, and the enemy's cavalry continued to fall from their horses, and the enemy who was not shot continued to rush towards the position of the special service company.

Within 300 meters, a violent explosion suddenly sounded, booming, booming, and the grenades buried in the ground of the spy company were sounded by the hooves of the war horses, and the huge power of the cluster grenades blew down the enemy's cavalry piece by piece, and five or six war horses were blown down by the explosion of each bundle of grenades, and only a dozen of the enemy's more than 100 people ran back in the continuous explosions.

The commander of the enemy regiment suddenly realized: "I said that why the communist army dared to fight against us in the plain area, it turned out that a large number of mines were laid, and the communist army set up a mine formation with me." ”

With mines, can't we rush through: "Second company commander, take your company to continue to rush, pay attention to rush in for me along the place where the first company of war horses have passed." ”

Another company of enemy cavalry rushed over, and just like last time, entering the effective range of the rifle Li Yong ordered the troops to open fire, and the cavalry of a company of the enemy ran back in the continuous fire of hundreds of rifles and the explosion of grenades, but this time because the enemy's cavalry rushed along the place where the enemy's horses had traveled last time, the forward had already rushed to a place more than 100 meters away from the ditch.

An officer next to the enemy's regimental commander said: "Regiment commander, last time I heard the brothers of the Fourth Regiment who ran back say that the communist army has a large number of automatic weapons, and now we have rushed twice, why haven't we seen the communist army use it, I haven't heard the sound of any automatic weapons firing, is there any other trick that the communist army has not used?" ”

The enemy commander thought for a while and said: "Brother, you are too worried, the communist army is difficult to supply for long-distance marches, although the automatic weapons are fierce, but also consume a lot of ammunition, although we took advantage of a lot of capture last time, but most of our cavalry use rifles, and the ammunition of the communist army is not much supplement, I think they are short of ammunition, so they use rifles and mines to deal with us, but although the rifles of the communist army are nothing, but the mines are too powerful, We've rushed in twice, and there are almost 200 brothers in it, but we still haven't rushed up, so let's see what we can do to break the mines of the communist army? ”

At this time, an enemy officer said: "Regiment commander, don't you think this will work, didn't the communist army bury a large number of mines, let's change the cavalry into infantry this time, let the brothers dismount, and then let the horses out, let the war horses go to the mines empty, although it is a pity, but it is much better than the brothers using people to go to the mines, we can replenish the horses after they die, if the brothers are dead, it is not easy to replenish." ”