Chapter 42: Infantry Battle
The open terrain east of Macheng is very conducive to the charge of the cavalry, and the cavalry behind them is rushing faster and faster, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves is getting louder and louder, and the eardrums of people are sore and their scalps are numb. "Mother" Yu Shuigen who was running looked back, and the cavalry who was chasing after him had raised the snowy saber, and the snowy blade emitted a dazzling cold light reflected under the light of the rising sun, which made the world a solemn slaughter, Yu Shuigen sat on the ground with a buttocks, and his crotch was already incontinent as soon as he urinated on the hot crotch.
"We can't run anymore, if we run any longer, none of us will survive." Panting, the hemp head suddenly stopped, looking left and right, desperately looking for a place to hide in battle. Matou's soldiers were all stupid there, and only a few veterans who were familiar with Matou still kept their composure. "Follow me" Ma Tou moved, and the soldiers behind him followed him to a dirt ditch not far to the left.
Strictly speaking, the soil ditch found by Ma Tou is not a ravine, but in fact it is just a shallow ditch formed after the rain washes the ground, and it must not provide enough cover for Ma Tou, at most it is safer than Ma Tou and them lying on the surface of the ground. "What the fuck are you doing? Bullets are loaded. Ma Tou shouted at his men as he pulled the bullet bridge from the bullet pouch. As he spoke, the cavalry in his sight was already very close, close enough that he could make Ma Tou see the rider on horseback clearly.
"This fucking isn't a ghost soldier" Seeing the black shirts of the riders on the horseback, the pockmarks in the ditch were a little stunned, looking at the horse team with more than 70 riders, there was not a single figure wearing the Japanese military uniform, and the pockmarked eyes were full of the black outfits of the riders. Ma Tou was not the only one who came back to his senses, Yu Shuigen, who was pulled into the ditch by his companions, was the first to react among the remaining people.
"Squad leader, it's not a ghost soldier, you see, it's not a ghost soldier." Yu Shuigen, who woke up, was overjoyed, and just wanted to sit up straight, but was slapped by the pockmarked hand lying next to him. Yu Shuigen, who had been slapped by Ma Tou, fell crookedly into the ditch, and Ma Tou, who glared at him fiercely, took out a grenade from his back waist and held it in his hand.
"If you don't want to die, press the bullet for Lao Tzu and take out the grenade." Ma Tou shouted and pulled the bolt to point the muzzle of the gun at the rushing horse team, and his soldiers immediately raised their rifles. When the saber-wielding cavalry came within range of the rifle, Ma Tou shouted and pulled the trigger, and the soldiers around him also opened fire at the same time. The scorching bullets that came out of the chamber of the guns flew by, and the horses that rushed to the front of the horse team fell to the ground neighing in an instant, and the riders on horseback were also overturned to the ground.
Ma Tou held his rifle and fired again and again, while shouting at the soldiers around him: "I am still stunned about anything, I have shot at the horse." Ma Tou was illiterate, and he didn't know the truth that Lu Dao shoots people and shoots horses first, but he knows that the goal of Lu Dao horses is far greater than that of a rider on horseback. Compared to the inaccurate marksmanship of his soldiers, Matou was more willing to shoot at the horses.
Yu Shuigen, who was crooked in the ditch, picked up Hanyangzao at his feet like waking up from a dream and pulled the trigger, Yu Shuigen was stunned for a moment, and the horse team had already rushed up like the wind. When Yu Shuigen's rifle fired, the rider closest to him was only a dozen meters away, so that Yu Shuigen could clearly see the expression on the other party's face. "Grenades, throw grenades." Seeing that the horse team was getting closer and closer to his side, the pockmarked face showed a miserable smile, he no longer expected his people to escape, he only wanted the grenade explosion to be heard by the patrol outside the city.
"Boom" "Boom" Seven or eight grenades that were thrown almost simultaneously exploded in the horse team, and the horses overturned by the gas and shrapnel neighed and fell, and the riders on horseback were either hit by shrapnel and fell off the horse when they exploded, or they fell to the ground with the horses under their crotches, and then were engulfed in the thick smoke of the explosion. There were only seven or eight grenades thrown by Ma Tou, Yu Shuigen and several other soldiers were already dumbfounded, they did not throw grenades out of the same way as Ma Tou and them, and when they were about to throw grenades, the horse team that rushed out of the smoke had already appeared in front of them.
On horseback, a rider slashed at Yu Shuigen's neck with a sabre diagonally, and with the speed of the horse's sprint, the rider wielding the saber did not need to exert force at all, and the sharp saber that flashed with cold light could easily cut off a person's neck. Yu Shuigen, who had already half-straightened up and was about to throw a bomb, wanted to dodge, but his body was soft and he didn't obey the call at all, he could only watch the other party's saber slash over, "poof" Yu Shuigen's neck was hot, and the saber with a slip of blood had already swept over his neck.
Yu Shuigen's body still maintained a raised posture, but most of his neck had been opened by the saber, and the cervical arteries and throat were almost all severed, leaving the cervical vertebrae barely supporting his head. Time seemed to stand still in Ma Tou's eyes, and he watched Yu Shuigen's body spin and fall into the ditch, and the blood spurting from Yu Shuigen's neck instantly stained the soil under him.
Yu Shuigen, who was cut half of his neck by a saber, did not die immediately, Yu Shuigen, who was crooked in the ditch, opened and closed his mouth silently, and clumps of blood began to gush out from the wound on his neck. His mouth was closed, and he wanted to say a few words to Ma Tou at the end of his life, but because his throat had been cut, he could only open his mouth but could not make any sound. As Yu Shuigen's limbs twitched less and less, his eyes began to drift, until his hands and feet stopped twitching, Yu Shuigen finally swallowed the last breath.
Ma Tou, who had dodged the first round of hand-to-hand slashing by the horse team, lay down beside Mizune, splashed with salty blood, and Ma Tou pulled out the 20 shell guns on his waist and roared hoarsely, while raising his gun to fire a series of strafing at the riders who were wielding knives. The grenades they threw just now were not completely ineffective, the dozen horses that were overturned on the ground by the explosion of the grenades became obstacles to the horse team, and the seemingly strong horse team had been cut in two by the horses that had fallen to the ground, and the riders who rushed to Ma Tou and slashed with knives were only a dozen people, and the rest of the riders were blocked on the side of the dead horse.
"Da Da" Ma Tou emptied the magazines of 2 shell guns in a row before he could knock down the dozen or so riders who swung and slashed them from their horses, but there were only 7 of the dozen soldiers under his command now. "Shoot, shoot, don't stop, the patrol will be able to hear the explosion just now, we just need to hold on until reinforcements arrive, and shoot as many horses as we can." Even Matou himself didn't believe the words he shouted, but the situation was already like this, and they who couldn't escape had to fight to the death.
, The remaining 7 people are all veterans who have experienced bloody battles, as a veteran, they have seen too much killing and blood, and the hemp head secretly bit his lip, even if he dies, he has to face the enemy. 7 people faced more than 100 cavalry, although they were not afraid, but this was destined to be a battle with a huge disparity in strength, in the face of the rushing horse team, even if he was determined to fight to the death here Ma Tou couldn't help but stiffen his body.
Facing the horse team that had already rushed in front of him, Ma Tou threw the most stubble grenade from his back and yelled, "Brothers, fight with them." "Fight, fight," the few remaining veterans responded hoarsely and threw grenades, and a series of fireballs rising in front of the ditch swallowed a dozen of the opposing horse's horses into flames. The horse team has not revealed their identities since they appeared, and the riders on horseback did not shout like they did when they charged or slashed with their sabers, so they still don't know who these guys are when they fight with the horse team.
Cavalry has always been the king of the battlefield before the hot weapons are equipped with a large number of troops, and in the face of the cavalry's strong high-speed movement ability and impact power, it is difficult for the infantry on the battlefield to resist the impact of cavalry. The emergence of hot weapons, especially the emergence of machine guns, changed the dominant position of cavalry on the battlefield, in the face of dense rain of bullets from machine guns, the huge cavalry was almost powerless, even if the rider on horseback was not shot, but as long as the horse under their crotch was shot and fell, the cavalry lost the ability to move and the strong impact force relative to the infantry.
Ma Tou also wished he had a machine gun at hand, but he didn't, all he had was a Mauser rifle and a bayonet, and after all the grenades were thrown out, Ma Tou and the others were left with only rifles and bayonets. "Pap" "Pap" in the opposite horse team finally had a rider dismount and shoot at Matou, as more and more people from the other side joined the shooting, there were only 3 people left around Matou.
The gunshots rang out, the snow swords swung down, the blood rushed out with the blade, and Ma Tou and the three soldiers under him fell one by one. The hemp head whose shoulder was shaved off a piece of flesh by the saber fell on his back in the ditch, his eyes were unwilling to look at the sky, and the horse's hooves the size of a bowl had fallen.
"Yang Sang, I am very disappointed in the combat effectiveness of your subordinates, only one squad of Chinese soldiers blocked the charge of your 120 cavalry. It's too bad, if such combat effectiveness is in our imperial army, I'm afraid that even the heavy soldiers who burn the fire and cook are stronger than them. Araki Hero, who had already untied the cloth on his face, put down the binoculars in his hand, and then looked back at Yang Tianlei who came from behind.