After Major General Saburo Katayama made up his mind to retreat. But there was no panic. In order to cover his actions, before retreating, he concentrated almost all the forces at hand and made a beautiful counterattack against Tao Jingfei in the front. After forcibly repelling Tao Jingfei's left flank for nearly a mile, he forced Tao Jingfei to temporarily stop the counterattack and adjust the deployment before turning south.

"What, the main force of the devil ran away?" Hearing the report below, Du Kaishan, who was about to turn around and kill the past after completing the encirclement and annihilation of a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army in front of him, was taken aback. He didn't expect that the Japanese army, who had resisted so tenaciously before, would actually run away?

Saburo Katayama ran like this, leaving aside Du Kaishan, who was full of strength and was about to give him a fatal blow. However, Tao Jingfei, who counterattacked head-on, was entangled by the severed tail troops left by the Japanese army, and could only watch Saburo of Katayama Province run all the way to the south.

It's just that Major General Saburo of Katayama Province played Du Kaishan and Tao Jingfei once, and put the two aside. But the retreat still did not go well. After learning that the big fish in his hand was going to run away, Yang Zhen immediately sent out the cavalry battalion that had not participated in the battle since it was formed.

Since I finished training, because I haven't participated in the war, I have long had a lot of itching on my hands. Yu Wenchi, the former cavalry platoon commander of the Northwest Army who was killed by a Japanese plane and was captured in the Battle of Xuzhou Breakout, and the current commander of the cavalry battalion directly under the Jidong Military Region, received the order.

Although Saburo Katayama started early, in the plains, the two-legged infantry could not outrun the four-legged war horse in any case. Before Saburo of Katayama Province ran to the line of Wazitun, Yuwenchi's cavalry caught up. And the cavalry company, which had been harassing the Japanese retreat queue before, also launched an attack on it.

Saburo Katayama, who was flanked from front to back, looked at a large number of cavalry, but he did not panic. Because he knew that on the line of the Lianjiang estuary, which was not far from here, there was a force with two infantry brigades, one cavalry and one artillery brigade under the personal command of the commander of the Fourth Division, Shigeru Sawada, so that he could meet the Second Division at any time. As long as you rush to the front line of the Lianjiang estuary, you will be saved.

Major General Saburo Katayama Province left the troops of a squadron commanded by Koji Yashiki to withstand the onslaught of the cavalry, and he himself led the rest of the troops to urgently ask for help from Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, who was on the front line of the Hasue estuary at this time, and immediately shrank the rest of the troops to a high ground and put up desperate resistance.

He knew very well that in the plains, an infantry without heavy weapons competed with a large group of cavalry, whether it was to break through or retreat, it was to seek death. The two-legged infantry could not outrun the highly mobile cavalry in any case. Once caught up by it, it doesn't take one more charge to crush your own troops. And the Fourth Division has a cavalry brigade on the front line of the Lianjiang Estuary, as long as they can rush over, they will be saved.

Looking at the oncoming Yayin Koji, the corners of Yu Wenze's mouth showed a smile of contempt, raised the Soviet-style cavalry knife in his hand and then faced the two submachine guns behind him, and also held high the Soviet-style saber cavalry and said: "Brothers, today is the first time our cavalry battalion has opened, if we can't take this group of little devils, what face do we have to meet the infantry brothers?" Come, let's let the little devil see what is called Chinese cavalry. ”

The words fell, and Yu Wenze took the lead in rushing out with the reins. Behind him, the cavalry, which was mainly composed of cadres from the cavalry of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, also rushed forward without showing weakness. A distance of several hundred meters, under the full speed of the war horse, is there in the blink of an eye. The Japanese only had time to fire two or three shots, and Yuwenze's cavalry had already rushed forward with either sabers or submachine guns.

In the end, it was the veteran division of the Japanese army, seeing that the cavalry rushing towards him had rushed in front of him, but he did not see a trace of panic, and they all brought their bayonets closer together, forming a dense formation, and put out a bayonet formation ready for hand-to-hand combat.

Although Yashiki Koji has never been a cavalryman, he also knows that if he fights separately in the plains, he can only let the family chop alive with a saber one by one. The only way is for everyone to lean together, shrink into a hedgehog, use a rifle with a good bayonet, instead of the spear of the ancient infantry cavalry, and use the tactics of the ancients to deal with cavalry to fight the opponent.

Seeing the Japanese army shrink into a ball, when he rushed to a place less than 30 meters away from the Japanese bayonet array, Yu Wenze did not rush over, but took the reins of his horse and drew a circle outside the bayonet formation formed by the Japanese army.

After bypassing the front of the bayonet formation formed by the Japanese army, Yu Wenze took out the fast and slow machine on his body and fired a burst of shots, and shouted to the brothers behind him: "Don't fight hard with the devils, the formation of the devils is too dense, and we will suffer if we rush hard." ”

"If you stay in a company, let's give them a pestering fight, and greet them with grenades at a distance from the periphery and with a submachine gun when they are close. Keep your distance and don't get hurt by mistake. Scattered them first, and then launched a charge. The second company bypassed them and went to chase the main force of the little devils. To meet with Sanlian, we are going to serve this little devil in one pot this time. ”

Hearing his order, the cavalry under his command turned their horses' heads one after another, formed in squads and platoons, and fought quickly from time to time outside the bayonet formation formed by the Japanese army. After avoiding the front of the Japanese bayonet array, these cavalrymen either pulled out their grenades and swept wildly, or they raised their submachine guns and swept wildly.

His adjustment of tactics can make Yayin Koji miserable. Originally, in order to deal with Yu Wenze's charge, the Japanese troops who had been gathered together were constantly knocked down by submachine gun bullets from all sides. The grenades that Yang Zhen equipped the cavalry with were all imitation Soviet-made F1 grenades.

Although these self-made grenades have a reduced charge, their lethality is reduced compared to the original ones, which have a lethality of up to 40 meters. However, the number of fragments produced after the explosion has increased significantly.

Dealing with such a dense formation discharged by the Japanese army, the lethal power of this grenade is amazing. A grenade that fell into the formation of a Japanese army could knock down, kill and injure more than a dozen people, or even more. Coupled with the submachine guns and fast and slow machine bullets that were swept over intensively, the Japanese army was knocked down, and it didn't take much effort, and Yashiki Koji couldn't stand the casualties of continuing to gather together.

Despite being well aware of his opponent's extremely immoral and samurai-like tactical intentions, Yashiki Koji had to break up the dense formation that had been formed to counter the cavalry charge. If they don't disperse again, under the flanking attack of the opponent's submachine guns and the rain of grenades, it won't take more than ten minutes for their own troops to be left.

Seeing that the formation of the Japanese army was disrupted by himself, Yu Wenze, who knew that the time to charge had arrived, carried a fast and slow machine in one hand, hung a saber in the other, and tightly clamped the war horse under him with his legs, and shouted: "Cavalry battalion, attack", without waiting for the words to fall, he had already taken the lead in rushing into the Japanese army. The left-hand fast and slow machine, the right-hand saber rushed back and forth in the scattered Japanese army formation. Those who are far away are struck with guns, and those who are near are slashed with knives.

By his side, his subordinates did not show weakness. With the saber in his hand, he quickly harvested the lives of the Japanese soldiers. These cavalrymen did not fight hard with the Japanese soldiers. After they first used submachine guns to disperse the Japanese soldiers who had gathered into a small group of three or four people at the risk of death, they unhurriedly cut off the heads of the Japanese soldiers one by one with the sabers in their hands.

This can hardly be called a battle, it can be described as a one-sided one-sided massacre. Under the repeated charging and killing of the cavalry, the Japanese troops, who were almost powerless to fight back, were killed within half an hour as if they had been chopped vegetables and melons. That Yayin Koji Shaozo was personally cut off by Yu Wenze.

After cleanly killing the embers of the squadron left by the Japanese army to delay him, Yu Wenze did not hesitate to chase down the direction of the main force with a company left behind. When they arrived at the remnants of Major General Saburo Katayama Province, which had been besieged by his two companies on a small high ground, he was just in time to catch up with the main force besieging Saburo Katayama Province, under the command of Instructor Qu Xiangdong, to use the fire cover of four 60-mm mortars and six heavy machine guns belonging to the cavalry battalion to launch a charge against the Japanese troops on the high post.

Seeing this, Yu Wenze, who was far from being killed before, rolled up his sleeves and was about to join the war. But he didn't want to be pulled by Qu Xiangdong, and he didn't let him participate in the war, so he commanded on the spot. When the two of them were pulling, a cavalryman hurried over and said, "Battalion commander, instructor, we have found a large number of Japanese cavalry in the south, and they are hurrying towards the battlefield. Its strength is roughly estimated to be around one brigade. ”

Hearing the report, the two immediately stopped arguing. After glancing at each other, Qu Xiangdong spoke first: "Battalion commander, you command here, and I'll take a company to take a look." Remember, if you still disobey the orders of the headquarters, lose your command position, and go down to kill without permission, I will report to the headquarters truthfully after the battle. ”

As soon as Qu Xiangdong's words came out, Yu Wenze, who had just ignored it, and almost didn't even turn his face with Qu Xiangdong, immediately wilted. Qu Xiangdong was an old political worker transferred from Guannai in the end, and his focus was extremely accurate, and he immediately grasped Yu Wenze's weakness.

Yang Zhen repeatedly told Yu Wenze when he was about to go out to battle in the cavalry battalion that he would never allow him to just want to be happy, lose his command position, and go to the front line to fight by himself. In addition to repeatedly emphasizing his order to Yu Wenze, Yang Zhen also told Qu Xiangdong that he must keep a firm look at this guy. If Yu Wenze disobeys the order, he will be severely punished after the war.

Looking at Yu Wenze, who didn't come down honestly until he heard what he was going to report to the headquarters, Qu Xiangdong, who was not very relieved, told the deputy battalion commander Zhang Guixian to watch him, if Zhang Xiangui intended to cover up, as long as he knew that he would definitely give the most severe punishment, he would take a company to meet the direction of the cavalry of the Japanese brigade.

After Qu walked eastward, Yu Wenze dragged Zhang Xiangui with some reluctance and said, "Brother, give face." The height of this high ground occupied by the little devil is less than 30 meters, and the slope is not large. We can rush up with one charge, I'll go up and fight for a while, as long as your brother doesn't tell the truth, when the instructor comes back, our side is already over, and he can't find anything. ”

Looking at Yu Wenze, who was a little restless and scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, he was born in the Fifth Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and worked as a cavalry squad leader in the old Northeast Army, Zhang Xiangui, who had a very generous temperament, said with a smile: "Battalion commander, the instructor is not wrong. You are the highest commander of our battalion, you rushed up, in case of a mistake, what will the troops do? ”

"You are the commander, and your position is that you should be at your command post and command the whole battalion to fight, not to go to the front line to rush and kill. Besides, you can see the tone of the instructor when he leaves. If I really let you go, I'll be miserable if he finds out. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xiangui smiled honestly and said: "Battalion commander, the little devil here is only one squadron of troops, even if you go up, you won't have much fun." Didn't you just hear that a cavalry brigade of devils came over there? Don't worry, there will be a time when you will have a good time killing. ”

"Now if you disobey the orders of the headquarters, go to the battlefield in private, and if the headquarters knows, you will be transferred back to the rear. When the time comes, you'll lose a lot of money. I know you don't care about your position, but now that our battle is getting bigger and bigger, it's you in the future."

Hearing Zhang Xiangui's persuasion, Yu Wenze scratched his head and said, "Old Zhang, you don't know, I haven't killed devils on horseback for more than a year, and it's always itchy at hand." I finally waited for this opportunity, and it was too disturbing to see that the devil couldn't kill him. Grandma's, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's big leopard horse being killed by the little devil's plane, Lao Tzu was also stunned, how could Lao Tzu be a prisoner like this? ”

"When I see these little devils raised by bitches now, I think of my big leopard horse. It was a fine meandering horse, with great sprint power and spirituality. He saved my life several times on the battlefield and was like a family member to me. Damn didn't die on the battlefield, but died under the plane of the little devil. They were so tired that Lao Tzu suffered so much in their prisoner of war camp. ”

"Lao Zhang, you are from the Anti-Japanese Federation, and you have never squatted in a prisoner of war camp for little devils. You don't know, the little devils don't treat us captives as human beings at all. The wounded fell into their hands, and almost none of them survived. When the recruits came, they randomly pulled out a group of prisoners of war from the prisoner of war camp and gave the recruits to practice assassination and strengthen their courage. ”

"When those devil officers are happy, they will practice what kind of knife skills with prisoners of war. If you are not happy, you will also be discouraged by the prisoners of war. They all say that hell is terrifying, but we haven't seen it with our own eyes. But the prisoner of war camp for the little devils is even more terrifying than hell for us Chinese soldiers. Of my more than 300 brothers who were taken prisoner, I am now alone. Either he was tortured to death, or he was picked by the little devil with a bayonet. ”

"But seeing these little devils in front of me, I can't go into battle in person, to avenge those brothers who died innocently in their hands, as well as my big leopard flower horse, this heart is extremely aggrieved. I really can't wait to cut these devil soldiers alive with a knife to relieve the hatred in my heart. ”

After saying this, I remembered my beloved horse, my brothers who died innocently under the bayonets of the Japanese army in the Japanese prisoner of war camp, and I remembered the suffering I suffered there. Yu Wenze stared at the last remnants of the Japanese Second Division on the high post with red eyes, and the saber in his hand was clutched.

Looking at Yu Wenze, whose eyes were red, Zhang Xiangui just wanted to persuade him. Unexpectedly, before he could say his words, he was interrupted by a report from a cavalry correspondent who hurried over and went down to the southeast.

Hearing the report of this cavalry communicator, Qu Xiangdong encountered the Japanese cavalry brigade north from the mouth of the Lianjiang River, and the news that a fierce battle had begun, knowing that something must have happened to Qu Xiangdong, otherwise that stubborn guy would definitely not send someone to ask for help from him, Yu Wenze, said to Zhang Xiangui without the slightest hesitation: "Old Zhang, it seems that the instructor is in trouble." He was a cavalry company, and his strength was too thin. The devil has a cavalry brigade. ”

"In this case, I will leave you a company. You don't have to rush to eat them, just keep an eye on these little devils and don't let them run. According to the time calculation, the main force is estimated to be about to arrive, and since they are infantry, they will be handed over to the infantry to solve. I took a platoon from the second company and the heavy machine gun company to pick up the instructors. ”