The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 507 The First Battle of the Advanced Cavalry Company ([-])

The battlefield at this moment belongs to the confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army.

The firepower confrontation between the two sides was originally based on the excellent equipment and sufficient ammunition of the Independent Regiment today, if the dozens of artillery carried by the Devil Artillery Squadron were not counted. (The artillery squad under the Devil's Brigade is naturally not included.)
The firepower configuration of the first battalion and the second battalion even has an advantage over the Japanese army.

According to the firepower configuration standard of the Japanese infantry squad, which is the smallest combat unit commonly used by the Japanese army.

The standard strength of a squad is between fifty and seventy people.

The main firepower is concentrated on the three light machine guns and three grenades equipped.

And this still belongs to the stronger army combat squad of the Japanese army.

For a second-rate Japanese combat unit like this one used to stay in the county to guard the law and order, a team is equipped with less than three light machine guns and grenades.

And what about the independent group today?

With the rapid development of equipment in the past year or so, the weapon repair shop in the regiment can still produce some munitions by itself, coupled with the seizures obtained from frequent battles with the Japanese army, and the 57th regiment of the Jinsui Army. equipment.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the Independent Regiment, today's light machine guns and grenades can be assigned to squad combat units.

That is to say, a squad is equipped with twelve soldiers as standard, and will be equipped with a light machine gun and a small [-] cannon. The range of the [-] small cannon with propellant packs is farther than the devil's grenadier .

In addition, some enhanced squads will also be equipped with a grenade launcher, six-shot grenade, or a Jin-made submachine gun.

The first battalion led by Wang Leihu and the second battalion led by Shen Quan are two old battalions of the independent regiment.

The firepower configuration in the battalion is the most powerful. This time, five hundred elites from the battalion were gathered to fight. Originally, they wanted to use the suppression of firepower to destroy the Japanese and puppet troops.

The firepower configuration at hand of the soldiers can almost be said to be armed to the teeth.

At the beginning of the firepower confrontation between the two sides, Nobuyoshi Mishima and Hideo Murai were also taken aback.

The firepower of the Eighth Route Army was so strong that it suppressed him for a while, and the imperial troops could not raise their heads.

If it weren't for the two brigades this time, an additional artillery squadron was strengthened, carrying more than a dozen artillery pieces, including infantry artillery and mountain artillery.

Nobuyoshi Mishima and Hideo Murai even suspected that relying on the powerful firepower of the ambushing Eighth Route Army, they could severely damage the imperial troops who came to aid.

"Most of them are the regular army of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. The firepower configuration of this independent regiment belongs to the top team in the Eighth Route Army!"

Said the devil's adjutant crawling not far from Hideo Murai.

Hideo Murai had an idea, and immediately issued an order to let the grenadier unit quickly throw smoke bombs towards the Eighth Route Army's position.

The smoke bombs that were projected quickly released billowing smoke in the positions defended by the first and second battalions of the independent regiment.

Hideo Murai's purpose was very clear, to cover the Eighth Route Army's attack vision with smoke, so as to weaken the aggressiveness of the Eighth Route Army's powerful firepower.

Then, taking the opportunity to disassemble and carry the artillery of the artillery squadron, quickly assemble them, use the artillery to bombard the Eighth Route Army's fortifications, press the cover team up, and use the advantage of troops to wipe out the Eighth Route Army in front of them in one fell swoop.

But Hideo Murai underestimated the reaction speed of Shen Quanyu and Wang Leihu too much. These two veteran battalion commanders of the Eighth Route Army knew what the devil was up to when they saw the devil use a smoke bomb.

Shen Quan shouted: "Artillery, immediately throw smoke bombs, grenades and rifle grenades are ready to attack!"

Wang Leihu followed closely and gave similar instructions.

Isn't it just a smoke bomb!
You little devil has it, and our independent regiment also has it, and our independent regiment also has signal flares to guide the artillery strikes!

You devil throws a smoke bomb, then we will deal with him in the same way.

The devils deserved to be wiped out here, so they used smoke bombs actively. Once the troops were enveloped and their vision was blocked, it would be easier for the cavalry company to raid.

The grenades bombarded by the two sides began to be mixed with the drop of smoke bombs.

After a large number of smoke bombs fell to the ground, the dense smoke that was emitted quickly enveloped the fortifications of the two sides together.

For a moment, in this plain area surrounded by mountains, two puffs of thick smoke enveloped the two squares, separated by a distance of two 300 meters.

And within two or three hundred distances of the battle between the two sides, there were puppet troops lying on the ground.

The head of the puppet army, who was at the rear of the puppet army camp and was in charge of leading the team, secretly complained.

The Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army were fighting each other. Both of them were uncles, but he was suffering from the puppet army. In the middle of the firepower confrontation between the two sides, they dared not stand up at all.

The devils are not at all afraid of accidentally injuring their puppet troops.

Not to mention the Eighth Route Army, the flying bullets, you can never guess when it will shoot over, and then wipe off your scalp.

Raise your head a little bit, and your life will be gone.

"Tuan Zuo, what should we do now? The firepower of the two sides is too fierce."

The adjutant of the puppet army lay dead on the ground, almost sticking his mouth to the dirt and shouting.

The head of the puppet army gritted his teeth. He knew that if he didn't make up his mind, once a decisive battle broke out between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, they, the puppet army in the middle, would probably be in danger.

"I can't help it, tell my brothers, if you don't want to die, just stick to the ground and climb out from both sides. As long as you climb out of the fire coverage of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, we will be safe."

"Yes!" The adjutant responded quickly.

It's just that the firepower coverage of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army is too large, and it would be too slow to just crawl forward as if sticking to the ground.

As time passed, seeing the smoke bombs thrown by both sides completely cover each other's positions, the puppet regiment commander noticed that the firepower of both sides had weakened, and shouted: "Run!"

Live in danger.

The head of the puppet army yelled, greeted the guards around him, and all fled horizontally to the right.

Seeing that there was a chance of survival, the other soldiers of the puppet army scrambled to keep up, and some even lost their weapons.

To say that the judgment of the puppet army commander is really good.

The smoke completely enveloped the positions of the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army. After the vision of both sides was temporarily blocked, the firepower of both sides stopped temporarily.

Commanders on both sides were well aware that, in the circumstances at hand, continuing to fire would be a sheer waste of ammunition.

Just taking advantage of this gap, when the firepower was sparse, after the commander of the puppet army gave the order, the puppet troops who had been sandwiched between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army quickly withdrew from the two wings, but a large part of them escaped, and some of them escaped. In the process of getting up and fleeing, he was shot down by bullets from both sides.

As for whether it was the Eighth Route Army or the devils, that is unknown.

At the same time, just after the large cloud of smoke completely enveloped the Japanese troops.

Sun Desheng and Chen Dalian, who had been hiding at the foot of the surrounding mountains for a long time, observed the combat situation of the two sides with binoculars, and immediately issued a combat order.

The assault force, composed of eighty light cavalry, took the lead in launching the offensive.

The cavalry soldiers of the stormtroopers, who had been ready to go for a long time, raised their whips in silence, and the painful horse let out a low sound. Under the cover of the deafening gunfire, it was like a silent sharp arrow, and they rushed together at a speed as fast as lightning. run out.

The pincers on both wings quickly followed.

The eighty cavalry of the stormtroopers did not line up in a row, but after rushing out, they quickly opened the offensive line in a fan-shaped formation, facing the Japanese army and placing them behind the team, which was two hundred away from the front-line combat troops. Laimi's artillery unit rushed forward.

At this time, the artillery unit behind the devil was also shrouded in smoke under the bombardment of the long-range smoke bombs deliberately commanded by Shen Quan and Wang Leihu.

Under the cover of the sound of artillery and smoke, the devils of the artillery unit behind the Japanese army did not notice the cavalry unit raiding from the back for a short time.

However, some puppet troops who took the opportunity to escape from the two wings were the first to discover the cavalry unit of the Eighth Route Army that came from the back of the Japanese army.

The war horse galloped like a gust of wind and lightning. The old war horse seemed to feel the fighting spirit of the owner on the horseback. At the explosive speed, the speed was even close to 20 meters per second.

The distance of seven to eight hundred meters was shortened by one-third in an instant.

The puppet regiment commander was horrified. He immediately realized the cunning tactics of the Eighth Route Army.

But no matter how loud he yelled, in this noisy environment, the sound was only vaguely and indistinctly conveyed.

On the other side, Nobuyoshi Mishima, the leader of the Devil Battalion, commanded his brigade. Taking advantage of the smoke covering the Eighth Route Army's fortifications, he used grenadier fire to cover it. After a round of shelling, he directly gave the order to charge.

Murai Hideo tacitly commanded the remaining troops as a reserve force, and moved forward at the same time.

When the battle broke out, the front of the puppet army was only about 150 meters away from the Eighth Route Army.

The front of the Japanese army is about 300 meters away from the Eighth Route Army.

So this 300 meters is the charging distance after the Japanese army launched an attack.

Mishima Nobuyuki, who possesses a considerable samurai spirit, firmly believes that with the help of smoke bombs, the charge distance is only 300 meters, and his offensive troops are enough to break through the Eighth Route Army's fortifications before the smoke is blown away by the wind.

After all, there is a flat plain in front of us, and the fortifications built by the Eighth Route Army are just some low and shallow ditches, without much defense at all.

For Shen Quan and Wang Leihu, after the smoke bombs covered the Japanese military fortifications, the two battalion commanders issued an order to cease fire.

Shooting blindly is a waste of ammo.

Even though the equipment and ammunition of the Independent Regiment are now abundant, the soldiers still wish to break a bullet in half out of their usual habits.

The grenade and bombing team quickly got ready.

In the sudden cessation of firepower, the soldiers pressed their ears to the ground, listening to the devils' approaching steps.

300 meters, 200 meters, 150 meters...

Under the cover of the smoke screen, the devils launched a strong attack.

Shen Quan and Wang Leihu took a deep breath in their hearts. As the two generals of the independent regiment, the two of them had never put little devils in their eyes.

With the current posture of the little devil, he is determined to eat himself in one go.

Is this okay?

100 meters, 80 meters, less than 60 meters...

"beat--"

Shen Quan and Wang Leihu successively gave orders to fire.

Although the field of vision is still obscured by the smoke, at such a short distance, blind typing is enough, and the bullets fired can always hit the enemy.

What's more, there are rifle grenades with a range of about 150 meters, which completely make up for the firepower gap between grenades and small cannons.

The soldiers of the grenade and grenade throwing team, who were ready to fight, immediately launched a counterattack.

The position close to the Eighth Route Army, within zero to 50 meters, is the throwable range of grenades by the soldiers of the bombing team.

The soldiers have long been familiar with grenade throwing. Even though the bombing team was later equipped with a lot of grenade, everyone has never lost their grenade throwing skills.

The soldiers of the specially trained bombing team can easily throw grenades 30 meters away, or even more than 40 meters.

Two hundred soldiers, each with four grenades, threw them all in less than 20 seconds.

A total of [-] grenades hit the surface in a fan shape, and fell out like densely falling raindrops.

At this time, the Japanese army who attacked first was still shrouded in smoke, but rushed towards the position where the Eighth Route Army was located.

In an instant, he entered the envelope of the grenade.

Although the field of vision was blocked at this time, the mass throwing of grenades, with the power to cover a large area and kill, no longer needed any accuracy.

More than one squadron of devils rushing to the front suffered more than half of the casualties in the first round of explosions.

It was almost a one-sided massacre.

The Eighth Route Army's tactic of throwing grenades under the cover of smoke caught the charging devils off guard.

Under the fierce blow, there was no need for an order from the devil commander. The devils who were still shrouded in the gradually dissipating smoke became timid and started to retreat in unison.

The retreating devils were soon within the coverage of the soldiers' rifle grenades, once again presenting a unilateral slaughter.

A ghost squadron leader who retreated screamed, "Your Excellency, Captain, the enemy's firepower is really fierce, our army suffered heavy casualties, and we cannot break through the position for the time being!"

Xinyi Mishima didn't care about the casualties of his own brigade, turned his head and shouted at Hideo Murai not far away:
"Mr. Murai, the Eighth Route Army's firepower is fierce. We have to take advantage of the artillery and let the artillery plow through the Eighth Route Army's fortifications several times before launching an attack."

"Okay!" Murai Hideo responded.

After the order to retreat was issued, the devils of the Mishima Xinyi Battalion retreated like a tide. The entire brigade was only attacked under the smog, and the total number of casualties exceeded one-third.

It wasn't too violent, but the constant cold wind quickly blew away the smoke from the smoke bombs.

The obscured vision around him gradually became clear again.

At this time, the field of vision was no longer needed. The cavalry company's stormtroopers and pincers, which were approaching quickly from the back, were already less than 300 meters away from the Japanese rear defensive camp.

At this distance, the cavalry of the stormtroopers can break through in less than 20 seconds.

Nobuyoshi Mishima and Hideo Murai naturally also left defensive troops at the end of the team, responsible for safeguarding the safety of the back and protecting the rear artillery positions.

Just as the smoke dissipated, the cavalry rushed over frantically, and the Japanese army was caught off guard, all of them turned pale with fright.

The pincers that followed the stormtroopers from the two wings were composed of some cavalry and some three-wheeled motorcycles, which could keep up with the speed of the stormtroopers.

There were machine guns on the saddles of the cavalry, and on the side seats of the three-wheeled motorcycles, machine gunners mounted light machine guns and fired at the Japanese army to cover the attack of the stormtroopers.

After a quick follow-up, the soldiers of the artillery group of the clamping team dismounted quickly and set up a series of [-] small cannons in an instant, and bombarded the guards at the rear of the Japanese army to cover the assault team's attack.

A series of tactical actions were completed in one go, as fast as lightning.

In the entire Japanese and puppet army, only the devil guards at the tail of the team reacted in time, and counterattacked against the firepower of the restraining team.

Hideo Murai and Nobuyoshi Mishima, who were at the front of the team, also woke up suddenly when they heard the sound of fierce fighting from the guards.

The Eighth Route Army came with a move to attack the west, but it turned out that the fatal surprise attack was on the back.

The cavalry unit of the independent company attacked the cavalry that captured Qu County a year ago.

In the information obtained by the Japanese army, this cavalry unit of the Independence Regiment was mentioned, and Hideo Murai and Nobuyoshi Mishima also knew about this.

The two were quite surprised. No wonder Ba Lu dared to launch a blocking battle in this terrain. This was to put the attack point on the cavalry.

The battle between the two sides has intensified...

(End of this chapter)