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Chapter 71: Horses don’t grow fat without night grass

After looking at it for a long time, Liu Xiu finally decided to choose a piece of land that was relatively close to the county town guarded by the little devil, so it was also the most dangerous piece of land.

Zhang Dabiao, on the other hand, chose a place with a traffic artery for the Japs. Looking at this picture, Dabiao was planning to open a toll station for the Japs!

As for the third battalion commander, the weakest among the three battalions, he chose the safest place! There is no way anyone can tell him that if the soldiers of the third battalion are not strong and the horses are not strong, how can he be as strong as the first and second battalions, so sometimes he has to rely on them for support!

After all, they are all under the same regiment. You can't have the first and second battalions using light machine guns, while the third battalion is still using red tassel guns!

In fact, Liu Xiu had helped the Third Battalion before. For example, when the weapons were seized, he gave the replaced old sleeves, made by Hanyang, and some old guns with smooth rifling to the Third Battalion!

Now Liu Xiu's second battalion is all Type 38 rifles, all Type 96 light machine guns, and they don't even bother to get the captured crooked light machine guns! There's no way that thing can be loaded with bullets, it's useless and it often jams!

However, after Li Yunlong divided the surrounding areas of the independent regiment, Sun Desheng, who had just been promoted to the cavalry battalion commander, became anxious and quickly said to Li Yunlong:

"Captain, what about me! Where should I go to develop?"

Li Yunlong looked at Sun Desheng and said:

"You, do you think it's appropriate for the cavalry to go for an ambush? So your cavalry battalion was naturally dispersed. It just so happened that the above left us a battalion of horses this time. Plus your cavalry company happened to have four companies of cavalry. Now, you break up your original cavalry company, and the original platoon leader becomes the company commander, and then go and pull up the remaining three cavalry companies! Then the regiment will keep one cavalry company, and the remaining three cavalry companies will One for each company and battalion!”

However, Sun Desheng immediately quit after hearing Li Yunlong's arrangement. After all, if Li Yunlong did this, wouldn't it mean that he, Sun Desheng, was actually still a cavalry company commander?

So Sun Desheng said:

"Captain, our cavalry can also dismount and ambush!"

However, Li Yunlong said angrily:

"Sun Desheng, do you know why the two battalions of my cavalry and horses are being taken away this time, and I won't even make a sound even if my cavalry regiment is gone?"

Sun Desheng naturally shook his head and said he didn't know. At this time, Zhao Gang on the side said:

"Of course, our independent regiment cannot raise horses for a cavalry regiment. Yesterday, the fellow villagers from Zhaojiayu came over and told us that there was not much fodder. If we feed the horses, their village's livestock will not be able to eat. You should do it." Understand!"

After Zhao Gang finished speaking, Li Yunlong nodded and said:

"Yes, if I let your cavalry battalion go out and develop independently, your cavalry battalion will not have to do anything to collect fodder for your war horses!"

Liu Xiu also nodded in agreement with Li Yunlong's words. You must know that when Sun Desheng only had one cavalry company, the entire regiment helped him collect fodder!

After all, there is a saying that says, a horse will not be fat without weeds. This is not just a casual saying, but has practical truth.

You must know that horses are different from other animals, because horses have relatively small stomachs, so they are not like cows that can ruminate without any trouble, but horses can only eat less and more meals, so if you want the horse to grow well, you must give it Do night feedings.

Naturally, it is impossible to let the horses out at night and let them eat grass by themselves, so they have to collect fodder manually. And these are just ordinary horses. War horses that consume a lot of physical strength need to be fed with refined grains. .

As for refined grains, they are naturally bean cakes, wheat bran and corn, which are foods with higher nutritional content. After all, if you want your horse to run fast, you have to let your horse eat good food, right?

And with the current capabilities of the independent regiment, how can it be possible to centrally support the war horses of a regiment? After all, the Eighth Route Army is not like little devils. They have centralized logistics supplies. If not, they can just rob them directly. Most of the Eighth Route Army’s logistics have to be solved by themselves. For example, the Eighth Route Army grows most of the food themselves!

Fortunately, high-yield foods such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn are now widely available, and there is no shortage of land, so the Eighth Route Army can be self-sufficient in food logistics!

Li Yunlong's current arrangement is naturally equivalent to distributing the independent regiment's cavalry battalion to each battalion for support. After these three battalions are dispersed, it will naturally be easier to obtain food and horse fodder!

But what Liu Xiu didn't expect was that as soon as he arrived at his chosen location, big business would come to his door!

That's right, the big deal is the little devils who plan to return to the county to station themselves after the raid!

After all, it is impossible for little devils to live directly in the village or in the countryside like the Eighth Route Army, and this return is naturally his opportunity!

Of course, the most important thing is that these little devils actually brought back three Type 97 tanks!

This immediately made Liu Xiu jealous. You must know that during the previous sweeps, in order to resolve the battle as quickly as possible, they were all aimed at the vital points of the little devil tanks. Basically, they directly destroyed the tanks. Therefore, such a tank There is no way to recycle it!

What's more, in that situation, there is no way to capture the little devil alive and let them teach him how to contact and drive a tank!

Liu Xiu saw that there was only one squadron of a kid with three tanks, and finally decided to do it. You must know that it was not an easy task for this kid to bring out tanks.

Because the tank is a large fuel guzzler, the little devils who are in extremely short supply of fuel are usually reluctant to use this fuel guzzler. They will only use it during large-scale battles such as raids.

For these three tanks Liu Xiu quickly said to his soldiers holding grenade launchers:

"You guys, please don't hit the body of the tank when you're going to fight the Japanese tanks. You have to hit the turret of the tank, you know! If you hit the tank and it explodes, just wait until you go back and practice more! Can we open the Eighth Route Army? It depends on whether we can make the tank this time!"

Although there were many grenade launchers in the second battalion, Liu Xiu selected six soldiers who usually hit grenade launchers more accurately to perform this tank-fighting mission, with each two men responsible for one tank.

As for the remaining soldiers with grenade launchers, let them use high-explosive bombs to fight ordinary little devils!

In order to ensure that the shaped armor-piercing projectile of the grenade can accurately hit the Japs' tanks, Liu Xiu did not attack the tanks first but the Japs following the tanks first.

Sure enough, as the battle started, the little Japanese tank immediately stopped, the turret rotated, and the muzzle was aimed at the hillside where Liu Xiu and the others were ambushing!

But before the three tanks could turn their turrets around, six armor-piercing grenades flew towards the three tanks!

Liu Xiu looked at the six rounds of armor-piercing grenades that accurately hit the turret, and the little devil's Type 97 tank did not explode, so he happily took out his two guns and took the lead in charging down!

After all, after the round of ambushes and firefights just now, all the Japs were almost wiped out, so naturally it was time to charge and harvest the remaining Japs!

(End of this chapter)