Chapter 3 The Powerful Devil
In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the combat effectiveness and tactical level of the Japanese army were far superior to the Chinese team of the same period.
The guard company fought to the death to repel the first round of attacks of the Japanese cavalry squadron, and killed and injured nearly twenty cavalrymen.
In order to catch up with the Eighth Route Army Command, which was continuing to retreat, the Japanese squadron leader immediately changed the tactics.
The two teams stayed here to continue to destroy the Eighth Route Army's rear troops and dragged them here. Then they ordered the cavalry team with the least losses to bypass the guard company's blocking positions and continue to pursue them, and found ways to slow down the retreat of the First Military Sub-district Command.
The guard company that killed and injured nearly twenty Japanese cavalrymen was paid a huge price of more than 40 casualties.
This is the result of the Japanese cavalry squadron only equipped with two crooked light machine guns and did not want to fight the guard company hard here. After all, Yang Chengwu is their real goal.
If the Japanese army rushed forward regardless of casualties, the guard company would definitely not be able to stop it.
Therefore, facing the Japanese cavalry who were divided, the guard company, which suffered heavy losses and insufficient ammunition, had no choice but to stare at him.
A standard cavalry team had more than thirty cavalrymen, and after some losses in the attack just now, there were twenty-eight cavalrymen.
In less than ten minutes, these arrogant cavalrymen entered Wang Ping's vision.
Seeing the formation that the Japanese cavalry had dragged nearly fifty meters, and rushed towards him like a torrent, Wang Ping immediately showed a regretful expression on his face.
The formation of the Japanese army was too sparse. Even if the several cluster grenades they arranged were exploded in the air, the results they could achieve would not be too great.
If you had someone lay out some obstacles on the official road when you arranged the cluster grenades just now, slow down the cavalry level and make their pursuit formation more concentrated, the results that those cluster grenades can achieve will definitely be amazing.
However, it is too late to say anything now, so I can only watch the Japanese cavalry rush into the thunder formation he prepared for them.
Wang Ping stared at the battlefield with his eyes, and the Japanese cavalry rushed into the thunder formation without any defense.
Because the grenade has a delay of several seconds, the first cluster grenade did not explode immediately after being pulled out of the lead.
After waiting for the cavalry in front to touch all the cluster grenade leads, more than a dozen cavalry were scattered in front and behind the entire thunder formation, and a violent explosion occurred on the battlefield.
"Boom boom boom..."
The first cluster grenade exploded in the air, immediately forming nearly a hundred grenade fragments flying in all directions.
With the explosion point as the center, all five or six meters of pipes in front and behind were covered by these fragments. On the spot, three Japanese cavalrymen fell on the official road with screams.
The Japanese cavalry that followed was probably caught off guard and ran away directly to the corpse of the war horse in front, and then fell to the ground, and then seriously injured the cavalry on his back.
At the same time, several other cluster grenades exploded one after another. During the violent explosion, each cluster grenade killed two to four Japanese cavalrymen of varying degrees.
When the smoke of the thunder formation disappeared, the remaining Japanese cavalry stopped completely. The official road of the thunder formation was only thirty meters long, fourteen Japanese cavalry and the same number of war horses fell down.
Faced with this result, all the recruits around Wang Ping cast admiration at Wang Ping.
At the beginning, they didn't believe that Wang Ping was so kind, and they didn't believe that he could lead everyone to block the Japanese cavalry. Some people even made up their minds to die with the Japanese here.
But after the explosion just now, everyone showed an admiring expression to Wang Ping and had the confidence to block the Japanese.
Without losing a soldier, he successfully eliminated fourteen cavalry. No one here could do such a battle result. But Wang Ping did it.
After seeing the changes in everyone's face, Wang Ping, who had already established prestige, immediately ordered: "We have terrain advantages. As long as the Japanese are not stupid, they will dismount and attack us. Don't say anything, but machine guns are a problem. Do the entire platoon have good marksmanship? They are specifically focused on the Japanese's machine guns."
The three squad leaders immediately focused their attention on the platoon leader Zeng Quan.
Zeng Quan answered without hesitation: "My marksmanship is OK, I guarantee to hit the target within 150 meters."
"One hundred and fifty meters is enough!" Wang Ping answered with satisfaction.
Soon, an idea appeared in Wang Ping's mind and ordered several squad leaders: "Our advantage is that there are many people, the advantage of the Japanese is that their firepower is their accurate shooting skills. Therefore, if we shoot against the Japanese, we will definitely suffer."
Zeng Quan, who was the platoon leader of the Red Army during the Red Army, immediately reacted: "Staff General Wang, you plan to fight in close combat with the Japanese, hand-to-hand combat!"
"No!" Wang Ping shook his head and replied.
"We are not opponents of the Japanese when we fight, don't forget that you are all recruits."
Speaking of this, Wang Ping directly ordered: "We will fight like this, first shoot and attract the Japanese to get off the horse and attack us. Then hide them all for me, and when the Japanese approach, they will greet them with grenades. The grenades are thrown farther than the grenades equipped by the Japanese. In addition, we have the advantage of terrain, so throwing grenades will definitely be the Japanese who suffer the disadvantage."
"After the grenades were thrown, the platoon leader and three squad leaders fired. The platoon leader stared at the Japanese machine gunners, and the three squad leaders stared at the remaining Japanese riflemen. "
"Nearly thirty grenades, plus you fired at the same time, I don't believe that I can't deal with the remaining fourteen Japanese cavalry."
"If there is still a fish that escapes the net, the shell gun in my hand is not a vegetarian. There is no problem with shooting ten bullets at close range to eliminate two or three Japanese devils."
Soon, a burst of gunfire sounded on the ridge, with rifles, hunting rifles, and even gunpowder guns, crackling and very scary.
But because the distance is too far, except for Zeng Quan's attack on the thigh, no one else achieved any results.
Faced with the heavy casualties, the Japanese, who were full of anger, quickly lay on the ground and shot bullets on the ridge as if they were finding the target. In particular, a crooked light machine gun equipped by the cavalry team shot a string of dense bullets onto the ridge.
Although I repeatedly told me that I would hide after firing the gun, the Japanese army's shooting skills were not vegetarians.
But the recruits were recruits after all, and the Japanese army's response was much faster than Wang Ping imagined.
Five or six recruits who had been slow to react were hit by bullets and fell to the ground.
This is not the end. The bullets fired by the Japanese army's crooked light machine gun seemed to have eyes, and flew over their heads against the top of the mountain ridge.
A shot that took the initiative not only failed to destroy a Japanese man, but also lost several people. Wang Ping had a new understanding of the Japanese combat effectiveness, and then he told his more than 20 remaining brothers to hide and not be hit by the Japanese army again.
After attacking his Eighth Route Army as a turtle, the cavalry team that lost more than half of them did not intend to let them go.
More than a dozen Japanese devils who were planning to take revenge immediately gave up their war horses and rushed up the ridge with rifles under the cover of machine guns behind them.
Chapter completed!