under fire

Chapter 417 The Hole in the Highway

Enemy situations are constantly coming from all directions.

The military division marched eastward for twenty miles early in the morning, and all the devils who came out of the encirclement in the north, south, west and west directions plus Qi County were all left behind.

The lieutenant assistant who was in charge of this operation was furious, and without waiting for the concentration of troops from the three directions, he led a large number of cavalry and infantry from the south to continue the pursuit under the scorching sun.

On the plain, the situation is very unfavorable for the military divisions that are good at guerrilla warfare, and it is very difficult to get rid of the chasing devils!
The military division first planned to lure the devils in the county town to come out and surround the enemy with superior forces on the plain. As a result, the devils set up a large encirclement circle using the county town as bait.

Even from the front line preparing to launch an attack on the national army, a large group of troops was drawn to completely wipe out the eight groups that had finally gathered together.

The military division's goal of destroying the devil's railway line was achieved, but it also provoked the enemy who was close to a regiment!

Without heavy firepower to fight positional warfare, with the combat capabilities of the Eighth Route Army, one hundred enemy injuries, at least three hundred self-injury!Naturally, such a thing cannot be done, and the only way to retreat eastward is to rely on the two legs that can run fast in guerrilla warfare.

The strange thing is that the speed of the devil's pursuit is very slow!

Ma Liang was on the village road, watching curiously the soldiers from the military subdivision digging holes on the uneven road. The dense crowd was sweating profusely under the scorching sun, and the holes slightly bigger than fists covered a section of the road in no time. .

Then these soldiers walked east for a certain distance, and continued digging in another place.

"Hey, what are you digging for?" Ma Liang walked from the side of the armored vehicle to the side of the digging team, looked at a soldier who was directing the digging, and heard that the people around him called him Platoon Leader Chen.

"Stop the devil's cavalry from charging!" Platoon Leader Chen raised his head and grinned in a friendly manner.

"Uh, you guys are going to plant landmines?"

"Landmines? You really can think about it!" Platoon Leader Chen chuckled.

"It's less than one foot deep. I don't believe that you can be used as traps besides planting landmines!" Ma Liang was even more surprised. You wouldn't be digging on the ground for fun, would you?

"Hey, you're right, it's used as a trap!" The platoon leader wiped his sweat with his hand.

"Hahaha, oh, are you trying to laugh me to death? It's just such a big pit that even a mouse can't get stuck in it, you guys" Ma Liang always felt weird and had to figure it out, so he deliberately sneered.

"You have been in the mountains for a long time, and you may not know, uh, let me ask you, how big do you think this pit is?"

"Don't play tricks, let go of your fart!" Hearing what Ma Liang said, he was a country bumpkin in the mountains, and immediately became angry.

"Have you ever ridden a horse?" The platoon leader didn't care at all.

"Of course I did!" Ma Liang replied bitterly.

"Then do you know how big a horse's hoof is?" The platoon leader winked and raised his head.

Ma Liang gestured involuntarily, his eyes lit up: "What do you mean?"

"That's right, if the devil's war horse walks slowly on the ground, it's fine. If he dares to charge, as long as he steps into the hole, at least half of his front hooves will be broken on the spot. Even if the rest are not broken, his hoofs will probably be sprained." !"

Ma Liang was stunned, he really learned a lot!It turns out that there is another way to deal with cavalry, but in this vast plain, you only dig roads?Isn't this too ridiculous?
"No, we only dig roads. Are the devils all fools? Doesn't he know how to go around in the ground?"

"You go around and try? The land by the river has been deserted, so we have nothing to do, we can only send people to guard it. If they want to cross the river, they have to detour, which will delay the fighter plane. As for the land in front of us, it has not rained for a long time. A layer of shell was formed early on, but the soil under the shell was as loose as a cotton-padded jacket, and a horse’s hoof would make a hole.”

"You mean, if the cavalry walks slowly, there's nothing we can do about him?" Ma Liang asked humbly.

"Hey, my purpose is to let them walk slowly. If they dig a few more ditches on the road, their idiots can only lie on their stomachs obediently, and they have to wait for someone to fill the ditch before they can move forward! In that way, they want to Catch up with us, it's a fucking dream! However, it's useless if you know it, it won't work if you change places."

the village.

"Old Lu, now I will give you two choices for the independent regiment. You can either find a place to hide in the north and go back to the mountain from the enemy-occupied area after dark, or you can go east with us before the devils encircle you. Break through the devil's cavalry line of defense and enter the area south of the Wei River!" The division commander frowned and planned how to block the devil and then disengage from the devil.

Head Lu smiled wryly: "I understand what you mean. Now that the devils are surrounded on all sides, you plan to lead the main force to continue eastward, attract the devils behind you, let all the departments leave in batches, fight with the devils, and get rid of it until the mountainous area of ​​Luxi." !am I right?"

"How I arrange it is none of your business. If you leave now, you can still reserve most of the strength for the independent regiment. Now the devils in the enemy-occupied area in the north are weak. If you bring a regiment, I believe there should be no problem going back to the mountain."

"Can you outrun the devil cavalry with two legs? You arrange it like this." Commander Lu understood that the commander was going to risk himself.

"Then what can we do? This time, most of us were calculated by the devil and some guys in the first theater!" The commander's face was very ugly.

"If our independent regiment leaves, I don't think you, the commander of the division, can hold on to Luxi, you're not sure, right?" Head Lu looked at the distribution of the devil's forces on the map.

"Do you think your independent regiment is the only one that can fight? Laozi's district squad and county brigade can't fight devils?" The commander was furious.

Commander Zeng next to him suddenly said, "Report to the commander, I don't think we need to divide our troops. Everyone may mistakenly think that the cavalry runs fast and we can't run, but the six-legged cavalry actually has a fatal weakness!"

The commander waved his hand: "I know what you're going to say. Even if a hoof hole is dug on the road, even if the cavalry is slow, even the damn devil's cavalry can be converted into infantry. He has more people than us, and what a fart!"

"Commander, I'm not talking about this. In fact, many people don't know that the durability of cavalry is not comparable to that of humans in real long-distance rapid marches!"

"Wait. What are you talking about? The cavalry can't outrun our infantry? How is that possible?" Captain Lu was stunned for a moment.

"Incomparable to humans? You said that horses cannot outrun humans? Believe it or not, I will beat you? Now the terrain is favorable for devil cavalry to fight. Therefore, the best way is to hold out until dark, and disperse the troops while retreating. In this case, we Thousands of people, at least half of them can rush out!" The staff officer next to him also agreed with Commander Zeng, directly presenting the result of his discussion with the commander.

Head Zeng turned his head and looked at the staff officer: "You don't know that. Cavalry runs fast on flat ground. We all know it! When charging on the battlefield and outflanking, the infantry really can't compare with the cavalry. In this way, we Let me tell you in detail, simply speaking, there are two types of cavalry: those who fight on horseback and those who don’t, including the basic tactics of our cavalry regiment, which is to march and dismount to fight.”

"It's all at this point, don't talk nonsense here!" After speaking, the commander continued to point to the map, and analyzed the enemy's situation in all directions with the staff and commanders

"What do you mean cavalry don't fight on horseback?" Head Lu asked in a low voice, dragging Head Zeng in doubt.

"Hey, to put it bluntly, we are 'lancers', similar to the devil's motorized infantry. Let me explain to you more clearly, we are actually infantry on horseback. Soldiers on the battlefield mainly lie on the ground and shoot!" Zeng The leader explained.

"Why did this happen?" Head Lu asked again.

"Cavalry charging in front of the dense firepower of machine guns is purely looking for death! We usually use horses to increase the speed of march and expand the range of activities when marching. Most of the time in battle, we give up riding on horses and fight on foot."

"No, then why did your cavalry achieve such a great result in the morning?" Captain Lu felt that this Zeng was always making rounds, repeating nonsense.

Commander Zeng smiled wryly: "That's because you have a good subordinate who attracted the Devils' machine guns to the front, and most of the attacking troops were puppet troops. You may not know that a company of cavalry we participated in the attacking In this battle, we lost two-thirds! More casualties than devils!"

　Thank Brother Niuliu for throwing away Bao Huazi again, enough to buy a documentary on the battle of the [-]th Division, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)