under fire

Chapter 418 "Potential" is artificial
Commander Lu is still humbly asking for advice. There are not many opportunities like this, and it might be useful in the future: "What you said seems to make sense, meaning, on a battlefield with guns, cavalry can't directly charge?"

Head Zeng wanted to end this topic very much, but the surnamed Lu refused to let go: "Not only our cavalry have to dismount to fight, but even the Kuomintang cavalry and devil cavalry are like this. The scene! Because everyone was lying on the ground and shooting guns, even if I wanted to use a saber to fight the enemy, no one would answer me."

"Then what is the role of your cavalry?" Captain Lu finally understood the key point. It's not the era of cold weapons, and the decline of cavalry is not unreasonable.

"We are all Lancers, mainly responsible for chasing, outflanking, and interspersing tasks. We can walk faster and run farther than infantry, and we can carry some heavy weapons to participate in offense and defense."

"Can you not repeat these few words?" Head Lu hurriedly asked, he seemed to have learned a lot during this time.

Commander Zeng almost scolded his mother: "Well, when our cavalry dismounts to fight, it is more troublesome than infantry. First, we need a reliable 'horse post', which requires us to ensure a stable rear. War horses are an important tool, but war horses will become a heavy drag during combat. Another point is that you have to spend time feeding and washing the horses. Now that these places lack water and the weather is hot, these war horses can't run fast at all. I understand. Bar?"

"Well, in a guerrilla combat environment, the enemy advances and we retreat. We take a few shots and run away. That's our world! But if the devils surround us with cavalry, they use the flexible mobility of the cavalry. To put it bluntly, the cavalry is actually mainly used It only plays the role of transporting troops, am I right?" Captain Lu finally caught the real weakness of the cavalry.

"What do you think? Even at a distance of a hundred meters, we can't hit the devils lying on our stomachs. Do you think we can hit the devils while riding a horse?" Zeng told the truth.

"Interesting, according to what you say, you really have to know these cavalry, don't you?" Captain Lu began to think in his mind.

"Don't be a mother-in-law, if you want to leave, you have to leave a good word. Are you two still muttering endlessly?" The commander next to him looked away from the map.

"Since you invited our independent regiment for reinforcements, you ran away before the battle was over. Isn't it embarrassing to say it? Then let's go, let's go to Luxi together!" Captain Lu looked at the dozen or so people in the room, Express your opinion immediately.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, the devils on the western defense line finally showed signs of a large-scale attack.

The devils fired a bombardment first, the cavalry outflanked the two flanks, and the eighth army who blocked them had already dug trenches and waited in full force, blocking them layer by layer.

On the east side of the plain, there are only about 200 devils and puppet troops from Huaxian County left. With this number of people, it is impossible to form an overall defense line.

The second lieutenant held up the binoculars and watched the eight roads in the west continue to gather, and felt chills in his heart!

Obviously, the direction of the eight-way breakout is on my side!
The imperial cavalry brigade is still about five miles to the east, and is building a defense line, which looks like protruding nails.

He had a bad premonition. Although the cavalry brigade did not give him any orders, he still ordered his subordinates to continue digging trenches with the puppet army, trying to buy some time for the cavalry behind to establish a defense line.

He was a little dumbfounded until he saw an armored vehicle suddenly appearing in front of the eighth road on the opposite side. When did Tubalu bring the imperial army's armored vehicle over?
Behind the armored vehicle, the black and dense Balu Zhi is slowly pressing towards his position.

What's even more outrageous is that a dozen Tubalu are still pushing a [-] infantry artillery?

Visually estimate the strength of at least one brigade of the Tuba Road!
How can this battle be fought? Judging by the current situation, even if the Eighth Route Army has not rushed to the battlefield, those damned Imperial Association troops next to it will run away!

As far as the military division is concerned, the army of devils is pressing down on the border in the west, and the cavalry of devils is besieging the border in the east. The situation seems to be equally precarious.

Dare to stop the devils in a small team in front, is the Eighth Route Army really a soft persimmon?

Combat with a large force is based on strength, and no tactics are useless!

A battalion of the cavalry regiment took the lead in outflanking again from the flank.

He didn't underestimate the mixed defense line of the devils and puppet troops with only more than 200 people in front.

The second lieutenant began to despair. The cavalry brigade failed to deploy troops in place on time. With this manpower, there was no way to form a solid line of defense!
Two hundred versus two or three thousand?Even elites can't afford it?What's more, the Imperial Association Army has no fighting power at all!

The second lieutenant's bitter face twisted together, and beads of sweat slid from his forehead!

"Taijun, there are too many people on the eighth route. The cavalry did not arrive on time. You see, the squadron personally commanded it and was seriously injured. We have been blocking the eighth route for half a day here. The casualties have passed halfway to the north. I think we should withdraw first. "Wang Ying hurriedly suggested to the Taijun. At this time, he didn't care that the Taijun would be angry. Maybe, the Taijun was embarrassed by face. Well, I can put down my pride, right?

The second lieutenant saw that Wang Ying dared to come to him with the interpreter to persuade him to retreat, and he was furious. The hand holding the command knife was shaking, and he wanted to chop him alive with the knife, but there were more than a dozen gunmen behind the battalion commander. The Chinese, obviously, they came prepared!

Then he turned his head to look at the approaching Eighth Route Army brigade, finally gritted his teeth, snorted in the nostrils of the crowd, and then ordered: "Withdraw!"

Hu Yi held his rifle and walked beside the hot steaming armored vehicle, watching closely the movement of those devils in the east.

I finally felt a little bit of excitement. I was chased and escaped by devils before, but this time I was still chased by devils. However, I can crush the small group of devils in front of me!

Until, the voice from the nearby observation post changed from reporting the distance to: "The devil has run away!"

His excitement became somewhat suppressed again. The situation was very serious. If these devils stayed here to stop them, it would be the best result for the military division.

At least the devils in the east can be defeated one by one.

There was news from the military division that there was a cavalry brigade ahead. The strange thing was that the cavalry brigade, which had always been attacking, was nowhere to be seen this time!
With his rich experience in the battlefield, Hu Yi's intuition is not good. At present, there is only one possibility. The cavalry must have established a defensive line somewhere in the east!
Coupled with the ghosts chasing from the west, their tactics are easy to understand: attack from east to west!

If there is still a good way to get out now, it is to turn north.

However, he didn't know why the military division didn't issue this order. With the command ability of the division leaders, it's impossible for them not to know, there must be other reasons.

The feeling is very strange now, the devils who fled to the east seem to have lost contact with the Eighth Route, and turned into devils fighting guerrillas, playing with the enemy advancing and retreating?
Why didn't the cavalry regiment send people to attack the fleeing puppet soldiers and devils?

His thoughts were interrupted by cavalry orders on the left flank.

"First battalion of cavalry, attack!"

With an order, the cavalry on the left wing, which had already lined up, launched an attack on the fleeing puppet army devils.

Lieutenant Guizi sat on the tricycle, turned his head, and watched the cavalry attack two miles behind him.

He knew that it was the cavalry of the eighth route who started to attack!
Aggrieved!When will the elites be chased away by Tuba Road?
Fortunately, not far ahead is the defense line established by the cavalry brigade. When they get there and join together, they must wipe out these Tuba roads!
(End of this chapter)