I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 171 The Japanese Cavalry Attacks
Pukou, the front-line temporary command post of the Kunisaki Detachment.

The detachment leader, Major General Noboru Kunisaki, and several staff adjutants were discussing the military situation around the battle map.

At this time, a burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the military tent of the command post.

Guo Qideng and others heard the sound and looked up, only to see a captain officer in charge of logistics supply, walking in hastily.

Facing the questioning eyes of Kunizaki Deng and others, the captain officer came straight to them, and hurriedly stood at attention and saluted: "General, a transport team that should have arrived at the front line last night has not arrived yet."

"Nani?" Kunizaki asked in surprise, "Why haven't you arrived yet?"

The captain officer said: "According to the agreed time, they should have rushed to the front line to deliver supplies around two o'clock in the morning last night."

"Is it Hexian's left-behind baggage team?" Noboru Kunisaki asked with a frown.

"Yes." The captain nodded.

"Have you sent someone to contact you?" Kunizaki asked again.

"The remaining troops in the county are not equipped with radios, and the telephone lines cannot be set up because of the distance. We have sent cavalry liaison officers to search before coming."

The captain officer said: "What I'm worried about is whether there will be any accidents in this supply convoy.

Our materials are consumed a lot and need to be replenished urgently, so we came here to report to you. "

Kunizaki Noboru frowned and nodded when he heard this: "Then send a cavalry unit to search in the direction of He County, just in case."

In Kunizaki's view, the attack on Pukou was mainly the job of the infantry, and the cavalry was mainly responsible for guarding and covering.

At this time, it is the most appropriate choice to dispatch the cavalry to go back to investigate.

The lieutenant officer asked again: "Sir, is it enough to transfer a cavalry squadron?"

"With the combat power of the cavalry of the Imperial Japanese Army, a squadron of cavalry is enough to come and go freely. What's more, He County has already been captured by the imperial army. There is no organized Chinese army on this route."

Kunizaki nodded and analyzed.

"Hay!" The captain officer immediately ordered.

About 10 minutes later, a Japanese cavalry team of nearly 200 troops rushed out from Pukou.

From east to west along the north bank of the Yangtze River, the search was launched in the direction of He County.

This Japanese cavalry was led by a lieutenant officer named Rong Shisanlang, with the rank of lieutenant.

The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and it didn't take long for them to advance more than 20 kilometers westward.

A cavalry second lieutenant in charge of leading a reconnaissance team in front suddenly rode back and reported to Rong Shisanlang: "Sir, there is still no trace of the transport team."

"Ba Ga." Rong Shisanlang said with some dissatisfaction: "From the perspective of time and distance, even if the transport team stops at night to rest, we should have met them.

Could it be that something happened to them? "

"Sir, it's very possible." The cavalry second lieutenant said with a serious face.

"Continue to search westward, no matter what, we must find the trace of the transport team." Rong Shisanlang immediately ordered in a deep voice.

"Hay!" The second lieutenant of the cavalry responded, and immediately turned his horse around and left.

The straight-line distance from Pukou to Hexian County is less than [-] kilometers, and the actual traveling distance is less than [-] kilometers.

Therefore, when the Japanese cavalry search troops went west and walked about 25 kilometers, they finally found their own transport team that was attacked.

The second lieutenant of the cavalry of the vanguard team hurriedly turned around and met the main force led by Shisanlang Rong, saluted him and reported: "Sir, it's not good, we found the transport team, and they were ambushed ahead."

"How's the situation?" Although they had expected it, Rong Shisanlang and his subordinates couldn't help but be surprised when they heard the exact news.

"The battlefield is full of corpses of convoys and destroyed trucks. They should have been completely wiped out."

The second lieutenant of the cavalry replied solemnly: "In addition, their military uniforms were also stripped off by the Chinese."

"Baga!" Rong Shisanlang realized something, and immediately ordered: "Order the troops to advance to He County at full speed, fast!"

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and county.

Following the instructions of Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo, various departments of the Independence Brigade have opened the granary and distributed large quantities of grain to the people of the city as quickly as possible.

And all the weapons and equipment, except for the self-replenishment needs of the independent brigade, were also loaded on military trucks.

Without so much food and supplies, the trucks seized from the devils are enough to load excess weapons and ammunition.

Just when Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo were planning to lead the troops to retreat to the northwest of He County and move to the Dabie Mountains.

The reconnaissance platoon, which had been conducting reconnaissance in the east of the city, suddenly sent people back.

Moreover, the person who came was Wang Changgui, the deputy platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon. He found Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo anxiously, stood at attention and saluted them: "Captain, deputy captain, it's bad, a Japanese cavalry is rushing towards He County at full speed." Come.

It seems that they should have heard the news that the convoy was attacked and came straight to us. "

Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo changed countenance upon hearing this, and immediately asked, "How far is it?"

"It's less than five kilometers away, and the time to speak will come!" Wang Changgui replied anxiously.

"It would be terrible if we were to move out of the city and be caught up by them in the wild."

Zhou Weiguo immediately suggested to Xu Qingfeng: "Qingfeng, I suggest to postpone the evacuation, and find a way to deal with this devil cavalry first."

"Yeah." Xu Qingfeng nodded approvingly, and immediately ordered: "Pass my order, and the squadrons will stop moving quickly, and transfer the machine gun squadron, guard platoon, and 1st infantry squadron to the east gate to set up an ambush.

The 2nd and 3rd Squadrons divided their forces to guard the other three gates.

In addition, Li Gousheng and the group of puppet prisoners were also taken to the east gate to see if there was a chance to lure the devil cavalry in. "

"Yes!" Chen Qifeng, Sun Kui, Wang Tiezhu and others who were present at the time responded in unison.

Xu Qingfeng instructed Wang Changgui again: "Deputy Platoon Leader Wang, leave the city immediately and tell Plato Leader Lei that the reconnaissance platoon should not stop the devil cavalry and let them come over.

Then after going around, if you encounter devil cavalry fleeing back, intercept them again.

Remember, to avoid the devil cavalry, don't startle the snake. "

"Yes!" Wang Changgui accepted the order happily, and quickly turned around to take the order and left after saluting.

Xu Qingfeng said to Zhou Weiguo again: "Weiguo, let's go to the east gate together."

"Okay." Zhou Weiguo nodded happily, and the two men immediately picked up their helmets and weapons, and rushed towards the east gate with some guards.

The other squadrons also followed Xu Qingfeng's deployment and quickly split up to act.

Along the way, the officers and soldiers did not forget to evacuate, and persuaded the people in the returning city to go home and take shelter.

Almost, Xu Qingfeng led the guard platoon, the 1st infantry squadron, more than 200 officers and soldiers of the machine gun squadron, and more than a dozen prisoners of the puppet army.

More than 180 Japanese cavalry led by Rong Shisanlang galloped along the road.

However, Rong Shisanlang was very cautious. When his cavalry was 500 meters away from the city gate, he raised his hand and ordered to stop.

Then he rode a horse and held up the binoculars, and began to observe the situation in Hexian County.

At the same time, Wang Changgui also successfully avoided the devil's cavalry vanguard and follow-up main force.

After taking a detour through the woods, they successfully found the main force of the reconnaissance platoon lurking outside the city, and conveyed Xu Qingfeng's order to Lei Xiong and others.

Lieutenant Eijusanro observed for a while, and couldn't help but frown and said to a second lieutenant next to him: "It's a bit unusual for the county town to be so quiet. Logically speaking, shouldn't the defenders in the city react to our arrival? ?”

The second lieutenant said, "Sir, what do you mean?"

"At least, they have to open the city gate." Rong Shisanlang said and raised his binoculars to observe again.

Zhou Weiguo, who was hiding behind the wall at the top of the east gate and was also observing the movements of the Japanese army, couldn't help but said to Xu Qingfeng, "Qingfeng, the devil seems to have discovered something."

Xu Qingfeng put down his binoculars, pondered for a while, then suddenly turned to Xu Hu and said, "Huzi, take a few people down with me, first open the city gate to see if the devil cavalry can't get through.

If they come, bring them into the city. "

After finishing speaking, he said to Zhou Weiguo: "Guo Wei, take off the devil's uniform on your body and give it to me."

"Is it too risky?" Zhou Weiguo asked worriedly.

"If you don't take any risks, you're afraid that the devil cavalry won't take the bait. As long as they enter the city, they will be lambs to be slaughtered." Xu Qingfeng said solemnly.

Zhou Weiguo nodded, and immediately took off the Japanese Second Lieutenant's uniform to Xu Qingfeng.

Xu Qingfeng quickly changed into the devil's uniform, Xu Hu also quickly assembled a guard squad, escorted Li Gousheng and other prisoners, and followed Xu Qingfeng down to the top of the city.

Zhou Weiguo stayed on the top of the city to take command!
On the devil's side, Rong Shisanlang became more and more suspicious, and turned his head to order: "Send a cavalry unit to check the situation. If Hexian has not fallen, ask them to open the city gate and let us in."

"Hay!" A warrant officer responded, and immediately rode out with a dozen cavalrymen, galloping towards the east gate.

As soon as these dozen Japanese cavalry reached halfway, the originally closed city gate was opened.

A second lieutenant of the Japanese army behind Rong Shisanlang couldn't help but excitedly said: "Sir, the city gate is open."

"No rush, let's observe the situation first." Rong Shisanlang said in a deep voice while holding the binoculars.

On the city gate side, Xu Qingfeng wore a set of Japanese Second Lieutenant's uniform, and led Xu Hu and a dozen other "Japanese and puppet soldiers" out of the city gate.

Since they were busy cleaning the battlefield last night and distributing food to the people during the day, they hadn't had time to change out of their devil uniforms.

After all, it was the twelfth lunar month at that time, and no one wanted to be cold if he could wear an extra coat.

Seeing that Xu Qingfeng and the others had taken the initiative to leave the city, the ghost warrant officer relaxed his vigilance, rode his horse and led his men towards Xu Qingfeng and the others.

"Hey, has Hexian been attacked?" As soon as they met, the Japanese warrant officer asked arrogantly, raising his whip.

"Baga, Warrant Officer, have you forgotten what to do when you see your superior?" Xu Qingfeng pretended to be angry and shouted sternly.

Only then did the ghost warrant officer realize that Xu Qingfeng was a second lieutenant officer. He was taken aback and hurriedly got off his horse, ran up to Xu Qingfeng, stood upright and saluted, "Sir, I'm sorry, I didn't see clearly just now, please forgive me."

"Shouldn't you be on the front line? Why are you returning to He County at this time?" Xu Qingfeng asked knowingly.

"Sir, last night's logistics supply convoy was ambushed by the Chinese army on the way, and the entire army has been wiped out.

Our squadron leader was worried that Hexian would be attacked, so he brought them over quickly. "The ghost warrant officer told the truth.

Seeing Xu Qingfeng speaking pure and fluent Japanese, there was no doubt about his identity.

"Ah? Has the transportation team been attacked? These damned Chinese troops." Xu Qingfeng pretended to be surprised: "He County has not been attacked, and we have been strictly guarding against it."

"That's good." The ghost warrant officer was relieved.

"You have worked hard all the way, hurry up and rest in the city." Xu Qingfeng sincerely invited.

"Hay, thank you, sir." The ghost warrant officer bowed his head and thanked him, and immediately turned around and ordered an accompanying soldier to take out a small flag used for semaphore communication, and pass the message to Ei Shisanrou and the others behind him.

Rong Shisanlang put down the binoculars after receiving the news, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief: "Yoxi, luckily Hexian didn't have any accidents, otherwise our Guozaki detachment's logistics supply will be severely damaged."

"Order the troops to advance to the city to rest and make plans."

"Hay!" Several second lieutenants bowed their heads in unison to accept the order, and immediately urged their horses, leading their men to follow Rong Shisanlang towards the city gate.

The dozen or so devil cavalry who were investigating the situation before, led by the devil warrant officer, rode their horses to both sides of the city gate.

The internal hierarchy of the Japanese army was strict. After confirming absolute safety, they naturally let the chief and the main force enter the city first to show respect.

And Xu Qingfeng also took Xu Hu and others, and retreated to the two sides.

During the movement, Xu Qingfeng gave Xu Hu and the others a wink, and they quietly dispersed to stand on both sides of the dozen or so devil cavalry, secretly preparing for the attack.

Thirteenth Rong led more than 100 Japanese cavalry and rode majestically into the city gate, without even looking at Xu Qingfeng and the others.

First of all, he has a higher rank than Xu Qingfeng, and secondly, he is from the cavalry brigade of the Guoqi Detachment, belonging to the first-line field troops.

And those left behind in Hexian County are old, weak and remnant soldiers, second-line garrison troops.

Soon, Eijusanrou paid the price for his arrogance.

The moment his cavalry squadron entered the city, Xu Qingfeng, Xu Hu and others suddenly launched an attack. First, they opened fire with lightning speed and killed the dozen Japanese cavalry outside the city.

Immediately afterwards, he blocked the entrance of the city gate with a gun, and fired wildly at the rear of the devil cavalry.

Zhou Weiguo, Sun Kui, Wang Tiezhu and others on the top of the city also opened fire.

A large amount of bullets roared from various places in the city, pouring towards Rong Shisanlang's troops.

The Japanese cavalry, who were completely unprepared, were immediately beaten and turned upside down, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.

At that time, the devil cavalry had just entered the city and was still in the state of marching.

Suddenly attacked at this time, there is no time to dodge.

Rong Jusanlang was taken aback and hurriedly reined in his horse and shouted: "Get out of here, get out of here! Damn it, we've been ambushed!"

However, the narrow city and streets greatly restricted their space for activities.

Before the Japs cavalry could disperse, a large number of hot bullets enveloped them like raindrops. Wherever they went, the Japs were full of people, screaming and causing heavy casualties.

(End of this chapter)