Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 3 The Powerful Devil

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the combat effectiveness and tactical level of the Japanese army far surpassed that of the Chinese army in the same period.

The guard company desperately repelled the first round of the Japanese cavalry squadron's attack, and killed and wounded nearly [-] cavalrymen.

In order to catch up with the Eighth Route Army headquarters which was continuing to retreat, the Japanese squadron leader immediately changed his tactics.

The two teams stayed here to continue to destroy the rear troops of the Eighth Route Army and drag them here.Then ordered a cavalry squad with the least loss to bypass the guard company's blocking position and continue to pursue, trying to find a way to slow down the retreat speed of the First Army Division Command.

The guard company that killed and injured nearly 40 devil cavalrymen paid a huge price for more than [-] casualties.

This is also the result of the Little Devils Cavalry Squadron being equipped with only two crooked light machine guns and not wanting to fight head-on with the guard company here. After all, Yang Chengwu is their real target.

If the Japanese army rushed forward regardless of casualties, the guard company would never be able to stop it.

Therefore, in the face of the divided Japanese cavalry, the guard company, which suffered heavy losses and lacked ammunition, had nothing to do but stare blankly.

A standard cavalry squad has more than 30 cavalry, and there are still 28 cavalry after paying some losses in the attack just now.

In less than 10 minutes, these arrogant cavalry entered Wang Ping's field of vision.

Seeing the devil cavalry dragging the formation for nearly 50 meters, rushing towards him like a torrent, Wang Ping immediately showed a regretful expression.

The formation of the Japanese army is too sparse. Even if the few cluster grenades he arranged were all exploded in the air, the results that can be achieved will not be too great.

If when I deployed the cluster grenades just now, I had someone arrange some obstacles on the official road, slow down the speed of the cavalry, and make their pursuit formation more concentrated, the results of the few cluster grenades must be amazing.

However, it was too late to say anything now, and they could only watch helplessly as the devil cavalry rushed into the booby trap he had prepared for them.

Wang Ping stared at the battlefield with staring eyes, and the devil cavalry rushed into the booby trap without any precautions.

Because the grenade has a delay of several seconds, the first cluster grenade did not explode immediately after being pulled out of the fuse.

Waiting for the front cavalry to touch all the fuses of the cluster grenade, more than a dozen cavalry were scattered in front of and behind the entire booby trap, and the violent explosion sounded on the battlefield.

"Boom boom boom..."

The first cluster grenade exploded in the air, immediately forming nearly a hundred pieces of grenade fragments flying in all directions.

With the explosion point as the center, the front and back five or six meter pipelines were all covered by these fragments, and three devil cavalrymen fell down on the official road with screams on the spot.

A ghost cavalry following behind, perhaps because he was caught off guard, the galloping horse directly hit the corpse of the horse in front, fell to the ground, and seriously injured the cavalry on his back.

At the same time, several other cluster grenades exploded one after another. In the violent explosion, each cluster grenade killed two to four devil cavalrymen.

When the smoke from the booby trap cleared away, the remaining ghost cavalrymen stopped completely.The booby trap was only 30 meters long on the official road, and fourteen devil cavalrymen and the same number of horses fell down.

Faced with this result, all the recruits around Wang Ping gave Wang Ping a look of admiration.

At the beginning, they didn't believe the well-mannered Wang Ping that he could lead everyone to block the Japanese cavalry. Some people even made up their minds to die here with the devils.

But after the explosion just now, everyone looked at Wang Ping with admiration, and gained the confidence to block the devils.

Successfully wiped out fourteen cavalry without losing a single soldier. No one here could achieve such a result.But Wang Ping did it.

After seeing the changes in everyone's faces, Wang Ping, who had already established his prestige, immediately ordered: "We have a terrain advantage, as long as the devils are not stupid, they will dismount and attack us. It's easy to say, but the machine gun is a problem. Is there any good marksmanship in the whole platoon, specially watching the devils with their machine guns?"

The three squad leaders immediately focused their attention on the platoon leader Zeng.

Zeng Quan replied without hesitation: "My marksmanship is not bad, and I can guarantee to hit the target within 150 meters."

"150 meters is enough!" Wang Ping replied with a satisfied face.

Soon, an idea appeared in Wang Ping's mind, and he ordered several squad leaders: "Our advantage is that we have a large number of people, and the advantages of the devils are fierce firepower and accurate marksmanship. Therefore, it is a disadvantage to shoot against the devils." It must be us."

Zeng Quan, who was the platoon leader during the Red Army period, reacted immediately: "Consultant Wang, you plan to fight the devils in close combat, hand-to-hand combat!"

"No!" Wang Ping shook his head and replied.

"We are not opponents of devils in hand-to-hand combat. Don't forget that you are all recruits."

Speaking of this, Wang Ping directly ordered: "We will fight like this, first shoot to attract the devils to get off their horses and attack us. Then hide them for me, and greet them with grenades when the devils charge close. The grenades are better than the devils equipped with grenades. We are far away, and we have an advantage in terrain, throwing grenades must be a disadvantage for the devils."

"After throwing the grenades, the platoon leader Zeng and the three squad leaders opened fire. The platoon leader Zeng stared at the Japs machine gunners, and the three squad leaders stared at the remaining Japs riflemen."

"Nearly thirty grenades, plus you all shooting at the same time, I don't believe that the remaining fourteen devil cavalry can't be dealt with."

"If there are still fish that slip through the net, the shell gun in my hand is not a vegetarian. It is not a problem to kill two or three devils with ten bullets at close range."

Soon, there was a burst of gunshots on the mountain ridge. There were rifles, shotguns, and even gunpowder guns, crackling and crackling, very scary.

But because the distance was too far, except Zeng Quan hit a devil in the thigh, the others did not achieve any results.

Faced with heavy casualties, the little devil, who was holding back his anger, quickly lay down on the ground and fired bullets at the mountain ridge, as if he had found a target to vent his anger on.Especially the crooked light machine gun equipped by the cavalry squad, which fired a series of dense bullets at the mountain ridge when it was placed on the ground.

Even though I repeatedly told myself to hide after shooting, the Japanese army's marksmanship is not vegetarian.

But recruits are recruits after all, and the reaction speed of the Japanese army was much faster than Wang Ping imagined.

Five or six recruits who reacted a beat slower were hit by bullets and fell to the ground.

That's not all, the bullets fired by the crooked light machine guns of the Japanese army seemed to have eyes, and flew over their heads tightly against the top of the mountain ridge.

A confrontation with the initiative not only failed to eliminate a devil, but also lost several people.Wang Ping had a new understanding of the devil's fighting power, and then with a serious face, he told the remaining 20 brothers under his command to hide well so that they would not be hit by the Japanese army again.

After the Eighth Route Army who attacked him became a coward, the cavalry squad that lost more than half did not intend to just let them go.

The dozen or so devils who planned to take revenge immediately gave up their horses and rushed up the mountain ridge with their rifles under the cover of machine guns behind them.

Soon, the twelve devils rushed to the bottom of the mountain ridge, less than 40 meters away from the top of the ridge where Wang Ping was lurking.

(End of this chapter)