Chapter 1917 Fatal Charge!
"Where is the fire? How could there be smoke?"
The Japanese cavalry looked at their southeast direction in surprise, and some smoke drifted from there.
The Japanese officer scolded: "Don't worry about extra erotic affairs, our goal is to supervise the corps."
"Hi!"
The Japanese soldiers didn't dare to say anything else, so they could only bow and answer.
At the same time, the Japanese officers pointed their swords and more than a thousand Japanese cavalrymen were divided into three groups and rushed towards Shangguan Zhibiao's troops who were marching quickly.
At this moment, the earth shook and it came into Shangguan Zhibiao's ears from afar.
Shangguan Zhibiao looked into the distance, and the Japanese cavalry pressed over like a black cloud head, and the iron hooves of the war horses stepped on the ground like an earthquake.
This is the oppression of the cavalry. In the age of Firearms, the cavalry had been severely suppressed, but even so, the terrifying visual impact still made the palms of every wartime palms appear sweat.
Shangguan Zhibiao shouted at this time: "Don't you be afraid, have the regiment throne already handed over to us how to deal with the Japanese cavalry? The machine gun team is ready, the artillery team is ready to face the enemy. The rest of the people will immediately cover the artillery, and the wounded soldiers will evacuate, hurry!"
"yes!"
The troops in the marching were separated quickly, and more than 500 machine gunners formed more than 500 machine gun squads, and more than 100 artillery soldiers were ready to support them at any time behind the machine gunners.
Everyone knelt on one knee, including machine gunners, ammunition players, and snipers and artillery soldiers.
This is also one of the tactics of Dragon Boat Festival. Compared with the cavalry, the infantry's target is already small, and it will be even more difficult for the Japanese to confirm the target if they find it.
This is the best tactic against cavalry. Of course, this requires you to have enough firepower.
Two battalions, more than 500 machine guns, cannot be achieved by just a casual unit. I am afraid that the only one who can do this is the Supervisory Corps.
The machine gunners and artillery quickly entered the state of combat. But the Japanese at this time didn't know what was going on, but suddenly felt that their enemies seemed to have decreased.
However, this did not affect their performance. Their three cavalry teams were drawing a northwest arc, chasing the wounded and artillerymen who were running rapidly.
But they are falling into another trap set by Dragon Boat Festival. If the Japanese rushed towards you head-on, the target will look much smaller. But if the Japanese face you sideways, both war horses and people will become about 1.5 times larger than before.
This will make the hit rate higher.
Shangguan Zhibiao kept staring at the Japanese with a telescope, calculating the distance of the cavalry:
“500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters,…shoot!”
When the Japanese cavalry were less than 200 meters away from the machine gun position, Shangguan Zhibiao immediately ordered the shooting.
The machine gunner near Shangguan Zhibiao took the lead in firing, shouting loudly: "Shoot!"
The machine gunners' positions were scattered. Shangguan Zhibiao's voice could not be heard into the ears of every machine gunner.
So the gunshot is an order, and the machine gunners conveyed Shangguan Zhibiao's order one after another.
So all the machine gunners pulled the trigger within a few seconds, and the artillery fired at the Japanese at this moment.
Machine gun bullets only form firepower nets in an instant, and the shells fall into the gap between machine gun bullets and explode.
The Japanese cavalry were shot and dropped from their horses, but the more they were hit were war horses.
There is an old saying that if you shoot a man and shoot a horse first. If you kill a war horse, the Japanese will fall down, and then be trampled to death by the war horses behind you.
The Japanese Cavalry Regiment Captain followed the last part of the team, and the machine gunner suddenly appeared caught him off guard.
He had no idea that their enemies did not flee in panic, but hid and ambushed him.
And why are there so many machine guns?
His cavalry seemed to be swallowed by a huge net formed by a bullet in a flash.
The swallowing speed was very fast. At the moment the machine gun sounded, hundreds of Japanese cavalry fell off their horses. The casualties of the war horses were close to one-third of the entire cavalry regiment.
The Japanese cavalry corps were about half of the infantry corps, and the total was no more than 1,600 men and 1,600 war horses.
At this time, nearly one-third of the cavalry were lost in a very short period of time, and the captain of the 18 Cavalry Regiment was absolutely confused.
However, this old Japanese man is quite experienced. After discovering that the enemy was on his flank, he immediately ordered the cavalry to charge towards the machine gunner.
The two are less than two hundred meters away, and as long as the cavalry charges, they can reach the machine gunner.
For infantry, as long as the cavalry crashes through, the opponent will definitely be defeated.
But the Japanese corps leader thought very well, but he ignored a fatal problem.
The cavalry was originally in charge, and it was impossible to quickly change the direction of the charge.
So just as the Japanese turned their horses and wanted to rush back, the machine gunner killed another group of Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese war horses were even more injured.
"The sharpshooter is ready to cover the machine gunner to replace the magazine."
At this moment, Shangguan Zhibiao roared again, and the machine gunner quickly retreated, holding a machine gun and waiting for the ammunition hand to load. At the same time, more than 500 sharpshooters stepped forward to fight the Japanese war horses.
The war horses were shot, and they all fell to the ground one by one, throwing the Japanese on the horse off one by one.
At this time, the Japanese cavalry were filled with corpses of their own people.
But they had no way out at this time. The alive Japanese rode on war horses and continued to charge, while the Japanese who had not landed on the ground also ran among the war horses and rushed towards the machine gunner.
At this time, the artillery no longer had any effect.
Some of them held grenade launchers while others held shells and were ready to rush up to die with the Japanese.
Because everyone knows the terribleness of the Japanese cavalry. As long as the war horses rushed into the position, none of them would be spared and would die under the Japanese's iron hooves.
The sharpshooter has already started to bayonets on the rifle. The Japanese were too close to them, less than fifty meters away from them, and perhaps they could rush over in a flash.
Although most of the Japanese cavalry were lost at this time, there were still more than 500 war horses. And with so many war horses rushing over, the consequences can be imagined.
Even Shangguan Zhibiao was ready to die at this time. He pulled out the Browning pistol from his waist and aimed at the rushing Japanese.
But I didn't expect that at this moment, a loud shout suddenly came. At this critical moment, a machine gunner had already loaded the bullet.
Although it took a little time, his bullets were finally overwhelmed.
Chapter completed!