ebookland Chapter 236 Cavalry Tactics
Chapter 236 Cavalry Tactics
"Brothers, speed up! The cavalry company has helped us hold them back. If anyone mentions cavalry again, it will be useless. I will send you to feed the horses."
After receiving the report from the cavalry company, Zhao Tiezhu also became excited. His men raised up the dust around them, but there was no time to worry about that now. From the moment the plane discovered us, there was no point in advancing covertly. The most important thing now was speed.
Commander Yamamoto also heard about what was happening outside the city. In fact, there was no need for others to report it now. The sound of gunfire and artillery could be heard. It was as if the Watanabe Battalion was surrounded at the edge of the city. He had already given the strictest orders to Captain Watanabe, asking them to run into the city regardless of the consequences.
But could Captain Watanabe bear to abandon his men? If they followed the Commander's orders and rushed into the city without a care in the world, their Watanabe Battalion would suffer at least several hundred casualties.
If the enemy's cavalry company had moved fast enough, 500 people would have been unable to stop them. Moreover, from the beginning of the battle until now, we have not done anything to the enemy, but more than 170 people on our side have died. Captain Lubian feels that he will not be able to swallow this anger if he does not avenge this.
"Can't these damn cavalrymen be like warriors and fight us properly on the battlefield?"
Captain Watanabe was almost furious. These cavalrymen were roaming around him, biting his tail tightly, and there were snipers in the middle and front waiting for the opportunity to shoot.
But they just didn't get close and used mortar shells to communicate with them.
The infantry artillery has been assembled, but the problem is that the area where the cavalry is moving is too large. There are only more than 300 cavalrymen distributed in the vast land around. What can you do even if your infantry artillery has been assembled?
It takes a long time to reload a round, and by the time you come to your senses, the enemy has already run away, and then you have to calibrate the firing parameters...
Wei Minghai has taken guerrilla warfare to the extreme. No one's horses can stop. Even if you can't gain an advantage here, you can't let the other side gain an advantage. As long as we can move, Watanabe's team will have no way to deal with us.
The more than 60 artillery shells we carried with us have now been used up. Wei Minghai asked his artillerymen to find a place to stay. We don't need you now. Your mission has been completed. Although the damage caused is not great, as long as we can delay Watanabe Battalion, our mission will be the first to do so. Otherwise, if those guys behind us run over, there will be no one around. What's the point of running fast?
"Reporting to His Excellency, Captain, Commander Yamamoto orders you to immediately abandon all baggage and quickly retreat to the city."
This was the third order he had received. Captain Watanabe crumpled the order with some disgust and threw it aside. In this situation, he would definitely be dismissed and investigated if he went back. He had to win a victory.
"The entire army will move closer to me and form a circular defense line."
Captain Watanabe hesitated for three seconds and immediately gave the order. His men wanted to persuade him, but when they saw the captain's expression, they swallowed the rest of their words and said, "If you don't want to be beaten, don't say a word."
The originally stretched front line of Watanabe's battalion is now rapidly moving towards the battalion leader. There are less than a thousand people left in the entire battalion, but their movements are still very good, which shows that they have received good training in their daily lives.
Wei Minghai felt regretful again at this time. If I had known that you guys would get together, I would have saved the shells. I fired more than 60 shells just now, but only killed a few people. Now seeing how you guys are getting together, one shell will definitely kill more than a dozen people.
However, the cavalry following behind the team gave Wei Minghai a surprise. The Japanese soldiers behind the team ran towards the captain desperately. The cavalry brothers also understood and immediately followed them on their horses.
The Japs' shooting was very accurate. Even if our cavalry followed behind them, they did not dare to get too close, otherwise there would be too many casualties.
When the Japanese retreated just now, they were covering each other and we didn't achieve much. Now their captain has issued an order for an emergency assembly, and loopholes will soon appear.
When we were covering each other, there were always people pointing guns at us. Now most of them had their backs exposed, so the cavalry following behind quickly caught up and aimed at the fleeing Japanese.
The Japs that were killed in more than an hour just now probably couldn't make up for these five minutes. The Japs knew they would die, but they had no other way. If you run slower, more people will die. Now you can only run to the middle desperately.
"Stop the pursuit, everyone retreat."
Seeing that the Japanese's circular defense line was about to be completed, Wei Minghai was no fool. The machine guns had already been set up. If our cavalry continued to chase forward, they would become their targets. We took this opportunity to retreat and retreat out of the range of the machine guns.
"idiot."
The Watanabe Battalion, which was preparing to take revenge, saw the enemy cavalry company advancing and retreating in a measured manner and cursed them viciously, but apart from cursing these cavalrymen with words, they could not find any other way.
The cavalry company is so hateful. When the Japanese clench their fists, the cavalry company hides far away, but when you start to retreat, the cavalry company will come up again and take the opportunity to kill the Japanese's living forces.
This style of fighting has been going on for a while. The cavalry company itself has not suffered much loss, but the Japanese always leave behind more than a dozen corpses in each firefight. Captain Watanabe knows very well that if he continues to fight like this, sooner or later his men will be wiped out.
In addition, their movement speed was also very slow. Tianjin City was right next to them, and they could see some buildings on the edge, but they couldn't move at such a close distance.
While Captain Watanabe was worried, Wei Minghai was also worried. The regiment commander and his men were coming too slowly. If they didn't come any longer, the rest of the people would probably run back.
Just as the guy was about to pick up the intercom to ask, a rumbling sound came from behind him. "Isn't this our armored vehicle or something else?" On the ground in North China, apart from the armored vehicles of our 72nd Brigade, I'm afraid nothing can make such a roar.
"The leader is here..."
The brothers in the cavalry company were almost exhausted. At this moment, their eyes were full of excitement. When they looked at the Japanese again, their eyes were full of despair...