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Ding Wei's military sub-district secretly captured many artillery towers. The life and death of the puppet soldiers in the artillery towers depended on his thoughts. The seemingly indestructible blockade network of the Japanese was actually leaking due to infiltration.

There are two relatively mobile corps in the Mongolian army. One of them is the cavalry group, which is equipped with several cavalry regiments for rapid support in combat.

There is also a search wing that has achieved motorization and is equipped with armored vehicles. It has strong mobility and powerful combat effectiveness.

Ding Wei wanted to fight guerrilla warfare in the Datong Basin, so he had to destroy the two mobile units of the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia.

Choose a suitable location and kill the cavalry regiment led by Kuroshima Morita first.

After returning to the headquarters, he personally led the team to the mountainous area northwest of Shenchi, which was the area of ​​activity of the Mongolian troops.

The Shenchi County is within the garrison area of ​​the First Army.

The Japanese's division is quite funny. Two different army-level units have their own mopping-up time.

There is a deviation between the two. When the Mongolian troops launched a sweep, the Eighth Route Army ran from north to south, avoiding the sweep, and then fought back to the base.

When the First Army was conducting a sweep, the comrades in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region moved from south to north, avoiding the sweep and then returning to their base.

The Japanese army is not a united force either.

Wang Chengzhu's mortar company, Kong Yong's mobile reconnaissance battalion (some on bicycles, some on tall horses), the New Fourth Regiment's cavalry battalion, and a heavy machine gun company gathered in Liming and Bajiao towns northwest of Ningwu.

"Let Captain Kong take a team of people to the puppet army's artillery tower to perform a play."

Ding Wei decided to attack the Japanese cavalry regiment first, and arranged people to feint an attack on the artillery tower to lure the main force of the Japanese to come to the rescue.

A group of people fired guns into the sky, and the fighting was fierce, but there were actually no casualties.

The puppet troops asked for help, claiming that they were under siege by the Eighth Route Army.

Multiple turrets reported crises.

The puppet troops and devils stationed in a nearby stronghold had just come out to provide support.

They were repelled by the ambush troops arranged by the New Fourth Regiment and forced to retreat to their stronghold.

The Japanese immediately sent an emergency call to the Shuo County Cavalry Regiment, requesting military support.

The cavalry regiment stationed in Shuo County had fought against the Imperial Baron Colonel Kuroshima, who had lost nearly half of his cavalry.

The Japanese horses are pretty good, taller than the short Mongolian horses, more than 1.6 meters, so some people call them Oriental horses (??? It’s different from the Oriental horses I understand, did I see it wrong when I watched the video, a small horse driving a big cart.).

A fully staffed cavalry regiment has 1500 men, equipped with grenade launchers and light machine guns, and has considerable combat effectiveness.

The plan was to ambush the cavalry regiment on the horse-driving road east of Liming Town.

In ancient times, Shenchi and Ningwu were important passways. Some Shanxi merchants had difficulty entering and exiting, so they found suitable mountain roads in the ravines in the northwest.

There were no cars in the past, and everything was transported by horses.

The horse-driving path is the area in the valley where merchants often pass.

A trade route gradually formed in the relatively flat valley between two mountains. This road in and out of the mountain area was called the Horse Driving Road.

It is only one mountain pass away from the Datong Basin and less than 5 miles away from the plain.

Since it is an ambush, it should be set up where the Japanese least expect it.

Several artillery towers were in critical condition, but the Japanese invaders were unaware of these artillery towers and had already been instigated by the Eighth Route Army to rebel.

The news that came was fake news.

By arranging reinforcements based on false information, Kuroshima Morita could not have imagined that the Eighth Route Army could find the horse-driving path leading into the mountain right under the nose of the artillery tower.

Ding Wei led the cavalry battalion, reconnaissance battalion, and mortar company to ambush near the entrance to the mountain.

A group of cavalry came galloping.

"Commander, something is wrong. There is only one cavalry squadron."

Sun Desheng was experienced. He put his ear close to the ground and listened. Just by the density of the horse hooves, he roughly guessed the enemy's troop strength.

"Arrange the cavalry company to meet them, entangle and eat these devils, and we will continue to catch the big fish."

If you don't take advantage of an opportunity, you are a complete bastard.

After all, it was a cavalry squadron with a full strength of 144 people and 134 Japanese horses.

Captain Sun understood what he meant and immediately arranged for mobile forces to cooperate with part of the reconnaissance company to target the Japanese cavalry squadron.

After going deep into the mountains for a while, they suddenly launched an attack.

Attack from the flank, using carbines to fire accurately.

The ambushed reconnaissance company used light machine guns and sniper rifles to help with bursts of fire, quickly wiping out most of the Japanese.

The remaining dozens of Japanese soldiers wanted to escape, but were firmly entangled by the cavalry company, which gradually killed off the lagging Japanese soldiers.

We are all the same horse, there is no such thing as fast or slow.

The cavalry company had more soldiers, twice as many as the remaining Japanese cavalry. They kept firing, and the bullets penetrated the backs of the Japanese and fell off their horses.

"Look carefully and shoot. First, don't waste bullets, and second, don't hurt the horses."

The company commander, Sun Xiaolong, shouted loudly and rushed to the front, with his carbine in hand and pointed it forward.

The Japanese soldier fell to the ground and fell off his horse.

The warhorse was frightened and ran away in panic.

"Go, two brothers, bring back the horses, and the rest of you follow me to continue the pursuit."

The Japanese soldiers panicked and were killed one after another in the mountainous area. The remaining dozen or so people could not escape the pursuit.

Kuroshima Morita realized that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was in the mountains, and immediately dispatched all the troops of the regiment, as well as puppet troops, military police, and the Imperial Army to this side.

The total force is more than 3000 people.

The cavalry moved quickly and entered the mountains first.

What he didn't expect was that as soon as he entered the mountain pass, he was greeted by heavy machine guns and mortars.

How could the Eighth Route Army ambush at the entrance to the mountain without noticing the artillery towers along the way?

Don't worry about why at this time, first consider how to respond.

Cavalry has high mobility, but it is a product of the last century after all. The emergence of heavy machine guns has exacerbated the casualties of cavalry.

As it has evolved to the present, the rich play with mechanization and motorization, while the poor play with cavalry variants.

It evolved into the concept of cavalry infantry, reducing charging and focusing only on mobility.

The firepower of the ambush is very strong, which is also an issue that Ding Wei is good at and repeatedly emphasizes.

You must make use of the first wave of ambush firepower to annihilate the enemy as much as possible, weaken the enemy's manpower, and reduce casualties in your own troops.

The mortar company opened fire at full capacity, and the 200 mortar shells that were transported were smashed into the ground mercilessly.

Ding Wei felt a little distressed when he saw this.

The fire covered the entire valley, and the explosions spread to the horse-driving path, causing the frightened horses to flee.

The Japs died one after another under the cover of gunfire.

"Zhu Zi, that's enough, that's enough, save your beatings."

Even Ding Wei, a local rich man, could not withstand the crazy attack of six mortars. In less than a minute, more than 6 shells fell in the valley.

Every shot you fire will yield rewards.

When a horse is frightened, it will immediately run straight ahead. In addition, the cavalry is moving forward, so it is impossible for them to turn their horses around.

That would be even more messy.

Kuroshima Morita immediately ordered his troops to break out of the encirclement and counterattack after avoiding the artillery fire.

The order was correct, at least we had to get out of the mortar's bombing range.

But just as they approached, the heavy machine gun company opened fire.

The bullets whizzed over, spinning and sweeping in a straight line.

Cavalry are useless against heavy machine guns.

The scene was like cutting leeks, with blood flying everywhere and soldiers shot by heavy machine gun bullets.