Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

If there were bullets, the soldiers of Sun Desheng's company would of course dismount and fight on foot, shooting at the enemy. Mountains are not suitable for large-scale cavalry assaults.

No matter how fast a warhorse is, it cannot outrun a flying bullet.

All the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Company gripped their sabers tightly, their arms and bodies trembling slightly with nervousness!

They all kept their eyes on the enemy, ready to be attacked, hacked, or shot at at any time.

Looking at the dark mass of enemies, the tall Anglo-Norman hybrid war horses, the exquisite canvas drapes, the smug and grinning faces of the Japanese cavalry, the long spears on their backs and the sabers waving, and the light machine guns in the hands of some Japanese soldiers, every soldier understood that today would be the final bloody battle!

The wild blood begins to burn!

Sun Desheng felt a surge of despair and indignation, but in an instant it transformed into passionate fervor. He turned around, galloped in front of the troops, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Comrades, comrades of the independent regiment's cavalry company, we have very few bullets to begin with, and now we have used up all our ammunition. The enemy is right in front of us, and their numbers far outnumber us. I think there is at least a cavalry battalion! Comrades, the time has come to sacrifice your lives for our country and our nation! Are you afraid?"

The 87 cavalrymen raised their sabers high and roared, shaking the world: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, don't be afraid!"

Sun Desheng: "Comrades, can we defeat the Japanese devils?"

The soldiers shouted in unison: "Yes, yes, yes, we will definitely defeat the devils and completely wipe out the invaders!"

Sun Desheng turned his horse's head, tears of excitement streaming down his face. His thin body caused by malnutrition now looked as tall as a mountain.

His mind was in a mess and he thought of many things.

However, he quickly suppressed all negative emotions, placed the saber horizontally, and gently licked the cold, sharp blade with his tongue, injecting his soul into it!

From now on, he is the Sabre and the Sabre is him. They will be firmly integrated together and become an indivisible whole!

They will send out sonorous, unyielding and murderous aura towards the enemy!

The sabers were raised, and the 87 soldiers of the cavalry company also raised their sabers high. They exerted force with their legs and stood up slightly from the saddle. They tightened the reins with their left hands, looked forward, and made the most basic movements before charging.

"slow!"

On the opposite side, someone shouted from the rows of tight Japanese army formations, and then the formations parted, and a Japanese officer rode out on his horse and ran straight to Sun Desheng!

The distance is only five meters!

Almost face to face!

The Japanese officers looked excited and were breathing rapidly.

He is Eguchi Tsuhachiro!

He was shocked by the spirit and momentum of the Eighth Route Army and felt a sense of sympathy for them.

The cavalry is the sunset of a declining era. Perhaps after a while, the 4th Cavalry Brigade, which shines with the glorious history of the Japanese army, will also be completely disbanded.

Therefore, there is a rare resonance.

In somewhat awkward Chinese, he introduced himself. "I am Colonel Tsunehachiro Eguchi, Commander of the 1st Regiment, 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Empire of Japan! I am leading our most elite cavalry to intercept you. Your spirit is completely different from the Fengtian Army, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, and the Northwest Qingma Army that the Imperial Cavalry encountered previously. They were either cowardly or superficial, unable to withstand a single blow from the relentless onslaught of the Imperial Cavalry. You, on the other hand, are fighting in utter despair! You are fearless and unwavering! I admire you; your spirit aligns with the Bushido creed of the Empire of Japan! General Okamura Yasuji, Commander of the Imperial North China Expeditionary Force, and General Kozuka Yoshio, Commander of the 1st Army, have both urged us to be lenient with our prisoners. Therefore, I am willing to risk my life to persuade you to surrender. I hope you will cease resistance, avoid meaningless self-destruction, and cooperate with the Empire to build Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Belt, Sino-Japanese friendship, and a land of peace and prosperity!"

Sun Desheng was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that there would be such a brave Japanese.

He raised his left hand and gave a thumbs up!

"Stop resisting? Sure! Absolutely! Hahaha!"

The gruff laughter couldn't contain the anger and sadness.

Colonel Eguchi Tsuruhachiro's triangular eyes suddenly jumped, and a fierce gleam flashed across his face: "You?"

Sun Desheng withdrew his thumb and replaced it with a sharp index finger: "As long as all of you Japanese devils get out of our land, as long as you compensate the millions of Chinese people you have harmed with your lives, as long as your crimes are settled, I and my brothers are willing to stop resisting and return to the countryside. Can you do it?"

Jiangkou Tsubohachiro suddenly became angry and embarrassed!

"Baga! You're so stubborn! Fine, just wait for death!"

He turned and rode away.

In reality, Jiangkou Tsuruhachiro was already deeply terrified and regretful at this point. Why had he gone to such lengths to persuade the enemy to surrender? Wasn't that courting death? What if the Eighth Route Army, lacking moral integrity, simply beat him up, or even rained a barrage of bullets upon him? He would surely be wiped out!

After returning to the army, Jiangkou Tsuyohachiro was angry and humiliated because of the fear. Some of his subordinates suggested that he use machine guns to wipe out the Eighth Route Army, but he refused.

The Eighth Route Army cavalrymen were all pale and skinny, how could they be a match for the Japanese cavalry?

He wanted to use a classic cavalry battle to completely destroy the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Company, use cold weapons, and kill the enemy one by one, making them suffer the most terrifying mental torture.

The Japanese raised their sabers.

More than 300 Japanese soldiers, each of them short and fat, with a ruddy face, like an ugly and wretched flat-headed brother, full of confidence and showing their fangs and claws!

The Eighth Route Army Cavalry Company also raised their sabers.

Fight even if you can’t beat him!

Would rather die than surrender!

Sun Desheng raised his saber and said, "Cavalry Company, follow me!"

Jiangkou Tsūhachirō also raised his saber and let out a ferocious howl: "Kill them!"

The Japanese soldiers were arrogant, confident and determined to win!

The Eighth Route Army Cavalry Company knew they were going to die, so their courage doubled!

Just when the two sides were about to fight each other and engage in a brutal decisive battle with cavalry formations, bursts of fierce machine gun fire rang out from the mountains on both sides. Countless Japanese soldiers were about to turn their heads to look when they were pierced through the heads, necks, and bodies by the roaring rain of bullets!

Flesh and blood flying everywhere!

As cruel and merciless as the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves!

The Japanese soldiers fell off their horses and turned into corpses.

The white brain matter and red blood plasma sprayed in mist, which was a spectacular sight.

Everywhere was filled with the sound of broken watermelons, like the Japanese soldiers' heads being blown apart, one after another.

Bang bang bang, bang bang bang!

In one round of shooting, more than 200 of the 300 cavalrymen from a Japanese cavalry battalion and two cavalry squadrons were killed.

It was like an invisible lawn mower in the air, waving a scythe and cutting the Japanese soldiers like leeks!

The Japanese army was stunned.

Where's the sneak attack?

Who is attacking?

impossible.

On the opposite side, Sun Desheng and his cavalry company soldiers were also stunned!

At first, they thought it was machine gun fire from the Japanese army. Some soldiers, who thought they were doomed, charged forward without even waiting for orders. After charging for a while, they noticed something strange and tried their best to rein in their horses!

The vast majority of cavalry company soldiers hold their heads high and look straight ahead. Even if they die, they will die with dignity and would rather break than bend!

It was not until they got used to the crisp sound of machine guns, saw the boiling smoke, and saw the scene of Japanese soldiers falling off their saddles that they suddenly realized that someone had attacked the Japanese army, the Japanese army was finished, and we were saved!

Sun Desheng turned his head in horror, shielding his eyes from the sunlight with his hands, and squinting his eyes at the mountains on both sides. He saw machine guns spewing angry flames, and a blurry shadow among the rocks, bushes, wormwood and jujube trees.

What about people?

who?

Could it be that the Japanese had committed so many evil things that they were struck by lightning?

The first to wake up were the Japanese army. They immediately waved their sabers, turned their horses' heads, and charged towards the mountains on both sides. Some of them took off their rifles and fired at the mountains. They could even tell the direction and distance of the enemy with their ears!

Other Japanese soldiers immediately raised their machine guns and fired at the attackers on both sides.

Most of them were blocked by other horses, tripped by corpses, or shot by bullets before they could rush out, becoming corpses themselves.

"Attack, attack quickly, attack on both sides!" Colonel Eguchi Tsuyahara was scared to death!

He never dreamed that there were ambushes of the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the mountain, and that their firepower was far more ferocious than that of the Imperial Army!

At least 40 light machine guns!

Moreover, all the bullets were directed at the Japanese soldiers, trying to avoid the horses as much as possible. The shooting was both brutal and measured.

Eguchi Tsūhachiro would not retreat, that would be courting death. He had to order the cavalry to attack, using the fast speed to intimidate the enemy, and take advantage of the opportunity when the enemy ran out of bullets and had time to reinstall the bridge clamps, rush over, and kill them with his saber, or use his rifle to shoot accurately and turn defeat into victory.

At this time, on the flanks behind the Japanese army, on the left and right sides, came the sound of intensive rifle shooting, and it was cross-fire!

After a burst of concentrated gunfire like the sound of frying beans, the Japanese cavalry formation completely changed.

The hundreds of remaining Japanese soldiers were killed together, and almost all of them fell off their horses, rolling and struggling on the ground, wailing in pain and cursing in anger.

The Japanese army is finished!

More than 300 people from two cavalry squadrons of the first echelon of the first regiment of the elite, ace cavalry brigade were completely wiped out!

The well-trained Anglo-Norman mixed-breed war horses were not afraid in the face of danger. They still lined up in neat military formations and waited quietly.

A few military horses even lowered their heads like psychics and licked their masters, wanting them to get up immediately and stop playing tricks.

Hahaha!

Sun Desheng laughed wildly towards the sky!

"Cavalry Company, follow me! Any Japs who don't surrender will be chopped to pieces!"

The cavalry company charged bravely, broke into the Japanese cavalry formation, and eliminated the enemies struggling on the ground.

After all the enemies were wiped out, Sun Desheng crossed the warhorse jungle and came to the east. Here, a group of people had appeared. Their confused eyes, shabby military uniforms, and the appearance of the cavalry leading them were unbelievable to him.

Su Fei came up to them, quickly dismounted, and saluted with full energy, "Hello, Captain Sun! Su Fei from the Special Operations Brigade Cavalry Unit has been ordered to come and reinforce us. Please give us your instructions!"

Although he was the brigade commander, Sun Desheng was an old senior and one of the heroes he admired most, so he could not be impolite to him.

Sun Desheng slid off his horse like a sleepwalker, looking Su Fei up and down, gazing at the cavalry behind him and the machine gunners starting to walk down the hillside to his left and right. "Su Fei? Are you Su Fei? Are you from the cavalry company of Baijia Town?"

Su Fei smiled and said, "It's genuine!"

Tears instantly filled Sun Desheng's eyes. In desperate situation, it was Su Fei's cavalry unit that saved him.

Su Fei, a capable man, a war hero, but what was the Baijia Town Cavalry? A mob he had always looked down upon.

"Hello, Company Commander!" Two veteran soldiers he was familiar with stood at attention and saluted. They were his former subordinates, and were later invited by Su Fei to be instructors.

Sun Desheng finally woke up, rushed forward, and hit Su Fei's chest several times. Only then did he realize the huge difference in status and quickly stood at attention and saluted: "Stinky boy, you, no, hello, Brigadier General Su, thank you for your hard work!"

Su Fei immediately ordered the soldiers to quickly confiscate the Japanese's horses, weapons and ammunition, and move eastward towards Zhuzui Ridge. He also inquired about the situation of the independent regiment and the cavalry company.

……

Su Fei was the first Japanese army to occupy the position at Zhuzui Ridge. Afterwards, when discussing the issue of supporting the cavalry company of the independent regiment, everyone had a lot of discussions and could not reach a consensus, but in the end they all followed Su Fei's opinion.

The main force stayed behind at Zhuzui Ridge, which served as a base for retreat and transfer. A cavalry company and a machine gun company rushed to Shilipo, which was most likely to become a battlefield. Here, the machine gun company ambushed on the mountains on both sides, and the cavalry company ambushed nearby. They hid the soldiers and horses in a small valley nearby and tightened their reins.

"Commander Su, is this your cavalry unit? So many? How can this be called a cavalry company? Didn't we leave you a hundred horses?"

When all the military horses were brought over, there were more than 200 of them, and the soldiers were strong and powerful, which shocked Sun Desheng at once.

Su Fei changed the subject so as not to make Sun Desheng feel unbalanced.

"This is incredible! No wonder Comrade Su Fei has been promoted so many times in just a few months and has become our leader. He really has the talent. This isn't just a cavalry company, it's a cavalry battalion. But how can a cavalry battalion have so many machine guns? You're actually using machine guns like rifles?"

All the cadres and soldiers of the cavalry company of the independent regiment were very knowledgeable and had their eyes opened.

I was moved and shocked.

Some familiar soldiers, especially several veterans who had served as cavalry company commanders and machine gun company commanders of the Su Fei Unit, reunited with their old comrades in the Independent Regiment, crying with joy and having endless things to say.

Su Fei learned about the situation of the independent regiment and felt very sad.

Unexpectedly, the independent regiment still suffered heavy losses. The infantry was reduced from a regiment of more than 2,000 people to only one company!

Even the direction of Li Yunlong and Political Commissar Zhao Gang's breakout and their current location are unknown.

Sun Desheng even worried that the regiment commander and political commissar would find it difficult to escape the enemy's clutches.

Hurry up and find out the enemy situation!

Su Fei quickly interrogated several Japanese prisoners. His fluent Japanese made the wounded Japanese soldiers' eyes widen. However, these devils were very stubborn and refused to answer like stubborn donkeys.

It doesn't matter, just look for the officers and collect the telegrams and combat logs.

The brigade staff officers under Su Fei were well aware of Su Fei's style and had brought them with them long ago.

Su Fei understood after taking a look.

When Sun Desheng urged Su Fei to go back and rescue the Independent Regiment, Su Fei decisively pointed to the map and said, "Everyone, immediately make a detour from the north and return to Zhuzui Ridge! The second echelon of the Japanese Cavalry Regiment is likely to have already..."

There were dense gunshots and artillery fire coming from the direction of Zhuzui Ridge!