The War of Resistance Against Japan: Special Operations Battalion Traverses Shanghai and Slaughters

Just as Long Fei was about to issue combat orders to Chen Yiding via walkie-talkie, Chen Yiding took the initiative to turn on the walkie-talkie and ask for instructions.

"Commander, can my First Army wipe out the Japanese cavalry regiment?"

Long Fei chuckled: "Of course, I was just about to give the order to make sure you annihilate the Japanese cavalry regiment."

Long Fei worried that if the Japanese soldiers chased them to the entrance of Wolonggou, they would find the terrain extremely unfavorable to them and would abandon the pursuit.

Now is the perfect time to use the Japanese cavalry regiment to provoke them one last time.

Long Fei believed that when the Japanese division commander saw the warhorses and Japanese corpses scattered all over the ground, he would be enraged, which would cause him to lose his mind for a short time and be unable to make the right decision.

After receiving Long Fei's approval, Chen Yiding immediately set about making arrangements with renewed vigor.

"Brothers, the corps commander once said that cavalry has lost its purpose since the advent of machine guns."

He also said that the Japanese are rigid in their thinking, do not keep up with the times, and still retain cavalry units.

"The Japanese cavalry might have some advantage against the poorly equipped Nationalist army, but against our Dragon Flame Legion, they're just asking for death."

"The corps commander ordered our First Army to annihilate the Japanese cavalry regiment. Now I order all snipers in the army to immediately climb up the cliffs on both sides of Wolonggou."

"Your main objective is to deal with the Japanese cavalry machine gun squadron."

"In addition, deploy one hundred MG42 machine guns, and set up all twenty M2 Browning heavy machine guns that Commander Long assigned to us to form a machine gun position."

"This time, I'm going to cut those arrogant Japanese cavalry like leeks and make them lie dead in front of me."

The machine gun positions had just been set up when the Japanese 3rd Cavalry Regiment appeared about 500 to 600 meters away.

Deputy Commander Liu Yuqing seemed somewhat excited and asked.

"Commander, the Japanese cavalry are well within our machine gun range at this distance."

Liu Yuqing's meaning couldn't be clearer: let's not wait any longer, we can start shooting now.

But Chen Yiding shook his head and said, "Old Liu, don't worry. A Japanese cavalry regiment has more than a thousand men, and some of them are currently out of range."

"Besides, although it's within range, the distance is too far and the hit rate won't be high. Let's wait for the Japanese to launch their attack and then fire when we're two or three hundred meters away."

"Okay, I'll listen to you," Liu Yuqing nodded immediately.

While riding his horse, Tomizaki Tsuhiko had already seen through his binoculars that Chen Yiding's side was ready for battle.

Tomizaki Tsuhiko held a meeting last night, and he strongly supported Division Commander Fujita Susumu's assessment that the Dragon Flame Legion was currently almost out of ammunition and food.

Otherwise, how could the enemy retreat immediately every time they clashed, and how could their firepower weaken with each engagement?

This morning, not long after the three regiments launched their attack, the Dragon Flame Legion put up only a brief resistance before breaking through.

This proves that the other party has no strength to fight back and can only choose to flee again and again.

Therefore, although Tomizaki Tsuhiko saw through his binoculars that the enemy had established a blocking position.

However, he believed that the enemy was merely putting up a last-ditch resistance out of desperation and with no hope of escape, since how could infantry outrun cavalry?

Furthermore, Tomizaki Tsuguhiko believed that the enemy did not have much ammunition, so he did not hesitate to order all cavalry to prepare for a charge.

He attempted to break through the enemy's defensive positions in one fell swoop and inflict heavy casualties on them.

At the entrance to Wolonggou is an open area that is two to three hundred meters wide.

After arranging his Third Cavalry Regiment into battle formation, Tomizaki Tsuhiko slowly raised his sword and shouted.

"Warriors of the Empire, charge forward! With your iron hooves and sabers, crush the Dragon Flame Legion on the other side!"

"Hai, kill them all..."

About 1,400 Japanese cavalrymen, holding reins in one hand and Type 38 rifles in the other, launched a whirlwind charge against the First Army.

At the speed of the Japanese cavalry, it would only take them a little over a minute to reach the First Army, covering a distance of five or six hundred meters.

When the Japanese cavalry charged at breakneck speed to within two meters, Chen Yiding immediately shouted to fire.

"One hundred MG42 machine guns and twenty M2 Browning heavy machine guns opened fire almost simultaneously."

Hiss hiss hiss... thud thud thud..."

Faced with these hundred machine guns, the Japanese cavalry regiment fell in rows like weeds being harvested.

It's important to know that the M2 Browning heavy machine gun uses 12.7 mm diameter bullets.

These bullets are incredibly powerful; if a person is hit by one, it will cause extremely serious injury.

If you are hit in the hands or feet, they will be severed on the spot; if you are hit in the neck, your head will fall off; if you are hit in the stomach, your body will likely be split in two; and if you are unlucky enough to be hit in the head, your head will explode instantly.

This was the first time the Japanese 3rd Cavalry Regiment had been hit by such large-caliber bullets.

Countless Japanese soldiers and warhorses were hit by bullets.

At this point, being killed by an MG42 machine gun bullet would be considered a stroke of good fortune.

The Japanese soldiers charging at the rear saw their comrades in front either with broken arms and legs or heads blown off.

Of course, the most terrifying sight for the Japanese soldiers was that many of them, after being shot in the neck, had their heads fall to the ground and roll around.

Some Japanese soldiers, even after being shot in half, continued to run wildly, pulling on the reins with both hands.

Even if the Japanese soldiers were afraid and wanted to retreat, they couldn't stop their galloping horses just because they wanted to, let alone turn around.

Upon seeing this, the Japanese machine gun squadron immediately set up their machine guns to provide cover.

Before the Japanese machine gunners could pull the trigger, a barrage of bullets came flying in, killing more than a dozen machine gunners instantly.

By the time Tomizaki Tsuhiko realized something was wrong and urgently ordered a halt to the attack and an immediate retreat, it was clearly too late.

The vast majority of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment had already fallen under the intense machine gun fire.

The remaining hundred or so Japanese cavalrymen who had not been hit were turning around and fleeing backwards, relieved to have escaped.

All the machine guns of the First Army were now aimed at them.

They had only run a few dozen meters when all of the more than one hundred Japanese cavalrymen were killed.

Seeing that none of the Japanese cavalrymen had escaped, the First Army also ceased firing.

The battlefield, which had been bustling just moments before, instantly fell into a deathly silence.

Tomizaki Tsuhiko was sitting on his horse, looking dazed, silently staring at the warhorses and cavalry corpses scattered all over the ground in front of him.

The air was filled with a nauseating smell of blood.

"Commander, only the Japanese commander is left..."

A machine gunner of an M2 Browning heavy machine gun asked Chen Yiding, who was standing next to him, for instructions.

"I previously announced that the corps commander ordered us to annihilate the entire Japanese cavalry regiment. Why are you speaking a foreign language? Don't you understand?"

The soldier paused for a moment, then immediately replied loudly, "Yes, I understand."

After saying that, the soldier pointed his gun at Tomizaki Tsuhiko.

"Da da da……"

Of the seventy or eighty heavy machine gun bullets fired, at least ten hit Tomizaki Tsutomu and his warhorse instantly.

Tomizaki Tsuhiko's entire body was immediately shattered, breaking into several large chunks of flesh that scattered on the ground.

His poor warhorse was also hit in the neck and belly, fell to the ground and died soon after.