Check in from the bright sword

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"However, it's useless!" Masao Kato grinned. "Although the Eighth Route Army is cunning, their commander is a stupid pig. He launched an ambush too early."

"If you wait until the imperial cavalry has passed before launching an ambush, the Eighth Route Army's ambush can form a front-to-back attack with the small group of cavalry in front. If this happens, the imperial cavalry will be in trouble."

"But now, the imperial cavalry can easily deal with them."

While the two were talking, the two cavalry squadrons of the Japanese army adjusted their direction slightly, and charged towards the two groups of Eighth Route Army cavalry that had just emerged.

Those two groups of Eighth Route Army cavalry didn't know what to do, they seemed to be dazed, and they were still chaotically forming a team.

Running between the two groups of ambush soldiers was the first group of Eighth Route Army cavalry, and they didn't seem to stop at all to share the pressure for the friendly troops.

Seeing this scene, both Ryoichi Yamamoto and Masao Kato laughed.

But after laughing, Ryoichi Yamamoto couldn't help but feel a little unbelievable.

Ryoichi Yamamoto: "Kato-kun, based on the previous battles between the two sides, it seems that the Eighth Route Army in Heyuan County shouldn't be at this level?"

"With such a technical and tactical level, how can it be the opponent of the imperial army?"

"That's true." Kato Masao said, "The Eighth Route Army's performance today is a bit abnormal."

Speaking of this, the two old devils stopped at the same time, looking at each other in shock, did the Eighth Route Army do it on purpose?

"Order, Matsushima Squadron and Sato Squadron..." Ryoichi Yamamoto wanted to give an order, but it was too late.

Before the words were finished, there was a sound of neighing and boiling in the wilderness ahead. Immediately afterwards, the Matsushima Squadron, which was rushing forward rumblingly, and the Sato Squadron, which had been transferred from the Mongolian Army with more than two hundred riders, came one after another. The horse stumbled and fell to the wilderness without warning.

"This is……"

Both Ryoichi Yamamoto and Masao Kato were dumbfounded.

After a while, it was Kato Masao who was the first to notice: "The horse trap! Damn it, it's the horse trap!"

Due to the sudden incident, the Matsushima Squadron and Sato Squadron, which were galloping forward at full speed, couldn't stop at all. The dozens of riders in front quickly stepped on the pit and fell to the ground.

The dozens of riders in the middle also couldn't stop their feet, and then bumped into them, and also stepped on the horse trap and fell down.

Although the last dozens of riders avoided in time, they unfortunately stepped on more horse traps on both sides.

In a blink of an eye, more than half of the two hundred cavalry squadrons that were chasing forward fell to the ground, and the remaining half were already in a mess, circling around in a hurry.

At this time, the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army who were like "headless flies" suddenly changed their faces.

The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, who had been in a mess just now, suddenly formed a neat formation and began to charge forward.

In just a few minutes, two groups of Eighth Route Army cavalry rushed to the front of the devil cavalry formation, and the remaining half of the Devil cavalry had just escaped from the pit area, and before they had time to regroup, they collided head-on with the Eighth Route Army.

One side is still in shock, and the other side is planning for a long time, so the result can be imagined.

The sword light flashed one by one, and the heads of the devil cavalry fell to the ground in rows.

In the blink of an eye, the thirty or so riders who escaped from the horse trap area were brutally killed.

At this time, the more than [-] cavalrymen of the Eighth Route Army who had "run away in a hurry" before also came back.

The two groups of Eighth Route Army cavalry who had been ambushing in the haystacks also rushed out 600 meters and came back.

Invisibly, three groups of Eighth Route Army cavalry formed a triangular formation in the open field, occupying the due east, northwest and southwest respectively.

But this time, the Eighth Route Army cavalry did not charge again.

The cavalrymen of the Eighth Route Army put their knives back into their sheaths one after another, took out the [-]-style cavalry rifles, and fired continuously at the still chaotic Songdao Squadron and Sato Squadron.

This time it is not dynamic shooting, but static shooting.

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army cavalry had a very high hit rate, and the gunshots rang out continuously, and the Japanese cavalry who were still in shock were shot and killed one by one.

Although some Japanese cavalry calmed down from the panic and shot back.

But the resistance of the few Japanese cavalry was not enough to reverse the entire unfavorable situation.

Moreover, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army came from three different directions. The Japanese cavalry could neither find a blind spot to hide, nor did they know which direction to fight back.

All this is a long story, but in fact it is only a few minutes.

In less than 5 minutes, the Matsushima Squadron and Sato Squadron had been defeated.

The technical and tactical gap between the cavalry of the two sides was already very large. Now that the Japanese army has fallen into a trap and is at a psychological disadvantage, this has invisibly caused a further decline in the technical and tactical level, and the combat effectiveness shown in actual combat is even weaker. Therefore, the battlefield performance can be said to be one-sided!

Before Ryoichi Yamamoto and Masao Kato could react, the battle was basically over.

Then, in front of the two of them, and in front of hundreds of Japanese infantry less than three kilometers away, the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army began to clean up the battlefield grandiosely.

It is really cleaning the battlefield.

On the one hand, he was busy gathering unowned horses.

While busy collecting Japanese equipment.

When encountering a Japanese army who was seriously injured or survived or was stubbornly resisting, they did not hesitate to give him a knife. This group of Eighth Route Army didn't care about the shit Geneva Convention at all.

Chapter 446 Shrinking the Line of Defense

"Bagayalu!"

Seeing this scene, Ryo Yamamoto's lungs exploded with anger.

At the next moment, Ryoichi Yamamoto drew out his saber without hesitation, drew it and shouted: "Order, the motorized infantry squadron and tank squadron attack!"

"Chief of Staff!" Kato Masao said anxiously, "If the motorized infantry squadron and the tank squadron attack, it means that the location will be exposed in advance, so the ambush will not be possible."

"Idiot." Ryoichi Yamamoto snorted, "It's all like this, do you think you can still fight an ambush?"

Masao Kato was stunned when he heard the words, yes, it's all like this, how could it be an ambush?

Obviously, the Eighth Route Army had seen through their intentions a long time ago, and made corresponding deployments according to their deployment, so the scene just happened.

Ryoichi Yamamoto's order was quickly conveyed.

The Japanese motorized infantry squadrons and tank squadrons ambushing in the woods on both sides of the road rushed out one after another. The infantry squadron that had been on guard on the road before also turned around. Outflanked the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army who were sweeping the battlefield.

Not far away, on the hill.

Looking at the tricycles, trucks, and Type [-] light tanks driving out of the woods, Sun Ming salivated.

"The devil is still rich. After spending so many years, he still has so many motorcycles, trucks and tanks. When will we have these equipment?"

"No hurry." Wang Yan said, "As long as these equipments are still in Shanxi, they will be ours sooner or later."