Chapter 430 Move forward!
Cyclops, and the Chinese cavalry swung their sabers through the already dispersed Japanese infantry positions, rushed through the first artillery positions, and killed most of the yellowish visible in their vision, but did not stop or care about the Japanese artillery that had lost their fighting spirit and fled everywhere.
There was no need to fire flares at all. In order to see the enemy in front of you, the panicked Japanese army was full of rising flares everywhere on the huge battlefield, and their vision was as clear as two or three hundred meters.
"Run!" Gong Shaoxun killed a Japanese army, kicked the horse's belly and waved his sword forward.
Continue to move forward, like a sharp knife, cutting the huge cake of the heavy artillery brigade into pieces. This is the main combat mission of the cavalry.
The cavalry carried the speed and the power of the sabers. Wherever they passed, the Japanese army was like snow pouring on soup. In an instant, the ice disappeared and the progress was far beyond Gong Shaoxun's surprise.
But Gong Shaoxun was not blinded by the victory in front of him. He ordered the cavalry not to chase and kill the Japanese defeated soldiers, nor did he bomb the giant cannon with cold light at the muzzle under the flares. That was done by the infantry.
With their horse speed, the infantry could not keep up. They might be surrounded by counter-attack after the Japanese army reacted and would be killed in the wilderness by a large Japanese army with various guns. This depends on the command art and will of the cavalry commander.
Can you break through obstacles at speed and use a saber to break down all resistance?
200 meters away, a group of earthy and busy figures were clearly visible. Gong Shaoxun vaguely saw the cold light flashing with the muzzle controlled by earthy and inexplicably cold back.
"Kill them!" Turn the horse's head and increase the horse's speed at the same time.
The cavalry followed their commanders and rushed to the Japanese positions that were trying to shoot at them.
That's all the good luck of the cavalry battalion.
The Japanese army opposite had obviously set up defenses. Before the Chinese cavalry rushed over, a creepy gunshot suddenly sounded on the Japanese position!
"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"
Gong Shaoxun, who was riding on the war horse, suddenly felt two strong winds flying past his ears. The always obedient war horse actually niggled and started to slow down from acceleration. It was a machine gun that made the well-trained war horse instinctively feel terrifying.
There were also horses neighing around him. When he turned his head to look, he saw that the two cavalrymen who were following him had been killed by machine guns. One cavalry's head disappeared, and the other cavalry's right body disappeared.
Blood gushed, but the remains were still sitting on the horse. The war horse under him should have felt the warmth of the blood of his comrades. He raised his front hooves in panic, and the shrill horse neighed throughout the battlefield.
"Mechanical cannon! This is a mechanical cannon! The Japanese army is actually equipped with mechanical cannons!" Gong Shaoxun's eyes suddenly turned red.
The cavalry who were speeding up should have been frightened by this extremely tragic scene, and their horse speed quietly decreased.
But the battlefield will not stop because of the hesitation of a group of Chinese cavalry.
"Dongdongdongdong..." On the front position, the terrifying Japanese machine guns sounded violently again.
It was like being slashed by the sickle swung by the god of death. The cavalry rushing in front either dropped their horses quietly or fell heavily to the ground with their men and horses.
There was no voice, only the horse neighed in despair before death.
It was definitely an extremely bloody scene. Whenever it was swept by machine gun shells, the human body was basically half-breaking. Even the huge body of the war horse was left with large holes visible to the naked eye, and the strong smell of blood spread out on this battlefield.
The Chinese cavalry did not know that this was a 25mm machine gun equipped by the anti-aircraft artillery corps under the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade. It is specially used for air defense, with a total of 18 pieces.
This type of anti-aircraft gun, named Type 96 in Japan, has a theoretical fire rate of up to 260 rounds per minute. It is the only standard machine gun equipped by the Japanese navy and army. It is divided into three types: single-joint, double-joint and triple-joint.
What the cavalry encountered was the dual-equipped 25mm machine gun.
Fortunately, they were not facing the entire anti-aircraft artillery wing. According to the principle of air defense in triangular positions, the 6th Heavy Artillery Brigade divided the 18 25mm machine guns of the anti-aircraft artillery wing in three directions of the position, and each air defense position had six double-mounted 25mm machine guns.
Fortunately, since the Chinese fighter jets in the sky disappeared, the anti-aircraft artillery corps responsible for air defense found that they were useless at all. Moreover, the autumn in southeast China was too wet, and the exposed barrel was too detracted from the weapon's life. So at night, the anti-aircraft artillery was dismantled for maintenance and placed in a special wooden box.
So far, these Japanese anti-aircraft artillery soldiers rushed forward, but they were loading two machine guns.
If they had known that their anti-aircraft machine guns would have to fight against infantry, six anti-aircraft machine guns would aim at Gong Shaoxun and others in one round of flat shooting, which would have been a half-destroyed group of Chinese cavalry elites.
The Chinese cavalry didn't know that their opponents were actually a group of panic. The two newly installed machine guns seemed awesome, but in fact, the Type 96 machine gun only had 15 rounds of bullet boards. If one bullet board was empty, it had to stop shooting and reinstall the bullet board. The firepower continued is not as terrible as it just showed.
But the Japanese also didn't know that their opponents were also scared and hesitated by the scene of the tragic sacrifice.
Although the distance is only 200 meters, these 200 meters are definitely the road to hell. If you continue to charge, you don’t know how many cavalrymen will die on this road full of machine gun shells that are trapped and destroyed.
It is not that cavalry cannot die, but they should not die in a charge that is almost suicide, and now it is far from the time of a suicide charge.
Gong Shaoxun hesitated for a rare moment.
However, the time left for hesitation may be only a few seconds or even less. Because the Japanese army's machine guns may continue to fire soon.
It is too late to wait for the infantry's mortars and machine guns to come up. If you don't rush over and completely crush the Japanese resistance and leave enough time for the Japanese army to re-arche, the consequences may be more terrifying than the death of the entire cavalry battalion.
"The whole army follows me and kill!" Thousands of thoughts flashed through my mind. Gong Shaoxun pulled out his dagger and stabbed it in the butt of his beloved war horse, roaring with his tongue.
The war horse, which was hesitant just now, raised its horse's hooves and ran forward in the severe pain.
The terrifying sound of the machine gun sounded again, but it did not affect the war horses and the people on the horse again.
The brave cavalry major resolutely chose the latter in the choice between life and death.
"Kill!" The cavalry behind him followed one after another.
Some people try to lower their bodies and lay on the horse's back, holding the knife in their hands flat, and the light of the knife passed through the flowing shadow in the cold wind. Some people bit the knife in their mouths, pulled out the rifle, galloped and shot...
Lu Sanjiang almost rushed to a position as level as his battalion commander.
He did not make any avoidance, the strong cavalry squad leader's eyes were red, and the tears that had just flowed from the corners of his eyes were blown dry in the autumn wind.
The two cavalrymen in his squad were right beside him, broken by the terrible machine gun shells, and the splattered blood splattered on his face, and the warmth on his lips reminded him that it was brother's blood.
That moment reminded him of the veteran squad leader.
The veteran squad leader used his body to protect everyone, but he witnessed the death of his comrades again.
All of them died like this!
Then I will not live anymore!
Then don’t live anymore!
Lu Sanjiang was already crazy, and the maroon horse under his seat might also feel the master's intentions. His muscles were angry and he used all his life's strength to move forward.
Chinese cavalry, move forward!
Chapter completed!