Chapter 40 Fighter
The Wolf Warriors and the Cavalry Platoon first went through the entire battlefield like a , making sure that every Japanese soldier was killed, and then began to actually clean up the battlefield.
In less than half an hour, the battlefield was basically cleaned up.
A total of more than 90 cavalry rifles, 104 sabers, more than 10 Type 14 Nambu pistols, and more than 1,000 6.5mm caliber Arisaka rifle bullets were seized.
In addition, there are military items such as helmets and water bottles.
Sun Desheng also rescued five or six Japanese horses.
But the remaining war horses were basically killed or seriously injured.
This should be a standard cavalry squadron of the Japanese Army, with 144 personnel, but there were only 134 cavalrymen, and the rest were grooms and veterinarians.
The Wolf Warriors had already wiped out a squad before.
So now there are only 104 riders left in the entire squadron.
Of the 104 war horses, only 6 were rescued in the end.
Looking at the warhorse lying on the ground, Sun Desheng trembled with heartache .
"You bastards didn't even know to avoid the horses when you opened fire." Sun Desheng felt distressed and wanted to curse, "Such a good Japanese horse, but you just killed it like that."
"If only these Japanese horses were intact,"
"It's enough for our independent regiment to form another cavalry company."
There was something else Sun Desheng didn't say: If we form another cavalry company, I will be the cavalry battalion commander, and that bastard Wang Ye will have to salute and call me "chief" when he sees me.
The soldiers in the cavalry row did not dare to talk back to Sun Desheng.
Wei Dayong was not polite to Sun Desheng, and said coldly: "You bastard, be content. If you really take these more than 100 Japanese horses back intact, do you think you can keep them? Taking a step back, even if the brigade commander does not rob and leaves these more than 100 military horses and equipment to us, can our independent regiment afford to support them?"
Sun Desheng then kept silent because maintaining cavalry was really expensive.
The biggest expense was feed. Each warhorse needed eight kilograms of beans per day, so one hundred horses would need eight hundred kilograms of beans. The price of soybeans was eight dollars per dan. That was to say, just for beans, the cavalry company needed two thousand dollars per month! The cash reserves of the independent regiment were only enough to last for half a year!
If there really was a cavalry camp,
Then the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in the regiment would not have to eat.
There was not enough beans for the horses in the cavalry battalion.
In a word, raising horses, especially war horses, costs much more money than raising people.
"You're the only one who talks too much." Wang Ye walked over and kicked Wei Dayong in the butt, cursing, "You have nothing to do, right? Why don't you quickly strap the weapons, equipment, ammunition, and supplies onto the horse's back?"
"No." Sun Desheng said anxiously, "This is a war horse, it can't be used to carry supplies."
Wang Ye said: "I know that carrying supplies is not good for war horses. Over time, not only will the horses' reactions become slower, but their explosive power will also become weaker. However, one or two times will not have much of an impact."
"Not even once or twice." Sun Desheng said, "Absolutely not."
Wang Ye pointed to the weapons, equipment and supplies piled on the snow and said, "Then how about you, the cavalry platoon, carry these weapons, equipment and supplies?"
Sun Desheng fell silent.
There are only about 40 people in the cavalry platoon.
How is it possible to carry so many things ?
Wang Ye once again ordered War Wolf to load weapons, equipment and supplies onto the horses.
Sun Desheng sighed, pointed at the seriously wounded and dying horses, and asked, "What about these? It would be a pity to just throw them away. There are tens of thousands of pounds of meat on them!"
"If we take this back, it will be enough for the more than 1,000 brothers in the entire regiment to eat for a long time."
Wang Ye thought for a moment and said, "First find a place to hide, then call the main force of the regiment to transport them back."
However, just as he finished speaking, Wang Xikui hurried back and panted, "My lord, there are so many devils and puppet troops coming!"
Hearing this, Wang Ye knew that the Japanese in the Huting stronghold must have heard the news and rushed to rescue, so he asked, "How far is it from here?"
Wang Xikui said, "It's less than two kilometers now."
"What?" War Wolf and the cavalrymen looked annoyed.
Wang Gensheng said with a pained look on his face: "It's a pity to throw away so much horse meat, shall we take it all away?"
"What are you thinking about?" Sun Desheng said unhappily, "There are 98 war horses here. The Japanese war horses weigh between 700 and 900 kilograms, which adds up to 80,000 kilograms!"
"Eighty thousand kilograms, do you know what that means?"
"Even if we use carts to pull it, it will take at least eighty carts to load it!"
"You told me to take them all away, were you kidding me?"
Sun Desheng said it unintentionally, but Wang Ye's heart was slightly moved when he heard it.
Yes, to pull away these more than 90 war horses, at least 80 carts would be needed.
Wei Dayong said: "We can't just throw it away like that, right? More than 80,000 kilograms of meat, enough for more than a thousand brothers in our independent regiment to eat for several months!"
Sun Desheng said: "But you have to be able to carry it back."
"If you don't want to carry the meat, just say so," Wei Dayong cursed. "But if we carry the meat back, you cavalry company won't be able to eat it. We won't even give you a single horse hair."
Sun Desheng asked, "Who the hell are you scolding?"
Wei Dayong said: "I just scolded you, what's wrong with that?"
"Shut up!" Seeing that the two were about to fight again, Wang Ye said impatiently, "Listen to my orders and quickly dismantle these more than ninety war horses."
"What? You really want to decompose it?"
Sun Desheng was really surprised this time.
He originally thought that Wang Ye would be sober, but he ended up acting recklessly.
Sun Desheng said anxiously: "Captain Wang, the Japanese are only two kilometers away from here!"
"This is an order!" Wang Ye shouted impatiently, "War Wolf Squad, Cavalry Platoon 1, execute immediately."
Since it was an order, they had to obey it. The dozen or so War Wolfs from the War Wolf Squad and more than forty soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Platoon quickly drew their bayonets and began to decompose the bodies of the war horses.
Sun Desheng sighed, and was about to draw his sword to split it.
Wang Ye said, "Captain Sun, you have another mission."
"Huh?" Sun Desheng turned around and gave Wang Ye a surprised glance.
"Pick two horses and run back to the regiment headquarters as fast as possible!" Wang Ye said in a deep voice, "Listen carefully, the fastest speed! Even if the horses die, we will not hesitate!"
"Huh?" Sun Desheng's face darkened.
Wang Ye continued, "When we get to the regiment headquarters, have the regiment commander lead the main force of the regiment to Laohu Bay at a forced march. Listen carefully, we must force march!"
"Yes!" Sun Desheng straightened his chest and stood at attention again.
Although I don't know the purpose of Wang Ye's action,
But judging from Wang Ye's tone and the content of this order,
Sun Desheng could still vaguely feel that Wang Ye seemed to have captured something?
Sun Desheng picked up two war horses that were not even slightly injured, then mounted them and galloped straight towards Yang Village. He disappeared on the mountain road in just a moment.
Wang Ye squatted down.
Follow Wei Dayong and others to decompose the horse carcass.
In a blink of an eye, more than ninety horses were gutted.
The warhorse's internal organs and intestines were all over the ground.
The air was immediately filled with the stench of horse offal.
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Maeda Tsuyoshi led the main force of the Japanese garrison squadron and two infantry companies of the puppet army to the top of a hill. Looking down through a telescope, he happened to see the Eighth Route Army decomposing horse carcasses.
"Baka!" Seeing this, Maeda Tsuyoshi was so angry that his lungs almost exploded.
The Eighth Route Army was already decomposing the corpses of the war horses, which showed that Sato's cavalry squadron had already been completely wiped out!
Thinking back to before leaving the house in the morning, I had repeatedly warned Kentaro Sato not to pursue rashly, but this idiot Sato just didn't listen, leading to today's defeat!
However, what made Maeda Tsuyoshi even more angry were the Eighth Route Army.
You have already eaten up Sato's Cavalry Squadron and cleaned up the battlefield, but you're not even thinking of running away. You even want to take Sato's Squadron's horses away to eat their meat?
Do you really think that the Imperial Army at the Huting stronghold does not exist?
Well today, I will let you see how powerful the Imperial Army is!
At that moment, Maeda Gang put down the binoculars, drew his saber and shouted, "Orders, Infantry Squadron 3 will make a detour from the left, Infantry Squadron 2 will encircle from the right wing, Infantry Squadron 1, the heavy machine gun unit, and the artillery unit will attack from the front."
Maeda Tsuyoshi's military orders did not include the puppet army at all. After the previous battles, Maeda Tsuyoshi had completely lost his illusions about the combat effectiveness of the puppet army, so he did not expect them to participate in the attack at all. The reason for bringing them along on this attack was just to make up the numbers and boost the military's prestige, nothing more.
The puppet army did not feel embarrassed at all.
On the contrary, everyone felt extremely relaxed.
Nearly two hundred Japanese troops quickly deployed their troops and attacked forward.
The Eighth Route Army in the front seemed unwilling to give in, and actually sent a few people to block the enemy, and actually killed several Japanese infantrymen who had advanced forward.
But the Japanese heavy machine gun fire soon poured over.
Faced with the retaliation of the Japanese army's heavy machine gun fire, the Eighth Route Army soldiers quickly lost the will to resist and fled to the back of the mountain in panic like frightened rabbits.
The Tubalu troops who were dismembering the bodies of their war horses in the valley ahead finally gave up.
They left behind nearly a hundred dead war horses and fled into the surrounding mountains and fields in a panic.
