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Chapter 340: Japanese Cavalry Unit Falls into a Trap

Hao Jian now felt as if his legs no longer belonged to him. He looked ahead and saw that the preset position was only 300 meters away from him, so Hao Jian lowered his head, held his breath and increased his speed.

Captain Mukai Saisuke and his squadron of cavalrymen had chased the fleeing Chinese army to a distance of less than 300 meters. When he discovered that the speed of the Chinese army in front of him, which had originally slowed down, suddenly increased again, he was delighted.

These Chinese troops seemed to have increased their speed, but this also showed that they had almost exhausted all their physical strength. They estimated that they would run out of energy after another 500 meters. By then, these Chinese soldiers would be lambs to be slaughtered, and their cavalry would kill them one by one.

"Keep pursuing at a steady speed. The Chinese army is running out of strength. Put away the guns and kill them with sabers." Captain Mukai Saisuke happily issued an order that made him regret it greatly.

When they arrived at the edge of the preset position, Hao Jian also shouted: "Run on tiptoe, don't sprain your ankle."

After hearing Hao Jian's shout, all the officers and soldiers became excited. This meant that they had already reached the edge of the preset position. It seemed that they had returned alive this time. So, everyone tiptoed and accelerated to rush forward again.

The cavalry unit led by Captain Saisuke Mukai was now less than 200 meters away from the fleeing Chinese soldiers in front.

Captain Mukai Saisuke felt a little unhappy when he saw that the Chinese soldiers in front of him actually increased their speed. He wanted to shout to these Chinese soldiers, "You can't run away. Stand still and let your cavalry practice the tactical skill of killing on the spot." This way, they can complete their final mission.

"Everyone, prepare your sabers and form a formation." Captain Mukai Saisuke loudly ordered the cavalrymen around him.

Captain Mukai Saisuke didn't want to play tricks on these Chinese soldiers anymore. After quickly dealing with them, he had to continue patrolling with his troops. Then he would return to the camp to show off his achievements to the regiment commander and the captain of the second squadron.

When the enemy cavalry squadron arranged its formation according to the order of the squadron leader, Captain Mukai Saisuke, Captain Mukai Saisuke pointed his command knife forward and shouted loudly: "Warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, kill all the Chinese soldiers in front of you and charge."

As Captain Mukai Saisuke gave the order to charge, all the Japanese cavalrymen urged their horses to speed up as quickly as possible, while everyone shouted loudly with excitement.

The Chinese soldiers running in front were a delicious meal in the eyes of the Japanese cavalry. If the squadron leader had not wanted to play a trick on these Chinese soldiers before, he would have chopped them all off with the saber in his hand.

Li Zhengying looked at the Japanese cavalry who were about to enter the trap-filled area, and his previous nervousness turned into excitement. He raised the German mirror box in his hand, just waiting for the Japanese cavalry's horses to be tripped by the trap. That would be a good time for them to shoot.

Captain Mukai Saisuke is now looking at the Chinese soldiers who are less than a hundred meters away from him with excitement. He knows that in just ten seconds or so, his sword will be able to drink the blood of the Chinese soldiers.

Before Captain Mukai Saisuke could finish imagining those exciting scenes, he heard a whine from his mount, and then he was sent forward by inertia. Captain Mukai Saisuke reflexively clamped his legs around the horse's belly and grabbed the reins in his hands.

Then, Captain Mukai Saisuke fell forward along with his horse. Before Captain Mukai Saisuke could figure out what was happening, he heard the neighing of horses and the terrified curses of the soldiers around him.

"Damn, the Chinese army actually set a trap." Captain Mukai Saisuke's last thought before his death was that his troops had fallen into a trap set by the Chinese army.

As for what kind of trap it was, Captain Mukai Saisuke had no chance to check it out because he was rolled over several times by his own horse and his head hit the ground twice, which actually killed him directly.

Even if the Japanese cavalry wanted to slow down, they couldn't do it immediately. In less than ten seconds, except for the dozen or so Japanese cavalry who were running at the end, all the other Japanese cavalry were thrown off their horses.

When the Japanese cavalry were thrown off their horses, a burst of intensive gunfire rang out in the surrounding fields. Some Japanese soldiers who fell off their horses had just stood up when they were knocked to the ground by bullets from all directions.

Those Japanese cavalrymen who stopped their horses in time and did not fall into the trap turned their horses around and fled desperately. They needed to return to the camp to get help.

Under the care of the sharpshooters of the new 100th Division, the fleeing Japanese cavalry were knocked off their horses one after another. In the end, only two Japanese cavalrymen successfully escaped. These were the ones the sharpshooters intentionally let go. After all, these two Japanese cavalrymen were still needed to call all the Japanese cavalrymen in the camp to come and eliminate them.

After the two Japanese cavalrymen successfully ran away, a force of more than 300 people quickly came to the Japanese route and quickly dug new traps, which would be used to deal with the Japanese cavalry reinforcements.

The Japanese cavalry who were already trapped in the preset trap had suffered heavy casualties. There were only a few survivors to begin with, and some of them were pinned down by their dead horses, making it impossible for others to help.

Because as soon as they stood up they would be hit by the Chinese army's bullets. Even a large number of them now only had sabers in their hands, and their original lances were hung on their horses. Now they couldn't even fight back with lances.

After the Japanese army entered the trap, the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad used the cover of weeds to crawl towards the Japanese army in the trap from the rear of the Japanese army. After a while, Li Zhengying would order the officers and soldiers to stop shooting at a certain time, and that was the time for the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad to perform.

Li Zhengying looked at the time, then loudly ordered everyone to stop shooting. They all crouched down and carefully surrounded the Japanese cavalry in the trap. The suicide squad officers and soldiers who had sneaked behind the Japanese cavalry jumped up from the grass after the gunfire stopped, and quickly pounced on the Japanese cavalry not far ahead.

The remaining officers and soldiers of the 1st Squadron of the 13th Cavalry Regiment of the Japanese Army had not yet figured out why the Chinese troops around them suddenly ceased fire when they heard some soldiers' terrified shouts from behind them.

All the surviving Japanese officers and soldiers then discovered that the Chinese army had already rushed up from behind.

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