The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand

Chapter 686 The Japanese Infantry Brigade That Became More Cautious

Chapter 141 Japanese Cavalry

Battalion Commander Hachiro Taue looked at the telegram sent personally by the division commander and finally put his heart and soul back in his stomach.

If the division commander hadn't sent reinforcements, his charge straight from Hotada Village would have been like a moth flying into a flame, throwing itself into a trap.

The entire 34th Infantry Regiment would have been committing suicide!

Now it seemed his choice was correct.

Even so, warhorses moved much faster than infantry.

For every hour the 4th Cavalry Brigade advanced, the Japanese would stop to let their horses rest for a few minutes, then lead them forward for fifteen minutes.

Only then would they remount and continue, and at this rate, Hayato Shiroyama's cavalry brigade could reach a position ten *li* (Chinese mile, approx. 0.5 km) from Luying Town by around six in the afternoon.

But this was not what Brigade Commander Shiroyama wanted.

He planned to arrive at Pingluo Village, about ten *li* from Luying Town, around nine in the evening, and rest there overnight.

That way, the Japanese soldiers and horses of the cavalry brigade could fight with full energy after a night's rest.

This cavalry brigade had two cavalry regiments, each with more than seven hundred combat cavalry, and more than three hundred support troops responsible for feeding the horses and delivering supplies.

The entire 4th Cavalry Brigade had just over two thousand Japanese soldiers, with about fifteen hundred actual combat personnel.

It wasn't that the Japanese didn't want to build more cavalry; it was simply that they lacked horses in their homeland. These cavalry were gradually developed after the occupation of Northeast China.

Too few warhorses meant few cavalry!

Kentaro Takenouchi, commander of the cavalry regiment, personally led his horse slowly down the road, with Sergeant Jōson Hiromi by his side.

Battalion Commander Takenouchi was in a good mood and smiled, showing concern for the cavalryman beside him: "Hiromi-kun! Has there been any news from home?"

Sergeant Jōson Hiromi replied, flattered: "Battalion Commander! There has been news from home! My fiancée has signed up for the Women's Volunteer Corps.

She is receiving basic training in the homeland and we will be able to meet soon."

Battalion Commander Takenouchi had been concerned about Hiromi for some time, mainly because the squad leader was good-looking and fair-skinned.

To this end, Battalion Commander Takenouchi had specially assigned him to be his orderly, and after getting acquainted, he saw a photo of Hiromi's fiancée.

She was truly a beauty!

In the battalion commander's praise, Hiromi even mentioned that his fiancée was the prettiest girl in school.

He also said that he missed his fiancée very much, so Battalion Commander Takenouchi gave him the idea of writing to his fiancée and asking her to sign up for the Women's Volunteer Corps.

After arriving here, he used his position as battalion commander to transfer Nako Yasumuro to the 4th Cavalry Brigade, so that Hiromi could reunite with his fiancée on the battlefield.

Sergeant Hiromi was doing just that.

His heart was filled with gratitude to the brigade commander, and his mind was filled with fantasies about the future.

None of this mattered. He was now full of curiosity about the upcoming mission: "Battalion Commander!

We just passed through Luying Town a few days ago, why are we going there again?"

"It's all those stupid infantry! They have tied down a large number of the main force of the National Army, but they are unable to annihilate them.

That's why we need to advance to assist in the operation." This was what the battalion commander knew.

"Can we gain merit again this time?" Hiromi was very happy.

"It's a pity that we've been there twice, and there's nothing good to find." Battalion Commander Takenouchi regretted.

Captain Qingmao Zhu's fighter plane patrolled around Luying Town, and his squadron's mission was to protect the safety of this airspace.

And to scout the direction of the Japanese' movements, a Japanese cavalry unit was coming towards Luying Town.

He had seen it, but the Japanese unit's marching speed was neither fast nor slow.

Captain Qingmao Zhu simply couldn't tell whether this unit wanted to launch an attack on the Special Operations Brigade's infantry this afternoon.

Or would they attack tomorrow!

When the intelligence reached Lin Fan, he found the current location of the Japanese cavalry on the map and made a slight calculation.

Lin Fan was also in a dilemma: the Japanese cavalry only needed to speed up a little to reach the battlefield before dark.

An hour was enough for the Japanese cavalry to fight.

In any case, preparations had to be made.

The ground attack aircraft had returned to Xiangyang. Lin Fan could only put Feng Wencheng's ground attack squadron on standby and take off immediately after confirming the Japanese' actions.

After the Special Operations Brigade ambushed a Japanese regiment in Hotada Village, they seized even more equipment this time.

As in the morning, the machine guns, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, and infantry guns were all taken away by Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army.

Then the 59th Army also took over the defense line of the Eighth Regiment of the Special Operations Brigade.

Now, the entire Luying Town was surrounded by the troops of the 59th Army, and they still had two thousand men building an airport.

Faced with the uncertainty of the Japanese cavalry's attack time, Lin Fan could only order all three infantry regiments to prepare for battle.

The reconnaissance platoon sent by the Sixth Regiment had quickly moved towards the direction of the Japanese cavalry.

After dark, fighter planes in the air could not perform reconnaissance missions.

At that time, they would have to rely on the reconnaissance platoon on the ground to complete the task.

Shen Han, the reconnaissance platoon leader of the First Company of the Sixth Regiment, reported via radio:

"Japanese cavalry spotted!"