The night became deeper and deeper, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the vision became blurry, but everyone's hearts became more and more urgent: everyone knew that ambush wars would explode at any time. Although they had fought many wars and were fierce, they had never ambushed thousands of cavalry in such a peaceful place.

Relying on infantry alone to confront cavalry on the plain, under the same circumstances, there is almost no chance of winning, unless you have prepared sufficient cannons and machine guns: the Central Red Army has suffered a lot of losses from enemy cavalry on this plain. Fortunately, they are now at a high ambush point. Although the terrain is not particularly high, this also makes everyone feel much more at ease.

In the rain, the sight was extreme, the hearing was not good, and the enemy and we didn't know each other. To put it bluntly, as long as the enemy cavalry slowed down and didn't make a sound, even if they passed through the valley at Yanzikou, the people of the Red 17th Division could not appear.

However, just like the Ministry of Defense and the executioner below described by later generations, the genius made perfect combat deployments, but the fools carried out the operation. It has to be said that the enemy made the most basic fatal mistake.

Commander Liu Yongjiang frowned deeply when he saw this rainy curtain, but when he was considering whether to send a few people to the valley to sneak into the valley so that the enemy cavalry could get a secret notice, suddenly, less than fifty meters in front of Yanzikou, more than ten torches suddenly lit up. Liu Yongjiang was both surprised and happy: what was the enemy exposed on his own initiative, and what was the enemy's intention?

Soon, the enemy revealed the answer to Liu Yongjiang.

"Bang!Bang!Bang"

I saw more than a dozen enemy cavalry holding torches slowly entering the mouth of Yanzi, and then, they did not rush through, but slowly moved forward while checking around, and shooting around from time to time. Occasionally, they made a strange cry of "Yo!"

Liu Yongjiang has such a rich experience in combat command. Seeing this situation, he actually smiled with teeth: the enemy is stupid and thought I could not see that this was their wayfinding stone, in order to check whether there was an ambush at the Swallow's mouth. Oh my, this little trick has long been outdated and there are still people to use it. However, this also shows that the enemy's main force is not far from here, and the main force will definitely pass by here, thinking of this, Liu Yongjiang grinned.

Although there were thousands of people lying here, Liu Yongjiang was not worried that the soldiers would be exposed or fired on their own initiative: Come on, under the rain, unless they were like the idiots below, like the bright lights, they would not see you even if you stood on it; secondly, they had already ordered it, and everything was based on signal flares. I believe that the disciplined Red Army soldiers would not have fired a fire; thirdly, the Red Army commanders who could reach this point were basically brought up by veterans, which means that they were all people with rich combat experience. So, who would not be able to see these pathfinders of the enemy?

However, will the enemy's pathfinder be really stupid?

"Not good! If you have an ambush, throw away the torch and retreat!"

Suddenly, someone in the enemy cavalry shouted in horror. Then, the torches were discarded one after another and were quickly extinguished, while the sound of horse hooves rang out quickly and gradually disappeared at the entrance of the swallow's mouth.

To be honest, when the enemy shouted, Liu Yongjiang's heart suddenly rose to his throat: he was worried that the enemy would really be ambushed, and he was also worried that the enemy was cheating. But no matter what the situation was, as long as a soldier was deceived and fired in a hurry, the entire ambush plan would be wasted.

However, facts proved that the Red Army's military discipline was strict and no one fired.

Immediately, Liu Yongjiang immediately sent two soldiers to go down from the entrance of Yanzikou to the valley with ropes to ambush in the valley to observe as long as there are large groups of enemy cavalry, immediately pull the rope, and people holding the rope will know the situation. At the same time, he sent additional reconnaissance cavalry here to expand the alert range at both ends of Yanzikou. He was afraid that the enemy would circumvent the warning area, and he did not know the truth. In that case, he would be a big joke by the enemy to attack him.

In everyone's imagination, the enemy's main force must be two miles away from this to prevent our infantry from rushing out from the Yanzikou. But what everyone did not expect was that the enemy's main force stayed more than a hundred meters outside the Yanzikou. And when the pathfinding stone returned smoothly, they immediately took action.

The two soldiers went down from the entrance of the valley to the bottom of the valley. After waiting for less than a minute, they saw the cavalry passing by. They were frightened, and one of them had to pull the rope tied to their bodies. Fortunately, the other one was experienced. The division commander specifically explained: Even if you two cannot determine whether you are the main force of the enemy cavalry, then you will be given a hard way to count. After counting a hundred enemy cavalry, you will still not be able to see the tail of the enemy cavalry, and then pull the rope.

So, they thought silently: the enemy was basically three people who were platoons, letting the horses move forward, holding the reins in their hands, holding the rifle in their hands, alert and moving forward quietly.

"Yi Bai!" The soldier with a little experience reached Yi Bai Shi, touched the person beside him, and whispered in his ear: "I have counted 100 enemy cavalry, are you?" The man turned his head and nodded solemnly. Then, the two looked at the back of the enemy cavalry at the same time, and they really couldn't see the tail. Suddenly, the two tugged the rope on their bodies with great joy.

After pulling the rope a few times, he paused. Sure enough, the rope was also being pulled back. After knowing that the signal was received, the two of them quickly untied the rope on their bodies, then climbed back gently, climbed straight to the edge of the valley, and then they hugged their heads and slapped on the ground, waiting for the signal flare to appear.

But after waiting for more than a minute, there was no signal flare. Both of them were anxious, but they could not help themselves: they wanted to remind their comrades above loudly, but they were afraid that they would alarm the enemy; if they didn't shout, they were afraid that they had not received it just now.

The soldiers above had already received the signal, but they were anxious. Liu Yongjiang was even more anxious than all of them. However, as the commander-in-chief of this battle, Liu Yongjiang did not reveal this anxiety, but he silently counted in his heart that he asked the two soldiers to have hundreds of enemy cavalry. In fact, it was not to start a fight immediately, but as a reminder, because he knew that if he wanted to hurt the enemy, the enemy cavalry dared not serve as tails for the Red Army to monitor. At least, this battle would have to eliminate half of the enemy's strength. If he could not achieve this effect, it would be equivalent to alerting the enemy. The enemy would not only continue to follow, but also be more cautious. At that time, the biggest trouble would be, not to mention that the enemy cavalry division would arrive.

The east and west ends of the swallow's mouth are about 320 meters long, and the widest part on the left and right sides are about 60 meters wide. At the entrance to the east and front sides of the swallow's mouth, the width is about 30 meters. The reason why all the fifty regiments of troops are placed here is not only because the gates can be blocked here, but more importantly, it is to prevent the enemy outside from rushing in to the response valley. The enemy in the valley is so big that it cannot accommodate thousands of cavalry. There is no response in front and back, so it cannot be cut off and can only hit the front.

At the west exit of Yanzikou, the width is only more than ten meters. The reason why only more than 200 people, including the machine gun company and assault company, was that not only the firepower of the machine gun company was strong, but also a large amount of hay was piled up on both sides. At that time, you only need to throw the lit hay downwards, and use the line of fire to prevent the cavalry from breaking through, and you can also use artillery shells and heavy machine guns to hit the enemy cavalry in the valley with heavy machine guns. Moreover, even if the rain is heavy and extinguishing the fire line, you can still sit at the height of both ends, just throw the grenades downwards, so that as many enemy cavalry come, you can easily blow up as many enemy cavalry as you come.

The reason why we deployed a regiment on both sides is that although the firepower of the 17th Division is strong in the Second Front Army, it is nothing compared with the enemy's firepower, especially the lack of powerful weapons such as machine guns and artillery. In addition, the terrain at both ends is just a slope and has nothing to do with the steepness. It can only make up for the insufficient firepower of heavy weapons by the number of guns: if the firepower is weak, the enemy can completely rely on the horse's slope to rush up. At that time, let alone the enemy can escape, it would be good if the enemy did not get a counterattack.

From the time when Liu Yongjiang received the report that the enemy cavalry entered the valley, he kept silently counting in his heart. When the number reached a hundred times, he estimated that at least half of the enemy cavalry had entered the valley. He personally picked up the signal gun and pulled the trigger in the sky.

"Bang!"

The gunshot sounded, and the signal flare rushed to the sky, and after drawing a shiny arc in the sky, it disappeared into the darkness. But with its appearance, the Swallow's Ambush officially started.

"Ba!Ba!Ba"

"Bang!Bang!Bang"

"Ka! Da! Da"

"Swish! Swish! Swish"

Box cannons, rifles, and light and heavy machine guns were fired one after another.

"Not good! I'm in ambush"

"If there is an ambush, retreat quickly"

"ah!"

"Help"

Almost at the same time as the gunshots rang, the enemy also screamed in horror.

However, with the sound of gunfire, the bullets were like shuttles in the rainy night, cutting through the space, and the silver-white luster made bullet marks in the air, creating messy enemies with rats in their heads. The horses were so frightened that they neighed. All kinds of shrill screams and roars at the top of their lungs were mixed, making the already panicked scene even more messy.

Bullets were eating meat, flying like a devil's sickle. Wherever they passed, they left blood donations and took away the originally fresh lives; the shrill screams meant that the enemy fell, either injured, died, or fear; whether it was the enemy's screams, screams or the commander's roar, it attracted not sympathy and pity, but more bullets hit him and rushing at him on such a rainy night. No one could see anyone, and everyone was following the sound: the louder you scream, the more "care you get".

To be honest, in this night rain, if only the regular cavalry of the enemy cavalry were just regular cavalry, they might be able to organize counterattacks. After all, they are well-trained and have been running-in for a long time. In addition, no one can see anyone on rainy nights. Even if there are casualties, the place is not small, and they can still invite their subordinates to gather. But they shouldn't have gathered all the horse bandits and bandits and temporarily incorporated into their own team. In this way, the team seems to have grown, but in fact they are like a mob. It's okay to fight with the wind, but when it comes to an obstacle, they can only add chaos to them.

Therefore, from the moment the gunfire sounded to the final annihilation, not to mention the temporary organization of counterattack, even if the subordinates wanted to protect the superiors, they were also scattered by these mobs.

And when the sound of the cannon company sounded, it was a foregone conclusion
Chapter completed!