Devil's Army

The remaining troops of the 36rd Battalion of the th Division of the Japanese Army attacked for two days but failed to break through the positions of the th Brigade in the Beihe Gorge and the Jidong Independent Brigade. They had to bypass the Beihe Gorge and attack Sanhe County from Langfang.

The Fifth Brigade Commander learned the direction of the Japanese 36th Division's main force's transfer from the intelligence sent back by the Golden Eagle. However, due to insufficient manpower and time, he was unable to set up another position to block the advance of the main force of the Japanese 36th Division. He could only arrange for a small unit nearby to block the harassing Japanese troops layer by layer in the northern mountainous area of ​​Pinggu District.

However, the small force could only harass and delay the Japanese army and had no way to stop the Japanese attack.

The Fifth Brigade Commander had no choice but to report their battle situation and predicament to Gray Wolf.

What puzzled the Fifth Brigade Commander was that Gray Wolf only replied: "I understand." He did not send reinforcements.

Wulang still asked worriedly: "Don't you need to arrange troops to stop them?"

"No need, you send troops to follow them and look for an opportunity to annihilate them." Gray Wolf replied lightly.

"Can tailing stop the Japanese army's advance?" The Fifth Brigade Commander wondered. But the commander's arrangement must make sense.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade mobilized the Third Regiment, which had a relatively complete organization, to pursue the enemy with all his might.

The main force of the Japanese 36th Division arrived at Gaoxin Village beside the Yongding River, where the roads were narrow, the hills were continuous, and the banks of the river were covered with reeds.

Wu Dannan, the division commander, learned from Zhang Chabing that a main force of the Devil's Army was chasing them from behind, so he ordered the troops to speed up and pass this section of the road.

Suddenly, grenades flew like snowflakes from behind the hills and in the reeds.

The sound of grenade explosions had not yet stopped, but the sound of gunfire had already started to become more intense.

Liu, the commander of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, communicated with Gray Wolf and learned that the First Anti-Japanese Army was blocking the Japanese army's advance in the Beihe Gorge area. The Japanese army could not move forward for two days and two nights.

He guessed that the Japanese army was very likely to change its route and attack Sanhe County from Langfang, so he ordered the 386th Brigade to march quickly to Gaoxinzhuang to find a favorable terrain to block the Japanese army's advance.

When the main force of the Japanese 36th Division entered the reed marshes and hilly areas, it was immediately hit hard by the th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

The commander of the Wudiannan Division tried his best to guard against the devil troops chasing behind, but he was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in front of him. The troops panicked for a while.

After stabilizing the situation, Division Commander Wu Dannan arranged the First Battalion to block the Third Devil Unit that followed, and the Ninth Battalion to attack the Eighth Route Army troops on both sides and opposite sides with all their strength.

The artillery units also bombarded the Eighth Route Army's positions with all their might.

The 386st and 771nd Regiments of the 772th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army were heavily bombarded by Japanese artillery fire, and the Japanese army's crazy attack caused heavy casualties. However, the soldiers of the 386th Brigade continued to fight and hold their positions tightly, not allowing the 36th Division of the Japanese Army to advance even a step.

In order to open up the road to attack Hexian, the Japanese army also spent a lot of money and sent air force to reinforce. However, they were soon pursued by the First Army Air Force, which had already freed up its hands.

In less than half an hour of fierce air fighting, the Japanese Air Force shot down three fighters and four bombers, and the other planes fled in panic.

The First Army's planes did not pursue the fleeing Japanese planes, but instead bombarded and strafed the artillery of the Japanese 386th Division that was fiercely bombing the 36th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and the attacking infantry.

Without the support of artillery, the offensive momentum of the Japanese 36th Division was greatly reduced, and the pressure on the Eighth Route Army was also greatly reduced. However, the commander of the Wudenan Division did not dare to stop the attack, because there was a devilish army behind them rushing towards them.

The Japanese front-line commander commanded the Japanese soldiers to continue their fierce attack on the positions of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army despite the bombing of the First Army's aircraft.

However, the bombers of the First Army specifically targeted the Japanese troops with the strongest offensive momentum, which greatly weakened the Japanese offensive momentum and eased the blocking pressure on the Eighth Route Army.

There were blocking troops in front and pursuing troops behind. The commander of the Wudennan Division had no choice but to shout at the top of his lungs: "Attack! Attack!..."

At this time, the bombers of the First Army had finished dropping their bombs and were returning one after another. The fighters of the First Army played an important supporting role, fiercely strafing the Japanese troops who were attacking most fiercely.

Soldiers of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army lay on the fortifications and kept shooting at the Japanese soldiers who survived the strafing by the First Army's fighter planes.

What Division Commander Wu Dennan was worried about finally happened. The vanguard of the 36rd Regiment of the th Brigade arrived at the battlefield and launched a fierce attack on the st Battalion of the th Division of the Japanese Army.

Soon, the main force of the 36rd Regiment of the th Brigade arrived and launched a fierce attack on the st Battalion of the th Division of the Japanese Army in three directions.

The captain of the Japanese Army's First Battalion desperately organized resistance while asking for help from the division commander Mudeno.

Division Commander Muden ordered the 3rd Battalion to attack the front and the 9th Battalion to attack the two wings in the final fierce attack.

The remaining 75mm mountain artillery guns in the artillery positions also launched fierce bombardment at the 771st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army in front.

When Commander Chen of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army heard fierce gunfire and artillery fire from behind the 36th Division of the Japanese Army, he knew that the pursuit troops of the First Army had arrived. He ordered the reserve battalion of the 771st Regiment to press on to the position to block this wave of crazy attacks by the Japanese Army.