Devil's Army

When the Japanese captain saw that the suicide squad had succeeded, he immediately ordered the follow-up troops to follow up.

The Japanese suicide squads continued to rush into the north gate of Zunhua County through various gaps, and the resistance of the direct battalion became increasingly difficult.

Seeing that the Japanese follow-up troops were about to rush over, a regiment commander quickly ordered the artillery to fire to prevent and delay the Japanese follow-up troops from rushing into Zunhua County.

In the darkness, the artillery had no way to aim at the target and fire. The artillery of the 11th Brigade had solid basic skills. They fired based on the coordinates of Bai Yao's artillery bombardment, which temporarily delayed the Japanese attack.

Perhaps the Japanese army was unlucky. When the two sides were fighting in close combat, the 1st Regiment of the 6th Brigade arrived.

Before the Japanese army's follow-up troops had time to rush into Zunhua County, the situation on the battlefield was reversed.

After repelling the Japanese night attack, the two troops quickly rebuilt the collapsed city wall.

As the battle went on, the Japanese air force reinforcements became less and less, while the support from the First Army Air Force became more and more, and the price the Japanese paid for siege became higher and higher.

The two sides fought for several days at the north gate of Zunhua County, but the Japanese army was unable to enter the city again. They then adjusted their attack direction and attacked from the east gate of Zunhua County. However, they also encountered stubborn resistance from the second battalion of the first regiment.

Subsequently, the 1st Regiment of the 6th Brigade sent a battalion of soldiers to provide support, blocking the Japanese army outside the east gate city wall of Zunhua County.

Compared with the attacks of other Japanese troops, the progress of the Japanese 15th Independent Mixed Division responsible for attacking Sanchakou and Bailonggang Bridge was relatively smooth.

The river was frozen at that time, and the Japanese Army's 15th Independent Mixed Brigade launched an attack on Sanchakou and Bailonggang Bridge at the same time at nine o'clock on the 24th.

The 1st Battalion of the 16th Regiment of the Japanese Army, which attacked the Bailonggang Bridge, made a large-scale breakthrough to the south bank of the Bailonggang Bridge with the cooperation of four tank squadrons.

At that time, the commander of the 12th Brigade, Chen, did not have enough detailed intelligence on the Japanese army and thought that the Japanese army would advance quickly in the form of cavalry. He arranged for the Golden Eagle No. 4 to defend the air and added machine guns to the positions on the south bank.

The 50th Regiment of the Japanese Army, with nearly tanks arranged in two columns, quickly broke through the wide river surface, catching Brigade Commander Chen off guard.

Although the 2nd Regiment of the 12th Brigade defended and resisted desperately, the Golden Eagles also desperately fired at the Japanese in the air. The rocket soldiers desperately destroyed the Japanese tanks. However, the Japanese tanks still broke through the defense line of the 2nd Regiment of the 12th Brigade from multiple points.

The Japanese tanks fiercely bombarded the firepower points of the 2nd Regiment of the 12th Brigade. The infantry followed and occupied the positions of the 2nd Regiment of the 12th Brigade. Then they rushed all the way to Jixian County.

After the Second Regiment lost its position, Brigade Commander Chen immediately reported to the Jixian Command and organized his troops to resist and delay the Japanese attack at each level.

Unfortunately, the Japanese tanks were highly mobile and advanced very quickly.

Brigade Commander Chen was unable to mobilize enough rocket soldiers at the moment, so he could only organize a suicide squad to destroy the Japanese tanks. However, most of the suicide squad members were killed by the infantry next to the Japanese tanks on the way to the tanks.

Due to the rugged terrain at Sanchakou, the 15th Regiment of the 30th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army gathered six tank squadrons and more than 70 tanks and launched a full-scale attack on Sanchakou and the positions of the first regiment opposite.

The artillery units of the 12th Brigade deployed on the south bank of Sanchakou also launched fierce bombardment on the Japanese tank units.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the 30th Regiment of the Japanese Army broke through the defense line of the st Regiment and then quickly advanced towards Jixian County.

After the Japanese tanks broke through the 1st Regiment's position on the south bank of Sanchakou, they split into two groups, one heading straight for Jixian County, while the other attacked the artillery positions of the 12th Brigade.

The two 150mm howitzers in the artillery position had no time to move. Although the soldiers of the regiment fought hard, they could not withstand the fast speed and fierce firepower of the Japanese tanks.

In less than half an hour, the Japanese tanks broke through their defenses and destroyed two 150mm howitzers of the th Brigade. The artillery also suffered heavy casualties.

Gray Wolf received a telegram from Brigade Commander Chen. He had originally planned that the 12th Brigade would resist the Japanese attack for a week at the three-way intersection and the Bailonggang Bridge, and then part of the independent brigade would be replaced. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of tanks and broke through at multiple points. The defense line was broken by the Japanese army in just one day.

After the Japanese army broke through the Sanchakou and Bailonggang Bridge defense lines, they would head straight for Jixian, their command center.

Gray Wolf immediately adjusted its deployment and urgently deployed five 150mm howitzers deployed in the mountainous area of ​​Jixian County in the direction of Sanchakou, and five Type tanks and five Type medium tanks in the direction of Bailonggang Bridge.

Gray Wolf also urgently dispatched the Army Aviation soldiers to deploy all the remaining five Golden Eagle IIIs in Jixian County to the front line to patrol the Japanese troops in the direction of Sanchakou and Bailonggang Bridge and provide support at any time.

The 21th Regiment of the Japanese Army was the first to reach the outskirts of Jixian County from the Bailonggang Bridge. At this time, the Japanese Army still had tanks, fighting against the five Type tanks and five Type medium tanks of the First Army that went out of the city to fight. (In an anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, the First Army captured Japanese tanks from Luanxian County.)

The first tank battle between the First Anti-Japanese Army and the Japanese Army took place fiercely outside the east gate of Jixian County.