Devil's Army

Although the Japanese 14rd Regiment had much more soldiers than the th Brigade guarding the Hongluo Mountain Pass, the mountain road below the pass was narrow and the troops could not be deployed at all. They could only advance in two columns. The Japanese tanks could only advance in one column.

In order to prevent the infantry on the mountain road from being attacked by the devil troops, the Japanese regiment commander ordered the artillery to continuously bombard the high ground on both sides of the mountain pass.

The Japanese tanks also continued to bombard the heights on both sides, and the Japanese infantry advanced quickly between the tanks.

What surprised the captain was that his troops had not been attacked by the devil's troops since they entered the mountain road.

The captain of the regiment began to look down on the commander of the Devil Army for not sending troops to guard such a dangerous pass.

Nearly a large group of infantry, supported by tanks, would soon cross the path.

At this time, a deafening explosion was heard at the exit of the path. The explosives caused the hillsides on both sides to collapse, blocking the exit of the mountain road.

Then there was a violent explosion at the entrance of the mountain road, and the fallen mud and rocks also blocked the entrance of the mountain road.

Before the Japanese army could recover, a series of deafening explosions were heard.

It turned out that Wenlang had taken the time to convert all the empty gasoline barrels into unscrupulous cannons and installed them on both sides of the pass.

The unscrupulous artillery shells attacked the mountain road wave after wave, and the huge shock waves caused the Japanese soldiers who were not killed to bleed from their seven orifices.

The brigade commander, who was preparing to arrange soldiers to dig through the mountain road, was also stunned by the explosions.

He didn't know what kind of cannon these were, but the caliber of these cannons was definitely over 150 mm.

The Japanese troops outside the mountain road began to stagger up the unstable mud and rock slope, trying to go over to support the Japanese troops blocked in the mountain road. However, they were blocked by the soldiers of the 14th Brigade on the high ground on both sides of the mountain pass.

One by one, the Japanese soldiers rolled down the dirt slope. One by one, they continued to climb up. Because the mountain road was narrow, the Japanese troops could not deploy their forces, and this scene was repeated.

After the unscrupulous artillery bombardment stopped, the main force of a battalion of the 14th Brigade on the heights on both sides immediately rushed down the mountain road to wipe out the remaining Japanese troops.

The valley amplified the shock waves of the unscrupulous artillery, and most of the Japanese soldiers who were not killed on the mountain road were shocked and lost their ability to resist.

The soldiers of the 14th Brigade quickly cleared the battlefield and returned to their positions.

At this time, the Japanese air force also came to support, and the Kwantung Army had launched an attack on the old base of the devil troops from Rehe, Chengde, Chifeng, Fushun, Fengtian, Xinjing and other places.

The two Huaxia II fighter squadrons of the First Front Army of the First Army were simply unable to cope with the Japanese attacks from all directions.

Fortunately, the dense woods helped the soldiers of the 14th Brigade, and the blind bombing by Japanese planes did not cause much casualties to the soldiers of the 14th Brigade.

The gunfire on the mountain road had stopped and the sky was getting dark, but the Japanese army still could not climb up the collapsed dirt slope.

The Japanese brigade commander looked at the piles of corpses of imperial soldiers with mixed feelings.

His Second Division was a Type A Division of the Japanese Army, invincible in Northeast China and had few rivals.

The battle to encircle and suppress the demon army had just begun. They were defeated at Liangjia Mountain and now encountered obstacles at Hongluo Mountain. Were the soldiers afraid of death and dared not to move forward? The densely packed corpses at the foot of the mountain had already told him that it was not the case.

He wanted to launch a night attack on the Devil's Army, but his chief of staff strongly opposed it.

The chief of staff thought that the soldiers were already exhausted from the daytime attack. Moreover, the collapsed soil was not solid at all, and it would be difficult for the soldiers to climb up without making any noise.

The most important point is what kind of large-caliber artillery was used to bombard the troops on the mountain road? Will they be attacked by these large-caliber artillery after climbing over the dirt slope?

The next morning, the wing commander came up with a good way to pass the mountain road.

He ordered the artillery to continue bombarding the Devil's troops' positions on the high ground to suppress their firepower. The engineers quickly carried out blasting operations to blow up the collapsed earth slope.

After a while, there were continuous roars of artillery fire on the hillside and continuous explosions below the hillside.

The mountain road was opened, but the commander did not dare to pass through rashly. He was afraid of the large-caliber artillery of the devil troops.

But the military order was as strong as a mountain, and he could not stop moving forward. He could only divide the troops into squadrons and pass through the mountain road in batches.

The first squadron to pass the mountain road moved forward cautiously.

The mountain road was littered with Japanese soldiers' corpses and blackened tanks.

Before the Japanese squadron could pass the mountain road, a deafening explosion was heard from the hillside.

A salvo of fire from the unscrupulous artillery on the heights on both sides of the 14th Brigade almost wiped out all the Japanese infantry squadrons that passed through.

The Japanese infantrymen observing at the mountain pass discovered the large-caliber artillery positions of the 14th Brigade and immediately suppressed them with artillery fire.

The Japanese soldiers never dreamed that the so-called large-caliber artillery in their minds was just some modified gasoline barrels. A soldier could carry them and run away to re-arrange the position somewhere else.

After the Japanese army launched a fierce bombardment on the large-caliber artillery positions of the 14th Brigade, the second infantry company entered the mountain road at the pass.

However, this infantry squadron was soon subjected to heavy bombardment by the unscrupulous artillery of the 14th Brigade, which had already moved its position.