Devil's Army

The Japanese artillery of the 14rd Regiment continued to bombard the new artillery positions of the th Brigade.

They didn't know how many such large-caliber artillery pieces the devil troops fighting against them had, but they were more worried that the devil troops' large-caliber artillery would attack their artillery positions.

Relying on the steep terrain of the Hongluo Mountain Pass and the unscrupulous artillery, soldiers from the first battalion of the 14th Brigade, with a force of more than 800 people, blocked the continuous attacks of more than 3000 Japanese troops from the rd Regiment for several days.

Seeing that the road attack was blocked, the commander of the Second Division of the Japanese Army focused on the railway line. However, the railway line from Fengtian to Jinzhou had already been cut off by the devil troops in many places, so they had to repair it.

Row after row of fully loaded trains continued to move forward while being repaired, passing Xinmin County and arriving at Dahushan.

Dahushan is located at a key position in the Liaoxi Corridor, which is mainly hilly area, and the railway passes through the valley.

The 14th Brigade had already deployed a regiment to block the Japanese troops in this area.

After the Japanese army arrived at Dahushan, the engineers began to repair the railway. However, these Japanese engineers were fiercely fired upon by the soldiers of the 14th Brigade on the high ground on both sides of the valley, suffering heavy casualties, and had to stop the repair work and wait for follow-up troops.

Soon, the Japanese follow-up troops arrived and began to attack the valley heights on both sides of the railway.

The soldiers of the 14th Brigade withstood the attack of the Japanese artillery and prepared to block the Japanese infantry charge. However, the Japanese bombers flew over again and dropped bombs on both sides.

The fortifications on the high ground were bombarded by both artillery and aircraft, and many places began to collapse. The casualties of the 14th Brigade soldiers also gradually increased.

The two heights were attacked by a battalion of the 15th Regiment of the nd Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

The captain ordered his soldiers to attack before the artillery fire stopped.

The Japanese troops in this brigade were just like those in the 3rd Regiment, charging forward recklessly in battle.

The soldiers of the 14th Brigade fought off three waves of attacks from the 16th Regiment of the Japanese Army. They also suffered heavy casualties from the Japanese air-to-ground bombing and retreated to their next position in the evening.

After paying a heavy price, the 15st Battalion of the th Regiment of the Japanese Army finally succeeded in occupying two high grounds and immediately sent troops to garrison them. The engineers also quickly repaired the railway in the valley.

After a fierce fighting during the day, the Japanese soldiers fell into a deep sleep exhausted, but the captain was planning tomorrow's attack.

He already knew that the Third Regiment had failed in its attack on Liangjia Mountain and Hongluo Mountain Pass.

He decided to speed up the offensive and take the lead in attacking Jinzhou.

At one o'clock in the morning, fierce gunfire and explosions were heard along the railway line that stretched for several kilometers behind the captain.

The 14th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army organized a commando team to launch a raid on the Japanese railway lines.

The captain mobilized a large number of troops to repel the 14th Brigade commandos who attacked the railway. However, many parts of the railway line that had just been repaired and not yet opened to traffic were blown up again, and the rails were also carried away by the commandos.

The next morning, the Japanese army did not continue to attack the next high ground, but instead focused on repairing the railway line that had been dug and destroyed.

Three days later, as the rails dug by the 14th Brigade commandos were delivered one after another, the rails destroyed by the Japanese army were repaired one by one, and the Japanese army began to attack the next high ground.

Leng Feng heard that the 14th Brigade Commando launched a raid on the Japanese railway line last night and gave instructions:

"We can allow the Japanese troops to pass through the positions on Dahu Mountain and occupy the northern bank of the Xiaolinghe railway bridge. We can also conduct more railway line raids as appropriate."

The commander of the 14th Brigade received the order and understood it immediately. After all, these rails are excellent materials for making weapons and ammunition.

After receiving orders from the brigade commander, each unit resisted the Japanese attack while taking turns to retreat towards Xiaoling River.

The Japanese captain was also surprised that today's attack was unusually smooth and they captured three heights of the Devil's Army in one day.

He thought that the main force of the devil's army had retreated southward, so he did not care and ordered the troops to rest fast and try to cross the Xiaoling River railway bridge tomorrow.

At around twelve o'clock in the morning, the brigade commander personally led a large force and quietly approached the Japanese railway line.

At one o'clock in the morning, a railway raid even larger in scale than the previous few days began.

There were gunshots and explosions everywhere along the dozens of kilometers of railway.

Large Japanese troops in Xinmin County and Dahushan County rushed out to protect their railway lines, but they were soon blocked by the 14th Brigade and could not move forward.

The fighting in various places lasted until around five in the morning when it gradually subsided.

The Japanese commander discovered that the rails of the dozens of kilometers of railway line from Xinmin County to Dahushan County had been almost completely stripped by the devil troops, with only a few sleepers left scattered along the railway line.

After receiving the report from the regiment commander, the division commander scolded him severely and gave him three days to capture Jinzhou, otherwise he would be subject to military law.