Devil's Army

The naval soldiers of the First Army jumped onto the Japanese warships one after another and began to clear out the remaining Japanese naval soldiers on the ships.

After sporadic fighting, the naval soldiers of the First Army completely wiped out the soldiers on the Japanese warships.

The naval soldiers of the First Army began to tie cables and towed the four powerless Japanese warships back to the Huludao shipyard for repairs.

As soon as the First Army bombers returned to the airport, a squad leader on duty ran over and conveyed Leng Feng's order to them:

The battle situation is tense, go and reinforce the Xiaoling River Railway Bridge and Xiaoling River Ferry immediately.

The pilot of the Voltaire bomber immediately asked the ground crew to reload ammunition and flew to the Xiaolinghe Railway Bridge with the two fighter planes that came back to restock ammunition.

After restocking their ammunition, several other Voltaire bombers also flew to the Xiaoling River ferry to provide reinforcements.

When the Japanese Navy attacked Jinzhou Port, the 29th Regiment of the nd Division of the Japanese Army also assembled more than small gunboats and landing craft and entered the Xiaoling River Ferry from the Liaohe River, preparing to land here and attack Jinzhou.

At around seven o'clock in the evening, the vanguard of the 29th Regiment of the Japanese Army approached the Xiaoling River Ferry.

They stopped the landing craft's engine, rowed the boat manually, and quietly moved toward the ferry.

Several landing craft arrived at the shallows, and the Japanese soldiers on the landing craft got off the craft and waded across the river.

The ferry was guarded by a company from the 14th Brigade's direct regiment.

A sentry still discovered something strange in Xiaoling River. He shouted from the direction of Xiaoling River Ferry:

"who is it?"

"Bang!" The Japanese army did not respond, but a gunshot was heard. The rest of the Japanese army quickly rushed to the beach.

As soon as the gunshots were heard, a company of soldiers guarding behind the ferry fortifications immediately opened fire at the ferry.

At this time, the Japanese army had already landed on the beach, and a fierce gunfight broke out between the two sides.

Soldiers from the 14th Brigade's direct regiment launched a Golden Eagle drone to scout the situation of the Japanese troops landing on the beach.

The artillery of the regiment directly behind the fortifications continued to bombard the Japanese landing craft that were rushing to the beach based on the information sent back by the golden eagle.

The Japanese landing craft rushed to the shore at full speed, and the machine guns on the boats kept firing at the soldiers of the First Army on the ferry.

The battle lasted for more than an hour. Four or five Japanese landing craft were sunk, and they fled back in a panic, leaving behind more than 40 bodies.

At around six o'clock the next morning, the main force of the 29th Regiment of the Japanese Army arrived at Xiaoling River and concentrated the remaining gunboats and landing craft to launch an attack on the Xiaoling River ferry.

The Japanese army's small gunboats fiercely bombarded the Xiaoling River ferry positions.

Japanese planes also came to help, and fierce artillery shells swept across the Xiaoling River ferry position.

The direct regiment did not dare to fire under the bombing of Japanese planes.

The company of the 14th Brigade stationed at the ferry suffered heavy casualties from the double-sided attack by the Japanese air force and gunboats.

A part of the Japanese 29th Regiment, under the cover of aircraft and artillery, once approached the ferry fortifications, but was repelled by the dense grenade fire from the soldiers of the 14th Brigade.

The regiment commander asked the brigade commander for aircraft support, but the brigade commander told him that the First Army's aircraft were fighting fiercely with Japanese warships in the Bohai Sea and could not be separated.

The regiment commander had no choice but to arrange for the second company to prepare to take over while arranging for the regiment's mortar to provide flexible support.

After receiving the order, the regiment's mortar soldiers braved the Japanese artillery fire and continuously attacked the landing Japanese troops, providing strong support for the company's blocking.

As the Japanese attack became more and more fierce, the casualties of the first company increased. The second company had to run into the fortifications to reinforce under the Japanese artillery fire.

After lunch, the shells for the Japanese gunboats arrived, and part of the 29th Regiment of the Japanese Army, with the support of aircraft, fiercely attacked the Xiaoling River ferry position.

The company's fortifications were almost completely plowed through by Japanese artillery fire.

The soldiers of the first and second companies in the fortifications were either blown away by the Japanese artillery fire or buried in the mud.

In order to reduce casualties, the regiment commander asked the battalion commander to order the soldiers to retreat to the second line of defense.

Japanese follow-up troops landed one after another and consolidated the beach fortifications.

In the evening, after consolidating the beach fortifications, the Japanese army continued to advance towards the second line of defense of the First Army.

While advancing towards the second fortification of the First Army, the Japanese troops were attacked by soldiers from the Second Battalion who were ambushed on both sides.

The Japanese vanguard, lacking heavy weapons, was ambushed and retreated in panic, leaving behind dozens of corpses.

The second battalion commander succeeded in the sneak attack and immediately led his soldiers to withdraw from the ambush position.

Soon, Japanese bombers flew over and bombarded the positions that had just attacked their soldiers.

After the Japanese planes bombed both sides of the path, the Japanese follow-up troops continued to march towards the second fortification.

At this time, four Voltaire bombers from the First Army, which had restocked their ammunition, flew over.

One plane bombed the Japanese troops on the march, and two planes bombed the Japanese troops that had occupied the Xiaoling River ferry.

Another plane launched a fierce bombing on the Xiaoling River beachhead positions and the Japanese landing craft and small gunboats on the Xiaoling River.

Lacking anti-aircraft weapons, the soldiers of the 29th Regiment of the Japanese Army had to passively seek cover to avoid the air raids of the First Army's aircraft.

After the bomber raid of the First Army, the Japanese 29th Regiment, which was in a mess, stopped attacking the second line of defense of the direct regiment. They consolidated the defense line of the Xiaoling River ferry and prepared to launch a new round of attack tomorrow.