Devil's Army

The second line of defense at Xiaolinghe Ferry was the last line of defense outside Jinzhou City. If the Japanese army broke through this line of defense, they would directly attack Jinzhou.

In order to slow down the Japanese army's attack, a battalion commander arranged for soldiers to lay mines along the path under the cover of night.

The next morning, the Japanese army began to attack the second line of defense.

Not far ahead was the place where their vanguard was attacked yesterday, and the Japanese began to be cautious. But before this Japanese army reached the place where they were attacked yesterday, one of them stepped on a landmine.

With a loud "boom", the Japanese soldier who stepped on the mine was blown away along with several Japanese soldiers around him.

The captain stopped the troops from advancing and ordered the engineers to go and clear the mines.

These engineers were targets. Before they could detect the mines, they were sniped by the Devil's Army snipers in front of them.

The Japanese machine gunners began to fire at the place where the sniper was shooting, suppressing the sniper's shooting.

The main Japanese forces were behind the machine gunners, waiting for the engineers to clear the mines before moving forward.

Suddenly, there was a whistling sound of mortar shells coming from the front.

The artillery of the direct regiment took advantage of the fact that no Japanese planes came to reinforce, and under the guidance of the golden eagle, fiercely bombarded the large Japanese force behind the engineers.

There were mines blocking the road ahead, and now there was artillery bombardment. The captain had to lead the Japanese army to continue retreating.

To the captain's dismay, the machine gunners he left on both sides to suppress the snipers of the opposite Devil Force were successively blown up by the Devil Force's mortars.

Two engineers who had just cleared a mine were killed by the sniper's gun.

The captain didn't know how many mines the devil's troops had buried on this section of the road, and he didn't know how many engineers would have to die to clear the road.

The captain decided to waste some shells and ordered the mortar troops to bombard the path to create a safe passage.

Four Japanese mortar soldiers had just set up their guns when they began to bombard the path.

A Golden Eagle No. 34 drone flew over and fired at them violently with "da da da..."

All four Japanese mortar soldiers fell beside the mortar.

Some Japanese soldiers helplessly fired at the Golden Eagle No. 4. But apart from the "ding-dong" sound, the Golden Eagle No. 4 drone continued to fly in the air as if nothing had happened.

The captain was really at a loss, he could only report to the commander of the 29th Regiment of the Japanese Army: the devil troops' defense on this road was too strict, and requested the troops to go upstream and find a new breakthrough.

Today is already the third day, and we haven’t even seen the city gate of Jinzhou, let alone capturing Jinzhou.

The division commander ordered him and the commander of the 16th Regiment that was attacking the Xiaolinghe Railway Bridge to capture Jinzhou within three days, but now it seems like an impossible dream.

He could only agree with the captain and let him do whatever he wanted.

The captain then left a squadron behind to defend the hard-won position at the Xiaoling River ferry, while the rest of the force rode upstream on the gunboats and landing craft that had been left after being bombed by the Devil Forces' planes.

The captain's gunboats and landing craft went upstream to the Xiaoling River near Jinzhou City. In order to prevent the Japanese ships from entering Jinzhou upstream, the First Army tied together the requisitioned abandoned fishing boats and wood to block the waterway.

By opening this waterway, the Japanese gunboats and landing craft could directly enter Jinzhou's Taihe District, and then go further into Jinzhou's city center Guta District.

But it was not easy to pass through this channel. First of all, the river channel was mixed with old fishing boats and trees used by the devil troops, forming an obstacle of nearly one mile long.

Moreover, fortifications were built along the river channel which was a mile long and full of wooden obstacles. The devil troops stationed soldiers here to prevent the Japanese army from opening up this river channel and entering Jinzhou.

The Japanese gunboats began to bombard the obstacles on the river, but the artillery of the Devil Force on the shore also bombarded the Japanese gunboats and landing craft.

The Japanese gunboats had to stop bombing the obstacles in the river and turn to bombing the artillery of the devil troops on the river bank, which greatly prolonged the time it took to open up the river.

Until the evening, the Japanese army failed to open up the river.

In the evening, most of the Japanese troops went ashore to camp. Gunboats and landing craft were anchored on the shore, with a few Japanese soldiers left on the boats to guard them.

In order to prevent the devil's army from attacking, the Japanese army lit bonfires at many places on the shore. The patrol troops patrolled back and forth continuously.

Jinzhou is close to the sea, and many local people know how to swim, so many of the new recruits recruited later also know how to swim.

It was not difficult for the head of the regiment to recruit an 80-man night attack team.

At ten o'clock in the evening, they quietly waded across the river with grenades wrapped in waterproof cloth, getting as close as possible to the Japanese gunboats and landing craft.

Some night attack team members who swam to the Japanese gunboats and landing craft first did not take any action, but quietly hid beside the Japanese gunboats and landing craft, waiting for the arrival of other team members.

Half an hour later, the captain took the lead in throwing a grenade into a Japanese gunboat.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of grenade explosions was heard from other Japanese gunboats and landing craft.

The Japanese captain was horrified when he heard the explosions in the gunboats and landing craft, and immediately led his team to chase and kill the soldiers of the devil force that attacked their gunboats and landing craft.