Devil's Army

In the end, under the three-dimensional attack of Japanese aircraft and infantry, all 286 people from the two companies of Captain He and Captain Hu died heroically, and no one retreated.

The Japanese army successfully occupied the shoal on the other side of the Xiaoling River. Seeing that they had successfully occupied the other side of the river, the Japanese air force also began to return.

Finally crossing the river, the Japanese captain breathed a sigh of relief, but he made a fatal mistake.

He believed that the attack on Jinzhou must be supported by artillery, so instead of consolidating the beachhead, he ordered his soldiers to immediately cut down trees and build a pontoon bridge to allow the baggage to cross the river.

The Japanese soldiers who had already crossed the river were shivering in the icy water. They took off their clothes one after another and worked in groups of three or four to wring out the water from each other's clothes.

A battalion of soldiers from the direct regiment who rushed to the scene after hearing the news suddenly launched a fierce counterattack against the Japanese troops who were wringing water on the riverbank.

The Japanese army, which responded hastily, could not stop the devilish soldiers who were as fierce as wolves and tigers.

The captain suddenly woke up from his dream and ordered the infantry to stop building the pontoon bridge and continue to wade across the river.

However, the golden time to consolidate the beachhead had passed, and the Japanese infantry who waded across the river came under even more fierce attack.

The captain regretted not consolidating the beachhead and continuing to advance in depth.

He could only wave his command knife and hysterically order the soldiers behind him to continue wading across the river.

What made the captain collapse was that two pointed-nosed aircraft from the Devil's Forces were flying towards them, escorting a Type 98 heavy bomber.

The First Army's fighter planes and bombers flew over the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the river and began to strafe and bomb them crazily.

The Japanese follow-up troops that were preparing to attack were blown to pieces and fled in all directions.

The Japanese infantrymen who had already waded across the river fell to the ground one after another under the fierce fire of the battalion of the direct regiment that had caught up with them, and drifted to the lower reaches of the Xiaoling River with the river water.

After the First Army's plane flew away, the captain sat under a tree, feeling mixed emotions.

After a week of fighting, the artillery shells were running out, and Xiaolinghe had not yet been captured, let alone Jinzhou.

A squadron leader nearby walked cautiously to the captain and asked in a low voice:

"Captain, do you want to continue the attack?"

The captain looked at the squadron leader blankly and replied in a low voice:

Ask the signalman to report our current position to the division commander, report that our artillery shells have been used up, and it is difficult to break through the Xiaoling River defense line of the devil troops, and request instructions on the next course of action. &34;

After a while, the signalman came trotting over and handed the division commander's reply to the battalion commander.

It only said: Move closer to the Xiaolinghe Railway Bridge, meet up with the 16th Regiment, replenish ammunition, and capture the railway bridge.

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the captain led the remaining troops to the Xiaoling River railway bridge.

The commander of the 16th Regiment of the Japanese Army was very happy to see the reinforcements arriving and immediately replenished their ammunition.

Although the captain's troops that came to support only had the strength of two squadrons including the logistics troops, at least there were reinforcements.

Their 16th Regiment fought for more than a week with the strength of a regiment, and just two days ago they crossed the other side of the Xiaoling River railway bridge. But they did not hold it for even a day.

In the evening of the same day, the Devil Force soldiers, with the support of aircraft, recaptured the Xiaolinghe railway bridge position.

The morale of the Japanese 16th Regiment also hit rock bottom.

The commander of the regiment didn't know that the battalion commander, with a force of half a battalion, had been defeated repeatedly, and all the gunboats and landing craft had been destroyed, and they had no morale at all.

The next morning, the regiment commander ordered the artillery to launch a fierce bombardment on the positions of the Devil Forces on the other side of the Xiaolinghe Railway Bridge.

The bombing lasted for more than half an hour, and then the captain was asked to gather the remaining soldiers to launch a fierce attack on the Xiaolinghe Railway Bridge.

The fighting on the Xiaolinghe Railway Bridge side has been quite fierce, and the First Army's planes often come to provide reinforcements.

In order to gain merit, the captain personally supervised the battle from behind, waving his command knife and ordering the soldiers to attack!

The soldiers of the First Army had long been accustomed to the Japanese attack routine, artillery bombardment, and then infantry charge. They calmly hid in the anti-artillery fortifications, and when the Japanese infantry attacked, they would gradually come out of the fortifications to fight back.

The Japanese soldiers with low morale rushed forward mechanically under the command of the captain.

Another new day of fighting has begun.

Perhaps it was the captain's fate. When the Japanese army rushed to the vicinity of the railway bridge, the First Army's planes appeared earlier than usual.

Three Voltaire bombers, escorted by three Huaxia II fighters, launched a fierce bombing on the attacking Japanese army.

The three Huaxia II fighter planes of the First Army also fired fiercely at the attacking Japanese troops.

The captain's troops retreated in panic, leaving behind nearly a hundred corpses.

However, the captain's misfortune was not over yet.

A Golden Eagle No. 4 drone of the First Army accidentally discovered the Japanese headquarters hiding in the woods around the corner, and guided three Voltaire bombers to attack the Japanese headquarters.

In order to shirk responsibility, the brigade commander pushed the fault onto the battalion commander, accusing his troops of being seriously afraid of fighting and failing to attack effectively.

When the battalion commander's gunboat and landing craft were blown up by the devil's troops, the division commander had already wanted to kill him. But at that time, the battle was in full swing and it was a taboo to change the generals in the middle of the battle, so he barely spared his life until now.

Now that we have heard the complaint from the commander of the 29th Regiment, we will immediately have the military police bring the captain to the military court.