Devil's Army

At noon on the day when the Japanese 29th Regiment Headquarters was attacked, just after lunch, a truck stopped next to the headquarters.

A team of armed gendarmes walked up to the captain, showed him their credentials, and took him away directly.

The remaining 200-odd soldiers of the battalion commander's unit were assigned to the 29th Regiment.

The progress of the battle did not change because the captain was captured.

In the afternoon, the three captains of the 29th Regiment launched two consecutive attacks on the Xiaoling River Railway Bridge, but both attacks stopped at the shore of the railway bridge.

The morale of the Japanese army improved after the captain was taken away by the military police, but they still failed to break through the Xiaolinghe railway bridge in an afternoon.

The helpless commander of the 29th Regiment had to confront the devil's troops across the Xiaoling River Railway Bridge.

The large-scale offensive of the Second Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army at Xiaoling River and Liangjia Mountain came to an end. The crisis in Jinzhou also came to an end. Leng Feng set his sights on the Wangjia Dagou Gold Mine in Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County.

The Japanese army had long coveted the Wangjiadagou gold mine and the Shujigou copper mine, which were important sources of income for the army and the main source of materials for the arsenal.

At the beginning of the war, the Eighth Brigade had already set up layers of defense here.

After repelling the Japanese navy's invasion from Yingkou, the First Army's aircraft shifted their combat focus here.

Early in the morning of that day, part of the Japanese 7th Division, together with Japanese troops from Fushun and Fengtian, launched an attack on the Wangjiadagou gold mine in two routes.

The Japanese troops in Fushun and part of the Japanese 7th Division took the lead in attacking the Wangjiadagou Gold Mine from the direction of Jinkuangxincun.

After several years of development, the Jinkuang New Village Guard Team has grown to more than 500 people, and the number of villagers in Jinkuang New Village has grown to more than 1,000.

After several months of training by Wei Ke and others, the guard team has begun to gain combat effectiveness.

Later, according to Instructor Wei's request, the hunters basically took half a day every day for training when it was not the busy farming season.

The hunter also brought the escort team to attack the Japanese troops in Fushun in batches, allowing the escort team to gain experience and grow courage.

In response, the Japanese troops in Fushun cancelled the mission of the small unit going out to Fushun. They were furious with the guards of Jinkuang Xincun.

This time, part of the Japanese Army's 7th Division was going to attack the Wangjiadagou Gold Mine, so they volunteered to lead a team to launch a surprise attack on the gold mine village.

The vanguard of the Japanese army captured an old man as a guide and took a mountain path, bypassing the defense zone of a battalion of the Eighth Brigade and arriving at the Gold Mine New Village.

A guard who was going to Fushun County to buy things encountered the Japanese army who were preparing for a sneak attack on the way, and hurried back to report.

Soon, the sentries of the Jinkuang New Village discovered the Japanese troops approaching their village and fired warning shots.

Hearing the gunshots, the guards of the Gold Mine New Village immediately took efficient action.

The first squadron of the escort team immediately trotted to the ammunition room to collect weapons and ammunition, and then rushed to the position at the entrance of the village.

The hunter was already waiting at the entrance of the village with his patrol team. While arranging the team members to take up positions and prepare to block the Japanese army, he asked people to run out from the path behind the village to report to the First Army.

The second and third squadrons of the guard team immediately led the villagers to retreat from the back of the village into the mountains and forests behind.

After settling the villagers, the second and third squadrons of the escort team ran back to the ammunition depot to collect ammunition and prepare to participate in the battle to block the Japanese army.

When the second and third squadrons of the escort team ran back to the ammunition depot, the battle at the entrance of the village had already begun.

The hunter was leading a squadron of guards, using the fortifications built at the village entrance to block the Japanese attack.

The Japanese troops that attacked the Jinkuang New Village this time were not a small force. Their fierce artillery fire mixed with fierce machine gun fire made it impossible for the guards at the village entrance to raise their heads.

Although the guards had trained for a long time, this was their first large-scale positional battle.

The fierce Japanese artillery fire still frightened these non-professional guards, but none of them retreated, because their homes were behind them and their families were there.

The Japanese captain was very annoyed when he saw that after attacking for a long time, he still failed to capture a village defended by the guerrillas.

He ordered the artillery to push the guns behind the infantry and bombard the positions at the entrance of the village fiercely.

The Japanese machine gunners also lay behind the infantry and fired fiercely at the positions at the entrance of the village.

The Japanese infantry stepped on the artillery positions and approached the positions at the entrance of the village step by step.

Under the continuous and fierce bombardment of Japanese artillery, many parts of the anti-artillery fortifications at the entrance of the village began to collapse, and the casualties of the escort team also rose sharply.

Most of the guards were women, who had never seen such a scene before. Some of them were so scared that they covered their ears and screamed loudly.

The hunter comforted them while he and his apprentice, the fat woman, sniped the Japanese gunners.

The carpenter arranged for the guards to carry the injured members away from behind. However, the Japanese attack was very fierce and the guards could not resist.

Hunter ordered the Second Squadron of the Guard to serve as the rear guard to cover the retreat of the First and Third Squadrons of the Guard.

The Japanese army rushed into the gold mine new village. The second squadron used the houses to continuously block the Japanese army and cover the retreat of the first and third squadrons.

The main force retreated into the mountains from the back door of the new village, and the Second Squadron also followed suit.

The Japanese army searched the village for a long time but could not catch anyone. In a rage, they set fire to the Jinkuang New Village.