Devil's Army

At night, the second regiment commander did not arrange troops to attack the Japanese troops at night, but arranged engineers to quietly lay mines on the canyon path.

At around nine o'clock the next morning, two Japanese bombers, escorted by four fighter planes, flew over the Kuangjiegou Gorge in Gunaidian Township.

The commander of the regiment began to pass through the canyon path, luring the 150mm howitzers of the Devil's Army to fire, but the heavy artillery of the Devil's Army did not fire.

The Japanese planes were unable to find their bombing targets.

However, the commander was not worried. His goal was to attack the Wangjiadagou gold mine through this path. If the devil troops did not fire, his troops could pass through this section of the road smoothly and complete the mission.

However, the captain's idea was too good to be true. The second regiment commander knew that their goal was to seize the Wangjiadagou gold mine and was trying to slow down their actions.

When the Japanese army was advancing at full speed, there was a sudden "boom" explosion. A Japanese soldier stepped on a landmine, and the mine blew several Japanese soldiers away.

The main Japanese force stopped advancing and the engineers began to clear mines.

However, when the Japanese engineers took out their mine detectors to clear the mines, two gunshots were heard from the high ground on both sides of the canyon. Both Japanese engineers fell to the ground and died.

We know that the slopes on both sides of the canyon are steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The commander of the regiment did not want to waste time and soldiers here. He only ordered the machine gunners to fire at the places where the gunshots were heard on the high ground on both sides to suppress the snipers of the devil troops.

However, what snipers are most accustomed to is to move to another position after each shot.

The Japanese machine gunners suppressed the shooting of the First Army's snipers. They had already moved to another place and were quietly looking for new targets.

When the engineers continued to search for mines, they were attacked by cold guns. The mine-clearing operation was forced to stop again.

The commander and the soldiers of the second regiment kept alternating between minesweeping and sniping, which made the commander's minesweeping progress quite slow. After an hour, he only took out two mines. His engineers were also killed or wounded, so he could only send soldiers to clear the mines.

Without taking the high ground on both sides of the canyon, there was no way to clear the mines. The commander had no choice but to attack the devil troops on both sides of the canyon.

There were sudden gunshots and explosions on the high ground on both sides of the canyon.

Japanese bombers also shifted their bombing targets and turned to bombing the positions of the Devil's troops on the high ground on both sides of the canyon.

After several years of continuous repair and consolidation, the Eighth Brigade has already built a perfect position in this valley. The high and low positions are matched and connected on the left and right. The high and low positions on the left and right are connected by traffic trenches.

The Japanese army bombed the position of the Second Regiment, and the soldiers of the Second Regiment quickly moved to the next position through the communication trench and continued to block the Japs.

The commander of the regiment was forced to frequently change the positions of the bombing of the Devil's troops, but the casualties of the Second Regiment were very small.

Throughout the morning, the wing commander, with the cooperation of the aircraft, only advanced a short distance.

The commander of the regiment was so angry at the soldiers of the Second Regiment that he did not allow the Japanese soldiers to have lunch, but continued to attack the positions of the Second Regiment and continuously sent soldiers to clear mines.

However, the offensive was constantly obstructed, and the devil's troops, like groundhogs, kept avoiding the positions they had bombarded fiercely and attacking them from new positions.

Soldiers clearing mines are also being knocked down one after another. The danger of demining soldiers is far greater than that of machine gunners.

The commander of the regiment was completely at a loss and could only resort to the old method of using artillery fire to clear the mines.

When the commander of the regiment arranged for the mortars to start clearing mines, a small aircraft flew towards their mortar soldiers, and then the Type 92 heavy machine gun on its belly continued to fire.

The regiment commander's mortar soldiers fell beside the mortar. The artillery position of the mortar that had just detonated two mines was immediately destroyed by the small aircraft.

The commander of the regiment was suppressed by the soldiers of the second regiment at this time. He could not attack and take the positions of the devil troops on both sides of the canyon. However, he was blocked by landmines.

After much consideration, the wing commander decided to bypass the canyon and take another approach to attack the Wangjiadagou gold mine.

However, to bypass the canyon, one must pass through the Gunaidian River. Wouldn’t the devil’s troops be stationed on the other side of the river?

Although the captain also thought of this, he had no choice but to continue with this plan.

There are dense trees on both sides of the Gunaidian River, which is very suitable for ambushes and blocking.

The captain was also troubled by the terrain of the river bank and kept looking for a suitable place to cross the river.

There was a small aircraft following this Japanese army unit in the sky, which kept reporting the Japanese army's movements to the nearby Second Regiment.

The commander of the second regiment adjusted the deployment of the second regiment's troops on the river bank at any time.

The commander led his troops downstream and came to a relatively flat section of the Gonaidian River, where he began to order his soldiers to wade across the river.

He was very glad that there was no movement from the other side, and he directed the infantry behind him to speed up and cross the river.

However, when his soldiers crossed the middle of the river, fierce gunfire from the opposite side shattered his fantasy.