Devil's Army

When another main force of the 8th Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army arrived near Shanhaiguan, they saw the steep terrain of Shanhaiguan. The captain had an idea and decided to learn from the devil troops and send a reconnaissance team to sneak into Shanhaiguan.

The brigade selected more than ten Japanese soldiers who knew a little Chinese and prepared to sneak into Shanhaiguan in batches.

The first group of five Japanese scouts attracted the attention of the soldiers as soon as they arrived at the Shanhaiguan city gate.

The five Japanese scouts were unfamiliar with the way they picked vegetables, and they were all short and stout, with their eyes revealing the arrogance and cold-bloodedness of the Japanese army. They had absolutely no simple and kind expressions of the Chinese people.

After the five Japanese scouts successfully entered Shanhaiguan City, they were soon invited to chat by the soldiers of the Third Regiment of the Fourth Brigade.

A local recruit questioned the five "ordinary people" in dialect, but they could not understand him at all.

Soon, several other soldiers found five turtle boxes in their vegetable baskets.

The identities of these five civilians were undoubtedly confirmed to be Japanese spies, but they refused to explain how many accomplices they had and their purpose of sneaking into Shanhaiguan.

The platoon leader then sent more people to guard the city gate, and ordered that any short, strong and suspicious-looking civilians they met should be invited to come over for a chat.

Soon, ten suspicious civilians were invited to chat with the platoon leader, but none of them could understand the soldier's dialect.

Moreover, the soldiers found weapons and ammunition from under the cargo of these horses of Japanese scouts who were disguised as ordinary people.

The situation was reported to the headquarters of the Third Regiment Commander step by step. The Third Regiment Commander immediately realized that the Japanese army was going to attack Shanhaiguan, and immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare for battle.

The Japanese captain felt that his scouts had already sneaked into the city and could serve as their internal support, so he began to prepare to launch an attack, but found that the defense of the Devil Force soldiers on the city wall seemed to be tight.

"Could it be that his scouts were exposed? But he didn't hear any gunfire!" the captain thought puzzledly.

The captain ordered the artillery to bombard the walls and gates of Shanhaiguan fiercely. Half an hour later, the infantry began to attack.

The soldiers of the Third Regiment relied on the tall city walls to tenaciously block the Japanese attack.

The captain ordered the infantry to launch another attack on Shanhaiguan under heavy artillery fire.

The Japanese army approached the gate of Shanhaiguan with great difficulty, but the insider who the captain expected did not open the gate to welcome them. Instead, they were welcomed by dense grenades thrown down from the high city wall by the soldiers of the Third Regiment.

The captain paused for a moment, then ordered the infantry to continue attacking Shanhaiguan under artillery fire.

When this team of Japanese troops rushed to the gate of Shanhaiguan, the gate of Shanhaiguan suddenly opened.

The captain was ecstatic. It turned out that he had misunderstood. His reconnaissance team had still completed the task of being the traitor.

The captain urgently ordered the infantry follow-up troops to follow up immediately.

Something happened that stunned the captain: the gate of Shanhaiguan was suddenly closed again, and the large-caliber artillery on the four artillery batteries of Shanhaiguan began to bombard the follow-up troops that were approaching the city wall of Shanhaiguan.

At this time, the Japanese squadron leader who rushed into Shanhaiguan discovered that the soldiers of the Devil Army were ambushing on both sides of the city wall of Shanhaiguan, and they were firing fiercely at them with their guns. More than a dozen soldiers dressed as civilians behind them also fired fiercely at them with guns.

More than 100 soldiers led by the captain rushed into the Shanhaiguan city gate, but were all suffocated at the city gate by the intensive grenades and bullets of the devil troops.

His follow-up troops that were attacking the Shanhaiguan city gate were also blocked outside the Shanhaiguan city wall by dense artillery shells.

The firepower of the devil troops stationed at Shanhaiguan is far inferior to that of the Northeast Army eight years ago. If they don't take down the four artillery batteries, it will be difficult for them to capture the gate of Shanhaiguan with their high-altitude bombing.

The captain had no choice but to stop the attack and call for air force support.

Soon, a mixed formation of fighters and bombers from the Japanese Air Force came to support them. But before they reached the sky above the fourth battery, they were fiercely fired upon by the anti-aircraft guns deployed by the devil troops at both ends of the anti-aircraft gun positions.

The Japanese air force had to bomb the anti-aircraft artillery positions of the Devil Forces at the risk of being shot down.

The Four Forts was an important stronghold for defending Shanhaiguan, and Shanhaiguan was an important passage to Huludao.

As soon as Leng Feng heard that the anti-aircraft artillery position of the Fourth Battery was bombed by the Japanese Air Force, he immediately ordered Captain Xu to send aircraft for reinforcement.

The anti-aircraft artillery positions on both sides of the Fourth Battery were bombed crazily by Japanese planes, and casualties began to occur. However, they still stubbornly defended the anti-aircraft artillery positions and blocked the bombing of the Fourth Battery by Japanese planes.

Several anti-aircraft artillerymen were blown away by bombs from Japanese planes, and nearby reserve anti-aircraft artillerymen immediately ran over to replace them.

Japanese air force planes were also hit by anti-aircraft guns one after another, with planes being damaged and crashing continuously.

At this time, the captain of the 1st Squadron of the 1st Front Air Force of the 1st Army hurried over with two wingmen to provide support.

The Japanese bombers were no match for the Devil Force's sharp fighters and temporarily retreated to the rear.

The Japanese fighter planes, which had the advantage in numbers, surrounded the three pointed fighter planes of the first squadron.

A small-scale air battle broke out over the four artillery batteries.