Devil's Army

The Japanese army carefully passed through the reed path and came to the small earthen slope.

The Japanese army was worried that there was an ambush of the devil troops in front of the small slope, so they arranged mortars to bombard the small slope fiercely.

After the bombing, the Japanese infantry quickly rushed to the small slope. But the devil troops behind the slope had already retreated with heavy machine guns.

The vanguard of the Japanese 7th Division continued to advance towards Kaiyuan City.

The Japanese army soon arrived at the Kou River Bridge and launched a fierce bombardment on the Devil Force soldiers on the other side of the bridge. However, this time they were met with stubborn resistance from the Devil Force.

A regiment commander used the natural barrier of Kou River to block the Japanese attack. Once the Japanese crossed the Kou River, they could quickly attack Kaiyuan City directly.

Behind Kaiyuan City is the new county seat of Tieling County, which Leng Feng is developing with all his strength. In order to prevent attacks from Japanese aircraft, an anti-aircraft artillery company was deployed in Tieling County. So Kaiyuan cannot be lost.

The Japanese army launched several fierce attacks on the Kouhe Bridge in succession, but were met with the most stubborn resistance from the devilish troops after they came from Xifeng County.

In the afternoon, the Japanese called for air force reinforcements. With the support of the air force aircraft, the Japanese infantry launched a continuous and fierce attack on the bridge.

The soldiers of the first company of the second battalion suffered heavy casualties in the fierce bombing of the Japanese army, but they still held their positions and did not let the Japanese army cross the small bridge.

After the Japanese planes flew away, the soldiers of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion who had crossed the river quickly took up their positions and joined hands with the soldiers of the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion to stop the Japanese from crossing the bridge.

The fierce gunfire on both sides of the Kou River continued until evening.

At night, the brigade commander stepped up patrols on the river bank to prevent the devil troops from crossing the river and attacking them.

At 12 o'clock in the morning, when most people were asleep, the Japanese army camp on the river bank was suddenly attacked from behind by soldiers from the first and second companies who were retreating through the reeds.

The attack lasted for more than half an hour. When the regiment commander organized his troops to pursue, the sneak attack troops of the first battalion retreated from the grove.

When the Japanese pursuit troops passed the grove and came to a large reed bed, the first and second companies of the first battalion had disappeared without a trace.

The captain was so angry that he wanted to set fire to the reeds, but the erratic wind direction prevented him from doing so.

The Devil's sneak attack caused more than 100 casualties among the Imperial warriors.

The next morning, the captain vented his anger on the soldiers of the Devil's Army on the other side of the Kou River.

Wave after wave of artillery fire blasted towards the positions of the Devil Forces on the other side of the Kou River.

The Japanese infantry crawled towards the small bridge under the cover of artillery fire. However, the soldiers of the Devil Force on the other side of the Kou River braved the fierce bombardment of the Japanese artillery and continued to shoot at the Japanese infantry who crawled across the bridge.

Japanese infantrymen were hit one after another and rolled into the surging Kou River.

The Kou River became a veritable Kou River that swallowed up the Japanese invaders. Some soldiers of the First Army even joked:

"This Kou River is the river where the Japanese invaders are buried!"

Near noon, three Hua Xia II fighters of the First Army escorted three Voltir bombers and launched a fierce bombing on the Japanese artillery positions and the attacking Japanese troops.

Soon, the Japanese air force also flew over to provide support.

Three Hua Xia II fighters of the First Army covered the retreat of three Voltaire bombers.

After a fierce battle, the First Army's fighter planes were defeated by the Japanese Air Force's wolf pack tactics and began to retreat.

Afterwards, the Japanese air force launched a fierce bombing on the First Army's positions on the banks of the Kou River.

At this time, the 28th Regiment of the Japanese Army was under heavy bombing by the First Army's bombers. The formation was in chaos and it was temporarily unable to organize an effective attack.

In the following days, the Japanese 28th Regiment and the st Regiment of the th Brigade of the st Army fought repeatedly.

The commander of the first regiment withdrew the troops of the second battalion, which had suffered heavy casualties, back to Kaiyuan City and arranged for the troops of the third battalion to take over.

As time went on, the Japanese fleet's naval attack was repelled, and the number of aircraft coming to support the First Army increased and became more frequent.

The cost of the Japanese 28th Regiment's attack on the Kou River Bridge was becoming increasingly high.

The attack on Kaiyuan City from Changtu County by Division Commander Kunisaki Toku was not going smoothly, and he repeatedly urged the regiment commander to speed up and capture Kaiyuan City.

The regiment commander had no choice but to increase the intensity of the artillery bombardment while ordering the infantry to continue the attack.

Japanese infantry began to rush onto the small bridge over the Kou River and moved towards the other side of the river step by step.

When the Japanese infantry was about to cross the Kou River Bridge, a series of explosions were heard.

A group of soldiers detonated the explosives buried under the bridge, and the Japanese soldiers on the bridge were blown down into the Kou River along with the small bridge.

The captain was dumbfounded. The water in this section of the Kou River was fast-flowing and deep, and there was no way to wade.

When the engineers were building a pontoon bridge across the river, they faced fierce resistance from the devil's troops, which was very difficult.

The Yijun army's desperate move also cut off their connection with Weiyuanbao Town.

The regiment commander did not order the engineers to build a pontoon bridge. Instead, he led his troops to continue searching along the lower reaches of the Kou River, looking for a shallow spot to wade across the river.