Devil's Army

After Leng Feng and his men retreated, Leng Feng led the First Brigade, the Third Brigade and the Independent Brigade back to the Oroqen tribe. Wu Lang led the Second Brigade, pulling two small mountain guns and four vehicles back to Hujia Village. However, it took him a lot of time to hide these four vehicles and two small mountain guns.

After listening to Lieutenant Colonel Jili's report, Musashi Nobuyoshi thought that the devil troops in Hujia Village could not have as many as 3,000 people. The only possibility was that the devil troops from Hujia Village, Hejiagang and Oroqen tribe gathered together and launched a counter-encirclement.

Another intelligence leak. Which link leaked the information? Musashi Nobuyoshi was in a dilemma.

Musashi Nobuyoshi convened a military meeting of relevant Japanese military officers in Fengtian. At the meeting, the Japanese military officers believed that only a few of their senior generals knew about the operation, and the possibility of leakage was very low. The only possibility was that they were followed during the operation.

Musashi Nobuyoshi immediately formulated a retaliatory action, which was to dispatch two regiments of more than 331 people and two puppet army battalions of more than people to encircle and annihilate the devil troops in Hejiazhao Village in three directions. The troops transferred from Shanxian to Hujia Village were more than people from the st Regiment of the Kwantung Army, plus a battalion of more than people from the Imperial Army. A total of nearly people encircled and annihilated the devil troops that had been entrenched in Hujia Village from the small road.

The second route was a Japanese battalion of more than 1,200 people who surrounded and suppressed the village from the cliff north of Hejiazhai Village.

The third route is to encircle and suppress the enemy from the front from Tieling County with more than 334 Japanese troops from the th Regiment and more than puppet troops. The time is set at o'clock tomorrow morning.

At about six in the morning, the battle in the woods outside Tieling County started first. The Japanese sent out two tanks again this time. These two tanks led the charge and attacked the fortifications deployed by the Fourth Battalion outside Tieling County at full firepower. The infantrymen next to the tanks kept firing and throwing grenades. In less than half an hour, the first line of defense of the Fourth Battalion was torn open in the middle.

The hole extended inwards and gradually expanded to both sides. There was no choice but for the team leader in charge of guarding this line of defense to lead the rest of the team to retreat to the woods on both sides.

Lieutenant Colonel Masao Kawabe arranged two squads of the Imperial Army to chase the Devil Troops fleeing to the two sides. The others drove straight in and stopped 400 meters in front of the anti-tank cone.

Lieutenant Colonel Hebian sent several engineers to clear the mines and set up four mortars to fire at the anti-tank cones, hoping to blast a passage.

Hu Bing led several snipers to snipe at the Japanese engineers on both sides. But as soon as his gun fired, a Japanese machine gun immediately fired at him. The Japanese who entered the woods on both sides to search also approached them in groups.

Wu Bing had no choice but to retreat with the snipers after killing two engineers.

The Japanese quickly blasted a passage through the anti-tank cone. Two tanks entered the mountainside one after another and bombarded the firing points on both sides of the mountainside.

When Wang Zhuangfei started fighting at the outer positions of Tieling County, he informed Leng Feng of the battle situation. Leng Feng knew that the tanks were advancing very fast and it would be too late to dispatch the Golden Eagles to defend the city. He immediately ordered Wang Zhuangfei to evacuate all the villagers to the Xinsu camp. All the important supplies were also moved away. They could also wait for an opportunity to retreat.

Wang Zhuangfei was unwilling to give up the fortress he had defended for so long to the Japanese. He wanted to destroy as many Japanese as possible and make them lose a few teeth if they got the fortress.

At this time, the phone rang, and the captain of a small team that stayed behind in Hejiazhao Village reported to him that the Japanese had also been spotted on the cliff north of the village.

"Have the villagers and important supplies been evacuated and moved away?"

"The retreat has basically been completed, and some of the guerrillas have moved important supplies to the Shinjuku camp."

"Okay, you guys rush to the northern cliff and help the guerrillas defend it."

"Yes!"

The infantrymen beside the Japanese tanks that rushed into the mountainside fell to the ground one after another under the dense bullets and grenades on both sides of the mountainside. The tanks did not dare to rush forward without the assistance of infantry. They could only move forward slowly while bombarding the firing points on both sides of the mountainside.

At this time, Wang Zhuangfei received a call from Wu Lang, saying that their Second Battalion was attacked by more than 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops. The Aozuikou Pass had been lost. They had retreated to the cave and were asked to prevent the Japanese from attacking them from the woods on the right.

"Send your troops to block the Japanese on the cliff path. It won't be easy for them to pass through there."

"I have sent a small team to the top of the cliff and a squadron to the exit of the cliff to stop the Japanese. I will inform you of any situation in a timely manner."

"Okay, thank you!"

The Japanese had no intention of competing with Wang Zhuangfei for the fortifications on the mountainside. They set up several heavy mortars at the corner of the mountainside and pushed over two small mountain cannons to bombard the fortifications on both sides of the mountainside. The infantry took the opportunity to rush into the mountainside, joined the tanks, and attacked Hejiazhao Village.

The Japanese were very likely to break through the mountain pass defense line, so Wang Zhuangfei had to call the guerrillas in the north of the village and the first squad to retreat alternately. At the same time, he called Wu Lang to inform them that they were about to retreat and Hejiazhai Village was about to fall. He was asked to be alert to the Japanese troops who were outflanking the cliff exit from Hejiazhai Village.

When Wu Lang heard that Hejiazhao Village was about to fall, he thought it would make little sense for his troops to guard the cliff exit, so he withdrew the troops at the cliff exit and on the top of the cliff back to the cave.

As the first tank left the mountain pass and was about to drive at full speed toward Hejiazhai, the left track hit an anti-personnel mine. With a loud "boom", the track was blown off. While the tank was repairing the track, Wang Zhuangfei ordered the troops on both sides of the mountainside to alternately cover and withdraw to the entrance of Hejiazhai village.

When they arrived at the entrance of Hejiazhao Village, the village militia and the first squad had already begun to retreat in an orderly manner from the path on the left.

Wang Zhuangfei also led the Fourth Battalion to retreat to the Xinsu camp via a small road.

At this point, the Hejiazhai base founded by Leng Feng was lost again.