Devil's Army

After a long period of fighting, the Japanese 7th Division's artillery shells were clearly insufficient.

In order to capture the Yinjiashan position, Division Commander Kunisaki Toku called for air force reinforcements.

After a while, Japanese bombers roared in and launched a fierce bombing on the Yinjiashan position.

The soldiers of the Third Regiment all crawled back into their anti-artillery holes like frightened little white rabbits.

The powerful bombs dropped by Japanese bombers flattened the soil on the surface of the Yinjiashan position by several centimeters.

Several soldiers from the Third Regiment had bleeding noses due to the shock wave from the explosion of the aerial bombs.

After the bombing by the plane, the Japanese battalion commander arranged another infantry company to launch a new round of attack on the Yinjiashan position.

However, before this Japanese infantry squadron reached the front of the Yinjiashan position, it was heavily bombarded by the 7th Brigade's small mountain artillery.

The remaining Japanese infantry continued to attack the Yinjiashan position after the small mountain artillery bombardment, but they were fiercely counterattacked by the soldiers of the Third Regiment in the trenches.

This wave of Japanese attack was repelled, and the captain did not arrange a new attack.

Division Commander Kunisaki Toku had ordered the baggage train to deliver artillery shells to them, and the mobile unit would also come to reinforce them.

As night fell, Division Commander Kunisaki knew that the Devil's Army was good at night attacks, so he stepped up the alert. Patrol soldiers kept patrolling around the barracks.

The third regiment commander had originally planned to attack the Japanese army at night, but he did not find an opportunity to do so, so he had to give up.

In the next two days, the artillery shells and mobile forces of the Japanese 7th Division did not arrive. The two sides faced each other across the position, firing a few cold guns and cold artillery from time to time.

On that day, the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment, which was ordered to rush over from Simiancheng to provide reinforcements, quietly arrived in the Nanshan area of ​​Xintun.

When the commander of the third regiment saw a battalion coming, he came up with an idea and gave an order to the commander of the first battalion of the first regiment.

In the evening, the Second Company of the Third Regiment launched a surprise attack on the Japanese troops who had been on guard.

The Japanese army, which had been on high alert, immediately counterattacked and surrounded them from all sides.

The Second Company held out for a while, but could not hold out any longer and began to retreat towards Xintun Nanshan.

A company of the devil's army dared to attack their battalion. The battalion commander was furious and ordered one squadron to chase them closely while another squadron attacked from the flank.

The second company retreated to the southern mountain of Xintun, stopped retreating, and lay on the hillside to block the Japanese army.

Seeing the opportunity to make meritorious service had come, the captains of the two Japanese squadrons immediately surrounded them.

Before the Japanese army broke through the Erlian Xintun Nanshan position, soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment had already surrounded it from three sides.

The Japanese army had been keeping an eye on the direction of Tieling County, but they did not expect that a battalion of soldiers from the Devil's Army would come from the direction of Changtu County.

The soldiers of the first battalion were very angry because they failed to defend the city on all sides. Now the Japanese troops surrounding the two squadrons immediately launched a fierce attack.

The Japanese army was attacked from all sides and fought desperately, but was still at a disadvantage.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the soldiers from the 1st and 3rd Regiments wiped out the two Japanese squadrons.

Soon, the division commander Kunisaki Tou learned that his two infantry squadrons were surrounded and annihilated by the devil troops, and guessed that the devil troops from Changtu County were coming. He quickly arranged soldiers to defend the direction of Changtu County.

Soon, the main force of the regiment arrived at the Luanshishan area and attacked the Japanese 7th Division from behind, but was met with stubborn resistance from the well-prepared Japanese army.

The commander of the Third Regiment also took the opportunity to launch an attack on the Japanese Seventh Division from the direction of Yinjiashan.

Although the Japanese 7th Division lacked artillery shells, it was still quite powerful and withstood the attacks from the 1st and 3rd Regiments.

The Japanese army had not launched an attack for two days, and the commander of the Seventh Brigade guessed that there was a problem with their supplies. However, they could not defeat the Japanese army for the time being. They had to maintain the status quo and surround the Seventh Division of the Japanese Army from both sides, while arranging Golden Eagle drones to scout the surrounding situation to prevent the Japanese transport team from replenishing their supplies.

At noon the next day, the Golden Eagle drone made a discovery.

A large group of Japanese troops escorted a transport team from Changtu County to Luanshi Mountain. They have now arrived at Zhonggu Town.

The commander of the Seventh Brigade decided to intercept the transport team of the Japanese Seventh Division.

In this way, the Japanese Seventh Division will be short of supplies and will inevitably retreat. The crisis in Tieling County can be eliminated.

If the Japanese 7th Division had not retreated, the commander of the 7th Brigade could have concentrated the strength of the entire brigade to destroy the Japanese 7th Division.

The commander of the Seventh Brigade immediately dispatched the brigade's direct regiment stationed in Pingbao Town to march quickly to the Luanshishan area.

The 1st Regiment also marched northward, preparing to encircle the Japanese transport team in the hills between Zhonggu Town and Luanshi Mountain together with the brigade's direct regiment.