Devil's Army

While the battle of the direct regiment to recapture Zhonggu Town was underway, the reinforcements sent by Division Commander Kunisaki Tokugawa were also blocked north of Jingou by a regiment commander.

The captain of the second battalion of the Japanese army dispatched tanks and fiercely attacked the soldiers of the Devil Force behind the high ground on both sides of the hill.

A battalion commander arranged for rocket soldiers to seize the opportunity and destroy the two Japanese tanks in the front.

A regiment of mortar soldiers took the opportunity to launch a fierce bombardment on the Japanese infantry blocking the path.

Soldiers from two companies of the first regiment also took the opportunity to rush to both sides of the path and fiercely bombarded the Japanese infantry on the path with grenades.

The second battalion commander had to temporarily withdraw from the Jingou area, regroup his forces, and prepare to launch a new attack.

As the reinforcement mission was urgent, the captain of the second battalion rested for half an hour and then began to order the artillery to fiercely bombard the positions of the regiment on both sides of the path.

Under the cover of artillery, the Japanese infantry began to force their way through the path in the middle of the hills.

The soldiers of the first and second battalions of the first regiment had to stay in their positions under the bombardment of Japanese artillery fire to resist the passage of the Japanese army.

After more than an hour of bloody fighting, the First Battalion and the Second Battalion of the First Regiment blocked the passage of the Japanese army, but their own losses were not small.

Just after lunch, the captain of the second battalion, with the cooperation of the air force, launched a fierce attack on the high ground on both sides of the hills.

At this time, the direct regiment had successfully recaptured Zhonggu Town.

In order to preserve strength and find an opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Japanese Seventh Division, the commander of the Seventh Brigade decisively ordered the First Regiment to withdraw from the Jingou position. He also ordered the commander of the direct regiment, Wang, to set up an ambush at the bend of a mountain road at the north gate of Zhonggu Town.

The Japanese Second Battalion finally succeeded in passing through the Jingou hilly road and rushed to Zhonggu Town at full speed.

When the Japanese army passed the ambush position of the direct regiment outside the north gate of Zhonggu Town, Commander Wang did not launch an attack on the Japanese army, but let them pass.

When the captain of the second battalion of the Japanese army arrived at the gate of Zhonggu Town, he found that Zhonggu Town had been lost. The devil troops were waiting on the city wall to fight with them.

The purpose of the Japanese army's rush to support Zhonggu Town this time was to attack from both sides with the defenders in the town and eliminate the devilish troops outside the city.

Now the devil troops have occupied Zhonggu Town and are in a dominant position. They are resisting stubbornly and it is difficult for them to win. However, the captain still ordered the soldiers to launch the first attack on Zhonggu Town.

The result was not beyond the captain's expectations; the attack was blocked by the devil's troops.

At this time, the First Army aircraft that were ordered to come for reinforcement, under the personal leadership of Captain Xu, launched a fierce bombing on the Japanese troops outside Zhonggu City.

(At this time, the major battles in various places in the old base area have basically stopped, and they are all in a state of mutual confrontation or small-scale conflict. The air force of the First Army and the First Front Army can be mobilized more flexibly to support a certain battlefield.)

The terrain outside Zhonggu Town was open and there was nowhere to hide. The Japanese army was heavily bombed by the First Army Air Force and suffered heavy casualties. They had to send a telegram to the division commander Kunizaki Noboru.

At this time, it was meaningless to reinforce Zhonggu Town. Division Commander Kunisaki Toku ordered the 2nd Infantry Battalion to withdraw to Changtu County.

The second captain of the Japanese battalion then ordered the entire team to retreat northward.

However, it is easy to get in and difficult to get out.

The Japanese Second Battalion retreated at full speed along the original route. When they came to the mountain road at the corner, they were stubbornly blocked by the First Battalion of the Direct Regiment.

With the retreat route blocked and bombers attacking from the front, the second battalion commander had no choice but to order a violent attack.

However, the corner was blocked by two heavy machine guns, and the Japanese artillery could not reach the machine gun positions of the Devil Forces at the corner.

The second captain of the Japanese army ordered the infantry to cross the high ground on both sides of the path and attack the devil troops at the foot of the mountain.

However, the first and second battalions of the direct regiment had already built a defense line on the high ground on both sides, pressing the Japanese troops down the hillside.

The planes of the First Army came over at the right time to add to the trouble and dropped bombs fiercely on the artillery positions of the Second Battalion.

The artillery of the Japanese Second Battalion was either destroyed or busy moving and hiding, and there was no way to suppress the high ground on both sides of the path.

At this time, the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 7th Brigade, which was blocking another route of the 7th Division of the Japanese Army in Xifeng County, was ordered to reinforce and launched a fierce attack on the 2nd Battalion of the Japanese Army from the flank.

The commander of the second battalion of the Japanese army was forced to divide his troops to block the enemy, which made his already limited forces even more stretched.

Division Commander Kunisaki Toku was worried that his Second Battalion would be wiped out, but the regiment defending the Jingou position had been ordered to surround Changtu County, so he did not dare to send reinforcements. He had to desperately send a telegram to the Second Battalion Commander: Break through.

The commander of the Japanese Second Battalion had no choice but to abandon his original retreat and break out to the east.

The troops of the first and second battalions of the direct regiment took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and together with the troops of the first battalion of the second regiment, they beat the fallen dog.

The Japanese Second Battalion, which was surrounded on all sides, fought and retreated, suffering heavy casualties along the way, and finally withdrew to Changtu County from the east with more than 300 people.