Devil's Army

After annihilating the main force of the Japanese Seventh Division, the 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade began to attack Changtu County.

Eight tanks were arranged in two columns and kept bombarding the Changtu County wall.

In order to defend Changtu County, Division Commander Kunisaki Tokugawa also risked his life.

The mortars fiercely bombarded the tanks of the Devil's Army, and the soldiers lay on the city wall under the tank fire and tried their best to block the attack of the Devil's Army soldiers. However, the difference in firepower was too great.

The tanks of the devil army still blew away a large corner of the city wall, and then the city gate was also blown open by the tanks.

Led by Baron, the soldiers of the Independent Brigade rushed into the city one after another.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Division Commander Kunisaki Noboru retreated from the west gate of Changtu County with his remaining troops.

The Seventh Brigade successfully recaptured Changtu County.

Changtu County was occupied by the devil's troops, and the Japanese army's plan to transport ammunition and troops to support Changtu County and the Fengtian Seventh Division by rail was aborted.

After retaking Changtu County, two fighter squadrons also flew to Xiaoguanzhuang Airport to stand by.

The truck carrying Gray Wolf and the guards also returned to the Tangshan base by land.

This land passage through Shanhaiguan is the artery connecting the First and Second Front Armies. The Japanese army had long been eyeing this land passage.

Sure enough, not long after Gray Wolf and his companions left Shanhaiguan, they heard the roar of airplanes in the sky.

At first, everyone thought it was a military plane and no one paid much attention to it.

Later, Gray Wolf discovered that this was the Type 97 reconnaissance aircraft commonly used by the Japanese Army. Feeling that something was wrong, he quickly asked the convoy to speed up and rush back to the Tangshan base.

When the convoy was driving near Changli County, the roar of a large number of airplanes was heard in the sky.

Four Japanese Type 98 heavy bombers swooped down on the convoy and began dropping bombs.

Bombs exploded around the convoy, and the convoy had to dodge left and right to avoid the attacks of Japanese bombers.

If this continued, no one could guarantee that the truck the deputy commander was riding in would be lucky enough not to be hit. The guard captain was even less willing to take the risk.

He ordered the two trucks in front to speed up and distance themselves from the convoy to draw away the Japanese bombers. The other three vehicles rushed into the bushes on the roadside, and they got out of the vehicles with Gray Wolf and hid in the woods.

The Japanese bombers chasing the convoy behind lost their target and flew forward to bomb the two trucks in front.

There were continuous sounds of bomb explosions coming from the front of the path.

After a while, the explosions of the bombs stopped and the Japanese bombers returned.

Gray Wolf called out to everyone, asking them to quickly go to the front to see if there were any injured people and to rescue them immediately.

Just after turning the corner of the path, Gray Wolf and his companions saw two trucks burning with flames in the distance.

"Hurry, hurry and save them." There were nearly 34 guards on the two trucks, and Gray Wolf was heartbroken!

When Gray Wolf and his companions ran near the truck, they saw that the truck compartment was empty and there was no sign of a guard.

"Even if these 100 guards were burned to death, there should be some remains, right? The carriage wouldn't be empty?" No one knew what had happened.

At this time, the captain of the guard heard the rustling sound of people moving in the bushes behind, and immediately surrounded the gray wolf and stood guard with guns.

After a while, the guards came out from the bushes behind in twos and threes, some of them supporting each other and limping.

The guards saw the captain and Gray Wolf crying and shouted:

"Captain, Captain..."

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"What's going on?" asked the captain of the guard.

"When we reached the corner, the deputy captain slowed down the car and told us to jump out of the car. Then he and Xiao Guo drove the car to lure the Japanese bomber away."

The captain of the guard didn't say anything. Gray Wolf was the supreme commander of their Second Front Army. Anyone would risk his life to save the commander.

At this time, the car soldiers had driven three trucks over.

The captain of the guard shouted to everyone, "Alright, stop crying. You guys collect the bodies of the deputy captain and Xiao Guo, and take the last truck. The rest of you get on and go back to the base."

The guards climbed onto the truck in a hurry and continued to drive to the Tangshan base.

Unexpectedly, the convoy was ambushed by the Japanese army in Luan County before it entered the territory of Luan County.

The 200 guards of the Gray Wolf were all veterans who had been through many battles. When they were attacked, the guard captain immediately led a small team of guards to protect the Gray Wolf behind them. The other team members looked for terrain on the spot to block the Japanese attack.

In addition to machine guns, the Gray Wolf guards were all armed with Type 95 fully automatic rifles. The firepower was continuous and fierce. 200 people fired as much firepower as a battalion.

The Japanese army in Luan County learned from the intelligence of the air force that an important figure of the Devil's Army passed through the vicinity of Luan County and entered the Tangshan base, so they immediately concentrated their superior forces to ambush them. However, they launched two attacks, but were repelled by the Gray Wolf's guards.