Devil's Army

The airports in Peking and Tianjin were destroyed by the devil's troops, and Commander Tada Shun fell into a deep crisis.

At present, the air force of the Central China Front Army must concentrate its strength to deal with the air force of the Tangshan base of the devil army. This time, the devil army destroyed more than 80 of his fighters and bombers at once. He felt that he was about to lose air superiority in Tangshan.

On the one hand, he ordered the fighter planes that were bombing the Nanjing government forces in the south to return for support, and on the other hand, he requested more fighter planes and bombers from the Army Headquarters.

Gray Wolf heard the pilot's report and learned that 70 to 80 Japanese planes had been destroyed at once. He sensitively felt that the time for their counterattack had come. However, since the troops were not ready, he decided to start from Luan County.

Luan County was the only county in his entire base area that was completely occupied by the Japanese army during this encirclement and suppression campaign. It was also the culprit behind the attack on him.

Since the loss of Luan County, the 11th Brigade Commander Du had proposed to Gray Wolf many times to recapture Luan County, but Gray Wolf refused on the grounds that the time was not ripe.

In this anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, his 11th Brigade suffered more than 60% casualties. After several months of development and replenishment, the strength of the troops has now recovered to more than 90%.

The strength of the Japanese Army's 7th Independent Mixed Brigade did not increase much, but only added some puppet troops.

That night, he made battle arrangements for the attack on Luan County the next day.

The next morning, what Commander Tada Shun feared happened.

The 1st Regiment of the 11th Brigade of the 2nd Front Army of the 1st Army launched an attack on Luan County from three sides.

Captain Yin also arranged a mixed squadron of fighters and bombers to participate in the battle.

The Japanese troops in Luan County were struggling to hold out under the fierce bombing of the First Army's aircraft and artillery. Telegrams for help flew like snowflakes to Commander Tada Shun.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army's raids were in full swing. Many of the Japanese Central China Front's troops were sent to destroy the Eighth Route Army. Commander Tada Shun had no troops to send.

In order to show the attitude of the Central China Front Army and curb the momentum of the counterattack of the devil troops, Commander Tada Shunjun sent two fighter-bomber mixed squadrons that he had barely put together to participate in the battle.

After receiving the telegram from Brigade Commander Du, Gray Wolf asked Captain Yin to send two more Hua Xia 2 fighter squadrons to participate in the battle.

The Japanese air force, which originally had a slight numerical advantage, was immediately overtaken by the First Army's fighter planes.

The Japanese air force had just started to join the battle at this time, and the squadron leader made a prompt decision to retreat immediately. But how could the air force of the first army allow them to retreat intact?

The First Army's air force used two planes against one, biting the Japanese fighters or bombers from two directions.

The sky around Luan County was filled with one-sided slaughter, with Japanese fighter planes and bombers being shot down or exploding in mid-air.

In less than an hour, the fierce air battle ended, and both Japanese fighter-bomber formations were shot down by the First Army.

The First Army's Air Force officially occupied the air superiority over Luan County, and its fighters and bombers continued to attack the Japanese troops in Luan County.

When Commander Tada Shun heard that all his airmen were shot down by the superior Devil Force Air Force, he fell into his chair.

The planes sent by the Army Headquarters from China would definitely not arrive so quickly, so he had to continue to mobilize more planes from all sides. The commander of the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army in Luan County, Mizuhara Yoshishige, sent another telegram for help. Luan County was already in danger.

He had no choice but to reply: We must hold on, and he has already dispatched reinforcements from Peking and Tianjin.

He cannot let the devil's troops succeed in their plot to retake Luan County, otherwise it will be like a domino effect and counterattacks will begin in various places.

However, Brigade Commander Yoshishige Mizuhara could no longer wait for the big promise made by Commander Shun Tada.

With the strong support of aircraft, the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 11th Brigade rushed into Luan County through the collapsed city wall at the north gate of Luan County, and then attacked deep into Luan County.

Soon, the west gate and east gate of Luan County were attacked by the first battalion of the first regiment from inside the city and the second battalion and the third battalion from outside the city, and were lost one after another.

The Japanese garrison in Luan County did not receive an order to retreat. While retreating, they looked for advantageous terrain to continue their attack.

The veterans of the 11th Brigade led the new recruits in a fierce attack on the Japanese army.

Under the fierce attack of the 1st Regiment of the 11th Brigade, regardless of casualties, the Japanese army finally could not withstand the attack and began to retreat towards the south gate of Luan County.

A group of soldiers beat the Japanese army hard and drove them out of Luan County, and then chased them for more than ten miles.

Brigade Commander Du successfully recaptured Luan County and immediately asked Gray Wolf to recapture the outskirts of Fengnan County and Zunhua County.

After the Japanese Army's 7th Independent Mixed Brigade was driven out of Zunhua County and Fengnan County, it had been stationed on the outskirts, confronting the 1st Regiment.

They also bombarded the city walls of Zunhua County and Fengnan County from time to time, causing a lot of trouble and casualties to the Second and Third Regiments of the Eleventh Brigade.