Devil's Army

The main engine of the Japanese fighter plane was hit by several shells and disintegrated in mid-air.

The two wingman planes next to them also disintegrated and crashed under the attack of Captain Yin's two wingman planes.

The First Army's Hua Xia II fighter group was like a group of nimble falcons. They quickly adjusted their formation and continued to fight fiercely with the Japanese fighter group that was attacking them.

After shooting down a Japanese fighter, Captain Yin pushed the joystick hard. The fighter plane climbed up like an arrow and passed over the top of another group of Japanese fighter formations.

Captain Yin's two wingmen also raised their heads and roared, flying on both wings of Captain Yin.

Captain Yin and his men quickly passed over another group of Japanese fighters that were entangled with their fighters. They made a small turn and bit them from behind. The machine guns spit out flames, and the hot shells flew past the wings of the Japanese fighters, leaving a string of pungent gunpowder smoke.

Then several consecutive artillery fire hit the Japanese fighter planes, and the three Japanese fighter planes, emitting black smoke, crashed to the ground.

The sky was full of fighter planes flying around, sometimes climbing, sometimes diving, and sometimes circling. The sound of machine guns and explosions intertwined, deafening. Sparks rose in the sky, those were the burning Japanese fighters that were hit. Black smoke hit the ground, those were the downed Japanese fighters.

The battle entered a fierce stage. The Japanese fighter formation initially achieved some results by suicide attacks. However, under the siege of the fighters of the First Army, which was much stronger than them, they soon fell into a disadvantage and were shot down or exploded one after another.

At this time, there were only a few Japanese fighter planes left in the sky fighting hard.

The fighter planes of the First Army surrounded and annihilated the enemy from all sides.

As one Type 95 fighter plane after another was shot down, the Japanese suicide attack gradually collapsed.

Finally, the remaining Type 95 fighters turned around and fled, but were soon caught up and shot down by the First Army's Huaxia II fighters.

In this fierce air battle outside Sanhe County, the First Army wiped out three Japanese fighter squadrons and 36 Type fighters at the cost of three fighters shot down and eight damaged.

The Japanese 36th Division took advantage of the fierce battle between the First Army Air Force and their own Air Force to fiercely bombard the attacking Sixth Brigade with large-caliber artillery.

The soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 6th Brigade, who were about to break through the Japanese defense line, were suddenly bombarded by the Japanese large-caliber artillery. They suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat.

The Japanese fighter planes that came to reinforce were completely wiped out, and the fighter planes and bombers of the First Army continued to bomb the Japanese positions.

The soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 6th Brigade, who had just retreated to rest, regrouped and launched another attack on the Japanese positions.

The light and heavy machine gun positions in the Japanese positions were all destroyed by the bombing of the First Army's aircraft and artillery.

The Japanese troops that survived the bombing each sought cover to block the fierce attack of the soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 6th Brigade.

As the Japanese army lost air superiority to the First Army, it became increasingly difficult for the Japanese army to stop the First Army's attack, and their casualties increased.

The vanguard of the regiment finally rushed into the Japanese position.

The cruel Japanese soldiers raised their guns and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers of the First Regiment. However, the soldiers of the First Regiment were not the Nanjing government troops composed of captured civilians, nor were they the guerrillas who lacked training.

Every soldier of the First Army undergoes special combat training before going to the battlefield.

Japanese soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and grenades exploded on their positions.

A group of fearless veterans finally led the new recruits to occupy the Japanese positions outside Sanhe County.

At this time, with the support of the Air Force, the Jidong Independent Brigade also broke through the positions of another unit of the Japanese 36th Division outside Huanghua City.

Two units of the First Army advanced simultaneously from Sanhe County and Huanghua City and attacked towards the Taihang Mountains.

After losing their strong positions outside Sanhe County and Huanghua City, the Japanese army was defeated.

The Sixth Brigade and the Jidong Independent Brigade quickly recovered the towns and villages around Sanhe County and Huanghua City, and advanced towards Hejian City and Botou City.

In the evening, the Sixth Brigade and the Jidong Independent Brigade surrounded Hejian and Botou respectively, preparing to capture the two cities the next day.

The next morning, the Sixth Brigade launched a fierce bombardment of the gates and walls of Hejian City.

Then two bombers from the First Army also flew over to provide support.

With the support of aircraft, soldiers from the Third Battalion of the First Regiment of the Sixth Brigade quickly blasted open the city gate of Hejian City.

The soldiers suppressed the firepower of the Japanese troops on the city wall while advancing deeper into the city.

More than 100 Japanese soldiers on the city wall fought and retreated, and were soon driven out of Hejian City and retreated to Hengshui City.

The Jidong Independent Brigade's attack on Botou City was more successful.

In the morning, soldiers from the third battalion of the first regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade quietly moved towards the gate of Botou City, but they were not blocked by the Japanese army.

Soon, soldiers from the Third Battalion of the Independent Brigade blew open the city gate of Botou City.

The soldiers shouted and rushed into Botou City, but there was no trace of a Japanese soldier on the city wall.

They quietly evacuated Botou City last night.