Devil's Army

Next, the Sixth Brigade and the Jidong Independent Brigade launched frequent attacks, and many times jointly attacked the Japanese army with the Hui Muslim Detachment and Hengshui County Battalion.

Gradually, the Japanese troops in Hengshui City also realized the arrival of the devil's troops and no longer took the initiative to go out of the city to reinforce the Japanese troops in various strongholds and towns.

Li Guozhu no longer kept his troops hidden in a low profile, but instead made a high-profile move to recapture towns and strongholds near Hengshui City.

The Japanese troops in Hengshui wanted to defend the city, but Commander Tada Shun disagreed.

The Shide Railway is a transportation hub connecting the Beijing-Hankou Railway and the Jinpu Railway. Once it is cut off, the Japanese army's transportation of supplies and troops to the south will be interrupted. The military operations to suppress the southern government forces and the Eighth Route Army will also be affected.

He ordered the Japanese garrisons in Hengshui and Shijiazhuang to go out and open up the Shide Railway.

Soon, intelligence officers from the Hui Muslim Detachment and the Hengshui County Brigade delivered these two pieces of information.

The Japanese troops in Hengshui City finally agreed to leave the city, and Brigade Commander Gao immediately assigned the task to their Jidong Independent Brigade.

Li ordered Gao to destroy the Japanese army as much as possible. He led the Sixth Brigade to block the Japanese army from attacking Shijiazhuang.

Brigade Commander Gao was worried that his troops would be too aggressive and scare the Japanese troops who had finally come out of Hengshui City back. He decided to show the enemy weakness and move the Japanese troops away from Hengshui City before encircling and annihilating them.

The captain of the Hui Muslim Detachment, who reported the intelligence to Brigade Commander Gao, took the initiative to take on the task of luring the enemy.

As soon as the detachment commander returned to the Hui Muslim detachment, he immediately reported the matter to Commander Ma.

Commander Ma immediately mobilized his troops and went to Kangzhuang to ambush the Japanese army again.

The 36th Division of the Japanese Army in Hengshui City was worried about being attacked by the devil troops, so they would fight all the way from Sanhe County. The remaining 1300st Battalion and nd Battalion were mixed into a new infantry battalion of more than people. Under the leadership of Saburo Abe, they carried heavy artillery and attempted to retake the Shide Railway.

Captain Abe's vanguard arrived at Kangzhuang and stopped advancing.

A few days ago, one of their squadrons was attacked by the devil troops and the Eighth Route Army guerrillas here.

Before the Japanese infantry attacked Kangzhuang, the artillery suddenly bombarded the deep ditches on both sides of the Kangzhuang path.

When Commander Ma saw this scene, he gasped.

The detachment commander once requested to hide in the deep trenches on both sides to attack the Japanese army, but he felt that although the deep trenches were concealed enough, it would be inconvenient to move, so he did not agree.

If the soldiers had been ambushed in the deep trench, it is unknown how many would have been killed in this round of artillery fire by the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army bombed the deep trenches on both sides of Kangzhuang Trail, the infantry launched an attack. However, no Eighth Route Army or Devil Force soldiers were found on both sides of Kangzhuang Trail.

"Captain, maybe we overestimated these Eighth Route Army and Devil Army soldiers. Last time we sent out a squadron, this time we sent out a battalion, they dare not ambush us." The squadron leader of the vanguard said to the battalion commander.

The captain nodded, perhaps the squadron leader's analysis was correct. But reality soon slapped the captain in the face.

As soon as the vanguard of the Japanese army entered Kangzhuang Road, they were suddenly ambushed by the Hui Muslim detachment in the woods on both sides.

The captain heard the mixed sound of gunfire attacking them and guessed that it was the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese soldiers quickly lay down and fought back, with machine guns fiercely firing at the woods on both sides.

The mortar soldiers behind also set up their guns and bombarded both sides of the woods fiercely.

The Hui Muslim detachment of more than 300 people, with their crude weapons, was no match for the more than 1300 well-armed Japanese troops, and began to retreat. The Japanese troops followed cautiously behind them.

When the Japanese army attacked the outskirts of Gongjiatai Station, the Hui Muslim Detachment escaped through the railway culvert.

The captain ordered the Japanese troops to follow up quickly and not lose the target.

Suddenly, "boom..." a series of explosions sounded.

Soldiers from the 2nd Regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade detonated the explosives buried above the culvert.

The collapsed soil divided the Japanese troops into two, separating them at both ends of the culvert.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade who were ambushed outside the culvert fired fiercely into the culvert and threw grenades.

The rocket soldiers did not hesitate to use rockets, and continuously fired rockets at the Japanese fire points that were fiercely firing in the culvert.

The space in the culvert was narrow, and the Japanese soldiers were crowded together. Grenade fragments and rocket fragments flew everywhere, knocking down the Japanese soldiers one by one.

The leader of the Hui Muslim Brigade saw the huge destructive power of the rockets and said to the rocket soldiers with envy:

"This little cannon is really useful. It would be nice if we had one too."

"This is developed by our own troops, called the 40 rocket launcher. As long as we fight against the Japanese together, we will help you bomb wherever you say to hit." The rocket soldier replied with a smile.

The detachment commander smiled and touched the rocket soldier's head.

Under the fierce attack of bullets and grenades from the first battalion outside the culvert, the Japanese troops in the culvert had less and less counterattack power. Finally, they fell silent.

The Japanese troops on the other side of the culvert tried desperately to dig through the culvert and evacuate the blocked troops, but this was already a luxury because fierce gunfire rang out on both sides of them.