Devil's Army

After destroying the Japanese troops on the culvert side, the commander of the first battalion handed over the task of cleaning up the battlefield to the Hui Muslim detachment. He led his soldiers over the mountains to the other side of the culvert to support the battle of the second battalion.

Many of the Japanese troops on the culvert side had not yet entered the culvert. As soon as they were attacked by the Second Battalion, they immediately sought favorable terrain to counterattack.

The artillery also quickly adjusted the muzzles and bombarded the second battalion's position on the mountain.

The Second Battalion had to switch from offense to passive defense.

Nearly half of the captain's soldiers were either buried by the collapsed mountain soil or killed by the devil's troops in the culvert.

In order to avoid repeating the same mistake, he left a small number of soldiers to continue digging the culvert, while the other soldiers withdrew from the culvert and intensified the attack on the devil's troops.

The firepower of the Second Battalion on the hillside was suppressed by the Japanese artillery, and the Second Regiment Commander led the soldiers of the two battalions to march quickly to deploy defenses. He had no way to bring heavy artillery, and for a while he was unable to provide artillery support to the Second Battalion.

Fortunately, the slope was steep and the Japanese army climbed slowly. The soldiers of the second battalion braved the Japanese artillery fire and kept killing the Japanese soldiers, and they barely managed to hold their position. However, the number of casualties remained high.

As the Japanese soldiers in the culvert joined the attack on the Second Battalion, the Second Battalion's defensive firepower was obviously insufficient.

On the one hand, the Second Regiment Commander called Brigade Commander Gao and asked for air force support, and on the other hand, he asked the First Battalion to speed up and reinforce the Second Battalion.

The Japanese artillery was still bombarding the Second Battalion's position. The First Battalion, which had rushed to the top of the mountain, ran towards the Second Battalion's position at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, jumped into the trench, and immediately joined in blocking the Japanese troops that were close at hand.

Seeing that the infantry that was about to seize the position of the devil troops was repelled again, the captain was furious and ordered the artillery to retaliate against the devil troops with more fierce artillery fire.

At the Second Battalion's position on the hillside, sand and rocks flew everywhere and trees were blown down.

The soldiers of the first and second battalions huddled tightly in the trenches to avoid the artillery fire. It all depended on fate as to who could escape the bombardment of the Japanese artillery.

The Japanese artillery was still bombarding, and the infantry began to attack the second battalion's position again.

The soldiers from the first and second battalions had to brave the Japanese artillery fire to stop the attack of the Japanese infantry.

The battle on the hillside of the culvert became extremely bloody. Japanese infantrymen were hit and rolled down the hillside from time to time, while soldiers from the Second Regiment on the position were hit by artillery fire and flew out of the trenches from time to time.

The trenches were filled with the remains of soldiers from the Second Regiment who had been torn to pieces by the fierce Japanese artillery fire.

The soldiers of the first and second battalions were also blood-thirsty, and they kept firing at the Japanese troops attacking from the mountain without any fear. However, the Japanese grenade throwers who were shooting at close range kept bombing the machine gun fire points of the first and second battalions in the trenches.

The first and second battalions found it difficult to organize an effective dense firepower network to block the Japanese attack.

At present, the soldiers rely on the belief of "holding the position" to organize a firepower network with rifles and grenades to resist the Japanese army at the bottom of the hill.

At this time, the Japanese engineers' blasting in the culvert also made progress, and they gradually dug through the collapsed culvert to allow soldiers to pass through.

Japanese soldiers no longer had to climb the steep hillside to cross the culvert, but could pass directly through the culvert.

The Hui Muslim detachment guarding outside the culvert suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

Fortunately, we had just cleaned up the battlefield and seized a large number of Japanese weapons.

The detachment leader ordered his team members to use intensive grenade bombing to attack the Japanese troops rushing out of the cave, keeping them firmly inside the culvert.

The second regiment commander heard the loud gunfire from the Hui Muslim detachment and knew that the Japanese army had dug through the culvert. He ordered the second battalion to hold the position and the first battalion to quickly return to support.

The soldiers of the first battalion, led by the battalion commander, had to climb the hillside again and return to the culvert.

Seeing that the firepower of the devil troops on the hillside had become sparse, the Japanese captain also intensified his attack.

As long as they broke through the Devil's troops' positions on the hillside, their troops could cross the hillside and attack the Devil's troops and the Eighth Route Army guerrillas at the entrance of the culvert.

Other soldiers can rush out of the culvert and attack the devil troops and the Eighth Route Army guerrillas from bottom to top.

However, the Japanese captain's idea was perfect, but the battle did not go in the direction he imagined.

With the arrival of the First Army's aircraft, the Japanese artillery immediately stopped the bombing.

Without artillery support, the Japanese infantry's attack immediately became weak.

Captain Yin arranged two fighters and two bombers to support the battle of the Jidong Independent Brigade.

As soon as the bombers of the First Army arrived over the battlefield, they found no Japanese artillery positions and immediately launched a fierce bombing on the attacking Japanese troops.

The Japanese infantry who were climbing up soon rolled down the hillside along with the rocks and soil that were blown away.

When the soldiers of the Second Battalion saw their planes coming to reinforce them, the firing of sniper guns became even louder.

The Japanese army was about to break through the position of the Second Battalion, but was repelled by the air force reinforcement of the First Army. However, the culvert was a natural air-raid shelter, and the Japanese army quickly hid in the culvert, preparing to launch a fierce attack on the First Battalion and the Hui Muslim Detachment from the ground to break through their positions.