Devil's Army

When the captain led the remaining soldiers to retreat to the culvert, he found that the retreat route had been blocked by the soldiers of the first battalion and the Hui Muslim detachment.

The captain launched a wave of attacks but failed to break through the joint defense line of the Devil's troops and the Eighth Route Army guerrillas.

The captain was now in a situation where he was blocked by soldiers in front and pursued by soldiers behind him. He had no choice but to order his soldiers to break out to both wings.

When the Japanese army broke through to both wings, fierce gunfire and grenade explosions were also heard on both wings.

The second battalion at the other end of the culvert had arrived and set up an ambush on both sides of the path.

The captain, who was surrounded by enemies on all sides, tried every possible means to find a cure and immediately called for artillery support from the other side of the culvert.

What the captain didn't know was that the 2nd Regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade, which was deployed on the way back to Hengshui City and was ready to block them from returning to the city, had already launched an attack on his artillery position when they were attacking the Fuyang River railway bridge.

Less than an hour into the battle, the battalion commander's artillery unit and artillery guard unit were annihilated by soldiers from the third battalion of the second regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade. All the artillery pieces were also captured by the soldiers of the third battalion.

In the end, the captain and his soldiers were completely wiped out by the First Army soldiers and the Hui Muslim Detachment who were surrounded on all sides.

The Japanese army in Shijiazhuang only dispatched more than 300 Japanese troops and more than 500 puppet troops.

When the main Japanese force arrived at Beixi Village, it was ambushed by a company of the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Brigade.

The mission of this company of the Sixth Brigade was to block the Japanese army for half a day and buy time for the main force to set up an ambush in Nanxinzhuang, Jinzhou.

Nanxinzhuang Village is well-arranged, with densely packed houses and complex terrain. Farmland, trees and ditches are densely packed on the road. The Eighth Route Army once ambushed the Japanese army here. Brigade Commander Li Guozhu also arranged the main battlefield to stop the Japanese army here.

The Japanese army in Shijiazhuang was ambushed by the Devil Forces in Beixi Village and immediately ordered the puppet army to launch an attack on the Devil Forces' positions.

The puppet army, who were used to oppressing the common people, reluctantly launched an attack on the soldiers of the Sixth Brigade, but they were soon hit head-on by the soldiers of the Sixth Brigade.

The puppet army was quickly defeated.

The squadron leader shook his head and ordered an infantry squad to follow behind, urging the puppet troops to launch another attack on the devil troops' positions.

The puppet army battalion commander waved his pistol and shouted loudly in the back as he launched an attack on the Sixth Brigade's position.

The Japanese artillery also fiercely bombarded the positions of the Sixth Brigade Company.

The mortar soldiers of the Sixth Brigade braved the Japanese artillery fire and bombed the Japanese squad behind them.

Light and heavy machine guns formed an interwoven firepower network, constantly harvesting the lives of the puppet troops who were pretending to attack.

As the Japanese squad supervising the battle was defeated by the First Army's mortars, the puppet troops also fled.

The squadron leader was so angry that he kicked the pseudo-battalion commander to the ground, pulled out his pistol and shot him next to the head.

The pseudo-battalion commander was so scared that he burst into tears and begged for mercy.

The squadron leader looked at the pseudo-battalion commander with tears and snot all over his face and cursed:

"If you lead your troops to charge, you will do the work. If you retreat, you will die."

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The puppet army battalion commander stood up, wiped his tears and snot, and ordered the puppet soldiers in a very polite manner:

"Brothers, charge and take down the opposing position. If anyone dares to work without putting in effort, don't blame me, Wang Mazi, for turning my back on you."

In order to increase the combat effectiveness of the puppet army, the squadron leader arranged a squadron of Japanese troops to follow the puppet army and launched an attack on the position of the Sixth Brigade.

The puppet troops charged forward tremblingly, while the Japanese troops waved their guns behind them to urge them to speed up the attack. They also arranged machine gunners to fire fiercely in the back to suppress the firepower of the devil troops.

The fierce firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops suppressed the soldiers of this company of the Sixth Brigade so much that they could not raise their heads.

Seeing that noon had passed and the task of resisting the Japanese army for half a day had been completed, the company commander ordered the troops to retreat.

The Japanese army successfully occupied the high ground positions on both sides of Beixi Village of the Devil's Army. The large army quickly passed through Beixi Village and advanced towards Shide Railway Station.

At this time, the troops of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 2nd Regiment of the 6th Brigade had already dug fortifications in Nanxinzhuang and were ready for battle.

The road leading to Nanxinzhuang is lined with endless wheat fields, and not far from the road there are two rows of staggered houses.

The second regiment commander had already evacuated the villagers from the house in advance, and the first battalion ambushed in the house.

When the Japanese army marched near the wheat field, the soldiers of the second and third companies of the first battalion who were ambushed there suddenly opened fire.

Fierce bullets knocked down the Japanese soldiers on the road one after another.

The Japanese troops behind began to lie on the road and fired blindly at the wheat fields on both sides of the road.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese artillery also launched fierce bombardment on the wheat fields on both sides of the path.

In order to reduce casualties, the soldiers from the second and third companies of the first battalion quietly withdrew from behind the wheat fields to Nanxinzhuang.

The Japanese artillery bombarded for more than half an hour, and seeing that there was no response from the wheat fields on both sides of the path, they sent puppet troops into the wheat fields to search.

The puppet battalion commander stood outside the wheat field and urged the puppet soldiers to search in the wheat field. However, after searching for more than half an hour, the puppet soldiers did not find any trace of the devil troops.

The squadron leader then ordered the troops to continue advancing towards Nanxinzhuang.