Devil's Army

Commander Tada Shun heard the report from the division commander Nanada Ichiro that the Eighth Route Army, with the cooperation of the Devil Forces, escaped from their encirclement in the Suzheng and Suyi areas and has now joined the Devil Forces in Hengshui City.

He hurriedly dispatched air force back to Shijiazhuang to prepare for participation in the encirclement and suppression.

Who knew that the air force was not ready yet, and heard the report from the division commander Ichiro Nanada that they were bombed by a fighter squadron and a bomber squadron of the devil's army, the artillery positions were destroyed, and there were heavy casualties. He urgently ordered the air force stationed in Shijiazhuang to take off and fight.

Faced with the numerical superiority of the Japanese fighters, the Huaxia II fighters of the First Army did not tangle with them, but made full use of their speed advantage to circle with the Japanese Type 95 fighters and attack the Japanese bombers when they had time.

The Japanese fighter planes were unable to defeat the First Army's Huaxia II fighter planes, so they turned to attack the First Army's bombers. However, the bombers from the First Army this time were all subsonic H-1 bombers, which were not as powerful as the Japanese fighter planes, but their flying speed was much faster than the Japanese fighter planes.

The Japanese air force had no choice but to vent their anger on the soldiers of the Devil Force and the Eighth Route Army on the Hengshui city wall. However, the fighter planes of the First Army often took advantage of the opportunity to fly over and shoot down the Japanese bombers.

When Captain Yin heard that the Japanese army had sent three fighter squadrons to compete with them for air supremacy in Hengshui City, he immediately led the remaining three Hua Xia 2 fighter squadrons to provide support.

Soon, Captain Yin and his men arrived over Hengshui City and began to join the fierce battle against Japanese planes.

The captain of the Japanese fighter squadron judged that the leader, Captain Yin, was the commander of the First Army Air Force, and gathered six fighters to attack Captain Yin and his wingman.

Captain Yin's two wingmen on the left and right were the first to rush into the Japanese fighter group and continuously fired at them.

Captain Yin also bit into the main engine of the Japanese fighter group and kept firing at him.

The Hua Xia II fighter jets next to the First Army quickly flew over to provide reinforcements.

After a round of fierce artillery attack, the sky was filled with the smell of gunpowder and flying aircraft wreckage.

The Japanese squadron leader and five fighter planes were shot down or exploded by the First Army's Hua Xia II fighter planes.

When the other Japanese pilots saw that the plane of the squadron leader was shot down and the main force of the devil force's pointed planes also rushed over, they hurriedly fled.

Captain Yin led the pilots to chase the Japanese fighters and bombers like catching sheep.

In order to avoid the attack of the devil's pointed aircraft, the Japanese fighters and bombers kept circling, rising and lowering their flying altitude.

Planes from the two forces chased each other and fought fiercely in the sky above Hengshui City.

Because the Huaxia II fighter was far superior to the Japanese Type 95 fighter in speed and flexibility.

More than an hour later, the assault bomber formation assembled by Commander Tada Shun was severely damaged by the First Army's Air Force, which shot down 22 fighters and eight bombers.

Only eight Huaxia II fighter planes of the First Army's Air Force were damaged and flew back to Xiaoguanzhuang Airport for repairs.

The First Army's Second Front Air Force began to gain air superiority. It was not until the Japanese army transferred Zero fighters from China that the Japanese army overtook the situation again.

After the Japanese Air Force was defeated by the First Army's Air Force, the First Army's fighters and bombers once again launched bombing on the Japanese 20th Division and 36th Division outside Hengshui City.

The Japanese soldiers who had just stopped to catch their breath had to hide again from the bombing of the Devil Forces' planes.

The First Army's planes began to return. The First Army's Sixth Brigade, the Jidong Independent Brigade and the New Ninth Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which had been well prepared, launched a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese army from the four city gates.

At this time, the soldiers of the 20th and 36th Divisions of the Japanese Army outside Hengshui City were bombarded by the Devil Force's artillery and attacked by the Devil Force's pointed aircraft. Their morale had reached its lowest point.

When they were counterattacked by the devil troops and the Eighth Route Army, they put up a little resistance and were immediately defeated.

The commander of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, Ichiro Shichida, and the second battalion commander of the first part of the 36th Division of the Japanese Army fled to Shijiazhuang under the desperate cover of the guards.

The Sixth Brigade of the First Army attacked from the West Gate and South Gate all the way to the southwest, and recaptured Xinji City and Jinzhou City.

After consolidating the defenses of Xinji City and Jinzhou City, the Sixth Brigade sent troops to capture some nearby Japanese and puppet army strongholds and recapture some nearby towns.

At this point, a vast area from Shijiazhuang to Jinzhou to the north fell under the jurisdiction of the First Anti-Japanese Army.

The Ji Zhong Independent Brigade and the New 9th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army attacked the Japanese army from the west gate and the north gate and then attacked westward, successively recovering Wuqiang County, Qingliangdian Town, and Wuyi County.

A large area to the north of Wuyi County was under the jurisdiction of the First Anti-Japanese Army.