Devil's Army

The Japanese army was supervising the battle when they were suddenly attacked fiercely from the side by the devil's troops and had to hurriedly organize to resist.

Each member of the team took a machine gun from the belly of the golden eagle.

Fifteen machine guns were like fifteen tongues of fire, devouring the lives of the Japanese soldiers.

The mortar soldiers of the Jidong Independent Brigade outside the city heard fierce gunfire coming from the city and bombarded the city walls of Zaoqiang County even more fiercely.

The Japanese army was busy dealing with the attack of the small team and was unable to supervise the puppet army for a while.

The puppet troops began to flee deep into Zaoqiang County.

Zaoqiang County collapsed after only half an hour of fighting. How should the squadron leader explain this to the battalion commander?

The squadron leader waved his command knife, trying to stop the puppet troops from retreating.

However, the puppet army only saw the terrifying artillery fire of the devil troops, and could not hear the squadron leader's shouts, and continued to flee.

A squadron member not far from the squadron leader threw a grenade at him.

After the grenade exploded, the squadron leader's shouting stopped.

The puppet troops fled even more recklessly. The leaderless Japanese troops were also driven by the puppet troops to flee deep into Zaoqiang County.

With the support of the small team, the soldiers of the Jidong Independent Brigade outside the city quickly rushed into the city and began to hunt down the fleeing Japanese and puppet troops.

Afterwards, Brigade Commander Gao and Brigade Commander Gui of the Eighth Route Army entered Zaoqiang County together.

According to the arrangement of Brigade Commander Li, Brigade Commander Gao handed over the defense of Zaoqiang County to the newly formed 9th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

Part of the 2nd Regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade set up defenses outside the southwest city of Zaoqiang County to prevent the Japanese troops in Handan City from attacking Zaoqiang County.

Another part of the 27nd Regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade and the th Regiment of the newly formed th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army were attacking Hengshui County (now Taocheng District, Hengshui City) at this time.

The regiment directly under the Jidong Independent Brigade and the 25th Regiment of the newly formed th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army separated from the troops attacking Zaoqiang County and turned to attack Jizhou.

Hengshui County was captured by the Japanese army on October 1937, 10. The county government was looted by the Japanese and became a ruin.

The Japanese army built four bunkers at both ends of the road, cutting off the connection between the Eighth Route Army's Taihang Military Region and Hengshui City.

In order to eliminate the blockhouses that hindered the Eighth Route Army's communication, the troops of the Eighth Route Army's newly formed 9th Brigade and the Hengshui County Battalion once attacked the Japanese blockhouses, but due to their backward weapons, they failed to take them down.

The second commander of the Jidong Independent Brigade arrived near the bunker east of Hengshui County. Li, the commander of the 25th Regiment of the New Ninth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, introduced:

"There are not many Japanese and puppet troops stationed in these two bunkers, only about 20 to 30 people. However, there are two Japanese infantry squadrons and several hundred puppet troops stationed in Hengshui County. As soon as there is any movement in the bunker, they will come to reinforce. We have attacked this bunker twice, but both times we returned without success."

"We must fight quickly and eliminate these two bunkers before the Japanese reinforcements arrive."

Captain Li knew that the Jidong Independent Brigade's artillery fire was fierce, and it should not be a problem to quickly capture the two bunkers. However, they were now the vanguard, and the artillery and supplies were still behind.

Perhaps the second commander would wait for the artillery to arrive before launching the attack. But he did not expect that the second commander would deploy the combat mission immediately without waiting for the artillery to arrive.

After receiving the task, the first and second companies of the first battalion led their soldiers to crawl towards the artillery towers on both sides.

"Aren't we going to take action before the artillery arrives?" asked Captain Li.

"It's just two bunkers, no need."

"Just two bunkers?" Captain Li thought the Second Captain was being too arrogant.

At the beginning, their 25th Regiment attacked the bunkers twice, but without artillery, they lost the lives of 12 soldiers and failed to capture the two bunkers. But since Brigade Commander Gui asked him to obey the orders of the Second Regiment Commander, he stopped interrupting.

When the first and second companies crawled to a place only 100 meters away from the artillery tower, the rocket soldiers raised their rocket launchers and aimed at the two bunkers.

Only two loud "booms" were heard, and two rockets with flames trailing from their tails flew towards the two bunkers.

Immediately afterwards, a "boom, boom..." sound came from the direction of the bunker, as if the bricks and stones of the blockhouse were collapsing.

Soldiers from the first and second companies immediately charged the two bunkers.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the bunker were quickly wiped out by the soldiers of the first and second companies.

The large force quickly crossed the blockhouse, built a defense line, and prepared to resist the counterattack of the Japanese army in Hengshui County.

The Japanese troops in Hengshui County received a call for help from the bunker and quickly rushed over to reinforce, but the bunker had already been blown up.

When the Japanese army saw the Eighth Route Army soldiers in gray uniforms in front of them, they immediately launched an attack on the 25th Regiment.

The Eighth Route Army had attacked their bunkers twice before, but they were repelled both times. This time would definitely be no exception.

When this group of Japanese and puppet troops rushed to the front of the position of the 25th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the st and nd Battalions of the nd Regiment on both sides of the ambush position launched a fierce attack on the Japanese and puppet troops.