Devil's Army

When the Japanese and puppet troops attacked the position of the 25th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the soldiers of the st and nd Battalions of the nd Regiment, who had been lying in ambush on both sides, immediately fired fiercely at the Japanese and puppet troops.

The puppet troops in charge of the vanguard were instantly knocked down. The Japanese troops behind them turned around and ran away when they saw that the situation was not right.

The puppet soldiers simply laid down their guns and raised their hands in surrender.

The soldiers of the Second Battalion of the First Battalion of the Second Regiment passed these puppet troops and chased the fleeing Japanese troops.

Under the fierce pursuit of soldiers from two battalions of the Second Regiment, the two squadrons of Japanese infantry fled to behind two other bunkers on the west side of Hengshui County and stopped retreating.

The Japanese bunker suddenly fired at the soldiers of the Second Regiment who were pursuing them.

Two soldiers from the Second Regiment died on the spot and three were shot and wounded.

Two wounded soldiers rolled into the haystack nearby and hid, while a soldier with injured legs lay there unable to move.

A comrade nearby jumped forward and tried to pull him back into the ditch, but he was shot by two machine guns in the Japanese bunker and died.

The soldier with a wounded leg screamed in pain, asking his comrades not to come forward to rescue him.

The Japanese soldiers in the bunker used him to practice shooting and shot him in the right arm again.

The soldier grimaced in pain but did not cry out.

Two rocket soldiers stepped forward and tried to blow up the Japanese bunker, but were intercepted by Japanese machine gun fire.

The Japanese soldier in the bunker shot the soldier's left arm again, and the soldier couldn't help but scream in pain.

Another soldier jumped out of the ditch and tried to rescue the soldier, but was shot in the head by the Japanese soldiers in the bunker and fell on the way to rescue.

"Don't come over here, there are Japanese snipers in the bunker."

After saying this, the soldier lay on his back on the ground, pretending to be dead and not moving. He didn't want his comrades to die for him again.

The mortar soldiers of the Second Regiment finally arrived. They aimed four mortars at the two Japanese bunkers and bombarded them intensively.

The two Japanese bunkers finally collapsed under the intensive bombardment of the Second Regiment's mortars. All the Japanese and puppet troops in the blockhouses were buried with the bunkers.

The Japanese troops behind the artillery tower hid in the fortifications and fought stubbornly in an attempt to stop the attack of the Second Regiment.

The mortar soldiers of the Second Regiment turned their guns and fiercely bombarded the Japanese troops in the fortifications.

The soldiers of the Second Regiment launched an attack on the Japanese troops in the fortifications before their mortars stopped firing.

The Japanese troops in the fortifications suffered fierce bombardment from the Second Regiment's artillery and pursuit from the Second Regiment's superior forces. Most of them were annihilated, and a small number fled to Shenzhou City.

The 25th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which arrived shortly afterwards, began to clean up the battlefield, while the soldiers of the nd Regiment of the Jidong Independent Brigade chased the remnants of the Japanese army all the way to the outskirts of Shenzhou City.

When the Japanese troops in Shenzhou City heard that the devil troops had attacked, they immediately stepped up their alert as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

It was already late at this time, and the second regiment commander did not continue to attack Shenzhou City, but stationed outside the city gate.

In the evening, Commander Li of the 25th Regiment handed the list of weapons seized from the Japanese army to Commander and asked him how to distribute them.

The second captain smiled and replied:

"You are short of weapons and equipment. Shall we give them all to you? We have an arsenal, so replenishing weapons won't be a problem."

"You are the ones fighting the war, and we are just picking up the pieces from behind. How can this be possible?"

"These weapons and equipment are given to you for use in fighting the Japanese. There is no difference between giving them to us, so don't make such a clear distinction."

Captain Li felt bad about it, so he made a compromise and asked for his regiment to lead the attack on Shenzhou City tomorrow. But the second captain still disagreed.

Captain Li had no choice but to follow the arrangements of the Second Captain.

At 8:30 the next morning, the second regiment commander and soldiers from the first and second battalions arrived outside Shenzhou City.

The second commander was surprised to find that the city gate, which usually opened at nine o'clock, was now open at half past eight.

People outside the city are entering the city one after another.

The second regiment commander immediately asked the first battalion commander to arrange some soldiers to sneak into the city to prepare for the inside support. However, what surprised the second regiment commander again was that after these Japanese soldiers let the civilians outside the city gate into the city, they immediately closed the city gate. (Usually, the city gate is closed at 12 o'clock.)

The civilians who arrived later from outside the city and more than a dozen soldiers from the first battalion disguised as civilians shouted outside the city gate, demanding that the Japanese army open the gate.

However, the Japanese army ignored it and did not open the city gate again.

The second regiment commander arranged for artillery to bombard the city walls of Shenzhou City and for infantry to prepare for a strong attack.

At this time, a scout pointed at the wall and asked the second commander to look quickly.

The second commander quickly took the telescope and looked towards the top of the city gate.

At this time, the second regiment commander discovered that all the civilians who had just entered the city were tied to the city wall by the Japanese army and used as human shields.

Faced with the Japanese army using despicable means, the commander of the second regiment was afraid to order the artillery to bombard the city wall of Shenzhou City.