Devil's Army

The second regiment commander immediately arranged for the golden eagle to scout the new artillery positions of the Japanese army.

Under the cover of artillery, the Japanese infantry began to attack the west gate of Shenzhou City.

The machine gunners who followed the infantry charge kept firing at the devil troops on the city wall, firing as they advanced forward.

The grenade throwers also kept bombing the machine gun fire points of the devil troops on the city wall.

The casualties of the soldiers of the Second Regiment on the city wall remained high under the bombardment of Japanese artillery and machine gun fire.

Soon, the new artillery positions of the Japanese army were transmitted to the artillery of the Second Regiment through the Golden Eagle.

The Second Regiment's artillery began to counterattack the Japanese army's new artillery positions.

The pressure on the soldiers of the Second Regiment on the city wall suddenly decreased, and they resisted the Japanese attack more fiercely.

The Japanese captain personally supervised the battle. Except for those who fell, the other Japanese soldiers continued to attack the west gate of Shenzhou City desperately.

The Japanese army's desperate attack put the soldiers of the Second Regiment under great pressure. Two Japanese soldiers rushed to the west gate of Shenzhou City and blew up the gate.

Hearing the explosion at the city gate, some soldiers from the Second Regiment quickly fired at the city gate.

Japanese soldiers who rushed into the city were killed at the city gates one after another.

The second regiment commander then arranged for the backup troops to build a simple fortification inside the city gate to prevent the Japanese army from continuing to attack the city.

Seeing that they had already entered the city, the Japanese captain frantically urged his soldiers to continue charging.

The grenadiers also bombarded the devil troops' firing points on the city walls more fiercely.

At this time, the scouts reported to Brigadier General Take Haruyoshi that a large number of soldiers in gray uniforms were spotted on the left wing of the troops.

The soldiers wearing grey uniforms must be the Eighth Route Army.

Along the way, Brigadier General Take Haruyoshi suffered a lot at the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

There was no easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack place outside Shenzhou City, so he decided to teach the Eighth Route Army a lesson.

He transferred the most elite reserve troops of his Fourth Brigade: the Brigade Guards, preparing to inflict a heavy blow to this Eighth Route Army force.

Just as the order from Brigade Commander Takeharuyoshi was issued and Captain Wei Rong had not yet left, another scout reported: a large number of Devil Force soldiers were also found on the right wing of the troops.

"How many people are there?" Brigade Commander Takeharuyoshi asked anxiously. He was already feeling ominous.

"The crowd was very scattered, probably thousands of people."

"Thousands of people, that's a regimental combat unit. And the Devil's regimental combat unit has nearly 3000 people."

Thinking of this, Brigade Commander Wu Qingji ordered the battalion commander who was attacking the city to stop the siege, sent troops to guard the two wings to block the attacks of the devil troops and the Eighth Route Army, and he immediately retreated with the main force.

Shortly after Brigade Commander Take Haruyoshi gave the order, fierce gunfire was heard from the left wing of the troops.

Brigade Commander Takeharuyoshi ordered his troops to retreat as quickly as possible.

If he was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army on the left and a regiment of the devil's troops on the right, he had no confidence that he could break out.

At this time, the regiment directly under the right wing also launched an attack on the Japanese army, but was desperately resisted by the captain.

At this time, the Jidong Independent Brigade's direct regiment and the 25th and 26th regiments of the Eighth Route Army had not yet completed the encirclement of the Japanese Army's Fourth Mixed Independent Brigade. They had to narrow their strategic goal to annihilate the Second Battalion of the Fourth Mixed Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army in the encirclement.

Seeing this, the Second Regiment of Shenzhou City also went out of the city to attack the Second Battalion of the Japanese Army.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the Eighth Route Army and the Jidong Independent Brigade jointly wiped out almost all the remaining 700 Japanese soldiers of the Japanese Second Battalion.

After eliminating the Japanese troops in the encirclement, the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 2nd Regiment did not stop to clean up the battlefield, but continued to pursue westward.

The troops pursued all the way to the Shulu area, but did not find any fleeing Japanese troops.

The battalion commander then reconsolidated the Shulu position and occupied the Shulu corner position.

The second battalion retreated to garrison the Taipinggou position.

Just when Brigadier General Gui and Brigadier General Gao thought they could breathe a sigh of relief and start building a new base in southern Hebei, Commander Liu of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram:

The Japanese 37th Division, led by the rd Division Commander Ando, ​​marched from Taiyuan to Hengshui City.

He also told Brigade Commander Gui that he had ordered the 386th Brigade to block the Japanese troops along the way to buy time for preparing for war in the new base in southern Hebei.

Taking into account that the fighting in the direction of Shijiazhuang had temporarily stopped, Gray Wolf ordered Deputy Brigade Commander Dai of the Second Brigade to find a favorable terrain to build a defense line in preparation for blocking the Taiyuan Japanese army from attacking the new base in southern Hebei.

At this time, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army reported to the headquarters that they were preparing to build a defense line at Shizhao Mountain in the southwest of Yangquan City to resist the Japanese army for a week.

Deputy Brigade Commander Dai then arranged for a regiment to build fortifications in the Changshankou Mountains in preparation for blocking the Japanese 37th Division from advancing northward.