Devil's Army

The battle lasted for more than ten minutes. Seeing that it would be difficult to break through the devil troops' defense in a short time, the Japanese squadron leader ordered a retreat.

When a truck from the direct company arrived to reinforce, the battle was over and no one knew where the Japanese troops had escaped to.

The Qilaotu Mountain range between Kuancheng County and Pingquan City is densely forested with numerous valleys, gullies and dense forest vegetation. It was difficult to search for the 50 or so Japanese soldiers hiding there.

The terrain on both sides of the river along the waterfall river is relatively complex, with many river bends, wetlands and dense vegetation, which can also provide these Japanese troops with better hiding conditions.

There was no way that the search could be completed with only the company commander of the Third Battalion and the soldiers of the two companies directly under his command.

The company commander asked his battalion commander to send a golden eagle for support.

The information was quickly transferred to Gray Wolf's headquarters.

Huihen then asked the Army Aviation soldiers to arrange four Golden Eagle drones to provide support.

While waiting for the Golden Eagle UAV to reinforce, the company commander also changed his strategy and dispersed a line of soldiers at several entrances and exits of Qilaotu Mountain.

If this group of Japanese troops are really hiding in Qilaotu Mountain, they will be blocked. The nearby reinforcements will come to reinforce at any time.

The company commander's guess was correct. The squadron leader was indeed hiding in Qilaotu Mountain with more than 50 soldiers.

The squadron leader contacted the battalion leader and learned that the main force was still blocked in the pass position.

The captain ordered them to hide on the spot and look for opportunities to support them from behind.

At six o'clock the next morning, the Army Aviation soldiers released four Golden Eagle drones to patrol between Kuancheng County and the mountain pass.

In order to strengthen the defense and control capabilities in the defense zone, the third regiment commander asked Captain Pei to transfer the first squadron that was familiar with the situation in the area to patrol the nearby villages together with the direct company.

However, the patrol team and the Golden Eagle drone patrolled until night and did not find any trace of this group of Japanese troops.

The next morning, under the cover of aircraft bombing, the second battalion commander of the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on the Wangchanggou position with his infantry, breaking through the defense line of the second battalion in one fell swoop and continuing to advance towards Kuancheng County.

The commander of the Third Regiment had no choice but to hand over the task of searching for the Japanese troops that had broken through the pass to the First Squadron of the Lubei Guerrillas, and quickly transferred his direct company back to Kuancheng County.

When the division commander Ryoki Machijiri heard that the Second Battalion had broken through the defense line of the Wangchanggou Devil Force, he ordered the Japanese troops that had broken through the mountain pass earlier to take action to contain the Devil Force.

The squadron leader then led more than 50 Japanese soldiers out of Qilaotu Mountain, looking for an opportunity to tie down the devil troops.

Shortly after the squadron leader left Qilaotu Mountain, he arrived at the nearby Yushugou Village.

When the Japanese army was preparing to enter the village to massacre the civilians and disperse the devil's forces, they were blocked by a squad of the second company who was lying in ambush in the village.

The soldiers of the second company in the village relied on the ancient well, stone piles and old trees at the entrance of the village to continuously block the Japanese army.

Led by the village chief, the villagers retreated to the mountains behind the village.

While this squad of soldiers was fighting fiercely with the Japanese army, the 1st Squadron of the Lubei Guerrillas, who had rushed to the scene after hearing the news, also joined the battle.

At first, the squadron leader did not take these guerrillas dressed in civilian clothes seriously and only arranged a small team to block them. But soon after the battle, the squadron leader felt that this guerrilla was very different from before.

Now this guerrilla force not only has better weapons than before, but its combat quality has also improved a lot.

After more than half an hour, the squadron leader began to be overwhelmed. He left behind more than ten corpses and retreated into Qilaotu Mountain with the remaining Japanese troops.

The squadron leader of the Lubei guerrillas grew up in this area and was familiar with every tree and blade of grass here. How could he allow these devils to slip away from under his nose?

The soldiers of this squad, led by the guerrilla squadron leader, were chasing closely behind.

The Japanese squadron leader left five soldiers to block the attack of the guerrillas and the devil troops, and he led the other soldiers to retreat deep into the Qilaotu Mountain.

Finally, the five Japanese soldiers who were guarding the rear were eliminated, but the squadron leader and more than 20 soldiers also disappeared into the vast jungle of Qilaotu Mountain.

The division commander Ryoki Machijiri ordered the squadron leader to massacre the civilians in the villages outside Kuancheng County, forcing the devil troops in the city to send troops for rescue.

Now that the squadron leader was defeated by the Lubei guerrillas and the Devil's Army, the task of attacking the city fell on the shoulders of the second battalion leader. However, the second battalion leader's artillery was basically destroyed by the Devil's Army's commandos, and now he only had some grenade launchers and two mortars.

This amount of firepower is extremely disadvantageous for attacking Kuancheng County, which has high walls and thick walls.

Thinking of this, Regimental Commander Machijiri Ryoki ordered the Second Battalion Captain to camp outside the county town temporarily and wait for the air force to come to support early tomorrow morning so as to take down Kuancheng County in one fell swoop.

This also gave the Third Regiment Commander ample time to deploy his defenses, and he immediately reported the battle situation to Brigade Commander Du.