Devil's Army

The First Army's planes had no targets to attack and had to drop bombs on the Japanese reserve forces in the rear.

The wing commander escaped the air raid of the Devil Forces' planes only with the help of his guards who risked their lives to protect him.

The commander of the 8th Regiment had no choice but to send a telegram to inquire about the progress of the 9th Regiment. The situation of the commander of the 9th Regiment was no better than that of the commander of the 8th Regiment. Soldiers were often feigning illness and fear of fighting.

The two regiments of the Japanese 4th Division attacked for a day but failed to capture the Wangchanggou position and the mountain pass position.

The next morning, Division Commander Tomoyuki Yamashita replaced two other regiments with the main attack force.

He also threatened that if the two regiments failed to take these two positions, the commanders of the 8th and 9th regiments would be dismissed and investigated.

The commanders of the 8th and 9th Regiments of the Japanese Army stayed in the rear in fear, hoping that the 7th Regiment would be able to hold back the 10th Regiment and thus fail in the attack.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, the commander of the Fifth Brigade, who had rushed to Kuancheng County, went to the Wangchanggou position to learn about the situation on the front line.

The third regiment commander asked the fifth brigade commander in confusion:

"Brigade Commander, why do I feel that this Japanese army is different from the previous ones?"

“How is it different?”

"When we were attacking, the shouts were deafening, but the men stood still, as if they valued their lives more."

"Yes, this is the 4th Division of the Japanese Army, also known as the Osaka Division, commonly known as the Merchant Division. Most of the soldiers are small vendors in Osaka. They are not good at fighting, but they are good at doing business."

The commander of the Fifth Brigade observed for a while and ordered a company to be left behind to garrison Wangchanggou. The other soldiers of the First Battalion of the Third Regiment of the Twelfth Brigade followed the First Regiment of the Fifth Brigade to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese army at 1:00 p.m.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade then sent a telegram to the commander of the Second Regiment at the mountain pass position, saying that the situation there was similar to that here.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade ordered the commander of the Second Regiment that at one o'clock in the afternoon, except for the troops guarding the mountain pass, all other soldiers would launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese troops in the front until they surrounded Pingquan City.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the artillery of the 5th Brigade suddenly launched a fierce bombardment on the infantry of the 8th Regiment of the Japanese Army who were shouting to attack.

The Japanese 7th Infantry Regiment suffered the heaviest artillery attack since the attack on the Wangchanggou position, and fled in all directions to avoid the artillery fire of the 5th Brigade.

The 1st Regiment of the 5th Brigade and part of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 12th Brigade launched a fierce attack on the soldiers of the 7th Regiment of the Japanese Army north of Wangchanggou.

The commander of the 7th Regiment of the Japanese Army was originally supervising the battle in the rear, and wanted his soldiers to capture Wangchanggou so that the 4th Brigade could be proud of itself.

He waved his command knife desperately from behind to stop the infantry from fleeing.

However, the fleeing Japanese infantry was so defeated that there was no way to stop them.

The captain of the Seventh Regiment had no choice but to retreat in disgrace under the protection of the guards.

The captain of the Eighth Regiment, who was watching the battle from behind, felt secretly delighted when he saw the soldiers of the Seventh Regiment fleeing.

However, he soon stopped being happy.

The soldiers of the 7th Regiment fled too quickly, and the Devil's troops pursued them even faster.

They soon caught up with them, and he had to flee with the soldiers of the Eighth Regiment.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade did not order his soldiers to stop the attack. Instead, the commander of the First Regiment led his soldiers to continue pursuing the fleeing Japanese troops until all the soldiers of the Seventh and Eighth Regiments of the Japanese Army fled into Chengde County.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade did not launch a subsequent battle to recapture Chengde County.

Chengde County is a relatively large city in Rehe Province, and there were already many troops stationed in the county.

Now nearly 10,000 troops of the Japanese Fourth Division have fled into the county. It is not an easy task to recapture Chengde County.

He arranged for a Golden Eagle drone to scout the situation in Chengde County.

After careful reconnaissance by the Golden Eagle UAV, it was found that the direct troops of the Japanese Army's 4th Division were also in Chengde County.

The third regiment commander gasped when he heard the report from the aviation soldier.

Their army of more than 3000 people actually defeated and surrounded Chengde County, which had a population of no less than .

If it were any other division of the Japanese army, this would never have happened.

After hearing the report from the Army Aviation soldiers, the Fifth Brigade Commander ordered the troops to retreat and build a defense line at the entrance of Wangchanggou. Based on the steep mountain terrain of Wangchanggou, two defense lines were built at the entrance and exit to block the Japanese troops from Chengde County to the north of the Wangchanggou Mountains.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade then sent a telegram to the commander of the Second Regiment asking about the progress of the troops.

The second regiment commander quickly replied: The battle was going well, and all the Japanese troops had been driven into Pingquan City, and they were preparing to recapture Pingquan City. However, the reconnaissance results of the Army Aviation soldiers also shocked the second regiment commander. There were more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Pingquan City.

The Second Regiment Commander then reported the reconnaissance situation of the Army Aviation Soldiers to the Fifth Brigade Commander and asked for the next combat instructions.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade instructed the commander of the Second Regiment to set up a line of defense at the entrance of the mountain pass to block the Japanese troops from the direction of Pingquan City from entering the mountain pass.