Devil's Army

The third battalion commander Xinhou was also skeptical, because he had fought with the Japanese army many times and had never encountered such a strange thing.

He continued to order the soldiers to be on high alert and ready to block the Japanese army from passing through the Jiguanshan defense line. However, the company commander discovered that the Japanese army was only one kilometer away from their Jiguanshan defense line.

An hour and a half passed, and the Japanese army had not yet launched an attack on their Jiguanshan defense line.

Two hours later, the neatly dressed Japanese troops finally appeared in the eyes of the soldiers of the Third Battalion.

Soldiers from the 1st Squadron of the 1st Battalion of the Japanese Army began to attack the Jiguanshan defense line.

Contrary to its usual practice, the Japanese artillery did not launch a heavy bombardment on the Jiguanshan defense line.

At first, the Japanese soldiers of the first squadron launched an attack on the Jiguanshan defense line with loud shouts, but when the soldiers of the second company of the third battalion began to shoot, they suddenly retreated like the receding tide.

The captain of the Japanese 1st Squadron, who suffered no casualties, reported to the battalion commander that they had been subjected to a fierce attack and crazy artillery bombardment by the devil's troops.

The captain did hear the dense gunfire, but the crazy shelling? He didn't even hear the sound of a shell exploding. But he didn't expose the lie of the squadron leader, but reported to the regiment commander: they were subjected to fierce shooting and crazy shelling by the devil's troops.

The commander of the corps had no way to investigate further, so he could only urge them to break through the defense line of the devil troops as soon as possible. Xinglong County was already in danger.

The captain then ordered the artillery to bombard the positions of the devil troops.

The artillery of the 4th Division was far away from the front line and the soldiers were relatively safe, so they diligently bombarded the position of the 3rd Battalion on Jiguana Mountain.

After the artillery bombardment, the infantry began to attack. The shouts of killing shook the earth, but they stopped moving forward.

At this time, the third battalion commander believed what the first regiment commander said.

In order to put more pressure on these Japanese troops, he ordered the only two mortars to bombard the Japanese infantry whose shouts shook the earth.

Sure enough, as soon as the whistling sound of the mortar shells sounded, the Japanese troops charging in front immediately scattered like birds and beasts, running towards the woods on both sides.

The captain continued to order the artillery to suppress the firepower of the devil troops.

At this time, the air force reinforcements arranged by Captain Yin arrived and immediately launched a bombing on the Japanese artillery positions.

As soon as the Japanese artillery saw the devil troops' pointed planes, they immediately scattered like birds and beasts and ran in all directions.

The First Army's air force calmly bombed the Japanese artillery positions.

The battalion commander then reported to the regiment commander that their artillery had suffered devastating bombing from the Devil Force's pointed aircraft, resulting in heavy casualties and being unable to capture the Devil Force's Jiguanashan position.

At this time, the First Battalion of the First Regiment of the Fifth Brigade had already entered Xinglong County and was advancing in depth.

The corps commander had no choice but to order the battalion commander to retreat.

After two days of "fierce fighting", the captain withdrew to Chengde County with more than ten injured troops.

At the urging of the battalion commander, the Japanese reinforcements from Luanping County launched a truly fierce attack on the positions of the Second Battalion of Wuzhi Mountain in Moguyu.

Japanese mortar shells fell continuously and accurately on the positions of the Second Battalion.

Amid the sound of artillery bombardment, the infantry continued their attack on the Wuzhishan position of the Second Battalion.

The grenade throwers following the infantry also continued to bombard the Wuzhishan position.

Many fortifications of the Second Battalion's Wuzhishan position were blown up and collapsed, and the casualties of the soldiers continued to increase.

In order to cooperate with the attack on reinforcements, the First Army's Air Force focused its bombing on the Japanese and puppet army reinforcements in Luanping County.

The Japanese and puppet troops in front of the Wuzhishan position were subjected to heavy bombing by the First Army Air Force.

The team was also so defeated at one point that it was difficult to organize an effective attack.

As Xinglong County was breached by the devil's troops, the Japanese and puppet troops in Luanping County, who suffered heavy casualties, also began to retreat under the leadership of the squadron leader.

The First Army's air force added fuel to the fire, fiercely bombing the retreating Japanese and puppet troops, accelerating their rout in Luanping County.

At this time, the artillery of the First Regiment and the bombers of the First Army cooperated with each other and bombed the Japanese and puppet troops on the east gate wall of Xinglong County so badly that they had no idea where to go.

Two large gaps appeared in the city wall of the east gate of Xinglong County.

Soldiers from the first battalion rushed into the east gate of Xinglong County through the gap under the cover of machine guns and rocket launchers, while chasing the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall, they opened the gate.

As more and more First Army soldiers rushed into Xinglong County, the Japanese and puppet troops could not resist and gradually retreated into the city.

The Japanese squadron leader in Xinglong County led his soldiers to resist tenaciously based on the houses, trying to wait for the arrival of their reinforcements and take over Xinglong County together.

The squadron leader sent several telegrams to inquire, and his superiors always ordered them to hold their positions firmly and that reinforcements would arrive soon.

The Japanese squadron leader, who was attacked fiercely by the devil troops, had no choice but to withdraw his troops to the defense line of several rivers in the county, trying to block the attack of the devil troops by relying on the natural barriers of these rivers. But something unexpected happened to him.