Devil's Army

The next morning, Lieutenant Colonel Hebian led a large force to the forest to search for the devil troops' base.

The searching Japanese soldiers and puppet troops did not sleep well that night. They yawned and continued to search perfunctorily with their bayonets pointed here and feet kicked there.

In the evening, Lieutenant Colonel Hebian was in the operations room listening to his subordinates' search reports. Without exception, none of them had found anything. Some officers even thought that this devilish army had escaped. Otherwise, they had searched the forest several times, but there was no trace of the army of several hundred people.

Now Lieutenant Colonel Hebian was most worried that this devilish army would escape. If they escaped, he would have to commit seppuku.

Lieutenant Colonel Hebian sat in the operations room without saying a word, and his subordinates also sat there silently, no one dared to speak, because they knew that Lieutenant Colonel Hebian was angry at the moment, and everyone was afraid of offending him.

"Will they attack our checkpoint outside the forest tonight? Come on, come on." Lieutenant Colonel Hebian hoped more than ever that the Devil Army would attack his checkpoint again tonight. This would mean that they did not escape. Then his life would be saved.

At one o'clock in the morning, Lieutenant Colonel Hebian's guard came to report: the checkpoint outside the forest was attacked again.

"Immediately give the order. Except for the direct squadron that stays behind, everyone else should follow Lieutenant Koita of the Third Squadron to provide reinforcements."

The guard was a little puzzled by the happy expression of Lieutenant Colonel Hebian, but he did not ask any more questions and immediately went to convey the order.

Lieutenant Colonel Kawabe did not go there in person this time, because he knew that even if he went there, the only task left for him was to collect the bodies.

When Lieutenant Xiaoban arrived, there was no doubt that the battle was over. After he arranged for people to collect the bodies, he re-arranged a squad of the Imperial Army and a squad of the Imperial Army to garrison this life-threatening checkpoint.

The Japanese soldiers and puppet troops stationed at this checkpoint kept their already tired eyes wide open and looked around until dawn from the moment they took up their posts.

Lieutenant Xiaoban didn't dare to sleep either. He divided the troops into three groups and patrolled the outskirts of the forest continuously.

Until dawn, the devil's troops did not launch a second round of attack.

Lieutenant Xiaoban yawned and returned to Hujia Village. When he passed the operations room, Lieutenant Colonel Hebian called him.

"How was it last night?"

"At one o'clock last night, the checkpoint outside the forest was attacked, and one of our squadrons of imperial soldiers and one squad of the Imperial Army were killed."

"There was no second attack later?"

"No."

"Lieutenant Colonel Hebian, we only have half a battalion of troops left. It is slightly more than the number of the Hujia Village Devil Troops. But we have to defend several places. If the Hujia Village Devil Troops attack from one place with all their strength, we will find it difficult to stop them."

"You mean to send reinforcements?" In fact, Lieutenant Colonel Kawabe had also wanted to send reinforcements. It was just that it was better for his subordinates to bring it up than for him to ask Colonel Fujita directly.

"Yes," Lieutenant Koita responded directly.

"Okay, go write a report and I'll sign it. Ask the correspondent to apply to Colonel Fujita."

Colonel Fujita was very angry when he received the telegram from Lieutenant Colonel Kawabe, and he called Lieutenant Colonel Kawabe and scolded him. After besieging the Hujia Village Devil Forces for several days, there was no progress at all, and half of the battalion was trapped.

Lieutenant Colonel Hebian responded humbly with "Hi hi hi" over there.

Colonel Fujita was tired of scolding, but the problem still needed to be solved. He was busy encircling and suppressing the defeated remnants of the Hejiazhai Village army and could not spare any manpower. He had to call Takahashi Ken in Tiaobingshan County and asked him to lead the Takahashi Battalion to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Hujia Village devil troops.

Major Takahashi did not dare to delay. After receiving the telegram, he immediately gathered his troops and set off for Hujia Village.

Arriving at Hujia Village, Lieutenant Colonel Hebian handed over the checkpoint outside the forest to Gaoqiao Battalion to guard, and told him to pay attention to the attacks of the devil troops.

Takahashi Ken disagreed, but his position was lower than that of Lieutenant Colonel Kawabe, so he could only respond with "Hi!"

Major Takahashi arranged a small group of imperial troops to guard the checkpoint. He built a camp for the group more than 500 meters away from the checkpoint so that his group could provide reinforcements at any time if there was any problem at the checkpoint.

The small group of Imperial Army and a squad of Imperial Army stationed at the forest checkpoint by Lieutenant Colonel Kawabe were very happy to see the Imperial Army of Takahashi's squad coming to relieve them. They could finally leave the checkpoint alive.

All day, Lieutenant Colonel Hebian's troops were catching up on sleep. They did not go into the forest to search for the devil troops again because there was no result at all. They wanted to guard the passage out of the mountain and trap them to death.

Night fell without any surprises, and Lieutenant Colonel Hebian once again reminded Major Takahashi to be careful to prevent enemy attacks. They had been attacked every night for so many days.

Takahashi Ken replied with a nonchalant "Hi". He, with more than a thousand well-trained Kwantung troops, were afraid of these hundreds of devil troops?

However, Major Takahashi ignored the rogues of Wulang. The cold gun and cold artillery movement was the masterpiece of their second battalion. He learned about the latest deployment of the devils from the scouts and readjusted his strategy.

He ordered: Starting from 11 o'clock, the troops should arrange a team to attack the Japanese checkpoint every hour.

So at five o'clock in the morning, all six of his teams were pulled out for a round of live-fire shooting training.

This disturbed the Japanese soldiers so much that they couldn't sleep all night, and they had no energy to do anything during the day and yawned continuously. However, his second battalion slept in the cave day and night and was full of energy.

Major Takahashi also tried to ambush the Devil Troops at the place where they attacked the checkpoint. However, all this did not escape the eyes of the scouts deployed by Wulang in that area. His ambush was counter-ambushed by the Devil Troops, and suffered heavy losses.