Devil's Army

The Japanese squadron and agents who came back to support launched a suicidal attack on the Third Battalion, but they were all blocked by the dense gunfire of the Third Battalion.

Behind the Japanese army, the shouts and fierce gunfire of the soldiers of the Fifth Brigade of the Yunnan Army could be heard.

More than half an hour later, the gunfire in Dawei Mountain in Pingbian County stopped.

Soldiers from the Third Battalion of the New Fourth Army's Gui-Yunnan Frontier Army escorted the truckload of tin ore back to Mile City.

Soldiers from the Fifth Brigade of the Yunnan Army rushed to Baizhai to provide reinforcements.

They received intelligence that the Yunnan Army defenders in Baizhai were attacked by Japanese aircraft and heavily bombarded by artillery fire, and the canyon defense line was once broken by the Japanese army.

Later, the Yunnan Army organized a death squad and forcibly recaptured the lost canyon positions from the Japanese army.

At present, the two sides are still in a tug-of-war, but the Yunnan Army has suffered heavy casualties.

With the arrival of the Fifth Brigade of the Second Route Army of the Yunnan Army, the position in Baizhai Gorge was stabilized.

When Commander-in-Chief Zhang heard that the aircraft of the First Anti-Japanese Army assisted the 60th Army in repelling the attack of the Japanese 18th Division on Nanxi, he also requested aircraft reinforcements from Chairman Long.

After a while, a group of Huaxia III fighters from Kunming Aviation School escorted six H-6 bombers to Baizhai and began to carry out fierce bombing and strafing on the Japanese infantry.

The First Army's Hua Xia III fighters also spotted two Japanese bombers attempting to launch a surprise attack on the Baizhai position and immediately chased after them.

After a not-too-intense fight, two Japanese bombers were shot down.

The First Army's planes did not return but continued to patrol over Baizhai.

The Japanese troops that attacked the Baizhai Gorge did not withdraw, but hid on both sides of the gorge to avoid the bombing and strafing of the First Army's aircraft.

Although the plan to steal the tin mines failed, their commander did not ask them to retreat, because if they could capture the old city, they could dig the tin mines there.

The Fifth Army of the Nanjing government army, which set out to search for Baoshan, soon made its discovery.

They found the bodies of more than 30 murdered Nanjing government soldiers in a pile of newly-earthed dirt in an open space at the foot of Yunling Mountain in Xiangyun County.

Apparently, the transport team carrying the tungsten ore was also attacked by Japanese agents, and the tungsten ore was also replaced.

The Nanjing government forces and the Yunnan Army discovered Japanese agents transporting fake antimony and tungsten ore in Changning County.

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the Nanjing government troops and the Yunnan Army captured 3 and eliminated 36 Japanese agents on the main street of Changning County.

However, no matter how they were interrogated, they would not reveal where the swapped antimony and tungsten ore was shipped to.

Although the three Japanese agents did not reveal where their antimony and tungsten ore was transported, even a fool could guess that it was definitely transported to the Japanese base in Vietnam.

The Fifth Army of the Nanjing government army organized a large number of troops to search from the incident site in Xiangyun County towards Vietnam's Ha Giang Province.

Soldiers of the Fifth Army discovered dense tracks of horse and carriage tracks on the Yunling Mountain trail.

It is certain that the Japanese army transferred antimony and tungsten ore from trucks to horse-drawn carriages.

Judging from the time, the Japanese army's horse-drawn carriage carrying antimony and tungsten stone should have arrived in Midu County.

While arranging people to search in the direction of the Vietnamese river mouth, the Fifth Army also ordered the troops stationed in Midu County to block all roads out of the county.

Checkpoints have also been set up on the main and small roads in Nanhua County and Jingdong County leading to the mouth of the Vietnamese river.

Soon, the garrison troops in Midu County received news.

Several ordinary people said they saw a government military horse-drawn convoy carrying supplies heading southeast from Midu County.

Midu County can reach Nanhua County via the southeast, and then go to the mouth of the Vietnam River.

The soldiers focused their search in this direction, but the Japanese agents had apparently deliberately covered up their carriage wheel tracks.

Except for some blurred carriage wheel marks found when we first entered Midu County, all other carriage wheel marks had been cleaned up.

The soldiers continued to search in the southeast direction of Midu County.

Some soldiers soon discovered that there were traces of horse wheel ruts on the road leading into Tianshengqiao Mountain.

Tianshengqiao Mountain is not small in area, but the garrison of Midu County cannot completely surround and search it.

The garrison in Midu County immediately reported the intelligence to their superiors.

Soon, truckloads of soldiers from the Fifth Army of the Nanjing government arrived near Tianshengqiao Mountain in Midu County, surrounded Tianshengqiao Mountain, and searched southeastward in the direction of Nanhua County.

Soon, the large-scale search by the Fifth Army soldiers of the Nanjing government army alarmed the Japanese agents in Tianshengqiao Mountain.

While hiding their tracks, they sent radio messages to the Japanese command in Vietnam for help.

At this time, the Japanese Guards Mixed Brigade had just captured Malipo County two hours ago and was now attacking Xichou County.

At that time, Xichou County was the headquarters of the 54th Division of the 198th Army of the Nanjing Government Army.

After their regiment retreated from Malipo to Xichou County, they defended Xichou County together with the main force of the 198th Division.