Devil's Army

Two bombers from the First Army left the fighter group and flew straight to the camp led by Captain Zhang.

Soon, the pilots discovered the fire in Captain Zhang’s camp and began to drop supplies.

Parachutes carrying supplies fell into the camp and its surroundings.

At this time, Leng Feng formed the first paratrooper unit of the First Anti-Japanese Army in Kunming.

This time he sent the paratroopers to drop supplies just for a small training exercise. In the future, the paratroopers will be used as a special force in the anti-Japanese battlefield.

After the First Army's fighter-bomber group strafed and bombed Sanya Airport, they continued to straf and bomb the garrison and peripheral troops at Sanya Airport.

The Japanese troops in Sanya were busy avoiding the strafing and bombing of the First Army's aircraft, and for a moment they did not notice that two planes flew over the camp of Captain Zhang and his men.

The soldiers watched excitedly as boxes of supplies fell from the sky.

Battalion Commander Zhang ordered the soldiers to pack up the supplies and parachutes and transport them all to the new camp.

In addition, the soldiers were arranged to put out the campfire and restore the old camp to its original state.

The Kunming headquarters sent us a lot of ammunition and food this time. The soldiers' barracks were filled with food and ammunition, so they had to build a new row of barracks.

All the supplies sent from the Kunming headquarters were piled up in the barracks.

At this time, the army, including new recruits, had more than 800 people and was already at the battalion level.

Battalion Commander Zhang formally gathered the soldiers in front of the barracks and announced the personnel appointments for the Hainan Island Independent Battalion approved by the Kunming headquarters:

Zhang Zijie was appointed as the battalion commander of the Hainan Island Independent Battalion, and the former first company commander was appointed as the deputy battalion commander of the Hainan Island Independent Battalion.

The original three platoon leaders and deputy platoon leaders were promoted to company commanders and deputy company commanders of the Hainan Island Independent Battalion respectively.

A group of people with relatively good qualities were also selected from the guerrillas and new recruits to serve as platoon leaders and deputy platoon leaders and squad leaders and deputy squad leaders.

Soldiers continued to recruit new soldiers for the army through various channels. Battalion Commander Zhang also took his soldiers out to look for opportunities to destroy the devils, but the battle was always controlled at a scale below the company level.

The Hainan Island Independent Camp grew and developed in this way without outsiders noticing.

On this day, Secretary Yu rushed over from Guangzhou because he was worried about the Hainan Independent Battalion.

When he arrived at the new camp, he was shocked to see the soldiers training in the camp.

The number of soldiers had more than doubled since he left.

Secretary Yu was happy, but also a little worried when he asked Captain Zhang:

"The army is growing too fast. Can the food and ammunition keep up?"

Battalion Commander Zhang stood there with a smile on his face, but did not say anything.

Captain Chen, who was standing next to him, had been promoted to the platoon leader of the first company of the Hainan Island Independent Battalion. He whispered to Secretary Yu:

"Secretary Yu, they are using airplanes to transport supplies. The food and ammunition are all piled up in the barracks where we used to live. Come on, I'll take you to have a look."

Secretary Yu left with Platoon Leader Chen with doubt in his heart.

When Secretary Yu saw the warehouse full of food and ammunition, he finally understood that his superiors were right to merge the guerrillas and the independent battalion.

You have introduced some ordinary people to join the ranks of the new recruits.

The old troops had already begun to gain combat effectiveness. In order not to disrupt the deployment of the old troops, Battalion Commander Zhang incorporated them into three companies of the reserve company and received military training from scratch.

Battalion Commander Zhang believed that their Hainan Island Independent Battalion had a certain level of combat effectiveness, so he sent a telegram back to the Kunming headquarters, requesting to carry out a secret mission.

However, the Kunming headquarters rejected Captain Zhang’s application on the grounds that the time was not yet ripe.

After Battalion Commander Zhang's application was rejected by the Kunming headquarters, he strengthened the training of new recruits on the one hand, and continued to lead the three companies of the independent battalion to take turns looking for opportunities to attack the Japanese army in order to train the troops' actual combat capabilities.

The Japanese troops in Sanya were often ambushed by the independent battalion on Hainan Island, which gave the commander a headache and he intensified the search and capture operations in Sanya, Hainan Island.

Captain Zhang's independent battalion did a good job of keeping secrets, and every time they came back, they cleaned up the mess, which made the Japanese army's repeated searches come back empty-handed.

The Japanese army had to change the way they searched and arrested, and organized the troops to go out to search and arrest at the squadron level or above. However, they failed to find the independent battalion, but found another anti-Japanese force from Qiongya to Yaxian.

On this day, Battalion Commander Zhang led the third company out to carry out a sneak attack mission.

Captain Zhang discovered from the intelligence sent by the Golden Eagle that a Japanese patrol team was heading from Ya County towards Sanya Airport.

So he took the third company to ambush halfway from Ya County to Sanya Airport.

When the Japanese patrol team passed through the ambush circle of the Third Company, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

Soon, the golden eagle discovered that there were many Japanese troops gathering towards the combat area.

Battalion Commander Zhang decisively ordered to stop the fighting and retreat with his troops.

The gathered Japanese search troops found no trace of Captain Zhang and his men, and immediately expanded their search area.

A Japanese search team discovered traces of an anti-Japanese armed force in Ya County, and a battle ensued between the two sides.