Devil's Army

After Battalion Commander Zhang arranged for an army plane to land at Sanya Airport, he went to the airport gate to see the soldiers' preparations.

The Japanese military force on Hainan Island is still very strong and will definitely counterattack, so they must be adequately prepared.

The soldiers were digging an anti-artillery fortification at the airport gate as requested by Battalion Commander Zhang.

After inspecting the airport's outer fortifications, Battalion Commander Zhang led the third company back to the port terminal.

He was not sure about the combat effectiveness of the 2nd and 3rd squadrons of the Qiongya Guerrillas, but the independent battalion only left one row at the port dock, so the manpower was definitely not enough.

As Captain Zhang and his men had just reached the Sanya Port terminal, the platoon leader hurried over and said:

"Captain, there's a situation."

"what's up?"

"We discovered a Japanese garrison squad while clearing the port dock. After eliminating the Japanese garrison squad, we made a discovery."

"What did you find?"

"Behind this Japanese garrison there was an aircraft fuel depot, a warship fuel depot and an ammunition depot."

It was only then that Captain Zhang realized what was going on.

It turned out that the Japanese Sanya Airport was often bombed by their bombers. For safety reasons, they stored the fuel and ammunition of the Sanya Airport aircraft in the Japanese military port terminal.

He immediately asked the third platoon leader to arrange trucks to deliver fuel and bombs to the aircraft of the First Army at Sanya Airport. However, the shells for the fighter machine guns were not universal, so they could only be transported from Kunming.

The Japanese troops in Ya County suffered a heavy defeat and retreated to the county seat of Ya County. Lieutenant General Yoshino assigned them to the Fifth Guard of Ling County and prepared to recapture Sanya Airport and Sanya Port Terminal.

The next morning, the Japanese troops in Lingshui in the east and Gratitude County in the west, together with the remaining Japanese troops in Ya County, launched a three-pronged attack on the Hainan Island Independent Battalion and the Qiongya Guerrillas.

The Japanese troops in Lingshui and Grainen County quickly broke through the independent battalion's outer defense line and reached the main positions outside Sanya Airport and Sanya Port Terminal.

The Japanese troops in Ya County acted as the vanguard and took the lead in launching a strong attack on the main positions outside Sanya Airport.

The artillery continued to bombard the trenches of the main position outside the airport.

The garrison here was a platoon of the independent battalion that had retreated from the outer positions and a squad of the Qiongya guerrillas.

They hid in the anti-artillery holes on the opposite side of the trench, leaving only two observation posts to watch the movements of the Japanese infantry.

After the shelling ended, the Japanese infantry began to attack the outer positions of Sanya Airport.

At this time, Sanya Airport had already replenished fuel and ammunition, and the First Army's bombers also took off one after another.

When the First Army's bombers flew over the outer positions, the Japanese infantry were engaged in fierce fighting with the soldiers of the Independent Battalion and the Qiongya guerrillas.

The pilot immediately lowered the flight altitude and dropped bombs at the attacking Japanese army.

The successive explosions of aerial bombs reduced the Japanese vanguard in Ya County to ashes.

The Japanese troops who survived the air bombing were subjected to fierce shooting by the soldiers of the Independent Battalion and the Qiongya guerrillas.

The Japanese army launched two waves of large-scale attacks on the outer positions of Sanya Airport in one morning. However, the Hainan Island Independent Battalion and the Qiongya Guerrillas, with the cooperation of aircraft, repelled both attacks of the Japanese army.

After lunch, the Japanese troops in Ya County once again launched a strong attack on the outer positions of Sanya Airport while the artillery was still bombing.

The Japanese troops in Lingshui also launched a sneak attack on Sanya Airport from the flank.

The soldiers of the Independent Battalion and the Qiongya Guerrillas braved the Japanese artillery fire and put up a tenacious resistance.

At this time, the First Army bomber that had already returned took off urgently and, together with two fighter planes, began to launch air strikes on the Japanese artillery positions and the attacking Japanese troops.

Two fighter planes of the First Army took turns launching fierce strafing attacks on the Japanese troops that were approaching the wall of Sanya Airport.

A 20mm machine gun blew away the Japanese soldiers who tried to cross the wall.

The person in charge of commanding the battle at Sanya Airport was Deputy Battalion Commander Hu of the Hainan Island Independent Battalion. Seeing that the Japanese army had been attacking for most of the day and was already losing ground, he ordered the first company of the Independent Battalion to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army in Yaxian and Lingshui from the front and the second company from the side.

At this time, the Japanese troops in Ya County and Lingshui were busy avoiding the bombing of the Devil Force bombers and the strafing of fighter planes.

Suddenly, they were attacked fiercely by the Hainan Independent Battalion and the Qiongya Guerrillas and were defeated step by step.

Deputy Battalion Commander Hu took the opportunity to recapture the outer positions of Sanya Airport.

The soldiers of the first company and the Qiongya guerrillas quickly consolidated their positions and prepared to meet another counterattack by the Japanese army.

The remaining Japanese troops in Ya County were severely damaged by the bombing and fierce counterattack of the First Army and were unable to organize a large-scale attack. They could only confront the soldiers of the independent battalion across the outer fortifications.

The commander of the Japanese Hainan Island base in Ya County did not expect that Battalion Commander Zhang had already led the third company of the independent battalion to raid his lair.