Devil's Army

The guards pulled up the disheveled Commander Yoshino and brushed the dust off his body.

Commander Yoshino sighed as he looked at the Devil Force planes still roaring in the sky, and sat down silently. It seemed to foretell that their era of dominating the world on Hainan Island had come to an end.

Afterwards, Commander Yoshino withdrew his defense line, retreated to some large county towns and strongholds, and no longer took the initiative to provoke the devil troops.

At the same time, he applied to the Navy Headquarters for additional reinforcements to eliminate the evil forces on Hainan Island.

With the First Army's Kunming Arsenal coming into production, Leng Feng sent a batch of 40 rocket launchers and machine guns to the Hainan Island Independent Regiment.

The Hainan Independent Regiment recruited more and more new soldiers, which exceeded the establishment of a regiment. The weapons and equipment were also getting better and better.

So Commander Zhang began to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army and arranged for his troops to recapture some Japanese military outposts outside the main county towns.

Fierce gunfire was heard from time to time in Lingshui County, Grain County, Changjiang County, and Ledong County surrounding Ya County. The surrounding towns and strongholds were successively recaptured by the independent regiment.

Captain Xu of the Qiongya guerrillas, who is now the commander of the independent battalion of the independent regiment, suggested to the commander Zhang:

There are two reasons for recovering Lingshui County, which is adjacent to Ya County in the east.

1. There is a Japanese airfield in Lingshui County.

2. At that time, the Japanese army deployed the First Special Marine Corps of the Maizuru Naval Base and the Eighth Special Marine Corps of the Sasebo Naval Base in Jiaji, east of Hainan Island. These two units were quite brutal to the Chinese military and civilians and committed many bloody crimes.

However, Zhang did not advocate attacking Lingshui County first because there was a Japanese airfield in Lingshui County and the Japanese defense force was relatively strong.

Moreover, the Japanese 1st Special Marine Corps and the 8th Special Marine Corps are elite forces of the Japanese Navy with relatively strong combat effectiveness.

The Hainan Independent Regiment is now in the development stage. At the beginning of the battle, it should not pick on the hard bones of the Japanese army, but pick on the soft persimmons.

What happened next made Captain Xu and Captain Zhang reach a consensus, and they decided to attack the Japanese troops in Gratitude County first.

Because on the evening of that day, a squad of soldiers from the Independent Battalion of the Hainan Island Independent Regiment, led by the squad leader, were preparing to return to the village to recruit new soldiers.

Unfortunately, they encountered a small Japanese army unit on the way.

The squad leader led the soldiers to fight and retreat with the Japanese army, and then moved to Bawangling.

The Japanese army searched for the soldiers of the independent battalion but failed, and took out their anger on Bawangshan Village, not far from Bawangling.

The Japanese army massacred 36 people in the village and raped 6 women, including an 11-year-old girl.

A squad leader later went into the village and discovered the tragedy. He rushed back to Ya County overnight to report to Captain Zhang.

After receiving a report from a squad leader, Captain Zhang immediately ordered his troops to recapture Gratitude County.

Battalion Commander Xu stepped forward to ask for permission. This incident was caused by the soldiers in their battalion, and he wanted to avenge the villagers of Bawangshan Village.

According to the intelligence gathered by Captain Xu and his men, there were less than 200 Japanese troops in Gratitude County.

After the independent battalion occupied the Sanya port terminal, the Japanese army mobilized troops from surrounding counties to besiege the Sanya port terminal, but was defeated by Battalion Commander Zhang.

It is estimated that there are about 300 Japanese troops in the county. Captain Xu's independent battalion has more than 600 people and their weapons have been replaced, so they should be able to deal with them. So they agreed to Captain Xu's request.

With the consent of Captain Zhang, Battalion Commander Xu immediately assembled his troops and marched towards Gratitude County.

When we arrived at the border of Gratitude County, a company of the Independent Regiment was stationed there.

The next step was to enter the Japanese-occupied area. Battalion Commander Xu let the troops rest for ten minutes and then continued to advance towards Gratitude County.

Shortly after entering Gratitude County, the vanguard led by Captain Xu encountered a patrolling Japanese squad.

Captain Xu and his men hid in the dark. When they saw the Japanese squad leave, they followed them.

It turned out that this Japanese army squad was responsible for patrolling the path between a stronghold on the path and Gratitude County. This path was a main road from Ya County to Gratitude County.

Captain Xu judged that this Japanese patrol team would patrol outside the base again, so he arranged a row of soldiers to ambush on the road, and another row of soldiers to ambush near the base.

The other soldiers quietly bypassed the stronghold and came to the vicinity of Gratitude County.

Twenty minutes later, the Japanese patrol team left the base and headed towards Gratitude County.

This Japanese patrol team entered an ambush circle and a round of fierce gunfire rang out.

In less than ten minutes, this Japanese patrol team was completely wiped out.

At the same time as the first row started the battle, the second row also launched a fierce attack on the trail stronghold.