Devil's Army

In less than a day, the soldiers of the first battalion had completely wiped out the few remaining Japanese troops in the towns and strongholds in Baoting County.

The commander of the first battalion wanted to recapture Baisha County and Lehui County to the north, but Commander Zhang did not agree.

Commander Zhang ordered the first battalion to consolidate fortifications on the spot to prevent a Japanese counterattack and to develop troops in the local area as quickly as possible.

His second battalion was blocked when attacking Lingshui County, and he did not want to spread the stall too much at once, so that the Japanese army would have the opportunity to break through their defense areas one by one.

The Second Battalion made relatively smooth progress when it began to attack Lingshui County, but when the troops attacked Qixianling, they were stubbornly blocked by the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops in Lingshui County were different from those in Baoting County. They had fought against the Hainan Island Independent Regiment and knew that the Independent Regiment had strong combat effectiveness, so they had been actively preparing for war.

When the vanguard of the Second Battalion arrived at Qixianling, a flock of birds suddenly took off without warning.

In fact, the Japanese Army's First Special Operations Team was ambushing in Qixianling. They had ambushed in the fortifications early on and did not alarm the birds at all.

When a snake climbed a tree and attacked a bird, the bird warned its fellow birds, and the whole flock took off and fled the tree.

The second battalion commander thought someone in the woods had disturbed the flying birds, so he quickly stopped the vanguard and arranged two squads of soldiers to search the woods on both sides of the Qixianling trail.

The large force stopped at the intersection, ready to provide support at any time.

Captain Yoshichang of the First Special Operations Team of the Japanese Army looked at the approaching soldiers of the Devil Unit and had to order them to hold their guns.

The soldier in front of the second squad was unfortunately shot and killed. The soldiers behind him quickly lay down and fought back in the direction from which the bullet came.

The large force at the intersection also launched an attack on the high ground on both sides of Qixianling, but was fiercely strafed by the Japanese ambush troops from a high position.

The main force of the Second Battalion was blocked by the Japanese army at the foot of Qixianling, but they also covered the two squads of soldiers in the vanguard as they retreated.

The Second Battalion lacked heavy weapons and found it difficult to capture the dangerous Qixianling Mountain, so they had to ask for help from Commander Zhang.

Zhang had no artillery, especially large-caliber artillery with great lethality, so he could only call Captain Du and ask him to send bombers for support.

In less than half an hour, six Huaxia III fighters escorted three H-2 bombers to fly over for support.

As soon as the First Army Air Force arrived over Qixianling, it launched a fierce bombing on the Japanese positions on the high ground on both sides.

The Japanese Qixianling positions, which were designed with only ordinary anti-artillery functions, collapsed under the bombardment of heavy bombs, and the Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

When the second battalion commander saw that the Japanese position was destroyed by his own air force, he immediately organized his troops to launch another attack on the Qixianling position.

When the soldiers of the Second Battalion charged to the vicinity of the Qixianling position, the Japanese soldiers in the collapsed fortifications crawled out like indestructible cockroaches and kept shooting at the soldiers of the Second Battalion.

The attack of the soldiers of the Second Battalion was blocked again, but they did not retreat. Instead, they looked for cover on the spot and desperately shot at the Japanese troops in the fortifications.

Upon seeing this, the fighter planes of the First Army lowered their altitude and desperately fired at the firepower points in the Japanese fortifications.

The Japanese machine guns, grenade launchers and soldiers were blasted out of their bunkers one after another by the machine guns of fighter planes.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the second battalion quickly got up and launched an attack on the Japanese Qixianling fortifications, throwing grenades continuously while charging.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Second Company of the Second Battalion at the foot of the mountain hurried over to provide reinforcements.

The Japanese First Special Operations Team in the fortifications were also stubborn. Even when the soldiers from the Second Battalion rushed up to the fortifications, they still resisted to the end and fought to the death.

After a fierce hand-to-hand combat, the Second Battalion finally captured the Qixianling position.

The large army quickly passed through the mountain path and rushed to Lingshui County.

When the troops reached Fuji River, they were fiercely blocked by Japanese troops on the other side of the river.

A company of soldiers attempted to cross the Tenghe Bridge under the cover of machine guns, but were repelled by dense bullets from the Japanese troops in the two circular bunkers at the bridgehead.

By this time it was already dark and the First Army's planes had already returned.

After these two battles, the second battalion commander realized the ferocity of this elite Japanese force.

In order to reduce casualties during the assault, the second battalion commander decisively ordered: temporarily stop the attack.

When the two armies were facing each other across the Teng River, the second battalion commander quietly sent the third company to find a shallow place to cross the river from downstream.

Under the cover of night, the third company commander led his soldiers to a bend in Tenghe River.

Here the river surface suddenly became clear and the water flow became slow.

The third company commander took two soldiers into the river to test the water, and the deepest water level was only up to the chest.

So the soldiers of the third company raised their guns above their heads and crossed the Teng River in a row.