Devil's Army

Because the Second Battle of Changsha trapped more than 120,000 Chinese Expeditionary Force troops,

On this day, Gray Wolf rushed from Jinzhou to Kunming to report to Leng Feng on the development of the tribe and the Tangshan base and discuss the domestic situation.

The military strength of the Tangshan base has grown rapidly and is now close to 20.

The military strength of the tribal base grew more slowly, but also exceeded 38 people.

The base had more than 160 aircraft of various types. However, due to the limitation of the navy's technical level, it was unable to produce warships by itself, and the navy's development was very slow. Although the force had doubled, there were only eight warships.

Gray Wolf and Leng Feng discussed whether to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese army?

Leng Feng believed that the Battle of Changsha would have little impact on the Japanese troops in Central China, East China and Northeast China.

The Japanese Army's South China Expeditionary Army was responsible for defending the south, and this battle had little impact on them.

It is suggested that we first fully support the Southern Front Army to recover Hainan Island, and then the Guangxi-Yunnan Front Army, the First Front Army and the Second Front Army should launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese army at the same time.

Gray Wolf then signed with Leng Feng to launch a campaign to retake Hainan Island at 8 o'clock the next morning.

As soon as Zhang Shaojie received the telegram from the Kunming headquarters, he and Du Shaoqing immediately prepared for the attack.

Commander Zhang divided the Southern Front Army into two columns. The First Independent Division, with the Hainan Island Independent Regiment as its backbone, was the right column, responsible for attacking the Japanese army from Lingshui County and Baoting County to the north.

The Third Division, with the 1st Regiment of the former Independent 1st Division of the Guangxi-Yunnan Front Army as its backbone, was the left column, responsible for attacking the Japanese army to the north from Changshui County and Ledong County.

The Second Division, with the Hainan Reserve Regiment as its backbone, protected the security of the six counties in the base area, and served as a reserve force to support the battles of the Left and Right columns at any time.

Commander Zhang also divided the artillery brought by Deputy Commander Du into two parts, one following the left column and the other following the right team.

The two columns immediately left Ya County and gathered at their respective assembly areas.

At eight o'clock the next morning, what Commander Yoshino had worried about finally happened.

The Southern Front Army of the First Anti-Japanese Army divided its troops into four routes and launched a major counterattack against the Japanese troops on Hainan Island.

On the first day of the counterattack, the artillery of the Southern Front Army destroyed the Japanese fortifications in Wanning County, Lehui County, Baisha County and Dan County, which were heavily defended by the Japanese.

The Japanese army had been on guard against the attack from the devil troops on Hainan Island. They did not expect the artillery fire to be so fierce this time. They were unable to avoid it and suffered heavy casualties in a short time.

After the shelling ended, the soldiers of the Southern Front launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army fought stubbornly with the remaining fortifications, the weaker defenses of Baisha County and Lehui County were successively breached.

Two of the four counties adjacent to the Devil Forces on Hainan Island were breached, which caused great psychological pressure on the Japanese troops in the other two counties.

Under the fierce attack of the 1st Detachment of the Right Column and the 2nd Detachment of the Left Column, the Japanese troops in Wanning County and Dan County also retreated northward.

Commander Zhang and Deputy Commander Du did not leave troops behind to wipe out the remnants of the Japanese troops in the county town that had just been recaptured. Instead, they pursued the victory and continued to attack Qiongdong County, Ding'an County, Chengmai County, and Lingao County.

When the Second Detachment of the Right Route Army attacked Qiongdong County, it was blocked by the retreating Japanese troops from Wanning County and the former defenders of Qiongdong County on the Wanling Ancient Post Road.

The Japanese army guarded the canyons on both sides of the Wanling Ancient Post Road, and blocked the attack of the right-wing army of the Southern Front Army from a high position.

The former commander of the second battalion of the Hainan Island Independent Regiment, now promoted to the commander of the second regiment of the first division, supervised the battle at the front line and launched two attacks on the Japanese troops on the Wanling Ancient Post Road, but they were both blocked by the Japanese troops.

The artillery that arrived later launched a fierce bombardment on the Japanese positions in the canyons on both sides of the Wanling Ancient Post Road.

After the shelling ended, all the Japanese surface positions in the canyons on both sides of the Wanling Ancient Post Station were destroyed.

The second regiment commander ordered his soldiers to attack the Japanese positions again, but they were bombarded by Japanese artillery hidden in the canyon.

The remaining soldiers in the Japanese positions on both sides of the canyon also climbed up and opened fire to block the soldiers of the Second Regiment.

By this time it was already late in the evening, and the four troops of the two columns of the Southern Front Army failed to break through the defense line of the Japanese army's new four county towns.

Commander Zhang and Deputy Commander Du successively ordered the troops to stop the attack, build fortifications on the spot, and guard against a counterattack by the Japanese army.

In the evening, things turned out just as Commander Zhang and Deputy Commander Du had expected.

The Japanese troops in Qiongdong County and Lingao County launched surprise attacks on the Second Detachment of the Right Column of the Southern Front Army and the First Detachment of the Left Column. However, they were met with a head-on attack by the well-prepared soldiers of the Southern Front Army and had to retreat to their base.