Devil's Army

Leng Feng agreed not to send troops to Burma. In order to ensure the smooth flow of the Yunnan-Burma artery and improve the international status of the Republic of China, the Nanjing government army had to draw elite soldiers from various war zones to form an expeditionary force.

Leng Feng's Gui-Yunnan Front Army's Independent 1st Division and Independent 2nd Division stationed in Guangxi were transferred to coastal cities in Guangdong.

Only the Independent 3rd Division and its subordinate regiments were left in Yunnan Province.

The Japanese army came well prepared this time and attacked fiercely.

Hekou County and Malipo County in Yunnan have been in a state of emergency.

The First Army's Gui-Yunnan Front Army's direct regiment was responsible for the security protection of important military facilities such as the Kunming Aviation School, Yanglin Airport, arsenals, and smelters.

Currently only the Independent 3rd Division can be mobilized.

Leng Feng received a request for support from the Yunnan Army and immediately ordered the Independent Third Division to split into two groups to reinforce the anti-Japanese resistance in Malipo County and Hekou County.

The ones who attacked Hetian County were the old rival of the Yunnan Army's 60th Army, the 18th Brigade of the Japanese Army's 55th Division.

When they attacked Nanxi Town, they divided their troops into three groups, two of which encircled the town from the two wings, and one group attacked from the front.

A company of the 60th Regiment of the 182nd Division of the 1077th Army of the Yunnan Army engaged in a firefight with the Japanese army on the path in front of Nanxi Town.

The company commander was about to lead his soldiers to hold on and wait for help, but the scout reported to him that the Japanese troops were found on both wings of the woods.

The company commander had no choice but to lead his soldiers to retreat to Nanxi Town while fighting.

In less than an hour, the Japanese army broke through the wooded position in Nanxi Town, which had been ambushed by the Second Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment of the Nanjing Government in Southern Yunnan.

Afterwards, three groups of Japanese troops gathered in front of Nanxi Town.

Part of the 18th Mountain Artillery Regiment of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army launched a fierce bombing on Nanxi Town.

At this time, the reinforcements from the 3rd Division of the Gui-Yunnan Front Army had not arrived yet, but a mixed squadron of fighters and bombers from the 3rd Aviation Brigade of the 1st Air Force had arrived.

The artillery of the 18th Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Japanese Army stopped bombing as soon as they saw the pointed aircraft of the First Army approaching, but the Japanese infantry continued to attack Nanxi Town.

Some Japanese soldiers have already rushed to the gate of Nanxi Town.

The fighter planes and bombers of the First Army launched fierce strafing and bombing on the attacking Japanese infantry.

However, some Japanese troops still rushed into Nanxi Town through the collapsed city wall and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the soldiers of the 1077st Battalion of the th Regiment of the Yunnan Army.

After a brutal and fierce hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers of the 1077st Battalion of the th Regiment of the Yunnan Army repelled the Japanese attack.

Due to the strafing and bombing by the army's pointed aircraft in the air, the Japanese army temporarily stopped its attack on Nanxi Town.

This provided valuable time for the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Independent Division of the Gui-Yunnan Front Army to rush over to reinforce.

At noon, this mixed squadron of the First Army returned to Kunming Yanglin Airport.

The Japanese mountain artillery regiment once again showed its power and launched a fierce bombardment on the city wall of Nanxi Town.

The soldiers of the 1077st Battalion of the th Regiment of the Yunnan Army suffered heavy casualties in the fierce artillery bombardment by the Japanese Army.

The Japanese army then launched a fierce attack on Nanxi.

The soldiers of the 1077st Battalion of the th Regiment of the Yunnan Army who survived the fierce artillery bombardment of the Japanese army did not even bother to shake off the tiles and dust that fell on them, and immediately lay on the collapsed fortifications and fired fiercely at the attacking Japanese army.

The Japanese grenade throwers and machine gunners cooperated to fiercely bomb and strafe the surviving soldiers of the First Battalion of the Yunnan Army on the Nanxi city wall.

Nanxi Town was in imminent danger due to the fierce attack of the Japanese army.

A battalion commander asked the regiment commander for reinforcement, but the regiment commander ordered him to withdraw to Hekou County.