Devil's Army

The Japanese and puppet army positions in Xinjing were fiercely strafed and bombed by the First Army's fighter bombers, and all the surface positions were destroyed.

The Japanese and puppet troops in Xinjing defending Lanjia Town and Mishazi Town also suffered heavy casualties.

In order to protect the Kwantung Army headquarters and the capital of Manchukuo, Commander Umezu Yoshijiro sent the only remaining thirty or so fighter jets of the Kwantung Army Air Force.

The First Army Air Force, which had just experienced a bloody battle, and the Japanese Air Force fought fiercely again in the sky over Xinjing.

At this time, the Japanese Kwantung Army Air Force was like an old man in his twilight years and had no way to resist the attack of the First Army Air Force, which was at its peak.

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, six fighter planes of the Japanese Kwantung Army Air Force were shot down, and the other fighter planes began to flee.

The First Army Air Force had no time to let the duck in its mouth fly away, and quickly chased after them, continuing to harass and pursue the fleeing Japanese fighter planes.

While the First Army's fighter planes were fighting with the Japanese Kwantung Army's air force, the First Army's bombers were leisurely and fiercely bombing the Japanese positions in Xinjing.

The smoke from the bombs of the First Army's bombers had not yet faded when the Seventh Brigade and the Fourth Brigade of the First Front Army of the First Army launched a fierce attack on the Japanese and puppet troops on the wall of Xinjing from Lanjia Town and Mishazi Town.

The remaining Japanese and puppet troops on the walls of Xinjing climbed up one after another and stubbornly resisted the attacks of the soldiers from the Seventh and Fourth Brigades.

At this time, the fighter planes of the Kwantung Army Air Force, which had already dealt with the Japanese army, also flew over and continued to eliminate the Japanese and puppet army's firepower points on the walls of Xinjing.

Just as the 7th and 4th Brigades of the 1st Army were about to break through the Japanese city wall of Xinjing, the follow-up troops of the Japanese army in Xinjing braved the air raid of the 1st Army Air Force, rushed onto the city wall, and fiercely fired at the soldiers of the 7th and 4th Brigades outside the city wall.

The Japanese mortar troops who arrived later also braved the air raids of the First Army Air Force and continued to bombard the soldiers of the Seventh Brigade and the Fourth Brigade outside the city wall.

The soldiers of the 7th and 4th Brigades encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army and had to withdraw temporarily, waiting for the next attack.

The First Army's planes flew over again and fiercely strafed and bombed the Japanese troops on the city wall.

The Japanese artillery, which was easy to move, shuttled and dodged the bombing of the First Army Air Force.

On the first day of the attack on Xinjing, the Seventh Brigade and the Fourth Brigade successively dispatched two companies to fight the decisive battle.

The Japanese and puppet troops also sent four waves of reinforcements to the city walls to reinforce and defend the new capital city tightly.

The two sides fought fiercely until the evening, and then both sides stopped fighting.

In the evening, the Fourth Brigade Commander Wang Zhuangfei and his guards rushed to the First Army Command in Siping City.

Their Fourth Brigade attacked Xinjing today. One company was crippled and another company suffered more than half its personnel casualties.

We can't continue like this tomorrow, the troops will suffer too many casualties.

Wang Zhuangfei met Leng Feng at the command center and went straight to the point, asking him to arrange for the "Kuo-Qu" tank tomorrow morning to cover the troops' attack on Xinjing.

Leng Feng was smiling, but before he could say anything, the commander of the Seventh Brigade came over.

The commander of the Seventh Brigade briefed Leng Feng on today's attack on Xinjing, and asked Leng Feng when he could arrange tanks to assist them in the siege.

Leng Feng told them:

"The Japanese army's heavy artillery, which poses the greatest threat to tanks, has been suppressed by the air force, but now is not the time to send out tank troops."

"Why? Isn't it so that we can achieve the effect of a surprise attack when we attack Xinjing by attacking the small town of Gongzhuling without exposing the tanks?" the commander of the Seventh Brigade asked doubtfully.

"Yes, I originally wanted the tank company to launch a surprise attack on Xinjing. Currently, the tank company is in Siping City. But now the situation has changed."

After Leng Feng finished speaking, he handed a report from Deputy Captain Xu to Wang Zhuangfei and the commander of the Seventh Brigade.

Wang Zhuangfei and the commander of the Seventh Brigade were also shocked after seeing it.