Devil's Army

The Japanese heavy artillery positions were reduced to ashes by the strafing and bombing of the First Army's fighter planes and bombers.

Soldiers from the 4th and 7th Brigades continued to advance steadily toward the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters.

After a fierce battle, the 4th Brigade and the 7th Brigade finally met at the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters.

But at this time, except for a few troops who were resisting, all the commanders of the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters had retreated to Harbin.

The occupation of the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters in Xinjing marked the defeat of the Japanese main resistance force in Xinjing.

Afterwards, the 4th and 7th Brigades continued to search for the remnants of the Japanese and puppet troops in Xinjing.

The Seventh Brigade engaged in a fierce battle with the elite troops of the puppet army in the imperial palace of Manchukuo.

This puppet army was directly under the control of the puppet Manchukuo Imperial Palace. It was well-equipped and had strong combat effectiveness.

A main force of the 1st Regiment of the 7th Brigade attacked twice but failed to break through the puppet army's defense line.

Before the battle started, a regiment commander conveyed the military's order that the Manchukuo Imperial Palace was a key cultural relic protection site and the use of artillery was not allowed.

The battalion commander therefore suspended the attack and waited until night to find a solution.

At night, the Imperial Palace Guards stepped up patrols of the Manchukuo Imperial Palace.

The commander of a battalion arranged the remaining troops from the first and second companies to make the main attack, while the third company, which had a stronger combat effectiveness, prepared to break into the palace from the flank and catch the puppet army off guard.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, fierce gunfire was heard at the main gate of the Manchukuo Imperial Palace.

Part of the 1st Battalion of the 7th Brigade launched a fierce attack on the puppet troops at the main gate of the Manchukuo Imperial Palace.

The puppet Manchukuo guard, which had been prepared, immediately launched a fierce counterattack.

The third company was divided into two groups, and the company commander led a row of soldiers to quietly come to the left wall of the puppet Manchukuo Imperial Palace.

He put his ear to the wall and listened carefully for a while, and then he heard a noisy sound of footsteps running from the palace towards the palace gate.

Gradually, the footsteps faded away.

As soon as the third company commander waved his hand, the soldiers immediately used a human ladder to climb over the wall.

Before all the people in the first row of the third company could climb over the wall, the footsteps of the pseudo-guards coming to reinforce them were heard in the distance.

The third company commander, who had nowhere to hide, immediately led a row of soldiers to lie down and engaged in a fierce battle with the puppet guards.

A row of soldiers who had not yet climbed over the wall lay on the wall and fired fiercely at the puppet guards from above.

The gunshots from the left side of the palace also alerted the captain of the palace guard.

He immediately arranged for the guards to build a defense line on the left side of the palace.

At the same time, guards were also arranged to build a defense line on the right side of the palace.

When the second and third platoons of the third company came up from the right side of the palace, they were immediately blocked by the newly constructed defense line of the palace guards.

At this time, the reserve palace guards continued to attack the three companies of soldiers on the left and right sides of the palace from inside the palace.

The commander of the first battalion increased the intensity of the attack, but still could not break through the frontal defense line of the palace guards. The soldiers of the third company in the palace were also in a dilemma at this time. The battle between the two sides fell into a stalemate for a while.

In order to break the stalemate, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 7th Brigade arranged for the 2nd Battalion to climb over the walls on both sides of the palace to provide reinforcements.

The reinforcements from the Second Battalion, machine gunners, stepped on the soldiers' shoulders, placed their machine guns on the wall, and fired fiercely at the palace guards from above.

Other soldiers climbed over the wall and shot at the palace guards.

With the arrival of the main force of the second battalion, the firepower in the palace immediately changed.