Devil's Army

While the main force of the 4th Brigade of the 7th Brigade was clearing out the towns between Xinjing and Harbin and preparing for battle against the large Japanese force in Harbin, the 2nd Regiment in the city also launched an attack on the Xinjing Airport in Dafangshen, a suburb west of Xinjing.

Since most of Xinjing had been recaptured by the First Army at this time, the Japanese guards at Xinjing Airport basically became an isolated force.

The Japanese guarding troops at Xinjing Airport had no way to retreat and could only hold their ground and wait for reinforcements.

This resulted in a rather intense battle from the start.

The commander of the Second Regiment kept the Fourth Battalion as a reserve force, and the First, Second, and Third Battalions launched a fierce attack on the Xinjing Airport from three directions, but they all encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese guard forces.

When the airport battle became a stalemate, the Japanese airport guards lowered their anti-aircraft guns and fired fiercely at the troops of the Second Regiment.

This caused considerable casualties to the three battalions of the Second Regiment.

Due to lack of intelligence, Wang Zhuangfei did not know that the Japanese army still had anti-aircraft artillery units stationed at the Xinjing Airport.

In order to completely seize the Xinjing Airport for his own use, Wang Zhuangfei did not order the air force to launch an air raid on the Xinjing Airport.

Who would have known that the Japanese anti-aircraft guns at the Xinjing Airport, which had lost air superiority, would still be so rampant that they dared to lower their anti-aircraft guns and strafed their attacking troops.

Wang Zhuangfei immediately contacted Leng Feng and asked him to order the air force to provide reinforcements.

Soon, Deputy Captain Xu came roaring over with a fighter squadron and a bomber squadron to provide support.

The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery unit at the Xinjing Airport immediately set up anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns and fired fiercely at the First Army's fighters and bombers.

Deputy Captain Xu led the pilots of the First Army to patrol the periphery of the airport, and when they saw an opportunity, they swooped in and fiercely strafed and bombed the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions.

The Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions were constantly hit, exploded and caught fire. However, the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery had no choice but to live and die with the anti-aircraft artillery positions.

While the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery units were busy fighting their air force, the soldiers of the Second Regiment launched another fierce attack on the Xinjing Airport.

In their spare time from bombing the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery units, the First Army's fighters and bombers fiercely strafed and bombed the defense forces of the Japanese airport.

The three battalions of the Second Regiment continued to attack from three directions while the Japanese army was busy dealing with their aircraft's air raids.

The rocket soldiers continued to bombard the machine gun fire points of the Japanese defense forces.

After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, the first battalion was the first to break through the defense line of the Japanese defense forces and advance deep into the Xinjing Airport.

At this time, a battalion commander discovered that a group of Japanese troops were running towards the left corner of the airport.

A battalion commander felt something was wrong. On the one hand, he ordered a company of soldiers to pursue this group of Japanese troops, and on the other hand, he ordered rocket soldiers and mortar soldiers to block the Japanese troops' path forward.

The Japanese army's path forward was blocked by mortars and rockets, and they were forced to stop and fight a company of soldiers that was pursuing them.

After less than half an hour of fierce fighting with this group of Japanese troops, the first company finally wiped out all of them.

The company commander then led his soldiers to search the left corner of the airport.

The search results surprised the company commander. In the left corner of the airport were the airport ammunition depot and fuel storage.

If the Japanese army was desperate and detonated the ammunition depot and fuel depot at the airport, the soldiers of their regiment would also be buried with them.

Afterwards, the company commander arranged for two soldiers to report to the battalion commander, and he took the company's soldiers to guard the ammunition depot and fuel depot here.