Devil's Army

The distance from Liangcheng County to Fengzhen City is only 70 kilometers, so for their cavalry detachment, it takes less than two hours to get there.

At 5:30 the next morning, Captain Yao led a cavalry squadron to the outskirts of the west gate of Fengzhen City.

It was not yet 7: and the city gates of Fengzhen City had not yet opened.

Captain Yao and his men were waiting quietly outside the west gate of Fengzhen City.

Captain Yao took another ten cavalrymen, tied their horses to a tree, and then quietly climbed to the vicinity of the west gate of Fengzhen City.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the west gate of Fengzhen City had not yet opened, and Captain Yao shot down a Japanese soldier who was on guard on the city wall.

As Captain Yao fired his gun, the soldiers next to him also followed suit and fired fiercely at the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall.

The Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall also hurriedly lay down behind the parapets and shot at Captain Yao and his men.

The Japanese lieutenant in Fengzhen City heard the soldiers' report that a small group of Eighth Route Army was attacking the west gate, and he secretly felt lucky that it was not a large force of the devil's army coming to attack the city.

He immediately arranged a small team of infantry and a puppet army to go out of the city to pursue the harassing Eighth Route Army.

As soon as Captain Yao saw the Japanese and puppet troops leaving the city, he immediately stopped shooting and retreated towards where their cavalry were hiding.

During this period, the Japanese troops in Suiyuan Province had been defeated repeatedly. If they could destroy this small group of the Eighth Route Army, it would also be a military achievement.

The Japanese squad leader was behind, chasing and shooting.

When this group of Japanese and puppet troops chased to a relatively open area, the terrifying sound of horse hooves rang out.

The deputy commander of the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Detachment, with a squadron of cavalry, rushed over from both sides, waving their sabers with gleaming cold light.

The Japanese squad leader panicked when he saw this, and ordered the puppet army to take over, and he led his soldiers to run towards Fengzhen City.

But these puppet soldiers were too weak. Under the leadership of the platoon leader, they dropped their weapons and lay on the ground in surrender.

The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army ignored these surrendering puppet troops, rode past them directly, caught up with the fleeing Japanese troops, and swung their sabers to chop at the heads of the Japanese troops like cutting winter melons.

Two Eighth Route Army cavalrymen were hit by the bullets fired blindly by two Japanese soldiers. However, they endured the severe pain and cut down the two Japanese soldiers who fired the guns with a knife.

After half an hour of repeated attacks, this small group of Japanese soldiers were completely wiped out.

After dealing with the surrendered platoon of puppet troops, Captain Yao led the cavalry to formally launch an attack towards the west gate of Fengzhen City.

A regiment of mortars bombarded the Japanese fortifications on the city wall continuously. The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the Japanese firepower on the city wall being suppressed by the mortars, and charged towards the city gate while firing.

Japanese reinforcements rushed in from Fengzhen military camp one after another.

They braved the artillery fire and continued to shoot and throw grenades at the Eighth Route Army cavalry outside the city wall.

Two Japanese mortars under the city wall also continued to bombard the Eighth Route Army cavalry.

Captain Yao's first charge was repelled by the Japanese army. However, he was not in a hurry to launch a second attack. Instead, he surrounded the city wall of Fengzhen and kept shooting at the Japanese troops on the wall.

The Japanese and puppet troops in Fengzhen City continued to reinforce at the West Gate.

Captain Yao neither retreated nor launched a new attack. The two sides remained in a stalemate.

When Commander Amakasu Shige heard that Fengzhen City had been attacked, he immediately sent a telegram to inquire about the situation.

The lieutenant replied that they were only attacked by a cavalry squadron of the Eighth Route Army, and Fengzhen City was still in their hands.