Devil's Army

The next morning, a regiment of soldiers continued their attack northward.

The Second Battalion broke through the Japanese army's Daoli District defense line without much difficulty and chased them to the south bank of the Songhua River.

When the soldiers of the Second Battalion saw two gunboats picking up the fleeing Japanese troops across the north bank of the Songhua River, they quickly chased them and fired at the Japanese troops on the gunboats.

The Japanese gunboats turned their guns and bombarded the pursuing soldiers of the Second Battalion.

The soldiers of the Second Battalion were forced to stop the pursuit and hide on the spot to avoid the bombing of Japanese gunboats.

The Xinjing Air Force, which was fighting nearby, discovered the abnormal situation on the Songhua River, and a fighter and a bomber immediately flew over to provide reinforcements.

The fighter planes took the lead in strafing one of the gunboats.

Machine gun shells swept across the river, splashing waves.

The gunboat was also hit by two machine gun shells in succession.

Several Japanese soldiers were shot and fell into the Songhua River.

The bombers then flew over the gunboat and dropped several bombs.

The explosion of the aerial bomb created a huge wave that pushed the gunboat high to the top of the wave and then slammed it down into the trough of the wave.

The Japanese soldiers on the gunboat turned their guns and continuously fired at the Devil Force planes in the sky.

The Japanese gunboats were equipped with the Type 76 8mm naval gun, also known as the Type cm naval gun.

The gun has a maximum range of approximately 6900 meters, an effective anti-tank range of approximately 800 meters, a muzzle velocity of 450 meters per second, and a rate of fire of only 15 rounds per minute.

It was simply impossible to deal with the high-speed flying planes of the Devil Army, but it was still very threatening to deal with a group of tanks.

Before the tanks of the First Regiment arrived, the planes of the First Army flew at high altitude and speed, repeatedly bombing the Japanese gunboats.

Bombs kept hitting the Japanese gunboats, and the gunboats began to catch fire.

Some Japanese soldiers on the gunboat began to jump into the river, but were soon swallowed by the surging river.

Under the continuous bombing and strafing of the First Army's aircraft, the two Japanese gunboats finally sank, leaving only two whirlpools on the Songhua River.

After the Second Battalion had dealt with the Japanese gunboats, they wanted to continue their attack on the Japanese troops who had retreated to the north bank of the Songhua River, but they were blocked by the surging waters of the Songhua River.

The Japanese troops on the north bank of the Songhua River continued to shoot and bombard the soldiers of the Second Battalion on the south bank.

The second battalion commander had no choice but to order his soldiers to retreat temporarily and build fortifications to confront the Japanese troops on the north bank of the Songhua River.

After dealing with the Japanese gunboats, the Xinjing Air Force flew over from time to time to strafe and bomb the Japanese positions on the north bank of the Songhua River.

The Japanese army set up anti-air raid bunkers at their positions on the north bank of the Songhua River.

The trenches between the bunkers were blown down by the First Army's air force, but the bunkers made of reinforced concrete did not collapse. The Japanese army was still able to hide in the bunkers to block the attack of the devil troops.

This gave the regiment commander a headache. At his wit's end, he remembered the three ships that Brigade Commander Wang mentioned.

He arranged a platoon of soldiers to go to the Aomutai Lianhuapao mentioned by Brigade Commander Wang.

The place is full of reeds taller than people.

A platoon leader knocked on the door of a villager in Lianhua Village and exchanged the secret code.

Villager Lao Guo is an old fisherman. He happily led a group of people to the reed marsh, paddled a homemade small wooden raft, and after many twists and turns, he arrived at the place where the small boat was hidden.

The platoon leader was delighted to see the three boats safely hidden in the reeds, but he was also a little embarrassed because none of them knew how to row a boat.

The platoon leader looked at Uncle Guo and explained his difficulties to him.