Devil's Army

In this battle, the First Battalion of the First Regiment suffered heavy casualties. The commander of the Seventh Brigade ordered the First Battalion to clean up the battlefield, and the Fourth Regiment took over the combat mission from the rear and continued to advance towards the Songhua River.

Fortunately, the second battalion of the first regiment had already reached the outer section of the Songhua River at this time.

The third battalion has arrived at the Xiangfang section of the Songhua River.

The fourth battalion has arrived at the Nangang section of the Songhua River.

The three battalions had already assembled and were ready to cross the river for battle, but the difficulty they faced was a lack of boats to cross the river.

When the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment crossed the Jihong Bridge and reached a railway culvert, they were ambushed by small groups of Japanese and puppet troops on the hillside and in the culvert.

The commander of the Fourth Regiment did not linger in the battle. He instructed the commander of the First Battalion to arrange two companies of soldiers to eliminate this group of Japanese and puppet troops. The main force then took a detour and continued to advance towards the Songhua River.

When the large force arrived at the intersection of Paodui Street and Jiangpan Road, they were again blocked by the Japanese army.

Paodui Street (now called "Tongjiang Street") is flanked by mostly low-rise houses and courtyard walls. The street is narrow and has many corners.

Most of the people in the street had fled.

The Japanese arranged for soldiers to hide in these houses and courtyard walls. When the vanguard of the Fourth Regiment entered the streets, the Japanese used firepower from both sides to attack them, destroying the entrances and exits of the streets, cutting off their retreat, and attempting to completely wipe out the vanguard of the Fourth Regiment.

The alleys here are too narrow for tanks to pass through.

The vanguard soldiers of the Fourth Regiment, without tank fire support, could only hide in residential areas and fight with the Japanese army house by house.

This not only results in heavy casualties among soldiers, but also takes a long time.

The commander of the Fourth Regiment quickly dispatched two Golden Eagle No. 4 drones to provide fire support in the air.

Two Golden Eagle drones patrolled low along both sides of the alley. Once they found a Japanese firepower point, the 92 heavy machine guns on their abdomens immediately suppressed the fire.

The Japanese troops were suppressed by the fierce heavy machine gun bullets and could not raise their heads.

Some Japanese soldiers were unwilling to give up and shot at the golden eagle, but they only heard a clanging sound in response.

The Japanese machine gun fire points hiding in the corners could not avoid the golden eagle's fire.

With the support of the Golden Eagle, the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment quickly recaptured the houses on both sides of Paotuai Street and then continued their rapid march towards the Songhua River.

In the evening, the large force arrived at the riverbank and mudflats along the Songhua River.

The riverside road here is close to the river embankment. The embankment is 1-2 meters higher than the road surface and is covered with shrubs and weeds.

When the main force of the 4th Brigade approached the river, it had to march along the road under the embankment.

At this time, if there were Japanese ambush troops on the river embankment, they would rely on the slope of the embankment to shoot downwards. At the same time, the muddy and soft mud on the mudflats would affect the rapid retreat of the soldiers of the 4th Brigade.

The commander of the Fourth Regiment ordered the troops to temporarily stop advancing and build defensive fortifications on the spot.

At the same time, a reconnaissance team was arranged to go to the embankment to investigate whether there were any Japanese ambushes.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the reconnaissance team sneaked into the embankment on the south bank of the Songhua River under the cover of darkness.

After a while, the reconnaissance platoon leader discovered that the withered yellow weeds on the embankment in front seemed to grow more vigorously than anywhere else.

He suspected that the yellow weeds in front were an ambush by the Japanese army.

He ordered the scouts to stop and lie down to observe the weeds ahead.

After a while, the wind blew through the dry grass on the embankment, and the dry grass began to sway in the wind. But some of the "dry grass" remained motionless.

Obviously, these "dead grasses" were the Japanese army's ambushes.

The reconnaissance platoon leader slowly retreated with the scouts to report to the fourth regiment commander.

When the fourth regiment commander heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat.