Devil's Army

Lieutenant General Sinai issued several death orders to the retreating Japanese troops.

1. No smoking.

2. No talking allowed.

3. All objects that can make sounds, such as keys, kettles, etc., will be left in Linkou County.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the vanguard of the Japanese army set out from the east gate of Linkou County.

Half an hour later, Lieutenant General Sinai's main force began to set off.

After leaving Linkou County, the Japanese army marched forward silently like robots.

After a while, the lieutenant of the vanguard came back to report to Lieutenant General Sinai:

"There's a junction of two armies ahead, with a gap of fifty to sixty meters in between."

"Are there any patrols from the Devil's Army?"

"Yes, it takes about twenty minutes."

"A gap of fifty to sixty meters means that the Japanese troops breaking through are only 20 to meters away from the troops on either side of the demonic force. We must seize these minutes and rush through quickly.

Fortunately, the weather was good today. The sky was overcast and the visibility was poor.

Lieutenant General Sinai ordered the lieutenant to start organizing a breakout!

Thousands of Japanese soldiers sometimes rushed through the encirclement quickly, and sometimes lay dormant.

The Japanese army struggled until the first half of the night before they successfully broke through.

At 6 o'clock in the morning of the third day, soldiers from the th Brigade and the th Brigade launched an attack on the three city gates of Linkou County as usual.

The Japanese major who stayed behind in Linkou County knew what fate awaited them.

Since retreat is hopeless, let his soul return to the Yasukuni Shrine.

Although the Japanese army fought desperately, more than half of its troops were withdrawn, and the lack of troops was a serious flaw.

Under the continuous and fierce attacks of the soldiers of the 4th and 7th Brigades, the three city gates of Linkou County were successively in danger.

There were only two squadrons of Japanese troops left by the major's side. They were like a fire brigade, rushing to rescue wherever the war was urgent.

This made the Major feel exhausted. He knew that his life was already counting down.

Soon, the soldiers of the 4th Brigade, with the support of aviation and tanks, broke through the defense line of the north gate of Linkou County.

As soon as the soldiers of the Fourth Brigade broke through the defense line at the north gate of Linkou County, they immediately advanced deep into the country with great force.

The soldiers of the Fourth Brigade, which had entered Linkou County, pursued the retreating Japanese troops deep into the country. They marched rapidly towards the south and north gates of Linkou County, assisting the soldiers of the Seventh Brigade in breaking through the Japanese defenses at the south and north gates of Linkou County.

Before the two groups of soldiers from the Fourth Brigade reached the south and north gates of Linkou County, the soldiers from the Seventh Brigade had already broken through the Japanese army's south and north gate defense lines in Linkou County and were pursuing them in depth.

The Japanese troops in Linkou County were defeated and surrounded at their headquarters. They attempted to hold out, but they were running out of ammunition.

Afterwards, the soldiers of the 3000th Brigade of the th Division captured all the remaining Japanese soldiers in the Japanese headquarters.

Wang Zhuangfei saw that the highest-ranking officer in the headquarters was a major, so he asked him:

"Where is your division commander?"

"I don't know!" the major replied indifferently.

"They must have escaped!" said the commander of the Seventh Brigade.

"Linkou County is surrounded by us. They have nowhere to escape. The only way to escape is to retreat from the east, enter the Soviet Union through Muling County, and then go to North Korea." Wang Zhuangfei nodded in agreement.

He ordered his soldiers to search east of Linkou County.

After a while, the scouts reported that something was happening east of Linkou County.

Wang Zhuangfei and the commander of the Seventh Brigade rushed to a section of the city wall outside the east gate of Linkou County. There were signs of a large army marching there, indicating that they had climbed over the city wall from here overnight and fled to Muling County.