Devil's Army

The Japanese army also thought of using a crude method to blow up the tanks of the devil troops, but the guards next to the tanks were not vegetarians at all.

The Japanese soldiers who tried to approach the tanks were knocked down before they could get close to them.

Finally, under the powerful firepower of the tanks, the surviving Japanese troops began to retreat to the Jirim League in Inner Mongolia.

The main forces of the first and second regiments defeated the Japanese troops in Daqing, and immediately freed up their hands to attack the Japanese reinforcements in Qiqihar.

Qiqihar is the site of the Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War. After the September 1931th Incident in , Ma Zhanshan led his troops here to fire the first shot of the Chinese army's organized resistance against Japanese aggression, shattering the myth of the "invincibility of the Japanese army."

Qiqihar is located in the northwest of Northeast China. It is an important transportation hub connecting Northeast China and eastern Inner Mongolia. It controls key transportation lines such as the western section of the China-Eastern Railway.

If the Japanese army occupied this place, it could further infiltrate the entire province of Heilongjiang and Mongolia, so its military transportation value was outstanding.

At that time, most of the Japanese troops in Harbin and Suihua City retreated to Qiqihar, so Qiqihar was a tough nut to crack.

In order to eliminate the Japanese troops in Qiqihar as quickly as possible, Wang Zhuangfei launched a surprise attack, catching the Japanese troops in Qiqihar off guard.

After Wang Zhuangfei's two regiments took control of Daqing, they suddenly turned north and raided Qiqihar.

The three regiments simultaneously attacked Qiqihar from the west along the Qiqihar border.

Because the Japanese army in Qiqihar had been preparing for war for a long time, they dug three wide and deep anti-tank trenches along the border.

The Second Tank Company, which followed the Third Regiment in the attack, was immediately blocked outside the anti-tank trench.

Engineers attempting to fill anti-tank trenches came under Japanese mortar fire, and infantry came under fire from hidden Japanese artillery positions.

The Majiagou Air Force immediately rushed to support and bombed the Japanese surface positions, but was unable to find the Japanese artillery positions.

When Wang Zhuangfei heard that the Third Regiment's attack on Qiqihar was blocked, he said calmly:

"This is inevitable. Qiqihar is strategically important and has high military value. The Japanese army has been entrenched here for a long time. It would be abnormal if it were so easy to take it."

When the Third Regiment and the Japanese army were fighting over the anti-tank trenches and the battle was in a stalemate, the attacks of the First and Second Regiments went relatively smoothly as Wang Zhuangfei expected.

The area bordering Qiqihar and Daqing has always been under the jurisdiction of the Japanese army, so the Japanese army did not build strong fortifications or dig anti-tank trenches.

The tank company advanced at a furious pace, as if entering an empty space. If they hadn't had to wait for the infantry to join in the fight, their advance would have been even faster.

The Japanese commander led the Japanese army to resist step by step, trying hard to slow down the advance of the devil troops.

With the support of the first tank company, the soldiers of the two regiments of the fourth brigade advanced unstoppably all the way to Qiqihar.

At around 3 pm, when the two regiments of the th Brigade arrived at the outskirts of Qiqihar, the Japanese army had finally built a deep and wide anti-tank trench outside Qiqihar, and deployed heavy troops opposite the trench to prevent the attack of the devil troops.

At this time, the Third Regiment in the west was still engaged in a tough tug-of-war with the Japanese army, while the First and Second Regiments had been fighting continuously for nearly a day.

The Japanese army in Qiqihar did not care about this short time, so Wang Zhuangfei ordered a pause in the attack and a half-day rest.

He also ordered the Third Regiment to leave behind one battalion and for the rest of the troops to turn northwest.

Just when the Japanese commander in Qiqihar thought that the devilish troops were going to rest, something that gave him a headache happened again.