Devil's Army

Historically, the Nanjing government's 24th Army, led by Commander-in-Chief Pang and Commander Sun of the Fifth Army, surrendered to the Japanese army and brutally suppressed the Eighth Route Army and civilians, committing heinous crimes.

Sure enough, in early 43, the Japanese army in Shanxi gathered troops to deal with the evil forces that had entered Shanxi Province (the Second Brigade), but they were also worried that the Eighth Route Army and the Nanjing government forces would make a move behind the scenes.

So they concentrated their forces and first swept through the 24th Army of the Nanjing government army, which had weaker combat effectiveness.

Commander-in-Chief Pang did not organize a counterattack, but instead led the army group headquarters and the 40th Army headquarters to move to the deep mountains to avoid fighting.

On this day, the Lin County Fifth Army defended by General Sun was surrounded by the Japanese army, and General Sun immediately surrendered.

A few nights later, the headquarters of the 24th Army of the Nanjing government army encountered the Japanese army near Jiulianyao and started a battle.

There was chaos among the staff at the headquarters, and Commander-in-Chief Pang lost contact with the military headquarters.

Later, Commander-in-Chief Pang hid in a cave near Sanjiaokou, Huixian, and his hiding place was discovered by Commander Sun.

After Sun's persuasion, Commander-in-Chief Pang led his troops, accompanied by Japanese Second Lieutenant Tanaka Tetsu'o, to Xinxiang, where the Japanese forces were stationed, and formally surrendered. Pang was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the puppet 24th Army Group, with Sun as Deputy Commander-in-Chief. He then began the reactionary campaign of suppressing the Eighth Route Army and oppressing the people.

Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army troops near him were alerted by the reminder of the Second Brigade Commander and jumped out of the encirclement of the puppet 24th Army in advance, avoiding greater losses.

Unfortunately, an Eighth Route Army guerrilla detachment was surrounded by the puppet 24th Army.

The soldiers of the nearby Eighth Route Army and the Second Brigade of the First Anti-Japanese Army wanted to go to the rescue, but they were helpless because the Japanese army was still sweeping the surrounding area and they were unable to protect themselves.

In the end, this Eighth Route Army guerrilla detachment ran out of ammunition and food and was captured by Commander Pang.

In order to vent his dissatisfaction with the Eighth Route Army, Commander Pang beheaded all 36 Eighth Route Army soldiers and threw them into a dry well.

The Second Brigade Commander applied to Gray Wolf to mobilize a large force of the Second Front Army of the First Anti-Japanese Army to defeat the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army in Shanxi.

However, at that time, the troops of the Second Front Army were fighting fiercely with the Japanese army in various places, and another main force was planning the battle to retake Peking and Tianjin, so there was no extra troops to mobilize.

Gray Wolf instructed the commander of the Second Brigade to imitate the Eighth Route Army and fight guerrilla warfare against the main force of the Japanese army.

The Second Brigade Commander then divided the remaining troops into three groups based on regiments, and dispersed them around the foothills of the Taihang Mountains in Shanxi.

The troops of the Second Brigade had the intelligence support provided by the Golden Eagle and repeatedly escaped the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese and puppet troops.

On this day, the Second Brigade Commander and the troops directly under the brigade discovered a part of the puppet 24th Army and a small group of Japanese troops who came to a small village on the east road of Taihang Mountain to extort money.

The Second Brigade Commander left the brigade's logistics and medical troops with low combat effectiveness at the foot of Taihang Mountains. He personally led the brigade's direct battalion troops to attack quickly and quickly wiped out this small group of Japanese troops and some puppet troops.

The remaining captured puppet army company commanders admitted that they were originally members of the 24th Group Army of the Nanjing government army fighting against Japan, but they were forced to surrender to the enemy only because their superiors surrendered to the enemy.

Now, the Japanese troops in Shanxi Province were stronger than ours, so the Second Brigade Commander did not dare to take these puppet soldiers in. But he did not kill them either, he just confiscated their weapons and let them escape.

After receiving the intelligence, a large Japanese army rushed over to encircle and suppress the enemy, but the troops directly under the Second Brigade had already fled.

The remaining troops of the Second Brigade sometimes gathered together with the Eighth Route Army troops in Shanxi, and sometimes broke through separately, and went through the most difficult period.