Devil's Army

When Commander Chen of the Third Military Sub-district of the Taihang Military Region of the Eighth Route Army learned that the Third Regiment of the Second Brigade had successfully broken through, he immediately ordered the 769th Regiment and the 14th Regiment to take turns covering the retreat.

Relying on their familiarity with the terrain, the 769th and 14th Regiments of the Eighth Route Army quickly escaped the Japanese pursuit and disappeared without a trace.

The Japanese army turned around and pressed on to the 4th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade, but was intercepted by the Jinzhou Air Force again.

The 4th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Army also successfully escaped the pursuit of the Japanese army.

In this counterattack, the Japanese army managed to surround a regiment of the Devil Forces, but still let them escape.

Commander Tabato Shun was so angry that he scolded Commander Jimu of the First Army of the North China Front Army.

After returning, Commander Yoshimoto scolded the commanders of the 37th, 62nd, and 69th Divisions, who were in charge of the mopping-up operation, and ordered them to find the Devil Unit regiment within a certain time limit.

After the Third Regiment of the Second Brigade retreated into the Taihang Mountains, they were not familiar with the situation in that area.

After the 769th and 14th Regiments of the Eighth Route Army escaped the pursuit of the Japanese army, Commander Chen arranged for the 769th Regiment to enter the western foot of Taihang Mountain to search for the trace of the 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Brigade.

The 769th Regiment was familiar with the terrain of the Taihang Mountains. Near dusk, they found the troops of the 3rd Regiment and successfully brought them back to their base in Qiaojiazhuang, Licheng.

The next day, Commander Jimu was like a mad dog, and ordered his troops to conduct a comprehensive search of the Eighth Route Army and the Second Brigade of the First Anti-Japanese Army near the foothills of Taihang Mountain.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Second Brigade of the First Anti-Japanese Army had to move their garrisons frequently, but the Japanese still disturbed the people in many villages.

In order to combat the arrogance of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front in Shanxi (also known as the Shanxi Expeditionary Army), the First Army Air Force decided to bomb their headquarters.

The Eighth Route Army underground communication station quickly provided the Second Brigade Commander with the location of the Japanese Shanxi Expeditionary Force's headquarters at No. 1 Xinmin North Street, Xinghualing District, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province.

A brigade commander immediately telegraphed Deputy Commander Xu and requested to bomb the Japanese Shanxi Expeditionary Army headquarters.

Deputy Commander Xu replied: At 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, bomb the Japanese military headquarters.

The next morning, Commander Jimu gave everyone a lecture.

More than 4 people were dispatched yesterday to search the Daxing Mountain area in both directions. Not only did they find no trace of the devil troops, even the Eighth Route Army soldiers who had been active here disappeared.

Everyone was scolded by Commander Jimu and lowered their heads, not daring to answer.

At this time, the roar of the plane came from far away.

Commander Jimu and everyone else found it very strange.

Some time ago, Shanxi's air force fought two large-scale air battles with the devil's air force, and was basically wiped out.

The roar of planes was no longer often heard over Shanxi. Could it be that the Imperial Air Force reinforcements had arrived? But a sense of foreboding suddenly came to mind.

Before Commander Jimu could react, the whistling sound of bombs could be heard.

Immediately afterwards, explosions were heard one after another around their military headquarters.

"The Devil's Air Force is conducting an air raid. Commander, please hide for a while."

"Bagya Road!"

Commander Jimu was furious. They had always been the ones bombing the Chinese, but now they were the rats, hiding from the devil's air force everywhere.

If it weren't for the Devil Force's air force this time, their regiment would definitely have been wiped out.

On this day, the western foothills of the Taihang Mountains in Shanxi Province were unusually quiet. The Japanese armies stopped trying to clear out the Eighth Route Army and the First Anti-Japanese Army.