Devil's Army

As the bunker collapsed, the sound of the First Army Air Force's engines came from the sky - a group of supplementary fighter planes flew over the battlefield, and the machine guns under the wings fiercely strafed the Japanese troops who were rushing to the Yongding River Bridge to reinforce.

Zhao Weiguo's tank was the first to rush across the Yongding River Bridge, and its guns turned towards a circular fortification of the Japanese army at the Yongding River Bridge head.

A high-explosive bomb flew over, and in the flames rising into the sky, a heavy machine gun and several Japanese soldiers were instantly blown away.

Then the heavy machine guns from another circular fortification of the Japanese army swept fiercely towards Zhao Weiguo's tanks.

The tanks were hit by machine gun bullets, making a "bang bang..." sound.

The machine gunner on the tank was also shot and killed.

At this time, the tank fired another shot, destroying the Japanese fortification.

While the tanks destroyed the two circular fortifications of the Japanese army at the Yongding River Bridge, the soldiers of the first battalion rushed over.

When the battalion commander stepped onto the bridge, the soldiers were cheering around the tank.

Wang Erzhu wiped the dust off his face and pointed at the Beiping city wall in the distance:

"Battalion Commander, if we charge forward again, we can drive the Japs out of Beiping!"

The battalion commander looked at the city wall in the morning light and clenched his fists:

"Take a break and clean up the battlefield. We will soon make sure the people of Peking never see the Japanese rising sun flag again."

The battle lasted for three hours. The troops of the Second Brigade destroyed seven Japanese strongholds and cut off the connection between the Japanese troops in Peiping and the outside world.

Although the city of Peking could not be recaptured immediately, the people in the city had already heard the news of victory.

After cleaning up the battlefield, the first battalion of soldiers continued to attack the city of Peking.

The tanks of the Second Brigade raised their heads and continuously fired at the Japanese and puppet military fortifications on the city wall.

The Japanese troops in Peking had apparently received Okamura Yasuji's death order. When one machine gun position was destroyed, a new one would pop up elsewhere, continuously firing at the first battalion of soldiers under the city wall. However, none of these Japanese machine gunners survived for more than ten minutes.

When the five tanks of the Second Brigade approached the city of Peking in two columns, an unexpected scene occurred.

A salvo of Japanese Type 1 47mm anti-tank guns destroyed all three tanks in the first column of the Second Brigade.

Seeing this, the two tanks of the second column of the second brigade quickly retreated, but the second and third rounds of salvos from the Japanese anti-tank guns followed.

The two tanks in the second column of the second brigade were also destroyed one after another, and the infantry next to them also suffered and were subjected to heavy bombardment by Japanese artillery.

Two fighter planes from the First Army patrolling nearby immediately swooped over and began strafing the Japanese artillery positions.

The well-prepared Japanese artillery quickly retreated when they saw the devil troops' planes flying over.

Some artillerymen quickly raised their guns and fired into the air to prevent the plane from flying low, but they were blown away by the penetrating machine gun shells.

An anti-tank gun and two small mountain guns that did not have time to retreat were destroyed in the fierce bombardment of the First Army's fighter planes and machine guns.

The Japanese artillery fire was suppressed, and the soldiers of the Second Brigade continued to launch a fierce attack on the city of Peiping.

The Japanese army used easily movable mortars and grenade launchers to continuously bombard the soldiers of the Second Brigade under the city wall.

Grenades were thrown like rain at the soldiers of the Second Brigade under the city wall.

The explosions of artillery shells and grenades formed two fire networks, one long and one short, which intercepted the soldiers of the First Battalion of the Second Brigade.

The battle lasted until dusk, and the Japanese troops on the city wall of Beiping suffered heavy casualties in the air-to-ground bombing of the First Army, but they still held the city wall of Beiping.

The Second Brigade Commander had to temporarily suspend the attack and think of a solution tomorrow.