Devil's Army

The Luliang guerrillas suffered heavy casualties in the fierce bombardment and strafing by Japanese artillery and machine guns, but they gritted their teeth and waited for reinforcements.

At the critical moment, the 715th and 716th Regiments of the 758th Brigade of the 120th Division led by Commander He rushed over and blocked the defense line that was about to be broken through in time.

The Japanese army's fierce offensive momentum was curbed, and they were furious. They arranged tanks as the vanguard, followed by artillery, to carry out a fierce bombardment on the positions of the 715th and 761st Regiments.

Four fighter planes and two bombers from Luliang Dawu Airport also launched fierce bombing and strafing on the Eighth Route Army's positions.

The 758th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which had always been mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare, was a little uncomfortable with the sudden engagement with the superior Japanese forces. However, they had to persevere despite the discomfort. They received an order from Division Commander He to hold off the Japanese forces for a week.

This group of Japanese troops fought desperately to break the siege of Taiyuan.

While the shelling had not stopped and the air force was still bombing, they launched a fierce attack on the 716th position of the 715th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers had to brave the Japanese artillery fire and enter the position to block the Japanese attack. The number of casualties remained high. However, there was no other way. In order to support the battle in Taiyuan, Shanxi, the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army also fought hard.

In order to block this group of Japanese troops, Division Commander He ordered the 714th Regiment of the Second Independent Brigade to march quickly and be ready to provide reinforcements at any time.

Gray Wolf learned about the situation of the 758th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. At that time, most of the troops of the First Anti-Japanese Army were in the Northeast and Central China.

The Southern Independent Division and the First Independent Division were in Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Yunnan, out of reach. There were practically no troops available near Shanxi Province.

There was no other way, so Gray Wolf ordered Deputy Commander Xu to lead the Yangmingbao Air Force to support the Eighth Route Army in Luliang City.

After receiving the order from Gray Wolf, Deputy Commander Xu arranged a mixed squadron of fighters and bombers to go to Luliang City to support the Eighth Route Army when the air force was in short supply.

Since the airspace in the Northeast is under the control of the First Aviation Brigade of the First Anti-Japanese Army, no major air battles will occur in the foreseeable short period of time.

Deputy Commander Xu then handed over the defense of that area to the Majiagou Air Force.

All the air forces in Xinjing moved south and transferred to Yangmingbao Airport to support the Shanxi Campaign.

The Japanese troops in Luliang City had never fought against the First Army's air force, so the idea of ​​an air raid was not on their minds.

When this mixed squadron of the First Army Air Force flew over them, they thought it was their fighter planes coming to support them.

The Japanese air force at Luliang Dawu Airport was more knowledgeable than the army.

They had fought against the Devil Force's air force in Peking and Tianjin before. They knew the power of these sharp-nosed fighters. When they spotted the Devil Force's sharp-nosed fighters from a distance, they immediately fled in all directions.

The fighter planes of the First Army's mixed squadron immediately stepped on the throttle and chased the fleeing Japanese planes.

The First Army's bombers then launched a fierce bombing on the Japanese artillery positions that were shelling the Eighth Route Army positions.

On the defenseless Japanese artillery positions, the cannons were instantly blown into pieces: the wheels rolled everywhere, and the barrels, baffles and other cannon parts flew everywhere.

Before the surprised Japanese infantry could recover, the bombers flew over again and launched a fierce bombing on the attacking Japanese infantry.

Then the Japanese army finally recovered and realized that these were bombers from the Devil's Army, not their own bombers, and they fled to both sides to avoid the air raid.