Devil's Army

When the Japanese troops in Kaifeng entered the old course of the Yellow River, they were ambushed by the Hui Muslim detachment.

Along the way, the Japanese troops in Kaifeng were constantly attacked, which made Lieutenant Colonel Gangdise very angry. He decided to completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army troops in front of him.

The vanguard of the Japanese army in Kaifeng rode in trucks and pursued the Hui Muslim detachment at full speed.

The Hui Muslim detachment retreated quickly, with the Japanese army in hot pursuit.

When part of the Japanese army entered the hilly and forested area of ​​the old Yellow River course, soldiers from the third and fourth regiments suddenly launched an attack from both sides.

The Japanese troops in Kaifeng, eager for revenge, were ambushed again and hurriedly counterattacked on both sides.

The Japanese follow-up troops immediately surrounded them from both sides, but were stubbornly blocked by the rear troops of the 3rd and 4th Regiments.

This time, Lieutenant Colonel Gangdise seemed to be crazy. He went to the front line to supervise the battle in person and ordered the soldiers to break through the blockade of the rear troops of the Fourth Regiment.

Mortar shells rained down behind the hills and into the woods.

The rearguard troops of the Fourth Regiment suffered increasing casualties.

Because of the ambush of the Third Regiment, the Fourth Regiment had already inflicted heavy damage on the Japanese troops on the old course of the Yellow River. The Fourth Regiment commander then ordered his troops to retreat.

The Japanese army in Kaifeng quickly passed through the old course of the Yellow River and surrounded Anyang City.

The First and Second Regiments set up ambushes on both sides of the light railway from Puyang to Anyang, in the protective forests and natural woodlands, at the railway bends, Anyang Yonghe Bridge, and Tangyin Wuling Bridge. They inflicted heavy damage to the Japanese troops in Jiaozuo and successfully retreated.

Soon, the Japanese army in Jiaozuo also surrounded Anyang.

At that time, only one battalion of the Second Brigade and more than 3000 people from the Fourth Division of the Eighth Route Army's Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region remained in Anyang City.

Although the Japanese troops in Kaifeng and Jiaozuo were ambushed many times by the Jidong Independent Army, they still had more than 2 troops reach the outskirts of Anyang.

Brigade Commander Gao immediately asked for help from Gray Wolf, because with less than 1 troops left in their Jidong Independent Brigade, it would be difficult to lift the siege of Anyang.

Gray Wolf then ordered a brigade in the Luoyang area to quickly return to Anyang for support.

At that time, a brigade set out from Yuncheng, Shanxi, and quickly captured Japanese strongholds in some remote towns around Luoyang.

When the vanguard of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade was attacking a Japanese stronghold a little further away from Luoyang, the 14th Army of the Nanjing government suddenly opened fire on the Japanese stronghold to support the 1st Regiment in attacking the Japanese stronghold.

(At that time, the 14th Group Army of the Nanjing government army was stationed in Luoyang.)

Soon, the vanguard of a regiment successfully captured this Japanese stronghold.

When a regimental commander was about to express his gratitude to the government's 14th Army, they proposed that these towns be defended by their 14th Army.

This place is close to Luoyang, the headquarters of their 14th Army Group, and for security reasons, the brigade commander can understand it. Moreover, they still need 40 Nanjing government troops to contain the 20 Japanese and puppet troops in Henan.

At this time, Gray Wolf sent another telegram, urging them to go north to reinforce the Jidong Independent Brigade in Anyang.

So a brigade commander did a favor and handed over the towns and villages recaptured from the Japanese army to the government army. The entire brigade headed north to reinforce the Jidong Independent Brigade.

When the First Brigade headed north to reinforce the Anyang defenders, soldiers from the First Battalion of the Second Brigade and the Fourth Division of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region were fighting fiercely with the Japanese army.

Fortunately, an army's air force continuously bombed and strafed the Japanese army in the air, forcing the Japanese artillery units to not dare to fire indiscriminately.

The four regiments of the Jidong Independent Brigade continuously attacked the Japanese siege forces from four directions, effectively supporting the battle of the Anyang defenders.

In order to eliminate the Anyang defenders as quickly as possible, Henan Japanese Commander Uchiyama Hideshin brazenly mobilized the air forces of Xinxiang Airport and Shangqiu Airport to participate in the battle.