Devil's Army

After a whole night of joint encirclement and annihilation by the 1st and 4th Regiments, the Japanese reinforcements from Suxian were finally eliminated on the road.

The failure of the reinforcement of Dangshan County caused the Japanese army in Suxian to lose hundreds of imperial warriors. The Japanese army in Suxian was obviously short of manpower, and the defense of many places was handed over to the puppet army.

The Japanese commander had to ask his superiors for reinforcements.

By this time, it was almost dawn, and the soldiers of the Third Regiment rested on the spot. The soldiers of the Fourth Regiment rushed to Bengbu City and set up an ambush on the road to Suxian County, preparing to block the Japanese reinforcements from Bengbu.

Considering that the Japanese troops in Huaibei might come to support, the commander of the Fourth Regiment arranged for the First Battalion to block the enemy there.

The soldiers of the First and Second Regiments, which were attacking Dangshan County from the Jinpu Railway, had already entered Dangshan County and were clearing out the remaining enemy forces in the county.

At six o'clock the next morning, the Third Regiment arranged for the First Battalion to launch a feint attack on the north gate of Su County.

Since Dangshan County is located northwest of Suxian County, this gave the Japanese army the illusion that the devil's troops were attacking their north gate from Dangshan County.

When the gunfire from the Japanese resistance at the north gate of Suxian became fierce, the commander of the third regiment knew that the main force of the Japanese army had been transferred to the north gate, and immediately ordered the main force of the third regiment ambushed outside the west gate to launch an attack.

The mortar troops of the third regiment took the lead in launching a fierce bombardment on the Japanese troops at the city gate.

The unprepared Japanese army suffered heavy losses from the sudden attack of the 3rd Regiment's mortar artillery and called for reinforcements from the commander.

At this time, the battle at the North Gate continued. The Japanese commander did not know where the main attack direction of the devil troops was, so he had to arrange for the puppet army to reinforce.

At this time, the First Army's air force roared over and flew low, carrying out fierce bombing and strafing on the reinforcing puppet troops and the Japanese troops on the city walls.

The puppet troops were so frightened that they hid in civilian houses and had long forgotten the mission of reinforcement.

More than an hour later, Japanese troops from Huaibei arrived to provide reinforcements.

The Japanese troops in Huaibei were dumbfounded when they arrived at Wangliuzi Village.

Wang Liuzi Village is surrounded by the Rui River on both sides in the northeast. There are two large ditches four or five meters deep in front of the village, which serve as a natural defense line.

A battalion commander arrived at Wangliuzi Village and blew up the two small wooden bridges connecting the two ends of the village. The Japanese troops were blocked on the other side of the ditch and had no way to cross the ditch for a while.

Before the Japanese army could find a way to cross the ditch, a battalion of soldiers hiding behind the dense trees on the embankment fired fiercely at the Japanese army in Huaibei.

The Japanese soldiers who were unable to dodge in time fell into the ditch. The Japanese soldiers behind them quickly lay down and fought back against the soldiers of the first battalion.

The Japanese army in Huaibei failed to capture Wangliuzi Village for a long time, so they arranged a troop to contain the first battalion on the front, and the other troops took a detour through Shiweiweizi to reinforce the Japanese army in Suxian.

Shiweiweizi is located on the west side of Sisu Highway, 10 kilometers north of Guirenji and 7 kilometers north of Buziji.

The village is surrounded by dikes and trenches, and faces a highway in the southeast.

The third and fourth companies of the first battalion dug loopholes in the walls of the houses, and dug traffic trenches and foxholes on both sides of the road to build fire shelters.

When the Japanese troops in Huaibei arrived at Shiweiwei, they encountered stubborn resistance from a battalion of soldiers.

The Japanese artillery then launched a fierce bombardment on Shiweiwei, attempting to raze the village to the ground.

The two small mountain guns of the Third Regiment hidden behind the village quickly locked onto the Japanese artillery position and fired three consecutive salvos of two shots, which blew the Japanese artillery position to pieces.

The Japanese army, having recovered, began to counterattack, and the artillery of both sides bombarded each other.

After a while, two bombers and one fighter plane from the First Army that were bombing Suxian received intelligence and flew over, launching a fierce bombing and strafing attack on the Japanese troops in Huaibei.