Devil's Army

How wonderful it would be if we could live a stable life and develop steadily like this! Unfortunately, the devils won't let you do as you wish.

After a week of preparation, Musashi Nobuyoshi divided his troops into two groups, one from Jinzhou and Rehe, and the other from Changtu and Kaiyuan, preparing to retake Huibingshan County and Tieling County.

Musashi Nobuyoshi thought, he used 100,000 troops to attack the 200,000 Northeast Army in Rehe, and won victory after victory. The combat effectiveness of the Devil Army is far superior to that of the Northeast Army. He sent more than 10,000 people to fight in Weichang, and now he has sent more than 10,000 people to fight in Chahar. So the total strength of the Devil Army is about 30,000. Excluding the more than 10,000 people sent to Chahar, the remaining strength of his headquarters should be less than 20,000.

He adopted the suggestion of the division commander Sakamoto and used fierce and mobile firepower to attack the devilish troops in Tiaobinshan County.

He mobilized more than 35,000 Imperial Army and Imperial Aid Army from Jinzhou and Rehe, led by Division Commander Sakamoto, and with the assistance of 12 tanks, 12 large-caliber howitzers, and 24 small mountain cannons, they fiercely attacked Tiaobingshan County.

This time he not only wanted to recapture Tiaobingshan County and Tieling County, but also to wipe out the devil troops that had troubled him for a long time.

The battle to defend Tiaobinshan County began at around six o'clock in the morning.

The Japanese tanks were blocked by anti-tank cones, so they had to send engineers to blow up the anti-tank cones before the tanks could move forward.

The 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment was stationed at the fortification today. The commander of the 2nd Company had guessed that the Japanese were going to blast the anti-tank cones, so he had ambushed snipers on both sides of the road.

The two Japanese engineers were knocked down by snipers on both sides before they even started their work.

Seeing this, the Japanese machine gunners lay down, and two machine guns on each side took turns to fire continuously at both sides of the path. The Japanese tanks also fired a few shots from time to time.

The four snipers and their assistants on both sides of the path were suppressed by the Japanese machine guns and could not even raise their heads, let alone move.

"Company commander, the Japs are really rich. They keep firing machine gun bullets even before they see anyone. How many bullets must they use?" a soldier in the fortifications sighed.

"The Japs have their own way of fighting when they have money, and we have our own way of fighting when we have no lines. Now let's start practicing shooting. Start with the first person on the left, and target the Japs' engineer. Start."

The Japanese engineers were about 500 meters away from the fortifications, and it was not easy to hit them if they were not good at shooting. Fortunately, shooting had always been a key military training project of the First Army. After the second company commander finished speaking, two gunshots rang out. The two Japanese engineers who had just come up were knocked down again.

The Japanese moved two machine guns that were firing on both sides over and fired at the fortifications with a "da da da" sound.

Because the distance was too far, the sound of machine gun fire sounded scary, but the actual threat was not great.

Several anti-tank cones had already been blown up by the Japanese engineers. The Japanese sent two more engineers to blow them up.

"Boom, boom, boom" two more anti-tank cones were blown up.

"Bang, bang" at this time, two more sounds of Type 38 rifles were heard, and one of the two Japanese engineers was knocked down and the other was injured.

"Yang Wenjun, your marksmanship is not good enough. You need to practice more."

"Yes," the fourth soldier replied embarrassedly with a blushing face.

A Japanese lieutenant became furious when he saw three groups of engineers fall one after another. He ordered the first tank to retreat, then set up a mortar at the back and fired at the anti-tank cones.

Although this move wasted some shells, the effect was significant. The anti-tank cones were blasted open by the mortar shells.

If the Japanese tanks are not blown up, once the anti-tank cones are completely broken through, the first Japanese tank will quickly rush through the fortifications.

Before the battle, Wulang used Leng Feng to transfer the remaining 150mm howitzer of the th Brigade to defend the fortifications. Because as long as Tiaobinshan County was defended, there would be no fighting in Hejiazhao Village.

The artillery of the 2nd Brigade aimed both howitzers at the first tank.

Two huge explosions sounded, and the first tank of the Japanese was hit by two howitzer shells at the same time. The armor was blown away, and the tank was pushed back by the blast wave and hit the second tank of the Japanese.

The crew of the first tank was knocked unconscious instantly.

The two howitzers of the Second Brigade quickly fired two more shells and then withdrew immediately. After all, the current artillery strength of the Second Brigade was not on the same level as that of the Japs.

The two howitzers fell into the group of Japanese soldiers, causing heavy casualties to them.

The Japanese heavy artillery group quickly locked onto the howitzer positions of the Second Brigade. After a round of "boom boom boom" artillery fire, the Japanese heavy artillery group fired dense shells at the howitzer positions of the Second Brigade.

It was a close call. If they had evacuated ten minutes later, the two howitzers would have become a pile of parts. Wu Lang looked at the original howitzer position that was being bombed and ordered: Change positions after each howitzer fires a shot. Don't rely on luck.

On the battlefield, the enemy's tank units were subordinate to the mobile units and did not have to obey the orders of the on-site infantry commanders.

The Japanese lieutenant ordered the driver of the second tank to try to see if the first tank could be driven. If it could be driven, he should drive it to the side so as not to block the tank behind. If it could not be driven, he should use the second tank to tow it away.

But the driver of the second tank refused to carry out the lieutenant's order.

The lieutenant had no choice but to coordinate with the superior of the Japanese tank driver through his superior, and the superior of the tank driver directly ordered him: tow away the first tank.