Devil's Army

At around six o'clock the next morning, the Japanese, who had not slept well the whole night, launched an attack on the fortifications of the first company commander of the second battalion.

In order to reduce the frontal pressure on the Second Brigade, Leng Feng ordered the First Brigade to send a regiment to be responsible for the right wing of the fortifications, and the Fourth Brigade to send a regiment to be responsible for the left wing of the fortifications, looking for opportunities to annihilate the Japanese.

The two wings of the fortifications were full of trees and the roads were narrow, which was not suitable for the enemy's large troops and heavy weapons to move. The company stationed in the fortifications originally sent a squad to watch over it. Now the 1st Brigade and the 4th Brigade each sent a regiment, and the commander of the first company simply handed the two wings to these two regiments to guard, and he concentrated all his forces on the front to deal with the enemy's charge.

Gray Wolf led all the special forces members to capture the Japanese command center, hoping to give the Japanese a heart-wrenching blow and disrupt their attack.

On this day, the number of Japanese soldiers coming from Kaiyuan and Changtu was obviously not as strong as yesterday. The Japanese soldiers continued to launch small-scale attacks on the fortifications along the houses. The remaining Japanese tanks were afraid of being bombarded by the 150mm howitzers of the devil troops, so they did not dare to attack to support the infantry.

The fully equipped third company had just exchanged positions with the first and second companies last night, and their morale was high. Major Fujie's small and medium-scale charges were repelled time and again.

Major Fujie was not in a hurry and continued to complete his diversionary mission.

In order to increase the defense strength of the Second Brigade, Leng Feng sent Li Gong and a technician to the Fifth Brigade to repair the howitzer with a wheel blown off at the Fifth Brigade's artillery position. Then he pulled the three 150mm howitzers to the Second Brigade's position.

Wulang was very happy to see three more 150mm howitzers coming. He immediately contacted Huilang and asked his special forces to help find the enemy's artillery positions. You know, the enemy's artillery posed a great threat to his fortifications. In one morning, he had reduced the strength of his second battalion's first company to one and a half squads. Now, only half of the second company was left.

If he continues to fight like this, his Second Brigade can be reorganized into the Second Company within two days.

Gray Wolf accepted Wu Wolf's request for assistance and led the special forces to temporarily give up the search for the Japanese headquarters. They followed the trajectory of the Japanese artillery shells and found the Japanese artillery position in a valley at the corner of the road.

Gray Wolf sent the coordinates of the Japanese artillery position to Wu Lang. Wu Lang received the coordinates of the Japanese artillery position sent by Gray Wolf and immediately ordered the brigade's five 150mm howitzers, two mountain guns and four mortars to adjust the coordinates and bombard the Japanese artillery position together.

The sound and shock waves caused by five 150mm howitzer shells exploding almost simultaneously at the Japanese artillery positions will be unforgettable for the Japanese artillerymen.

But soon these Japanese artillerymen ceased to exist. The second and third rounds of shells attacked the Japanese artillery positions one after another. The entire Japanese artillery position was bombed to the point where not a blade of grass grew. The Japanese artillerymen who were not hit by the shrapnel of the shells were also shocked to death by the huge shock wave of the large-caliber howitzers, causing bleeding from their internal organs.

The infantry, having lost the support of the Japanese artillery, stopped their charge and looked back blankly at their own artillery positions where explosions continued.

Chen Dongbei and Huang Lei at the headquarters of the Second Regiment asked Wulang's artillery to coordinate with their two regiments to bomb the Japanese behind the anti-tank cone group, and then extend the bombing for a second wave and then stop immediately.

Wu Lang gave orders to the artillery according to Chen Dongbei and Huang Lei's instructions.

The artillery of the Second Brigade, which had completed the bombing of the Japanese artillery positions, adjusted the muzzle and fired two rounds of shells at the Japanese behind the anti-tank cone group. Then the shells extended back four or five hundred meters and fired two more rounds, and then stopped the shelling.

The Japanese troops, who lacked anti-artillery fortifications on the road, were continuously bombarded by four rounds of large-caliber howitzers, resulting in heavy casualties.

The troops were divided into two parts, with more than half a battalion of Japanese soldiers in the front part of the anti-tank cone group.

One of Chen Dongbei's regiments suddenly rushed towards the anti-tank cone group from the right side, and one of Huang Lei's regiments suddenly rushed towards the anti-tank cone group from the left side, surrounding more than 700 Japanese soldiers in front of the anti-tank cone group.

Chen Dongbei sent a battalion, and the Japanese facing the path quickly built two temporary fortifications on the path using the destroyed tanks and the corpses of the Japanese to block the large number of Japanese reinforcements.

The Third Company of the Second Battalion of the Second Regiment also joined the battle and, together with the Second Company in the fortifications, launched a frontal charge against the Japanese.

The Japanese soldiers surrounded on all sides fought desperately and tried to break out. However, facing the attack of the devil troops with five times the strength of his troops, his breakout became increasingly weak.

The Japanese troops, who had just suffered heavy losses from the howitzer attack of the Second Brigade on the path, recovered and quickly organized their troops to attack the temporary fortifications of the First Brigade's battalion on the path with all their might, attempting to rescue the surrounded Japanese troops.

For infantrymen without artillery support, fighting depends on their fighting spirit. The fighting spirit of the soldiers of the first brigade is no less than that of the Japanese.

They desperately held off the Japanese' desperate attacks and held on to the two temporary fortifications, buying time for the troops to completely wipe out the Japanese troops.

A battalion of the 1st Brigade guarding two fortifications on the trail suffered heavy casualties in the continuous attacks of the Japanese. Huang Lei saw this and promptly dispatched a battalion to reinforce them.

The sound of gunfire from the surrounded Japanese troops became less and less frequent and gradually stopped.

The soldiers of the army that encircled and annihilated the Japanese simply cleaned up the battlefield and quickly withdrew from the battlefield one after another. Huang Lei's first battalion covered the first battalion of the first brigade in withdrawing from the battlefield, and they also withdrew from the battlefield in turn.

By the time the Japanese army opened up this road, the encircled Japanese had been completely wiped out.

The 1st, 2nd and 4th Brigades fought a classic infantry-artillery coordinated battle, completely annihilating more than 700 Japanese soldiers and greatly undermining their morale.