Devil's Army

Shortly after the howitzer bombardment, the Second Company of the Third Battalion successfully recaptured the fortifications. But at this time, the fortifications could no longer be called fortifications, but just a long pit filled with broken limbs and arms and filled with blood.

As soon as the second company jumped down the long pit, the Japanese rushed over.

The Second Company fought hastily, but the Japanese kept rushing up, and the Second Company, lacking reinforcements, had to retreat in turns.

The fortifications that had been guarded for three days were finally occupied by the Japanese.

After occupying the fortifications, the Japanese did not rest but continued to advance, not stopping until they were several hundred meters in front of the second fortification newly built by the second regiment commander.

It was almost noon, and the Japanese did not continue their attack. Instead, they set up a pot to cook and prepare for lunch.

The second company commander returned to the regiment headquarters and saw the second regiment commander. He said ashamedly:

"Captain, I lost the position that the brothers of the three companies of the first battalion defended with blood and sweat. Can you send artillery to cooperate with me so that I can take it back?"

The second captain was ready to be scolded by the second regiment commander, but the second regiment commander smiled and said:

"It's okay, good job."

The second company commander looked at the second regiment commander suspiciously, thinking: Is the second regiment commander mad?

"Take your brothers and go down to rest first. I will take action later." The second regiment commander smiled and said to the second company commander who brought back less than half a company. Wu Lang, Chen Dongbei, Huang Lei and him had just discussed a strategy to give the Japanese another hard blow.

"Captain, what action are you taking? We'll participate too." The second company commander asked immediately after hearing what the second commander said.

Who knew that the second regiment commander gave the second company commander a cold look and the first word that came out of his mouth was "get out".

The second company commander had no choice but to salute the second regiment commander, then turned around and led his brothers away.

As the Second Regiment was seriously short of manpower, Wu Lang called Hujia Village and asked the Third Regiment stationed in Aozuikou and Hujia Village to immediately transfer a battalion to the battlefield in front of Tiaobinshan County to reinforce the Second Regiment at any time.

Shortly after lunch, the Japanese, with the support of two tanks, launched another attack on the new fortifications.

The first company of the third battalion launched a fierce attack on the Japanese soldiers next to the tanks and threw grenades at the Japanese soldiers behind the tanks.

The infantry around the tank fell one after another. Without the cooperation of the infantry, the tank did not dare to move forward rashly, so it stopped where it was and bombarded the company's fortifications fiercely.

But as more and more Japanese soldiers rushed up, the fortifications began to be in danger.

At this time, the five howitzers of the Second Brigade started to fire shells from 400 to 500 meters in front of the fortifications, and one shell fell every 400 to 500 meters. The five howitzer shells bombed nearly 3 kilometers in front of the fortifications.

Before the Japanese on the path could wake up, Chen Dongbei led a regiment from the right side of the path, and Huang Lei led a regiment from the left side of the path to kill more than a thousand Japanese between the two fortifications.

The Japanese soldiers, who had not yet recovered from the shock, heard the deafening shouts and screams from the two fortifications, and hurriedly organized a temporary reinforcement and ran over to provide reinforcements.

When the Japanese reinforcements ran to the first fortification, the gunfire between the two fortifications had become much less frequent.

Soldiers from the third company of the third battalion of the second regiment blocked the Japanese who wanted to reinforce them in the first line of fortification.

But after less than half an hour of resistance, the gunfire between the two fortifications stopped.

Following the orders of the Third Battalion Commander, the Third Company took turns to withdraw from the fortifications, leaving the fortifications to the Japanese.

The reinforcements also heard the gunfire in the fortifications stop, but they looked at the fortifications that the First Army had desperately defended, and now they had given up so easily and let them go. For a moment, they did not dare to cross the fortifications.

This time, the three brigades used a formula familiar to the devils and wiped out more than 1,300 devils and puppet troops. In addition to the bombardment of five howitzers, the devils suffered no less than 2,000 casualties.

Division Commander Sakamoto finally felt the pain, and his troops stopped the attack and rested in front of the anti-tank cone group.

At this time, Gray Wolf discovered a new artillery position hidden at the foot of the mountain opposite the original destroyed artillery position through the trucks that the Japanese used to transport supplies. There were a total of ten small mountain cannons.

Gray Wolf told Wu Lang the coordinates of the new artillery position of the Japanese, and told him that there were a total of ten small mountain cannons.

Wu Lang didn't know if these ten small mountain guns, plus the four small mountain guns supporting the infantry, were all the Japanese artillery had. But for safety reasons, he ordered five howitzers to fire five rounds in a volley, two rounds in a row, and move immediately after firing two rounds.

Fortunately, Wu Lang was cautious. Less than ten minutes after his howitzer was moved, a round of dense mountain artillery shells hit him.

The artillery company commander ordered the artillery to stop moving, and calculated the approximate location of another artillery position of the Japanese based on the ballistic trajectory of the Japanese hill artillery. He ordered the artillery to set up the artillery on the spot, and five howitzers fired towards that location.

Gray Wolf also led the special forces to find the Japanese artillery position.

At this time, the howitzers of the Second Brigade were bombarding the Japanese artillery position.

Although the Japanese artillery position was slightly different from the calculation of the Second Brigade's artillery company commander, the 150mm howitzer had a large destructive range. After three consecutive rounds of bombing by the Second Brigade's five howitzers, the Japanese artillery position basically disappeared.

Without the threat of Japanese artillery, the Second Brigade's five howitzers, two small mountain cannons and four mortars began to bombard the Japanese on the path indiscriminately.

The Japanese soldiers suffered heavy casualties on the trail, as they lacked anti-artillery fortifications. Division Commander Sakamoto had no choice but to order his troops to retreat quickly to get out of the range of the Second Brigade's artillery.

After three days of hard work, the defense of the fortifications outside Tiaobinshan County finally repelled the Japanese. The soldiers of the Second Regiment ran onto the path, hugging and jumping!