Devil's Army

A series of loud "booms" rang out, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed into the minefield were killed or wounded in large numbers.

The Japanese troops that followed immediately halted their advance.

The Japanese troops who had entered the minefield slowly retreated, attempting to get out of the minefield.

The machine gunners and snipers of the First Battalion, who were already on high alert in the woods, opened fire almost simultaneously, and the Japanese soldiers who were withdrawing from the minefield were all taken down.

The Japanese artillerymen behind them quickly set up their cannons and bombarded the woods.

However, the morning mist provided cover for both the Japanese troops and a battalion of soldiers.

The Japanese artillery had difficulty accurately locating the machine gunners and snipers of the First Battalion hiding in the woods. They could only determine the firing positions of the "Devil's Unit" by the intermittent flashes of gun barrels through the mist.

Meanwhile, the snipers and machine gunners of the First Battalion, hiding in the woods, kept changing positions, causing the Japanese artillery to miss their target.

As the sun gradually rose higher and the mist dissipated, the machine gun fire from the woods aimed at the Japanese soldiers became increasingly visible.

The Japanese artillery began to fire in a targeted manner, continuously bombarding the machine gun positions of the First Battalion in the woods.

In the woods, machine gunners from the battalion who couldn't get out of the way kept getting their bullets blown away.

To avoid the fierce artillery fire from the Japanese army, the machine gunners of the first battalion in the woods began to retreat into the canyon.

Japanese engineers began clearing mines, but were constantly being sniped by the devilish snipers hiding in the shadows.

The Japanese battalion commander had no choice but to gather a large number of machine gunners, who lay prone on both sides of the engineers and continuously fired into the woods.

More than two hours later, the Japanese engineers cleared the landmines from the canyon path.

The main force quickly continued its advance along the canyon path.

When the Japanese troops advanced to the canyon path position where they had fought the devil troops the day before, they were met with fierce resistance from the 3rd and 4th companies of the 1st Battalion.

The Japanese artillery quickly advanced to the front of the First Battalion's position and continued to bombard them.

Although the soldiers of the 3rd and 4th Companies of the 1st Battalion fought tenaciously against the Japanese attack from their fortifications, soldiers were still blown away by Japanese artillery fire one after another.

At dusk, the Japanese army finally captured the battalion's defensive line in the canyon, but they dared not advance any further.

They also stopped withdrawing from the canyon, fearing that the positions they had painstakingly captured would be retaken by the devil's army.

The 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 7th Brigade of the 1st Army, with the strength of just one battalion, relied on the treacherous terrain of the Red River Gorge to hold off nearly 10,000 Japanese troops for four days.

Finally, he led the remaining fewer than 200 people to retreat into Helong County.

A platoon of soldiers from the rear guard of the battalion used the terrain to fiercely resist the Japanese advance. However, due to being outnumbered, the entire platoon heroically sacrificed their lives.

After annihilating the rearguard of the First Battalion, the Japanese army quickly passed through the Hongqi River Gorge and reached the west gate of Helong County, launching a fierce attack on the county.

Another Japanese force, under heavy artillery and tank bombardment, broke through the defense line of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment on the Tumen River, crossed the frozen Tumen River, and arrived at the Guchengli Port Gorge (upper reaches of the Tumen River).

The Guchengli Port Gorge is located at the southernmost tip of Helong County (now Chongshan Town), with Musan County of North Korea on the opposite bank.

The terrain of the ancient city port (Chongshan Town, Helong County, Jilin Province, in the upper reaches of the Tumen River canyon) is a natural defensive position.

Here, a river flows between two mountains in a deep V-shaped valley. The basalt cliffs are steep and the valley is over a hundred meters deep. The river is narrow and deep with a rapid current. The road/ancient path runs along the riverbank, and the narrowest section can only accommodate a single file.

The Japanese army's superior forces, armor, and artillery could not be deployed here, and they could only advance in a linear fashion.