Devil's Army

Following an order from Division Commander Sakamoto, the Japanese heavy artillery and small mountain artillery launched a fierce bombardment on the small woods on both sides of the two fortifications.

The guards ran back to the regiment headquarters in a panic, holding the ropes that were cut by the shells.

The regiment commander looked at the broken ropes in the guards' hands, shook his head and sighed, "What a pity these ropes are, otherwise we could have used them to tie up a lot of devils."

Wulang, who was standing nearby, smiled and said, "How about you leave the rope next time and send someone to shake the tree?"

The regiment commander shook his head like a rattle and said, "No way, the lives of my soldiers are much more important than this rope.

The Japanese artillery bombarded the small woods on both sides of the two fortifications for more than half an hour. Many trees in the small woods were blown down, and many small fires were lit on the ground. Fortunately, the weather was not very dry, otherwise it would have burned into a big forest fire, and the regiment headquarters in the woods and the retreating 2nd Brigade 3rd Regiment and 4th Brigade 2nd Regiment would have had to retreat.

The artillery on the second Japanese position gradually relaxed when they saw that the devil's heavy artillery did not bomb the artillery position that had just bombed the grove.

The captain ordered the infantry in front of the first line of fortification to rush forward in coordination with the tanks.

At this time, the whistling sound of 150mm grenades and small mountain artillery shells was heard. Two 150mm grenades blew up two tanks that were heading to the second fortification. The path was blocked by these two tanks. Another two grenades, two small mountain artillery shells and four mortar shells extended to hit the infantry behind the tanks.

Seeing this, the Japanese soldiers near the first fortification rolled and jumped into the fortification, avoiding the bombing. But the Japanese soldiers between the two fortifications were not so lucky. They were blown in all directions like leaves in the wind by the explosion of the artillery.

The Japs' artillery immediately expanded its coverage bombing to the approximate location of the devil's artillery positions.

Because the artillery bombardment of the devil's troops came suddenly and stopped quickly, the devil's artillery could not be sure whether it had hit the target accurately.

Division Commander Sakamoto had no choice but to order a hot air balloon to fly over to observe the effects of the bombing and to investigate the artillery positions of the Devil's troops.

The Japanese in the two fortifications did not continue the attack and slowly retreated back to the anti-tank cones.

This time, Wu Lang did not let the Japanese scouts go. Instead, he sent Feilong directly to approach the hot air balloon and shot the two scouts.

The captain who was standing next to the anti-tank cone witnessed this scene and hurriedly reported it to the division commander Sakamoto.

Division Commander Sakamoto immediately reported to Commander Musashi: He had discovered the anti-aircraft weapon of the Devil's Army, a small flying object like an airplane, which killed the scouts in their hot air balloon in the air.

At this time, Commander Musashi also received a report from the Japanese army in Chahar that a small flying object like an airplane appeared in the sky above them and shot down their bombers.

How many small flying objects did the Devil's Army have? Commander Musashi was even more afraid to send planes into the Devil's Army's airspace.

The sudden bombing by the artillery of the devil's army caused heavy casualties to the Japanese who were caught off guard. The captain ordered the Japanese to retreat and prepare to attack again after lunch.

At this time, Gray Wolf sent a telegram to Wu Lang, saying that their scouts had found an artillery position of the Japanese in a valley, with four 100mm howitzers and four small mountain guns. He then sent the coordinates of the Japanese artillery unit to Wu Lang.

Wu Lang then ordered the artillery to cover the coordinates sent by Gray Wolf. In order to completely blow up the artillery position, Wu Lang fired two rounds in a row before moving away.

Another Japanese artillery position, which had been loaded with shells, expanded its coverage in the general direction of Wulang's artillery position.

A truck pulling a 150mm howitzer was hit by a shell on its roof, killing the driver instantly. The 150mm howitzer, without the truck towing it, was parked alone in the open space.

Fortunately, no more shells hit that place. Wu Lang immediately ordered a soldier to drive a truck from the military camp in Zhaobingshan County.

When the truck arrived, the soldier replaced the deceased driver and towed the howitzer to the new artillery position.

The main reason why Division Commander Sakamoto delayed launching the second attack on Tiaobinshan County for more than half a month was the lack of artillery, especially large-caliber artillery. He waited for half a month before he managed to gather twelve 100mm howitzers and twelve small mountain guns.

He divided the twenty-four guns into three artillery positions. One of them had just been blown up by the devil's troops, which meant that he could only have one artillery position to support the infantry charge, and the other artillery position had to keep an eye on the devil's heavy artillery.

A group of Gray Wolf's scouts brought a message that they had discovered a place that was suspected to be the enemy's headquarters.

Gray Wolf immediately rushed over with two special forces members.

This place is guarded by a regiment of more than 3000 Japanese soldiers. There are densely packed tents, many of which have antennas on them. It should be the headquarters of the Japanese.

But Gray Wolf and his special forces team of several hundred people were not sure to kill a headquarters of three or four thousand people. Moreover, this headquarters was built outside the range of their artillery, and the artillery coverage was not good.

It seems that the only way is to fish in troubled waters. Gray Wolf reported his preliminary plan to Leng Feng.

Leng Feng was also thinking about giving Sakamoto a hard lesson, so that he wouldn't always think about his own deployment to Shanxian. He immediately agreed with Huilang's opinion and began to deploy troops, preparing to teach Sakamoto a hard lesson.