Devil's Army

The battle lasted until dawn, with casualties on both sides. Of course, the Japanese had to fight hastily, so the casualties were definitely greater.

Leng Feng fired another red flare into the sky, and the attacking troops on both sides withdrew from the battlefield one after another.

Division Commander Sakamoto came to the headquarters with a livid face. Last night, someone threw grenades into his telecommunications room, the headquarters, and several tents. Four staff officers and a battalion commander in the headquarters died on the spot for the emperor. If he hadn't gone back to sleep, he would have been among those who died.

Several radio stations in the telecommunications room were destroyed and many telecommunications operators died.

Until morning, no one knew who did it.

The staff officers, regiment commanders, and battalion commanders who were lucky enough to escape the disaster stood on both sides of the command center, with their heads down, not daring to speak.

"A bunch of good-for-nothings. The enemy came and went as they pleased with the headquarters that was tightly guarded by more than 3,000 imperial soldiers? You should all disembowel yourself and apologize!"

"Hi!" the Japanese officers responded in unison.

"Have the casualty reports for yesterday's battle come out?"

"Mr. Division Commander, here is the combat casualty report from last night." An adjutant in front of the command center handed the combat casualty report in his hands to Division Commander Sakamoto with both hands.

"Last night, the headquarters suffered 146 casualties, including two colonels, two lieutenant colonels, and one major. The casualties in the attack by the Devil's Army totaled 8,786."

"So, more than half of our imperial soldiers have been killed or wounded so far?"

"Yeah." The adjutant didn't dare to look up at Division Commander Sakamoto and nodded heavily.

Division Commander Sakamoto sighed heavily and sat down. He had originally planned to encircle and destroy the devil troops from three directions to regain the face lost by the imperial army last time. Who knew that this time the loss of face would be even greater than last time.

After a while, Division Commander Sakamoto waved to his adjutant and uttered one word: "Retreat."

"Your Excellency the Division Commander, are we just going to escape like this?" a Japanese colonel asked unwillingly.

Division Commander Sakamoto picked up a water cup, smashed it hard on the ground and shouted:

"How about this? I'll hand over the command to you, and you help me take back Tiaobingshan County!"

The colonel shut up immediately when he heard that he was asked to take back Tiaobingshan County. Nearly 40,000 people couldn't take Tiaobingshan County, and now there are only more than 10,000 people left. How can he take it? He just didn't want to give up.

Division Commander Sakamoto was even more unwilling to accept this, especially when he heard the colonel say the word "escape". The two battles to capture Tiaobinshan County were the biggest failures in his military career.

In the end, Division Commander Sakamoto retreated with more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers.

"Blood Wolf, the Japs are retreating." The dusty Gray Wolf walked up to Leng Feng and said.

"We've retreated, we've finally retreated!" Leng Feng held a cigarette in his right hand and looked towards Rehe. Suddenly, he threw the cigarette on the ground, stomped it out and said:

"Order the Third Regiment to send a battalion to follow from a distance, and wait for the Japanese to withdraw before setting up fortifications and checkpoints at the end of the path. We need to deepen our defense line and cannot let the Japanese attack us right under our noses all the time."

"Yes," Gray Wolf saluted and turned to walk towards the headquarters of the Third Regiment.

"The Japanese are retreating this time and will not attack again for quite some time. It's time to think about how to develop." Once there was no more fighting, Leng Feng began to plan the development of the base.

"Who should we ask to arrange and manage the local economic development? Before Wild Wolf joined the army, his family was in business. He also has business acumen. We can pull him out of the special forces and give him a try."

Leng Feng asked the guards to bring a few horses, and he and the guards rode to Tieling County to take a look.

When the people who had been evacuated from Tieling County heard that the Japanese invaders who had attacked Tiaobinshan County had retreated, they all returned to Tieling County in groups of three or two.

Leng Feng and the guards arrived at Tieling County, where two-thirds of the city had been bombed into ruins by the Japanese.

The common people who entered the city early picked up some usable furniture, tableware and other things from their ruined homes, while cursing the Japanese as worthless.

It is always the defenseless civilians who suffer in war.

Leng Feng ordered a guard to return to the tribe immediately and asked Captain Baron to arrange for someone to bring the Japanese and Korean labor reform team to rebuild Tieling County.

The tribe's tunnels have been dug quite deep and large. The tribe has gradually become a hinterland, and it is unlikely that a war will occur. The tunnels are used as a warehouse in addition to a arsenal for producing guns, bullets, and ammunition. Other places are used as warehouses.

There was actually nothing for the more than 300 Japanese and North Korean labor camp members to do, but Leng Feng didn't want to keep idle people, so he asked them to continue digging tunnels.

Now two-thirds of Tieling County has become ruins, so he simply tore it down and rebuilt it to build a neat and unified new Tieling County.

The troops settled the people in an open space outside Tieling County, and set up ten supply points outside the city every day to supply food and drinking water to the people.

The Japanese and Korean labor reform team entered Tieling County under the leadership of a company commander of a military regiment.

Leng Feng renovated the remaining one-third of the houses that were not destroyed as the old city area, and demolished the two-thirds of the houses that were destroyed and built two rows of two-story houses according to uniform standards.

Originally, Tieling County had only one commercial street, but Leng Feng has now built two commercial streets. One is a street with storefronts, and the other is a street for small stalls. The small stalls are planned to be built with bamboo in ten squares of uniform specifications.

Leng Feng handed the simple design plan to the company commander who was on standby nearby.

The company commander took the simple design drawing and turned it over and over, but he still couldn't understand it. He asked with a sad face: "Commander, what are you drawing?"

Leng Feng sighed. He had no choice but to call a former special forces member to bring the blueprints and help them rebuild Tieling County.