Devil's Army

After hearing the report from the third regiment commander, Leng Feng said:

"The Japanese really valued this small place, Yaobao Town, and dared to send out three bombers to bomb it. He immediately ordered the Third Brigade to bring the Golden Eagles to reinforce Yaobao Town.

Leng Feng heard from the commander of the Third Regiment that the Japanese had deployed two 100mm howitzers, and originally wanted to ask Li Brigade Commander to bring two 150mm howitzers to reinforce, but the road was too difficult to pass, and 150mm howitzers were difficult to pass, so he had to give up. He asked Li Brigade Commander to take the warrant and go to the Second Brigade to pull two 75mm anti-aircraft guns to support the Third Regiment.

The first to arrive at the battlefield were the Golden Eagles, but by then the enemy's bombers had already evacuated the battlefield. On the ground, the soldiers of the Third Regiment were engaged in a fierce street battle with the enemy, with casualties on both sides.

It turned out that Nobuyoshi Musashi calculated that the Devil's troops were rushing over to reinforce Deshengtai and would not be able to bring anti-aircraft weapons with them, so he sent bombers to bomb them for a round, and then retreated immediately after gaining an advantage.

This was indeed a good deal for Musashi Nobuyoshi. The first battalion lost its combat effectiveness in the bombing, and the city gate was lost. They had no choice but to retreat to the town and fight street battles with the second battalion and the Japanese.

It is said that street fighting is a meat grinder for infantry. This is true. The Japanese have to pay a heavy sacrifice for every step forward.

Because the road was blocked by the overturned tank of the mobile unit, neither side boarded tanks.

But as the Japanese penetrated the defense line of the Third Regiment, the tanks of the mobile unit began to cooperate with the Third Regiment to bomb the Japanese infantry. The heavy firepower points of the Japanese infantry were all blown up by the tanks of the First Army, making it even more difficult for the Japanese infantry to move forward.

The mortar troops of the Third Regiment took the opportunity to bomb the Japanese infantry.

The battle situation took a turn after the Japanese pulled 100mm howitzers and small mountain cannons to participate in the street fighting.

The Japanese used two 100mm howitzers to chase and bomb the tanks of the First Army. One tank of the First Army was almost hit by two 100mm grenades.

In order to avoid being hit by the Japanese heavy howitzers, the four tanks of the First Army's mobile force retreated quickly and left the battlefield.

The Japanese heavy howitzers and small mountain artillery began to bombard the machine gun fire points of the Second Battalion.

The houses in Yaobao Town were reduced to ruins one by one. The machine gun firing points of the Second Battalion in the houses were also buried under the ruins as the houses collapsed under the bombardment.

The situation began to turn unfavorable to the Second Battalion.

Although the soldiers of the Second Battalion were fearless, their flesh and blood could not withstand the bombardment of heavy howitzers and small mountain guns. The defense line of the Second Battalion was shrinking.

The third battalion also rushed to reinforce, but the lack of heavy artillery did not change the situation.

Two-thirds of Yaobao Town was occupied by the Japanese, and the defense line of the Third Regiment was shrinking.

At this time, the Japanese scouts brought bad news to the commander of the Japanese reinforcements in Fengtian: the reinforcements of the Devil Forces were found to the west and east of Yaobao Town, with a strength of about one regiment each, and there was an attempt to encircle the Japanese reinforcements in Yaobao Town.

The commander of the Japanese reinforcements was afraid that his troops would be surrounded by the devil's troops, so he had to order a retreat.

When the three regiments of the Third Brigade gathered at Yaobao Town, the Japanese reinforcements had disappeared. The plan of the Third Brigade to encircle the Japanese reinforcements in Fengtian failed.

Brigade Commander Li of the Third Brigade reported the situation to Leng Feng and asked for instructions on the next steps.

Soon Leng Feng sent instructions: The Third Brigade should be stationed nearby and assist the Third Regiment of the First Brigade in defending Yaobao Town at any time.

So the First Regiment of the Third Brigade set up camp in an open space five kilometers north of Yaobao Town, the Second Regiment was stationed in Xintai Town, and the Third Regiment was stationed in Li Qianhu Town.

The Third Regiment of the First Brigade finally defended Yaobao Town after much hardship. The commander of the Third Regiment was afraid that Yaobao Town would be suddenly surrounded and attacked by the Japanese again, so he ordered the signalman to connect the telephone line from Yaobao Town to the tribe.

The communications squad leader told the commander of the Third Regiment that when the Second Regiment just connected the telephone line from Deshengtai to the tribe, there were not enough telephone lines, so they borrowed the telephone lines from us. Now we don’t have enough telephone lines.

"If it's not enough, you'll have to find a way yourself." The commander of the third regiment, who had just lost a battalion and a half, responded in a bad mood.

"Yes." The communications squad leader saluted, turned around and left with a communications soldier.

The signalman asked the squad leader: "Squad leader, do you have any way to find the telephone line?"

"There are telephone lines everywhere. It just depends on whether you can find them." The communications squad leader responded unhappily.

The communications soldier looked at the squad leader in confusion.

The communications squad leader looked at the clear eyes of the communications soldier and couldn't bear to scold him, so he explained to him:

"Is there a telephone line connecting Guizi Yaobao Town to Fengtian? We can secretly cut it and use it."

"That's right," the signalman suddenly realized and shouted, "We can also cut the telephone lines from Li Qianhu Town to Yaobao Town and from Xintai Town to Yaobao Town and use them."

"You are stupid. Li Qianhu Town and Xintai Town are also in our hands now. If you cut off their phone lines, how will Yaobao Town contact them? We will have to take over when the time comes."

"Oh" the signalman stopped talking. That night, the signalman squad leader led the twelve members of the signalman squad to cut back the telephone lines from Yaobao Town to Fengtian and from Deshengtai to Fengtian.

The call from Yaobao Town to the tribe was connected.