Devil's Army

The company commander was about to order the soldiers to rush into the yard to search, but Gray Wolf stopped him.

"Don't let the soldiers make unnecessary sacrifices. The Japs are hiding in the dark waiting for us to go in." Gray Wolf lit a cigarette and said calmly.

"Deputy Commander, aren't you afraid that the Japanese will dig through the wall and escape?"

"Go away, just hide in these rooms." Gray Wolf pointed at Feilong's display screen and said.

The company commander understood that Feilong was keeping a close eye on the courtyard from his high altitude, and not a single Japanese soldier was trying to escape.

"Order the soldiers to surround this courtyard and we will fight them to the bitter end," Gray Wolf ordered.

"Deputy Commander, you go down and have a rest first. We'll just keep an eye on them here. They can't run away." The first company commander said to Gray Wolf.

"It's okay. I can't sleep even if the Japanese are trying to catch me. Come, have a cigarette to relieve your fatigue." Gray Wolf threw a cigarette to the company commander and said.

There were less than two hours left until dawn. The Japanese soldiers in the two rooms were looking around.

The soldiers guarding the wall fired a few shots, and the two devils lay on the ground motionless.

"Remind the soldiers, the Japanese are going to use force." Gray Wolf said to the company commander. Because Gray Wolf knew that it would be more difficult for the Japanese to escape when the day broke.

There was still an hour before dawn when fierce gunfire from the Japanese suddenly came from the windows of the two rooms.

The soldiers watching from the top of the wall were caught off guard, and two of them were shot and killed, falling off the wall, and three others were injured.

While the members of the Japanese action team were suppressing the soldiers of the Devil's Force on the wall, the captain of the Japanese action team took another group of members to rush to the west wall on the left where the defense of the Devil's Force was relatively weak.

But the captain of the Japanese action team was overthinking it. How could there be any weak defenses when a company surrounded a yard?

The moment the captain of the Japanese action team led his team out of the house, they were exposed to the sight of the soldiers of the First Army.

As the captain of the Japanese action team led his team members to charge, more and more of them fell down.

What made the captain of the Japanese action team collapse was that when they just approached the weakly defended wall on the west side, a row of guns extended from the top of the west wall and shot at them continuously, "bang bang bang..."

The small group of Japanese soldiers led by the captain of the Japanese action team were all wiped out.

Gray Wolf counted the bodies on the ground and found that there were no more than ten Japanese soldiers in the two rooms. He ordered the company commander to attack from both sides of the room.

Soldiers on both sides of the courtyard kept jumping into the courtyard and rolling towards the two houses.

The Japanese soldiers in the house were shooting at the soldiers of the First Army in front of them. Unexpectedly, the soldiers of the First Army rolled over from both sides and threw grenades into the house.

After several explosions, the soldiers who rushed into the yard kicked open the door and rushed into the two rooms.

There were more than ten meters of Japanese corpses lying in the room. They were all dead, not a single one was alive.

When the soldiers finished cleaning up the battlefield and returned, it was already dawn.

Gray Wolf had been sleeping for less than half an hour when Leng Feng called and asked him and Beautiful Wolf to return to the tribe immediately.

Gray Wolf rubbed his bloodshot eyes, stretched himself, and hurried back to the tribe with the special forces. The Fifth Brigade Commander had already returned to the tribe before him.

Gray Wolf returned to the tribal operations room. Leng Feng, Wen Wolf, and Liu Yaohua from the Sixth Brigade were all in the operations room. Mei Wolf had just arrived and was taking off his coat.

"Blood Wolf, what's the situation?" Gray Wolf walked into the operations room and asked.

"We have intelligence from Fengtian saying that Commander Ling Qilong of Fengtian has mobilized about 30,000 Japanese soldiers and stored a large amount of supplies during this period. It is estimated that they will launch an attack on us in the next few days. I called you here to analyze which direction the Japanese soldiers are most likely to attack us." Leng Feng said to everyone, pointing at the sand table.

Liu Yaohua and Gray Wolf both pointed to Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County and said, "This direction is the most likely."

Leng Feng nodded and said, "When you came, Wen Lang and I also judged that the Japanese would attack from this direction because there are Wangjia Dagou Gold Mine and Fushun Coal Mine here."

Now that everyone has the same opinion, the next step is to arrange the defensive tasks.

"Meilang, I called you here this time to pretend to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese troops north of Xiaoliang River, creating the illusion that a large force is going to recapture Kaiyuan. Transfer the Japanese troops from Fengtian to Kaiyuan via Fushun. The troops we can mobilize are only about 20,000 people. The more Japanese troops you transfer from Fengtian, the less pressure they will face on the Sixth Brigade."

"Yes," said Li Junnan, commander of the Fifth Brigade, after saluting.

"Sixth Brigade Commander, you should also go back and make some arrangements. Be careful of sudden attacks from the Japanese in Fengtian. Also send people to monitor the road from Fengtian to Fushun to see if the Japanese in Fengtian have sent troops to reinforce Kaiyuan via Fushun."

"Yes." Liu Yaohua also saluted Leng Feng and then left the war room with Meilang.

After Meilang left the tribe and returned to Tieling County, he launched a fierce attack on the Japanese north of Xiaoliang River the next day. He also pulled the five newly manufactured 150mm howitzers from the arsenal to the front line to suppress the Japanese artillery positions.

The major hurriedly telegraphed Commander Ling Qilong in Fengtian, saying that the Devil's Army had sent a large number of reinforcements and was attacking them fiercely. It seemed that they were preparing to recapture Kaiyuan.

But strangely, Commander Ling Qilong remained indifferent when he received the major's telegram for help.

"Do the Japanese want to give up Kaiyuan? This is impossible. Kaiyuan has an important base of the Japanese, and the Japanese will not give it up easily." Leng Feng was puzzled.