Devil's Army

In this battle, the Gray Wolfs seized a large number of weapons and ammunition. Moreover, Political Commissar Du also brought him a surprise: their soldiers found a relatively hidden small ammunition depot near the Japanese headquarters.

This small ammunition depot was originally intended for use in the confrontation with the Devil's Army. When Major General Toyotomi's headquarters was bombed by the Devil's Army, he forgot to blow up this small ammunition depot in a panic. As a result, all the ammunition was lost to the First Army.

The two regiments of Li Guozhu's Third Brigade arrived at Chaoyang County station in trucks one step ahead of Battalion Commander Fan's mobile company.

Soon, Captain Fan's two companies of twelve tanks also rumbled to the destination.

Gray Wolf ordered Captain Fan's tanks to hide on the spot, and the two regiments of the Third Brigade surrounded Chaoyang County without rest.

It is unprecedented that there are more than 5,000 Japanese devils in a small county town.

Gray Wolf did not surround Chaoyang County in its entirety, but left a gate leading to Jinzhou unencircled. He was afraid that the Japanese in the county would become desperate and take their anger out on the common people.

After the reinforcements to the west of Chaoyang County were defeated by the devil troops, Chaoyang County fell into an isolated and helpless situation, which made the more than 5,000 devils in Chaoyang County panic all day long.

Finally, on a dark and windy night, a squadron of Japanese soldiers sneaked out of the city gate of Chaoyang County that was not surrounded. They ran all the way to Jinzhou without stopping.

The squadron finally managed to escape back to Jinzhou. The Japanese troops in Chaoyang County immediately requested the Jinzhou Command to abandon Chaoyang County and retreat to Jinzhou.

But the division commander Sakamoto disagreed. Chaoyang County was the gateway to Jinzhou. If Chaoyang County was lost, Jinzhou would be in danger.

Finally, Division Commander Sakamoto agreed that the Japanese regiment that was reinforcing Chaoyang County should withdraw to Jinzhou, while the 335th and 336th Battalions, together with the original garrison in Chaoyang County, would stay in Chaoyang County, waiting for the counterattack of the Jinzhou large force.

The moon was waning and the stars were sparse. It was already past one in the middle of the night. A group of Japanese soldiers from Chaoyang County quietly opened the west gate that was not surrounded by the devil's troops and quickly left the city.

However, their every move was discovered by the flying dragon watching from the sky.

The squadron of Japanese soldiers who escaped safely back to Jinzhou last time had actually been discovered by Gray Wolf and his men a long time ago. Gray Wolf and his men did not touch them just to play the long game and catch the bigger fish.

The Japanese soldiers of this regiment escaped from Chaoyang County and quickly ran towards Jinzhou.

When they were escaping from Chaoyang County on a small road more than ten miles away, they heard a gunshot and a Japanese soldier running in front of them fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, intensive gunfire was heard from both sides of the path, and the Japanese soldiers on the path were knocked down one after another.

This group of Japanese soldiers were well-trained. They quickly lay down and found cover to fire at the soldiers of the First Army on both sides.

The soldiers of the First Army threw the captured Japanese grenades one by one at the devils on the path. The mortar shells directly in front of the path fell densely into the group of devils on the path.

The quiet and dark midnight was awakened by the sound of an explosion and illuminated by the red light of the explosion.

The Japanese soldiers who were hastily fighting, under the command of the regiment commander, made all-out efforts to break out in the direction of Jinzhou.

The small road leading to Jinzhou was blocked by wood. Soldiers of the First Army were behind the wood, crazily shooting at the Japanese soldiers who were rushing up with machine guns.

However, the Japanese regiment leader was determined to fight to the death, and wave after wave of Japanese soldiers rushed towards Jinzhou, because the Japanese also knew that only by breaking through the blockade of the devil troops could they escape back to Jinzhou.

Finally, after paying the price of countless Japanese lives, the regiment commander and his soldiers broke through the devil troops' wooden blockade.

However, before they had advanced far, the commander of the regiment collapsed because another fortification made of sandbags appeared in front of them.

It seemed that a breakthrough towards Jinzhou was impossible. After trying very hard to break through one fortification of the devil troops, there was a new fortification ahead.

The regiment commander led the remaining less than half of the Japanese troops to retreat towards Chaoyang, attempting to wait for reinforcements in a dangerous place.

The Japanese army retreated along the way while resisting and counterattacking the attacks of the devil troops on both sides of the path.

When the Japanese army retreated to the path where they were attacked by the devil troops, the commander of the regiment wanted to cry.

Because the retreat route had been blocked by the devil troops. On the small road, the devil troops' heavy machine guns and two light machine guns fired at them crazily.

The small road back to Chaoyang County was littered with the bodies of Japanese soldiers.

However, the Japanese, who were deeply poisoned by militarism, refused to surrender and continued to resist stubbornly.

Political Commissar Du didn't want to capture Japanese prisoners either, as these Japanese were like stones in a toilet.

The mortars continued to bombard the Japanese on the path, and grenades continued to be thrown into the group of Japanese on the path.

Slowly, the gunfire and explosions on the path stopped.

Soldiers of the First Army swept the battlefield with torches.

A regiment of Japanese troops in Jinzhou was completely wiped out. In addition to the Japanese troops killed by Major General Toyotomi on the front battlefield and the large group of Japanese troops lured and killed by the gray wolf, Division Commander Sakamoto lost 8,000 to 9,000 imperial warriors in this battle. Division Commander Sakamoto wanted to recapture Chaoyang County and the towns to the south, but he was already unable to do so. He had to continue to apply for reinforcements from the Kwantung Army Headquarters, continue to prepare strategic materials, and wait for an opportunity to recapture Chaoyang County and the towns to the south.

At the same time, strengthen the defense of Jinzhou to prevent the devil troops from launching a sudden attack on Jinzhou.