Devil's Army

The second battalion resisted and retreated at the same time.

The Japanese commander who attacked the Second Battalion was also a captain. He looked at the Second Battalion, which was retreating step by step, and said arrogantly: "The devil's army that was praised to the sky is nothing more than this."

He ordered his soldiers to intensify the attack.

The Japs successively captured the positions of the second battalion.

At this time, the whistling sound of mortar shells came from the sky above the position.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of mortar shells exploding was heard everywhere on the Second Battalion’s original position.

What was even more threatening to the captain's life was that the first regiment's five 100mm howitzers had just bombarded a large group of Japanese troops in the reinforcement convoy, and immediately turned their guns around and bombed them.

Before the captain could understand what was happening, the 100mm howitzer continued to fire two more waves.

The captain finally came to his senses after being bombarded continuously. He knew that the reputation of the devil unit was earned through fighting, not boasting.

The captain finally put away his arrogance and ordered his soldiers to attack the devil's troops cautiously.

At this time, the Second Battalion had taken advantage of the Japanese's confusion and captured the position they had just deliberately lost.

The captain's artillery then launched a fierce bombardment on the second battalion's positions.

The infantry then cautiously approached the second battalion's position.

The Japanese were more than a hundred meters away from the Second Battalion's position, but there was still no movement from there.

The Japanese had forgotten the pain and thought that the Second Battalion had been blown up by their artillery, so they began to arrogantly speed up their charge.

When the Japanese infantry were less than 50 meters away from the Second Battalion's position, a rain of grenades flew out from the Second Battalion's position.

The grenade rain blew up the Japanese soldiers who were close to the position one after another. In addition, as the grenades flew out from the second battalion's position, dense gunfire rang out, and the Japanese soldiers a little further away were knocked down one after another.

But this group of Japanese soldiers were still strong and continued to charge forward regardless of casualties.

A regiment of mortars exploded in the middle of the enemy's rear guard just in time.

The Japanese, having lost their support, finally lost their strength in the charge and were forced to retreat.

Seeing that the Japanese were weak in their charge, the second battalion commander blew the charge horn in time and launched a counterattack against the Japanese.

The charging Japanese began to retreat and then fled, eventually leading the entire brigade to flee in defeat.

The captain finally stopped the troops from fleeing and counted the troops. He only launched two waves of charge and suffered artillery bombardment from the devil troops. His troops had suffered more than one-third of casualties.

The artillery fire from the army outside the city and the artillery fire from the Japanese had shifted in priority.

In the past, the Japanese artillery shells fell on the Chinese army's positions without any cost, causing great casualties to the Chinese army. This time, it was the turn of the First Army's artillery shells to fall on the Japanese city walls without any cost. As soon as the Japanese heavy firepower points appeared, mortar shells flew over to bomb them.

After the First Army launched two charges and was blocked by the Japanese, it did not launch any further charges, but instead fought a war of attrition with the Japanese.

It wasn't that Major Zuo Chuan was stingy, but the two trains of ammunition that the headquarters had replenished, one was hijacked by the devil troops, and the other was blocked by the devil troops at the dock. He could no longer fire freely with his shells and artillery shells.

If he cannot replenish his ammunition effectively, the only outcome that awaits him is retreat.

Major Zuo Chuan called to inquire about the progress of the battle at the dock, but the result was not what he expected.

Of the two Japanese battalions attacking the dock, one was severely damaged and lost its combat effectiveness. The other was beaten back and was resting, preparing to continue the attack. Moreover, according to the reports of the commanders of the two battalions, the devil troops at the dock were far more than the 200 or 300 people originally reported, but at least two regiments of troops.

Major Zuo Chuan was puzzled. Were the sentries at the city gate blind? Did no one notice that two regiments of devil troops had sneaked in? If they had sneaked in, where did they get the weapons from?

Having fought against the Devil Troops many times, Major Zuo Chuan knew the combat effectiveness of the two regiments of the Devil Troops, and that they were no longer something his two battalions could defeat. However, if the Devil Troops that had sneaked into the city were not eliminated, they would work together with the Devil Troops outside the city, and Kaiyuan City would be in danger.

On the one hand, Major Zuo Chuan continued to send reinforcements to besiege the devil troops at the dock, and on the other hand, he asked for help from the Japanese troops in Changtu, asking them to launch an attack on the devil troops at the dock from across the Xiaoliang River.

After receiving the request for help from Major Zuochuan, the Japanese commander in Changtu County cursed Major Zuochuan for his incompetence. The headquarters transferred two army trains of ammunition to him, but all of them were given away to the devil's troops.

But despite the scolding, reinforcements were still necessary, because if Kaiyuan City fell, the next target of the devil army would be their Changtu County.

But Changtu County was not the front line, and they did not have many troops. The Japanese and puppet troops combined only had more than a thousand people. They could not send out all of them, right? If the city was empty and the resistance fighters took the opportunity to cause chaos, what would he do?

In the end, he sent two squadrons of more than 300 people and more than 300 puppet troops to reinforce.

Because the dock was piled with munitions, if the Japanese fired two artillery shells and caused the munitions on the dock to explode, both of their regiments would be destroyed.

Therefore, at the beginning of the battle, the commander of the Third Regiment arranged the Third Battalion to go to the lower reaches of Xiaoliang River to block the Japanese reinforcements coming from Changtu.

As the Third Regiment Commander had guessed, the Japanese in Changtu really sent reinforcements and engaged in a firefight with his Third Battalion.

At this time, the reinforcements sent by Major Zuochuan also arrived at the dock, and the Japanese began to attack the soldiers of the First Army at the dock from three sides.

The two regiments of the 4th Brigade encountered the most dangerous situation since they sneaked into Kaiyuan City.