Devil's Army

Major General Hattori of the Japanese North China Front Army originally wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Devil Forces relaxed their vigilance during the Spring Festival to launch an attack on the defenders of the Jinhua Mountain Devil Forces on the first day of the new year.

As the roads were blocked by heavy snow, the Japanese armored tank units arrived half a day late, so the attack was set on the second day of the New Year.

Among the entire company stationed at Jinhua Mountain, only machine gunner Xiao Erwa was allowed to return home on New Year's Eve by special permission from the company commander. The rest of the officers and soldiers were all on duty at Jinhua Mountain.

Xiao Erwa was from Xiaojiagou Village near Huludao. He had no special skills and could only make a living by doing odd jobs in Huludao.

His father went to Guandong in his early years and there was no news since then. His mother went to the interior to look for his father but there was no news either. He had two younger sisters to support, and the burden of the family fell on Xiao Erwa alone. He often went hungry and had a hard life.

Since the First Army recaptured Huludao, Xiao Erwa joined the army, and his two younger sisters were sent to the tribal school by the army.

He also receives a fixed allowance every month, and his life is becoming more and more promising.

Neighbor Xiao Erniang introduced Xiao Erwa to a date from the next village. She asked Xiao Erwa to come back on New Year's Eve for a blind date. So the company commander granted him a day and a half off and asked him to return to the team before 2pm on New Year's Day.

On the morning of the second day of the Chinese New Year, before daybreak, the mountain birds in the forests in the Lingyuan direction of Jinhua Mountain suddenly fluttered into the sky.

"Something's happening," a deputy company commander in the fortification immediately took out a binoculars and looked towards the place where the bird flew up.

The company commander who was sleeping at the entrance of the cave was also awakened. He hurried to the front line and asked the deputy company commander: "What's the situation?"

A deputy company commander shook his head and said, "I haven't seen anything happening yet."

"Birds wouldn't take off in groups for no reason so early in the morning. Someone must have startled them under the tree. Keep watching."

"Yes," the deputy company commander responded, and then took the telescope and continued to observe the place where the bird was startled.

The company commander's worries were not without reason. At this time, the sky was still snowing lightly. A squadron of Japanese soldiers wearing white camouflage clothes quietly approached the company's position.

After startling the birds, they all lay motionless on the ground.

The deputy company commander looked for a while but didn't notice anything. He felt like smoking, but the company commander had forbidden smoking at the front line. So he handed the telescope to the soldier next to him and asked him to continue observing.

He ran to a tree, dug up a few roots of the sour bamboo shoots, and started chewing them.

The sour taste of the sour stick instantly spread in his mouth, making him feel much more energetic.

"Deputy Company Commander, what would you like to eat?" Xiao Erwa saw the deputy company commander chewing with relish, so he leaned over and asked.

The deputy company commander passed another sour stalk root into his mouth, and then said to Xiao Erwa, "Here are some. If you want to eat them, dig them yourself."

Xiao Erwa immediately continued digging towards the place where the deputy company commander was digging, then rubbed a few roots of sour bamboo shoots on his clothes and put them into his mouth and started chewing.

The sour taste that permeated his mouth and tongue instantly made Xiao Erwa cry.

"How is it? Is it powerful enough?" the deputy company commander asked Xiao Erwa intoxicatedly.

"Enough, sour enough."

At this time, an anxious owl cry came from the observation post at the front of the position.

"Something's happening." After saying this, the deputy company commander hurriedly walked towards the soldier who was observing with a telescope.

Xiao Erwa also quickly lay down beside the machine gun, nervously observing the direction of Lingyuan.

When the soldier saw the deputy company commander coming, he immediately handed the telescope to the deputy company commander and said, "Deputy company commander, there is something wrong over there. The white cloth is moving."

The deputy company commander looked through the telescope for a while and immediately said, "Those are the devils wearing camouflage uniforms. Immediately notify the artillery to get ready. Our infantry will fire at the moving white cloth at the same time."

The soldier immediately turned and ran to the artillery position to convey the order.

The deputy company commander then conveyed the order to the soldiers around him: "Everyone pay attention, I will shoot at those moving white cloths immediately after I fire my gun."

The soldiers murmured "yes" in unison, then pulled the bolt of their rifles and aimed at the moving white cloth.

The Japanese soldiers in the squadron, wearing white camouflage uniforms, slowly approached the fortifications of the first company. The squadron leader was very happy because he could immediately rush over and eliminate the Chinese in the fortifications.

The Japanese were still 30 meters away from the fortifications when the deputy company commander fired a shot. A piece of white cloth was immediately splattered with red blood.

The grenadiers who had been arranged in advance quickly threw grenades at the Japanese in front of them. The soldiers of the first company also fired at the Japanese in the distance. The mortar shells of the artillery of the first company also exploded in the white camouflage uniforms.

The vast expanse of white camouflage clothing in front of the position was instantly dyed into beautiful red blood flowers.

Xiao Erwa's machine gun and his comrades' machine guns each occupied two corners of a company's position, and they supported each other and fired at the Japanese in front of the position.

The first round of sneak attacks by the Lingyuan devils was defeated without any suspense.

The leader of the team this time was a Japanese infantry battalion leader. Seeing that the sneak attack failed, he decisively adopted a strong attack. The artillery positions that had been set up at the foot of the mountain began to pour shells on the positions of the first company.

The company's position was suddenly surrounded by explosions, smoke and rubble.