Devil's Army

Around four o'clock in the afternoon, the roar of two Japanese G3M96 bombers was heard from the direction of Lingyuan.

The 5th and 8th Anti-aircraft Artillery Companies of the First Army had already retreated in advance to avoid Colonel Saito's search force. There were no anti-aircraft artillery units stationed on the small road.

In order to reduce casualties, the commander of the Third Regiment immediately ordered the troops of the First, Second and Third Battalions stationed in the three fortifications they had just occupied to retreat immediately.

The Japanese fortifications they had just occupied were about to be evacuated. However, the military order was as firm as a mountain, and the officers and soldiers of the Third Regiment immediately withdrew from the fortifications and hid in the woods on both sides of the path.

All the soldiers of the Third Regiment retreated into the woods, and the Japanese bombers also arrived over the path.

One after another, heavy aerial bombs whizzed towards the path, the three fortifications and the surrounding areas.

The path and surroundings were suddenly filled with explosions, and billowing clouds of dirt, fire, and smoke.

"It would be great if we had planes too!" The third regiment commander sighed as he looked through the telescope at the path that had been bombed into a sea of ​​fire.

"This day will come." The Fifth Brigade Commander, who had arrived at the regiment headquarters at some point, patted the Third Regiment Commander on the shoulder and said.

"Hello, Brigade Commander!" The Third Regiment Commander put down his binoculars, turned around and saw the Fifth Brigade Commander, and quickly stood at attention and saluted.

"Yes, you ordered the troops to retreat very timely, otherwise the troops would have suffered heavy casualties this time." The Fifth Brigade Commander praised.

"I thought that since our anti-aircraft artillery unit was not here, we could not deal with the enemy's planes, so we should withdraw the troops first. If the enemy wanted the fortifications, they could take them away, and we could take them back at night."

"Okay, you can only gain if you know how to give up. That's right. We can't do anything to the Japanese planes in the sky now, but soon we will have our own air force and can drive the Japanese out of our sky."

"It would be best if we could fly to the devil's island and lay a few eggs near their palace, so that they can also taste our power." The third commander said ambitiously.

After the Japanese planes dropped their bombs and flew away, Colonel Saito ordered the infantry to launch an immediate charge and quickly capture the fortifications lost in the morning.

What surprised Colonel Saito was that the devil troops had taken the three fortifications with great effort in the morning without leaving a single soldier to defend them.

The Saito Regiment recaptured the three fortifications without firing a single shot.

The battle was won too easily, and Colonel Saito became uneasy, feeling that trouble was about to break out.

But we can't just hand it over to the devil's army again, right?

Colonel Saito had no choice but to order his troops to repair fortifications as quickly as possible and be wary of the counterattack of the devil troops.

As night began to fall, the sound of birds began to appear in the quiet forest.

In the woods on both sides of the path in front of the third fortification, there were pairs of eyes hidden, staring at the fortification.

At nine o'clock in the evening, as the third regiment commander fired a gunshot, the path in front of the fortifications suddenly lit up. Two tanks turned on their headlights and roared towards the fortifications.

Behind the tanks and on both sides of the path were shouting soldiers from the Third Regiment.

Although the devils had anti-demon troops who would launch attacks, they were still unable to withstand the fierce and surging attack of the army, especially the two tanks, which were unstoppable.

The Japanese's firepower points were all eliminated by the tanks' cannons and machine guns.

After the soldiers of the Third Regiment successfully occupied the third fortification, they immediately launched an attack on the second fortification with the support of tanks.

The Japanese in the second line of fortification were better prepared and put up a more tenacious resistance.

The two tanks were afraid of being attacked by the Japanese human bombs, so they stopped about 100 to 200 meters away from the Japanese fortifications and continued to bomb and strafed the Japanese fortifications.

The infantrymen next to the tanks were also nervously staring at the Japanese soldiers in front of the tanks, and would immediately shoot any Japanese soldiers who tried to approach the tanks.

The Japanese light and heavy machine gun fire points in the second line of fortifications were either bombed by the first army's tank shells or strafed by the tanks' machine guns, and their firepower was greatly reduced.

The soldiers of the Third Regiment finally rushed to the second fortification and began to throw grenades into the fortification. Under the cover of the grenade explosion, they rushed to the fortification and shot or assassinated the Japanese in the fortification one by one.

The Saito Regiment's second line of fortification was also lost less than half an hour after the battle began.

The soldiers of the Third Regiment began to charge at the Japanese's first line of fortification.

Before ten o'clock in the evening, what Colonel Saito was worried about became a reality. All the Japanese soldiers he sent to guard the three fortifications were killed again.

Colonel Saito didn't know whether he would need the help of the Air Force to recapture the fortifications tomorrow. If they did, the soldiers he sent to garrison there would be in great danger.

Just when Colonel Saito was hesitating whether to continue to retake the fortifications tomorrow, the Fifth Brigade's Anti-aircraft Artillery Company 5 and Anti-aircraft Artillery Company 8 quietly ambushed on both sides of the fortification path under the cover of night.

If the Japanese bombers attack again tomorrow, things will definitely not go so smoothly.

The company of the third battalion of the third regiment was stationed to guard the first fortification of the Japanese. The Japanese were facing their fortifications, so their defense task was the heaviest and most dangerous. After occupying the fortifications, they immediately reinforced and repaired them.

The third battalion commander also deployed the second and third companies on both wings of the fortifications and arranged secret sentries to prevent the Japanese from attacking at night.

That night, a company of soldiers spent the night in the fortifications confronting the Japanese invaders on the opposite side.