Devil's Army

When the patrol team of the regiment leader was surrounded by the Japanese and the situation was very unfavorable, the light and heavy machine gun positions controlled by the soldiers of the regiment suddenly fired at the Japanese.

The defenseless Japanese were knocked down one after another by their own light and heavy machine guns.

A regiment commander and a patrol team quickly jumped into the fortifications and started shooting at the Japanese.

Only then did the Japanese captain wake up from his dream. He had brought these more than 60 so-called imperial soldiers of unknown origin into the fortifications, which was like inviting a wolf into the house.

The captain immediately gathered his troops to encircle and suppress the sixty-three people including the regiment commander.

The captain originally thought that there were more than 200 people in his position, which was four times the strength of the devil troops that had infiltrated.

But he soon realized that he had misjudged the situation, because the soldiers of the first and second companies of the first battalion of the third regiment on the mountainside were already rushing towards his position with shouts.

The shouting was already very close to the position. What made the captain collapse was that the light and heavy machine gun positions blocking the Jinhuashan position to the west had been changed hands at some point.

The devil troops who had infiltrated were using these light and heavy machine guns to fire at the first and second companies of imperial soldiers.

The soldiers of the first and second companies, who did not encounter any fire obstruction, quickly rushed to the position and, together with the regiment commander who had lurked in beforehand and more than 60 people, chased down the Japanese on the Jinhua Mountain position.

Although the captain's soldiers fought back tenaciously, the soldiers from the first and second companies charged even more bravely.

Soon, the more than one squadron of Japanese soldiers stationed at the Jinhua Mountain position could no longer hold out and, led by the captain, began to retreat towards Lingyuan.

A regiment commander led his soldiers to beat the Japanese who were down in the water, and kept chasing the retreating Japanese.

The sound of gunfire from Jinhua Mountain rang out throughout the night, frightening the Japanese soldiers who were resting in Lingyuan. They were ready to fight to the death.

In the end, the captain and 52 Japanese soldiers fled back to the base camp on the east side of Jinhua Mountain.

Colonel Saito was disheartened when he heard that the Jinhuashan position had also been lost.

With his current strength, it would be difficult to recapture the Jinhua Mountain position, let alone drive away the devil troops and recapture Jianchang County.

Saito Daiko was wiping his command knife in the command room. He wanted to commit suicide by disembowelment to atone for his crime.

The chief of staff who came in to deliver intelligence saw Colonel Saito holding his command knife and preparing to commit suicide, and hurriedly stopped him.

He told Colonel Saito that victory and defeat were common in the military. They still had the strength and could make a comeback.

Colonel Saito smiled bitterly and asked, "Our regiment was beaten by the devil's army and only had less than a thousand people left. How can we say that we are still strong?"

"Most of our senior commanders are still here. We can continue to recruit new soldiers and fight to the death with the devil's army."

Colonel Saito took advantage of the situation and put away his sword. He did not really want to commit suicide, but just wanted to gain political points by committing suicide.

The Second Regiment wiped out all the Japanese invaders east of Jinhua Mountain yesterday.

The next day, when the sky was getting light in the east, the Second Regiment, with the support of tanks, launched an attack on the Japanese troops to the west of Jinhua Mountain.

The Second Battalion rushed to the place where the Japanese camped last night without firing a single shot. However, the Saito Regiment had already set out overnight, and the place was already deserted.

The soldiers of the First Army continued to garrison the Jinhua Mountain position and occupied the fortifications built by the Japanese at the west foot of Jinhua Mountain.

Colonel Saito fought for more than half a month, lost most of his regiment, and consumed a large amount of war supplies, but the battlefield situation returned to its pre-war state.

Shortly after Colonel Saito returned to Lingyuan, the military police sent by Major General Hattori also arrived.

They took Colonel Saito back to the military court for trial.

The first encounter between the Japanese North China Front Army and the Devil's Army was a Waterloo. Someone must be held responsible for this failure.

Major General Hattori also put all the blame for the failure on Colonel Saito, believing that it was his poor command that led to the ambush by the devil troops that caused their North China Front Army to suffer this failure. This also saved some face for their North China Front Army.

When Commander Ling Qilong of the Kwantung Army saw the notice, he smiled and threw it aside.

The new staff officer picked up the report and read it, then complained angrily: "Colonel Saito is too incompetent. A regiment of the North China Front Army was beaten so badly by a local army."

Ling Kulong smiled and asked the staff officer: "Have you ever fought against the Devil's Army?"

The staff officer shook his head in embarrassment and said nothing. He had just been sent to Ling Kulong's headquarters for training and had not participated in any battles.

"If Colonel Saito was really as incompetent as the report said, how could he have made numerous achievements in the Russo-Japanese War and never lost a battle against the Northeastern Chinese Army? He rose to his current position of colonel step by step based on his military achievements."

"Why does the report say that?"

"You are still too young." Commander Ling Qilong said after looking at the staff officer.

After defeating the Saito Regiment, the Fifth Brigade, except for the troops left to defend the Japs in the Lingyuan direction, withdrew all other troops to Jianchang County to participate in the reconstruction of Jianchang County.

When the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Brigade looked at the people of Jianchang County who looked so miserable, their joy of victory was completely washed away.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade also felt that the Japanese Air Force should be taught a lesson.