Devil's Army

Liangjiashan Fortress was built by Sakamoto, the commander of the division, who had lost many battles with the First Anti-Japanese Army and had a growing sense of crisis. With the support of Commander Ling Qilong, he spent a lot of manpower and material resources to dig a fortress.

There were many bunkers and forts on Liangjia Mountain. Even if the surface fortifications were destroyed by the First Anti-Japanese Army, the Japanese could hide in the deep fortifications to avoid the attack of artillery fire. When the First Anti-Japanese Army soldiers charged, they would crawl out to block them. It was very difficult to recapture the mountain.

Liangjia Mountain is the land transportation line that maintains the connection between Jinzhou and Fengtian. By controlling the Liangjia Mountain fortress, the traffic between Jinzhou and Fengtian can be guaranteed to be unimpeded.

Therefore, as soon as the telegram for help from Liangjiashan Fortress was sent out, reinforcements from Jinzhou and Fengtian set out one after another to reinforce Liangjiashan.

The 113th Battalion, which was ambushed by the First Army and the Third Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces last time, came to reinforce Liangjia Mountain. After replenishing its troops and weapons and ammunition during this period, the 113th Battalion had recovered its strength.

The 113th Battalion was almost wiped out in an ambush last time, so they are now fighting more cautiously.

In order to enhance the firepower of the 113th Battalion, Division Commander Sakamoto also allocated the heavy artillery squadron of the Yamashita Regiment to him.

As soon as the captain of the 113th Battalion left Jinzhou City, he immediately formed a long snake formation.

Each squadron sent a small team to search ahead, and a small team on each side advanced defensively to prevent the squadron from being attacked by the devil's troops.

There is a sufficient distance between each squadron to prevent them from being wiped out by the devil's troops.

The heavy artillery squadron was at the end of the troops, ready to provide fire support for the troops in front.

If the squadron in front is surrounded by the devil troops, the Japanese troops in the encirclement can retreat with the support of heavy artillery, and the Japanese troops outside the encirclement can also attack the devil troops in the encirclement with the support of heavy artillery.

This move by the captain of the 113th Battalion ruined the battle plan of a brigade commander to completely wipe out the Japanese reinforcements.

At this time, Captain Nomura of Liangjiashan Fortress discovered a strange phenomenon. The artillery of the devil troops was very fierce, but the infantry charge was very rare. They only launched a few waves of charge symbolically and then retreated.

The fiercest infantry attack was after the first artillery bombardment. The soldiers of the Devil's Army shouted and rushed to a position about 200 meters in front of the first fortification of Liangjia Mountain. As soon as they started shooting, the soldiers of the Devil's Army lay down and fired back for a while before retreating.

Their combat effectiveness is even worse than that of their puppet army.

Something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary. Sakamoto thought for a moment and immediately ordered the 113th Battalion to withdraw. This move of the Devil's Army was a common one, encircling a point and attacking its reinforcements.

A brigade commander received a report from a soldier and readjusted the battle deployment. He decided to attack the waist and kill the head and let the tail go.

But man proposes, God disposes. The captain of the 113th Battalion received an order to withdraw his troops immediately.

At this time, only one squadron of the 113th Battalion entered the ambush circle, and the squadron in the middle of his waist had just entered the ambush circle. Upon receiving the order, he immediately retreated and evacuated the ambush circle of the brigade.

When a brigade commander saw that a squadron of Japanese soldiers in the encirclement were about to retreat, he immediately ordered their men to open fire!

There was a sudden burst of gunfire on both sides of the path, and the sound of grenade explosions continued.

The well-prepared Japanese soldiers immediately got into shape after a brief panic and began to fight back against the attack of the first brigade.

The prepared artillery of the Japanese heavy artillery unit also began to bombard the devil troops soldiers who surrounded their squadron.

Under the cover of heavy artillery, the Japanese began to break out towards Jinzhou.

The first company of the second battalion of the second regiment and the third company of the first battalion of the third regiment surrounded the Japanese in this section. The two companies launched charges against the Japanese in the encirclement one after another, but were suppressed by the Japanese firepower points.

Moreover, the Japanese heavy artillery was very accurate. There must be an artillery observer among the Japanese in this squadron.

A brigade commander had to transfer the 150mm howitzers that were bombing Liangjia Mountain to suppress the Japanese 100mm heavy artillery positions and small mountain artillery positions.

The Japanese heavy artillery was suppressed, and the pressure on the two companies of the Second and Third Regiments was reduced. The 40 rocket soldiers in the company quickly aimed at the Japanese firepower points on the small road and cleared them out.

As the squadron's firepower points were cleared by the First Army, the Japanese soldiers in this squadron on the path were finally unable to withstand the charge of the Anti-Japanese First Army.

After a round of close combat and hand-to-hand combat, the path returned to silence.

The Japanese squadron leader led more than 30 Japanese soldiers to break through the encirclement and retreat to Jinzhou.

In this battle, we wanted to wipe out a whole battalion of Japanese soldiers, but it didn't go as planned. We only killed about 100 Japanese soldiers and suffered nearly a platoon of casualties.

Not long after the battle of the First Brigade began, the battle of the Third Brigade also started.

Compared with the battle of the First Brigade, the battle of the Third Brigade was much smoother.

This Korean division usually bullied the people and treated the Japanese army like a dog. Subconsciously, they regarded the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese First Army as guerrillas who would collapse after one battle.

Division Commander Park did not even arrange a vanguard unit, and marched forward towards Liangjia Mountain under the cover of tanks.

Fortunately, this Korean division had the advantage of terrain. There were no good ambush sites along the way from Fengtian to Liangjia Mountain.

Brigade Commander Li Guozhu could only disperse his troops on both sides of the road, dig simple shelters, and wait for this bootlicker to come over.