Devil's Army

The next morning, the company commander, following the order of the regiment commander, began to attack the Liangjiashan Fortress.

The first company still adopted the three-three attack mode: one soldier was responsible for attacking in the front, and two soldiers on the two wings provided cover, forming a combat group.

The three combat groups formed a triangular attack pattern to form a combat squad.

When the first company approached the Liangjiashan Fortress, they encountered only sporadic gunfire from the Japanese, which reinforced the first regiment commander's belief that the Japanese in the fortress were short of ammunition.

When the vanguard platoon of the first company rushed to a place about four or five hundred meters away from the main position of the Liangjiashan Fortress, the Japanese gunfire suddenly became more intense.

The soldiers in front were shot and fell one after another, and the battle formation was disrupted.

The platoon leader at the back shouted:

"Get down, find a favorable position to fight back, get down. The teams on both wings will provide support."

Under the leadership of the platoon leader, the well-trained soldiers quickly lay down and fought back. The combat teams on both wings also quickly replaced the ones that had just been sacrificed. The battle formation that had just been broken up was quickly formed again.

But what the company commander and the platoon leader did not expect was that fierce bullets suddenly came out of the bunker on the second wing of the platoon leader.

Soldiers on both wings and in the front fell one after another.

Upon seeing this, the company commander quickly asked the battalion commander for artillery coverage.

Not long after, whistling mortar shells hit the Liangjiashan Fortress.

However, just like at the beginning of the attack on Liangjia Mountain, these mortar shells could not have much destructive effect on the sturdy Japanese bunkers.

The devils in the bunker continued to shoot at the soldiers in the first row, and the soldiers in the first row continued to fall one after another.

The company commander shouted to the soldiers in the first row: "Retreat, retreat..." But his voice seemed so small amid the explosion of shells and gunfire.

Soon, this platoon of soldiers was connected to the land of Liangjia Mountain by the enemy's fire from the bunker. The enemy's gunfire also stopped.

The company commander took off his hat and slammed it on the ground, shouting, "Second Platoon, charge!"

"Wait a minute," the battalion commander arrived at the first company's command post in time and stopped the company commander from acting rashly.

"The enemy's firepower is so fierce, do you want the second platoon to die?"

"Battalion Commander, the Japanese must be running low on ammunition. They have called a transport plane to replenish their ammunition."

"Did you see that the Japs looked like they were running low on ammunition just now?"

"That was their last desperate struggle." The company commander thought stubbornly.

The battalion commander stopped talking. Was the battle just now a last-ditch struggle of the Japanese or a trick to lure them into a trap? He had no information on this and had no way to investigate.

"Battalion commander, the brothers in our platoon cannot die in vain! I will lead the remaining two platoons to destroy the Japanese fortress!" The company commander begged the battalion commander.

"You have to be careful. If you find something wrong, retreat immediately." said a battalion commander worriedly.

The company commander nodded, waved his hand and shouted: "Second and third platoons, follow me."

The company commander and his men began to attack, while the battalion commander was watching them nervously from behind.

The 40th rocket soldiers cooperated with the company commander and his men to destroy the Japanese bunkers they had just discovered one by one.

Seeing the company commander and his men gradually approaching the fortress, the battalion commander became increasingly nervous.

At this time, the gunfire from the Japanese in the fortress began to intensify again. Several groups of soldiers in front of the first company commander fell one after another. What was even more terrible was that many new bunkers appeared around the first company commander, desperately shooting at the first company commander and his men.

"Company commander, the Japanese are not short of ammunition. They have plenty." The second platoon leader crawled to the side of the first company commander and asked.

When the company commander saw soldiers falling around him one after another, he felt that something was wrong and ordered everyone to retreat.

But the first company soon found that they could not retreat. Machine guns in two newly-built bunkers on the left and right kept firing at the first company's soldiers.

Rather than sit and wait for death, it is better to fight to the death. A company commander ordered his soldiers to blow up the enemy's bunker.

The last rocket soldier in the company stuffed the last rocket into the rocket launcher and aimed at the bunker closest to him.

When the bunker's bullet swept past the rocket soldier, a "puff" sound was heard, and the sound of the bullet piercing through flesh came from the rocket soldier's stomach.

The rocket soldier, who had been shot twice in the right leg, shook his body, stabilized his body, and pulled the trigger of the rocket launcher.

The rocket flew towards the Japanese bunker. There was an explosion, and the machine gun in the Japanese bunker went silent.

The rocket soldier detonated a grenade the moment he fell.

The grenade blew up the rocket soldiers and the rocket launcher together.

The battalion commander was extremely anxious watching from the foot of Liangjia Mountain, but he could do nothing. He could only watch his two platoons of good brothers fall one after another.

The gunfire and grenade explosions in front of the Liangjiashan Fortress finally stopped. None of the 166 brothers in the company of the first battalion commander returned.

This was the first time in more than two years of fighting the Japanese invaders that an entire company of the First Anti-Japanese Army was wiped out.

The second and third company commanders were moved to tears and furious, and they all asked to fight in the battle.

But the battalion commander rationally refused. He could not let his precious soldiers' lives be wasted on Liangjia Mountain again.

In the afternoon, a transport plane from Fengtian flew over and airdropped supplies to the Japanese at the Liangjiashan Fortress.

At this time, the regiment commander realized that the Japanese had first shown weakness to them, lured them into the trap, and annihilated them in front of the Liangjiashan Fortress. Then, they would airdrop supplies to them from Fengtian.