Devil's Army

The next morning, Wen Lang led the members of the second squadron back to Hujia Village. Originally, his squadron was a squadron in reality but not in name. Now Leng Feng transferred 15 veteran members from his squad to the fourth squadron and added 50 new members to it. Now he had both the reality and name of a squadron.

On the morning of the third day, Pingjinchuanshu, Ono Jiro and Captain Matsuda discussed a joint anti-bandit action plan between the two counties in Tieling County and sent it to Miyamoto Musashi. Major Miyamoto approved it with four words "Act quickly"! At noon that day, Ono Jiro took the Ono special forces and Pingjinchuanshu back to Tiaobinshan County. In the afternoon of the same day, Xiao Liuzi sent the information that "a group of devils evacuated Tieling County and their whereabouts are unknown" to Leng Feng.

Leng Feng immediately judged that the Japanese were about to take action. He immediately called Wen Lang and told him that a group of Japanese soldiers in Tieling County had evacuated and asked him to be on guard.

Wenlang then pushed the guard post forward to the jungle on the small path next to Aozuikou, set up two secret sentries there, and left a motorcycle for communication.

Because the Hujia Village campsite was destroyed, he and the second squadron temporarily lived in a cave.

In the early morning of the fourth day, the sound of car engines and the light marching footsteps of the Japanese and puppet troops were heard in front of Aozuikou, Tiaobinshan County.

A sentry in the jungle on the trail immediately started his motorcycle and rushed to the cave, reporting to Wenlang that more than 200 Japanese soldiers and more than 300 puppet troops were found at Aozuikou, marching rapidly towards Hujia Village.

Wen Lang immediately called Leng Feng, and Leng Feng had already discovered that more than a hundred Japanese devils and more than three hundred puppet soldiers were rushing towards Hejiazhai.

Leng Feng judged that the main attack direction of the Japanese was still Hujia Village, so he formulated a six-word combat strategy of "destroying the head, hitting the waist, and chopping off the tail", and ordered:

"Wen Lang's second squadron ambushed in the jungle on both sides of the cliff, ready to cut off the tail; half of the fourth squadron rushed to the cliff, ready to hit the waist; Li Guozhu's third squadron ambushed on both sides of the thorn bushes on the cliff, ready to kill the head."

Gray Wolf mainly defended at the waist of Hejiazhai Mountain, and laid a large number of mines on the road to the village to delay the advance of the Japanese. He also left the other half of the fourth squadron in the village as reserve members.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the devils to take the bait.

At about six in the morning, the Japanese arrived at Hujia Village. Hujia Village was still the same as when Pingjinchuanshu retreated a few days ago, with no signs of anyone having been there.

At this time, the battle at the Hejiazhai mountainside began. As soon as the battle started, Captain Matsuda, as if he had learned from Van Fleet's ammunition quantity, threw shells at the mountainside on both sides without regard for cost.

On both sides of the mountainside, rubble flew everywhere, and trees and dead grass were on fire. The members of the first squadron of the Gray Wolf were hiding in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches on both sides of the mountainside, chatting and laughing without being affected. The explosion of the Japanese artillery shells seemed like a piano accompaniment.

The Japanese artillery bombarded for more than half an hour and finally stopped. Captain Matsuda saw that there was no movement on the hillsides on both sides, and he once suspected that the ambushes on the hillsides on both sides had retreated in advance. He sent a small team to search slowly forward.

The lookouts on both sides of the mountainside kept reporting to Gray Wolf the progress of the Japanese search team. Gray Wolf said slowly: "Don't worry, wait a little longer, I'll give them a big gift later."

The Japanese search team had all entered the ambush range. Gray Wolf counted one, two, three slowly. "Bang" Gray Wolf fired a signal flare into the sky.

The Japanese search team, who thought there was no ambush, had just let down their guard when they were suddenly met with a hail of grenades and bullets. They suffered heavy casualties and quickly lay on the ground to fight back.

At this time, Gray Wolf had more than 130 soldiers, twice as many as a few months ago. He also had the advantage of terrain, and the Japanese team resisted for a while, then hurriedly left the corpses on the ground and ran back with more than a dozen people.

Captain Matsuda was so angry that he shouted: "Cover with artillery fire, cover with artillery fire!"

As soon as Gray Wolf heard the whistling sound of the Japanese artillery shells, he immediately shouted, "Hide from the artillery!" Everyone hid in the anti-artillery caves and no longer cared about the Japanese.

Gray Wolf stared at the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain. As long as these Japanese soldiers did not enter the mountainside, he would not care how much trouble they made.

In sharp contrast to the fierce gunfire in Hejia Village, Hujia Village is more like the suburbs of Moscow, quiet.

A small group of Japanese soldiers and a small group of puppet troops had already passed the cliff path.

At this time, a sharp gunshot rang out, and a Japanese sergeant with a plaster flag tied to the muzzle of his gun fell to the ground. In an instant, countless bullets and grenades flew out from the bushes on both sides of the thorns. The poor Japanese in the thorn bush had very limited space to move. If they moved a little too much, the thorns would cut their clothes and scratch their bodies, and they suffered terribly.

As soon as the members of the fourth squadron on the cliff heard the gunshots, they immediately threw grenades down the cliff. Due to the long distance, some grenades exploded directly in the air, which greatly enhanced the lethality of the grenades.

The astute Jiro Ono divided his special forces into two parts, one in the front searching and advancing, and the other in the rear. As soon as he saw the troops in front being attacked, he knew there was an ambush, and immediately ordered the rear troops to retreat and break out. Unfortunately, Wen Lang had been ambushing on both sides for a long time, and a barrage of bullets and grenades greeted them. Explosions came one after another, and the Japanese special forces and puppet troops in the rear fell to the ground one after another.

Under the desperate resistance of several special forces members, Ono Jiro escaped with more than a dozen special forces members. The puppet troops just raised their hands and surrendered.

At this point, the Japanese vanguard troops that crossed the cliff and the waist troops on the cliff were all annihilated, and only Ono Jiro, who was at the rear, escaped with a dozen special forces. The Ono special forces, which had made many achievements in the Northeast and Russo-Japanese battlefields, were finally crippled by Leng Feng's special forces.

Leng Feng ordered the troops not to clean up the battlefield, but to run to Hejiazhai immediately. He also ordered Huilang by phone to hand over the mountainside position to the guerrillas. He led the first squadron and half of the fourth squadron to move in front of Captain Matsuda, ready to block the retreat of Matsuda's squadron.

Unfortunately, the plan failed. Ono Jiro, who escaped, sent a telegram to Captain Matsuda to inform him of the battle situation. Captain Matsuda immediately ordered the troops to retreat. Before the Gray Wolf could tighten the encirclement, he had to order the first squadron to attack the Matsuda squadron from the hillsides on both sides; the fourth squadron pursued the Matsuda squadron from the main road.

By the time Leng Feng arrived with his large force, the battle was over. More than half of the Matsuda squadron had been killed or wounded, and most of the puppet troops had surrendered. In the battle of Hujia Village, the two squads of Japanese soldiers led by Ping Jinchuanshu were completely wiped out. Ping Jinchuanshu was also killed during the retreat. Ono Jiro's special forces also lost 90% of their troops.

At this point, the joint anti-bandit operation by Tieling County and Tiaobinshan County was declared a failure.