Devil's Army

God brought a severe Siberian cold wave. When Wang Zhuangfei opened the door on the third morning, he saw the whole world turned white.

There is also a layer of ice on the surface of Xiaoling River. I just don't know if the ice is thick enough for tanks to pass through.

Wang Zhuangfei contacted a brigade commander and found that the surface of the Nv'er River was also frozen.

Since the snow had just started to fall, the weather would not warm up all of a sudden. Wang Zhuangfei and the brigade commander decided to wait until the ice on the river surface was more solid the next morning before launching an attack on the Japanese on the other side of the river.

Several soldiers took hammers and chisels to check the thickness of the ice to see if the Type 2 tank could pass through. However, as soon as they approached Xiaoling River, they were shot at by the Japanese on the opposite side. The Japanese were always on high alert.

Wang Zhuangfei did not dare to take any risks and decided to rely on infantry to attack across the river.

Some soldiers of the Fourth Brigade were from the Oroqen ethnic group, and they skillfully made some snowboards.

Inspired by this, Wang Zhuangfei immediately asked the soldiers to make a batch of snowboards and practice skiing in the army.

The next morning, before daybreak, a battalion of the Fourth Brigade, wearing camouflage clothing and using ski poles, quickly slid to the east side of the Xiaoling River.

Looking from afar, a battalion of soldiers looked like white snowflakes floating on the east side of Xiaoling River.

The artillery of the 4th Brigade was also on full alert in the back, ready to assist the soldiers in breaking through the Japanese defense line.

When the soldiers of the 4th Brigade broke through the center line of Xiaoling River, the Japanese sentries discovered the soldiers of the Devil's Army sliding towards them rapidly, and immediately opened fire to alert the enemy.

There was a burst of gunfire along the Xiaoling River. The artillery of the Fourth Brigade also began to attack the enemy's fortifications on the east side of the Xiaoling River.

The Japanese artillery also began to bombard Xiaoling River, attempting to collapse the ice on the river surface and prevent the soldiers of the devil troops from crossing the river.

But the ice on the river, which had been frozen for two days, was quite solid, and the shell only made a small dent in it.

The soldiers of the Fourth Brigade quickly slid to the other side of the river, seized the position on the river beach on the east side of Xiaoling River, lay on the river beach and began to shoot at the Japanese fortifications.

As more and more soldiers from the 4th Brigade slid across the river, the pressure on the Japanese in the fortifications increased.

The Japs launched a large-scale counterattack in an attempt to drive the Devil Force soldiers back onto the ice, and then have their artillery bombard the ice surface to eliminate these Devil Force soldiers who had crossed the river.

The battalion commander who had already crossed the river calmly commanded his soldiers to fight back, while at the same time asking the signalman to call for artillery support.

The artillery shells of the First Army landed one after another in the direction reported by the First Battalion Commander. The charging Japanese reinforcements were blocked by the artillery shells.

A battalion of soldiers who had already crossed the river fired fiercely at the Japanese soldiers exposed outside the fortifications.

In the end, this group of Japanese soldiers who counterattacked left behind many corpses and fled back to the fortifications with the few remaining Japanese soldiers in a panic.

The Japanese suffered heavy casualties in this counterattack. The remaining Japanese stopped charging and lay in the fortifications, shooting at the soldiers of the first battalion from the fortifications.

The battalion commander threw away the sand in his hand and cursed:

"Coward, you dare not charge again after launching just one charge. If you don't charge at me, I will."

A battalion commander ordered the 40 rocket soldiers who had crossed the river to follow the infantry to approach the Japanese fortifications and bombard the Japanese firepower points.

As the Japanese machine gun fire points were bombed one by one by the 40 rocket soldiers, the Japanese resistance became weaker and weaker.

Finally, a battalion of soldiers rushed to the front of the Japanese fortifications and threw grenades into them.

The successive explosions of grenades in the enemy's fortifications disrupted their defense, causing more and more First Army soldiers to successfully rush up to the enemy's fortifications.

They began to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese from a superior position.

The Japanese reinforcements continued to reinforce the fortifications. A battalion commander called on the artillery to cut off the Japanese reinforcements.

The first battalion finally secured the fortifications on the east side of Xiaoling River and began to block the Japanese reinforcements with the help of the solid fortifications.

The battle on the Nv'er River side of the 1st Brigade was also going smoothly. Under the powerful artillery and machine gun attacks of the 1st Brigade, the fortifications collapsed in many places, and it was only a matter of time before they fell.

The First Battalion of the Fourth Brigade occupied the beachhead position on the east side of Xiaoling River, and the soldiers from the Second and Third Battalions followed suit and crossed Xiaoling River.

As all the soldiers of the Third Regiment crossed the Xiaoling River, the commander of the Third Regiment launched a full-scale attack.

Under the fierce attack of the soldiers of the Third Regiment, the Japanese began to retreat step by step.

The Japanese retreated to a small forest, but the soldiers of the Third Regiment continued to pursue them.

The Japanese commander left a small group of Japanese soldiers behind the trees to block the soldiers of the Third Regiment, and he himself fled into the forest with more than 200 people.

Knowing that the situation was hopeless, Division Commander Sakamoto, along with the Japanese officers from the General Staff, left Jinzhou for Qinhuangdao on a warship parked on the seashore, escorted by guards.

At this time, the First Army's warships had just escorted the Qinhuangdao freighter back to Huludao and failed to detect the Japanese warship.

After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the soldiers of the Third Regiment finally wiped out the small group of Japanese soldiers who served as cannon fodder, and continued to search for the remaining Japanese soldiers in the forest.

When the Japanese commander retreated, he left behind some Japanese soldiers to cover up the traces of their retreat.

The soldiers of the Third Regiment searched for a long time but found no trace of these devils.