Devil's Army

Wu Lang's brigade quietly completed the counter-encirclement of the Japanese outside Wanping City on the evening of the 7th, but Wu Lang had not yet ordered an attack.

General Song still had hope for peace. If he opened fire rashly, he would be accused of being the culprit who provoked the Sino-Japanese War.

In the early morning of the 8th, the enemy's artillery fire outside Wanping City became more intense. Although the soldiers of the Third Battalion resisted tenaciously, due to the huge disparity in weapons, soldiers were constantly hit by the enemy's artillery fire.

At the same time, the Japanese outside the Lugou Bridge marched towards the Lugou Bridge in orderly steps.

Facing the approaching devils, a soldier said to Platoon Leader Shen Zhongming:

"Platoon leader, the devils are coming, shall we shoot?"

"No, we have orders from above that we cannot fire the first shot."

After saying this, Platoon Leader Shen Zhongming jumped onto the fortifications and shouted at the devils:

"Stop, you have entered our defense zone, please retreat immediately."

The squadron leader shouted to Platoon Leader Shen worriedly: "If you come down, the Japs will definitely shoot."

But Platoon Leader Shen remained unmoved. Facing the Japanese who continued to move forward, he shouted righteously:

"Stop, or we'll shoot you if you don't stop."

The Japanese commander standing in front suddenly dodged to the right, drew his command knife and shouted: "Kill!"

A machine gunner behind the Japanese commander suddenly opened fire without warning.

The squadron leader rushed forward and pulled Platoon Leader Shen down from the fortifications, but it was too late. Platoon Leader Shen was shot several times and died immediately.

The death of Platoon Leader Shen aroused the anger of the soldiers, who fired fiercely at the devils. The Battle of Lugou Bridge officially began.

After blocking the Japanese for a while, the squadron leader returned to Wanping City and telegraphed Wu Lang that Platoon Leader Shen could not be rescued.

Wu Lang was speechless after hearing this. After all, fate cannot be defied.

I don’t know how this national war will change because of their arrival.

The Japanese launched several waves of attacks, but they were all fought back tenaciously by the soldiers of the Seventh Company.

Seeing that the strong attack had no effect, the Japanese commander resorted to trickery and wanted to negotiate with the Third Battalion.

The squadron leader was afraid that Captain Jin would be in danger, so he took two special forces members to accompany Captain Jin to negotiate with the Japanese major.

The battle in Wanping City was very fierce at this time. The Japanese rushed to the city gate several times, but were repelled by the fearless soldiers of the 29th Army. However, the casualties of the soldiers of the Third Battalion were not small.

The small victory won so far in this battle was entirely built on the flesh and blood of the soldiers of the Third Battalion.

Wu Lang had already completed the counter-encirclement of the Japanese from outside Wanping City to the banks of the Lugou Bridge. If the Second Brigade did not take action, the casualties of the 29th Army would be even greater.

Wu Lang ordered the artillery to cover the enemy's artillery positions.

Captain Jin had no way to deal with the Type 96 150mm howitzers of the Japanese First Brigade. He could only passively tell his soldiers to disperse and hide when the Japanese bombarded. Whether they could survive the bombardment was purely up to fate.

When the Second Brigade's 150mm howitzers and small mountain guns were covering the Japanese artillery positions with bombardment, Battalion Commander Jin subconsciously told the soldiers to quickly hide from the artillery.

However, unlike the usual Japanese artillery bombardment, this time the bombardment was more intense than usual, but not a single shell fell into Wanping City.

Captain Jin raised his head and looked outside Wanping City, only to find that there was heavy artillery fire from the Japanese not far away.

Captain Jin's first reaction was that there was an accident at the Japanese artillery position and it exploded.

But soon, fierce gunfire was heard from behind the Japanese outside Wanping City. It was not the gunfire of their troops, but the gunfire of Japanese weapons.

Captain Jin immediately reported to Captain Ji of the 219th Regiment. Captain Ji rushed to the city wall and looked outside the city.

From the sound of gunfire, it can be concluded that it was not their reinforcements that arrived. Because their reinforcements were either using Zhongzheng or Hanyang rifles, and no Japanese weapons were used.

From the city wall, we could see that the Japanese soldiers outside Wanping City had been attacked suddenly. The Japanese positions were in chaos, with Japanese soldiers running and howling everywhere.

During the Anti-Japanese War, most of the soldiers of the Nationalist Government Army were trained with blank ammunition, which resulted in poor shooting skills. However, all the soldiers of the First Anti-Japanese Army were trained with live ammunition, and their tactical level was not inferior to that of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

This enabled the 1st Brigade to fight very smoothly in the battle with the 1st Brigade of the Chinese Garrison Army outside Wanping City.

Since becoming the commander of the Japanese Garrison Army in China, Tashiro Kan'ichirō has been stationed in Beijing and the outskirts of Tianjin. General Song Zheyuan, who moved between the Nanjing government and the Japanese, did not dare to fight them easily. He also gave in to their provocations.

This made Commander Tashiro Kan'ichirō subconsciously believe that the Chinese were weak and could be bullied.

This time, the powerful combat capability and fierce firepower of the Chinese army that suddenly emerged from behind refreshed his cognition.

The artillery fire of the Japanese First Brigade was suppressed by the Second Brigade, and the soldiers of the First Regiment of the Second Brigade continued to attack the Japanese with the support of mortars.

The Japanese were busy defending and passively taking the beating, and were unable to organize an effective line of defense.

The First Brigade of the Japanese Garrison Army outside Wanping City was torn apart by a group of enemies.

Because of the Yamato nation's sense of superiority, Tashiro Kan'ichirō believed that the Chinese army had caught him off guard, so he reorganized his forces and launched a counterattack against the First Regiment of the Second Brigade.

But what surprised Tashiro Kan'ichirō was that the army not only did not retreat under their fierce attack, but instead rushed towards them even more ferociously.

At the same time, the negotiations at Lugou Bridge broke down, and the Japanese launched a more fierce attack.