Devil's Army

By the time the soldiers of the 38th Division arrived at the scene of the accident, Pan Yugui had already died.

The soldiers saw the words on the ground and took the driver back for interrogation.

Through interrogating the driver, General Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 38th Division, learned that Pan Yugui had revealed the military deployment of the 29th Army to the Japanese, but did not know when the devils would launch an attack.

General Zhang Zizhong immediately reported to General Song. General Song immediately asked Deputy Army Commander Tong Lingge to readjust the deployment. But it was too late. The Japanese army began to attack Nanyuan of the 28th Army on the morning of the 29th.

The Japanese army launched a fierce attack on Nanyuan from the east, south and west.

Fengtai was the main retreat route for the Nanyuan defenders to retreat to Beijing. Wu Lang arranged the 219rd Regiment here in advance to cooperate with the 3rd Battalion of the 29th Regiment in defense to prevent the Japanese from cutting off the retreat route of the th Army.

The 3st Regiment of Wulang assisted the 3rd Battalion in defending Wanping City, and the nd Regiment assisted the th Company of the rd Battalion in defending Lugou Bridge.

As soon as the Fengtai battle started, the Japanese attack was very fierce.

The commander of the Third Regiment asked the commander of the 29th Army, Captain Jin, to show the enemy weakness and lure them deeper. He led his soldiers to ambush near the station.

The Japanese attacked Fengtai and bombarded it with heavy artillery fire from the beginning. The infantry charged behind two tanks.

Soon, the Japs discovered that the resistance of the 29th Army in Fengtai was not very fierce.

The Japanese successfully occupied Fengtai Railway Station, but before they could gain a foothold, two 40 rockets whizzed towards two Japanese tanks.

Two of the Japanese tanks were blown up one after another, and fierce gunfire rang out all around.

What scared the Japs was that the gunshots were not from the Hanyang rifles, but from the Type 38 and Type 99 rifles.

The artillery of the Third Regiment also accurately bombed the Japanese reinforcements.

The retreating soldiers of the Third Battalion also returned to snipe the Japanese who were surrounded at Fengtai Station.

After wiping out the Japanese at Fengtai Station, the soldiers of the First Army of the Third Regiment and the Third Battalion continued to strike while the iron was hot and drove the Japanese back to their original station in one go.

The Japanese commander who withdrew to his base reported to his superiors that the soldiers who fought against them were not from the 29th Army, but a unit equipped with Japanese weapons.

Commander Kiyoshi Kozuki had never fought against the First Anti-Japanese Army. After hearing the soldiers' report, he thought that the elite troops of the 29th Army were equipped with their Japanese weapons. He said arrogantly:

"Even if the Chinese soldiers are equipped with our weapons, they are no match for our warriors of the Great Japanese Empire. Order the artillery and tanks to cooperate with the infantry to launch a new round of attacks.

The Japanese artillery immediately launched bombing on Fengtai Railway Station.

What Kazuki Kiyoshi didn't expect was that soon after their artillery began to bombard Fengtai Railway Station, they were immediately suppressed by the enemy's artillery. And the artillery that counterattacked them was not their Type 150 150mm howitzer, but the German Krupp mm howitzer.

The Japanese artillery positions were forced to move, and Kiyoshi Kozuki immediately called for air support.

At this time, three Type 97 tanks, an upgraded version of the Douding tanks, rumbled towards Fengtai Station, bombarding the Chinese defenders in Fengtai with their 37mm tank guns.

The Japanese didn't know that the rocket soldiers of the 97rd Regiment had been hiding in the dark and keeping an eye on their three Type tanks.

The soldiers of the third battalion on the front line were unable to raise their heads after being blown up by three Type 97 tanks of the Japanese. Battalion Commander Jin was just about to organize a group of suicide squads to go forward and blow up the Japanese tanks.

The battalion commander of the First Anti-Japanese Army grabbed Captain Jin and waved at him.

At this time, three 40 rockets with flames on their tails whistled towards the three Type 97 tanks of the Japanese.

The three Japanese tanks were blown up one after another and lay quietly in front of Fengtai Station.

Commander Kiyoshi Kozuki sent a telegram back to the Army Department, and only then did he guess that the opposing troops were not the elite troops of the 29th Army, but a devilish force headquartered in the Oroqen tribe in Tieling County.

At noon on the 8th, a squadron of twelve Type light bombers, escorted by five Type fighters, roared over from the sky.

Five bombers bombarded the artillery positions of the Fengtai Third Regiment and the Fengtai Railway Station.

The commander of the third regiment saw the Japanese bombers roaring over and hurriedly asked the artillery to move the artillery, but it was too late.

The five 150mm guns of the Third Regiment were successively blown up by the Japanese bombers.

The artillerymen of the Third Regiment braved the explosion of bombs and drove trucks to forcibly pull two 150mm howitzers into the Fengtai railway station platform.

The Japanese's other seven Type 29 light bombers flew towards Nanyuan and bombarded the headquarters of the th Army.

At this time, Wu Lang had transferred a battalion from the first regiment to cooperate with part of the 37th Division of Nanyuan, the military headquarters logistics personnel, the officer education regiment, two regiments of Sun Yutian from the special service brigade, a cavalry regiment of the 29th Cavalry Division and a student regiment that had not yet been issued guns to defend the th Army headquarters.

Seeing the Japanese attacking the 29th Army's Nanyuan headquarters, Army Commander Song Zheyuan urgently ordered Zhao Dengyu's 132nd Division to enter Nanyuan to block the Japanese attack. However, Division Commander Zhao Dengyu only led one regiment to Nanyuan, and other reinforcements were still on the way. Two of the regiments had just arrived in Tuanhe, and the main force was still in Zhuozhou.

Wu Lang knew that the first general in Chinese history who died in the war against Japan was General Tong Lingge in the July 7 Incident. He was eventually killed by the bombing of the Japanese planes.

In order to save China's first general who died in the anti-Japanese war, he sent a telegram to Leng Feng requesting air force support.