Devil's Army

Lin Junjie led the puppet army into the ambush circle at the entrance of the mountainside, but there was no gunfire on either side. It seemed that there was no ambush this time.

Major Takahashi ordered the Japanese army to search and advance vigilantly.

When some Japanese troops entered the encirclement, dense grenades flew from the hillsides on both sides, followed by dense gunfire. The Japanese soldiers in the encirclement immediately lay down and fought back, but the terrain was at a disadvantage, and the Japanese soldiers were constantly killed by grenade fragments and accurate gunfire.

The Japanese outside the ambush circle immediately set up four mortars and prepared for artillery support.

But just as the Japanese artillerymen set up their guns, the snipers on both sides, who had been waiting for a long time, fired their LR-4 rifles, which called for their lives. Four Japanese artillerymen fell to the ground one after another.

The Japanese machine gunner quickly fired suppressive fire at the place where the gunfire sounded. The Japanese assistant gunner took over the gun and aimed. But before they could fire the shells, the life-threatening sound of "chi chi chi chi chi" came from two other places. The four Japanese assistant gunners also repeated the mistakes of the main gunner and fell to the ground and died one after another. The Japanese machine gunner quickly fired suppressive fire at the place where the gunfire sounded again, running for his life.

At this time, the Gray Wolf's mortar also spoke, and two shells hit the two machine gun positions of the devils directly. The four devils in the two positions, along with the machine guns and mud, were splashed all around.

It turned out that Gray Wolf let the puppet troops in the encirclement go because he looked down on these cannon fodders. Even if these puppet troops were allowed to pass through the mountainside entrance, they would not be able to break through the defense line of the Fourth Battalion that had returned to Hejiazhao Village to deploy defenses.

Sure enough, the puppet soldiers who had already passed the entrance on the mountainside did not continue to rush towards Hejiazhao Village after hearing the intensive gunfire and grenade explosions behind them, but instead lay on the ground to save their lives.

Major Takahashi knew that the battle had reached this point and it would be difficult for him to rush through the mountainside to encircle and annihilate the headquarters of the Hejiazhai devil troops by himself. He could only hope that Captain Yasui of Hujia Village could rush through the defense line of Hujia Village and outflank him from both sides to destroy this devil troops.

The situation of Second Lieutenant An Jing of Hujia Village was not much better than his.

After walking for a while outside of Tiaobinshan County, Lieutenant An Jing saw a fortification 300 meters in front of Aozuikou. The soldiers inside were ready with their guns. He did not say anything and ordered the artillery to cover the fortification.

Seeing that the fortification had been blown to pieces, he thought that there would be few people left alive in the fortification, so he led his troops and easily rushed up to the fortification.

When he rushed forward, he found that the fortifications were full of dummies dressed in clothes made of branches! He had fired so many shells just now just to make the other side laugh.

Just as he was furious, intensive gunfire came from the woods on both sides of the fortifications, and the Imperial Japanese Army soldiers around him fell to the ground one after another.

He was just worrying about not being able to vent his anger on someone, and then someone appeared. He drew his command knife and shouted, "Charge." The supporting Japanese troops immediately lay down, set up heavy and light machine guns on the ground, and fired at the woods on both sides with suppressive fire. The other Japanese troops immediately rushed towards the two sides where the shooting was taking place.

The game team in the woods did not want to fight and quickly retreated into the aconcave mouth.

Captain Yasui led the Japanese army to Aozuikou and immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing. He thought, "This is such a dangerous terrain, there must be an ambush. The small group just now wanted to lead us into an ambush. It's impossible!" So he ordered the artillery to set up the guns and prepare to cover the two sides of Aozuikou with artillery fire.

But what he didn't expect was that Wen Lang ordered his men to detonate the explosives and grenades buried under the 300-meter road between the fortifications and Aozuikou. For a while, the explosions continued, and the broken limbs of the Japanese soldiers flew all over the sky.

After the explosion stopped, Captain Yasui was lucky enough not to be killed, but only slightly injured. He looked at the broken limbs and groaning wounded soldiers on the ground behind him and was stunned. What kind of war was this? He had just come into contact with the enemy and he had lost nearly half of the imperial army.

The situation of the Imperial Army was much better. Just now, when he led the Imperial Army to chase the small group of guerrillas, the Imperial Army's movements were relatively slow, and most of them were still on the road outside the fortifications.

This team of imperial army was transferred from Faku County. In the last battle, except for those who stayed in the county town, the original imperial army of Tiaobingshan County had been completely wiped out.

Captain Yasui called the captain of the Imperial Army to his side, vented his anger on him, slapped him twice and scolded him:

"Bag! Take your time. Our Imperial Army has suffered heavy losses!"

The captain of the Imperial Army didn't dare to retort and just stood there and responded with "Hi hi".

Captain Yasui pointed at the concave mouth and ordered: "You, charge! If you don't charge, you will die!"

The captain of the Imperial Army did not dare to say a word and immediately ordered his troops to charge towards Aozuikou.

At the same time, Captain Yasui ordered the remaining Japanese soldiers to split into three groups, with two groups charging towards the woods on both sides of Aozuikou, and the remaining group serving as a reserve.

Wen Lang only left a small team of soldiers to garrison in Hujia Village, and the rest of the troops were deployed on the hillsides on both sides of Aozuikou. Therefore, the number of personnel was only slightly less than that of the current Japanese and puppet troops, but the firepower was stronger than theirs. Moreover, they occupied the Aozuikou fortress. The puppet troops who rushed into Aozuikou kept falling to the ground. The puppet troops outside Aozuikou did not dare to not charge, so they had to slow down and rush to Aozuikou with a loud noise but little raindrops.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers on both sides had already rushed to Wenlang's fortifications, and Wenlang deployed a squadron to deal with the Japanese soldiers who rushed up. Although Wenlang's team members also suffered casualties, the Japanese soldiers who were at a disadvantage suffered more casualties, and their bodies kept rolling down the mountain.

At this time Captain Yasui had no choice but to order a retreat, and the troops retreated to the Aozuikou intersection for a temporary rest.

At this time, a telegram from Major Takahashi arrived, asking Captain Yasui about the battle situation. Captain Yasui replied with a sad face: We haven't even broken through Aozuikou, let alone attacking Hujia Village.

Major Takahashi sent down the telegram. It seemed that it was no longer realistic to encircle Hejiazhao Village from two directions and destroy the devil troops, so he had to order a retreat!