Devil's Army

When the squadron leader heard no more sound in the house, he rushed in and found seven bodies of Japanese spies lying in the house.

A brazier next to the body of a Japanese soldier was still emitting white smoke, and some documents were pressed under his body.

The squadron leader pushed the devil's body away and found a map of the towns and villages around Peiping under him.

The map was very detailed, even some mountain roads that were rarely traveled were marked. There were even a few wells in the village, and the locations of the wells were marked.

Such a detailed map was obviously not drawn by our people.

The squadron leader packed up all the maps and documents and took them away.

The squadron leader destroyed the Japanese spy agency in Peiping. At that time, there was heavy gunfire in Peiping and the Japanese had begun to attack Lugou Bridge, Wanping City and Peiping.

Li Jingxun, the captain of the 38rd Squadron of the Special Operations Team who got off the ship with Wu Lang, had already handed over the intelligence on the enemy's defense deployment in Tianjin to Li Wentian, the deputy commander of the th Division.

General Song declared on July 7 that he would “defend the troops on their own” while warning the 27th Division in Tianjin to “respond to battles but not seek them.”

At this time, the land and water routes of Tianjin were controlled by the Japanese. The Japanese also sent four warships to strengthen the defense at Tanggu Wharf. The army practiced street fighting day and night. The officers and soldiers of the 38th Division were very dissatisfied with the authorities' passive anti-Japanese policy and called for war.

Li Wentian, deputy commander of the 38th Division, launched the largest independent battle in China since the July Incident, the Tianjin Defense War. He also sent an anti-Japanese telegram to the Kuomintang military and political leaders, saying that he "would live and die with Tianjin, fight against the Japanese with blood, and never look back." He hoped that "you would quickly provide assistance to annihilate the enemy together!"

The third squadron of the special operations team followed the 26th Regiment of the 678th Brigade and the security team. Under the command of Qi Guangyuan, the commander of the pistol regiment, they penetrated from Balitai to Liulitai at a.m. and attacked the enemy's Haiguang Temple barracks.

Captain Li arranged a special operations team to go ahead and check the situation. They were lying on the road from Liulitai to Haiguang Temple. When a Japanese patrol team passed by them, the special operations team members jumped up and rushed to their respective targets, killing the Japanese patrol team with daggers.

After dealing with this Japanese patrol squad, the team members immediately collected their ammunition. Now that they were far away from the base, it was difficult to supply ammunition.

With the cooperation of the special operations team, the troops started the attack smoothly and drove straight to the outskirts of Haiguang Temple.

At this time, the Japanese in the Haiguang Temple barracks had already set up their cannons. Two small steel cannons and five mortars kept bombarding the soldiers of the 38th Division and the soldiers of the rd Squadron of the Special Operations Team. Captain Qi's fierce attack was blocked.

During this Tianjin Anti-Japanese War, Deputy Division Commander Li only assembled more than 38 people to participate in the war. The longer the time dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be for the th Division.

The 678st Company of the th Regiment advanced towards Haiguang Temple under the enemy's artillery fire. The captain of the rd Squadron of the Special Operations Team gathered the sharpshooters in the squadron to find a suitable position to prepare to snipe the enemy gunners.

The first company suffered heavy casualties under the fierce artillery attack of the devils. But the soldiers did not retreat. They could no longer tolerate the devils' arrogance. Now that their superiors agreed to let them go to war, they must eliminate these devils.

As the special forces sharpshooters continued to take up positions, the Japanese gunners were knocked down one after another, and the pressure on the first company was getting less and less.

Captain Qi promptly ordered the second company to follow suit. The soldiers once rushed to the outer wall of Haiguang Temple and exchanged fire with the Japanese across the wall.

Just when they were about to capture the Japanese barracks in Haiguang Temple, nine Japanese planes flew over and bombarded and strafed Captain Qi and his men.

The soldiers of the 38th Army, which had no air defense capabilities, suffered heavy casualties in the attack by the Japanese Air Force.

When the captain of the third squadron heard the captain of the first squadron tell him about the great victory of their First Army Air Force in the 9:0 air battle with the Japanese Air Force in the Nanyuan battle, he immediately asked the signalman to call for air force support from the headquarters.

The signalman immediately put down the radio and called the headquarters. What puzzled the signalman was that the radio did not respond.

After checking, the signalman lowered his head and reported to the captain of the third squadron: The radio station was destroyed by the Japanese at some point in time.

"Can it be repaired?" asked the captain of the third squadron.

"No, the diode is punctured and needs to be replaced with a new one." The signalman answered in a low voice with his head down, like a child who had done something bad and was caught.

The captain of the third squadron had no choice but to ask for help from the regiment commander Qi. But to the captain's disappointment, the regiment commander Qi told him that they had not applied for a radio station because they were too hasty in preparing for the battle. Besides, the radio station was usually only available in their division headquarters.

The captain of the third squadron was speechless and could only sigh as he looked at the Japanese planes that were strafing and dropping bombs indiscriminately in the sky.

The Japanese in the Haiguang Temple barracks were reinforced by aircraft, and their confidence increased greatly. They rushed towards the barracks wall, roaring.

Soldiers of the 38th Division who were lying on the wall were constantly shot down by the enemy's planes, and others were hit and fell off the wall during the desperate charge of the enemy at Haiguang Temple.

The captain of the third squadron ordered a small team to prepare to launch a new round of attack on the Haiguang Temple barracks together with the third company, but was stopped by Captain Qi.

Captain Qi told the captain of the third squadron that their special forces were to carry out special missions, not to charge. In addition, the sound of gunfire from the Japanese reinforcements transferred back from Beijing could be heard not far away.