Devil's Army

At around eleven o'clock in the morning, the fleet arrived at the Tangshan simple pier where Li Hongmei and her crew boarded the ship.

The soldiers of the 11th Brigade immediately waded off the boat, cut down trees, built a pontoon bridge, and transported weapons and ammunition onto the warship.

In order to avoid harming the villagers, the troops transported the ammunition to a cave under a hillside a little away from the village.

Brigade Commander Du arranged the first battalion of the first regiment to guard the top of the mountain, and arranged the second and third battalions to guard on the left and right sides of the hillside. The first company of the third battalion was arranged to guard the entrance of the ammunition hole. No one was allowed to approach.

Leng Feng sent the 11th Brigade to Tangshan this time in order to build a logistics base for the North China battlefield, so they must prevent the enemy from air bombing.

Since Tieling County was not a strategic location, it was unlikely that the Japanese would rashly bomb Tieling County. Leng Feng transferred the Fourth Anti-aircraft Artillery Company stationed in Tieling County and the newly established 12th Anti-aircraft Artillery Company to Tangshan.

The 12th Anti-aircraft Artillery Company was stationed at the ammunition cave on the hillside, and the 4th Anti-aircraft Artillery Company was stationed at the simple dock.

Leng Feng also prepared to build the North China Anti-Japanese Command, with Wu Lang as the commander-in-chief, and arranged the anti-Japanese operations of the 2nd Brigade and the 11th Brigade. In the future, more troops will be transported to Tangshan Port by sea.

The Japanese Navy Commander Yamamoto Isoroku learned that his two destroyers were attacked by an unknown fleet in the Tangshan waters. He immediately determined that the navy of the devil force had been dispatched, and that the devil force's naval target was Tianjin's Tanggu Port. He immediately ordered the Japanese fleet in Dandong to approach Tianjin's Tanggu Port. All the warships in Tianjin were dispatched to search for the devil force fleet near the Tianjin waters for a decisive battle.

But there has been no sign of the Devil Force fleet.

The Navy launched two Type 95 seaplanes, one patrolled along the waters of Tianjin, and the other patrolled from Tianjin to Huludao, but neither found any trace of the Devil Force fleet.

At this time, a naval fleet of the First Army was quietly staying at the Tangshan Port, protecting the unloading of two cargo ships carrying troops and ammunition.

After the ammunition and weapons were unloaded, there was no more space in the cave on the hillside. The commander of the 11th Brigade had to ask the soldiers to temporarily put them under the hillside and arranged for the soldiers to dig a small cave next to it. At the same time, he telegraphed the commander of the 2nd Brigade to come and collect the weapons and supplies.

Wu Lang received the telegram and was in a dilemma. If he led his troops to Tangshan to replenish supplies, the Japanese would be ready to attack Baoding at any time. If he did not replenish ammunition, the troops would be left with 40mm rockets and 150mm grenades without ammunition.

Wu Lang finally decided to leave the 29rd Regiment to assist the th Army in defending Baoding, and he took the st and nd Regiments to Tangshan to replenish ammunition and discuss the next battle deployment with the commander of the th Brigade.

In order not to alert the Japanese, Wulang took action at 8 o'clock in the evening on August 20, starting from Baoding to Tangshan.

When the troops advanced to the vicinity of Jinpu Road in Jinghai County, fierce gunfire was heard from the front.

It turned out that Li, the brigade commander of the 38th Brigade of the 26th Division, was ordered to retreat to Jinghai County and Qing County after the Tianjin Anti-Japanese War. The 3rd Battalion stationed outside the Jinpu Line exchanged fire with two search squadrons under the First Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Chinese Garrison Army.

The enemy had only a few troops, so Li did not send the first battalion stationed at Jinghai Station to reinforce. The task of destroying the enemy fell on the third battalion, which was fighting guerrilla warfare on the Jinpu Line.

Although the Third Battalion had an advantage in numbers, it had fewer light and heavy machine guns and mortars than the Japanese, and its shooting skills were not as good as the Japanese. For a while, it could not do anything to the two Japanese squadrons.

As soon as Wu Lang arrived at the battlefield, he immediately ordered the first battalion of the first regiment to take charge of the center, and the second and third battalions to take charge of the left and right flanks to attack the Japanese search squadron.

Fierce gunfire suddenly rang out from behind the Japanese soldiers who were attacking the 38rd Battalion of the 26th Brigade of the th Division. Soldiers from the st Regiment of the nd Brigade were killing the Japanese soldiers in front of them with precision.

In more than half an hour, the two squadrons of Japanese soldiers were completely wiped out by the soldiers of the 26th Brigade and the st Regiment of the st Army.

Li, the commander of the 26th Brigade, heard from his subordinates that a strong friendly force had arrived and, with their assistance, had completely wiped out two squadrons of the Japanese. He hurried over to meet Wu Lang.

Wu Lang held Li's hand tightly and told him:

"We are from the Second Brigade of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War. Now the 11th Brigade of the First Army has arrived in Tangshan. In the future, our troops will continue to rush to the battlefield in North China by sea. You are no longer fighting alone."

"The Nanjing government has not sent any reinforcements. We thought that our 29th Army was the only one fighting alone in the battlefield of North China. We didn't expect that you would lend a helping hand in this critical moment."

"Fighting the Japanese invaders is not just the responsibility of your 29th Army, nor is it just the responsibility of our First Anti-Japanese Army. The leaders of the Nanjing government have said, 'Regardless of the north and south, regardless of age, everyone has the responsibility to defend the land and fight the war.' Therefore, fighting the Japanese is the responsibility of every descendant of the Chinese nation."

After Wu Lang finished speaking, he pointed at the Japanese corpses on the ground and said to Li Brigade Commander:

"The Japanese have better weapons and equipment than you. You should clean up the battlefield quickly. The Japanese may counterattack at any time. We have another mission, so we'll take our leave now."

Brigade Commander Li ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield as quickly as possible and switch to a defensive posture. He then waved goodbye to Wu Lang.