Devil's Army

The Japanese Eleventh Brigade retreated, and the First Army's planes were running low on fuel, so they began to return.

When the commander of the Japanese 11th Brigade saw that the Chinese planes had flown away, he immediately organized his troops to launch another charge.

At this time, Wei Lihuang's troops responsible for reinforcement were blocked by the Japanese and could not arrive as scheduled. However, the Japanese sent the Fifth Division to reinforce.

The war began to develop in a direction unfavorable to the Chinese defenders.

The artillery brought by the Japanese Fifth Division began to bombard the Nankou position and suppressed the artillery of the first regiment.

After the artillery of the 1st regiment was transferred, they risked their lives to launch a fierce bombardment on the charging 11th Brigade of the Japanese.

The soldiers of the First Regiment, with the support of the artillery, successfully defeated the attack of the 11th Brigade of the Japanese. However, his artillery position was also suppressed by the artillery of the Fifth Division of the Japanese.

Only one of the three 150mm howitzers of the regiment was rescued, and the other two were destroyed by the Japanese artillery.

At this time, the Japanese 11th Brigade had been crippled and was unable to organize a new attack. The task of attacking the Nankou position was given to the Japanese 5th Division.

Wei Lihuang's reinforcements never arrived, and the Japs' Chahar Expeditionary Force began to launch a fierce attack on Zhangjiakou, attempting to attack the Chinese defenders at Nankou from behind.

Tang Enbo's 13th Army was caught in an embarrassing situation of being attacked from all sides, and had to order the front to shrink, with the main forces retreating to Juyongguan, Hengling City, Yanqing and other places.

A battalion of the 13th Army came to the Nankou position to reinforce. This was the only reinforcement at the Nankou position, and the other reinforcements had already retreated to Juyongguan.

The Japanese Fifth Division, with the support of heavy artillery, launched another fierce attack on the Nankou position. Moreover, his planes returned to reinforce with the First Army's planes, and bombs were dropped fiercely on the fortifications of the Nankou position.

However, this time the Japanese bombers were afraid of being attacked by the First Army Air Force, so they did not stay in the air for long and quickly evacuated after dropping their bombs.

The remaining 1000 soldiers of the 2000th Army and soldiers of the st Regiment suffered heavy casualties under the double bombing of the Japanese heavy artillery and aircraft, allowing the Japanese to reach the front of the position.

A regimental commander ordered his soldiers to use grenades to attack the Japanese in front of the position, and also ordered the remaining 150mm howitzer to fiercely bombard the Japanese reinforcements.

The charge of the Japanese Fifth Division was repelled, and the Chinese defenders at the Nankou position were also severely damaged.

Three days later, the Japanese army broke through Hengling City and then broke into Juyongguan. However, the reinforcements led by Wei Lihuang were blocked by the devils and failed to arrive.

Two days later, Huailai and Zhangjiakou fell one after another, and the Chinese defenders on the Nankou front line were in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army. Tang Enbo had to order a retreat, and the Nankou battle ended. The next day, the Chinese defenders evacuated all the way and retreated to Weixian, Guangling, and Laiyuan.

(Historically, the Battle of Nankou lasted for more than half a month, with the Chinese army deploying more than 6 troops and suffering casualties; the Japanese army deployed more than 7 troops and suffered more than 2600 casualties. Although the Battle of Nankou ended in failure, it successfully delayed the Japanese army's southward and westward advance, and bought time for the Nanjing government to make a comprehensive deployment. This time, the Battle of Nankou lasted for more than 7000 days under the strong intervention of the Second Brigade, killing and wounding more than Japanese soldiers.)

Wu Lang led the 1st Regiment to retreat to Wei County and joined the 2nd Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the 11th Brigade. The 2nd Regiment also fought hard at Juyongguan.

In order to save time, the Second Regiment did not wait for the artillery to be in place, but rushed to the Juyongguan position with the First and Second Battalions in advance.

When the commander of the Second Regiment arrived at the Juyongguan position, Juyongguan was already a sea of ​​fire under the heavy bombardment of the Type 11 150mm howitzers of the th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese and the bombing of bombers. The Second Regiment could not get close to the Juyongguan position at all.

As the Japanese 11th Division stopped its shelling, its infantry quickly charged towards Juyongguan.

The defense line of Wang Zhonglian's 13th Division of Tang Enbo's 89th Army stationed at Juyongguan was blown to pieces by the Japanese heavy artillery and aircraft. For a time, there was no way to organize an effective resistance.

Seeing the 11th Division of the Japanese army rushing towards Juyongguan continuously, the soldiers of the 89th Division had to throw grenades at the Japanese army in front of the position. However, the Japanese army still rushed up continuously, and the situation was very critical.

At this time, the enemy's rear support position was hit by fierce mortar bombardment, and the enemy's charge suddenly became weak.

The soldiers of the 89th Division immediately seized the opportunity and desperately fired at the Japanese in front of the fortifications with machine guns, and finally repelled the Japanese charge.

Just as Commander Wang was wondering where the mortars came from to support them, the commander of the second regiment and his soldiers arrived at the Juyongguan position.

The second regiment commander introduced to the 89th Army's Division Commander Wang that they were from the Second Regiment of the Second Brigade of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War, and were ordered to come to reinforce the Juyongguan battlefield.

Commander Wang had not expected that the reinforcements from Wei Lihuang's army, which was nearby, had not yet arrived, but the Northeast Anti-Japanese First Army, which was far away in Tieling County, had arrived. He tightly held the hand of the second regiment commander, and everything was said without words.

At this time, the enemy's planes came to bomb again. Division Commander Wang immediately asked the Second Regiment Commander to pay attention to air defense.