Devil's Army

Shortly after the Japanese planes flew away, the First Army's planes also began to return one after another.

The two squadrons of the Japanese 15th Regiment, which had neither heavy artillery nor tanks nor aircraft support, were finally unable to withstand the fierce attack of the two regiments of the Second Brigade of the First Army and began to retreat.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade did not stop his troops and continued to pursue the Japanese.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade chased the Japanese all the way to Xinwu Village, where he was stopped by the Japanese again. The two sides then engaged in another fierce battle.

The Japanese troops that attacked Xinwu Village did not all evacuate Xinwu Village, and some troops were still staying. His artillery unit also remained in place. When he heard that the Japanese troops attacking Daxing County were repelled, he quickly built a defense line and waited for the Chinese army.

As soon as the Chinese troops reached the vicinity of Xinwu Village, they were immediately bombarded by the Japanese artillery fire and had to stop their fierce offensive momentum and disperse to defend.

At this time, the Japanese army's 80th Regiment of the 150th Division led by Kenji Doihara was attacking Gu'an County with all its might with the support of airplanes, tanks, and Type mm howitzers.

Gu'an is located in the center of Beijing, Tianjin and Baoding. In ancient times, it was said to be the first city in southern Tianjin under the feet of the emperor.

The Fifth Brigade Commander knew that in history, when the Japanese invaded Gu'an County, they burned, killed, looted, raped women, and released poison gas on the people in the city. In just five days, they committed 32 massacres and killed 1824 innocent people. He wanted to curb the beastly behavior of this beastly army.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade ordered his troops to get close to the Japanese army and engage in battle, so that the Japanese Type 150 mm howitzers would not be able to play a role.

When the Japanese soldiers of the 15th Regiment and the 14th Regiment of the 80th Division saw the Chinese army fighting with them with bayonets, they became arrogant again. Their minds were still stuck in the situation that they could fight three Chinese soldiers alone.

Soon these devils paid the price for their arrogance. These soldiers of the First Army fought with bayonets, fast, accurate, ruthless and with great force. The devils suffered losses one after another and retreated one after another.

At this time, Wu Lang also rushed to the front line with a truck filled with fuel, pulling nine Type 150 150mm howitzers captured from the Japanese in Jinghai County and five of his own Krupp mm howitzers.

In order to avoid the Japanese planes, Wu Lang placed the heavy artillery position in the grove. A Golden Eagle II flew to the Japanese artillery position and reported the parameters of the Japanese artillery position.

At this time, the Japanese heavy artillery positions, which had stopped firing, were suddenly bombarded by Chinese soldiers.

The Type 150 mm howitzers, which the Japanese called "magic guns", were blown to pieces by the artillery of the First Army, and the parts were scattered everywhere. The artillery soldiers also fled in all directions, holding their heads.

However, the Japanese in Xinwu Village were engaged in a chaotic battle with the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the 2nd Brigade, and Wulang's heavy artillery did not dare to bomb.

The 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade, which had superior forces, quickly wiped out the Japanese in Xinwu Village and continued to advance towards Gu'an County.

Wu Lang ordered the artillery positions to move forward quickly while the Japanese planes were not coming.

At this time, the battle in Gu'an County had entered a white-hot state. The Japanese dispatched nearly three flying squadrons, 35 planes to bomb Gu'an County. They also dispatched 45 tanks to cooperate with the infantry attack.

Under the Japanese's three-dimensional bombing, there was no intact position in Gu'an County.

The Central Army's 91st Division, with less than a thousand troops, was defending Gu'an County.

At this time, the two mortars in the hands of the soldiers of the 91st Division had already been destroyed by the Japanese artillery fire at the beginning of the war. Now they were only relying on willpower to use light weapons to block the Japanese and hold on.

Captain Wu of the 91st Division had already learned from his superiors that reinforcements would not arrive. At this time, his troops had suffered heavy casualties, and a small number of Japanese soldiers had already rushed into Gu'an County from the collapsed city wall.

Captain Wu had no choice but to prepare to withdraw from Gu'an County with the remaining soldiers.

At this time, Captain Wu heard fierce gunfire outside Gu'an County.

Although he didn't know who was supporting them, he knew that his reinforcements had arrived. He personally picked up a light machine gun and led his soldiers to fire at the Japanese who had just broken through the Gu'an city wall.

The Japanese troops who attacked the Gu'an city wall were repelled by Captain Wu, and the Japanese planes, heavy artillery and tanks continued to bombard the Gu'an County city wall fiercely.

Wu Lang saw the enemy tanks and heavy artillery bombing Gu'an County, and was very worried about the defenders of Gu'an. However, the enemy planes were still bombing, so Wu Lang had to hide his heavy artillery in the grove to the right front of Gu'an County and did not dare to fire.

Meilang suggested to Wulang that the newly formed Army Aviation be put into use.

Luhang is the abbreviation of Army Aviation. In Tongzhou, Wulang separated the air force from the army and established a new branch of the army: Army Aviation. It is mainly responsible for operating the Golden Eagle UAV, providing fire support to the First Army, transporting air-to-ground missiles and maintaining the Golden Eagle II.

Captain Guo of the Army Aviation immediately led the soldiers to operate the fifteen Golden Eagle IIs they brought and divided them into two echelons, attacking the Japanese artillery positions and the Japanese tanks in front of Gu'an County respectively.

The first battle between drones and tanks since the successful development of the Golden Eagle II drone of the First Anti-Japanese Army took place outside Gu'an County.