Devil's Army

The First Battalion Commander knew that whether he could successfully eliminate the more than 103 beasts of the st Battalion of the rd Brigade in the encirclement depended on whether his battalion could stop the enemy's reinforcements. If the enemy in front of him broke through the position and attacked, the Fifth Brigade Commander's plan would fail.

Faced with the aggressive attack of the Second Battalion of the First Regiment of the Japanese, the soldiers of the Second Company of the First Battalion resolutely rushed to the non-existent fortifications, ready to stop the Japanese.

At this critical moment of national survival, knowing that there is a grinding mill ahead, contemporary Chinese soldiers must bravely die and use their backbones to block the enemy's advance.

Faced with the fierce artillery fire of the Japanese, a reorganized company of the 1st battalion survived for no more than half an hour. I wonder how many hours his battalion can withstand the Japanese attack?

The battalion commander no longer thought about what happened next, and there was no way to think positively about it.

What made the battalion commander feel gratified was that while the Japanese heavy artillery squadron was bombing them, the heavy artillery of their brigade also scouted the position of their heavy artillery squadron.

The enemy's heavy artillery position was not hidden, but was deployed less than a mile in front of the headquarters. The Fifth Brigade sent a Golden Eagle II to fly over for reconnaissance.

As the Golden Eagle No. 2 transmitted the coordinates of the Japanese heavy artillery squadron's position and headquarters, the artillery of the 5th Brigade also began to adjust the coordinate parameters and prepare for the bombing.

Just as the infantry of the Japanese Second Battalion began to exchange fire with the soldiers of the Second Company of the First Battalion, the nine Type 150 150mm howitzers and five Krupp mm howitzers of the heavy artillery position of the Fifth Brigade, under the guidance of the Golden Eagle No. , began to fiercely bombard the Japanese heavy artillery positions and headquarters.

The enemy's heavy artillery position was suddenly engulfed in flames and filled with dirt and smoke. The explosions of the Fifth Brigade's shells and the explosions of the enemy's heavy artillery positions continued one after another.

The Japanese command post was hit by a heavy artillery shell. The captain of the second battalion and the commander of the regiment were supervising the battle at the front line at the time and escaped the disaster. The deputy commander of the regiment and several staff officers disappeared along with the command post.

Seeing that the Japanese heavy artillery was suppressed by their own artillery, the soldiers of the second company fired more fiercely at the rushing Japanese.

The soldiers of the Japanese Second Battalion, who had not received the order to retreat, ignored their casualties and continued to surge towards the Second Company's position like a tide.

Seeing that the second company's position was in a tight spot, the third company commander immediately led his soldiers into the position to block the attack of the Japanese second battalion.

Golden Eagle No. 75 promptly transmitted the battlefield situation to the commander of the Fifth Brigade, who immediately ordered the five mm mountain guns in the heavy artillery position to bombard the charging Japanese infantry with all their might.

The soldiers of the Japanese Second Infantry Battalion, which were completely exposed without any anti-artillery fortifications, suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of the Fifth Brigade's small mountain artillery, and their charge momentum was also curbed.

Major General Yamada Shinji, commander of the 103rd Division, which was advancing towards Baoding, was also startled by the fierce explosion of the 150mm howitzer.

This explosion was not the sound of their heavy artillery squadron bombing the Chinese army, because the explosion point was inconsistent. And this explosion point was likely from their position. And the number of 150mm artillery was also eight more than his heavy artillery squadron.

What kind of army in China is equipped with so many large-caliber howitzers? Why didn't their intelligence discover it?

In order to destroy the Chinese army's heavy howitzer positions, Major General Yamada Shanji requested air force support.

In order to avoid the bombing of Japanese planes, the heavy artillery of the 5th Brigade began to retreat in two echelons after twenty minutes of continuous bombing.

After the heavy artillery units of the 5th Brigade retreated, the mortar troops continued to support the infantry and launched fierce bombardments on the first battalion of Japanese troops in the encirclement.

More than half an hour later, the Japanese planes came to support.

At this time, the 103st and nd Regiments of the th Brigade were already engaged in a melee with the Japanese troops of the st Battalion of the rd Brigade in the encirclement.

The Japanese planes could only circle around the area where the two sides were fighting for a few times and then flew away.

At this time, the Japanese First Battalion was under attack from the artillery of the Fifth Brigade and fiercely attacked by more than 4000 soldiers from the First and Second Regiments. The Japanese First Battalion in the encirclement was already at the end of its strength.

The 103nd Battalion of the 65th Regiment of the rd Brigade began to recover from the heavy artillery bombardment by the th Brigade and continued to launch wave-like attacks on the positions of the st Battalion.

Seeing that the First Battalion's position was in danger, Captain Huang of the First Regiment urgently dispatched the Second Battalion to reinforce it.

In order to reduce the pressure on the reinforcement troops, the commanders of the first and second regiments launched a final attack on the Japanese First Battalion in the encirclement.

In less than half an hour, the encirclement battle was over. The commanders of the first and second regiments commanded the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield and withdraw from the battle.

The commander of the second battalion who was in charge of fighting the reinforcements gritted his teeth and held on for half an hour after the main force evacuated the battlefield, and also evacuated the battlefield in turn with the few remaining soldiers of the first battalion.

The notorious Japanese Yamada Detachment had a total of six infantry battalions. In this battle, the Fifth Brigade almost wiped out one infantry battalion and injured another.

Major General Yamada Shinji combined the weapons, firepower and combat effectiveness of the Chinese army this time, and guessed from internal information that the Chinese army that surrounded and annihilated his First Battalion and blocked his Second Battalion was a devil's army.

He sent out scouts to monitor the movements of the devil's troops, attempting to gather a large force to destroy them.