Devil's Army

Tongzhou is about 300 miles away from the Dace River Valley. There are trucks in Tongzhou, and it is estimated that the Second Brigade Commander can arrive in about four or five hours.

But more than six hours had passed since the Fifth Brigade Commander sent a telegram to the Second Brigade Commander for help, and there was still no sign of the Second Brigade. Did the Japanese army block the road? Or did something go wrong on the road?

The Fifth Brigade guessed correctly? As soon as the Second Brigade Commander received his telegram for assistance, he immediately assembled the First and Second Regiments to reinforce the Dace River Valley. However, the Second Brigade Commander's convoy was so large that there was no way to advance completely in secret.

On the way from Tongzhou to Baoding, the Chinese army and the Japanese army fought fiercely. The Second Brigade encountered two Japanese troops along the way and fought two battles. However, these Japanese troops were small-scale advancing troops and were quickly defeated by the large forces of the Second Brigade.

After walking and fighting like this, the Second Brigade arrived at the entrance of the Dace River Valley at nearly eight o'clock in the evening. The 104th Regiment of the Japanese Army had surrounded the place.

Wu Lang immediately arranged his troops to carry out a counter-encirclement of the Japanese 104th Regiment, and asked the Third Squadron to try to contact the Fifth Brigade and inform him of the Second Brigade's counterattack time.

In one day, one and a half battalions of the 65th Brigade were gone. If they continued to fight like this, their troops would not last more than two days. The commander of the th Brigade decided to take advantage of their troops' night combat skills and cause trouble for the Japanese th Regiment at night.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade selected a company from the Third Regiment and launched a surprise attack on the Japanese army at 12 o'clock in the morning.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, the second company commander led the soldiers quietly down the mountain. The Japanese 65th Regiment was on high alert, with torches lit everywhere and Japanese patrols patrolling at a high density.

The second company commander was about to lead his soldiers across the path when a Japanese patrol came towards them. He quickly pushed down a soldier next to him.

"Captain, these devils are very vigilant," the soldier said to the second captain.

“Be careful.”

"There are only tents here. How can we find the enemy's headquarters?"

"Pay attention to whether there are telephone wires or antennas on the top of the tent. The headquarters needs to communicate with the outside world, so it usually has more antennas and telephone wires."

As soon as the Japanese patrol team left, the second company commander led his soldiers across the path and approached the devil's tent.

As the second captain and his men approached the enemy's tents, they heard a shout from the darkness:

"&?"

The second company commander could not speak Japanese and could not understand what the Japanese soldiers were saying. He could only lie still, hoping that the Japanese sentry would think that he was dazzled and saw it wrong. But this was obviously wishful thinking. In the dark, a Japanese sentry walked slowly towards them, holding his gun tightly.

The second company commander was in a dilemma: if he killed the sentry, it would definitely alert the enemy's main force. If he didn't kill the sentry, he would still fire a gun to alert the enemy.

Sure enough, the sentry came to the hiding place of the second company captain and found a soldier approaching him and trying to kill the sentry with a dagger, so he pointed a gun at him.

The company commander was quick-witted and shot the sentry down with one shot.

The sound of gunfire was very harsh in the empty night, and then there were noisy voices and footsteps coming from the Japanese army's tent.

The second company commander knew that a surprise attack was impossible, but it was even more impossible to use his 100 soldiers to fight against the 1000 Japanese soldiers in the tents. The second company commander had no choice but to order his soldiers to retreat quickly.

As the second company commander and his men had just retreated across the path, patrol soldiers at both ends of the path caught up with them and shot at them as they were retreating.

The second company commander led his soldiers to retreat the other way while firing back.

At this time, a flare was fired into the sky, illuminating the path as bright as day. The second company commander and his men were exposed to the sight of the Japanese army, and at the same time, he also found that there were dense Japanese troops on both sides of them.

The Japanese machine guns immediately fired fiercely at the second company commander and his men. The soldiers of the second company who were running behind were hit and fell to the ground one after another.

Seeing this, the other soldiers had no choice but to stop retreating, find cover, and shoot at the devils.

However, the fierce firepower of the Japanese suppressed the soldiers of the second company so much that they could not raise their heads.

Less than 100 meters behind him was a forest. The second company commander looked at the gradually dimming flares, threw grenades to suppress the enemy's attack, and ordered the soldiers:

“Prepare to retreat!”

The Japanese artillery also set up mortars and began to bombard the Second Company fiercely.

Shells kept falling and exploding around the soldiers of the Second Company, and one soldier after another was lifted up and thrown around.

At this time, the flares went out, and the second company commander hurriedly asked the soldiers to throw grenades.

The dense explosions of grenades curbed the Japanese attack.

"Retreat immediately!" the second company commander shouted loudly.

The soldiers quickly ran towards the woods behind them.

The Japanese fired another flare, but there was no trace of the soldiers of the Second Company in the wilderness. The soldiers of the Second Company had already run into the woods.

The Japanese army immediately surrounded the grove, and the soldiers of the second company retreated while blocking the Japanese army.

The second company commander had not yet escaped from the enemy's encirclement when he heard the rustling sound of people moving on the way back.

The Second Company was surrounded by the Japanese. Could it be that the Japanese had set a trap in advance and waited for the Second Company Commander and his men to get in?