Devil's Army

The gunfire from the Japanese soldiers in front and on both sides was getting more and more frequent and getting closer. The second company commander had no choice but to order the soldiers to prepare and fight their way out.

When the second company commander and his soldiers were preparing to open fire to fight their way out, he was surprised that the Japanese who were blocking their retreat had not fired a single shot.

At this time, an owl's urgent cry came from the other side. The second company commander was slightly happy when he heard it. He knew that the special forces of their army often used this cry to communicate with each other, so he quickly shouted to the other side:

"We are from the Fifth Brigade of the First Anti-Japanese Army. Who are you?"

"We are from the third squadron of the First Army Special Operations Force." A reply came from the other side from Captain Li of the third squadron.

The second company commander hurriedly led his soldiers to retreat in the direction of Captain Li.

During the retreat, the second company commander asked Captain Li:

"How did you get here?"

"We came here with the Second Brigade Commander's main force. He asked me to contact the Fifth Brigade Commander and tell him that our Second Brigade will launch an attack on the Japanese 104th Regiment at a.m. tomorrow. We heard gunfire and came here."

"Quickly retreat. We were following the orders of the brigade and were planning to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's headquarters. But we were discovered by them and ended up in such a mess."

The second company commander and his men escaped the Japanese pursuit under the cover of night. The Japanese were afraid of being ambushed and did not dare to continue the pursuit.

The second company commander brought Captain Li to the brigade headquarters on the mountain and met the fifth brigade commander.

The commander of the Fifth Brigade was very happy to see Captain Li, as this meant that Wulang's reinforcements had arrived.

Captain Li said to the Fifth Brigade Commander:

"Hello, Brigade Commander Li! Our Second Brigade Commander asked me to tell you that I will launch an attack on the Japanese 104th Regiment at 104 a.m. tomorrow. The Second Brigade Commander hopes that you can guard the entrance to the Dace River Valley and prevent the Japanese th Regiment from escaping from here."

"Okay, go back and tell the Second Brigade Commander that we will shift the focus of our defense to the entrance of the Dace River Valley."

At five o'clock in the morning, the terrifying roar of the 150mm howitzer suddenly sounded, and violent explosions were heard in the Japanese camp near the entrance of the Dace River.

The camp of the 104th Regiment of the Japanese Army at the mouth of the Oce River was suddenly engulfed in flames and fell into chaos.

The shelling lasted for more than twenty minutes. Before the Japanese army could recover, the shouts of the soldiers of the Second Brigade were heard all around.

Colonel Ryokaku Gyōsaku of the 65th Regiment of the Japanese Army thought that the Chinese troops on the mountain were going to escape from the entrance of the Dace River, and immediately ordered the artillery to bombard the retreat area along the Dace River.

The Fifth Brigade Commander stared coldly at the flying rocks at the entrance of the Dace River, and the trees remained silent.

Their 5th Brigade had no plans to retreat, so they didn't care about the Japanese army blocking their retreat route.

Colonel Ryokaku Yosaku called off the artillery after two rounds of bombing because he heard that the heavy artillery shells that attacked his 104th Regiment were not fired from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, but from behind the 104th Regiment.

The commander of the two horns immediately thought that the reinforcements of the devil troops on the mountain had arrived. He immediately arranged two squadrons to attack the hillsides on both sides of the Da Ce River Valley, trying to contain the devil troops on the hillside and cover his 104th Regiment to quickly retreat from the river valley.

At this time, Colonel Mototoshi Tashiro, the commander of the 104th Regiment of the Japanese Army, had recovered from the surprise of the artillery attack at the beginning. He ordered the tanks and artillery to cooperate with the first battalion to block the frontal attack of the devil troops. The second and third battalions crossed the Osaka River Valley and joined the 65th Regiment.

When Major General Shinji Yamada learned that his 2nd Regiment was surrounded by the devil's troops, he immediately ordered air force support.

The commander of the first battalion of the 104th Regiment of the Japanese Army divided his ten tanks into three groups to block the attacks of the nd Brigade of the st Army from three sides. His heavy artillery squadron also began to counterattack the heavy artillery positions of the nd Brigade.

The small entrance to the Dace Valley was suddenly filled with smoke and the sound of cannon fire.

Wu Lang only brought five 150mm howitzers this time. Two of them were destroyed under the suppression of the Japanese, so he had to retreat urgently.

The Japanese heavy artillery squadron then turned to attack the charging infantry of the 2nd Brigade.

The fierce offensive momentum of the Second Brigade was blocked by the heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese. The First Battalion of the 104th Regiment of the Japanese Army took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the Second Brigade in three directions with the support of tanks.

The Japanese thought that they could quickly break through the encirclement of the devil troops with the high mobility of their tanks, but they did not expect that the 40 rocket soldiers of the nd Brigade would blow up all their tanks with a single salvo.

At the same time as the Japanese First Battalion broke through, the Japanese Second and Third Battalions, led by Captain Mototoshi Tashiro, also broke through to the Osaka River Valley.

At this time, the main force of the 104th Brigade had been deployed to prevent the Japanese th Regiment from breaking out in the Dace River Valley.

Taking advantage of the terrain, the soldiers of the 104st and nd Regiments of the th Brigade threw grenades and fired fiercely at the th Regiment of the Japanese Army.

At that time, the heavy artillery of the Japanese 104th Regiment was mainly used to bombard the devil troops at the entrance of the Dace River. He quickly requested heavy artillery support from the 65th Regiment.

At this time, Japanese planes also arrived at the Dace River Valley and began to bombard the attacking positions of the 2nd and 5th Brigades.

It would be very difficult to completely wipe out the Japanese 104th Regiment.