Devil's Army

The Japanese military reporter who was filming the Japanese army's entry ceremony and speeches originally wanted to publicize the great achievements of the Japanese soldiers, but he filmed the embarrassing scene of their troops being attacked. He hurriedly hid aside.

At this time, the second wave of attack from Golden Eagle II hit the Japanese troops under the podium.

Another wave of explosions from air-to-ground missiles and the groans and howls of the Japanese soldiers filled the area in front of the podium.

Captain Li launched all eight air-to-ground missiles under the bellies of the two Golden Eagle IIs in succession before leading the members of the Third Squadron out of Baoding City.

At this time, the stage and the audience where the military parade speeches were held in Baoding City were in a mess, with wailing everywhere.

Since the heavy artillery of the 5th Brigade was inconvenient to move, they left them in Huangcun during this ambush. So they returned to Huangcun for rest and recuperation.

When Captain Li returned to the Huangcun Command Post to report the situation to the Second Brigade Commander, the Fifth Brigade Commander happened to be in the command post.

After reporting the situation, Captain Li asked Wu Lang in surprise: "Brigade Commander, how did you know that the Japanese would hold an entry ceremony today?"

"I have my intelligence network." Wu Lang replied mysteriously. He couldn't possibly tell Captain Li that this was an event that happened in history.

"Although this battle wiped out an infantry battalion of the Japanese 104th Regiment, our casualties were also not small."

"The reason why I gave up attacking the devils outside Baoding City was to destroy the 103rd Brigade of the Japanese Army as much as possible." The Fifth Brigade Commander said resolutely.

The Fifth Brigade Commander saw Captain Li looking at him in confusion, so he repeated what he had said to the First Regiment Commander to Captain Li, who was also quite angry after hearing it.

The Fifth Brigade Commander also told Captain Li: "The 103rd Regiment of the Japanese Army participated in the Nanjing Massacre and also committed the Mufushan Massacre and the Jiangbian Massacre."

"When did this happen?" Captain Li asked the Fifth Brigade Commander in confusion.

The fifth brigade commander did not directly answer Captain Li's question, but continued: "The 13rd Brigade of the 103th Division of the Japanese Army was in Mufu Mountain. They detained about 18 Kuomintang prisoners of war and civilians, and used shooting, bayonets, noose, flamethrowers and other means to massacre, killing more than 18 people. In the riverside massacre, about 5 more prisoners of war and civilians were taken to the Yangtze River and massacred with machine guns, bayonets, hammers and other tools. About 5 people were also raped, disemboweled, and buried alive. "

"The Japanese 103rd Division killed more than 24 of our soldiers and civilians in these two places? This is more than the total strength of our First Northeast Anti-Japanese Army?" Captain Li asked angrily and puzzledly.

"So when we encounter this beast brigade, we must kill them ruthlessly and wipe them out!"

At this time, Captain Li finally understood why the Fifth Brigade Commander had used two-thirds of the strength of the First and Second Regiments to annihilate the two and a half infantry battalions of the 103rd Brigade of the Japanese Army.

"Should we set up a training camp in Tangxia Village, where new recruits can receive intensive training and then be added to our troops?" Wu Lang took over the topic.

"That's good. We don't have to go back to the tribe to rest. We can just rest in Tangxia Village and recruit new soldiers."

"I heard from Commander Du of the 1000th Brigade that Tangxia Village has recruited more than soldiers who were scattered from various places during this period. You take the remaining soldiers of the th Brigade back tomorrow to rest and train them, and then assign them to the th Brigade. I will stay and see if there is any opportunity to eliminate some more devils."

The Fifth Brigade Commander nodded and did not refuse. It was time for their Fifth Brigade to add some fresh blood.

The next morning, the commander of the Fifth Brigade left behind the five 150mm Krupp howitzers and nine Type 150 mm howitzers he had brought with him, and set off with his soldiers back to Tangxia Village.

Wu Lang led a large force southward along the Pinghan Line to look for opportunities to fight. He knew that after the enemy captured Baoding, Shijiazhuang would be their next target.

In order to prevent bombing by Japanese aircraft, the Wulang convoy transporting heavy artillery hung plaster flags. The uniforms of the soldiers of the Second Brigade were very similar to those of the Japanese army, and it was not easy to distinguish them in the air.

After the Japanese army occupied Baoding City, the 50th Regiment of the 14th Division, namely the Yuanshan Force, continued to move south along the Pinghan Railway, preparing to attack Shijiazhuang.

Commander Kōzuki Seiji ordered the 103th Division and the rd Brigade to return to the Osaka River Valley to search for the powerful demon troops, attempting to destroy them in one fell swoop.

More than 10,000 Japanese troops searched the Dace River Valley area thoroughly and ravaged nearby villages, but they still failed to find Wulang's Second Brigade.

In order to eliminate this serious threat, Commander Katsuki Seiji arranged several reconnaissance planes to scout the whereabouts of Wulang and his men.

A Japanese reconnaissance plane discovered Wulang's Second Brigade on a section of the Pinghan Railway heading south.

The path was unobstructed, so it was impossible for a large army to hide there. Wu Lang simply ordered everyone to continue marching.

When the reconnaissance plane flew over, everyone waved their hands or hats to greet him.

The reconnaissance plane also found the marching troops. It circled at low altitude and carefully observed the troops. It found that their military vehicles behind the troops were pulling several Type 150 mm howitzers, which were called "magic guns". The flag of the Empire of Japan was still on the guns, so it flew away again.