Devil's Army

When Captain Lu of Meihua Town saw that the Japanese had been driven away, he personally went out of Meihua Town to see which reinforcements had arrived.

When they arrived outside the town, Captain Lu saw a troop wearing uniforms he had never seen before.

The soldiers brought Captain Lu and his men to the Second Captain.

When Captain Lu met the Second Captain, he introduced himself:

"Hello, I am Lü Zhengcao, the commander of the 691st Regiment. May I ask who you are?"

"Hello, I am Xie Dongjin, the commander of the Second Regiment of the Second Brigade of the First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War."

"So they are the anti-Japanese brigade from Northeast China. No wonder they gave the Japanese a strong punch right from the start."

"We are really fighting against the Japanese, but we don't deserve to be called a brave brigade! Commander Lu is also a brave general."

"What a brave general, he escaped from the Northeast and came here, only to be chased everywhere by the devils."

"Captain Lu, our brigade commander asked us to lie in wait outside Meihua Town and wait for an opportunity to support you. He also told us to immediately tell the villagers in the town and nearby villages to evacuate after repelling the Japanese attacking Meihua Town. The Japanese will massacre the villagers in Meihua Town and nearby villages."

"How did your brigade commander know that the Japs would massacre the villagers of Meihua Town?"

"I don't know where our brigade commander got his information, but his information was accurate many times."

"The residents of Plum Town have lived here for generations. Where can they escape to?"

"First, escape the Japanese massacre this time, and come back later. As long as there is life, why worry about running out of firewood?"

"Okay, I'll ask someone to arrange it, but I'm not sure how many people I can convince. After all, they don't have anywhere else to go."

"The common people have nowhere to go, which is indeed a problem. Captain Lu, I have a suggestion, do you think it will work?"

"Thank you, Captain. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!"

"We asked the villagers to disperse to various villages to stay with relatives or seek refuge. When the Japanese invaders went to raid a village, we notified them in advance to move away to avoid the Japanese invaders' raids."

"This method is good, but we don't have any spies inside the enemy camp, so we have no way of knowing in advance where the enemy is going to raid."

"That's easy. When our brigade commander retreated, he left us two Golden Eagle IIs to help us fight guerrilla warfare. We can detect the movements of Japanese troops within a radius of 30 to 50 kilometers."

"Oh?" Captain Lu had never seen the First Army's Golden Eagle No. 2, so he had no direct knowledge of it, but he still said:

"Okay, let's do as you say. I'll immediately order the troops to evacuate the villagers."

With the help of the soldiers of the 691st Regiment, the villagers quickly fled to the villages near Meihua Town.

The second regiment commander discussed the garrison allocation of troops with Regiment Commander Lu.

At present, the 691st Regiment of Commander Lu still has nearly 4 people. His nd Battalion is still on duty in Jingxing and has not yet returned. There are still understaffed st Battalion, rd Battalion, Communications Team and companies directly under the regiment.

Commander Lu divided them into four units, and mixed them with the first battalion, second battalion, third battalion and the regiment's direct company of the second regiment of the first anti-Japanese army into four small units, stationed in Dazhang Village, Bailu Village, Liujiazhuang, Koudongxinzhuang Village on the four sides of Meihua Town.

The two Golden Eagle IIs were responsible for reconnaissance in the east, south, west and north directions of Meihua Town respectively.

If there are few Japanese soldiers dispatched from Meihua Town, we should concentrate our forces to destroy them. If there are many Japanese soldiers dispatched, we should quickly move away.

The guerrilla warfare plan for Meihua Town was initially formed, and Captain Lu and the Second Captain quickly divided their troops and made preparations.

The separate retreat of the Second Regiment Commander and the Commander Lu was in progress. The commander of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army in Gao County, Seishirō Itagaki, ordered the 41st Regiment to arrange the Second Infantry Battalion and the Heavy Artillery Company to quickly rush to Meihua Town.

The Japanese Army's Second Infantry Battalion arrived at Meihua Town. Since the First Battalion had suffered a heavy loss in an ambush in Meihua Town, the commander of the Second Battalion did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, he ordered heavy artillery to bombard Meihua Town fiercely.

The houses in Meihua Town were reduced to ruins under the bombing of Japanese heavy artillery.

The bombing lasted for more than half an hour. Seeing that Meihua Town had not responded, the captain ordered the infantry to launch an attack.

The Japanese army rushed into Meihua Town without encountering any resistance.

The Japanese army did not find any Chinese defenders, and most of the residents in the town had fled. Only 12 elderly people who did not want to escape were found.

The angry Japanese drove the 12 elderly men to an open space in Meihua Town and stabbed them all to death.

When the commander of the 41st Regiment, Tetsujiro Yamada, heard the report from the battalion commander, he was furious and immediately ordered the battalion commander to clear out the villages around Meihua Town.

The commander of the Second Battalion of the Japanese Army did not dare to fool people, and left the artillery squadron and its direct-affiliated troops to garrison Meihua Town, while three infantry squadrons swept the villages near Meihua Town in three directions.

Golden Eagle No. 2 quickly passed the information to the commander of the second regiment and the commander of the first battalion of the second regiment beside Commander Lu.

The whereabouts of another squadron of the Japanese invaders were quickly passed on to the third battalion commanders of the second regiment and the third battalion commanders of the 691st regiment by Golden Eagle No. .

The Japanese did not bring any heavy artillery with them when they went to the countryside to carry out the cleanup operation this time. Captain Lu and the second captain decided to eliminate these three squadrons of Japanese.

The troops in the south, west and north of Meihua Town received orders from Captain Lu and the second captain, and quickly seized the advantageous terrain, preparing to eliminate the three squadrons of Japanese devils.