Devil's Army

The second company commander had no choice but to lead the soldiers of the first company of the 691st Regiment to block the Japanese attack.

Suddenly, there was an explosion in the distance. The Golden Eagle II fired an air-to-ground missile at the hot air balloon, and the hot air balloon instantly turned into a fireball.

As the Japanese hot air balloon exploded and burned, the mortar soldiers of the Second Regiment immediately launched a fierce bombing at the Japanese infantry who had already taken aim.

The fierce charge of the Japanese infantry was disrupted by the mortar troops of the Second Regiment, and they had to withdraw to the first line of fortification.

The second company commander thought he had repelled the enemy's attack and was very happy. But the next moment, he heard the whistling sound of the enemy's mountain artillery shells.

The second regiment commander ordered the mortar troops to bombard the Japanese's small mountain artillery position to cover the retreat of the soldiers of the second company of the second line of fortification.

The Japanese's mountain artillery was attracted by the mortar soldiers of the Second Regiment and continued to suppress the mortar positions of the Second Regiment. However, the mortar soldiers of the Second Regiment were as slippery as loaches. After firing one or two shots, they immediately picked up the mortar and moved to another position. The Japanese could not do anything to them.

The second company commander originally wanted to rebuild fortifications to resist the next wave of Japanese attacks, but the messenger brought the order from the second regiment commander, ordering them to retreat.

Soon after the Second Company Captain and his men helped the few remaining soldiers of the First Company of the 691st Regiment to leave the second line of fortification, the Japanese mountain artillery that had suppressed the Second Company's mortar troops began to bombard the Second Company's second fortification again.

The already incomplete second fortification began to explode again, completely shrouded in smoke and dust.

Looking at the second fortification with flying sand and rocks, the second company commander could not help but admire the second regiment commander's strategy, which allowed them to escape disaster.

The second regiment commander ordered the mortar soldiers to aim at the second fortification, bomb the enemy and then retreat with the troops. The other troops began to retreat to the south of Meihua Town.

The Japanese infantry cautiously approached to within a hundred meters of the second fortification, and the machine gunner began to lie down and fire fiercely at the second fortification.

The Japanese machine gunner fired an entire magazine, but there was no return fire from the Chinese troops in the second fortification.

The Japanese army quickly charged towards the second line of fortification and successfully occupied the second line of fortification west of Meihua Town.

Before the Japanese troops who had occupied the second line of fortification could rejoice, the whistling sound of mortar shells was heard in the distance.

The mortar shells of the Second Regiment instantly covered the second line of fortifications, and the Japanese troops who had just occupied the second line of fortifications suffered heavy casualties.

Subsequent Japanese troops continued to enter the second fortification west of Meihua Town. The mortar troops moved to another position and retreated southward after firing the last shell to catch up with the main force.

With the fall of the second line of fortification west of Meihua Town, the west gate of Meihua Town was wide open, and the Japanese Army's Yuanshan troops successfully entered Meihua Town without encountering any resistance.

The commander of the 50th Regiment of the Japanese Army, Toyama Noboru, and his guards entered Meihua Town, where two battalions of the th Division had been defeated twice.

Yuan Shandeng lost so many imperial soldiers in the battle to capture Meihua Town, and originally wanted to let the soldiers massacre the residents of Meihua Town. Unexpectedly, not only were there no Chinese troops in Meihua Town, but all the residents had fled.

Since there was no one there, the Japanese army's Toyama troops took out their anger on the houses of the residents in Meihua Town. The Japanese army smashed and looted everywhere, and finally set Meihua Town on fire.

The raging fire burned half the sky red, and people outside the city could clearly see the fire and thick smoke in Meihua Town.

The newly rebuilt Meihua Town was once again destroyed by the Japanese army.

After burning down Meihua Town, the Yuanshan troops began to clear out the villages around Meihua Town.

Yuan Shandeng knew that there were many Chinese troops around Meihua Town, so he did not dare to divide his troops to encircle and suppress them. He could only lead the large force to search one village after another.

What surprised Captain Yuanshan Deng was that after they surrounded and searched two villages in succession, not only did they not find any Chinese soldiers, but even the local people seemed to have received the news in advance and fled.

Yuanshan Deng quickly convened a meeting of officers above the squadron leader level. But no one knew why the Chinese army and villagers knew in advance that they were coming to raid.

At this time, every move of the Japanese army's distant mountain troops was clearly detected by the Golden Eagle No. 2 above them.

When it got dark, the Japanese army stationed in Dazhang Village, south of Meihua Town.

Yuanshan Deng and the officers continued to hold meetings, but they still didn't know what went wrong. They couldn't come up with a good plan to eliminate the Chinese troops near Meihua Town.

At this time, the commander of the Second Regiment was mobilizing his troops, preparing to use their expertise in night attacks and the favorable opportunity when the Japanese planes would not take off at night to deal a major blow to the Yuanshan troops.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Yuanshan Deng hurriedly left Dazhang Village with a group of devils. His division commander, Kenji Doihara, urgently transferred him back to lead the main force of Yuanshan's troops to Xinkou because the battle in Xinkou was tense.

Toyama Deng never thought that this order would save his life and the lives of the Japanese soldiers he captured.