Devil's Army

As Captain Yuanshan Deng and his soldiers had just left Dazhang Village, the Golden Eagle No. 2, which had been watching from the sky, discovered them.

The aviation soldiers quickly passed the information to the commander of the second regiment. The commander of the third battalion of the second regiment, who was originally stationed in Dazhang Village, believed that the Japanese army was not good at night fighting and requested that he lead his troops to encircle and annihilate the 50th Regiment of the Japanese Army.

The second regiment commander thought about it and refused. He told the third battalion commander:

"Our current goal is to firmly occupy Meihua Town and drive a wedge into central Hebei. The main force of the Japanese 50th Regiment is still there. Even if we can win by encircling and annihilating them, it will be a miserable victory with both sides suffering losses. The Japanese can also send the 51st Regiment, the 52nd Regiment, etc. At that time, we can only hide and fight guerrilla warfare everywhere."

The third battalion commander knew the hardships and dangers of fighting guerrilla warfare in the base area in the past. He was still a soldier at that time, and he stopped talking.

"How many Japanese soldiers are there in the village?" the second regiment commander asked the aviation soldier.

"It's too dark to detect clearly."

"Captain of the Third Battalion, at 12 o'clock tonight, we will change the surprise attack to encirclement and annihilate all the Japanese in Dazhang Village."

The second regiment commander originally wanted to use a heavy howitzer to kill the Japanese at night when they were all asleep.

Now that the main force of the devils had left, if they continued to bombard Dazhang Village with heavy artillery, Dazhang Village would be destroyed in the artillery fire. So he changed his strategy and ordered the third battalion to encircle and annihilate the remaining devils in Dazhang Village.

After 11: p.m., the third battalion commander led his troops to quietly surround Dazhang Village.

What made the third battalion commander happy was that the Japanese didn't even arrange a patrol team, but only arranged two Japanese sentries to stand guard at the entrance of the village. These two Japanese sentries leaned against the entrance of the village motionlessly, and were obviously asleep.

The third battalion commander looked at the moon in the sky, estimated that it was already twelve o'clock, and ordered two scouts to take action.

The two scouts quietly approached the two Japanese sentinels at the entrance of the village, hugged them from behind, and drew their daggers. However, they did not stab the Japanese sentinels, but turned around and returned.

"What's going on? Why don't you kill those two sentries?"

"Captain, those two sentries are two dummies!"

"Dummy?" The third battalion commander muttered to himself. He felt something was wrong and ordered the soldiers to rush into Dazhang Village.

After a thorough search, not a single Japanese soldier was found in the entire Dazhang Village. The two dummies at the entrance of the village must have been placed there by the Japanese when they retreated, and not even the golden eagle noticed them.

The Second Regiment Commander, who was anxiously waiting for news at the headquarters, heard the Third Battalion Commander's report and couldn't help but laugh:

"The commander of the 50th Regiment is really a jerk. He knows that after their main force retreats, we will definitely attack his troops stationed in Dazhang Village. But if they all retreat, he is afraid that we will follow and attack his main force. So he left two dummies behind to create the illusion that there are still troops stationed in Dazhang Village."

"Then will the Second Regiment Commander chase the large force of the 50th Regiment?" asked the Third Battalion Commander.

"What the hell are you chasing? They have been walking for such a long time. How can you chase them with your two legs? Order the troops to rest, tidy up Dazhang Village after daybreak, and notify the villagers who are hiding nearby to return to the village.

After daybreak, the third battalion commander found that almost all the doors of the houses of the villagers in Dazhang Village were intact, and most of them were kicked into pieces by the Japanese. The houses were also turned upside down.

The third battalion commander led the soldiers to help the villagers repair the door that was kicked in by the Japanese and clean up the things that were thrown all over the floor by the Japanese.

The villagers also returned to the village one after another, cursing those damn Japanese devils while cleaning up their houses.

The second regiment commander looked at the still smoking Meihua Town, and left soldiers on guard on the west, east and north sides of Meihua Town, while all the other soldiers participated in the firefighting.

The Second Regiment Commander and Commander Lu led their soldiers into Meihua Town and found that the entire town had been devastated by the Japanese invaders.

"It's okay. We can only rebuild after we have destroyed something. Our former base, Hejiazhai, was also burned down by the Japanese. Commander Leng led us to rebuild a brand new Hejiazhai."

"There is no need to rebuild Meihua Town. Now there are powerful enemies all around, and we don't have the ability to defend Meihua Town. If we rebuild a brand new Meihua Town, the enemy will burn it down as soon as they attack. We just need to clean it up and make it habitable."

The Second Regiment Commander and Commander Lu then arranged soldiers to clean up the garbage in different areas and help residents tidy up their houses.

When the residents who had fled to the vicinity of Meihua Town heard that the Japanese had run away, they all returned to the town one after another, cursing and participating in the cleanup and reconstruction of Meihua Town.

After more than a week of hard work and reconstruction by officers and soldiers of the two regiments and the town residents, Meihua Town was finally restored to its original state.

Wu Lang finally returned to Tangxia Village with his large army. He was still worried about the Second Regiment, so he sent a telegram to inquire about the current situation of the Second Regiment.

The second regiment commander called back: At present, they and the 691st regiment are based in Meihua Town. However, the 40 rockets and Golden Eagle air-to-ground missiles are almost gone.

Wu Lang warned the second regiment commander not to fight the devils head-on as much as possible, and to fight guerrilla warfare if that didn't work. At present, they had something else to do in Tangxia Village, and there was no way to transport ammunition and supplies for them.