Devil's Army

The progress of the Japanese 11th Regiment's 11nd Battalion attacking the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport to the east and the Japanese th Regiment's rd Battalion to the north was also not smooth.

They were also heavily bombed by the bombers of the 1st Squadron of the First Air Force.

What made them better than the First Battalion was that their artillery positions were not bombed by Chinese military aircraft.

After the First Army's planes returned, the infantry of the Second and Third Battalions successively attacked the outer positions of the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, but they were stubbornly blocked by the First and Second Battalions of the Second Regiment.

The Japanese army always fought by using artillery, tanks and planes to bomb and clear the way, and then the infantry would launch a charge.

In this battle, the planes did not dare to come, the tanks did not arrive, the artillery did not dare to fire, and the infantry fought very unhappily.

The squadron leader who was charging kept calling the battalion leader for artillery reinforcement. However, the Japanese army had always been dogmatic in fighting, and the artillery at the artillery position would open fire when artillery reinforcement was needed. Now that they had no air superiority, their artillery did not dare to open fire, and they had never thought that artillery could also fight guerrilla warfare.

The captain of the second battalion already knew that the artillery of the first battalion that launched the attack first was almost wiped out by the bombing of the Chinese Air Force, so he did not dare to use the artillery even though the squadron leader shouted until his throat was hoarse.

The infantry attacking side had no cover, so the casualties would definitely be greater than those of the defending side. Fortunately, they still had grenade launchers, so he could make the next best option and ask the grenade launchers to cooperate with the infantry to charge and attack the machine gun fire points of the Chinese defenders in the fortifications.

However, what gave the captain of the second battalion a headache was that the Chinese defenders' shooting skills were too accurate, and his grenade throwers were shot and killed one after another.

Moreover, the Chinese Air Force would drop a few bombs from time to time, forcing his infantry to stop charging and find a place to hide.

The battle lasted a whole day. The three battalions of the Japanese 11th Regiment made little progress in three directions, but suffered heavy casualties.

The commander of the 11th Regiment of the Japanese Army had to order his troops to stop the attack, build strong fortifications, and confront the Chinese army.

The positions around Xiaoguanzhuang Airport entered a fragile balance, which could be broken at any time by the Japanese attack.

The commander of the Japanese 5th Division, Seishirō Itagaki, had been waiting for air force reinforcements. Without air superiority, it was difficult for him to capture the Chinese army's positions around Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

Lieutenant General Tokugawa of the Army Aviation Corps has been thinking of new tactics to defeat the enemy since their air force suffered a disastrous 10-0 defeat in an air battle with the Chinese Air Force a few days ago.

His current aircraft were mainly used to support the battles in the Tongpu Line and the Taiyuan Battle, and there were not many aircraft available. He used this as an excuse to keep refusing the request of the division commander Itagaki.

When Division Commander Itagaki saw that the Japanese Army Air Force was slow to come to reinforce, he also knew that they had suffered a 10-0 defeat at the hands of the Chinese Air Force last time and that they were afraid of the Chinese Air Force, so he decided to take over the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport on his own.

He requested thirty tanks from the headquarters of the First Central China Front Army, preparing to attack Xiaoguanzhuang Airport again.

Although the tanks of Division Commander Ban Heng have not arrived yet, Wulang has ushered in a small climax of development.

In the context of the National Army's continuous defeat in the North China battlefield, the Battle of Tongzhou achieved a major victory.

Tongzhou is very close to Beijing and Tianjin, which greatly encouraged the enthusiastic young people and students in Beijing, Tianjin and surrounding areas. Many enthusiastic young people and students went to Tongzhou to request to join the army.

The Tongzhou garrison explained to them one by one that the headquarters had been moved to Jixian County, and they were asked to join the army in Jixian County.

There were also scattered troops near Tongzhou who, under the guidance of the Tongzhou garrison, rushed to Jixian County one after another to request incorporation.

Seeing so many people asking to join the army, the third commander of the 11th Brigade happily said to Wu Lang:

"Commander-in-chief, with so many people joining the army, we can soon turn this place into a base again."

"Don't be too optimistic. The environment we face here is much more severe than that of the Tieling County base. The Tieling County base only faces threats from the Fengtian and Rehe devils, and many places are difficult to defend. We are facing the threat of more than 30 troops from the Japanese First Front Army."

The third regiment commander nodded. He also started as a soldier in Tieling County and worked his way up to become a regiment commander. Now, the environment facing Ji County in Tongzhou is indeed much more dangerous than the environment they faced in Tieling County at that time.

"You asked Short Wolf to speed up the training of new recruits. Yes. Those who have defected to our Nationalist Army and other anti-Japanese armed forces have a foundation and can be trained separately to strive to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible and be assigned to the Second Brigade and the Fifth Brigade. Now the Second Brigade and the Fifth Brigade are seriously short of personnel."

After receiving instructions from Wulang, Dwarf Wolf divided the recruits into two teams for training, based on those with and without basic training.

Since there were more than 3,000 new recruits and more were joining the army one after another, Dwarf Wolf was simply unable to handle them all.

Short Wolf asked Wu Wolf to transfer the captains of the first and third squadrons of the special forces to help train the new recruits.

When they joined the special forces, they underwent systematic training by the Black Wolf. After being selected into the special forces, they underwent further devilish training by the Jackal. Training new recruits is a piece of cake for them.