Devil's Army

The Japanese army attacked the tanks west of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport. Due to the low terrain, only two tanks could move in at a time.

When approaching the Second Regiment's position, the tanks in front began to fire and bombard the Second Regiment's positions and fortifications.

Unfortunately, the two tanks only launched one round of bombing before they were destroyed by 40 rockets one after another.

Immediately afterwards, the four tanks following behind also caught fire and exploded one after another.

The Japanese infantrymen next to the tanks spotted the 40th rocket soldiers of the First Army and immediately attacked them.

The machine gunners next to the 40th rocket soldiers immediately fired fiercely at the infantry next to the Japanese tanks to cover the 40th rocket soldiers.

At this time, the roar of a military plane was heard in the sky. The machine gunner fired at the Japanese while ordering the 40th rocket soldiers to retreat.

The 40th rocket soldiers took advantage of the fact that the Japanese were suppressed by the machine gunners and quickly ran towards the fortifications of the Second Regiment.

The bombers were Voltaires from the First Army, and they began dropping bombs on the Japanese.

The Japanese troops attacking the Second Regiment were bombed into chaos by the First Army's planes, with corpses scattered all over the ground. The four tanks also desperately retreated to the rear.

How could the bombers of the First Army not see the moving tanks? The bombers of the First Army kept dropping bombs on their heads.

The four Japanese tanks hid here and there and retreated at full speed, but three of them were destroyed by the bombers of the First Army on their way to escape.

The infantry next to the tanks were also blown to pieces by the First Army's bombers, with broken limbs flying all over the sky and suffering heavy casualties.

The progress of the Japanese army to the east of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport was also not optimistic. Under the bombing of 40 rocket soldiers and aircraft of the st Army, only two tanks escaped.

The Japanese tank regiment commander, Major Sanfenger, was speechless for a long time when he saw that only 1/10 of the tanks had returned. You have to know that the battle has only been going on for an hour or so since it started. In the past, he would have swept across dozens of kilometers of the Chinese army's front line.

Division Commander Itagaki was also surprised when he heard the report from his subordinates.

He originally wanted to use the swift and fierce firepower of the tank regiment to quickly capture the Xiaoguanzhuang airport, and then the tank regiment would march westward to attack Taiyuan. Unexpectedly, a tank regiment suffered heavy losses in this inconspicuous place, Xiaoguanzhuang.

Itagaki Seishirō knew that it would be difficult for them to recapture Xiaoguanzhuang Airport without defeating the air force of the Devil's Army. However, most of their air force planes were busy bombing the main forces of the Chinese army on the Jinpu Road, Pinghan Railway, Pingsui Line and Taiyuan.

If we send a small number of aircraft, it will not be effective at all. The disastrous defeat of the mixed aviation squadron last time is an example.

Division Commander Itagaki has been having bad luck recently. His 21st Brigade was ambushed by the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan in September, suffering heavy casualties and losing all its supplies.

This month, during the attack on Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, Fengrun County was repeatedly defeated by the devil's troops.

Division Commander Itagaki no longer continued to attack Xiaoguanzhuang Airport. If he did not have any more military achievements, he would not be able to keep his position as division commander even if he was not brought to a military court.

Division Commander Itagaki left some troops to garrison the county towns around Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, and led the main force to attack Daying Town via Pingxingguan.

After the main force of the Fifth Division arrived at Pingxingguan, it conducted a thorough search around Pingxingguan, but found no trace of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese Fifth Division seemed to have regained its strong combat effectiveness in an instant. After quickly capturing Daying Town, it continued to advance westward and approached the main force of the Chinese army in Taiyuan.

The Japanese troops around Xiaoguanzhuang Airport continued to request air support from the North China Front Army. However, Lieutenant General Tokugawa, commander of the Japanese North China Front Air Corps, had been steadily advancing into the heart of Shanxi according to the orders of Commander-in-Chief Terauchi Hisaichi, and had no time to care about the small place of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

The Japanese troops around Xiaoguanzhuang Airport had no air force support and did not dare to launch an attack. They were facing the second regiment of the devil's army to the east, west and north of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport.

Since the base area opened up by Wulang was not on the Pingsui Line, Jinpu Line and Pinghan Line where the Japanese North China Front Army mainly attacked, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front Army, Terauchi Hisaichi, had never focused on his base area.

In this way, the North China Corps of the First Anti-Japanese Army ushered in a golden period of development.

However, Tongzhou, which was less than 50 miles away from Beijing, was a fishbone stuck in the throat of Commander-in-Chief Terauchi Hisaichi, who wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible because the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front was located in Beijing.

With the fall of Taiyuan, the Japanese commander-in-chief of the North China Front Army, Terauchi Hisaichi, began to mobilize the army and air force to prepare for the attack on Tongzhou.

Tongzhou was suddenly surrounded by dark clouds, and war could break out at any time.

Wu Lang considered that Baoding City had fallen, and the original plan to transport supplies to Baoding via Tongzhou was no longer meaningful.

In order not to provoke the top brass of the Japanese North China Front and to win a stable development environment, Wu Lang decided to give up Tongzhou. However, he could not let the Japanese army take Tongzhou too easily, lest they continue to move southward to invade Sanhe County and then spy on Jixian, an important base of his base. Wu Lang decided to fight the devils in Tongzhou.