Devil's Army

It turned out that the soldiers of the first and second battalions of the first regiment retreated during the Japanese artillery bombardment, and they did not really want to retreat when they left the battlefield. Instead, they knew that their air force was coming, so they retreated quickly to avoid accidental bombing.

Ren Shiqiong led a part of the Second Aviation Squadron to fly over the First Battalion of the Japanese Army and began to bomb the Japanese infantry and artillery positions.

The artillery position of a large Japanese battalion that was bombarding a regiment of soldiers was suddenly filled with thick smoke and continuous explosions.

The Japanese artillerymen who were not killed abandoned their small mountain cannons, and the mortar soldiers picked up their mortars and scattered in all directions to avoid the bombing of the devil troops' planes.

As soon as the First Army's planes left, the soldiers of the First Battalion and the Second Battalion of the First Regiment immediately launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army.

On the small road leading to Sanhe County, there were shouts of First Army soldiers, gunshots, and the sounds of grenade explosions.

A regiment of mortar soldiers also came to join in the fun, constantly adjusting their firing parameters and bombing the retreating Japanese troops.

The commander of the retreating Japanese 4th Battalion did not forget to leave a small team behind to block the attack of the st Army soldiers, and the other troops retreated to the outskirts of Tongzhou City, more than kilometers away.

The soldiers of the 4st Regiment chased the th Battalion of the Japanese Army for more than ten miles, and then returned to consolidate the fortifications to prepare for another attack by the Japanese Army.

The commander of the 4th Battalion of the Japanese Army ordered his artillery to count the losses. Their two Type mm small steel cannons were all destroyed by the First Army's aircraft, and only three mortars were salvaged.

The battalion commander reported to the garrison commander and was severely criticized by the commander.

Since the July 7 Incident, the Japanese garrison troops in China have been invincible, and all Chinese troops have fled in fear. Now they have suffered a heavy defeat in a small Sanhe County.

He demanded that the four captains take over Sanhe County within two days, otherwise he would commit suicide by cutting open his stomach.

The captain of the 4th Battalion of the Japanese Army was speechless when he received the telegram. Their troops had not even seen the gate of Sanhe County yet, but their artillery had been destroyed by the devil troops, and nearly 1/3 of their infantry had been killed or wounded.

If we don’t fight now, we will definitely die, but if we fight, there may be a glimmer of hope.

He ordered the troops to stop resting and continue advancing towards Sanhe County, and requested air force support.

The Japanese 4th Battalion, which had lost all its fighting spirit, marched towards Sanhe County with great hesitation. However, the soldiers of the st and nd Battalions pushed the ambush position forward by nearly two miles.

More than two miles ahead was the position where their four divisions had been attacked twice. The captain ordered the Japanese troops to search and advance cautiously.

Before they reached the ambush site, gunfire broke out on both sides of the path, grenades rained down on the Japanese troops on the path, and mortar shells kept exploding on the path.

However, the captain of the 4th Japanese Battalion fought to the death, waving his command knife and forcing the Japanese soldiers from behind to continue charging forward.

There was a "chi" sound as the LR-4 sniper rifle fired. A red and white mixture kept flowing out of Captain 4's forehead, and he fell straight back.

At this time, a Japanese fighter squadron 6 and a bomber squadron 6 flew over to support the Japanese 4th Battalion.

Upon seeing this, the regiment commander decisively ordered his soldiers to charge and engage in a melee with the Japanese Army's Fourth Battalion.

The Japanese air force planned to retreat immediately after the Devil Force's planes returned to support the Fourth Battalion, but now the two armies were fighting in a melee, and they had no way to start.

After circling twice in the air, the two Japanese air squadrons had to return empty-handed.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the deputy captain of the 4th Battalion quickly retreated towards Tongzhou with his guards and nearby troops.

Terauchi Hisaichi's first attack on Sanhe County ended in failure, but his attack on Ji County had just begun.

Ji County is the heart of Tianjin, Beijing, Tang, and Cheng. It is the training base for new recruits of the First Anti-Japanese Army, the location of the North China War Zone Command of the First Anti-Japanese Army, and a banner of the North China Anti-Japanese War. Wu Lang will not allow Ji County to fall into the clutches of the Japanese invaders.

At the beginning, Wulang arranged the 12nd and rd Regiments of the rd Brigade and the brigade's direct battalion to prepare for battle. The newly arrived th Brigade was also on standby in Jixian.

Most of the 150mm howitzers of the First Anti-Japanese Army were also concentrated in Jixian County.

In order to prevent air raids by the Japanese Air Force, most of the fourteen 150mm howitzers were hidden in the jungle in the north of Ji County.

Since the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport was occupied by the First Army, Ji County has been included in the combat area of ​​the First Army Air Force.

Tongzhou is only about eighty miles away from Sanhe County, while Beiping is more than two hundred miles away from Ji County.

When the battle between the Japanese Army's 4th Battalion and the 1st Regiment broke out, the 5th and 6th Battalions were on their way to Jixian County.

The news that the 4th Battalion was ambushed by the devil's troops was quickly passed by Terauchi Hisaichi to Lieutenant Colonel Ikezaki Tomomono, the commander-in-chief of the 5th and 6th Battalions of the Japanese Army attacking Jixian County.

Lieutenant Colonel Chi Zhongzhiwu had been paying attention to various battles between the Japanese army and the devil troops, and knew that the devil troops were good at concentrating superior forces to divide and annihilate them.

At that time, Wu Lang had already assigned the Second Regiment of the Third Brigade to defend the Panshan fortifications and the Third Regiment to defend the Huangyaguan Great Wall Pass, fully guarding against the invasion of Jixian County by the large Japanese army.