Devil's Army

At six o'clock the next morning, Lieutenant Colonel Ikezaki led the Japanese 5th Battalion to attack Panshan again.

The strange thing is that this time the Japanese Fifth Battalion stopped at the corner of the winding mountain road, unlike yesterday's rapid attack.

A battalion commander looked at the stagnant Japanese troops and wondered what they were up to.

"Could it be that the plan last night was leaked, alerting the Japanese army? This is unlikely."

After a while, the roar of Japanese planes was heard in the distance.

It was only then that the battalion commander realized that the Japanese army was waiting for their air force to lead the way for them.

One aerial bomb after another fell on the unprepared ambush position of the First Battalion, and one soldier after another was blown away by the Japanese aerial bombs.

The commander of the first battalion called the commander of the second regiment and requested air force support.

The second commander was silent for a while and told him:

"We have high mountains and dense forests here, so the damage caused by Japanese planes bombing us is relatively small. The battle at the Huangyaguan Great Wall Pass is also very fierce, and there are no trees to block the view. The casualties caused by Japanese planes bombing our Third Regiment will be much greater. All the planes of our First Army went there to support the Third Regiment in the battle."

After hearing this, the first battalion commander silently put down the phone and walked out of the command room. The second company commander followed closely behind and asked:

"Commander, what does the regiment commander say?"

"All our First Army aircraft are going to support the battle at Huangyaguan Great Wall Pass. They need air support more than we do."

"Even without the support of aircraft, I will still be skinned alive by the Japanese!" The second company commander said bitterly as he looked at the Japanese planes that were still bombing.

The Japanese planes finally stopped bombing and returned. The Japanese soldiers of the second squadron quickly charged towards the Panshan Pass. They had to race against time to pass this deadly path.

What the second squadron captain did not expect was that just when their squadron had rushed less than halfway across the path, a "boom..." sound of a mine explosion was heard on the deadly path.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of mortar shells from the Devil Forces exploding was heard behind the squadron.

"Retreat, retreat quickly!" the second squadron leader ordered hurriedly.

Lieutenant Colonel Chi Zhong stared blankly at the retreating Second Squadron. He had originally wanted to rush into Panshan while their planes were bombing the Devil Troops and causing chaos to the Devil Troops. He had never expected that the Devil Troops had planted mines at night.

"What should Captain Chi Zhong do? If we clear the mines, a large number of our engineers will be killed by the guns of the devil's troops. If we don't clear the mines, our troops will not be able to pass this section of the road."

"Bomb! Order the artillery to blast a path for me!"

"Hi!"

After a while, the deadly path was filled with the sound of dense mortar shells exploding, mixed with the occasional sound of mines exploding.

The Japanese mortars bombarded for more than half an hour and finally opened up a passage.

The second squadron leader personally led the soldiers to charge towards Panshan. Intensive gunfire rang out again at the pass of Panshan.

Last night, Lieutenant Colonel Chi Zhong had issued an order to the squadron leaders to advance to the belly of Panshan Mountain today. Otherwise, they would be forced to evacuate at night. How many imperial warriors would they have to sacrifice every day on this deadly path?

The Japanese attack was fierce, but the resistance of the First Battalion was also tenacious. The bodies of Japanese soldiers and the remains of the First Battalion soldiers were lying everywhere on the small Panshan Pass.

The Japanese Army's Third Infantry Company and its subordinate units continued to break through the Second Regiment's artillery blockade and attacked Panshan Pass. The Second Regiment's Third Battalion also joined the battle.

The Japanese army had to pay a heavy price for every step forward, and the soldiers of the Second Regiment also suffered heavy casualties every time they defended a position.

Seeing that the main forces of the Japanese army were attacking Panshan, the Second Regiment Commander estimated that there would not be many troops left in his command, so he decided to capture the leader first.

The second regiment commander ordered the Army Aviation soldiers to fly the Golden Eagle No. 4 over the Japanese headquarters to see if there were any fighter planes.

Golden Eagle No. 4 quickly spotted a fighter plane: at the corner of the path, there were several Japanese officers, one of whom was a lieutenant colonel, who was watching the progress of the battle at Panshan Pass with a telescope.

The aviation soldier decisively controlled the Golden Eagle IV to pounce on the group of Japanese officers. The Type 92 heavy machine gun on the abdomen kept firing "tat tat tat..."

The guards next to the Japanese officer apparently also saw the golden eagle rushing towards them, and quickly knocked the lieutenant colonel and his men down.

After the eagle flew past, several guards were pierced by bullets from the Type 92 heavy machine gun.

Lieutenant Colonel Ikezhong pushed aside the bodies of the Japanese guards that were pressing on them, and sat up with a major, trying to catch his breath.

The major suddenly saw the small aircraft in the sky flying towards them again, and hurriedly pulled the colonel and ran towards the command center.

But they could not outrun the golden eagle. Soon the golden eagle caught up with them and fired at them from behind.

Lieutenant Colonel Ike and Major were hit by several bullets and fell heavily to the ground.

The squadron leader in charge of the battle tried his best but failed to break into the belly of Panshan.

At this time, the soldiers ran over to tell him that their captain and deputy captain had both died in the line of duty.

The squadron leader decided to stop the attack on Panshan and withdraw to Peiping with the Japanese Fifth Battalion, whose morale was already low.

The Panshan battle ended perfectly with the victory of the first army.