Devil's Army

The Japanese captain returned to the headquarters in shock. He sighed heavily. He wanted to kill a group of Chinese to vent his anger, but he couldn't.

The commander of the regiment, Katano Sadami, soon reported that Luan County was attacked by the devil troops. The Luan County defenders and the vanguard of the 5th Division suffered heavy casualties, and the stored fuel and 12 tanks of a mobile squadron that arrived earlier were all captured by the devil troops.

After hearing Katano Sadami's report, the commander of the Japanese Army's 5th Division, Seishirō Itakama, was both surprised and angry.

Itagaki was surprised that the Devil Army dared to attack them when the main force of their Fifth Division was gathering. He was angry that the strategic materials they had collected in Luan County were taken away by the Devil Army.

Fortunately, the fuel he left in Luan County was only a small part, and most of it was still at the base and had not been transported here.

When attacking Taiyuan, Division Commander Itagaki had fought the Devil Force twice at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, but both times ended in failure. This time, the entire Fifth Division and the 11th Mixed Brigade were assembled to eliminate the Devil Force at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport. Then, the main force of the Devil Force entrenched in Tangshan was eliminated.

Division Commander Itagaki ordered the 9th and 11st Regiments of the 21th Brigade to move into Zunhua County to the north of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport and Luan County to the east as soon as possible.

The 21st Regiment of the 41st Brigade will move into Fengnan County, south of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, as soon as possible.

The 11th Mixed Brigade stationed there bypassed Ji County and directly attacked the only passage to the west of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport that was controlled by the devil's troops: Fengrun County.

Xiaoguanzhuang Airport will be besieged on all sides by nearly 40,000 troops from two Japanese divisions.

After the Japanese army seized the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, they would inevitably continue to swallow up their other bases.

If the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport is lost, the First Army base will lose the protection of the air force. The First Anti-Japanese Army, which is already at a disadvantage in terms of manpower, will be at a disadvantage under the three-dimensional air-to-ground attack of the Japanese army.

What was even more terrible was that Captain Yin was discovered by a Japanese reconnaissance plane when he was transporting ammunition from Tangxia Village to Xiaoguanzhuang Airport. He was bombed by Japanese planes near Fengrun County. Three trucks were destroyed and a 30mm machine gun shell exploded.

Later, the Huaxia II fighter planes arrived after receiving the news and shot down four Japanese bombers and fighter planes, damaging three. The transport convoy was able to return to Xiaoguanzhuang Airport smoothly.

The reserve of 30mm machine gun shells for the fighter planes at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport was not large, and it was barely enough to cope with air battles of normal intensity. If the Japanese North China Provisional Air Corps attacked with all its might, the Huaxia II fighter planes would be in an awkward situation of having guns but no bullets.

Currently, the various signs of the Japanese's movements indicate that the next battle will not be of ordinary intensity.

Wulang was caught in the biggest crisis since establishing a base in North China.

Wu Lang ordered Instructor Yin to arrange for bombers to return to the tribe and deliver a batch of 30mm machine gun shells.

Instructor Yin knew that there were no shells. Although his Hua Xia II fighter was much more advanced than the Japanese Type 95 fighter, he could only run away.

Moreover, the loss of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport meant that the base in North China that they had worked so hard to build would be in jeopardy under the powerful enemy's three-dimensional air and ground attack. This outcome was unacceptable to them.

He arranged two Huaxia-30 ​​fighters to escort three H- bombers and fly back to the tribe to deliver mm machine gun shells.

On the Japanese side, the soldiers of Itagaki Seishirō's 5th Division and Suzuki Shigeyasu's 11th Mixed Brigade have already assembled, and some strategic materials have also arrived, so they can launch an attack on Xiaoguanzhuang Airport at any time.

In order to contain the Japanese army and the North China Front Army's attack on the Tangshan base of the Anti-Japanese First Army, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army launched the famous Shentouling ambush at Shentouling in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province.

At that time, the Japanese army attacking western and southern Shanxi consisted of five divisions, each with more than 30,000 people.

Facing a powerful enemy, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army adopted the tactic of attacking the enemy's defenses and annihilating the rescued, leading the Japanese troops in Lucheng into the ambush circle of Shentouling. At the cost of more than 240 casualties, they achieved the feat of killing and wounding more than 1500 Japanese soldiers, effectively pinning down the main force of the Japanese North China Front Army.

Terauchi Hisahi's plan to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army, the biggest threat to western and southern Shanxi, and then transfer a division to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Tangshan Devil Army base was aborted. He had to continue to increase troops to encircle and suppress the main force of the Eighth Route Army in western and southern Shanxi.

The Eighth Route Army in western and southern Shanxi and the First Anti-Japanese Army in Tangshan tied down more than 80,000 Japanese troops, effectively supporting the main force of the National Army on the front battlefield and slowing down the Japanese army's strategic deployment to quickly move southward to Fenglingdu.

Therefore, the Nanjing government sent a congratulatory certificate to the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, congratulating them on their victory at Shentouling.

Commander Liu just laughed it off. What he needed was not these flashy things, but real funds and ammunition replenishment.

Through the Golden Eagle's reconnaissance, Wu Lang learned that the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport was surrounded on three sides by the Japanese Fifth Division and the battle could start at any time.

The Japanese 11th Mixed Brigade was also ready to attack Fengrun County at any time.

Wulang also accelerated his deployment to prepare for the upcoming war.