Devil's Army

Xiao Guo told the village chief Guo that it was his wife and sister Xiangqin who told them that the Japanese invaders had entered the village, so they came here.

"Is everything alright, villagers? Why are the devils looking for you?"

"The villagers are fine. The Japanese arrested us mainly to inquire about the situation of the Jixian troops."

"Okay, old village chief, you guys are busy. Let's hurry back to the troops now."

After the platoon leader finished speaking, he and Xiao Guo and the others left the ancestral hall and walked towards the fork in the road.

When the platoon leader and his men walked towards the fork in the road, the gunfire had stopped.

The platoon leader did not cross the river to catch up with the company, but instead came to the regiment headquarters on the north bank of Sancha River under the guidance of the guards.

The platoon leader reported to the third regiment commander the process of capturing two Japanese prisoners.

The third regiment commander asked the first platoon leader to interrogate the prisoners to understand their mission, while he waited in the operations room for news from the second battalion commander and his men about the attack on the Bailonggang Bridge.

The second battalion commander led the soldiers of their battalion and rushed to the Bailonggang Bridge without stopping. Before they reached the Bailonggang Bridge, there were already patrolling Japanese troops around from time to time.

The soldiers of the second battalion had to dodge and approach the Bailonggang Bridge, but they were still discovered by the Japanese sentries, and the two sides immediately exchanged fire.

Since the surprise attack failed, the only option was to attack head-on. The second battalion commander ordered the first company to be the vanguard, and the second and third companies to be the reserve forces, following closely behind.

The company charged and attacked fiercely all the way, and the Japanese troops who had no time to deploy defenses to block them retreated one after another.

"Captain, these devils are getting hard to fight. At this rate, we can recapture the Bailonggang Bridge soon." said the guard next to the commander.

The company commander did not respond because he knew that these were just the Japs who had just responded to the battle hastily and were not on guard at all.

The war progressed quickly, confirming the company commander's guess.

They could vaguely see the Bailonggang Bridge, and the Japanese were already on high alert.

As soon as the soldiers of the first company appeared, they heard the whistling sound of mortar shells.

"Get out of the way! Dodge the artillery fire!" a company commander shouted as he dodged toward the buildings on both sides.

The soldiers also ran quickly towards the buildings on both sides of the road, and many of the soldiers who were slow to react were blown away by mortar shells.

"These are the main Japanese forces guarding the Bailonggang Bridge." The company commander turned and said to the guard who had been following him.

The Japanese mortar bombardment stopped after several rounds, and the company commander led his soldiers to attack again.

Who would have thought that as soon as the soldiers of a company showed up, a series of machine gun bullets came towards them from the Japanese positions.

"Captain, this road is too narrow and is completely blocked by the Japanese. We can't get through!"

The company commander also looked around, looking for a good strategy to defeat the enemy.

The company commander's eyes rested on a cart. He asked the soldiers to buy one or two quilts from the nearby people, then fetch water and pile them on the cart.

After a while, the two soldiers who bought the quilts came back empty-handed.

"Captain, they all share one quilt with several people in the same family. We bought their quilts. Aren't they freezing in this cold winter?"

The company commander was speechless when he heard this. The lives of the common people in the Japanese-occupied areas were more difficult than those in their base areas.

"Pile those wood and stones on the car to block the enemy's bullets."

The soldiers piled stones and wood on carts, and in groups of five, each with a machine gun, they hid behind the carts and rushed towards the Japanese positions.

The two soldiers on both sides of the cart were shot in the legs and fell to the ground. Before they could get up, they were shot and killed by the Japanese army.

Seeing this, the two soldiers nearby rushed over, hid behind the cart and shot at the Japanese army.

The two mortars carried by the first company also began to bombard the Japanese positions, but were soon suppressed by the Japanese mortars.

Another soldier on the cart was shot and fell, but the other four soldiers successfully approached the Japanese position. The machine gun on the cart also suppressed the machine gun in the Japanese position.

As long as the cart was pushed to a point forty or fifty meters in front of the Japanese position, the grenade could destroy the Japanese machine gun position, and the company commander could launch a charge.

But man proposes, God disposes. After suppressing a company of mortar soldiers, the Japanese mortars began to bombard the cart.

A mortar shell landed right on the cart, and it was instantly blown to pieces.

The four soldiers of the First Army behind the cart were also blown away along with the machine gun.

The company commander was heartbroken when he saw four soldiers behind the cart being blown away. The two light machine guns in the enemy's position took turns spitting flames at them. As soon as his soldiers showed their heads, they were immediately beaten back.

One of his two mortars was destroyed by the Japanese artillery, killing two artillerymen. What to do?

"Company commander, let the artillery provide cover while I lead our platoon to charge forward?" the second platoon leader asked the first company commander.

One platoon acted as the vanguard and fought all the way here, but suffered too many casualties and was no longer able to organize a large-scale offensive.

"Can the artillery destroy both sides of the Japanese machine gun positions with one shot? Even if one machine gun position is destroyed, the other machine gun position will still block the path. Wouldn't you be sitting ducks if you rush over?"

The second platoon leader lowered his head and said nothing. He knew that they only had one mortar left. Its firepower was inferior to that of the Japanese defenders. After the mortar attacked the Japanese machine gun position, it had to move immediately, otherwise it would be easy to be counterattacked by the Japanese artillery.

When the company commander was thinking of a solution, two 40 rocket soldiers in the company proposed a solution to him.

The company commander thought about it and agreed.