Devil's Army

The recovery of Dangyu Town, Xinyin Town and Linnancang Town suddenly increased the strategic depth of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport by more than 600 square miles.

The successive defeats of the 11th Mixed Brigade and the 5th Division made Commander-in-Chief Terauchi Hisaichi furious. The battle to encircle and suppress the Tangshan Devil Forces had not even begun, but five cities had already been lost in succession.

What gave him a headache was that the Eighth Route Army successively captured more than ten cities in the battlefields of central Shanxi, southern Shanxi, and northwestern Shanxi.

Commander-in-Chief Terauchi Juichi decided to first dispatch a large number of troops to eliminate the base of the demonic troops closer to him, and then eliminate the erratic Eighth Route Army. He gave an order to the division commander Itagaki, strictly ordering him to recapture the lost Xinyin Town, Lincangnan Town and Dangyu Town within a time limit.

Itagaki, the division commander, was scolded and felt ashamed. He was invincible in the Northeast Army, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and even the Central Army.

Now we are fighting against the devil's army but we are defeated again and again. What is the problem?

After analysis, Itagaki concluded that the devil troops were stronger than any Chinese troops, and their weapons and equipment were also better. However, the lost town still had to be recaptured.

Division Commander Itagaki ordered Major General Noboru Kunisaki of the 9th Brigade and Major General Jun Motosaka of the 21st Brigade to prepare to occupy Dangyu Town, Xinyin Town and Linnancang Town.

At the same time, Captain Yin also received a call from Tangxia Village, saying that 50 pilots and 100 ground crew members arranged by the tribe had arrived in Tangxia Village by boat and asked him to come and pick them up.

With the previous experience of being attacked while transporting ammunition, Captain Yin arranged three trucks to pick up the pilots and ground crew, and also arranged two Huaxia II fighter jets to provide air escort.

Originally, after seizing more than a dozen fighter planes and bombers from the Japanese army, Xiaoguanzhuang Airport had a shortage of pilots. Now with the addition of new pilots, the personnel strength is even more sufficient.

Captain Yin immediately asked the new pilots to conduct actual aircraft training in preparation for the upcoming war.

The roar of planes above the Xiaoguanzhuang Airport was heard one after another, creating a constant bustle.

On the morning of the third day after the new pilots arrived, Major General Toshiji Miura, commander of the Japanese Army's 5th Division, arranged an infantry battalion to set out from Zunhua County first in an attempt to occupy Dangyu Town.

Captain Yin was complaining that actual flight training was a waste of fuel, so he immediately ordered four Hua Xia IIs to provide escort. The new pilots took turns flying eight Type 98 heavy bombers and two Voltir bombers to bomb the Japanese troops coming from Zunhua County.

The Japanese troops coming from Zunhua County were riding in trucks and heading towards Dangyu Town.

The vague shadow of Dangyu Town was already in sight. The Japanese battalion commander looked up and saw their Type 98 heavy bomber, but he paid no attention and continued to advance with his troops.

Suddenly, bombs fell from the sky and exploded around them.

The Japanese captain looked at the sky. Apart from four pointed-nosed planes that did not participate in the bombing and did not look like their planes, the other eight were obviously the Type 98 heavy bombers of their air force.

The captain cursed his father and asked the signalman to report to the regiment commander Major General Miura.

Soon, Commander Itagaki received a reply from Commander Tokugawa of the North China Provisional Air Force: they did not send any aircraft to the vicinity of Zunhua County.

It was not a plane from their temporary air corps, it could only be a plane from the devil troops at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport. The captain quickly asked the soldiers to defend against air attacks and avoid air raids.

After two rounds of bombing, the First Army's planes began to return. The Japanese troops on the road were badly damaged.

The captain began to gather his troops and prepared to continue towards Dangyu Town.

The new pilots who participated in the combat for the first time were very excited after returning and started to chatter about it at the airfield.

Captain Ren Shiqiong led four Hua Xia II fighter planes and patrolled over the Xiaoguanzhuang airport without landing.

The second batch of new pilots boarded eight Type 98 heavy bombers and the two Voltaire bombers and began to take off and carry out live-fire training.

The Japanese captain was just thankful that the Chinese pilots' accuracy was not good enough, as less than half of his trucks were destroyed. After gathering his troops, he continued to head towards Dangyu Town.

The captain and his men had not gone far when they heard the roar of an airplane again.

One after another, Type 98 heavy bombers and Voltaire bombers began to drop bombs on them.

The path was filled with the sounds of aerial bombs exploding, the running and shouting of Japanese soldiers, and the painful howlings of those who were shot.

The planes of the First Army returned again. At this time, the morale of this large group of Japanese troops had fallen to the bottom.

The captain reluctantly organized the troops and continued to march towards Dangyu Town. He had already seen Dangyu Town ahead, and as long as they took Dangyu Town, their mission would be accomplished.

Who knew that before they had gone far, the third wave of air strikes from the devil troops arrived.

This large group of Japanese troops suffered four consecutive waves of air attacks from the devil's forces, suffering heavy casualties and completely losing morale.

The battalion commander had to report to Major General Miura, the regiment commander, cancel the operation and return to Zunhua County.

Four batches of new pilots at Xiaoguanzhuang Airport have already conducted live-fire training, and the remaining last batch of ten pilots are also boarding the plane one after another to prepare for live-fire training.