Devil's Army

Shortly after Captain Wei escaped the Japanese encirclement, he met the Eighth Route Army intelligence personnel who came to look for them.

Before he and the Eighth Route Army intelligence officers left, he heard two mortar shell explosions behind him. Then the series of gunshots turned into sporadic gunshots. Then the gunshots stopped.

Captain Wei stayed there until the gunfire stopped, then he left with tears in his eyes along with the intelligence personnel of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army's intelligence personnel had nowhere else to go, so they took the risk and brought Captain Wei back to their intelligence station.

When Captain Wei arrived at the Eighth Route Army's intelligence station, the other two special forces members had already arrived. When they saw Captain Wei coming, they immediately came forward and asked:

"Captain, are you here alone?"

Captain Wei nodded but said nothing.

The two special forces members did not ask any more questions. Everyone knew what had happened without asking.

Captain Wei had just paused and immediately asked the communicator to send a message to the headquarters: Tianjin Intelligence Station was destroyed, He Xiaoguang and Deng Zhiyuan were killed.

After sending the telegram, Captain Wei immediately asked another special operations team member to arrange for the golden eagle to patrol the Japanese army camp and the city gate. Intelligence work on the Japanese army cannot be neglected for a single day.

Captain Chen had just sent the telegram outside the city when he discovered that a Japanese transport convoy had left the city again before he entered the city.

Captain Chen arranged for the golden eagle to fly over the heads of the Japanese army, observing this Japanese transport team.

The Japanese transport team had 12 trucks and 32 horse-drawn carriages.

The truck and the carriage were covered with canvas, so it was impossible to tell what was inside. But judging from the shape of the canvas covering the carriage, it looked like food and ammunition. More than 500 Japanese soldiers followed behind. The route they were heading to was likely Baodi County.

Captain Chen immediately sent a telegram back to the headquarters, and found a Japanese transport team heading towards Baodi County, with 12 trucks and 32 horse-drawn carriages. The items on the vehicles could not be confirmed. There were more than 500 Japanese soldiers escorting them.

It was a bit unreasonable for the Japanese army to send such a large transport team to Baodi County after being ambushed twice in a row. Captain Chen thought for a while and sent another telegram back to the headquarters:

It is impossible to confirm whether there are soldiers or supplies on the Japanese transport team's trucks, please be careful!

In order to cut off the Japanese army's transportation line from Tianjin and Beijing to Baodi, Wu Lang specially arranged for a regiment of the 12th Brigade to enter Sanhe County, and also allocated them the few trucks that the headquarters had.

After receiving a telegram from the commander-in-chief to the Beijing Intelligence Station, Brigade Commander Chen of the 12th Brigade immediately ordered a regiment commander to arrange a battalion to find a location to ambush the Japanese transport team.

A regiment commander received a call from Brigade Commander Chen and immediately asked a battalion commander to take the troops and set off on a truck.

Brigade Commander Chen then received a second telegram from the Peking Intelligence Station forwarded by the commander-in-chief, asking the commander of the first regiment to immediately arrange for the second battalion, with the third battalion to follow up and be ready to support the first battalion at any time.

When the Japanese transport team reached the path where they had been ambushed twice before, they stopped advancing and arranged a team of scouts to conduct reconnaissance.

The Japanese scouts fired their guns while reconnoitering, breaking the branches in front of the path and sending leaves flying everywhere, but they still did not find the ambush.

The Japanese commander was disappointed and ordered the troops to continue moving forward. The path ahead was a relatively open area, not suitable for an ambush. The Japanese commander allowed the transport team to move forward without any reconnaissance.

Suddenly, the bushes on both sides of the path moved, and then grenades flew towards the Japanese transport escort troops. Gunshots also rang out.

It turned out that the dry grass was camouflage used by a battalion of soldiers.

The horses in the carriage neighed, and the Japanese soldiers steadied the carriage while hiding beside it and shooting at the soldiers of the Devil Army. However, they could not withstand the fierce attack of the first battalion of soldiers and began to retreat towards Beijing.

The soldiers of the first battalion did not chase the retreating Japanese troops and began to rush towards the carriage.

A battalion commander stopped the soldiers who were about to rush towards the trucks and carriages, because when they set out, a regimental commander specifically told him to be careful of the trucks for fraud.

A battalion commander ordered several soldiers to move towards the trucks and carriages.

Three soldiers approached the carriage and cut the ropes holding the canvas with their bayonets.

I saw bags of what looked like grain piled on top of the carriage.

A soldier drew his bayonet and cut the bag open, causing the dirt inside the bag to flow to the ground.

The soldier held the mud flowing to the ground and turned around to shout to the battalion commander, but the canvas of the truck was suddenly lifted up, and a series of light and heavy machine guns fired at them.

Several soldiers who had not yet reached the truck were knocked down immediately, and three soldiers next to the carriage were also shot and fell down.

Immediately afterwards, the light and heavy machine guns on the trucks fired at the soldiers of the first battalion on both sides.

Soldiers from the first battalion who were eagerly watching on the path were shot and killed one after another.

The battalion commander quickly ordered the soldiers to lie down and fire back at the Japanese trucks.

However, these Japanese trucks were equipped with steel plates, and the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the trucks and shooting through the observation holes at both sides of the two paths suffered few casualties.

A series of crisp "ding-dang-dang" sounds came from the path.

What was even more terrible was that the Japanese troops who had been escorting us pretended to retreat and had already encircled us from both wings. The situation of the First Battalion was extremely dangerous.