Devil's Army

After the Motokawa Battalion withdrew, Major Matsushima held an emergency meeting next to the armored vehicle.

The Japanese officers who participated in the meeting all agreed that the forest was full of traps, and the Chinese were familiar with the situation in the forest. If they rashly went in to encircle and suppress the Chinese, they would suffer heavy losses even if they won.

Finally, the Japanese army unanimously agreed that it would be better to let the Chinese fight the Chinese. They decided to send the Imperial Army to search in front, and the Japanese army to follow behind.

Major Matsushima ordered the Imperial Army Captain Yang Tiancai to send a squadron of the Imperial Army to clear the way.

When Major Matsushima saw that Yang Tiancai did not move, he waved his hand, and the Japanese machine guns and mobile guns behind the Imperial Army immediately loaded their guns and aimed at the Imperial Army.

Seeing this, Yang Tiancai immediately said to Major Matsushima, "What are you doing? First Squadron, charge. If anyone retreats, I will kill him."

The Imperial Army rushed forward in a mighty force. Major Matsushima said with satisfaction, “Yoshi yoshi.”

As soon as the Imperial Army rushed into the forest, they changed into a different person, moving forward slowly. The Imperial Army behind them urged them impatiently, "Hurry up, hurry up."

Seeing this situation, Baron and his men had no choice but to attack the puppet troops first.

A round of gunfire rang out, and several unlucky puppet soldiers in the front fell down. When the other puppet soldiers heard the gunfire, they all lay on the ground. The Japanese soldiers behind them had to urge them to get up and move forward quickly.

When Baron saw it, he immediately had an idea and adjusted his combat strategy in time.

This time, when the puppet soldiers came over to search, he only fired one shot, knocking down one puppet soldier. While the other puppet soldiers were lying down, the rest of them fired at the Japanese soldiers behind them. They knocked down several more Japanese soldiers at once. When the Japanese soldiers opened fire, they ran away again. This disturbed the Japanese soldiers and made them advance very slowly.

Slowly, the Japanese finally approached the pass. At this time, the Oroqen Independent Battalion changed its fighting style of firing a few shots and running, and desperately resisted the advance of the Japanese army in front of the pass.

More and more Japanese soldiers surrounded them. The independent battalion was defeated and retreated into the pass.

The Japanese army stopped at the pass. It was such a dangerous pass, and the army just now was acting out of character. They must be trying to lure them in. There must be ambushes on both sides of the pass.

A squadron leader of the Honkawa Battalion ordered the artillerymen to set up mortars and prepare for a barrage of artillery fire.

At this time, a detonating explosion sounded from the front of the pass. Gray Wolf detonated the explosives and grenades buried in the ground in front of the pass. For a moment, thick smoke billowed and body parts flew everywhere.

Major Motokawa walked over and was also shocked by the tragic scene before him.

A 300-meter-long crater was blown out in front of the pass. The trees and grass around the crater were littered with the remains of the Imperial Army and their weapons. Only a handful of people from one squadron managed to escape.

With a dark face, Major Honkawa drew his command knife and ordered the first squadron of the Imperial Army to charge forward, and the other squadron of the Japanese Army to follow. The artillery squadron quickly set up the guns and prepared for artillery support.

There were two Imperial Army soldiers who were running slower, and Major Motokawa shot them dead.

The rest of the Imperial Army had to rush quickly towards the pass.

"beat".

When the puppet troops and the Japanese approached the pass, Gray Wolf ordered a counterattack. The puppet troops in the front fell one after another. The Japanese artillery squadron's mortars bombarded Gray Wolf's firepower points one after another.

Although the Japanese artillery was the main target of the snipers of the first battalion, they were outnumbered, and when the gunner was killed, another gunner immediately came to take his place. The mortar shells nearby also immediately hit the location where the gun was fired.

Under the intensive artillery bombardment of the Japanese, the casualties of the Gray Wolves' First Battalion rose sharply.

The members of the Oroqen tribe quickly ran to the pass, carrying the wounded, and quickly rushed to the infirmary.

Soon, the infirmary was overcrowded, and all the wounded who were sent in had to be placed on the roadside outside the infirmary.

Almost at the same time when the Gray Wolf's First Battalion started the battle, the Wen Wolf's Second Battalion had surrounded a squadron of Japanese troops left behind outside the forest.

The battle was intense as soon as it started. Wen Lang led a force of more than 500 troops without leaving any reserve troops, and pressed forward from all directions. For a while, there were loud gunshots and the sound of grenades exploding.

Hearing the gunshots and explosions outside the forest, Major Matsushima was also startled. He did not expect that the devil troops had ambushed a troop outside the forest to intercept his retreat. He immediately ordered a reinforced squadron to quickly support the troops outside the forest.

This reinforced squadron was intercepted by the Oroqen Independent Battalion soon after leaving the main force at the pass. The Japanese reinforced squadron had no advantage in terms of numbers or firepower, and failed to break through the defense line of the independent battalion after several attempts.

At this time, the gunfire and explosions outside the forest had stopped.

Wen Lang left a squadron to clean up the battlefield and put the spoils together with the supplies on the enemy vehicles. Then he drove all the vehicles away. The rest of the troops went into the forest and participated in the battle to annihilate the enemy's large force.

Major Matsushima knew that all the supplies outside the forest would definitely fall into the hands of the devil's army. At this time, nearly half of his troops had been killed or wounded. He had to take the pass as soon as possible, enter the Oroqen tribe, send heavy troops to guard the pass, and request Fengtian to send reinforcements and replenish supplies to have a chance of victory. Otherwise, he had to retreat.

Retreat would mean failure, and he couldn't afford to lose face, so he ordered his troops to attack even more frantically.

At this time, Leng Feng saw that the firepower at the pass had weakened, and immediately ordered Li Guozhu's Third Battalion to send two squadrons to support both sides of the pass.

Major Matsushima had made several unsuccessful attacks, and now the Devil's Army had sent reinforcements. The sound of gunfire in the forest was getting closer and closer, and more and more frequent. He had no choice but to order a retreat in frustration.

The large-scale encirclement and suppression campaign that the Japanese had planned for a week finally ended in failure.