Devil's Army

The Japanese surrounded them again. The battalion commander led everyone to shoot all the remaining bullets at the Japanese, and then rushed towards them with bayonets raised.

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A deputy battalion commander led the remaining two companies of the first battalion to break out to the east of Baojia Village.

There were a few fires lit sporadically at the intersection, and a small number of Japanese troops were guarding it.

A deputy battalion commander led his soldiers and suddenly rushed and attacked the small number of Japanese troops, broke out of the Japanese encirclement, and then disappeared into the dark night.

The deputy battalion commander who escaped from the Japanese encirclement did not stop and continued to retreat towards Hukou.

The deputy battalion commander led his soldiers to retreat hurriedly towards Hukou. When they arrived near Xiaogushan Mountain, more than 20 miles away from Madang Fortress, three people suddenly rushed out, scaring the deputy battalion commander.

"Deputy Battalion Commander, it's us!"

A deputy battalion commander recognized the voice as that of the deputy company commander of the regiment's special forces company.

"Why are you here?"

"The commander has led a large force to retreat to Xiaogushan. He was afraid that you would not be found, so he asked our special forces company to wait at the intersection and bring you back when he sees you."

"Thank you, Captain Fu." The deputy battalion commander stopped talking, waved his hand, and asked Captain Fu to lead the way in front, while he and his brothers followed silently behind.

Captain Fu stopped talking when he saw that the deputy battalion commander had only brought back so few people. He could already guess how fierce the battle in the first battalion was.

The deputy battalion commander followed the deputy company commander to the door of the command tent of the first regiment commander, and the deputy battalion commander shouted to the first regiment commander:

"Report to the captain, we are back."

A regiment commander was drawing on a map with a pen, planning something.

This is a simplified map of Anqing that he borrowed from the 146nd Regiment of the 872th Division of the Sichuan Army when he first arrived in Anqing. Now I don't know where to return it to them. But the map we drew ourselves is really rough. The path they took when they attacked the Anqing Airport today was not shown on the map.

The regiment commander heard what the deputy battalion commander said, looked up at him and asked:

"Ask your Battalion Commander Wang to come over here." After saying that, he buried his head in writing and drawing on the map.

After a while, the regiment commander felt that the deputy battalion commander seemed to be motionless, so he looked up at him and asked:

"What's the matter? Why don't you go?"

"Our Battalion Commander Wang is gone."

"Go and get him back? I have something else to do with him."

"He's gone, and there's no getting him back."

The regiment commander put down his pen and looked at the deputy battalion commander with red eyes. He understood everything at once. He waved to the deputy battalion commander and told him to go down and have a rest.

When the special agent Captain Fu came in, the regiment commander was still sitting on the stool and was no longer looking at the map.

"Captain, when will we retreat to the lake mouth or fight guerrilla warfare on this small isolated mountain?"

"No, for the time being we will neither retreat to Hukou nor fight guerrilla warfare in Xiaogushan."

"That?"

"You saw what happened today. If it weren't for protecting our anti-aircraft guns, the battalion commander wouldn't have to lead the Japanese away from the path. The battalion commander and his men would have..."

The captain paused and did not continue.

"Our antiaircraft guns are useful, but they are a burden during retreat and guerrilla warfare. Tomorrow we will find a place in Xiaogushan to hide them, and then we will return to Ma'an Fortress to fight the Japanese. Commander Leng's order to us is to support the Ma'an garrison. Our Ma'an Fortress has not fallen yet, and we can't just leave."

"Understood. I'll arrange it tomorrow."

The next morning, Captain Fu and the soldiers of the special forces company cut a large pile of branches and covered all the trucks and artillery hidden in the woods of Xiaogushan.

If we don't search it closely, there is no way to find it.

After lunch, a regiment commander led his troops and set off towards the Madang Fortress under the guidance of the golden eagle.

After the Japanese army occupied the Changshan position, the core area of ​​the Madang Fortress was directly exposed to the Japanese artillery attack range.

What made the government troops in the core area of ​​Madang Fortress happy was that there were few Japanese planes bombing them that day.

They didn't know that the deck of the Japanese aircraft carrier was deformed by the bombing of the 150mm howitzer of the First Army, and the aircraft could not take off and land normally. The nearest Anqing Airport was also bombed by the First Army at night.

After intensive repairs, there is currently only one runway that can barely take off and land aircraft.

The Japanese army, lacking air support, failed to successfully defeat the Nanjing government forces in the core area of ​​the Madang Fortress that day.

The 1st Army and 1st Regiment that arrived at the outskirts of Madang Fortress were not in a hurry to attack the Japanese army.

After several days of fighting, they could not get any more ammunition, and could no longer fight freely like they did in the tribe. They could only fight a small group of Japanese troops and make a quick decision. After replenishing their ammunition, they would quickly evacuate.

The golden eagle quickly discovered the Japanese artillery position. However, the Japanese defense outside the artillery position was very strict. Before the regiment commander and his men approached the Japanese artillery position, they were already surrounded by Japanese infantry.

A regiment of soldiers hid in the dark like a dormant wolf, observing the situation of the Japanese troops around them through golden eagles.

Hard work pays off. The Army Aviation soldiers finally discovered a Japanese squad escorting two trucks heading towards Anqing.

A small group of devils was simply a piece of cake. The commander of the first regiment immediately ordered the second battalion to annihilate this group of devils.