Devil's Army

The battle went on like this.

The next day, the Japanese army occupied the pass with the support of aircraft and artillery bombardment, but they were blocked by the Second Company and the 151st Regiment of the Sichuan Army, and their progress was slow.

Many Japanese soldiers died along the way, but the casualties of the 151st and st Regiments were also high.

In the evening, after the Japanese planes returned, the Japanese troops who were unwilling to give up the pass positions they had occupied during the day were once again covered by a fierce artillery fire and had to retreat.

Soldiers from the 151st and st Regiments took the opportunity to reoccupy the pass positions.

The situation on the battlefield returned to its original state.

With the addition of the Japanese 101th Division and st Division, the Hukou battlefield quickly turned to the disadvantage of China.

On this day, the Golden Eagle scouted the battlefield and found a new Japanese troop: the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, which also brought tank troops.

The regiment commander immediately arranged for his men to ambush in the two caves.

The regiment commander only arranged observation posts in the fortifications and trenches, and the other soldiers retreated to the rear.

"Captain He, the Japanese tanks are advancing very quickly and have strong defensive capabilities. If we don't arrange for soldiers to enter the positions at this time, we will probably lose our positions quickly, and it will be difficult to take them back after losing them." Captain Zhu said worriedly.

"No, the Japanese will soon launch an artillery attack. If we send soldiers up there now, they will all be sitting ducks."

Sure enough, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army began to bombard the pass positions after they were ready, and waves of planes also flew in from low altitude, firing and dropping bombs.

The pass position was plowed by Japanese artillery fire and bombs. One of the three observers was killed on the spot and one was injured.

The shelling had not yet completely stopped, and four Japanese tanks lined up in a column and rushed towards the pass position with a "boom..." sound. The infantry followed closely around them, firing at the pass position as they walked.

Captain Zhu nervously pulled a bunch of leaves and soil picked up from under a tree and stared closely at the pass position.

The soldiers began to rush into the trenches in the position, and the Japanese tanks kept firing at the soldiers who were rushing into the position.

When the Japanese tanks drove close enough, the 40th Rocket Soldiers lying in ambush in two holes at both ends of the trench suddenly opened fire together.

With just one wave of attack, four Japanese tanks were destroyed at the same time.

The machine gunners next to the tanks quickly opened fire at the infantry around the tanks, and the soldiers in the trenches also quickly fired at the Japanese.

The first charge of the Japanese 9th Division after its arrival was defeated without any suspense. The four tanks lay alone on the road like four turtle shells.

Seeing that the attack had failed for a long time, the Japanese army came up with a plan. They sent the 145th Regiment of the Japanese Army to enter Poyang Lake by motorboat, and landed at Sanli Town south of the lake mouth, intending to form a pincer attack on the lake mouth fortress with the Japanese invaders who were attacking the pass position.

At the critical moment, Chen Jianzhong, commander of the 31th Regiment of the 65st Brigade, arrived with his troops.

After a desperate resistance, the enemy was finally repelled and left on a gunboat, thus thwarting the Japanese invaders' plan to encircle the Hukou Fortress.

The Japanese follow-up troops joined the Hukou Campaign one after another, and part of the Japanese 27th Division Guards Division also arrived at the Hukou battlefield. The Japanese troops on the Hukou battlefield reached tens of thousands.

The Chinese government army urgently dispatched more than 43 troops from the 73rd and 2rd Armies stationed in Pengze to reinforce.

The 11th Division, led by Peng Shan, blocked the Japanese Guards Division that was attacking Hukou from the outside.

Under the continuous high-intensity bombardment of aircraft and artillery, the Japanese Imperial Guards Division attacked the positions of the Chinese 11th Division in waves. Division Commander Peng's troops suffered heavy casualties.

The Chinese side also urgently mobilized the nearby 77th Division, 16th Division, 53rd Division, and 167th Division to block the Japanese reinforcements attacking Hukou from the surrounding areas. The total force reached to .

The pass position was the main attack direction of the Japanese army on land. Although the casualties of the soldiers of the 151st and st regiments had been reduced to a very low level under the flexible tactics of the st regiment commander, under the successive attacks of multiple Japanese troops, more than half of them were killed or wounded.

The 76th Brigade's commander, Fu, urgently dispatched two regiments with less than 2000 men remaining to provide support. Commander Fu also followed.

The 76th Division of the Japanese Army occupied the Yinjiashan Pass position again under the powerful artillery fire and the low-altitude bombing of aircraft. The soldiers of the st Regiment and the th Brigade of the Sichuan Army retreated to the rear of the pass position and resisted the enemy's attack layer by layer according to the terrain.

In the evening, the Japanese army became nervous again. Most of them retreated to both sides of the position because the Chinese army often launched artillery attacks at this time.

Sure enough, it was not completely dark yet, and a regiment of artillery, under the guidance of the golden eagle, accurately bombed the hiding place of the Japanese infantry.

Soldiers from the 76st Regiment and the th Brigade took the opportunity to recapture the pass positions.

The artillery of the regiment fired so accurately that the Japanese army suspected that there were Chinese artillery observers nearby, but they never found any.

After successfully retaking the pass position, Brigade Commander Fu breathed a sigh of relief and drank water and chatted with the first regiment commander, Captain Zhu, at the command post.