Devil's Army

In order to quell the dispute between the commanders of the Fourth and Seventh Brigades, Leng Feng assigned combat missions to both the Fourth and Seventh Brigades.

The 9th Brigade was mainly responsible for retaking Shanhaiguan, while the 15th Brigade was responsible for blocking reinforcements, preventing the Japanese th Independent Mixed Brigade and the th Independent Mixed Brigade from reinforcing Shanhaiguan from Qinhuangdao through the west gate.

At 5:28 in the morning on May , two wedding processions arrived at the east gate of Shanhaiguan.

The puppet troops and Japanese troops at the city gate saw so many people coming suddenly and stared at them with some vigilance.

To their surprise, the two wedding processions were fighting fiercely at the city gate over who would enter Shanhaiguan City first.

The Japanese soldiers watched the fun and laughed as they stood there with their guns in hand.

The Japanese sergeant suggested that the prettiest girls should be allowed to enter the city first.

Two Japanese soldiers volunteered to lift the curtain of the sedan chair.

As soon as the two Japanese soldiers lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, two daggers gleaming with cold light stabbed into their chests.

The people in the bridal party, who were arguing fiercely, immediately ran to the bridal sedan, picked up their guns and started shooting at the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall and at the city gate.

The Japanese heavy machine gunner who was watching the excitement on the city wall was the first to be shot and fell to the ground.

More than a dozen Japanese and puppet soldiers at the city gate were shot and fell, and the common people were so scared that they hid everywhere.

The Japanese soldiers on the city wall screamed in an incomprehensible bird language and raised their guns to shoot at the wedding procession.

At this time, the mortar soldiers of the Fourth Brigade behind the wedding procession also opened fire, and one mortar shell after another landed accurately next to the Japanese on the city wall.

Soldiers from the Second Battalion of the First Regiment of the Fourth Brigade began to charge towards Shanhaiguan.

The new team blocked two specially made sedan chairs at the gate of Shanhaiguan City, and lay behind them to shoot at the Japanese reinforcements that kept coming.

The Japanese machine gunners who came to reinforce him lay on the ground and fired desperately at the bride's escort team behind the sedan chair. But the bullets were blocked by the thickened wooden boards inside the special sedan chair.

Two 40 rocket soldiers calmly carried the 40 rockets in the sedan on their shoulders and fired at the Japanese machine gunners who were firing at them.

With two loud bangs, two Japanese machine guns and machine gunners were blown into the sky.

The artillery of the Fourth Brigade continued to suppress the Japanese machine gun fire points on the city wall. Soldiers from the Second Battalion of the Fourth Brigade rushed to the East Gate of Shanhaiguan to reinforce.

At this time, the Japanese troops in the Dongguan Parade Ground and the Dongluocheng Military Camp also began to send reinforcements to the East Gate in a steady stream.

At the narrow Shanhai East City Gate, reinforcements from both armies continued to pour in from both sides.

Soldiers of the First Army kept falling outside the city gate, and Japanese soldiers kept falling inside the city gate. The two sides shot at each other across the sedan chair, and for a while they were in a stalemate.

Shortly after the Fourth Brigade began to attack the city, Captain Tian, ​​who was lurking in Tian's Middle School, also began to act with the Seventh Squadron of the Special Operations Team and the First and Second Companies of the First Battalion.

The captain of the first company led the soldiers of the first company to deploy along the direction of the Japanese military camp in Dongguan Jiaochang. The captain of the second company led the soldiers of the second company to deploy along the direction of the Japanese military camp in Dongluocheng.

Captain Tian and several soldiers cut off all the telephone lines connecting the Fourth Battery with the outside world, then took the members of the Seventh Squadron, changed into Japanese military uniforms, and headed straight for the Fourth Battery.

"Stop, which unit are you from?"

Two Japanese sentries at the gate of the Fourth Battery raised their guns and stopped Captain Tian and his men.

Captain Tian had already discovered that the Japanese troops stationed at Shanhaiguan were a battalion of the 35th Regiment of the 14th Division.

He told the sentry that we are from the 35th Regiment of the 15th Division and have come here under the orders of Division Commander Maeda to strengthen the defense of the four artillery batteries.

The Japanese sentry still did not put down his gun and asked vigilantly:

“Why haven’t I seen you before?”

"You haven't seen me, but I have seen you. Aren't you from Tokyo?"

At this time, Captain Tian and his men were very close to the two Japanese sentries.

"Stop, or we'll shoot you if you don't stop."

Although these two Japanese sentries were indeed from Tokyo Prefecture, they did not relax their vigilance at all.

"What are you yelling about? Why don't you call your superior to verify it?" Captain Tian got angry.

Seeing that the lieutenant was angry, the two Japanese sentries were no longer as confident.

After looking at each other, the sentry on the left went back to call his superior for confirmation.

The Japanese sentry on the left went back to make a phone call for confirmation, while Captain Tian and his men continued to move towards the fourth artillery battery.

"Stop, don't go any further, or I'll really shoot you."

Captain Tian called the team to a halt because he saw the Japanese soldiers behind the sentries were staring at them with their guns raised. The two heavy machine guns on both sides of the door also pulled the bolts and pointed their guns at them.

After a while, the Japanese sentry came over with a second lieutenant, Captain Asada.

"Lieutenant, please see your ID."

"Didn't you ask your superiors?" Captain Tian replied impatiently.

"The phone call can't be reached." The second lieutenant humbly stretched out his hand and continued to ask Captain Tian for his ID.

Captain Tian reached into his pocket with his left hand to take out his ID, and reached behind his back with his right hand inconspicuously.

Seeing the lieutenant obediently accept the inspection of their superiors, the Japanese soldiers relaxed their vigilance for a moment.

Who knew that what happened next would be so beyond their expectations.