Devil's Army

Soon the third battalion commander and his men arrived at the outskirts of Huanghua City. The battalion commander ordered the artillery to be ready, and when their troops approached Huanghua City, they began to fire artillery at the city walls of Huanghua City. Other troops were ready to charge at any time to support the assault team that broke into Huanghua City.

The company commander told the 11 puppet soldiers to lie down when they reached the gate of Huanghua City, otherwise they would be blamed by the bullets behind them. The 11 puppet soldiers nodded repeatedly.

After a while, 11 puppet soldiers carrying rifles without bullets walked in front, followed by more than 80 soldiers from the Third Battalion who had changed into Japanese puppet army uniforms.

In Huanghua City, the sentry at the gate looked at the puppet soldiers in front of him and saw that they had no spoils of war. He smiled and said hello:

"You guys had a bad start today. You didn't even get much spoils."

But the expressions of these puppet soldiers were very strange. They were not as cheerful as usual when they came back. Some of them even had sad faces.

The Japanese sentry at the city gate also felt something was wrong and stopped the puppet troops who were walking towards the Huanghua city gate.

The puppet soldier in the lead looked back at the soldiers of the First Army behind him, and the company commander waved his hand and told them to continue moving forward.

The Japanese soldiers pulled the bolts of their guns and aimed their guns at the puppet troops who were moving forward.

"Get down!" the company commander shouted to the puppet soldiers in front of him, and raised his gun to shoot at the Japanese sentry.

When the gunshots rang out, the puppet soldiers in front were already squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands.

Five Japanese sentries were knocked down together. Seeing the bad situation, five puppet soldiers ran towards the city, but they were also knocked down one by one.

A battalion of mortar soldiers, who had been lying in ambush, began bombarding the city walls of Huanghua.

The commandos of the third battalion quickly ran towards the gate of Huanghua City. The subsequent large forces of the third battalion also launched a charge towards Huanghua City.

The Japanese and puppet troops in Huanghua City hurriedly tried to close the city gates but were shot and killed by the commandos.

The Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall dodged the bombardment of the third battalion's artillery while blocking the commandos who were rushing into the city.

However, this weak resistance was simply unable to withstand the overwhelming charge of the commandos.

The commandos, who were full of anger, quickly rushed into Huanghua City and shot at the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall.

The large forces of the Third Battalion also rushed into Huanghua City one after another.

The Japanese and puppet troops who fought hastily on the city wall were defeated and began to retreat towards Huanghua City.

The commandos pressed forward step by step, not giving them any chance to catch their breath and set up defenses.

In less than an hour, the Third Battalion's main force advanced into Huanghua City and began to wipe out the remaining Japanese and puppet troops.

The Japanese commander in Huanghua City fled to Cangzhou from the south gate with a small number of Japanese troops.

The Fifth Brigade won the first battle and recaptured Huanghua City at a very small cost.

The third battalion commander did not stop the pursuit. He arranged for a platoon to stay in Huanghua City to hand over to the follow-up troops, while the other troops continued to pursue the fleeing Japanese troops.

The fleeing Japanese troops fled in panic while blocking the pursuing troops of the Third Battalion.

The small road from Huanghua City to Cangzhou was littered with corpses of Japanese soldiers.

The third battalion commander chased the Japanese all the way to the gate of Cangzhou City, and only stopped chasing after he saw the fleeing Japanese soldiers fleeing into Cangzhou City. He retreated towards Huanghua City while cleaning up the battlefield.

The third battalion commander stopped retreating when he reached a group of small earthen hills.

He immediately ordered his troops to build fortifications. He knew that the Japanese army would not accept defeat and would definitely launch a counterattack against Huanghua City.

Sure enough, in less than an hour, the Japanese 33rd Division mobilized a battalion of troops and launched a counterattack towards Huanghua City.

When this large group of Japanese troops arrived at the hillsides, they were blocked by the Third Battalion.

The Japanese battalion commander immediately divided his troops into three groups and launched a fierce attack on the three positions of the Third Battalion.

The third battalion commander divided the three companies into three routes to block the three attacks of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army used artillery to bombard the positions of the third battalion.

The soldiers of the Third Battalion fought desperately in the unfinished fortifications, blocking wave after wave of attacks from the Japanese army. However, they suffered heavy casualties and had to ask the regiment commander for help.

Because the Third Battalion attacked too quickly, the Fifth Brigade's main force was unable to catch up for a while. The Third Battalion was besieged by an infantry battalion of the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, and its position could be breached at any time.

Faced with the fierce attack of the Japanese infantry battalion, the Third Battalion was in danger of being completely destroyed.

When Wu Lang saw the telegram, he became anxious and quickly asked Captain Yin to send air force support. The Fifth Brigade Commander also urgently ordered the Second Regiment Commander to speed up the pace of the advance.

The Japanese 36th Division rarely encountered such stubborn resistance when it entered the Chinese battlefield. The desire of the division commander Wu Dengnan was aroused, and he repeatedly ordered the battalion commander to take Huanghua City. The situation of the third battalion was even more critical.

At this critical moment, Captain Yin's plane arrived.

They lowered their altitude and fired and dropped bombs fiercely at the attacking Japanese troops.

The Japanese 36th Division was completely unprepared for aircraft and suffered heavy casualties in the fierce bombing and strafing by Captain Yin and his men.

With the support of aircraft, the soldiers of the Third Battalion barely held their position.

Before this large group of Japanese troops could recover, troops from the Second Regiment arrived at the position and began to encircle them from both wings.