Traveling through 1937, I came to fight against the Kwantung Army

On a northeastern morning in late spring, the sun shines through the mottled leaves and onto the lush green grass.

The breeze brings a hint of coolness, making people feel particularly refreshed. The mountains in the distance are looming in the morning mist, like an ink painting.

On the east side of Zhuhe County,

Han Po, a new soldier from the 3nd Platoon of the 2rd Company, sat in his foxhole, chewing a cornmeal cake, feeling extremely nervous!

The 2nd Platoon had already built fortifications overnight! The platoon leader mobilized the troops for battle. There will be a big battle today!

Han Po finished his biscuit and tightly grasped his gun. He spent a miserable time in the group tribe. Only the gun could bring him a sense of security!

This is a Liao 50 rifle that the team seized from the police. Looking at the broken buttstock, it must be quite old! In addition to the rifle, he also got rounds of bullets and two grenades!

There was a sudden buzzing sound overhead. Han Po looked up and saw more planes coming and circling over the county. There were two planes yesterday, but today the number increased to six!

"Lie down there and don't move! Don't let the Japanese see us!" The voice of Platoon Leader Li Xiaolin came to my ears!

The plane circled lower and lower, and the red sun flag logo painted on its wings could be clearly seen.

The Japanese planes began to dive down and dropped the bombs hanging under the belly!

Huge explosions continued to sound in the county town.

The soldiers all looked back worriedly at the huge column of smoke!

Han Po also looked at the raging fire in the county town nervously, breathing heavily.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang and a huge explosion sounded in his ears. Han Po hurriedly squatted down and lay in the trench.

He felt something hit his back. When he turned around, he saw a bloody palm lying on his body!

Han Po trembled, covered his face and screamed!

The 2nd row's position was covered by Japanese artillery fire, and Li Xiaolin's shouts could not be heard at all.

All men huddled in trenches or foxholes.

Everyone held their heads and prayed that the shelling would end soon!

Ten minutes later, the artillery fire extended to the county town. Li Xiaolin knew something was wrong. As a veteran, he was experienced and stuck his head out to observe.

Sure enough, a dark shadow appeared in the distance.

The Japanese army rushed towards the county town in a line!

500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, and until 100 meters, Li Xiaolin gave the order to open fire!

Han Po pulled the trigger, and with a crisp gunshot, his shoulder shook, and the Japanese soldier in the crosshairs was still charging! The ferocious face became clearer and clearer!

Han Po hurriedly pulled the bolt and loaded another bullet. When he was looking for the Japanese soldier, he saw a grenade hit the middle of the Japanese soldiers. Two Japanese soldiers were blown sideways and fell heavily to the ground!

In the first wave of attack at the East Gate, the Japanese army left behind dozens of corpses and retreated in a panic.

At the South Gate, San'er and his guards were quietly waiting in the crude fortifications. When the battle at the East Gate was in full swing, they soon heard the sound of horse hooves.

The cavalry regiment responsible for attacking the South Gate was from the Sixth Military Region of Manchukuo. This time, there were about 200 cavalrymen!

Kang Huaifu considered that San'er's troops were insufficient, so he specially transferred the heavy machine gun over!

As the cavalry gradually approached, when they were 150 meters away, the puppet army still did not find the Anti-Japanese United Army.

Afterwards, the puppet army's cavalry continued to approach. San'er waited until the cavalry was within 100 meters of the sprint before he gave the order to open fire!

One Type 92 heavy machine gun, three Type 30 light machine guns, more than forty rifles, and two grenade launchers fired fiercely, causing more than casualties to the puppet cavalry, who had to retreat temporarily!

After about an hour, the regrouped puppet army first used grenade launchers to bombard the guard company's position!

Then they sent out more than a hundred cavalrymen to attack the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

Since the position had been exposed, San'er ordered the soldiers to open fire without waiting for the puppet troops to approach.

Under the heavy machine gun fire, the puppet cavalry fell off their horses one after another, but they quickly mobilized three grenade launchers and fired more than a dozen grenades at the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces' heavy machine guns!

The heavy machine gun was silenced by the explosion, and one of the two machine gunners was killed and the other was injured!

San'er was a little puzzled. The equipment of this group of puppet soldiers was too good.

Looking at the cavalry still approaching,

San'er ordered not to save bullets,

Fortunately, the ammunition provided by the regiment commander was sufficient this time.

Three Type 99 light machine guns fired fiercely at the enemy!

The puppet army then continued to suppress them with grenade launchers.

Two of the three Type 99 light machine guns were immediately knocked down!

Seeing that the situation was not good, Saner sent someone to report to the regiment headquarters, and at the same time organized his personnel to fight and retreat to a three-story building of the former Japanese garrison at the south gate, and continued to resist relying on the sturdy building!

After the puppet army broke through, the cavalry continued to charge into the county town, but they were shot by a Type 99 light machine gun on the third floor of the building, killing and wounding seven or eight of them!

The commander of the puppet cavalry regiment immediately ordered all the cavalry to dismount and rush towards the building!

San'er was upstairs and saw the intention of the puppet army. He ordered the soldiers to take out the grenades, and throw grenades down as soon as the puppet army approached!

As the grenades exploded, more than a dozen puppet soldiers were killed or wounded.

At this moment, gunshots rang out, and a group of fresh troops suddenly rushed out of the county town. It turned out that after receiving a call for help, Kang Huaifu ordered the Second Company of the West Gate, which had not yet found any trace of the enemy, to withdraw a platoon and the Tenth Army's Du Yuanhao's men to rush to the South Gate for support!

The puppet army was defeated step by step and had to retreat again!

At this time, the infantry battalion attacking the east gate was led by Colonel Keitaro Morimura, commander of the 37th Regiment of the th Division of the Japanese Army, who was transferred from Sanjiang!

The cavalry regiment attacking the South Gate was from the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the th Military Region transferred from Mudanjiang!

Colonel Morimura had always looked down on the Anti-Japanese United Army, thinking it was just a mob. Before the various troops arrived at Zhuhe and completed the final encirclement,

He was so impatient that he wanted to achieve his goal in one fell swoop and wipe out the enemies in Zhuhe River in one fell swoop!

In the afternoon, the Japanese army continued to launch heavy artillery bombardment at the East Gate, and then continued to attack the East Gate.

Kang Huaifu dispatched a platoon from the company at the north gate and a Type 92 infantry gun to rush to the east gate for support!

Four gunners hid the infantry gun behind a thatched house and fired more than 30 shells at the Japanese in mortar mode.

In less than an hour, the Japanese casualties at the East Gate exceeded one hundred!

The battle lasted until dusk!

Han Po had already used up all the bullets he had with him. At this moment, the Japanese army launched artillery fire again.

A shell landed next to Lin Qiang.

Han Po watched as his company commander was blown into a bloody man and died heroically on the spot!

At the north gate, Ma Shun was holding a telescope, observing the mass graves in the distance. He had seen more than one rising sun flag. After the arrival of reinforcements, the Japanese army had surrounded Zhuhe County on three sides!

At this time, there were less than 20 soldiers left in the East Gate Third Company! As the sky gradually darkened, the Japanese army did not continue the offensive! Instead, they chose to cease fire!

Looking at the dark night sky,

Kang Huaifu knew that after nightfall, it was time to prepare for a breakout!