Devil's Army

Chapter 2022 The Battle of Zhao Family Village (Part 2)

Two fighter planes escorted three bombers to the airspace above Zhao Jiaji and launched a fierce bombing raid on the Japanese troops who were blocked by landmines outside Zhao Jiaji.

With nowhere to escape, the Japanese soldiers had no choice but to flee into the tall sorghum stalks.

Taking advantage of the chaos, the snipers of the 2nd Regiment killed Japanese soldiers and officers clearing mines. However, this also exposed their position, making them easy targets for Japanese snipers.

Fortunately, the sniper from the second regiment fired one shot and immediately changed positions, otherwise he would have been killed long ago.

In the evening, after the 1st Army Air Force returned to base, the Japanese army accelerated the mine-clearing process.

Under the threat of Japanese snipers, the snipers of the Second Regiment dared not easily reveal their positions.

Around 9 p.m., the Japanese army finally cleared a path leading to Zhao Jiaji. However, they dared not advance under cover of night, fearing an ambush by the devilish troops.

They simply assigned soldiers to guard the area to prevent the devil's troops from laying more mines at night.

Around 10 p.m., the Japanese soldiers guarding the path and the patrol unit were attacked by soldiers from the Second Regiment.

The Japanese brigade commander hurriedly dispatched reinforcements, but they were also met with resistance from the devilish troops.

After the Second Regiment retreated, Japanese reinforcements arrived at the scene. However, the scene was already a mess.

The bodies of Japanese soldiers lay scattered on the path, their weapons and ammunition confiscated by the devilish troops.

At 5:30 a.m., before it was fully light, the Japanese army continued to advance towards Zhao Jiaji.

The main force of the Japanese army engaged in fierce fighting with the main force of the Second Regiment more than 20 kilometers away from Zhaojiaji.

The Japanese army used truck fuel to set fire to the farmland where the soldiers of the 2nd Regiment were hiding.

Fueled by the wind, the fire spread directly toward where the soldiers of the Second Regiment were hiding.

The commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment immediately ordered his soldiers to evacuate the farmland.

With their flank secured, the Japanese army launched a full-speed attack on the position of the Second Regiment at Zhaojiaji.

The Japanese artillery bombarded the Second Regiment's positions fiercely.

Four Japanese tanks acted as the vanguard, fiercely bombarding the Second Regiment's position.

The artillery of the 2nd Regiment fiercely bombarded the Japanese tanks, but was quickly suppressed by the Japanese artillery.

The machine gun positions of the Second Regiment were destroyed one after another by Japanese tanks.

In order to minimize losses, the second regimental commander ordered his soldiers to temporarily cease fire and take cover from Japanese artillery fire.

The Japanese tanks rumbled and rumbled as they entered the effective range of the rocket launchers.

As rockets with flames trailing from their tails flew out of the trenches, Japanese tanks were destroyed one after another.

The machine guns of the Second Regiment roared again, firing fiercely at the soldiers surrounding the Japanese tanks.

However, the Japanese soldiers kept surging in like a tide, and the pressure on the Second Regiment was increasing.

Left with no other choice, the second regimental commander had to abandon the outer positions of Zhao Jiaji and retreat into Zhao Jiaji, attempting to use the tall earthen walls of Zhao Jiaji to block the Japanese army.

After occupying the outer positions, the Japanese army continued to advance and arrived at the earthen wall of Zhaojiaji.

By this time it was already dark, and the Japanese troops were stationed on the outskirts of Zhao Jiaji, and did not continue their attack on Zhao Jiaji.

The second regimental commander stared at the Japanese troops stationed outside the earthen wall and ordered the soldiers to eat dinner early.

As the smoke from the Japanese army's dinner outside the city wall rose, the second regimental commander ordered the artillery to open fire on the Japanese troops.

Ten minutes after the artillery bombardment, the soldiers of the Second Regiment rushed out of Zhao Jiaji, and the Japanese army launched a fierce counterattack.

The Japanese army did not expect that the devilish troops that had retreated into Zhaojiaji would suddenly launch a counterattack against them, and were caught off guard, retreating repeatedly.

The soldiers of the Second Regiment pursued relentlessly and then recaptured the outer positions of Zhao Jiaji that had been lost that afternoon.