Devil's Army

Chapter 1600: Recapture of Hailin County 1

The division commander asked for help from Commander Michijiro Umezu.

After receiving the telegram for help, Commander Umezu Yoshijiro was in great trouble.

He planned this counterattack for nearly a month, but Harbin was not captured. Instead, Suihua City and Yinchun City were lost, six counties of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture were lost, and Hailin County was besieged.

However, the North Korean 20th Division was the main force of this counterattack, and he could not sit idly by and watch the devilish troops annihilate him in Hailin County.

He ordered the Japanese troops in Mudanjiang City to arrange reinforcements to fully support the Korean 20th Division in Hailin County.

The north gate of Hailin County was the only way for the North Korean 20th Division to communicate with the outside world. Brigade Commander Guo arranged for a golden eagle to keep watch.

At 6 o'clock the next morning, the six regiments of the 17th Brigade and the th Brigade launched a fierce attack on Hailin County from the east, west and south.

The artillery of the 17th and 17th Brigades destroyed the Japanese and puppet army fortifications at the three city gates. However, when the infantry of the th and th Brigades launched an attack on Hailin County, the soldiers of the Korean division continued to reinforce the city wall regardless of casualties.

Afterwards, Xinjing's air force also launched a fierce bombing and strafing attack on the Japanese and puppet troops at the three city gates. However, the Japanese army braved the bombing and continued to reinforce the city wall.

The soldiers of the 17th Brigade and the th Brigade were unable to break through the Japanese defense line for a while, and the battle with the Japanese army ended in a stalemate.

Here, Japanese infantry and artillery from Mudanjiang City also rushed over to reinforce. However, after the reinforcements left Dongning County, they were heavily bombed and strafed by the Xinjing Air Force in the Muling County area.

The troops had to temporarily stop reinforcements to avoid air raids by the Xinjing Air Force.

At Harbin Majiagou Airport, a paratrooper unit has withdrawn from the Suihua City front, completed assembly, and is waiting for orders to attack.

The 7th Brigade was one of the eight veteran brigades that excelled at attacking strongholds. It was the first to reach the collapsed east gate of Hailin County, but was met with a frenzied suicidal counterattack by the Japanese army and had to retreat.

The battle lasted until evening. Under the three-dimensional attack of the army, land and air, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties. However, they continued to send more troops and firmly defended the three gates of Hailin County.

In the evening, Leng Feng sent telegrams to the commanders of the 7th Brigade and the 17th Brigade, Guo, respectively, asking them to be on guard against the Japanese night attacks.

The Korean division commander suffered heavy casualties during the day under the attack of two brigades of the Devil Army and the Air Force, and no reinforcements arrived.

If this continues, they will have no way of resisting the devil's army's attack for a week.

So the division commander picked the 17th Brigade, which had a slightly weaker combat capability, and decided to launch a night attack on the demonic troops at the west and east gates to disrupt their battle plans for tomorrow.

At two o'clock in the morning, the residents of Hailin County all fell asleep.

Two ghostly black shadows climbed down from the city wall and moved towards the camps of the 1st and 3rd Regiments of the 17th Brigade and the 2nd and 4th Regiments of the 17th Brigade.

The reason they didn't leave the city through the city gate was to avoid the sight of the devil's army scouts.

As expected, the scouts of the 1st and 3rd Regiments did not find the Japanese soldiers who slipped down from the city wall like ghosts. However, when the Japanese soldiers approached the camp of their vanguard, they were immediately discovered by the sentries who had been prepared.

The sentry immediately fired a shot to alert the police, and the gunshot was particularly harsh in the dark night.

The prepared soldiers of the 17th Brigade immediately launched a counterattack.

Fierce fighting then broke out at the west gate of Hailin City.

Another group of Japanese troops were discovered by scouts from the Second Regiment when they were climbing down the city wall.

The second and fourth regiment commanders remained calm and quietly arranged their troops to encircle the enemy.