Devil's Army

Chapter 2017 The Battle of Qiuji Town (Part 2)

The Japanese commander ordered his soldiers to assemble in the woods and observe the movements of the "Devil Force" air force. Once the "Devil Force" air force was spotted returning to base, they were to immediately launch an attack on Qiuji Town.

The artillery was also prepared to bomb.

To the commander's dismay, the Devil Force's air force kept circling overhead and occasionally dropping bombs on the grove where they were hiding.

At this time, he longed for the scene when they first entered China, when their air force constantly bombed the Chinese army, and the infantry easily defeated the Chinese army with the support of the air force.

However, all of that is now history; it is the Imperial Japanese Army that is now suffering from air raids.

Having defeated the Japanese air force, the First Army Air Force now had a much stronger force, and they continued to circle in the air until evening before returning to base.

With about an hour to go before nightfall, and the Japanese army not being good at night fighting, the commander quickly ordered his troops to launch an attack on Qiuji Town.

The sharp shells whistled through the sky and landed on the walls of Qiuji Town, which were shrouded in the setting sun.

The soldiers of the Second Battalion, who had just run down to avoid Japanese artillery fire, quickly ran back to their positions. The Japanese infantry, braving their artillery fire, had already begun their attack.

Intense gunfire and shouts echoed across the city walls.

Inside Qiuji Town, the artillery of the new 727th Regiment quickly launched a counterattack against the Japanese artillery positions in the grove.

The Japanese artillery had to engage in mutual artillery fire with the devilish troops.

Lacking artillery cover, the Japanese infantry suffered heavy casualties under the fierce machine gun fire of the Second Battalion soldiers on the city wall, and had to retreat.

As the sun was about to completely sink behind the mountains, Qiuji Town finally returned to tranquility.

However, the soldiers of the Second Battalion did not rest. Instead, they took the opportunity to repair the fortifications destroyed by the Japanese army and prepare to meet another Japanese attack.

After nightfall, the Japanese commander did not organize his soldiers to launch a night raid on Qiuji Town.

For Qiuji Town, which is surrounded by walls on all sides, a sneak attack would not make much sense.

However, the First Battalion, which had been lurking in the woods, hills, and grass outside Qiuji Town, was planning a surprise attack on the Japanese army.

The battalion commander led his company in a free-for-all attack on the Japanese troops in the woods.

For a time, outside Qiuji Town, various Japanese patrols and small units were constantly attacked by the First Battalion.

The Japanese commander quickly changed tactics, concentrating the outer guard units in a grove of trees west of Qiuji Town. He also upgraded the patrols from small detachments to squads.

In this way, the troops on the outer perimeter were no longer attacked by the devil's forces, but their patrols were constantly attacked by the devil's forces.

The Japanese commander dared not fail to arrange patrols around their camp, so he had no choice but to prevent his troops from searching for and pursuing the devilish troops that had ambushed them.

Having been tormented by the First Battalion all night, the Japanese troops, having not had a good rest, launched an attack on Qiuji Town at dawn the next morning.

Any later and the devilish air force will come and bomb them.

Little did they know that the commander of the new 727th Regiment was already familiar with the Japanese army's attack tactics, and the new 727th artillery was already on high alert.

Shortly after the Japanese infantry charged out of the grove, they were met with fierce artillery bombardment from the New 727th Regiment.

Having luckily escaped the artillery bombardment, the Japanese troops who rushed to the outside of the town wall of Qiuji Town were then subjected to fierce machine gun fire from the Second Battalion.

The Japanese army's first attack in the early hours of the morning was defeated in less than an hour.