Devil's Army

Chapter 2139 Reinforcements Arrive at Tumen Port

Commander Seishiro Itagaki has already called and reprimanded the division commander, saying that his advance was slow and that he was missing a crucial opportunity.

The division commander was in a difficult position. The battle had raged on, and his 30,000-strong force had suffered casualties, with one-third already lost. Yet, they still couldn't capture Hunchun County.

Whose fault is it? Blame their engineers for building the fortresses here too solidly.

The commander of the 7th Brigade, who was patrolling between the various fortresses, suddenly discovered that more than a dozen girls were arguing with their soldiers.

"What's going on?" the Seventh Brigade Commander asked as he walked over.

"Good morning, brigade commander. They want some hand grenades."

"Are you their brigade commander?"

"Yes, I am the commander of the 34th Brigade."

"Then can you give us a batch of hand grenades? We don't need many, just one each."

"Why do you want hand grenades? Do you want to go to the battlefield and kill the Japanese devils?"

"Now the west, east, and south gates of Hunchun have been breached by the Japanese. We don't want the Japanese to defile our territory."

The brigade commander looked at the girls whose faces were still blackened by gunpowder smoke, and his nose tingled, almost bringing him to tears.

"Don't worry, even if our 7th Brigade fights to the last man, we will not let the Japanese army cross our fortress complex. Besides, our reinforcements have already arrived."

"Our reinforcements have arrived?" The girls cheered with joy.

The battalion commander of the first paratrooper battalion behind them stepped forward and said:

"I am the commander of the First Parachute Battalion of the First Anti-Japanese Army, who arrived a couple of days ago!"

The girls didn't know that the first paratrooper battalion had fewer than 500 men, but they knew that their first batch of reinforcements had arrived and that more would arrive soon.

As the girls left one by one, the Seventh Brigade Commander and the First Brigade Commander felt an even greater weight on their shoulders.

The commanders of the 7th Brigade and the 1st Battalion shared the same idea: to hold the fortress complex no matter what and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

At a critical moment when Hunchun was under siege from three sides by the Japanese army, the 15th Brigade of the First Army arrived at Tumen Port.

At the time, intelligence indicated that Tumen Port had been occupied by the Japanese army. The 15th Brigade's first choice was Yingkou Port. However, after arriving at Yingkou Port, the 15th Brigade found that although it was safe, it lacked transportation and it was very difficult to reach Hunchun County, which was 700 kilometers away.

After a brief meeting with everyone, the brigade commander decided to launch a forced crossing of Tumen Port.

After nearly a day's voyage, the warship arrived at Tumen Port.

The Japanese troops at the port spotted the fleet's arrival and initially mistook it for their own warships, so they quickly reported to their commander.

However, the commander made it clear to them that there would be no naval reinforcements.

The Japanese troops at the port were on high alert and immediately ordered their artillery to target the fleet on the sea.

The Qingdao Fleet of the First Army fired the first shot, and the fierce shells landed on the Japanese artillery positions in Tumen Port.

The Japanese artillery positions were destroyed one after another. The remaining artillery opened fire on the fleet at sea.

For ease of operation, the Japanese army used small-caliber artillery, which did not cause much damage to the Qingdao fleet's warships.

Under repeated bombardments by Qinghai Fleet warships, almost all of the Japanese coastal defense artillery positions were destroyed.

While the Qinghai Fleet was bombarding the Japanese coastal artillery positions, all the aircraft from the Qinghai aircraft carrier took off and launched a fierce bombardment of the Japanese military command post, coastal fortifications, and beachhead positions in Tumen Port.

The Qingdao Fleet and its carrier-based aircraft bombed the Japanese defensive fortifications at Tumen Port for more than half an hour, and almost all of the surface fortifications of the Japanese defensive positions at Tumen Port were destroyed.