Devil's Army

Chapter 1947 Recapture of Bailuo Airport

At this time, the lieutenant colonel stationed in Jianli County was powerless to stop him. His Jianli County was under heavy siege by the devilish troops and the New Fourth Army.

The next morning, soldiers from the First Regiment and the New Fourth Army Independent Battalion, under the cover of rocket troops and light and heavy machine guns, launched a general attack on the Japanese troops at Bailuo Airport in two separate routes.

In the air, four fighter planes from the army also kept diving down, strafing the Japanese defenses fiercely.

After several hours of fierce fighting, the soldiers of the First Battalion were the first to break through the Japanese defenses and launch a fierce attack deep into the Bailuo Airport.

The Japanese army and Huang Weijun used the buildings and bunkers inside the airport to resist the attack of the First Battalion layer by layer.

Japanese troops and Huang Weijun troops from other directions also surrounded the area, attempting to block the First Battalion's attack. However, this only accelerated the breakthrough of the Japanese defense line.

The Second Battalion of the First Regiment, the Independent Battalion of the New Fourth Army, and the Third and Fourth Battalions of the Deputy Regiment Commander successively broke through the Japanese defenses at Bailuo Airport and advanced into the interior.

A Japanese lieutenant ordered a squad of Japanese soldiers to plant explosives, preparing to destroy the airport's airfield, control tower, and other infrastructure.

Since he couldn't defend Bailuo Airport, he couldn't hand it over intact to the Devil Army.

Two Golden Eagle 4 drones, which had been on alert in the air, quickly detected the unusual activity of the Japanese troops and immediately swooped down to straf them.

The intense firefight detonated some of the explosives carried by the soldiers, causing secondary explosions.

The explosive charge detonated violently, obliterating the entire squad of Japanese soldiers.

The first battalion to break through the Japanese defenses quickly surrounded the camp where the Japanese lieutenant was located. They then launched a fierce attack on the Japanese camp from the front and both flanks.

The Japanese lieutenant knew by this time that reinforcements were hopeless, so he led the remaining Japanese troops to hide in the camp and put up a last-ditch resistance.

Meanwhile, Huang Weijun, who was inside Bailuo Airport, was surrounded and divided by the First Regiment and the New Fourth Army, and they all laid down their weapons and surrendered.

With the capture of the Japanese military camp at Bailuo Airport, the entire airport and the opposite Linxiang County valley supply base were occupied by the First Army.

The regimental commander left the New Fourth Army's independent battalion to garrison and clear Bailuo Airport.

He led a regiment of soldiers to assist the brother units in attacking Jianli County.

After nearly a week of fierce fighting, all the township strongholds on the outskirts of Jianli County were recaptured by the First Brigade and the New Fourth Army.

The remaining Japanese troops huddled in Jianli County and stubbornly resisted.

Commander Yokoyama Isamu in Wuhan was also powerless to help at this time.

The reinforcements he sent from Wuhan, Hankou, and Hanyang had difficulty reaching Jianli County.

Because the air force and naval vessels of the "Devil Force" blocked the waterways and land routes from the three towns of Wuhan to Jianli County.

The naval forces of the three towns of Wuhan, Yichang, and Jingzhou encountered the main force of the First Fleet of the First Army Navy on their way to reinforce, and the two sides engaged in a fierce naval battle on the Yangtze River.

Although the tonnage and number of Japanese naval vessels were not inferior to those of the First Army Navy's First Squadron, the First Army Air Force, which held air superiority, continuously bombed and strafed Japanese naval vessels from the air.

The Japanese Navy had to deal with threats from the air and engage in combat with the First Army Navy ships.

Moreover, the Japanese navy on the Yangtze River consisted mostly of small warships with relatively weak anti-aircraft firepower.

However, the air force quickly found itself on the defensive against the multiple waves of dive bombing raids.

Seeing this, the Japanese commander, in order to avoid the annihilation of the entire fleet, arranged for the warships of the Jingzhou Fleet to cover the rear, block the warships of the First Army Navy Squadron, and attract the First Army Air Force.

The other warships withdrew to Wuhan and Yichang at full speed.