Devil's Army

Chapter 2131 Paratrooper Battalion Arrives to Provide Support

After breaking through the canyon positions, the Japanese troops reached the river valley beach around 1 p.m.

This area is covered with reeds taller than a person, making it a good place for an ambush. However, it is also open and mountainless, making it suitable for flanking maneuvers.

The wind blew the reeds, causing them to sway back and forth.

The Japanese battalion commander chuckled coldly and ordered the newly arrived reinforcements to flank the center from both sides.

He led his original troops to break through from the middle and wiped out the demon army hiding in the reeds in one fell swoop.

The plan was perfect, but reality was far from ideal.

The three Japanese troops were ambushed by the devilish unit, making them extremely wary. They almost came to blows during the search.

When the three Japanese armies converged, they found that there wasn't a single soldier from the Devil Forces in the reed marshes.

Around 4 p.m., the Japanese army arrived at the outskirts of Wangqing County.

Instead of launching an attack on Wangqing County, the Japanese army waited for the slow-moving artillery to arrive.

As the sun was about to set, Japanese artillery arrived outside the city and launched a fierce bombardment of Wangqing County.

The bombing lasted for nearly twenty minutes, and the Japanese army, which was not good at night fighting, did not launch an attack on Wangqing County.

This provided valuable time for the follow-up troops of the 7th Brigade to arrive and provide support.

Around 10 p.m., the First Parachute Battalion hurriedly arrived at the Fourth Battalion Command Post in Wangqing County.

The fourth battalion commander was overjoyed to see the first paratrooper battalion arriving.

Paratroopers were not only well-equipped, but also had formidable combat capabilities, a fact well-known throughout their First Anti-Japanese Army.

With the addition of the First Parachute Battalion, they were even more confident in defending Wangqing County.

After discussing it with the mayor, the captain of the first brigade felt that the greatest threat to them was still the Japanese artillery.

Rather than being confined to the small county of Wangqing and subjected to Japanese artillery bombardment, it would be better to take out their artillery positions beforehand.

After learning the approximate location of the Japanese artillery positions from the fourth battalion commander, the first battalion commander, disregarding the fatigue of the long march, immediately led the first paratrooper battalion out of the city quietly.

It was no longer possible to sneak out of the city through the south gate, as the area had been surrounded by the Japanese army.

The captain and his team quietly slid down the city wall from the side using ropes.

The captain assigned several scouts to explore ahead. They would sometimes advance quickly and sometimes lie still.

After marching for more than an hour, the first paratrooper battalion approached the Japanese camp.

To prevent attacks from the devilish troops, the Japanese army set up many sentry posts. There were also many patrol teams patrolling the surrounding area.

The Japanese army camp was not the target of the First Battalion Commander's raid. He took advantage of the Japanese patrol's departure to quietly infiltrate the Japanese defense zone and quickly advanced in the direction indicated by the Fourth Battalion Commander.

The area was so vast that it was difficult to search by manpower alone, and the captain regretted not bringing the Golden Eagle drone with him.

The captain ordered the main force to wait in the dense forest to reduce the risk of exposure.

The first paratrooper battalion was divided into six detachments, which were deployed in different directions to search for Japanese artillery positions.

After a while, the third and fourth paratrooper squads returned one after another to report that they had discovered Japanese artillery positions at the three gullies ahead.

The captain left a few paratroopers behind and notified the other small teams that had returned to assemble to head to their destination. He then led the main force quietly toward the Japanese artillery positions.

Upon arriving at the Japanese artillery position, the first battalion commander noticed through his binoculars that the Japanese defenses were quite tight.

He ordered the First Company to quietly ambush the Japanese artillery positions on the opposite side, and when the battle began on this side, they would suddenly launch an attack on the Japanese artillery positions from the opposite side.