Devil's Army

Chapter 1832 Battle of Flaming Mountain

After crossing the Jiebei River, the Japanese and puppet troops in Wuhu, fearing a night attack by the "Devil Force," did not continue their advance towards Chaohu but instead set up camp on the spot.

This gave the Second Battalion time to build a blocking position at the Flaming Mountain in Baoxingji behind them.

Baoxingji is located on the Chaohu Plain, where the terrain is generally flat, making it unsuitable for engaging in combat with the highly mobile Japanese army.

However, the surrounding area is well-connected by dikes and field ridges, and water transportation is relatively convenient. At the same time, there are terrain features such as the Flaming Mountain to the northwest of Baoxingji.

The battalion commander assigned the 1st Company to ambush the Japanese soldiers on the surrounding dikes and field ridges, and instructed them to bite the Japanese soldiers hard before immediately retreating back to Flaming Mountain.

Because the Japanese soldiers were highly mobile, you could easily be surrounded and annihilated if you weren't careful.

The Third and Fourth Companies, along with the remaining soldiers directly under their command, worked through the night to construct fortifications, trenches, and dig anti-artillery bunkers at Flaming Mountain, preparing to replicate the Battle of Huangtuling.

The next day at dawn, the Japanese and puppet troops in Wuhu continued their advance towards Chaoxian.

When the Japanese and puppet troops from Wuhu entered the path of Baoxingji, the First and Second Companies, which had been lying in ambush on the dikes and field ridges, suddenly opened fire.

The fierce barrage of bullets and grenades felled a large number of the advancing Japanese and puppet troops.

The road ahead was also blocked by bombed trucks.

Seeing that the number of devilish soldiers who had ambushed them was small, the major immediately organized a counterattack.

Upon seeing that the Japanese army had begun to organize a counterattack, the company commander immediately ordered a retreat.

Soldiers from the first and second companies quickly retreated from the flames along the dikes and field ridges.

When the major saw that the devilish troops had escaped after the encirclement was completed, he was furious and ordered his troops to give chase.

The Japanese and puppet troops in Wuhu pursued them to Flaming Mountain, where they encountered fierce resistance from the soldiers of the Second Battalion.

The major immediately ordered the artillery to bombard the Flaming Mountain Devil Force's positions.

Before the Japanese artillery could even set up their positions, the roar of airplanes filled the air.

After the First Army's air force completely defeated the Japanese air force in Anhui and Hubei, an air force unit rushed over to reinforce them.

The First Army Air Force launched a fierce bombing and strafing attack on the Japanese infantry that had assembled and were waiting in front of Flaming Mountain and the artillery positions that were being constructed.

The second battalion commander finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his air force soldiers arriving.

He knew that with air support, the Japanese troops in Wuhu would never be able to set foot on the Flaming Mountain.

Sure enough, this air force unit of the First Army was there to block the Japanese troops from Wuhu from heading to Chaoxian.

After bombing the Japanese and puppet troops in Wuhu, they did not return to base but continued to patrol the airspace.

Under duress from the Japanese army, a group of puppet troops regrouped and prepared to attack the position of the Second Battalion at Flaming Mountain.

The First Army Air Force, which was patrolling in the air, immediately swooped down and bombed and strafed them fiercely.

The puppet troops had no choice but to abandon their attack and flee in all directions.

Around 4 p.m., the air force units of the First Army began to return to base.

The major eagerly launched an attack on the position of the Second Battalion of Flaming Mountain.

The fact that the First Army's air force was able to spare time to come and support them shows that the First Army's air force had defeated the Japanese air force and completely gained air superiority over Anhui. Their army could not afford to lose face either.

To the Second Battalion Commander's surprise, most of the Japanese artillery had been destroyed in the air raids by the First Army Air Force.

The remaining cannons, like aging old men, weakly bombarded the positions of the Second Battalion of Flaming Mountain.

The shelling had not yet ceased. The Japanese and puppet troops in Wuhu then launched an attack on the Second Battalion's position at Flame Mountain.

The second battalion commander simply stopped dodging artillery fire and personally led his soldiers to block the attack of the Japanese and puppet troops in Wuhu.

The Japanese attack ended in failure once again due to the tenacious resistance of the soldiers of the Second Battalion and its directly subordinate companies.