Devil's Army

Chapter 1884 Recapture of Fuzhou

The Japanese army reacted quickly; they immediately built a temporary fortification behind the city gate using wood and other debris to block a group of soldiers from rushing into the city.

A regiment of soldiers engaged in fierce fighting with the Japanese troops inside the city, separated by the city gates, outside the city walls.

Rocket troops also continuously blasted away the Japanese machine gun positions inside the city. However, the Japanese reinforcements arrived quite quickly.

The machine gun emplacement had just been blasted away when new machine gunners quickly arrived to replace it.

A group of soldiers attempted to force their way into the city, but they were all killed by Japanese bullets.

The two sides fought fiercely across the city gate.

A company commander outside the wall discovered that the Japanese fortifications inside the city were exposed inside the city gates, so he requested artillery support from the battalion commander.

The regimental commander immediately requested artillery support from the artillery of the 2nd Brigade outside the city.

Soon after, whistling shells hurtled towards the Japanese fortifications inside the city.

The makeshift fortifications built by the Japanese army with wood and miscellaneous materials inside the city, along with the soldiers behind them, were bombarded and reduced to nothingness.

Before the smoke of battle had even cleared, a company of soldiers outside the city walls rushed into the city and engaged in fierce fighting with the Japanese troops inside.

While the Japanese firepower on the city walls was drawn to a company of soldiers who had rushed into the city, a main force outside the city quickly rushed into the city to reinforce them.

As soldiers poured into the city, the Japanese troops on the city walls and inside the city could no longer hold them off and retreated into the city.

The regiment of soldiers that stormed into the city split into two groups: one group pursued the fleeing Japanese troops deeper into the city, while the other group advanced towards the north gate to support the Second Brigade's assault into the city.

However, the Japanese army was quite stubborn, and they continued to block the advance of the regiment layer by layer, based on streets, corners, and houses.

With their indomitable will and solid military skills, the soldiers of the regiment engaged in a brutal street battle with the Japanese army.

However, Japanese reinforcements continued to arrive, halting the momentum of the attack. The two sides then engaged in a bloody battle at a street corner.

Meanwhile, the 4th Battalion of the 1st Regiment, which was supporting the North Gate, made relatively smooth progress.

Since the streets leading to the North Gate were not heavily guarded by Japanese troops, the Fourth Battalion advanced all the way and reached the vicinity of the North Gate at around 3 p.m.

The mortar and rocket troops of the Fourth Battalion fiercely bombarded the Japanese troops on the north gate city wall.

The soldiers of the Fourth Battalion fired fiercely at the Japanese troops at the city gate.

Seeing the Japanese troops on the city wall in disarray, the soldiers of the Second Brigade outside the city immediately launched a more intense attack on the north gate of Fuzhou.

A unit of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade rushed into Fuzhou County through the collapsed city wall and engaged in fierce fighting with the Japanese army.

Another unit of the 1st Regiment of the 2nd Brigade blasted down the north gate of Fuzhou and then rushed into the city.

Unable to withstand the pincer attack from the First and Second Brigades, the Japanese troops inside Fuzhou retreated into the city under alternating cover.

Soldiers from the Second Brigade broke through the Japanese defenses in Fuzhou City, forcing the Japanese commander to mobilize troops to rush to the North Gate.

Soldiers from the First and Second Brigades advanced side by side, engaging in fierce street fighting with the Japanese troops inside Fuzhou City.

During their retreat, the Japanese troops continued to use buildings and other structures to launch surprise attacks and block the advance of the 1st and 2nd Brigades.

Gunfire continued throughout the day in Fuzhou City.

After two days and three nights of fierce fighting by the soldiers of the First and Second Brigades, the Japanese and puppet troops in Fuzhou were finally driven out of the city.

An important logistical base of the Japanese army in Jiangxi was recaptured by the First Army.

The second deputy brigade commander ordered the first regimental commander of the second brigade to arrange for soldiers to clean up the battlefield and eliminate Japanese and puppet army strongholds around Fuzhou.

The main force continued its advance towards Yingtan.