Devil's Army

Chapter 1791: Preparing to Recapture Suxian County, Anhui

At that time, as the vanguard of the attack on Anhui, the Independent Brigade of the First Anti-Japanese Army arranged the first and second regiments to enter Henan to assist the brother troops in suppressing the Japanese army.

The remaining three and four regiments were deployed in the Heze area in a combat posture.

In order to find out the situation of the Japanese troops in Dangshan County, which borders Heze, Shandong, the independent brigade commander Zhang arranged several reconnaissance teams to enter Dangshan County, Xiao County and Su County.

There were many puppet troops stationed in Dangshan County at that time. In order to prevent any flaws in their words, the local recruits recruited from Heze were arranged to go into Anhui for reconnaissance.

Although the reconnaissance skills of these recruits need to be improved, they all have relatives or friends in Dangshan County, Xiao County, and Su County in Anhui Province. Entering Anhui under the pretext of visiting relatives and friends is relatively safe.

As expected, upon arriving in Dangshan County, the scouts were interrogated by the puppet troops: Where are you from? Where are you going? What's the matter?

Two northern merchants were taken away by the puppet army on suspicion of behavior because of their dialect.

Scouts investigating Dangshan County discovered that the Japanese army's defense in Dangshan County was quite tight, and barbed wire fences were set up in the area bordering Heze County.

On the road to Dangshan County, there was a sentry post every five steps and a sentry every ten steps, with artillery towers everywhere. It was very difficult for the troops to launch a surprise attack.

However, when the scouts investigated Dangshan Airport, they were pleasantly surprised to find that there were not many defenders there. If they could enter Dangshan County, it would be easy to capture Dangshan Airport.

The scouts who were investigating Su County discovered three places where the Japanese army was defending tightly.

After questioning, we found out that one was a barracks, and the other was covered with antennas, which should be the Japanese military headquarters. No one knew what the last one was used for, because the Japanese army never allowed unauthorized personnel to approach.

Even the civilians who happened to pass by were shot by the Japanese army.

Fortunately, there was a tree a little further away.

In the evening, a scout took advantage of the Japanese sentry's inattention and climbed to the top of the tree in a few steps to observe carefully.

This place has many sentries and watchtowers all around. Japanese patrols were frequent. From its appearance, it looked like a warehouse.

In order to confirm that this place was the Japanese army's warehouse, the other three scouts asked the scout in the tree to stay there and observe while they went to scout other places.

The scout stayed in the tree, eating lunch while keeping an eye on the passing Japanese troops and vehicles, but he never found anything.

As the independent brigade continued to send reinforcements to the Anhui border, the pressure on the Japanese troops in Dangshan County increased.

In the evening, the Japanese army in Suxian arranged a group of Japanese and puppet troops to replenish supplies at the warehouse and rush to Dangshan County for reinforcement.

At this time, the scouts could confirm that this was a Japanese supply warehouse.

The scouts returned to Heze City one after another and reported their respective reconnaissance intelligence to Brigade Commander Zhang.

He always felt that there was something fishy about the intelligence provided by the scouts who were investigating Dangshan Airport.

No matter what city it is, the airport is their top priority for defense. Why is the defense of Dangshan Airport so lax?

The commander of a returning regiment even proposed that their regiment take the lead in the attack to ensure the capture of Dangshan Airport. However, Brigade Commander Zhang was more interested in the intelligence brought back by the scouts from Suxian.

He reported the situation to Deputy Commander Tan and asked the air force to carry out an air raid on the Japanese barracks and headquarters in Su County.

Who knew that the Gray Wolf was more interested in the Japanese army's supply warehouse.

After so many months of fighting, their arsenals were actually very short of supplies. They had to reprocess shells from captured battlefields, and the chemical raw materials needed to make explosives were often insufficient.

Gray Wolf asked Brigade Commander Zhang to make a battle plan and recapture Su County within three days.