At dusk, the Japanese army launched another round of bombardment on the 66th Regiment's position. After the artillery fire, the Japanese army launched another round of desperate charges.

After an afternoon of battle, Yang An had initially adapted to the rhythm of the battle and basically achieved control and command of the entire platoon. Under his command, the entire platoon personnel and the Gui army brothers first used rifles and machine guns to name the Japanese, and then used grenades to entertain the Japanese who were approaching, and finally cleaned up the remaining enemies. Before the Japanese could get close, they were all resolved in front of the formation.

As night fell, the attacking Japanese troops were repelled again.

The four-eyed company commander inspected each squad and platoon, ordered to bandage quickly, treat and send the wounded soldiers, and repair the fortifications and bunkers destroyed by the shelling as soon as possible. In addition, he arranged for each platoon to quietly go forward and set up grenades and thunders across the river bank.

While the Fourth Company was laying out booby mines, the Third Battalion also sent a warning squad opposite, digging up anti-tank trenches to block the Japanese tank chariot operations, and buried anti-tank mines and cluster grenades further afield.

The battalion commander of the second battalion of course knew the arrangements of the brigade and regiment for the third battalion. When he inspected the fourth company, he also specially convened some officers of the fourth company, the sixth company, all officers of the fourth company, and some squad leader to introduce the daytime combat situation and tactical settings of the third battalion at night, as well as the configuration of anti-tank war artillery in the brigade headquarters. Obviously, he wanted to train the officers and squad leader through these introductions so that they could learn about war in war and improve the practical combat capabilities of each company in the battalion.

After the officer meeting of the entire battalion, Cao Yougen took the cooking squad to carry hot rice and vegetables to the position. As usual, he gave Yang An a special care.

In the night, looking at the lunch box handed over by Uncle Gen, Yang An thought of his identity as an officer. He did not reach out to take the lunch box, but whispered: "Uncle Gen, please keep it for yourself. I want that lunch box."

"Hold it!" Uncle Gen said impatiently.

"Uncle Gen, I can't do specialization anymore!"

"What's special? I'm an old man who said it's not special, it's not special!" Uncle Gen said with confidence.

"Uncle Gen!" Yang An shouted in a pleading tone.

"A platoon leader, when did you get such a mother-in-law? You just crawled out of the gate of hell and were already injured. The battle started. The ghost knows when it will end? Uncle Gen kidnapped you out, of course he knew you had run out of the hospital in advance. The battalion commander and the company commander told me that you should fight with a sharp knife platoon. Your body is thin, but your body is not your own! Well--!"

Hearing this, Yang An understood everything. At first, Uncle Gen took care of himself alone, but now even the battalion commander and company commander are concerned. Thinking of this, Yang An reached out to take the lunch box, and a warm current and touching surged in his heart.

That night, the 14th Division and the 32nd Division were recaptured from the Japanese again. After a fierce sound of guns and cannons, the surroundings fell into tranquility.

On October 1, the meeting of the four prime ministers of the Japanese cabinet decided to further expand the war against China and formulated the "Outline for Handling the Incident in China", which further clarified: "The purpose of military operations is to make China lose its will to fight quickly. Appropriate means should be used to occupy important places." Matsui Ishione, commander of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army of Japan, also believed that due to the tenacious resistance of the Chinese army, the war in the southwest of Luodian was always in a stalemate, and the strategic intention of surrounding the Chinese army from the flank could no longer be realized, so he decided to change it to a central breakthrough. In this way, it was planned to conquer the big field, and then enter the Suzhou River line, eliminate the Chinese army north of Shanghai, and finally attack Nanxiang.

It is precisely because of this plan that from October 5, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army and the newly arrived 13th Division launched a fierce attack on the Yokohama area, which lasted for half a month. Because it was delayed in achieving the strategic intention of occupying the field, Nan Xiang and Jiading, Matsui Ishione was severely criticized by the Tokyo Base Camp, which led to a new round of offensive launched by the Japanese army on October 21.

What is surprising is that Chen Cheng's left-wing combat army in the Third War Zone of the National Army also launched a full-line counterattack against the Japanese army on the evening of October 21. Of course, the main counterattack army was the Gui army, which had just arrived in Shanghai and was known as the "Iron Army", and was also the 21st Army of the Gui army's main force.

Liao Lei, commander-in-chief of the 21st Army, served as the regiment commander during the War of Protection of the Law. He was named "Liao Mengzi" because of his bravery in combat. Liao Lei's 173rd Division and the 174th Division have always been brave in combat, but their counterattack encountered the elite Japanese standing division. After a few rounds, most of the troops were killed and killed, and many front-line troops were defeated. The failure of the Gui army brought gloom to the left-wing battlefield, and it was a blow to the left-wing combat army and even the top leaders of the Third War Zone.

At dawn on October 25, with the support of single firepower of ground guns and naval guns in the air, the 9th Division, the 3rd Division, the 13th Division, and the 101st Division concentrated their combat vehicles and launched a large-scale attack on the positions of the Kuomintang army such as Dachang Town, Xiaoshiqiao, Laorenqiao, Luoyang Bridge, Laozhai, Xiezhai, Zhang Xianqiao. Due to the fierce firepower of the Japanese army, the positions of the Kuomintang army were almost razed to the ground and suffered heavy casualties. Feng Xingxian, the commander of the 33rd Division who was guarding the Laorenqiao position, was injured and Feng's troops were

More than half of the officers and soldiers suffered casualties and fought a desperate battle with the Japanese army. In the end, the position was broken by the Japanese army because the enemy was large and small. Since then, the position of Xiaoshiqiao, the 14th Division Laozhai, Xiezhai, and Zhang Xianqiao, the 32nd Division, fell into the enemy one after another. At the same time, the Dachang position guarded by Zhu Yaohua's 18th Division and Wang Jingjiu's 87th Division, as well as the Luoyang Bridge, Peijiaqiao, Yangmaxiang, and the Gujiabang positions of the 31st Brigade of the 11th Division have not yet fallen into the enemy.

On that night, Chen Cheng immediately ordered Xue Yue's 19th Army and Zhu Shaoliang's 9th Army to organize a strong corps to counterattack at night and regain the position. According to Chen Cheng's order, Commander-in-Chief Xue Yue transferred the 67th Division to counterattack Zhang Xianqiao and ordered the 14th Division to counterattack Laozhai and Xie Zhai. Commander-in-Chief Zhu Shaoliang ordered the 3rd Division, the 36th Division, and the 87th Division to be unified under the command of the 71st Army Commander Wang Jingjiu (also served as the commander of the 87th Division) to counterattack Laorenqiao and Xiaoshiqiao.

That night, guns and cannons rang out throughout the night sky. However, the 19th Army and the 9th Army fought fiercely with the Japanese army all night, but they were unable to achieve the intention of counterattack.

At dawn, the left-wing combat army command received reports from various counterattack units, and Chen Cheng's face became extremely heavy. Based on various intelligence analysis, the command realized that Nanxiang and Dachang area had concentrated heavy Japanese troops. The current situation of war has shown that the deployment of the Japanese army's troops has posed a serious threat to the 19th Army and even the central combat army in urban combat, and the situation has become subtle and complex.

In order to ensure the safety of Nanxiang, Chen Cheng urgently transferred Yu Jishi's 74th Army to reinforce the 19th Army, commanding the 39th Army by the 21st Army, and the 48th Army was responsible for the battle on the south bank of the Yangtze River north of the Luojia (Luodian to Jiading) highway. On the same day, Liu Duoquan's troops, who had just been transferred from North China to the Songhu battlefield, were also used for the Nanxiang operation and were under the command of the 19th Army.

In the early morning of October 26, more than 300 aircraft of the Japanese army went out to bombard and strafuse the national army's positions, and then concentrated heavy artillery to bombard the national army's positions. This was the most violent attack launched by the Japanese army since mid-October. The main attack directions were the 18th Division of Dachang, Luoyang Bridge, Yangmaxiang, Peijiaqiao, Gujiabang, and the 14th Division and 67th Division of Dachang, which were guarding Houjiaqiao and Huangjiajiajiao. The directions that were under the greatest pressure were Dachang Town and Luoyang Bridge.

From early to noon on the 26th, the Japanese army fired more than 2,000 artillery shells at Luoyang Bridge. Most of the fortifications of the 66th Regiment's position were destroyed. The commander of the 3rd Battalion Tao Dagang was injured in the leg and the position was attacked by the enemy. The first battalion of the 65th Regiment provided timely reinforcements to drive the Japanese out of the position. That morning, the Japanese army broke into the 66th Regiment's position three times and were all repelled. The battle was extremely fierce.

The second platoon of the fifth company of the Second Battalion was penetrated by the enemy once, but it was soon expelled from the position by the first and third platoons. The first platoons had two Japanese Taisho 11th-type light machine guns, and the five machine guns formed dense firepower, as well as the melee firepower formed by the mullet guns in Yang An's hand, the Japanese army never broke into the position. It was precisely because of the powerful firepower command and configuration that they had the spare strength to support Qin Weihua Platoon.

On the afternoon of October 26, the Japanese dispatched more than 100 aircraft to bomb the 18th Division and the 87th Division position of the National Army. At 5 pm, with the support of powerful ground-air fire, the Japanese army finally captured the stadium. Zhu Yaohua, the commander of the 18th Division who was defending the stadium, had already had ambitions to die. After falling into the stadium, he angrily raised his gun to commit suicide to death, and showed his ambitions to death.

The big field is a strategic location. The big field fell and the traffic of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway was interrupted. At this point, the side of the Central Operations Army, which was fighting in the urban area of ​​Shanghai, was seriously threatened, and the situation in Shanghai suddenly became extremely severe, and the national defense line was in danger.
Chapter completed!