The shortcomings of the Japanese Eleventh Division's choice to land at Xiaochuanshakou began to be exposed. During the landing, the Japanese army's supplies were seriously flooded, especially the artillery shells, and their firepower was blocked. However, the road from Chuansha Town to Luodian was not
Instead of a highway, it is a dirt road only a little over one meter wide, and its traveling speed is not even as fast as that of an ox cart.
In order to wait for supplies and artillery support, the Japanese army had to postpone the date of attacking Luodian again and again, and finally decided to attack Luodian on August 28.
As for the national army, the 98th Division arrived belatedly and took over the defense of the 11th Division. The 11th Division shrunk its position and joined forces with the Japanese 44th Regiment's Second Battalion, Third Battalion, and the Third Battalion.
The third brigade of the 22nd Company engaged in a confrontation.
The 397th Regiment of the 67th Division is responsible for the west side, the 398th Regiment is responsible for the east side, and the 401st Regiment serves as a reserve.
The 79th Regiment of the 14th Division came to support from the Liuhe direction and cooperated with the 39th Air Regiment to defend the west side and extend the defense line. Other troops of the National Army also arrived and assembled towards Luodian.
When a large number of troops gathered, the national army decided to launch a counterattack and set the time for the counterattack on the 28th. After all, many troops were still gathering.
Fate once again hangs over Luodian.
The supporting troops from Yudi had just arrived. The Chinese and Japanese sides had already launched a fierce attack. The battle lasted for a whole day. The troops on both sides suffered heavy casualties. Luodian was captured by the Japanese army. The 398th Regiment and the 401st Regiment were captured at sunset.
They launched the final attack on Luodian before. After several hours of hard fighting, they failed to recapture Luodian and had no choice but to retreat.
That night, the 398th Regiment withdrew from the battle due to heavy casualties.
In the early morning, the order from Shangfeng finally came.
The new barracks assembled, followed the 397th Regiment and the 401st Regiment into the south of Luodian, counterattacked the enemy in Luodian that night, and recaptured Luodian.
It's raining in the sky.
Zhao Shiguo in the second platoon looked ugly. There was only one person in the third squad, and only four people were left. The remaining seven people all became deserters.
"What's going on!"
"At night, I asked Chen Jiansheng to take over Old Man Wang's guard post. After Chen Jiansheng arrived, he did not find Old Man Wang and others. After searching, I found that they had taken off their military uniforms and threw them on the ground. I immediately realized that they might be there.
I'm a deserter and I'll come to you right away."
Xu Liu remained standing at attention. This was indeed what he discovered at night. In fact, Old Man Wang took the initiative to find him and Xia Yuan to take charge of the night's security. The two of them had already realized that Old Man Wang was preparing to be a deserter, so they were already worried.
There you have it.
Xia Yuan responded: "Platoon commander, it's all my fault. They came to me when it was getting dark and said they were going to be the guard post tonight. Old man Wang was out of shape all day. I thought he had changed his ways by the time he got to the battlefield.
, I didn’t expect that I was going to be a deserter.”
"Eleven people! Seven of them have become deserters!" Zhao Shiguo was furious. This was the first time he encountered so many deserters in a class. All of them ran away, leaving only four people in the class.
The scholar and Niu Hai lowered their heads and remained silent. Niu Hai had only joined them for a day, but the scholar had been following them since the beginning. Old Man Wang planned to become a deserter for more than a day or two. Xia Yuan didn't care, and Xu Liu didn't care.
It's even less possible for him to care.
Listening to the platoon leader's angry scolding, the scholar knew that both Xia Yuan and Xu Liu had lied, but he would not expose them.
Zhao Shiguo asked people to search for them, but the scouts sent by the company disrupted his plan. Then they received orders to rush to the front line. Zhao Shiguo couldn't help but cursed secretly after hearing this.
'Are you treating us like monkeys? This bitch started torturing us on the first day she came here.'
There is no human rights in the recruit camp, there is no doubt about it.
The sky was hazy with rain. Before everyone set off, they all looked for materials to make bamboo hats. Fortunately, they were able to find bamboo hats hanging on the walls in some houses. A group of more than 30 people stepped on the puddles and quickly left the village, disappearing in the
In the hazy rain curtain.
"Class One and Class Two, please pay attention to me. If anyone becomes a deserter, don't blame me for being rude to him."
Mr. Wang and several others deserted, which shocked everyone in each class, and also aroused many people's thoughts. At this time, there was chaos, and it was the time to escape. No one would be willing to rush into it.
Become cannon fodder on the battlefield.
There was a bit of silence in the team, and everyone had Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts.
Xia Yuan whispered to Xu Liu: "The platoon leader's mistake was that he shouldn't have said this in front of everyone."
Xu Liu was a little confused: "Why do you say that?"
Xia Yuan said: "Few of these people are willing to go to the battlefield. If you tell them in front of them, doesn't it set a precedent for them to become deserters? The platoon leader wants to deter them, but you must know that people are like springs.
, the harder you press, the stronger the rebound will be.”
"Spring? This description is really appropriate."
The scholar said from the side.
"The words are stilted and I can't understand them." Xu Liu shook his head.
What is the spring, what is the strength of the rebound, why does Xia Yuan speak like a scholar, always popping up some words that people can't understand.
"Squad leader, Brother Xia's general idea is that the more you suppress them, the stronger their resistance will be."
The scholar gave him an easy-to-understand explanation, and Xu Liu finally understood what Xia Yuan meant, "I understand, I understand what you mean. What you said is right. The more you suppress them, the more they will resist.
Big, that’s what it means.”
"Yes." The scholar nodded.
Xu Liu also had his own thoughts: "Scholar, Xia Yuan told us that everyone comes from the village and is often squeezed by the landlords. Why didn't you resist at that time?"
"this......"
The scholar was a little unable to answer, it was somewhat beyond the limits of his thinking. So much so that he also thought that what Xu Liu said was right, but he also thought that what Xia Yuan said was reasonable.
He turned to look at Xia Yuan, trying to get the answer he wanted from him.
Xia Yuan said: "Because their home is in the village, not in the army."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The scholar immediately thought of Xia Yuan's meaning, and then said: "My family is in the village, and my relatives are also in the village. If they resist, their relatives will suffer, but
Their families are not in the military, so if they run away from the military, they have no relatives and only have to worry about whether they will be caught."
He turned to look at Xia Yuan and said excitedly: "Brother Yuan, you are right. A person is like a spring. The harder it is pressed, the harder it rebounds."
The scholar felt as if he had learned a new vocabulary and was happy for a long time.
Xu Liu wiped the rain from his face: "Okay, I agree with what you said. The platoon leader should not talk about this matter in front of them. We should consider what they are thinking."
Thinking of this, Xu Liu became worried. On the battlefield, he didn't know how many people would choose to be deserters. After all, these people were not regular soldiers, but a bunch of recruits, and they knew that they were sent to the battlefield to be deserters.
cannon fodder.
It was the first time to go to the battlefield. It is estimated that many people will be scared away and become deserters.
Back to the company, Captain Du had been waiting for a long time. Because it was too dark and raining, he could not clearly see that some people in the second platoon were missing. Platoon Leader Zhao did not tell Captain Du about this matter, saying that it was Xia Xia.
Yuan and Xu Liu's dereliction of duty, in fact, he also had dereliction of duty. Being a platoon leader is not easy, so it is better not to mention it to Captain Du.
"Set off!"
Captain Du glanced at the more than a hundred people standing in front of him, waved his hand, and everyone got into the rain and disappeared into the hazy wilderness.
The rain gradually became heavier.
Raindrops as big as beans hit the ground, carrying muddy water and splashing on the trousers, making the already wet trousers dirty. The bamboo hat could not completely cover the torrential rain, and soon the whole body was drenched.
The transparent, wet military uniform turned gray-black, blending into the night.
The order from their superiors required them to arrive before ten o'clock, but it was already eight o'clock in the evening and it was getting scary dark. Captain Du kept urging them to speed up their march.
There were several veterans watching behind the team to prevent some people from escaping in the darkness.
So much so that the queue stretched very long.
Pa-chi-pa-chi, the team was very quiet. There was only the patter of wet shoes stepping on the water in the mud puddles. Someone stepped on the muddy puddles and fell to the ground. Then he was helped up by the people behind him.
,keep going.
The recruit battalion gathered at Jinjiazhai. The frontal enemy they faced was the Japanese Army's Second Battalion of the 22nd Company, which had about half the regiment's strength. Attacking with the recruit battalion was the Fourth Battalion of the Sixty-seventh Division of the National Army.
The Zero One Regiment will launch an attack on the enemy's position in the early morning.
The courtyard of Jin's house is very deep and was transformed into a military fortress by the 401st Regiment. There were bunkers built with sacks of soil at the street entrances and alleys.
When the new camp entered the village near Luodian, the houses here were shelled. There were broken walls everywhere, the roads were full of broken bricks and rubble, and bullet impact points were scattered all over the streets.
At eleven o'clock, they arrived at the defense line of the 401st Regiment, and their superiors gave them orders to move forward. The new barracks were basically used as cannon fodder, which was to attract the Japanese firepower and consume the enemy's ammunition for the main force. Therefore, in the new barracks
After arriving, he was left directly on the battlefield without even taking a rest.
Responsible for searching and clearing obstacles on the offensive path.
Many people from the second platoon and the third class left, leaving only Xu Liu, Xia Yuan, Scholar and Niu Hai, responsible for the right wing of the second platoon. Raindrops hit the broken wall, making a crisp sound. Xia Yuan dropped five
The bullet was placed in the magazine, and night vision was turned on to look around. This was once a war zone, but now it has fallen into silence. There may be sporadic Japanese troops here, so you must be careful enough.
"Corpse!" Niu Hai shouted in shock.
The three people turned around and saw a corpse lying on the ground next to Niu Hai. Half of the body was gone. The intestines were pulled out from the broken belly. They were pale and pale. The blood flowed with the rain. His face was pale.
Hai was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.
It's quite scary to see such a thing at night.
"Keep your voice down!"
Xu Liu made a sign of silence. The further he walked, the closer he got to the Japanese army's position. There was no guarantee that the Japanese army would be waiting somewhere.
"There are more and more corpses."
After turning on night vision, Xia Yuan saw the surroundings clearly. There were corpses of national and Japanese soldiers everywhere, but not among the rubble of bricks and tiles in the ruins.
"Squad leader, let me touch the body and see if there is anything we can use." Xia Yuan held the gun in his arms and whispered to Xu Liu.
"Be careful." Xu Liu said.
"Come on, keep an eye out here, scholar, Niu Hai, stay alert, don't say anything when you see someone, first determine if it's one of your own, if it's not one of your own, don't shoot indiscriminately, once you fire, your position will be exposed.
, the Japs will come closer with the sound of gunfire."
When Xia Yuan left, he did not forget to warn the two of them.
He himself had been on the battlefield. In future terms, he was pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. But the scholar and Niu Hai were real recruits. The scholar was a student before and had never even touched a gun. Niu Hai was an out-and-out farmer.
, except for being slightly stronger, nothing else will happen.
The day was so tight that Niu Hai couldn't learn anything at all, so he was dragged to the battlefield. The battle in Luodian was already very tight, especially after the Japanese army occupied Luodian, the national army was eager to organize enough troops.
Troops competed for Luodian.
In fact, Hu Lian of the 66th Regiment of the 33rd Brigade killed more than a hundred enemies and successfully recaptured Luodian. This was the only time the Chinese army recaptured Luodian. What followed was a battle like a flesh-and-blood mill around Luodian.
Xia Yuan stared around carefully, climbed out of the bunker, stepped on the water on the ground, and with the gradually decreasing and hazy rain curtain, he got into the door on the side. The wooden door was damaged, and the wall of the yard had collapsed.
, there were many corpses of National Army soldiers, and many corpses of Japanese soldiers. The guns had been confiscated, but it was impossible to get grenades or bullets from these corpses that had not been taken away.
Xia Yuan held the gun in his hand and looked around. He didn't find any hidden sentry posted by the enemy, so he immediately opened a stiff corpse and touched the bullet bag first, then the grenade bag, and finally the pocket.
I felt a hard object in my trouser pocket, took it out and saw that it was a silver dollar.
"On this battlefield, this thing is useless." Xia Yuan muttered, threw the silver dollar into the mud, and continued to touch the body.
There were a lot of corpses here, but he had to hurry up. The second platoon was groping forward. If the vanguard met the enemy, there would be no cover on the flanks and they would be easily attacked by the Japanese. And the second platoon was the left wing of the entire Ninth Company.
, the Ninth Company is the left wing of the entire battalion. Once a flank unit is wiped out by the Japanese, it will threaten the main force in the center.
"A new military camp that is used as cannon fodder is actually so complicated. Once it is attacked by the Japanese army, it will most likely become very chaotic."
Xia Yuan touched for a while but found nothing. It seemed that the soldiers of the national army had touched the corpses of the Japanese and their own people cleanly, except for the silver dollar.