"Xia Yuan, a new transfer order has been issued. We are going to Wusongkou!" Xia Yuan had just walked to the door when he saw Lu Jingguang rushing over.
"What happened?"
Xia Yuan frowned. The 18th Brigade arrived at Luodian on the 29th. Only two days had passed and a new transfer order for the 18th Brigade was issued.
"Wusongkou was captured by the Japanese army. The troops defending Wusongkou suffered heavy casualties and were unable to participate in the subsequent battle, so they had to retreat to the highway to deploy defenses."
Lu Jingguang got straight to the point and kept his story short: "Our superiors asked us to reinforce Wusongkou. Our task is to hold on to the Sitang River and prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river."
"Time is running out, let's set off now."
After saying that, Lu Jingguang left in a hurry, and then heard the company's assembly whistle sounding.
After they finished gathering, Xia Yuan discovered that the fifth company that was defending Qiao's residence had also retreated. Obviously, the retreat of the 18th Brigade was across the board, and all defense lines here had to be abandoned.
Wusongkou fell.
Wusong is very close to Baoshan. After Wusongkou fell, the next focus of the Japanese attack was Baoshan.
The tragic Battle of Baoshan is about to begin.
Xia Yuan took a deep breath. Baoshan was finally surrounded by the Japanese army. All the defenders died, and only one person escaped.
The time to support Wusongkou was tight, and they did not have much time. They took a truck to Wusongkou that day. When they arrived at the battle zone, they heard fierce gunfire from the direction of Wusong from a long distance away.
The roaring sound was like thunder, coming from a very far away direction, and it kept rumbling.
"Get off the car, quickly!"
The order from the messenger was given, and they stopped in a ruined town and marched to Wusong in a hurry. In the afternoon, they arrived near the Sitang River.
The area allocated to the third company only has three rooms. In front of it is the river beach. Across the rolling river, there is the Japanese army on the other side. There is a distance of two kilometers between them. The Japanese army has not yet launched an attack on the Sitang River, and the original defenders of the Sitang River also have a
Although this regiment suffered heavy casualties, it was still able to form an impenetrable defense relying on the buildings along the Sitang River.
If the Japanese army wants to attack, they need to be prepared to pay a huge price.
After the arrival of reinforcements from the 18th Brigade, the situation changed again.
"We want to conduct reconnaissance on the Japanese troops on the other side." Xia Yuan knew very well that the efficiency of the national army's scouts in detecting the enemy's situation was very low, which was evident when he was in Luodian.
"The battalion headquarters has sent scouts to conduct reconnaissance on the Japanese positions on the other side. It is estimated that they will come out after the investigation is completed." Lu Jingguang said helplessly: "The third company suffered more casualties. The superiors will not send us important positions. It is estimated that there will be more
It's the same situation as the Lin family residence, it's a marginal position."
It can be seen that Lu Jingguang wanted to achieve something in his career, but unfortunately things backfired and he failed to achieve his goals.
The superiors did not assign tasks to the third company, but just asked them to look at the three houses, surrounded by wilderness. The Japanese army would not be stupid enough to attack them from the plains, so the position they defended was relatively easy.
Something big will happen.
Xia Yuan didn't say anything. He turned on his night vision and eagle eye to observe the Japanese position. Affected by the ruins on the other side, he observed for a while but couldn't see anything, so he had to withdraw his gaze and discuss countermeasures with Lu Jingguang.
Not long after the 18th Brigade entered Wusong, the 37th Brigade also arrived in Wusong, and was then transferred to Liuhang as a reserve team. During the change of defense of the national army, the Security Regiment located at Wusong Fort was forced to leave due to excessive casualties.
After withdrawing from the position last night, the Japanese army did not notice the withdrawal of the Chinese troops, so they bombed the Wusong Fort the next day. In the morning of the same day, the First Battalion of the 68th Regiment of the Japanese Army captured the empty Wusong Fort.
The Third Battalion of the Japanese Army also launched an attack on the First Battalion of the 68th Regiment. Not long after, it began to advance towards the National Army positions. The advance went very smoothly. Not long after, it arrived at the rear defense line where the National Army had retreated.
The army engaged in fierce fighting.
The Nationalist army relied on the gunpowder magazine to resist the Japanese attack. The wall of the gunpowder magazine was very strong. The Japanese artillery shells failed to destroy the outer wall of the gunpowder magazine, and the battle fell into a stalemate.
The 37th Brigade, which served as a reserve force in Liu Xing, dispatched the 710th Regiment to join the battle and counterattack the Japanese 3rd Regiment that attacked the gunpowder depot.
Just when the rumbling sound of artillery came from far away, the leading troops of the 18th Brigade, which had just entered the Sitang River, discovered the Japanese army's move. The sound of gunfire suddenly came from the east side of the Third Company.
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The scholar ran quickly and rushed into the room: "Brother Yuan, there's a fight in front."
Hearing the gunfire nearby, Xia Yuan raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's going on?"
"The Japanese have begun to cross the river. They came over after wading through the water." The scholar's voice was a little urgent. "We also found Japanese on our defense line. There are quite a few of them. The Fourth Company started fighting with them."
"Let's go over and have a look."
Xia Yuan quickly stood up, and as soon as he came outside, Lu Jingguang and others hurried over.
"I was looking for you, let's leave first." Lu Jingguang took Xia Yuan and rushed to the scene of the incident immediately.
"Are the three companies not gathering?" Xia Yuan asked again while following Lu Jingguang.
"If the Third Company doesn't assemble, they will stay here and watch the little Japs." Lu Jingguang said: "The Japanese attack is not with us, but with the Fourth Company."
When they arrived at the house of the Fourth Company, it was empty. The sound of gunshots came from the banks of the Sitang River. They walked non-stop to the banks of the Sitang River and passed through the ruins. From a distance, they saw Japanese soldiers hiding there.
They fired at them from the ruins on the other side of the Sitang River. The Japanese machine gun fire swept over them from a distance, and bullets were everywhere. The walls of the ruins were full of bullet holes.
As soon as Xia Yuan and the others arrived, a series of bullets hit the broken pillars of the ruins beside them, causing several of them to squat down quickly in shock.
Lu Jingguang did not bring many people. He took the scholar, Xia Yuan, a platoon leader and the scouts from the third company, a group of five people. They squatted on the ground and hid behind the bunker. Lu Jingguang took out his binoculars to observe the situation of the Japanese positions.
, a large number of Japanese troops are gathering. There must be a small group of Japanese troops, with a strength of between fifty and seventy people.
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The defensive position was at the narrower part of the Sitang River. Since the river was very narrow and the river was not deep, there was a high probability that the Japanese army would cross the river here.
With just one glance, Xia Yuan knew quite clearly what the Japanese were planning to do, which was to forcefully cross the river from this position.
He looked at the defensive formation of the national army again. The fourth company commander knew clearly that the Japanese army was going to cross the river through this narrow mouth, so he placed the only two light machine guns in the company at the narrow mouth, and lined up a row of strong soldiers.
Watching, the second and third rows were covering the left and right sides.
Before the Japanese army even started to cross the river, the two sides began to shoot at each other from a length of 300 meters. The amount of bullets fired by the Japanese was very large. Four companies were defeated and could only hide in bunkers. Only a few had good marksmanship and good eyesight.
Sharp veterans fought back against the Japanese troops.
"The little Japanese devil started going crazy early in the morning. He wants to use up all the bullets." The scholar held the gun and only dared to expose half of his head. A bullet grazed the top of his head. He was still some distance away.
He immediately retracted his head.
To put it in today's terms, the Japanese devils are indeed crazy. They didn't even risk their lives just to invade us, kill our relatives, burn our villages, and invade our land.
The soldiers of the national army have no concept of the country. There are many soldiers in their 40s and 50s who have experienced the Qing Dynasty and the National Government. The country has changed too fast. There is no concept of the country. They don't even know what fate is.
Because too many people died.
The scholar has learned knowledge and knows what fate is, so he will say that the Japanese devils are crazy and want to attack even if they don't care about their lives.
No one else would say that. They subconsciously believed that it was normal for the Japanese to beat them. After all, this country was already in ruins.
Lu Jingguang stared at the Japanese: "They are not crazy, they want to destroy us. This is a premeditated attack. Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world. How can we fight on our own? China is still China, but the Japanese are coming.
China will no longer be China."
There was a hint of coldness in his big eyes: "They want to destroy our roots."
boom!
The Japanese artillery fire is coming.
This was the scholar's first experience of being bombarded by Japanese soldiers. A shell fell behind him. In an instant, it was as if the sky had collapsed, and rubble fell from his head. If he hadn't been wearing a helmet, he would have been killed.
It's a bloody head.
Only now did he understand what the large-caliber cannon Xia Yuan was talking about was.
The scholar turned around, and a huge impact point suddenly appeared in the ruins behind him. It was much larger than the crater caused by the grenade in his arms. When he saw the soldiers of the Fourth Company being bombed by the Japanese mortars,
, like a leaf in a violent storm, filled with painful whines and splashes of red sand.
He vowed in his heart that he would build a large-caliber cannon.
"They're coming!"
Xia Yuan suddenly shouted. The Japanese bombardment had not stopped yet. In the smoke rising from the explosion of the shells, a large number of Japanese troops rushed from the bank to the river. Immediately afterwards, the machine guns on the other side of the river also rang.
The sound was quickly swallowed up by the roar of cannons.
The bullets disappeared into the rising smoke, whirled through the curtain formed by the mud and sand that had been lifted up by the shells, and hit the crude bunker fortifications of the Fourth Company, or hit some areas that had been flattened by the shells.
On the naked soldiers.
The sound of the machine guns of the Fourth Company rang out and stopped after a while. The Japanese soldiers pulled in the flat-firing artillery. A shell dragged in an arc, with a bang, and plunged into a machine gun position in the row of the Fourth Company, with a bang.
There was a muffled sound, and Xia Yuan only saw black soil swallowing up the position. Some soldiers were blown up by the huge shock wave, and their bodies were shattered.
"Xia Yuan!"
Lu Jingguang underestimated the determination of the Japanese to cross the river and shouted: "You stay here and watch, I will call the Third Company over."
The Japanese army did not have many troops, but their offensive was very fierce. And their artillery was different from the carpet bombing of the US military. As long as a range was marked, every inch of the land would be plowed, just like cattle plowing.
The Japs' artillery is all about precision strikes, especially the flat-firing cannon. A flat-firing cannon can paralyze the machine gun position of the fourth company. The Japanese artillery has also been trained to carry out precise strikes on targets. The artillery shells almost surround the fourth company.
bombing positions.
Most of the positions near the river have a lot of mud and sand. Where can we build stronger fortifications? The Japanese army's short and rapid shelling hit the fourth company with very heavy casualties. The Japanese army is really a difficult opponent. If they are given American troops
With their weapons and equipment, maybe they can really eat the whole of China.
Of course, these only exist in imagination. Japan's islands restrict Japan's development, and external expansion is inevitable. Even now, we must always be wary of Japanese devils. A wolf that lives in the wild and has hunted prey is very dangerous.
It is difficult to tame, even if you break its limbs and make it appear harmless, the things inside can never be changed.
Ai Gong once said that it would be better to bear the infamy of aggression for one life than to let future generations enjoy happiness. This is called a crime in the present but a merit in the future.
In modern times, the Japanese have never admitted that they launched a war of aggression or caused the Jinling Massacre. That is because it was not they themselves who launched the war of aggression, but people in the past.
Perhaps a hundred years from now, when the sea water is polluted, the Japanese will still be able to calmly deny that they have discharged anything into the ocean, because that was not done by people in the past, not by people today.
Lu Jingguang left, walking very quickly, taking the scouts with him. The Japanese artillery was coming, and they started to attack. The fourth company would definitely not be able to defend it. He wanted to pull the third company over. The scholar knew how to use the artillery, and he would attack immediately.
They found an open position and set up the only grenade launcher. After eliminating the Japanese troops in Qiaojiazhai, they also captured a lot of grenade launchers.
The scholar's pockets became richer again.
A platoon leader put his rifle on the bunker, and the Japanese artillery shells fell again, so that he had to huddle up to avoid the Japanese shelling.
Xia Yuan asked the scholar to set up the grenade and told him to avoid the Japanese artillery fire. He concluded that the Japanese artillery bombardment would not last too long. When the Japanese army crossed to the center of the river, the artillery fire might stop.
He changed his position, took out five bullets from his pocket, stuffed them into the magazine, and poked them into the magazine. He looked at the position of the Fourth Company and shook his head.
"The fourth company commander was so impatient that he let the machine gunner shoot so early."
If the Japanese want to cross the river by force, the best position is to wait for the Japanese to reach the center of the river. The river is deep and the current is fast. The Japanese are short and in the center of the river, it is difficult to stand firm and shoot. That is them