When the two devil captains heard Anda Twenty-three say this, they couldn't help but be frightened, and hurriedly bowed their heads and confessed their mistakes: "The lesson of the chief is that I failed to attack, please punish the chief!" ”

Anda Twenty-Three wanted to say that he would let these two people go to seppuku to apologize, but considering that it was the time to employ people, he forced the two of them to death, and his 12th Wing formation would be crippled.

So I had to change my words: "Hmph! The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be escaped, you two summarize the reasons for this failure, and then report to me, and I will consider whether to give you a chance to make meritorious contributions! ”

The two devil captains couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard this, and they bowed their heads one after another: "Hai! Thank you Captain for not killing. ”

After saying that, he turned around and said goodbye and walked out.

After the two left, Anda Twenty-three instructed his adjutant: "Immediately contact the division and regiment headquarters to request naval artillery fire and fire support from the artillery wing directly under the division and regiment headquarters, and I will raze the Lion Forest Fort to the ground." ”

……

After Lin Rui, Yu Weiguo, Zhou Weihan and others ended their pursuit of the devil, they led the troops to retreat.

As soon as he returned to the position, he met Sun Liren approaching him surrounded by several adjutants and guards.

"Tuanza!" Lin Rui immediately took the lead and stood up and saluted and greeted.

Sun Liren raised his hand in awe and saluted Lin Rui, and said excitedly: "Camp Chief Lin, hard work!" ”

"Tuanzuo, it's all within the scope of work, there's nothing hard to do." Lin Rui replied with a slight smile.

"Okay, the front line will be handed over to you, and I will press the formation for you in the back." Sun Liren nodded and commanded.

"Yes, please rest assured, we will never let a little devil pass through here!" Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan stood up in unison.

Subsequently, Sun Liren took the regimental headquarters and retreated to the headquarters of the Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army, and reorganized the headquarters of the Lion Forest Fort with the commander of the Independent Brigade and others.

Lin Rui, Yu Weiguo, Zhou Weihan and others stayed in the forward position and led their troops to strengthen the fortifications in case the devils attacked again.

Before Lin Rui and the others had cleaned up the battlefield, the devil's retaliatory artillery bombardment came again as promised.

Countless shells with a piercing whistling sound fell from the sky one after another, and slammed into the position of the Lion Forest Fort.

Lin Rui was in a semi-embedded bunker trench at the front at the time, teaching Yu Weiguo how to dig cat's ear holes to improve the anti-artillery and anti-aircraft capabilities of the troops' trench fortifications.

In the War of Liberation and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost all the battles of our heroic PLA and volunteer troops were fought without air and sea supremacy.

In this way, many methods of building trench fortifications naturally came about.

Among them, the cat's ear hole is an outstanding invention in the People's Liberation Army to repair fortifications and dig trenches, which can maximize the survival chances of the defending soldiers in the trenches.

In addition to some methods of repairing fortifications, there are also many advanced combat experiences and concepts, which have been invented by countless commanders and fighters with their blood and lives.

Lin Rui was explaining a sharp and piercing whistling sound coming from outside, and Lin Rui and Yu Weiguo both heard the sound of the cannonballs flying, so their faces all changed, and they immediately reminded the people in the trench loudly in unison: "It's not good, shelling!" Defend against the gun! ”

As soon as the two finished speaking, the grassroots officers of several independent brigades of the Guangdong Army in the trenches all changed color and hurriedly fell on the spot.

The next moment, the devil's shells fell one after another, and violent explosions began to burst out one after another.

In the rumbling cannon, one after another dazzling red light rose up one after another, accompanied by the billowing gunpowder smoke rising into the sky.

The shock wave generated by a series of violent explosions caused the ground under Lin Rui's feet to tremble slightly, as if an earthquake had occurred.

Yu Weiguo saw that Lin Rui just curled up slightly very calmly, squatted in the trench, and did not lie down, so he couldn't help but remind: "Ah Rui, why don't you lie down, it's too dangerous." ”

Lin Rui said with a smile: "Our bunker is a semi-embedded underground trench, if a cannonball hits here directly, then we will not escape death whether we lie down or not." ”

Hearing Lin Rui say this, Yu Weiguo also climbed up, changed his stomach to squat, looked at Lin Rui and said: "Ah Rui, to be honest, I really didn't expect that you can become so powerful now, in the white-knuckle battle just now, you seem to have changed a person, killing so many little devils with one person and one shot, if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe it." ”

Lin Rui just smiled slightly and said, "People will change, not to mention that I now have a common enmity with the Japanese devils." ”

"You mean Aunt Lin's business?" Yu Weiguo blurted out, and seeing that Lin Rui's face became a little gloomy, he immediately changed his words: "Ah Rui, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to mention it." ”

Lin Rui waved his hand and said, "It's okay." ”

Yu Weiguo lowered his head and muttered for a while, then raised his head and asked, "Ah Rui, do you think we can win this battle?" ”

"What do you think?" Lin Rui asked without answering, he wanted to see Yu Weiguo's opinion on this battle.

Yu Weiguo looked around, his subordinates lying on the ground, holding their heads in both hands, and said to Lin Rui in a low voice: "I won't tell you anything, before I came to Shanghai to participate in the war, I think we will definitely win this time."

However, after a few more encounters with the Japanese, I was shaken by this. ”

"Oh?" Lin Rui asked for a long time, "Why do you say that?" ”

Yu Weiguo continued to lower his voice and said: "The firepower of the Japanese is too fierce, not only are their equipment better than ours, but their training is far superior to ours, so we are likely to lose the battle of Songhu." ”

Lin Rui was surprised that Yu Weiguo, a grassroots officer, could have such insight, but it was normal to think about it, after all, Yu Weiguo was also born in Huangpu and received a systematic military and cultural education.

There were certainly not a few middle- and low-level officers with the same knowledge in the Battle of Songhu, but many times they were soft-spoken, and it was the duty of soldiers to obey orders, so they had no choice but to fight to the end.

Seeing that Lin Rui stopped talking, Yu Weiguo opened his mouth and asked, "What's wrong?" Am I not right? ”

Lin Rui shook his head and also lowered his voice and said: "No, what you said is very right, we will lose the battle of Songhu, this is not only because of the unequal equipment and firepower training between the enemy and us, but also the gap between the high-level command and comprehensive national strength of the two sides." ”

Lin Rui didn't want to say that President Jiang and other decision-makers of the national government were not, so he didn't say it thoroughly.

Yu Weiguo was surprised: "Then what should we do?" ”

Lin Rui said: "Keep fighting." ”

"But, knowing that you are going to lose, do you still want to fight?" Yu Weiguo said with some surprise.

"That's right, even if you know that you are defeated, you have to continue to fight. Because we are Chinese soldiers! Behind us is the big Shanghai, the whole of China, and the 40,000 fathers and villagers, we have no choice but to fight to the end! Lin Rui said in a calm but firm tone: "If we don't want to be slaves of the country, we have to fight, this is responsibility and dignity!" ”