It is said that Anda Twenty-three, under the protection of the adjutant and the guards, was carried by his own defeated troops all the way to a Japanese camp near Yuepu Town.

Without waiting for the troops to stabilize their positions, Anda Twenty-three immediately instructed the adjutant: "Gather troops for me immediately, prepare for a counterattack, and prepare to fight back!" ”

"Sir, we've just been defeated and demoralized, are we going to fight back now?" The adjutant was a little stunned.

"That's right, fight back now!" Anda Twenty-Three said in a resolute voice: "Gather all the remaining forces of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd brigades and form them

Counterattack cluster, artillery wing immediately forward to build artillery positions, cover the attacking troops, and recapture the Lion Forest Fort position for me! ”

Anda Twenty-three was extremely angry in his heart at this time, he had boasted to the division commander Yamamuro Sotakeshi that he would definitely be able to take the Lion Forest Fort within two days and open up the landing ground with the 3rd Division.

Now in the blink of an eye, he has lost the position that he has already reached, if he doesn't recapture it immediately, what face will he have to meet the division commander Yamamuro Sotake?

Seeing Anda Twenty-Three's resolute attitude, the adjutant had no choice but to stand up and salute yes, and then immediately turned around to convey the order.

……

On the Lion Forest position, in the dark, Sun Liren took his adjutant and followed the trench with a flashlight, and found Lin Rui, who was at the forefront of directing the reinforcement of the trench.

An adjutant reminded loudly at the top of his voice: "The regiment is here!" ”

Lin Rui, who was bending down to repair the position with the soldiers, heard this, immediately got up and turned around, and took the lead in saluting Sun Liren and said, "Tuanza." ”

Sun Liren raised his hand to return the salute, and then said with a smile: "Battalion Commander Lin, you don't have to be polite, we can successfully recapture the position this time, and your death squad has made a lot of contributions!" You Lin Rui should take the first credit, and I will ask my superiors for credit for you when I turn around! ”

After speaking, without waiting for Lin Rui to be polite, he continued: "However, it is not yet time to celebrate, although the enemy has been repelled by us, he may go and return at any time, so we must strengthen our precautions, especially your three battalions, and be more careful in case the enemy counterattacks!" ”

"Well, I'm reinforcing the fortifications with my brethren." Lin Rui nodded happily.

"Good." Sun Liren praised it, and then asked, "How about the casualties of the death squad this time?" ”

Lin Rui replied: "After statistics, one-third of the casualties were basically killed. ”

"How many people are there in your three battalions?" Sun Liren asked again.

"There are less than two hundred left." Two white-knuckle battles, one night attack counterattack, the three battalions from the hundreds of people when they set out, have suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties.

"Less than two hundred? Not even the strength of the original company. Hearing this, Sun Liren said with a serious face: "I will add two hundred more people to you, and you must guard the front line." ”

According to the previous establishment scale of the tax police corps, a company has 256 people, a battalion has four companies, a regiment has three infantry battalions, plus seven directly subordinate companies, and the total strength of a regiment will exceed more than 5,000 people.

However, since the Battle of Liujiatang, Sun Liren's regiment has suffered heavy losses, and although it has been replenished, it can only be maintained at the scale of 3,000 people, which is far from the peak.

The entire 2nd Regiment is still like this, not to mention Lin Rui's 3rd Battalion.

Therefore, Sun Liren can only replenish Lin Rui's strength of up to 200 people now, because at this time, all the units of the national army on the Songhu battlefield are short of people.

At this time, not to mention 200 people, even if it is a hundred, it is commendable.

Therefore, Lin Rui stood up on the spot and saluted Sun Liren again: "Thank you for the group." ”

Sun Liren just wanted to speak, when a piercing whistling sound suddenly came from the southeast direction, and he, Lin Rui and others followed the sound one after another, only to see a dazzling red light, piercing the night sky from the southeast direction and flying towards his side quickly.

The piercing whistling sound was the sound of those red lights breaking through the air as they flew at a rapid speed.

Whether it is Lin Rui or Sun Liren, they all know what these dazzling red lights represent, which are shells fired by enemy shelling.

Therefore, Lin Rui and Sun Liren exclaimed in unison almost in unison: "Shelling!" Lie down! Watch out for anti-artillery! ”

Before the words fell, the first batch of shells of the devil whistled down, boom, boom, and clusters of dazzling red light rose into the air one after another in the explosion.

Lin Rui escorted Sun Liren to lie in the trench bunker together, and the debris of the earth kicked off by the shock wave of the explosion fell and smashed on their backs, although it hurt, no one said anything.

The devil's first round of shelling was just a test shot, so just after this round of explosions, Lin Rui immediately said to Sun Li: "Tuanzao, the enemy should be planning to counterattack while our foothold is not stable, it is too dangerous here, you hurry back to the command center, leave it to me here." ”

Sun Liren nodded and said, "Okay, you be more careful, I'll transfer you with 200 reinforcements after I go back!" ”

"Please rest assured, the people are in the position!" Lin Rui agreed.

Sun Liren looked at Lin Rui meaningfully, patted him on the shoulder, and then turned around and took the adjutant and left along the traffic trench.

Since the Japanese had occupied this position before, their artillery had a memory of the general location of this position. 、

After the first round of test firing, the 36 mountain guns of the 11th Mountain Artillery Wing opened fire at full power and began to launch a large-scale artillery bombardment of the forward positions of the Lion Forest.

It didn't take long for Lin Rui and the forward positions they were stationed to become a sea of fire.

Without waiting for the devil's shelling to end, Sun Liren promised to replenish the 200 reinforcements of the third battalion, and braved the devil's artillery fire, and moved along the communication trench to the forward position of the third battalion.

However, now Zhang Xinghan has been promoted to captain for merit, he came to Lin Rui's side, saluted and reported to him: "Battalion Commander Lin, we are here to reinforce by the order of the regiment, please instruct!" “

"Brother Xinghan, why are you!" Lin Rui glanced at Zhang Xinghan with some surprise, with the help of the red light emitted by the devil's artillery fire, Lin Rui found that Zhang Xinghan was already wearing the captain's epaulettes, and immediately smiled and congratulated: "Brother, you have been promoted, congratulations!" ”

Zhang Xinghan waved his hand a little embarrassed and said: "The regiment said that we fought side by side, so let me bring these two hundred people to merge into your three battalions, from now on, I will be your subordinate sir!" ”

Lin Rui was overjoyed and said, "That's great! My 7th company commander just died, and from now on, you are the commander of the 7th company of the 3rd battalion! ”

"Thank you, sir!" Zhang Xinghan saluted again.

At this time, a Japanese artillery shell flew rapidly towards their area, and Lin Rui hurriedly pulled Zhang Xinghan to lower his head to dodge, boom! After the explosion, both were unkempt and disgraced by the raging smoke.

Looking up at each other, they couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Feeling that the devil's artillery fire gradually began to extend to the depth of his position, Lin Rui immediately took the lead and stood up, shouting sharply at the top of his voice: "The enemy's artillery fire has begun to extend, and it will attack at any time, all of them!" Get ready to meet the enemy! ”