Lin Rui heard Li Shiran sobbing behind his back, turned around and comforted: "Miss Li, don't cry, I'm fine." ”

After speaking, he turned around and took the lead towards the company.

Lin Feng followed behind him and immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "Hygienist! Hygienist! Come here....... ”

The next day, the newspaper printed with Lin Rui's uniform photo quickly spread in Nanjing, Hangzhou and other places.

It resonated with countless patriotic youths, and many intellectuals, patriotic youths and workers took to the streets to march in response.

There are even countless people who went directly to the recruitment offices of the national government in various places and signed up to join the army.

Lin Rui's personal prestige has reached an unprecedented new height in all parts of Jiangnan.

However, Lin Rui and the Eighth Company did not receive the task of going to the front line for the time being.

Early the next morning, Lin Rui got up early, asked the hygienist to help him change the dressing on his back, and then summoned Zhou Weihan and instructed: "Old Zhou, you gather all the supplementary soldiers we brought yesterday, as well as the old brothers of our eighth company, I have something to say!" ”

"Yes!" Zhou Weihan saluted and happily took the order to leave.

As soon as Zhou Weihan left on his front foot, Li Shiran walked in with a bowl of rice porridge and said to Lin Rui: "Company Commander Lin, how is the injury on your back?" ”

Lin Rui looked at her and said indifferently: "It's not in the way, it's a small injury." ”

"I haven't eaten breakfast yet, so let's eat it while it's hot." Li Shiran handed the rice porridge to Lin Rui with concern.

Lin Rui was not polite, took the dishes and chopsticks and ate them in a big gulp.

Li Shiran watched him eat, and a sweet smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Lin Rui quickly ate the rice porridge, saw Li Shiran looking at him in a daze, and asked, "Miss Li, what's wrong?" ”

Li Shiran came back to her senses at this time, and her pretty face was a little embarrassed: "Ah, no, it's not much." ”

At this time, Zhou Weihan hurriedly ran in from outside and reported to Lin Ruilizheng: "Company commander, the brothers are all assembled, waiting for you to pass." ”

Lin Rui nodded and said, "Okay!" Then he handed the dishes and chopsticks back to Li Shiran and said, "Thank you Miss Li for your breakfast." ”

After speaking, he walked out with Zhou Weihan striding out.

On the street outside the company headquarters, more than 100 veterans of the Eighth Company and 200 supplementary soldiers had all been assembled and lined up in four neat columns, waiting for Lin Rui's lecture.

Seeing Lin Rui coming, Lin Feng, who had been promoted by Lin Rui to be the leader of a platoon, took the lead and shouted: "Salute!" ”

Under his leadership, more than 300 officers and soldiers stood up and saluted Lin Rui and Zhou Weihan.

Lin Rui came to the front of the team, raised his hand and returned a military salute, and his eyes swept over all the officers and soldiers present, especially the two hundred supplementary soldiers.

He said in a deep voice: "Brothers, gather you together, there are two things to announce, one is that from now on you are a member of my Eighth Company, you are not recruits, and I will not say polite words."

On the battlefield, we will see the real chapter under our hands, my requirements for you are very simple, just eight words, dare to fight! Don't run away! I'd rather die! No drop! ”

The second thing is to chat with everyone, which can be regarded as pre-war mobilization. ”

After a pause, Lin Rui continued to speak: "Since the 918 incident, we first lost the three eastern provinces, and then we lost Rehe.

Today, our country has reached the most dangerous moment, and our nation is facing an existential crisis!

As a descendant of Yan and Huang, a Chinese man, and as a contemporary Chinese soldier, what do you say we should do? ”

This is, Li Shiran has already walked out of the company headquarters, standing at the gate of the company headquarters, that is, behind Lin Rui, looking at Lin Rui, who was speaking impassionedly.

The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Company did not speak, because they didn't know what to say, and it was not difficult to see from their eager eyes that they wanted to hear Lin Rui tell them what they should do.

So, Lin Rui was silent for a while, and said aloud again: "Since you don't know, then I'll tell you!"

Whoever dares to destroy my country and my race, we will fight them to the end! Fight to the death!

The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband! At this time when the country is in danger and the nation is in danger, as Chinese soldiers, we should be more determined to sacrifice everything and resolutely safeguard our territorial integrity!

Because the territory is not organized, the country will perish! ”

"Fight to the end! Fight to the death! Lin Feng and Zhou Weihan immediately took the lead in raising their arms and shouting.

Whether it was the more than 120 veterans who followed Lin Rui for the rest of their lives, or the 200 supplementary soldiers who had just been replenished, it was as if a spark ignited a pile of firewood.

All of them spontaneously roared with their arms raised;

"Fight to the end! Defend the country to the death! ”

"Fight to the end! Defend the country to the death! ”

"Fight to the end! Defend the country to the death! ”

More than 300 people roared in unison, and the huge waves of sound emitted converged into thunder, which was deafening and exciting.

Li Shiran, who was standing behind Lin Rui, saw this blood-boiling scene, and felt that his blood was also boiling, and Lin Rui's back became taller at this moment.

At this moment, this man is a hero who stands up to the sky, and he deserves the title of God of War.

……

Subsequently, Lin Rui took advantage of the high morale of the soldiers and announced that the eighth company would be reorganized into five platoons and one squad, namely four infantry platoons, one machine gun platoon and one guard squad.

Each platoon no longer had six squads, as before, but was reduced to four squads, each with 15 men and a platoon with 60 men.

The cannon platoon will also have 60 men and will be equipped with four 60mm mortars, two 13.7mm large-caliber rapid-fire machine guns, and four Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns.

The guard squad, together with two heralds and two orderlies, totaled more than 20 people, and the total number of the whole company was about 320 people.

Because he did not receive a combat mission for the time being, Lin Rui took advantage of this rare opportunity to carry out pre-war training for the Eighth Company.

The supplementary regiment trains normally on weekdays, like other troops, so basic training subjects are not required.

What Lin Rui needs is to run in the tactical coordination and cooperation between the supplementary soldiers and the veterans of the original Eighth Company through training, so as to let them go to the battlefield as much as possible and give full play to their due combat power.

Three days later, bad news came: More than 10,000 men of the vanguard of the 3rd and 9th Divisions of the Japanese Army, under the cover of the powerful firepower of their navy and air force, successfully landed on the beach in Lion Forest and other places.

And launched an attack on the attacking forces of the national army, inflicting heavy losses on the 88th and 87th divisions.

In less than half a day, the Japanese landing force, together with the remnants of their marines, knocked the Nationalist army back, and the battle line suddenly returned to the position it had been a few days earlier.

When Lin Rui got the news, he was training the Eighth Company, and he was not too surprised, because all this was expected by him.

After the first batch of Japanese reinforcements arrived, the Nationalist Government, in view of the war with the Japanese army in the Shanghai area, was far more convenient than North China in terms of troop mobilization and material supply and transportation.

In addition, Shanghai was the largest metropolis in the Far East at that time, and there were a large number of concessions of Western powers, and the war here was easy to cause Western countries to intervene and mediate.

Therefore, the Nationalist Government decided to increase its troops, officially intending to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Shanghai.