At ten o'clock in the evening, the fierce battles on various battlefields on the Songhu battlefield were still continuing, and in the trenches on the west bank of the Xiaoling River, Lin Rui and Lin Feng led more than 150 commandos, who were already ready to fight.

In addition to the necessary rifles, light machine guns and pistols, as well as a small number of grenades, they also had hollow reed rods about twenty centimeters long, the thickness of a little thumb.

The action time agreed with Sun Liren was 10:18, so Lin Rui and the others were still waiting for the time being.

At the same time, the Japanese positions on the east bank, the main position of the Japanese troops were set up in the village of Lujiadu, about 500 meters away from the river.

In the hundreds of meters near the river bank, only a few warning positions were set up to prevent the sneak attack of the tax police corps.

At that time, although the Japanese army had the strong support of naval guns and carrier-based aircraft, it had not yet seized all the air supremacy, plus the tax police regiment and the 88th division, all of which were the elite of the Central Army, and also had a certain amount of artillery power.

Therefore, the devils did not dare to put all their troops along the coast, for fear of being bombarded by the Chinese army.

It is precisely because of this that Sun Liren called for artillery fire and even air force fire support many times, but he failed to cause too much damage to the devil, so he failed to capture Lujiadu, a seemingly inconspicuous choke point.

At the same time in downtown Shanghai, inside St. John's University on Nanjing Road.

A group of patriotic students, including Shangguan Nianci and Li Muxue, who had been busy all day, were dragging their tired bodies to their dormitory building after a busy day.

Li Muxue followed behind Shangguan Nianci and said weakly: "Nianci, I'm so tired, can I not go to Wujiaochang tomorrow?" ”

Shangguan Nianci immediately shook his head and refused: "No, you see how pitiful so many wounded soldiers are, how can we who study medicine not save us when we see death?" ”

"But we've been helping out for days now, and we're so tired." After all, Li Muxue is also from everyone's young lady, and she has been pampered since she was a child, where has she ever suffered this kind of hardship, so she is a little tired at this time.

Shangguan Nianci stopped and said solemnly: "Mu Xue, I know you are very hard, but if you think about Lin Rui and his soldiers who fought bloodily on the front line, they risked their lives to fight against the Japanese army.

They are not for themselves, but for thousands of ordinary people, including you and me!

Although we cannot go to the front line to fight side by side with them, we can do what we can, such as using what we have learned to help treat as many wounded officers and soldiers as possible, which is more meaningful than anything we do. ”

Li Muxue was speechless by Shangguan Nianci's words, so she had to nod and say, "Okay, let's continue tomorrow." ”

Shangguan Nianci smiled slightly, reached out and hugged Li Muxue's thin shoulder, and comforted: "Good sister, I remember when the two of us first met, you asked what was meaningful.

I would say that what we're doing now is intentional. Lin Rui was right in the newspaper, every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood, in order to win this patriotic war, all our compatriots must unite, they kill the enemy on the front line to serve the country, we are here to treat the wounded and save people, in essence, we are all serving the country, so this is a meaningful thing. ”

Li Muxue nodded slightly and said: "Speaking of Lin Rui, it's really impressive, you also saw his photo in the newspaper, right?" Not to mention, he is really handsome and has a temperament in a military uniform. ”

Shangguan Nianci smiled and bowed his head, but Lin Rui's costume photo appeared in his mind, and he couldn't help but think of the story that Lin Rui gave him before leaving.

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On the west bank of the Xiaoling River, in the forward trench of the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police Corps, Lin Rui, who was half-squatting, raised his hand and looked at his watch, and saw that the time had come to 10:18.

He immediately stood up, turned his head to the commandos on standby in the trenches, and shouted, "Brothers, the time has come, come with me!" ”

After speaking, he picked up a Mauser 98K rifle on his back, held a hollow reed pole in his hand, took the lead and climbed out of the trench, and quickly ran towards the river with the help of the cover of night.

Lin Feng and more than 150 commandos jumped out of the trench one after another, holding weapons and hollow reed poles, and followed Lin Rui to the bank of the river.

Seeing that Lin Rui had already taken the lead in entering the water, the soldiers quickly picked up their rifles and quietly walked into the water one after another with hollow reeds in one hand.

Although the Xiaoling River was only more than ten meters wide, it was two or three meters deep, so soon Lin Rui and the commandos sank under the surface of the water one after another, biting the hollow reed pole with their mouths to breathe, and quietly swam towards the east bank.

Good thing eight. September was the hottest time in the Jiangnan region, and Lin Rui and the soldiers would not feel cold.

The alert troops deployed by the devils on the east bank were only a few reconnaissance squads, with only a few dozen people, lurking in several guard positions.

At night, the devils could not observe the situation on the surface of the lake, so they fired some flares above the lake from time to time to irradiate them.

Just when Lin Rui and the others were halfway through swimming, several banging sounds rang out from the east shore again, and several flares shot into the air above the lake one after another.

Suddenly a dazzling white glow bloomed, and the surface of the lake and the western shore were almost unobstructed.

Zhou Weihan, who led the main force of the Eighth Company to stay in the forward trenches and was ready to attack at any time, saw this scene, and his heart rose to his throat.

Because, once the devils on the opposite side find out about the abnormality, they will definitely organize fire interception, and even summon their naval artillery fire to bombard.

In that case, even if Lin Rui had three heads and six arms, he probably wouldn't be able to dodge.

However, the light emitted by the flares, although it dispelled the night to a certain extent, could only give the devil observation sentries lurking on the other side a rough idea.

It was impossible to see the hollow reed poles on the water that were inconspicuous in the night, so Lin Rui led the assault team to swim smoothly without danger.

About five minutes later, Lin Rui took the lead in landing not long ago, and one hundred and fifty commandos also landed one after another.

Lin Rui spit out the hollow reed rod in his mouth, took off the rifle he was carrying behind his back, held it in his hand, opened the safety and began to pull the bolt.

Lin Feng and more than 150 commandos also followed suit.

After all the soldiers were ready, Lin Rui ordered in a deep voice: "Brothers, success or failure is here, if you don't win, you will die!" Show your courage and rush with me to kill those shit days in front of you! Above! ”

Before the words fell, Lin Rui held a gun in one hand and grabbed some aquatic plants on the shore with the other, and jumped ashore with all his might.

Lin Feng and other commandos followed ashore one after another, rushing forward with guns in hand.