The shelling of Feicheng by the 5th Brigade of the Japanese Field Heavy Artillery lasted two hours, firing more than five thousand shells.

The indiscriminate bombing of the Feicheng city by the air regiment directly under the Central China Front of the Japanese army lasted for more than four hours, and it was not until about 7 o'clock in the evening that the last batch of 16 Type 97 carrier-based attack planes returned home, and in these four hours or so, the Japanese air force dispatched more than 500 sorties of attack planes and dropped more than 800 tons of aerial bombs on Feicheng!

The explosion on the surface gradually fell silent, and Xu Rui came out of the tunnel where he was hiding with a thunderous sound.

The tunnel of the headquarters was dug by Mei Jiuling himself, and it was originally planned to dig a tunnel directly to the west bank of the Fei River, preparing for the final escape, but later due to the sharp rise in the water level of the Fei River, it led to a water penetration accident, which crushed people to death, not to mention that the excavation work of the tunnel had to be stopped.

However, although the tunnel has not been dug through, it is suitable for use as an air-raid shelter.

Therefore, although the former Feicheng Garrison Brigade Headquarters, where the regiment headquarters is located, is a key target of the devil's aviation and artillery, after the bombing, all the surface buildings of the regiment headquarters were razed to rubble, but the loss of personnel, materials and equipment of the regiment headquarters is very small.

As soon as the devil's bombardment stopped, all units and personnel directly under the regiment headquarters returned to the surface one after another, and while clearing the rubble and broken walls, they began to set up their own temporary camps.

Sai Hongfu also turned on the radio again and started the evening war broadcast.

Xu Rui came to the position in the east of the city to inspect the casualties of the independent battalion.

When the devils launched a large-scale bombardment of Feicheng, the personnel directly under the regimental headquarters and the units acting as reserves could hide in the tunnels, but the independent battalion that stood in the front line of street fighting could not, and when the devils began to bomb indiscriminately, the only thing the officers and men of the independent battalion could do was to find as strong a hiding place as possible in the ruins.

Xu Rui came to the east of the city with the thunder and found that the damage to the east of the city was not slightly lighter than that of the regimental headquarters.

Before noon, although it has been a long time of fighting, there are still a few cement buildings in the east of the city, but now, the only few remaining reinforced concrete buildings have also collapsed by the devils, and now as far as the eye can see, there is no more intact house in the entire east of the city, and there are no buildings with an elevation of more than five meters.

When Xu Rui and Lei Xiang arrived, He Shuya was leading the uninjured officers and soldiers to clean up the broken walls, while carrying the wounded or killed officers and soldiers out of the rubble, and then handing them over to the hygienists to bandage on the spot.

Seeing Xu Rui coming, He Shuya hurriedly stood up and saluted Xu Rui.

"Alright, don't salute." Xu Rui waved his hand and said, "Maybe there is a sniper with devils in ambush in the ruins opposite, and if you salute here, isn't it equivalent to telling the little devil's sniper that I am your commander?" ”

He Shuya scratched his head and said a little embarrassed: "Commander, I'm sorry, I forgot again." ”

Xu Rui said: "I know that it is difficult to change a habit, but no matter how difficult it is, this habit must be broken. ”

"Yes." He Shuya responded, and habitually had to stand up again, but this time, he finally reacted, and put down his right hand halfway up, without saluting.

Xu Rui nodded, and asked again, "What about the casualties?" ”

"The casualties are still relatively serious." He Shuya's face immediately became solemn, and then said, "This little devil's bombing is unprecedented, compared to the bloody battle of Songhu Luodian, although it has not been counted yet, but it is roughly estimated that the casualties of our independent battalion are at least more than two hundred. ”

Two hundred casualties are almost a quarter of a reduction, and if you count the casualties in the street battles with the Japanese last night and this morning, the independent battalion has actually suffered more than half of the casualties, and most of the remaining 400 officers and men are lightly wounded.

Not to mention anything else, scalding alone is a big problem, and scalding is also the most common injury in wartime.

The explosion of artillery shells will produce a large amount of hot rubble and gravel, and the shells after firing the guns are also hot, if you are accidentally burned by these rubble, gravel or shells, it is a big trouble, because there is no special medicine for treating scalds in the army, and even if there is a scald medicine, I am afraid it will not last too long, because there are too many burns.

Scalding doesn't seem to matter, but if it can't be treated in time, the wound will festering and inflamed, especially now that the weather is getting hotter, the wound is more likely to fester, and once the wound is ulcerated and inflamed, it can be amputated at least and fatal! At the regimental medical station, dozens of wounded people are already on threat of amputation because of burns.

This means that even if there is no fighting in the next few days, the independent battalion will still experience non-combat attrition.

Xu Rui patted He Shuya on the shoulder and asked, "Are there any difficulties?" If there is a difficulty, I can raise it, and if I can do it, I will do it for the brothers. ”

"There is no difficulty." He Shuya refused.

Is it really difficult? That must be a lie.

But He Shuya knows better than anyone that he is difficult, Xu Rui is actually more difficult, he only needs to be responsible for the independent battalion, only needs to be responsible for the defense of the east of the city, but Xu Rui needs to be responsible for the entire Feicheng, he needs to be responsible for the life and death of more than 2,000 officers and soldiers of the independent regiment, and he needs to be responsible for the success or failure of the entire Xuzhou battle.

Therefore, He Shuya didn't want to make trouble for Xu Rui.

Smiling, He Shuya said again: "Really, we can still hold on." ”

Looking at He Shuya's resolute but still immature face, Xu Rui's heart sank inexplicably.

If in the era of peace, an age like He Shuya should be a time when he is desperately absorbing knowledge on the university campus and enjoying the beauty of life to the fullest, but in this war years, he has shouldered the responsibility of protecting his family and defending the country early, but he has supported the backbone of the Chinese nation with his immature shoulders early.

"Good job, worthy of my Xu Rui's soldiers!" Xu Rui patted He Shuya's shoulder again, turned around and left.

If you don't go, Xu Rui doesn't want He Shuya and the officers and soldiers of the independent battalion to see the tears in the corners of his eyes, he doesn't want the brothers to see his weak side, not because tears will damage his strong image, but because he can't face the eyes of He Shuya and the officers and soldiers of the independent battalion, he is afraid that he will be soft-hearted when the time comes.

Can't be soft-hearted, at this critical moment, he really can't be soft-hearted.

On the one hand, there are the brothers of the independent battalion and even the entire independent regiment, and on the other hand, there are tens of millions of innocent people in the Huanghuai area, if he relents at this moment and breaks through with the independent regiment, the brothers of the independent regiment will certainly be preserved, but next, tens of millions of innocent people in the Huanghuai region will have to face the catastrophe like in history!

is still the same thing, for the sake of tens of millions of innocent people, it is worth fighting for the independent regiment!

Therefore, Xu Rui can't be soft-hearted, he must insist, and he can still insist!

(Dividing Line)

Zheng Jiakang had a busy day, but when he came home, he unexpectedly found that his sister was actually at home.

However, looking at my sister's small mouth that is so tall that she can almost hang an oil bottle, she is obviously angry.

Zheng Jiakang also said that the little sister was angry with him, because he didn't donate money as she asked today, and hurriedly said: "Little sister, my brother really has no money, I will donate more money when I pay my salary this month, I will donate ten yuan, not twenty yuan, I can't donate twenty oceans, twenty yuan!" ”

Zheng Wen said, "Brother, I'm not angry with you. ”

"Are you not mad at me?" Zheng Jiakang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, "Then who are you angry with?" ”

"I'm mad at our headmaster." Zheng Wen said angrily, "Why did he stop us and not let us participate in the Young Student Death Brigade?" He is usually full of patriotism and saving the country, but at the critical moment, he stopped us from signing up for the army and going to the battlefield, he is a hypocrite, a real villain. ”

Zheng Jiakang said: "If you want me to say, your principal is right, you are students, the most important thing now is to study, learn as much knowledge as possible, as for the war, isn't there still a soldier?" The mission of their soldiers is to fight wars, and the mission of your students is to study, learn knowledge, and build our country well in the future. ”

"Brother." Zheng Wen didn't follow, "Why are you also in this tone?" ”

"What's wrong with my argument? I'm telling the truth. Zheng Jiakang said, "Do you think, you students, can you use guns if you have touched them?" It's not that I said, if you really want to go to the battlefield, you will let the little devil easily kill you in a face, and then there will be no then, your knowledge is all learned in vain, and the country has spent so much money to cultivate you, but if you learn knowledge well and enter the corresponding position in the future, it will be different. ”

Zheng Wen asked, "What's the difference, isn't it still the same?" ”

Zheng Jiakang said: "I'll give you an example, you studied medicine, right? If you go to war, do you think you can beat those veterans? But if you learn surgery well, and then enter the field hospital in the future, you can use your own hands to save dozens or even hundreds of veterans, which is not a hundred times better than going to the battlefield yourself? ”

Zheng Wen listened thoughtfully and said, "Brother, what you said seems to make sense?" ”

"Of course." Zheng Jiakang said proudly, "No matter how you say it, my brother has eaten more than ten years more than you." ”

As he spoke, Zheng Jiakang turned on the radio on the table again, and the next moment, a slightly hoarse voice immediately came out of the radio: "Compatriots across the country and overseas Chinese, I am Xu Rui, head of the Dameishan Independent Regiment, and here, I want to inform you of a painful news." ”

Xu Rui finally sat in front of the radio again.

The Dameishan Independent Regiment is still insisting and can still hold on, but he feels that as the head of the regiment, it is necessary for the compatriots across the country and overseas compatriots to know the persistence of the soldiers of the Independent Regiment.