At 1 a.m. on April 7, 1938, the Chinese army sounded the clarion call for a counteroffensive, and the left wing corps composed of Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army and the right wing corps composed of Tang Enbo's 20th Army launched a large-scale counteroffensive in Taierzhuang and its vicinity.

Zhang Wei was wounded at a time when the Chinese army was at its most ferocious.

After 4 days of fierce fighting, the Nationalist army inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Seya detachment and Sakamoto detachment, and the rest of the Japanese remnants retreated to Yicheng and Zaozhuang on the 7th.

Under the frenzied siege of several days, the two detachments of the Japanese army can be described as suffering heavy casualties, the Sakamoto detachment even discarded a few 150 howitzers and tractors, abandoned some of the wounded, the embarrassment of the Japanese army can be seen, these days, on the boiling land of Lunan, the Japanese army is like a rat crossing the street, defeated, pursued, killed and wounded, all the Chinese soldiers are fighting as hard as they can.

The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and the Chinese army also suffered huge losses, with more than 20,000 casualties in Lunan alone. Many grass-roots units of the armed forces have even been left empty.

An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood.

Victory must be exchanged for blood, and every drop of blood is not shed in vain.

The news of Taierzhuang's victory spread throughout the country, and it was like a shot in the arm for the Chinese army and hundreds of millions of people, who had been defeated one after another since the start of the war, and everyone was excited about it.

These were very close and far for Zhang Wei and his independent company, and after Zhang Wei was injured that day, Chen Chunyi also received an order from above when he arranged for them to rest.

"Chen Tuan, the independent company of the 200th division of the friendly army, has been brave in recent days, and should be a model for our army, and now the great victory has been achieved, the battle report of the company is summarized and sent to the 200th division stationed in Hunan Province, and the deputy division of the 200th division, Qiu Qingquan and Du Shizuo Yuming, are also extremely concerned about the company, and report the results truthfully.

Let the company rest for a while, and immediately arrange for the return to Hunan to rebuild......"

Zhang Wei got this order with his injury, he didn't say anything to rest, and waited for the train to get on with him.

Chen Chunyi knew that he was anxious, and after the situation stabilized, he quickly contacted the 20th Army Headquarters to arrange a train, which was also the first train after the war eased slightly.

Bidding farewell to Chen Chunyi and the 23rd Regiment that he had been fighting for more than half a month, Zhang Wei took the independent company and stepped on this special train full of gunsmoke and blood.

In the distance, something more awaits him. Needless to say, for Zhang Wei and most of the officers and men of the independent company, it was basically sleeping, eating, eating and sleeping.

The land of Xiangtan and Xianghu has not been disturbed by the war, and everything has maintained its original scenery, except for the military vehicles that drive back and forth from time to time.

At Xiangtan East Railway Station, on a platform dedicated to the army, a captain staff officer sent by the division headquarters of the 200th Division led a line of division special service battalions on the platform to stand guard, the soldiers wore cloth shoes on their feet, held domestically produced Zhongzheng rifles in their hands, and the light machine gun group of each squad was equipped with Soviet-style Depp light machine guns.

In the continuous expansion of the 200th Division, there is also a large shortage of soldiers, and unlike the soldiers of the subordinate units, most of the soldiers of the subordinate expansion units come from the strong men who are "requisitioned" in various divisional districts, and the soldiers of the special service battalion are mostly brought by Du Yuming from the armored corps, and the temperament and majesty of the body are naturally not comparable to those strong soldiers.

Although he wears a slightly rough military uniform (try to save money on clothing), the M35 steel helmet on his head and the shiny steel gun still dare not be despised by people.

"Staff Officer Fang, it's almost there. The platoon commander of the special services battalion with a shell gun asked.

"It's time too, even if it's slow, you have to wait, this master is not small, Deputy Division Commander Qiu began to tell him a few days ago, I heard that he came out of Nanjing with him, you and I have to be polite to him, and he is a serious captain and company commander."

The platoon commander nodded, and some of his impatience disappeared at this time.

"Report, here!" A soldier armed with a rifle shouted in the distance.

In the train carriage, Zhang Wei and the independent company, who had been running (sleeping) for several days day and night, were already ready, sorted out their weapons and uniforms, and the platoon commanders of each squad also began to organize their troops and prepare to get off the train.

"He Kun, Qiu Wei, Hao Zhong, take your platoon, don't walk around with the squad leader below, bring your own soldiers, the search squad follows me closely, prepare to get off, don't embarrass us!"

"Yes! Don't grind. ”

"Look, don't lose your bayonet! And grenades, don't slip out. ”

A cacophony of rubbing and the sensation of a forward tip was heard, and the car stopped.

Zhang Wei stepped out of the carriage first, and although the squad and platoon leaders behind him were also organizing, the soldiers obviously wanted to breathe fresh air early, and their steps must have been very fast.

"Step out and line me up, in platoons." Zhang Wei gave a verbal order, and the soldiers who stepped out of the carriage quickly returned to the formation and lined up in a marching formation. Several platoon commanders finished counting and reported to Zhang Wei immediately after confirming that it was correct.

"Okay, it's all connected, all of them, let's go!"

Zhang Wei had already seen the troops dozens of meters away, and he must have come to greet him and the troops, so he couldn't lose his share and lose face at this time.

"Gun on the shoulder!" More than eighty rifles were slung to the shoulders of the same number, and with neat steps and uniforms baptized by blood and fire, they immediately bloomed with a different brilliance in this still peaceful land.

"Staff Officer Fang, this guy has a lot of hard stubble, I don't think there are many of these people in the whole division."

Staff Officer Fang nodded, straightened his military uniform, and trotted over with the platoon commander, Zhang Wei saw that people were running, and he also ran, and the troops behind him also ran with Zhang Wei.

"Hello sir!" It was Staff Officer Fang who said it first, which made Zhang Wei a little confused, originally thinking that he would have to put up a shelf to pick up people, knowing that he saw Staff Officer Fang's military rank, lieutenant, which was one level lower than himself.

Then he can't play with others, Zhang Wei quickly returned a salute, and then nodded frustrated with the platoon commander next to Staff Officer Fang.

In the ensuing conversation, Zhang Wei learned that Qiu Qingquan and Du Yuming asked this staff officer to pick him up with a platoon of the special agent battalion of the division headquarters, and Qiu Qingquan originally wanted to go on a trip in person, but the military affairs were too busy, according to the staff officer of the party, nearly 1,000 new soldiers came to the Xiangbei division area, and a large number of Soviet-made weapons arrived, so they couldn't keep busy, so they sent a staff officer.

"Chief Qiu is busy, we can all understand it, and besides, we can't use our more than 100 heads."

Staff Officer Fang waved his hand and said, "You are too modest, your even the battle record has been praised by the division commander, and Chief of Staff Liao is also very impressed. ”

"It's too much!" Zhang Wei smiled, and the second lieutenant platoon commander on the side came up.

"It's not too early, why don't we go back quickly."

Staff Officer Fang and Zhang Wei both knew that it was time to go back, so the three of them sorted out their troops and drove out of the railway station with one company after another.

Zhang Wei and the others walked out, and there were ten large trucks parked outside the station, and the carriages were painted with the "200D" logo, and the model was a German-made truck, and Zhang Wei estimated that it was a German-style car purchased before the war.