Mei Yuehai left the next day, and before leaving, Bai Fei gave him several thousand oceans as operating funds.

On the third day after Mei Yuehai left, the time had come to October 25. On this day, the sound of guns and artillery in Shanghai suddenly intensified, and Bai Fei learned that the Japanese devils did not know what to do, and they suddenly stepped up their offensive today, dispatching the army, navy, and air force to carry out wanton bombardment and indiscriminate bombing attacks on various defense lines in Shanghai.

Bai Fei listened to the rumbling sound of artillery outside, his heart was anxious, after eating lunch, he was about to send someone to learn about the latest battle situation, when a few gendarmes suddenly came outside the gate of the station.

Bai Fei's heart sank, it seemed that the battle ahead was tight.

He greeted him, and a gendarme saluted first: "Commander Bai, the command order, please lead the troops to discuss the war immediately." ”

Bai Fei nodded, immediately gathered the troops, and everyone drove to the left flank corps headquarters.

At the entrance of the headquarters, Bai Fei met an acquaintance, and saw that he was wearing a military uniform with blood stains everywhere, with bandages on his head, and his face was dirty, with a smoky look, so he immediately rushed up and greeted: "Commander Xiang, what's wrong with you?" ”

Xiang Wenbin saw Bai Fei, his face was slightly ashamed, and he sighed and said, "Captain Bai, brother, I'm sorry for you, I lost Luodian, I'm really ashamed..."

Bai Fei was taken aback, and hurriedly asked what happened, and Xiang Wenbin came one by one.

It turned out that since Xiang Wenbin's 804th Regiment took over the defense of Luodian, the Japanese army has never taken the initiative to attack Luodian, and the two sides have been safe. At about 3 o'clock this morning, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army suddenly made a comeback at night, and continued to bombard Luodian as soon as it came up, but because Luodian had the anti-artillery holes left by the Protector Army before, although Xiang Wenbin was caught off guard, the casualties of the unit were not large.

After dawn, the Japanese army began to attack Luodian, desperately counterattacking Wenbin's 804th Regiment, from morning to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese troops of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army were still blocked by the 804th Regiment in front of the position.

Although it repelled many attacks by the Japanese army, the casualties of the 804 regiment itself were also to the extreme, the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment, the battalion commander was only Peng Huanwen, the company commander was either killed or wounded, and none of them were spared, and there were only 4 platoon commanders and more than 120 soldiers. The war report was sent to Chiang Kai-shek, and Xiang Wenbin was promoted two levels in the line of fire, promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel to major general, and was given a bonus of 6,000.

However, just as Xiang Wenbin was struggling to resist the Japanese attack while waiting for reinforcements, he suddenly received an order from the headquarters to withdraw his troops. It turned out that the 11th Division of the Japanese Army Yamamuro Sotake had broken through the defense line of the 8th Division on the south bank of the Loutang River, and had already led his troops to outflank Luodian along the north bank of the Lianqi River.

In order to avoid being copied from the back road, Xiang Wenbin had no choice but to withdraw from the position with the remnants of his men.

Xiang Wenbin said: "Although we failed to hold the position in this battle, but it was not attacked from the front, more than 4,000 people came from small Japan, and it was artillery and planes, our Sichuan army brothers are not afraid of death, these turtle sons are all good..."

Bai Fei was also full of emotion in his heart, patted him on the shoulder, comforted him a few words, and hurried to the headquarters.

When he arrived at the headquarters, Bai Fei saw that it was busy inside, and Chen Cheng was signing a document. When he saw Bai Fei come in, he immediately handed over the document to the secretary, walked over a few steps and said, "Commander Bai, the battle situation is urgent, and I have to ask you to come over to help." ”

Bai Fei said: "Chief Chen, don't say kind words, my national protector army is on standby at any time, please talk about the task." ”

Chen Cheng nodded and said, "Okay, then we won't say kind words, you come here." ”

The two walked to the front of the battle map and saw a middle-aged man in his forties with the rank of general, discussing the battle situation with Luo Zhuoying.

Chen Cheng stepped forward and said to the man: "Brother Yimin, I have invited Captain Bai to you. As he spoke, he pointed to the man and introduced: "Commander Bai, let me introduce to you, this is General Zhu Shaoliang, commander of the Central Corps." ”

Zhu Shaoliang stared at Bai Fei a few times, and said with some surprise: "I didn't expect Regiment Leader Bai to be so young, the deeds of your National Protector Army have been spread very loudly recently, it's really amazing!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and shook hands with Bai Fei.

Bai Fei returned the salute and said: "General Zhu is polite, our anti-Japanese national army has always regarded resisting the Japanese invaders as their own business, even if there is a little effort, it is only ordinary and not worthy of praise. ”

Zhu Shaoliang praised when he heard this: "It's a good sentence, it's a good thing!" Well said wow! ”

The two exchanged a few words, and Chen Cheng said on the side: "Everyone, the war situation is urgent, we still say that the business is important." ”

"Yes, yes, yes! It's important to get down to business" Zhu Shaoliang hurriedly said to Luo Zhuoying, who was standing aside: "You Qing, let's talk about it." ”

Luo Zhuoying nodded and began to introduce: "Since last night, the Japanese army has suddenly stepped up its offensive against our army, dispatched joint operations of the army, navy and air force to break through our defense lines, and tried to compress the space for our army's existence. Where—" he pointed with a thin bamboo stick on the map, "... The 11th Division of the Japanese Army, moving from north to south, broke through the defense line of our Eighth Division on the south bank of the Loutang River, and divided its troops into two routes, one to force the defenders on the south bank of the Lianqi River, and the other to the west side of Luodian along the north bank of the Lianqi River. Affected by this, the defenders of Luodian and the surrounding areas had to retreat to the area west of the Hutai Highway and south of the Lianqi River. In addition, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army has also arrived at the Hutai Highway and is attacking and stepping up the westward invasion of our defenders Liu Xingzhi. So far, the area north of the Lianqi River, Luodian, east of the Hutai Highway and the first line of Fuzaobang have all fallen into the hands of the enemy..."

Bai Fei was surprised that in just one day, the Japanese army had occupied so many places.

But I heard Luo Zhuoying continue: "In addition to the above areas, the most urgent problem now is the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, this Japanese army has tried to force the crossing of Fuzaobang many times today from the Jiang family house on the south bank of Fuzaobang, although it was defeated by the teaching corps defending on the south bank of our country, but the casualties of the teaching corps are not small. If the Japanese army succeeds in forcing the crossing, it will directly threaten the defenders of our Dachang at that time, and it will also cut off the passage between the defenders of the first line of our temple and the outside world. ”

After Luo Zhuoying finished speaking, Chen Cheng said: "This is the case, so I invite you to go out again, just to hope that you can help defend the front line of Fuzaobang, once the Japanese army breaks through, the entire battle situation in Shanghai will be unimaginable." ”

Bai Fei touched his nose and said, "Although the two commanders can rest assured, our National Protector Army will definitely do everything in their power to assist in the defense. ”

After the discussion, Bai Fei and the Protector Army immediately set off and rushed to the vicinity of Zhugang Lane, east of Dachang, at 6:30 p.m. Zhou Zhenqiang, deputy chief of the teaching corps, and Qiu Qingquan, chief of staff, who were in charge of defending here, heard that reinforcements had arrived, and immediately greeted them.

After a few people met, there was no need to talk about it, Qiu Qingquan said excitedly: "Commander Bai, your Protector Army is very famous now, and it is really a blessing to be able to fight with you this time." ”

Bai Fei said with a smile: "Staff Officer Qiu is polite, I am also honored to be able to fight with you." This time we are here to assist you, and if there is anything you need to help, just let me know. ”

Zhou Zhenqiang said: "That's good!" Commander Bai, you don't know, now we are defending the Japanese devils on the opposite side across the river, and it is easy to say anything else, what we are most afraid of is the Japanese planes, which fly over our positions and drop a bomb down, and we will be reimbursed for a single company. Our teaching corps has sent a brigade to participate in the battle this time, and since the morning there have been more than 700 people killed and wounded under the artillery of the Japanese planes, and I have heard that you have a sharp anti-aircraft weapon that can deal with the planes of the little Japanese..."

Zhou Zhenqiang said this, looked at Bai Fei's face, and saw that his face was not different, so he continued: "Captain Bai, is it for us to open our eyes..."

Bai Fei politely refused: "It's a pity that it's getting late now, and the Japanese planes don't dare to fly at night, otherwise they will definitely let Chief Zhou take a look." ”

Zhou Zhenqiang laughed a few times and said: "Then I will hand over the air defense task to Commander Bai, I hope we will cooperate happily." Let's go, I'll take you to the riverside position. ”