After Kanichiro Ueno returned to Tsukipo with the remnants of his army, he immediately sent a farewell telegram to the division commander Fujita Shin, informing him of the battle between the two sides, and Kanichiro Ueno thanked Fujita for his cultivation, saying that he had failed repeatedly and had no shame to face Koto's father.

After the telegram was sent, Kanichiro Ueno locked himself in the room alone, took out a short dagger with a dazzling light, wiped it with a white cloth, untied his clothes, made a perfect cross-shaped knife cut on his stomach, and committed suicide.

After Fujita Susumu received the telegram, he was stunned, and in desperation, he had to report the situation to Matsui Ishone.

Matsui Ishine was furious after hearing this, thinking that the three divisions had nearly 20,000 troops, and they couldn't take a small Luodian, which was too embarrassing for him, and he was about to transfer troops to redeploy the plan to attack Luodian, when the chief of staff leaned over and whispered a few words in his ear, Matsui Shigen calmed down his anger and turned around and left expressionlessly.

Fujita Jin looked confused, and he didn't know what the leader meant, so he had to go home.

So the surroundings of Luodian were quiet again, and the Japanese army seemed to have selective amnesia, and they turned a blind eye to Luodian again.

……

On the day that the Protector Army repelled the Japanese army, the news was transmitted back to the headquarters of the Left Wing Army, Chen Cheng and others were shocked, so they immediately sent the news back to Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed when he learned about it, and immediately summoned He Yingqin and Zhang Zhizhong, who was recuperating in Nanjing, after the three of them discussed the situation in Luodian, Chiang Kai-shek said his thoughts: "Now that Luodian has won a big victory, I am ready to take advantage of the victory to pursue and recover Xiaochuansha and Yuepu and other places in one fell swoop, what do you think?" ”

He Yingqin did not express his position, Zhang Zhizhong said: "Commission, Xiaochuansha and Yuepu are close to the Yangtze River waterway, there are many Japanese ships and gunboats on the river, both of which are within the range of naval guns, and many soldiers have been bombed and sacrificed by Japanese gunboats in these places before, even if we capture it, it is a problem to defend, I am afraid that it will be useless and add to the burden." ”

Chiang Kai-shek gave up. After the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek summoned Dai Li again and asked him, "Have you figured out the source of the weapons of the Protector Army?" ”

Dai Li said: "The students are still investigating, but they don't have a clue for the time being. ”

Chiang Kai-shek sighed: "Now that Germany has gradually stopped providing us with weapons, and the United States is ambiguous with Ruben, we cannot expect too much from them. ”

Dai Li said: "Principal, do you want students..."

Chiang Kai-shek frowned and said: "Nonsense, now is the time to employ people, you don't use your shady means, just a secret investigation." ”

Dai Li nodded and took his leave.

……

The next day, the 20th Army of the Sichuan Army, which had just arrived in Shanghai, sent the 804th Regiment of the 134th Division to Luodian to change guards.

Speaking of this army, it is really not easy. Yang Sen took them from Sichuan, passing through Guizhou, Hunan and other places along the way, almost half of China, which lasted 41 days before arriving in Shanghai. It is said that they have to walk more than 100 miles over mountains and mountains every day, and they have to wear straw sandals at night, and they have to endure a lot of hardships. And the equipment is also extremely poor. But this is the same team that has always been "called Hanako", in the Battle of Songhu, it actually fought with the Japanese army for 7 days and nights, not giving up an inch of land, two divisions of the 20th Army went to the front line to participate in the battle, casualties amounted to more than 11,000 people, after the war, only more than 5,000 people remained, only enough to be organized into a brigade.

It is said that there was a peasant Wang Zhicheng in Beichuan County, Sichuan at that time, and gave his son Wang Jiantang a "death" word flag, and the white cloth flag was written in the middle of a big "death" word, and the upper right side of the expedition flag was written: "I don't want you to be filial piety in front of me, but I only want you to be loyal to the nation!" In the upper left it is written: "When the national disaster is at the head, the Japanese are hideous." The rise and fall of the country has a share. I wanted to serve, but I was too old. Fortunately, I have a son, and I consciously ask for help. Give a flag and carry it with you at all times. Wipe blood when wounded, and wrap up after death. Go forward bravely, don't forget your duty! ”

When the Sichuan army left Sichuan, it was widely regarded as the "worst army" in China at that time, with insufficient equipment, lack of ammunition, supplies and medical equipment, and soldiers still wore straw sandals on their feet when fighting in winter. However, it was such a unit that made countless of the most arduous and tragic sacrifices in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and made great contributions to the cause of national independence of the Chinese nation.

The most admirable thing is that during the Anti-Japanese War, more than 14.05 million people were conscripted in the same period in the country, of which as many as 3.5 million people were sent out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese War in Sichuan alone. Of the 3.5 million people who fought in the war against Sichuan, more than 640,000 were killed or wounded. The Sichuan army ranked first in the country in terms of the number of participants and the tragic sacrifices.

Bai Fei, who knew history, had always had a good impression of the Sichuan army, and when he saw them coming to change guards, he immediately went out to greet them. The head of the 804th Regiment shook hands with Bai Fei to Wen Bin, and said with a smile: "Commander Bai, you fought this battle, and now the whole of Shanghai is spreading the name of your Protector Army, what are you fighting for?" Teach the brothers a lesson. ”

Xiang Wenbin spoke Sichuan dialect, which made people feel very interesting to listen to, Bai Fei laughed with him and said: "Your Sichuan army has worked hard, and most of China has come to participate in the war. ”

Xiang Wenbin said: "This idea is nothing, the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband, for the sake of the War of Resistance and killing the Japanese devils, we are willing to endure some hardship."

Bai Fei nodded and said: "I don't have anything to entertain you on the battlefield, I captured some Japanese canned food a few days ago, take it out and let the brothers taste it first." ”

The dumb man and the others quickly sent the canned food down, this thing is still a rare thing for many brothers of the 804 regiment, and they are very happy to eat it in their hands one by one.

Bai Fei took Xiang Wenbin to the position again, pointed to those anti-artillery holes and said to him: "The devil's artillery is very powerful, and these holes can protect the Sichuan army brothers very well." By the way, there are also those permanent fortifications, which can be used well when necessary, and it will be difficult for the devils to attack them. ”

Xiang Wenbin walked into the anti-artillery hole to check it and said: "You used cement to repair it very strongly, which saved us a lot of trouble." ”

Bai Fei said again: "By the way, I just saw that many of the brothers in the Sichuan army are short of weapons, and some of them have loose gun parts and are tied with hemp rope. A few days ago, the devils just confiscated a batch of weapons, if you don't dislike it, go and choose some, which can be regarded as a gift from me to the brothers of the 804th regiment. ”

Xiang Wenbin's eyes suddenly lit up and said: "Don't dislike it, don't dislike it, what we need most now is weapons, which one will dislike it." ”

Bai Fei smiled: "Okay, let's go over and pick it up." ”

After the fiasco of the Japanese army Luodian, he left a lot of light and heavy weapons, totaling about nearly 10,000 rods, Xiang Wenbin saw so many weapons, his excited mouth couldn't close, and immediately commanded the troops to go to select, he had a regiment of about 1,600 people, and finally came out, everyone was full of them, even the people in the cooking class, each of them also hung two 38 rifles.

Bai Fei was also up to them, and these guns were useless to him anyway.

Xiang Wenbin smiled embarrassedly: "Captain Bai, we took advantage of you this time, eating and taking." ”

Bai Fei said: "They are all brothers in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, why bother saying these kind words." ”

After the two completed the handover of defense, Bai Fei immediately returned to the headquarters of the Left Wing Army with a cadre of the Protector Army.

As soon as he entered the door, Chen Cheng greeted him and said with a smile: "Commander Bai, you have made great contributions to the party-country again this time!" ”

Bai Fei was polite on his lips, but he thought in his heart: I am for the sake of the Chinese nation, for the sake of the thousands of villagers and relatives in this land, and it has nothing to do with your party-state.

Chen Cheng took out a commendation order and said: "This is the commendation order that has just been delivered, and the commendation order personally signed by the commission, you are now a major general." ”

Bai Fei took it and glanced at it lightly, and handed it to the mute behind him to put it away.

Chen Cheng sighed again: "You have been holding on to Luodian for more than ten days, and you have repelled the attack of tens of thousands of Japanese troops, it is really not easy and too hard. ”

Bai Fei said: "Chief Chen doesn't have to be polite, if there is a tense battle, we can go to support at any time." ”

Chen Cheng said: "No, I don't know why, since yesterday, the Japanese offensive on all defensive lines seems to have slowly relaxed, and there is no emergency on the front line for the time being, so you better have a good rest." ”

Bai Fei had no choice but to give up and ordered someone to hand over the Japanese weapons he brought back to Chen Cheng, and in addition to some of those weapons being picked up by Xiang Wenbin, a large part of them remained.

Bai Fei said: "These are all captured by the Japanese army, Chief Chen, you keep it, if there are troops who come to participate in the war and lack weapons, you can give them to use them." ”

Chen Cheng said happily: "Don't worry, I'll save you." ”