That night, Bai Fei reorganized on the spot and equipped all the brothers with weapons that they had exchanged from the system. Among them, the sniper team did not move for the time being because there were no casualties; The Special Operations Team was expanded to 100 personnel, re-equipped with M16s, and the AK47s they used were all used by the regular companies of the 1st and 2nd companies. The artillery battery has also been expanded to 120 people, and the weapons have been added to the original RPG with 12 heavy guns that have just been acquired. The number of the first and second companies was basically maintained at about 120 or 30 each, and in addition to 3 Gatling and 10 RPGs per company, each company was equipped with 50 AK47s. As for the corresponding ammunition rations for each ministry, there is no need for a detailed list.

At this point, the entire Protector Army of more than 500 people has been fully equipped, although it has cost a huge amount of merit points, but looking at the newly armed troops, Bai Fei still feels that it is quite worthwhile.

Before dawn the next morning, Hu Lian came to look for Bai Fei, Bai Fei was woken up, and came out of the tent with sleepy eyes, Hu Lian said: "Brother, I just heard that the fortifications are almost finished, I specially came to you to take a look." ”

When the two walked out of Luodian Ancient Town, they saw two long semicircular trenches, surrounding the entire Luodian Ancient Town. Hu Lian said: "A total of two lines of defense have been built, although Luodian is now recovered by us, but Xiaochuansha and Yuepu are in the hands of the Japanese army, in addition to frontal defense, we also need to beware of them attacking from both sides." ”

This is located at the entrance of the Yangtze River waterway, the river is vertical and horizontal, the water system is developed, the trenches often dig more than one meter underground and begin to seep water, the soldiers of the 66th Regiment mix mud and sand with bricks and stones, straw to bag, build a thick layer in front of the trench, and it is also very suitable for people to stand in the trenches. In addition, on the side of the trench, the soldiers of the 66th Regiment are also very experienced in digging some anti-artillery holes, with a horizontal depth of about 5-6 meters, which can hide 10 people, but they must be bent on their waists or lie directly in them. Since the roof of the cave is very close to the ground, the ground outside is also covered with sandbags and other objects like a small hill.

Bai Fei asked, "Can this prevent the enemy's shells?" ”

Hu Lian said: "The geology here is not suitable for deep excavation, and the existing materials can do this is already the limit, but from the past experience, if it is hit directly by a shell, it is impossible to prevent it, if it just explodes around, it can barely resist the bomb fragments, as for the aerial bombs of the Japanese army, it is useless at all."

Bai Fei sighed, and Hu Lian smiled bitterly: "No way, war is like this, if the equipment is not as good as people, you can only fill it with human lives." ”

After inspecting the position worriedly, the two returned to the ancient town of Luodian, when the sky was already bright, and a series of explosions suddenly sounded outside, and someone immediately came to report that the Japanese army had launched an offensive and was currently bombarding the forward positions with artillery.

Hu Lian didn't have time to say more, so he immediately took people to the front line. Bai Fei immediately sorted out his team, and the whole army marched into the flank position.

After returning from the battle, Fujita Jin, who was holding back his anger, immediately made combat arrangements and appointed Major General Kanichiro Ueno, commander of the 29th Infantry Brigade, to lead the 18th Wing and the 34th Wing of the infantry units under his command, and also assigned the 2nd Field Heavy Artillery Wing, the 3rd Field Artillery Wing, the 2nd Flying Wing, the 7th Flying Wing, and the 3rd Engineer Wing to be uniformly deployed. It was intended to use the coordinated operation of land and air to recapture Luodian and break through the Chinese army's defense line in one fell swoop the next day.

In this kind of combat deployment, Fujita Jin can be said to have fought hard, and threw in most of the troops that could be mobilized by the division (except for the destroyed 5th Brigade), and the mobile unit of the entire 3rd Division was left with the 4th Cavalry Brigade, which was still because the river near Luodian was dense and the soil was soft, which was not suitable for cavalry combat.

Early the next morning, Kanichiro Ueno led his troops to the east bank of the Panjing River, looking at Luodian who was close at hand, Ueno gritted his teeth fiercely, and issued an order: "Immediately order the artillery units to carry out indiscriminate shelling of the positions of the Chinese army, and at the same time order the engineering units to immediately erect pontoon bridges, and in an hour, I will take the troops to have breakfast in the ancient town of Luodian." ”

Originally, the Panjing River is 40 meters wide, there were many bridges connecting the two sides of the river before, after the war in Shanghai, the Chinese and Japanese sides fought fiercely here for many days, the original bridge has long been destroyed, after the Japanese army occupied Luodian, in order to facilitate the follow-up troops to dispatch and follow up, and rebuilt the new bridge, but after the Japanese army retreated yesterday, it was bombed by Hu Lian's order.

After Kanichiro Ueno's order was issued, the artillery of the Japanese artillery unit quickly rang out, and the 66th Regiment and the Protector Army, which were in charge of defense, could only burrow into the anti-artillery holes to dodge. Shells fell into the positions of the Chinese troops, kicking up piles of thick piles of dust and sand, and from time to time carrying up the bodies and stumps of several Chinese soldiers who had been killed and wounded.

About half an hour passed, the sound of artillery slowly stopped, and the Chinese soldiers on the position crawled out of the anti-artillery holes one by one, and when they saw those comrades who had been killed, they felt a little sad.

At this time, Bai Fei stood in a dilapidated basement converted temporary command post not far from the forward position, shook the dust of Toushan Mountain, and took out a telescope to observe the enemy's situation. Through the thick smoke of gunpowder, he found that the Japanese pontoon bridge on the opposite side had been built and was organizing a team to cross the river. So he took out the radio, connected the Wu cannon, and said, "Company Commander Wu, how is the calibration of the cannon, can you kill the devil's artillery." ”

Wu Cannon said: "Tuanzao, the distance here is too far, we don't have high-altitude observation, I need to move the cannon forward 500 meters to be sure." ”

Bai Fei thought for a while and said, "Okay, you let the brothers lean forward with the cannon, pay attention to concealment, don't expose it in advance and let the devil cannonball be served." ”

It turned out that he got 12 150-mm heavy guns from Hu Lian yesterday, and when he returned at night, he exchanged the corresponding shells and prepared to use them at a critical time, but just now he saw that the Japanese artillery fire was too ferocious, so he planned to use artillery to return fire and destroy the Japanese artillery position.

Bai Fei hung up the phone and observed the Japanese army with a telescope, and found that at this time, about 1,000 Japanese troops had successfully crossed the river, but their follow-up troops stopped crossing the river.

This abnormal scene made Bai Fei a little vigilant, he continued to observe, but saw that the more than 1,000 devils who had just successfully crossed the river had begun to move to this side without waiting for the follow-up troops.

Bai Fei found that they were very scattered, with at least five meters between people, and more than a thousand people looked like thousands of people pressed a large area. When they entered about 500 meters in front of the position, the more than 1,000 devils suddenly all lay on the ground and began to crawl forward, and kept shooting at the Chinese position in the process of advancing.

This series of actions of the devils undoubtedly caused certain shooting difficulties to the officers and men of the 66th Regiment stationed in front of the position, although after entering the firing range, the 66th Regiment also killed many Japanese soldiers, but it also suffered certain casualties. Bai Fei frowned, and said in his heart that if the Japanese army all fought like this, it would be a big trouble.

At this time, the Japanese army had slowly advanced to about 150 meters in front of the position, just when Bai Fei was about to let the sniper team go out to help kill the enemy, the Japanese army suddenly shouted that the devils who were lying on the ground and crawling forward all stood up, and the guns in their hands were thrown aside, and everyone immediately took out two grenades from their waists, pinched them with their hands on the left and right, threw off their legs and rushed desperately towards the Chinese position.

Bai Fei was taken aback, thinking that the Japanese army was going to launch a suicide attack, but what people didn't expect was that the devil's more vicious plan was still to come...