On the mountain road under the moonlight, a group of remnants advanced in the moonlight, and after more than 100 routs, the speed of the entire team was affected, and the physical fitness of the routs seriously slowed down the speed of the whole team, after distributing the last remaining cereal cakes, the brothers gnawed on the cereal cakes while walking, and before dawn on September 4, He Jianye arrived at Niutou Mountain;

After hearing the location of the artillery battalion of the Huangwu Army, He Jianye took all the brothers to the position of the artillery battalion;

Now the whole Sixteenth Regiment plus the artillery battalion has less than a thousand brethren, and there is a shortage of guns and ammunition, and as for the routs collected on the road, they have been handed over to the Fourth Army in defensive positions, which are responsible for screening and disposing of them;

"Regiment commander, the division commander ordered you to go to the division headquarters for a meeting as soon as you arrive!" Huang Wujun turned to Zhao Xitian's order,

"Where?" He Jianye had just finished washing his face and was still a little confused;

"In a small mountain village southwest of Niutou Mountain, I will let the brother show you the way!" Huang Wujun reported,

I didn't care about eating breakfast, anyway, it was all miscellaneous grain cakes, He Jianye walked towards Shen Village under the leadership of the brothers in the artillery battalion, the troops after the break were too tired, He Jianye had ordered them to rest on the spot;

The division headquarters was not among the dwellings in the village, which were all thatched houses and had no defense against the devil's shells, so the engineer unit built a semi-underground bunker in the village and put wooden planks on it, which became the temporary division headquarters of the 3rd Division;

"He Jianye, you eat something and rest first!" Zhao Xitian motioned to He Jianye to wait, standing next to the map and frowning at what he was considering,

After the autumn, the weather in the Jiujiang area is very strange, last night was still the moonlight shining on the earth, this morning the sun did not show its face, the continuous autumn rain fell tricklingly, the autumn rain followed the mountain wind and drifted into the division headquarters of the third division, so that He Jianye, who was still wearing summer clothes, felt a little cold;

He Jianye drank the white rice porridge of the division and ate the multigrain cakes, the two multigrain cakes had not yet been eaten, the light rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the rain curtain covered the heaven and the earth.

At this time, there were basically no troops equipped with raincoats in the national army, and several drenched officers entered the division headquarters one after another, and everyone patted He Jianye on the shoulder after coming in, thanking him for his contribution to the entire division;

"Just now there is news from the military headquarters that the soldiers who were originally planned to be replenished to us are gone; The commander of the army is seeking new reinforcements, and you go down to control the troops and rest on the spot; Wait for the order! As soon as the officers above the regimental commander of the Third Division finished next to the table built of wooden planks, Zhao Xitian opened his mouth directly and said the latest news;

"Why? Why are our soldiers gone? ”

"Who! Who would dare to rob our soldiers? ”

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The chattering began without warning, and Zhao Xitian frowned as he looked at the officers below;

"Alright, don't make any noise; The division commander and the corps commander have already fought for it; But it didn't work. Our troops were temporarily replenished to the 74th Army, and their losses in recapturing Mahuiling were a bit large; The 74th Army has won the opportunity to retreat for the troops on the front line of the entire Jinguanqiao, so that we have lost a lot of losses, and we must know how to be grateful! Don't learn from other local troops, after all, they are all descendants of the Central Army! Chief of Staff Zhu Xilin stopped everyone's noise and explained a few words;

"So what do we do? division commander, from Jiujiang to Jinguanqiao; Our regiments are sacrificing their lives and forgetting to die! Now there are less than 1,000 men in the better regiments, and less than 500 men are left in two regiments; What's next! Zhou Qingxiang asked with a sad face,

"Yes! When our third division came out of Hankow, there were more than 16,000 people! So far, there are not even a fraction of them, and there are less than 4,000 brothers left in the whole division! Chief of Staff Zhu Xilin said with a sigh,

"Don't even think about it, go back first; Control the mood of the troops, 10,000 people have 10,000 people, 3,000 people have the task of 3,000 people, the national war is difficult, the Military Commission will make up for us! Zhao Xitian said,

At the following meeting, everyone complained a few more words, except for a little ammunition supply from the division headquarters, not a single reinforcement arrived, and several regiment commanders left the division headquarters in despair and returned to their respective stations.

The Jinguan Bridge was lost, the Eighth Army and the 64th Army were heavily damaged, and Xue Yue, the commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, urgently transferred the 25th, 70th, 4th, 74th, and 66th armies to rearrange the defensive line, of which the 74th Army suffered heavy losses in the battle to recover Mahuiling, and the troops originally planned to be replenished to the Eighth Army were temporarily transferred to the 74th Army;

The 74th Army belongs to the Central Army's descendant troops, and this battle is brilliant, and it is still one of the main attacking armies, in order to not affect the follow-up battle plan, only the sacrifice of other troops has been supplemented, but in this way, the Eighth Army, which has suffered heavy casualties, will not be able to take the lead in this battle;

Like a mad dog, Junrokuro Matsuura, commanding the remnants of the 106th Division, chased after him from behind. In the area north of Niutou Mountain, there has been an exchange of fire with the troops acting as the rearguard, and the rumbling artillery sound is like a muffled thunder, constantly coming from the end of the sky behind them that cannot be seen clearly, which makes the officers and men of the 16th Regiment in the Niutou Mountain area very troubled, there are no soldiers to replenish, and even the mortar shells are only replenished with less than 100 rounds, let alone the shells of the 75 mountain artillery and field artillery;

Under the washing of the autumn rain, the air was already filled with coldness, the brothers of the 16th Regiment were still wearing single clothes, and the brothers in ragged and thin clothes were huddled in the bunker and slept in a drowsy, anyway, there was no order to come down, these brothers fought a fierce battle for almost two months, and their spirits could finally relax;

"The regiment commander, the reporters from the war zone have come to our division; The division commander asked you to receive it! "In the semi-underground bunker of the 16th Regiment, Leng Qi said to He Jianye with a telegram;

For these officers who fought hard, fiercely, and bloodily on the battlefield without blinking, it was a hard job to receive reporters, and they sometimes couldn't smile bitterly in the face of the reporters who came from the rear; The reporters in the rear are serious, these officers and soldiers on the battlefield should be iron-blooded heroes, there is no sadness and joy, anger and sorrow, there is only hatred for devils in their hearts, the people have given them rations, the state has given them steel guns, they still have a lot of military salaries to take, there should be nothing to be dissatisfied; What I don't know is that in the hearts of veterans who have lived and died on the front line for several years, being able to go home alive is what they want most!

"You tell the division commander if you want the reporter to go to other regiments!" He Jianye frowned and said,

"Commander, the commanders of several other regiments say that this is the glory you deserve! This time it's a reporter from the Central News Agency, writing a special report for our division, and you are the protagonist! Leng Qi said with a smile,

"Fuck it, I'm the protagonist of a ghost; The heroes are those brothers who sacrificed, since the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, their corpses have covered every inch of the country, and they are buried in this land they have guarded with their lives! But we who are alive still have lost the land they guarded with their blood, how can you let me have the face to face those tricky reporters? He Jianye roared,

"Commander, I suggest you keep your emotions under control; According to the information from the division headquarters, if nothing else, I am afraid that the reporter will be about to arrive at the regiment headquarters, and the chief of staff personally sent it over. Leng Qi's face was a little gloomy, but he was still persuading He Jianye.