"What? Division Commander Peng asked you to be the battalion commander? When Xiao Linghu came out of the division headquarters and told the news to his subordinates, everyone was very surprised, and Yizhimei first screamed.

Meng Fanwei looked at Yizhimei's unbelievable look, and said disapplausively: "Look at your eyes that look at people!" Let me tell you, don't say it's the battalion commander, just let him be the regiment commander, and Brother Tiger will do it too! ”

In Meng Fanwei's mind, Xiao Linghu will always be the most powerful character.

Yizhimei said: "I didn't say that our company commander can't be the battalion commander, I just thought again, Division Commander Peng just let our company commander act as the battalion commander, after the incident, is there any benefit?" ”

Xiao Linghu frowned, and told him unhappily: "Lao Yan, what are you going to do in the future, don't always talk about interests, okay?" ”

"Hehe, how can I?" Yizhimei smiled awkwardly.

Xiao Linghu said: "You may not know, this battle is a meat grinder for the 11th Division, just now Division Commander Peng told me that the commander of the 65th Regiment has been sacrificed, Liang Yan has a battalion, in addition to Liang Battalion Commander and Ah Ming were injured, the other two company commanders have also sacrificed, and there are no backbone cadres in their battalion, so Liang Yan suggested that I be the agent, and Division Commander Peng agreed!" ”

Hearing Xiao Linghu say this, even Meng Fanwei frowned: "Brother Tiger, this battle is not easy to fight!" ”

"Are you scared too?" Xiao Linghu asked him.

Meng Fanwei hesitated, but said honestly: "Who is not afraid of death?" If I hadn't heard them say, I would have thought this battle would be no different from anything else! Do you know? When I was outside just now, I heard a staff officer say that now the 11th Division has been killed and wounded by one-third of the day! The commander of the 18th Army transferred the 14th Division over to help the 11th Division fight together! ”

Xiao Linghu said seriously: "If you fight, you will die, this is an inevitable thing." In military schools, don't instructors teach us the same way? It's just that how to complete the task while minimizing the casualties of our own subordinates is what we should do as battalion commanders and company commanders. ”

Meng Fanwei said: "Okay, I can't talk about you, your style is high." However, looking at this battle, how could there be so many casualties among company commanders and battalion commanders? Aren't you worried? ”

"I'm worried too!" Xiao Linghu said truthfully: "However, someone must sacrifice, and you can't stop completing the tasks assigned by you because you are afraid of death, right?" ”

Meng Fanwei was silent, he knew that Xiao Linghu was right, since Xiao Linghu had to take over the position of acting battalion commander, then he could only sacrifice his life to accompany the gentleman.

Yizhimei came to Xiao Linghu's side with a salivating face, and said with a smile: "Company commander, oh, no, I should call you battalion commander!" ”

Xiao Linghu said: "How should we call it, how should we call it!" I'm just acting as Liang Yan's battalion commander, and I'm not really a battalion commander! ”

"Okay!" Yizhimei said: "Company commander, now that you are acting as the battalion commander, can you let me be an officer?" Be a platoon commander or something? ”

"Haha, I have a lot of ambitions, I'm not a squad leader, and I still want to be a platoon leader?" Zhang Shun on the side couldn't help but answer.

Yizhimei glared at him and scolded: "I'm self-motivated, unlike some people, I don't even have the slightest self-motivation!" I know to follow everyone! ”

Meng Fanwei frowned, no matter how he felt that Yizhimei seemed to be talking about himself.

Xiao Linghu said: "Lao Yan, if you want to be a platoon commander, then we will really have so many soldiers in our company in the future, if you perform well, I will naturally let you be." It's just that now in the first battalion, even if I want to promote you to be a platoon commander, I still need others to convince you, right? ”

As soon as he heard this, Yizhimei became depressed, he didn't know a few people at all in Liang Yan's camp, and others didn't recognize him, how could he be convinced?

Xiao Linghu didn't say much to his subordinates, let everyone bring enough bullets and grenades, tidy up their equipment, especially told Yizhimei to check the Czech light machine gun, there was no problem with the task, and then set off. It's just that the box with the machine-gun bullets was carried by himself.

The five people formed a column and walked along the road out of the village to the Lianqi River, but they could not directly cross the big stone bridge that connected with Luodian, but walked west along the south embankment of the river. About the end of Wuli Road, there is also a stone bridge that leads to a small village called Heqiao, west of Luodian. And that village has now become the temporary headquarters of the former enemy of the 65th and 61st Regiments.

Now, to the south of Luodian, the 62nd Regiment has captured the Lianqi River Bridge, but it can no longer advance half a step into the town; And the 66th Regiment, which fought best, was still fighting with the enemy at the east entrance of Luodian, and was not able to expand the results of the battle.

Of course, the worst hit was the west of Luodian.

The 61st Regiment in the west was attacked by the devils, and was caught off guard, retreating from the periphery of Luodian to the position of the Xijing River, and its foothold was not stable, and the position was taken away by the devils who were in hot pursuit. The regiment commander Li Shubin was in a hurry and personally led people to regain the lost position, but in the process, he was hit by a stray bullet in the body and fell.

It was precisely because of the injury of the regimental commander Li Shubin that Peng Qin had no choice but to put the 65th Regiment in the west and take over the 61st Regiment to attack the west entrance of Luodian.

The 65th Regiment lived up to expectations, recaptured the position of the Xijing River, fought back with the devils who attacked and defended, and smoothly advanced the battle line to 300 meters west of Luodian, which was the first layer of trenches dug by the devils and their outermost defensive line.

Cheshan was killed by the devil's sniper when the 65th Regiment broke through the devil's first line of defense. And Liang Yan was also injured in the process and was hit in the leg by a bullet.

Therefore, the 65th Regiment and part of the 61st Regiment were now outside the first line of defense of the devils, and in the midst of the enemy's fire, they had temporarily dug a trench and passed through the defensive positions on the west.

When Xiao Linghu, Meng Fanwei and others crossed the Lianqi River and came to Heqiao Village, the sky had already darkened, and the gunfire in front was gradually becoming sparse.

However, Xiao Linghu knew that this night was destined to be impossible.