Hao Ming told Sima Changkong: "The news has just come from the heralds that the Jicha authorities and the Japanese army have reached an armistice agreement......

"An armistice? Don't fight? We have died so many brothers, just in one word, don't fight? Sima Changkong's tears evaporated with anger, and he wanted to know who was such a grandson.

"Commander Ji asked our battalion to return to the city for repairs, and the regimental spies will connect the defense work of the Lugou Bridge. In this battle, our first battalion and the third battalion suffered great losses. Hao Ming looked at a scorched earth and a pile of corpses.

"I'm not going back, I'm going to wait for the devil here." As soon as Sima Changkong said this, more than 30 people in the company also followed: "Yes, don't go back!" We vow to live and die with Lugou Bridge! ”

"You don't understand? There is a truce! Don't fight! Give me all back to the city! Return! That's an order! Do you want to disobey? Hao Ming was anxious, he also knew that the brothers couldn't die in vain, but there was an order from the peak!

The special service company quickly took over the defense work of Lugou Bridge, and it was worthy of being the personal soldiers under Commander Ji, and his actions were fast. There were less than 200 soldiers left in the first battalion, and more than a third of the soldiers were lost in this battle, except for the first company that gained some momentum at the Lugou Bridge, but most of the other brothers who died in the first battalion were killed by artillery fire.

Wanping City was wounded and wounded, and it may be difficult to replenish the soldiers, but fortunately, the 219th Regiment is a reinforced regiment, and there is a reinforced company in addition to the regiment's special agent company, these two companies are the treasures of the Ji Regiment Commander, and they will not be easily shown until the last resort. Now the special service company is stationed at Lugou Bridge, and the reinforced battalion is responsible for the defense of the north side of Wanping City, which means that the 219th Regiment now has to show its sword.

Some people may think that there is not a truce? Can you afford to put more effort into defense? If you don't want to prevent it, you can't do it! Truce with the Japanese? Who would believe that it lasts! The Japanese agreed to an armistice, which means that they are hatching a larger conspiracy.

Sima Changkong returned to the station of Wanping City, which was already full of messes, the corpses that were blown up were everywhere, the people of the second battalion were carrying the corpses in the city, and the third battalion was building city defenses, although the third battalion also lost a lot, but it was not like the first battalion that injured the bones.

Changkong held a handful of scorched earth, which was caught at the place where the first company commander sacrificed, which can be regarded as bringing the first company commander back to the city......

Changkong met Brigadier He, the noble man who started his military career. Wanping City was surrounded by the enemy, and Brigade Commander He led his troops to support and ascend to the city to command, only to push the Japanese army back. To say that this brigade commander He is really a generation of generals, under such a big disadvantage in force, he actually killed a major general of the Japanese army, it seems to be called Songyou or something, this is the first general-level officer killed by the enemy at the beginning of the all-out war of resistance. Helplessly, the chairman of the committee personally called and asked for a ceasefire in the 29th Army.

This attack by the Japanese army has hurt the Chinese nation, and also made those who still have illusions about the Japanese completely wake up, and the young strong men in the vicinity have joined the 29th Army, and they did not expect that the soldiers were replenished so quickly, after five days of replenishment, the second battalion has been completely formed, and although the first battalion has not reached the full formation of 350 people, there are 300 people. Changkong was appointed as the commander of the first company, and the 100 brothers under his command, except for the 37 backbones of the old company, were all newly recruited soldiers, Yang Rong, Deng Zhi, and Chen Dabiao were the commanders of the 123rd platoon respectively.

Changkong stepped up training this group of recruits every day, and he didn't want to see his brothers around him fall again, but death was also beyond his control. In order to make these recruits have combat effectiveness in a short period of time, Changkong simplified the eight blades of the broken edge to the four knives of the broken blade according to the previous combat experience, that is, the diagonal step head-on split, the jump step leaned over and picked, the spinning step to block the waist and slash, and the arrow step stabbed in the heart.

After the 77 Incident, the Japanese army stepped up the deployment of troops, transferring 200,000 troops from five divisions and regiments from China to the Chinese battlefield, and the Japanese troops assembled in the Pingjin area exceeded 60,000, more than twice the size of the 29th Army. The smell of gunpowder made the 29th Army smell disgusting, but the central authorities believed that the Japanese army's build-up of troops was not a cause for concern, after all, an armistice agreement had been reached, and there was no need to be too nervous, and ignored the 29th Army's requests for equipment, soldiers, and reinforcements. If we fight again, the 29th Army will still fight for its own old bottom.

On the afternoon of 26 July, Major General Shozo Hebe of the North China Garrison issued an ultimatum to the 29th Army, demanding that all Chinese defenders withdraw from the Pingjin area by the 28th, otherwise they would take military action.

Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army, sternly refused, and on the 27th, he issued a telegram to the whole country to defend himself and defend the territory, resolutely defending the territory and resisting the war.

On the same day, the Japanese General Staff, with the approval of the Emperor, ordered the North China Garrison Army to launch an attack on the 29th.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of the 27th, Changkong took the first company to Lugou Bridge to join the special service company, and fought against the Japanese army together at Lugou Bridge, the other parts of the first battalion were responsible for guarding the area between Wanping City on the Lugou Bridge, the third battalion was responsible for the defense of Wanping City, and the second battalion and the reinforced company were responsible for blocking the Japanese troops attacking in the area of Huilongmiao.

Sima Changkong borrowed the telescope of the spy company to look at the Japanese troops who were pressed by the yellow pressure, and the Japanese troops attacking the Lugou Bridge turned out to be a brigade. This Japanese brigade consisted of about 1,040 people, with a brigade headquarters of 30 people, and four infantry squadrons of 180 men each; a 160-man machine gun squadron, 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 4 crooked machine guns; an artillery unit of 50 people, a total of 15 mortars and two Type 92 infantry guns; There is also a convoy of 110 people.

Two hundred and fifty against a thousand. Sima Changkong didn't know how to fight all of a sudden, this is a plain area, there is no barrier to circumambulation, as long as the Japanese army grabs the Lugou Bridge, there is no point in fighting here. And now it is the pressure of the army, and if you ambush it on the flank, it will disperse the troops, and I am afraid that the ambush has not yet started, and the front has already been broken through.

The Japanese did not rush to exert their artillery superiority, but let the infantry squadron press directly, and the machine gun squadron was in the rear to cover the combat readiness, as if they wanted to slowly play with the defenders of the Lugou Bridge. It is estimated that these Japanese troops have just been transferred from China, and they have not seen the two squadrons that were badly beaten a few days ago......

The equipment of the spy company is stronger than that of the first company, and the gun has firing pins, and it is still accurate to fight. Hengzhi is also a death, and he must die as well as the company commander. Sima Changkong concentrated the grenades of the whole company in a platoon, and asked the platoon to find a cover on the flank of the Lugou Bridge to ambush. There are not many grenades in the spy company, so it has to be kept to deal with the devils who attack head-on.

The battle began, and the devils attacked unhurriedly, but the two companies of Lugou Bridge had to fight with all their might. The Devil's 1st Infantry Squadron advanced steadily, although there were also sporadic falls, after all, this loss was harmless, but the Chinese defenders could not withstand the power of the 38 Dagai, and began to suffer casualties.

The Japanese army is constantly approaching...... Approach...... The Japanese troops who attacked suddenly came under heavy grenade attack, and the Japanese suffered considerable losses due to the lack of dispersion in formation. This is the platoon ambushed on the flank began to exert its might, Yang Rong obeyed Sima Changkong's arrangement, and when the Japanese army approached the Lugou Bridge, he used the grenades of the whole company to greet him. All of a sudden, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, just like the current haze...... Sima Changkong rushed down the bridge with a company, and the soldiers all took large blades through the smoke to attack the Japanese soldiers with blurred vision...... Although the brothers of the first company fought bravely, but in the end nearly 70% were recruits, many people saw the blood of devils, and that little courage was gone, and Changkong had to take them to quickly retreat to the bunker on the bridge. The first platoon has also returned to the bridge, and the flanks can no longer stay, because the attack just now caused the artillery unit of the devil to carry out an artillery bombardment of the place where the platoon had just been ambushed.

Fortunately, the tactics just now still had some gains, and the devil left more than 30 corpses and began to retreat. This can be regarded as withstanding the first wave of attacks, and the spy company lost 13 people killed and 9 wounded, which is about the same number in the first company.

The devil changed another squadron to attack, and this time he couldn't use the tactics just now. But if you don't maneuver, both companies will have to die on the ground! How! Now that all parts are definitely fighting, where will there be troops to support? The 29th Army fought alone in Pingjin, and the other troops around it sat idly by, and defeat was inevitable.

Let's bite the bullet, if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent. fell on the anti-Japanese position, and it can be regarded as a well-deserved death!

The soldiers of both companies were eager to put their anger into their guns, but the gap between the weapons and the others was too large, and the broadsword did not have a suitable chance to play its effect now, so they were really anxious to die!

Sima Changkong found that the tactics of the devils had changed this time, and the attacking group of devils seemed to have come specifically for white-knuckle combat, and they all rushed over with bayonets, without the intention of shooting, but there were some firing points on both sides of the main attack force, which might be covering, and the crooked handles were just aiming at the position all the time, and did not fire.

Changkong thought to himself, what kind of trick did this devil play, a platoon of artillery came over, and the charge of two squadrons took down the Lugou Bridge, why bother?

Forget it, since you want to fight with a white knuckle, just as they wish, let's fight to the death with real knives and real guns! Changkong asked the spy company to guard the position of Lugou Bridge, provide fire support when necessary, and lead a company of people to fight with the devil with a white knuckle......

This battle was very strange again, and the devil and the company fought for not many rounds and then retreated. The company did not dare to chase after it, so it could only retreat to the position again. Could it be that the devil is using the strength of the infantry squadron to fight a wheel battle with these two companies? Can't do it?

Seeing that the next wave of devils began to prepare again, it turned out to be the group of devils who attacked for the first time, Changkong was very impressed by the scar on the squadron leader's face...... This battle is really getting more and more confused......

Someone in the spy company was holding a telescope and shouting: "Look, the devil's machine gun unit and artillery unit are gone?" And there are three squadrons left here, where did the other infantry squadron of the devil go? ”

Changkong patted his head and said, "Not good!" We've been tricked! "Let people look at Wanping City again, the city gate has been opened.

It turned out that the area from Lugou Bridge to Wanping City, which was guarded by the second and third companies of the first battalion, was regarded as a weak link by the Japanese army, after all, there was a reinforced company and a fully formed battalion in Huilongmiao, which could not be broken through all at once. In order to break through Wanping City in half a day, the Japanese army attacked Wanping City, which had not healed from old wounds, with heavy artillery fire, and then launched an attack at the same time at Huilong Temple and Lugou Bridge, all of which first caused a psychological burden on the Chinese defenders with the posture of a large army pressing the border, and then attacked the defenders of the position in an unhurried manner with the squadron as a unit, so that the 29th Army focused its attention on the attacking troops, and then transferred heavy weapons to concentrate on attacking the defensive area of a battalion, and in less than an hour, the opening was torn open, and the defenders on Wanping City also struggled to resist, But in the face of the heavy weapons of the Japanese army concentrated in two brigades, it was so vulnerable.

It was not superfluous for the Japanese army to adopt such tactics. Although there are many differences in the weapons and equipment of China and Japan and the combat strength of the soldiers, once the Chinese army fights for its life, even if it can win, it will inevitably pay some price, and the full-scale war of aggression against China has just begun, the Japanese army pays great attention to preserving its own strength, even if it has twice the advantage of the Chinese army's strength and firepower, it will not blindly attack, and the 29th Army's fierce operation is also very shocking to the Japanese army.

Hao Ming, the commander of the first battalion, took the remnants to the Lugou Bridge position.