Shanghai, Luodian battlefield.

The scorched earth is everywhere, the corpses are strewn all over the field, the air is filled with the pungent smell of blood and gunsmoke, and the artillery fire here is overwhelming, like raindrops.

......Huang Wei, commander of the 67th Division, who had just led his troops to recapture Luodian, was standing in the semi-embedded bunker headquarters headquarters, holding binoculars, watching the battlefield situation.

Under the corpse-strewn ruins in front of them, before the officers and men of the 67th Division had time to catch their breath, the intensive artillery fire of the Japanese army roared in, and the entire Luodian shook the ground and slammed into the sky.

The rumbling explosions were incessant, and the suppressed warriors were almost out of breath.

"Kill Quack!!" A Japanese soldier Dazuo brandished a command knife and shouted, and thousands of Japanese infantry suddenly swarmed out with rifles and launched a counterattack towards Luodian.

Just now, they were driven out of Luodian by the officers and men of the 67th Division of the National Revolutionary Army with the most tenacious fighting consciousness.

Although Luodian is only a small town with a radius of only two kilometers, it is an important transportation hub connecting Baoshan, Jiading and downtown Shanghai.

Prior to this, the two sides had been fighting to the death in Luodian for many days, Luodian changed hands repeatedly, and both the offensive and defensive sides suffered heavy casualties.

"The devil is coming up 1" was fiercely covered by Japanese artillery fire, and in the incomplete front-line fortifications, a platoon commander of the National Revolutionary Army shouted at the top of his voice, his left eye was wrapped in gauze, the gauze had already been stained red by blood, and a fragment of an artillery shell had robbed the young junior officer of the eye long before the last battle.

But he did not retreat from the line of fire, but still went into battle with wounds, leading his subordinates to fight to the death with the devils, in his own words, my company commander, battalion commander, and regiment commander all died here, how could I retreat secretly? The only way to fight to the death is to the end.

In the trenches covered with the dirt produced by the violent explosion, the officers and soldiers of the Guo who were covered in mud and dusty faced came out of the dirt one after another, sorted out their weapons, and quickly entered a state of combat readiness.

"Beat me hard! People are in the position, and the little devils must not be allowed to take a step forward! The second lieutenant platoon commander pulled a Czech light machine gun out of the dirt, set it up and began to fire fiercely.

The ghost soldiers who were charging were immediately knocked down by him.

Other fighters also opened fire, and medium rifles and Czech light machine guns formed a dense network of fire, blocking the attacking Japanese troops.

However, because the attacking troops of the 67th Division had been intensively bombarded by the Japanese heavy artillery after the bloody battle just now, the fighters had been sharply reduced, and the reinforcements had not yet arrived, so after the devils paid a certain number of casualties, they still rushed forward.

"Get on the bayonet, fuck it!" The second lieutenant platoon commander picked up a formal rifle next to him and shouted at the top of his voice.

Dozens of surviving soldiers of the GUO Army loaded bayonets one after another, jumped out of the trench with him, and engaged in a fierce white-knuckle battle with the Japanese army, which was several times his size.

At this time, a battalion commander of the state was ordered to arrive with hundreds of reinforcements and immediately went into battle.

The enemies of the two sides were very angry when they met, and the battle was extremely fierce.

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At the same time, Qiao Youhua also led his troops to leave Julu and continue south.

The troops had war horses to travel, and the marching speed was greatly increased, and they set off in the middle of the night, and at noon the next day, they drove more than 100 kilometers south and came to the vicinity of Liaocheng.

"Captain, I found a place in the mountains and forests in front of me where I could hide the car, did I hide it on the spot?" Reconnaissance platoon commander Liu Yidao rode a war horse to meet him and reported to Qiao Youhua.

"Well, you can do it, you must hide the car, we may be useful in the future, remember to bury some tricks to prevent them from being discovered by the devil and driving away." Qiao Youhua was looking at a march map, and nodded when he heard the words.

"Okay." Liu Yidao turned the horse's head and left quickly.

"Dragon King, you're a little absent-minded, what do you think?" Jiang Haidong rode up and asked as he rode along with Qiao Youhua.

"The Battle of Songhu should be about to be defeated, right?" Qiao Youhua said.

"Calculating the time, it's almost time, at least now Chairman Jiang's hundreds of thousands of elites should have turned from offensive to defensive." Jiang Haidong said.

At this moment, Liu Ruhan, who had just gotten off the military truck, trotted over, "Captain Qiao, I just learned from the radio station that the Shanghai Dispatch Army of the Japanese Army Invading China has increased its troops again, and our army has fully switched from offensive to defensive!" ”

"Got it." Qiao Youhua waved his hand: "Ruhan, a horse has been arranged for you in front, you go, we are going to give up the truck and march on horseback, by the way, will you ride a horse?" ”

Liu Ruhan was very dissatisfied with Qiao Youhua's appearance in Julu, and snorted: "Look at people! ”

"It seems that our communications director has a big opinion of you Dragon King!" Jiang Haidong smiled a little gloatingly.

"Women, they're all mothers-in-law." Qiao Youhua put his eyes back on the map and sighed: "Although the overall strategic plan to attract the strategic target of the Japanese army from North China to Central China is correct, it is undoubtedly unwise to concentrate two-thirds or more of the elite of the National Revolutionary Army to fight a decisive battle against the Japanese army with natural naval superiority in the small land of Songhu.

Under the coverage of the powerful naval artillery fire of the Japanese army, it is really a pity that the hundreds of thousands of elite divisions of the Central Army can be taken to retreat at this time, abandon Shanghai, retreat to the periphery of the existing strong defense fortifications, and wear down the Japanese army for a long time, maybe it can change history. ”

"Dragon King, this is not necessarily, you have forgotten jì, in history, the so-called Wufu Line, Xicheng Line, Zhajia Line and Haijia Line and other strong defense fortifications of Nanjing's outer defense line, have been cut corners, concrete fortifications, crushed with hands, machine gun shooting holes are as big as doors and windows, and all the money for building fortifications has been taken by high-ranking officials of the National Government to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble.

This corrupt government is the root cause of the defeat! Jiang Haidong said.

It is also said that the Japanese are strong and strong, and it is certainly one thing that they have an advantage in weapons and equipment, but there are many factions within the Nationalist Government, and corruption is strict, and it is even more incorrigible.

We don't care about these political matters, and this time we went to Nanjing just to save the 700,000 innocent people in Nanjing. Just have a clear conscience, let's go, it's time to cross the Yellow River! Qiao Youhua put away the map and sorted out his mood.

"I still hope to get in touch with our party as soon as possible, and then the Eighth Route Army uniform on us will be worthy of the name!" Jiang Haidong said with a smile.

"It should be soon, after the battle of Nanjing, we will return to North China, and no matter what, we will go to the Eighth Route Army to get in touch and give us a regular number! It's also a rightful fight devil! Qiao Youhua said.