And Zhiying Er's worries are not superfluous, at this time, the 348th Regiment of the 58th Division has been waiting for this old devil in the middle of the road, the small Dijing River did not stump Zhou Lixing, he only used a dozen ropes to cross all the troops of a regiment across the Zhengjing River, and entered the preset ambush location in time.

The 348th Regiment was downsized from the Chen Yaohan Division of the former Zhilu Army, many of which veterans had participated in the warlord melee in the early years, and also suppressed the Red Army in Jiangxi, which can be described as experienced in a hundred battles, and was the strongest combat effectiveness team among the four main regiments of the 58th Division, and it was also the most well-equipped team, equipped with a mortar company with six 82mm caliber light mortars.

At 2 o'clock in the morning, the artillery battalion directly under the 58th Division began to shell Luodian, and 10 75mm caliber mountain guns dumped rows of shells onto the Japanese troops in Luodian Town, and after 10 minutes of shelling, more than 500 officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of the 344th Regiment jumped out of the sortie position and launched an overwhelming charge towards the stone bridge on the west side of Luodian Town.

Half an hour later, a large Japanese convoy appeared on the road leading from Lion Forest to Luodian.

However, after suffering a loss, little Japan obviously learned to be obedient, and this time it did not go forward in a daze like last time, but sent sharp soldiers to the front, five side three-wheeled motorcycles carrying more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, while slowly moving forward, while shooting at the cotton fields on both sides of the road, conducting fire reconnaissance.

In addition, there was also a squad of infantry marching synchronously with the main force on the road in the fields on both sides of the road, and if there were really ambushes of the national army in the cotton fields on both sides of the road, even if they were lucky enough to avoid the fire reconnaissance of the spearheads, they would definitely not be able to escape the search of these two infantry squads responsible for protecting the flanks of the main force.

Seeing that the Japanese soldiers were getting closer and closer to the ambush circle, and an ambush battle was about to turn into an encounter, Lu Yushan, the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 348th Regiment, was anxious, and hurriedly came to the regiment commander Zhou Lixing, and asked: "Tuanzao, little Japan really has defense, and there is no hope of an ambush, so it will turn to defense?" ”

"Going defensive?" Zhou Lixing shook his head coldly, "No, it's a dog beater." ”

Zhou Lixing gave an order, the six mortars of the artillery company opened fire at the same time, and a row of shells instantly dragged a long tail flame and flew towards the Japanese convoy that was marching on the highway.

In less than two seconds, six shells fell on the road and exploded, five Japanese soldiers were three wheels on the side, one was directly hit by the shell and exploded, two were overturned by the air wave generated by the explosion, and the remaining two also rushed into the roadside ditch in a panic, and the ghost soldiers on the car were thrown out far away, most of them were not alive.

Before the smoke of the shell explosion had cleared, the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 348th Regiment jumped up from the cotton fields on both sides of the road and rushed forward with bayonets and screaming.

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As soon as the explosion sounded in front of it, the Japanese convoy that was slowly moving came to a halt.

In the convoy, the door of an armored car opened, and Zhiying II got out of the door with a saber on his shoulder, and a stray bullet shot from the front, colliding with a small cloud of sparks on the armor of the car, and Zhiying Er's orderly was extremely nervous, but the old devil raised the telescope in his hand as if nothing happened.

At this time, the Japanese army used grenadiers to launch two flares into the sky, and by the strong light of the flares, the scene within a radius of 1,000 meters from Zhiying II was in full view, and when they saw a team of national soldiers charging forward with bayonets, and Zhiying Er's face couldn't help but show a smug smile, and sure enough, it was a reinforcement from the surrounding point.

"Command!" He Zhiying II put down the binoculars and began to issue combat orders, "The 2nd Tank Squadron will cooperate with the 3rd Infantry Squadron to deploy to the left flank, the 3rd Tank Squadron will cooperate with the 4th Infantry Squadron Xiangyou Wing, the 1st Tank Squad, the Artillery Squadron, and the 2nd Infantry Squadron will be deployed on the spot, and the 1st Infantry Squadron will be on standby." ”

"Hello!" The eight signal soldiers bowed their heads suddenly, and immediately split up to deliver orders.

In less than a moment, groups of loaded Japanese soldiers jumped out of the trucks, and immediately divided into three parts, one for local defense, and the other two for rapid deployment to both sides of the road, and then, under the guidance of more than a dozen Type 95 light tanks, they faced the Nationalist troops sweeping on the opposite side.

Because the Japanese army had been prepared for it, the ambush turned into an encounter.

Fortunately, it had just rained heavily and the light was not good at night, and the Japanese tanks were not only worried about being stuck in the mud and unable to move, but also worried about being blasted by the national army engineers, so they did not dare to rush to attack, but only cooperated with the infantry to put on a defensive posture, but the Japanese tank's front-firing machine gun and 37mm main gun still caused great pressure on the 348th regiment.

At this time, the Japanese army was certainly not good at night fighting, but the national army was also not good at night fighting.

The veterans of the 348th Regiment have nothing to say, all of them are good men, but the company and platoon officers of the 348th Regiment are mediocre, speaking of which, most of these officers were born in the Central Military Academy and received the most formal military academy education in China at that time.

Originally, because the Japanese army had already been prepared, and the nearby terrain was not conducive to concealing the enemy, the fighters had disappeared at this time, and the most popular choice of the 348th regiment should be to leave a small number of troops to contain and delay the Japanese army, and the main force immediately entered the preset defensive position, but Zhou Lixing did not, and actually ordered an attack.

As a result, just a few minutes later, the six 92 infantry guns of the Japanese artillery squadron were set up to shoot Zhu Yuan, and as soon as the fire came down, the charging queue of the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 348th Regiment was blown up.

Due to the spirit of the regiment commander Zhou Lixing, the 348th regiment fell into a bitter battle from the beginning.

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The 348th Regiment fell into a bitter battle at the front, and the 344th Regiment fought even more unsmoothly in Luodian.

Xu Shijiu's kind reminder failed to prompt Cai Renjie to make targeted tactical arrangements, and Cai Renjie's carelessness eventually led to disastrous consequences, and the 2nd Battalion, which was responsible for the main attack, launched a charge again and again to the stone bridge on the west side of Luodian Town with a platoon as a unit, and a group of veterans went forward to follow one after another and shed blood on the battlefield.

However, the Japanese held the bridgehead firmly with only one heavy machine gun.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the national army left more than 400 corpses on the west side of the stone bridge, and the entire 2nd battalion was almost completely wiped out, and the battalion commander Tong Yafu was also wounded, but the Japanese army only killed two people, or was killed by stray bullets, in addition to scrapping two gun barrels, the Japanese bridgehead position remained immovable, and the Japanese troops in Luodian Town were even more unharmed.

Cai Renjie, the commander of the 344th Regiment, was anxious and urgently ordered Ying Yang, the commander of the 3rd Battalion, to organize a death squad to swim across the Dijing River and outflank him from behind.

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Shi Xianggong Temple, 58th Division Headquarters.

Not sleeping for several nights in a row had already made Feng Shengfa's eyes bloodshot, but his spirit was still quite full, and he was pointing at the map with Xu Shijiu to discuss how to deploy defenses after retaking Luodian, but the deputy division commander Zhang Jingming was already anxious to become an ant on a hot pot, and he was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back.

He Lingxiao and Wu Jiguang, the two brigade commanders, were also staring at each other.

The 348th Regiment fell into a bitter battle, as early as expected, Xu 19 reminded everyone at the beginning that the Japanese army had suffered a big loss in Wudoujing, and this time it would definitely be guarded, so Zhang Jingming gave Zhang Lixing the task of immediately turning to the defense once the ambush failed, so as to buy time for the 344th Regiment to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army in Luodian.

However, it was a bit unexpected that the 344th Regiment was also caught in a bitter battle in Luodian, at least Zhang Jingming, He Lingxiao, and Wu Jiguang, the two brigade commanders, did not expect that the 344th Regiment besieged a squadron of less than 200 people in Little Japan with the strength of a regiment.

"What is this Cai Renjie for?"

He Lingxiao took out his pocket watch to look at the time, and saw that the hour hand was already pointing to 4:30 in the morning, and finally he couldn't hold his breath, and his tone was also a little angry, because at the beginning, Feng Shengfa planned to use the 19th Brigade to cooperate with the guard battalion to fight the main attack, but He Lingxiao pushed the 344th Regiment to attack the main attack on the grounds that the first battle should ensure victory.

Now that the 344th regiment is attacking badly, He Lingxiao's face is certainly not good-looking.

Of course, He Lingxiao didn't think that he could perform better by changing the 19th Brigade and the guard battalion.

Feng Shengfa was extremely annoyed by the clumsy performance of the 344th Regiment in his heart, and he endured it so that he did not have a seizure, and in turn comforted He Lingxiao and said: "The Japanese army is defending according to the stone bridge, and the flat-fire artillery company is lacking, and it is reasonable that the 344th Regiment will not attack well, but I estimate that Little Japan will not be able to hold on, and Brigade Commander He does not need to worry." ”

He Lingxiao said: "Although the anti-aircraft artillery company was detained by the group army headquarters, this is not a reason, does it mean that there can be no war without anti-aircraft artillery?" Incompetence is incompetence, this Cai Renjie, the more he fights, the more he can't fight, when this battle is over, I have to beat him up! ”

As soon as the words landed, Cai Renjie, the commander of the 344th Regiment, rushed in out of breath, seeing that he was wearing a steel helmet on his head, and there were smoke marks of gunpowder on his face, obviously just got off the line of fire, and entered the war room Cai Renjie stood upright and reported to Feng Shengfa and Zhang Jingming: "Report the division seat, deputy division seat, Luodian has taken it!" ”

"You still have the face to say?!" Zhang Jingming kicked Cai Renjie's crotch and scolded, "A regiment fought an infantry squadron in a small Japanese area, and it ended up fighting for half the night, you still have to be with me, grin?!" ”

Cai Renjie's face collapsed there, and he had to admit that tonight's battle was not good.