Although the night march was safe, the speed was not fast, and it had to communicate with the various units along the way, and it was already the afternoon of the next day when the 19th Brigade stopped and arrived near Luodian.

At this time, the battle situation in Luodian once again had an unexpected reversal.

Since the recovery of Luodian on August 23, the 11th Division has always been blocked in front of Luodian, at this time the 18th Army, the 74th Army and Hu Zongnan's First Army have not yet arrived, the entire left flank only 98th Division, 11th Division plus two regiments of the 67th Division, of which the 67th Division is responsible for the defense along the river north of the Liuhe River, the 11th Division is responsible for the defense of the Liuhe River through Luodian to Liuhang, and the 98th Division is responsible for the defense of Liu Xing to Baoshan County through Yangxing, and the defense front of the three divisions is dozens of kilometers long.

The 11th Division and the 98th Division are all B divisions, in addition to the formal establishment of two brigades and four regiments, there are also two supplementary regiments each, but in the previous battle to attack the Japanese concession, the 87th Division, the 88th Division and the 36th Division suffered heavy casualties, and the four supplementary regiments of the 11th Division and the 98th Division have all been swept away, and even the 98th Division was almost broken up by Zhang Zhizhong to supplement the 87th and 88th Divisions.

In addition to the combat attrition, the actual combat personnel of the 11th and 98th Divisions were less than 7,000, and the 7,000 men were spread out on a front of several tens of kilometers, with an average of only two or three hundred per kilometer.

But then again, the Japanese side was even more strained.

As mentioned above, Matsui Shigen initially determined that the main direction of attack was Zhang Huabin, and a large number of small steamers were transferred to the direction of Zhang Huabin to assist the 3rd Division in landing, and the landing progress of the 11th Division on the side of Chuanshakou and Shishilin was relatively slow, until the end of August, Matsui Shigen adjusted the direction of the main attack, and only two infantry wings came up in total.

These two wings are Chubb 23 Wing and Hezhi Eagle 2 Wing.

The 12th Infantry Wing of Anda 23rd had already moved to Baoshan and was facing the 98th Division, while the 44th Infantry Wing of Zhiying 2nd was facing the 11th Division in Luodian.

Peng Shan, commander of the 11th Division, Li Shusen, commander of the 67th Division, and Xia Chuzhong, commander of the 98th Division, were all first-term students of Huangpu, and it is needless to say that they were brave in battle, but the Huangpu Military Academy is a crash school after all, so when facing the old officers of the Beiyang Army, the advantages of the Huangpu officers are obvious, but when they face the Japanese officers, they will be dwarfed.

In actual combat, the Whampoa officers were obviously no match for the graduates of the Japanese Continental University.

For example, the battle of Luodian was almost a duel between Peng Shan, the commander of the 11th Division, and the commander of the 44th Wing of the Japanese Infantry and the second Dazuo of Zhiying, in terms of firepower, the 44th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army only had 12 70mm caliber 92 infantry guns, and there was almost no advantage, and in terms of strength, the 11th Division occupied an overwhelming advantage.

But in the actual battle, and Zhiying II very cleverly made up for the disadvantage of insufficient troops, he made a fishing tactic, holding the main force of the wing in his hands, but only placed a small number of troops on the front line to lure the national army to attack, once the national army launched an attack, this old devil immediately swooped over with the main force of the wing, and formed a local advantage with more fights and less.

On the other hand, Peng Shan's performance was much more clumsy, first he divided the troops equally, and then he didn't know how to preserve life, and he clung to Chairman Chiang's admonition that "every inch of land must be fought for", and every time he launched a counterattack against the "weak point" of the Japanese defense line, the result was that the fishing tactics of Zhiying II always worked, and the living Liliang of the 11th Division was eaten by the Japanese army in one bite.

By August 29, the 11th Division's defense line at Luodian was already precarious.

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As a veteran of a hundred battles, Xu Jiujiu did not take the liberty of bringing his troops to the Luodian battlefield when the enemy situation was unknown, but stopped when he was less than ten miles away from Luodian, and then found a small bamboo forest on the west bank of the Dijing River to order the troops to hide, and then crossed the Dijing River with Gao Shenxing and the one-eyed dragon.

The gunfire in the direction of Luodian Town in the north was loud, and the explosion in the direction of Baoshan County in the east was shocking, and the huge flames produced by the explosion could be seen from afar, and it was completely conceivable that at this time, Baoshan County, which was under the attack of the 3rd and 11th divisions of the Japanese army, had become miserable.

However, the direction of Gu's house, which was at the junction of the 11th and 98th Divisions, was silent.

After crossing the Dijing River and further north, I hid and walked forward not far before it became dark.

The three of them opened the distance in a zigzag shape, walked very slowly and carefully, the line of fire reconnaissance is not a joke, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a life of nine deaths, even at night and at any time may encounter the enemy's mobile sentry or secret sentry, at that time the exposure of whereabouts is small, and it is only when the bullet suddenly fired in the dark is killed that it is called injustice.

Otherwise, the scouts weishenme are all the best in the army? Just because they are almost all responsible for death-bound tasks, if they are not the best in the army, if they go up, it is not equivalent to death?

The one-eyed dragon cheered up, stared at his only right eye, and scanned the dark night around him with great vigilance, Gao Shenxing's eyes narrowed slightly, but his ears were always in a high degree of tension, and the slightest wind and grass around him could not escape his ears, and Xu Shijiu, who was walking in the front, entered a highly nervous mental state.

Suddenly, Xu Shijiu raised his right hand slightly, and the one-eyed dragon and Gao Shenxing who followed quickly squatted down.

After a while, Xu Shijiu waved lightly to the two of them, and the two crept to Xu Shijiu's side, and then sat up and looked forward through the half-human-high cotton plant, only to see a small village under the night sky in front of them, about forty or fifty households, it was already late at night, but the lights were still on in the courtyard at the entrance of the village.

A bonfire was raised at the entrance of the compound, and there was a Japanese sentry next to the fire, which was very conspicuous.

"Captain, in front of you is the Gu family's house, which seems to have been occupied by Little Japan." The one-eyed dragon was originally from Luodian, and he had been working in Shanghai for many years before joining the 19th Brigade, and he was so familiar with the downtown area of Shanghai and the effect area in the northwest of Shanghai that he couldn't be more familiar, so he recognized the village in front of him as the Gu family house at a glance.

Gao Shenxing suddenly said: "The Japanese army in the village has at most one squad. ”

The one-eyed dragon didn't believe it: "How do you know that there is only one squad in the Japanese army?" ”

"Just look at the sentry." Gao Shen said, "When the Japanese army squad and above units camp, they generally set up fixed posts and mobile posts, but the Japanese troops in the village in front of them only have fixed posts, so there is at most one squad. ”

"Captain, fuck it!" The one-eyed dragon turned his head to look at Xu Nineteen as he spoke, and his one-eyed eyes showed a fierce light that was eager to try, there was only one squad of Japanese troops stationed in the village in front, if a surprise attack was launched, even if there were only three of them, it would be enough to solve the opponent, and Little Japan was not a heavenly general.

"Solve it with a bayonet and try not to shoot!" Xu Jiu nodded slightly, the scouts would not attack the enemy easily, but if they encountered a small group of enemy troops, they would never let go.

Xu Shijiu waved his hand, and the three of them quietly touched it under the cover of night.

However, when they were less than thirty meters away from the Japanese outpost, the three of them stopped in unison.

Because it was far away just now, I couldn't see it clearly, and when I got closer, I found that the position of the Japanese sentry post was very awkward.

Behind the sentry is the main gate of the compound, in front of it and on the left and right sides are either open roads or drying fields, within a radius of 20 meters, it is impossible to approach the Japanese sentry silently, and the Japanese sentry is also very vigilant, although they will walk back and forth from time to time, but never too far away from the fire.

Xu Shijiu's brows furrowed for a moment, this is definitely a veteran!

Through the crosshairs, the box gun in Xu Shijiu's hand has been aimed at the head of the Japanese sentry, as long as the gun is fired, this little Japan will definitely die, but the sound of gunfire will inevitably alarm the sleeping Japanese soldiers in the compound, and when the time comes, with the three of them and four mirror boxes, it will be impossible to kill these dozen Japanese soldiers.

When Xu Shijiu was hesitating whether to shoot, Gao Shenxing, who was not far away, suddenly groaned.

Although Gao Shenxing's moaning was soft, it immediately alarmed the Japanese sentry, who without thinking about pulling the bolt to load the bullet, and then pointed the muzzle of the gun in the direction from which the moaning came from, shouting: "Nani Mono (who is it)?" ”

Neither Xu Jiu nor the One-Eyed Dragon fired a shot, believing that Gao Shenxing must have a reason for doing so.

Gao Shen knew Japanese, so he wanted to use Japanese to lure the Japanese sentry over, and continued to moan at the moment: "He hereby gives, he hereby gives, he hereby gives (help) ......"

The Japanese soldier was indeed a veteran, so he didn't eat this set at all, and after two consecutive words of questioning, no one came out, so he pulled the trigger in the direction from which the sound came from, and suddenly there was a sudden burst of gunfire under the silent night sky, and the Japanese soldiers in the compound were suddenly alarmed and shouted.

Xu 19 and the one-eyed dragon pulled the trigger almost at the same time, the Japanese sentry was shot in the head and chest at the same time, and fell in a pool of blood with a muffled snort. ”

"Not dead." Gao Shenxing turned over and sat up, and said loudly, "Rub your arm to the skin." ”

As he spoke, the gate of the compound suddenly opened, and then a crooked machine gun mounted on the threshold and fired fiercely at the cotton field where Xu Shijiu and the others were hiding, and the scorching bullets brought out traces of light under the night sky, causing the cotton plants to break one after another, and then there were two muffled toms in the compound, and two grenades had already risen in the air.

"Withdraw, withdraw!" Xu Shijiu shouted, turned around and ran.